Krome Shiro the Human and Aysu the Vaporeon

1999, August 25th, 12:30am.

Krome Shiro was an odd child, always taking the dangerous route to everything. Even at birth, he had almost been strangled, and was only saved by quick thinking and a whole lot of luck. The first three years of his life went by rather quietly, with their small family living in Johto for a short while, before moving across the oceans to Hoenn, where Shiro and his family lived for a while longer.

When Shiro had his 5th birthday, he was sent to trainers school, to learn about pokemon, what they did for their world and how to raise one. While the school itself was a good, reputable school, the other children there were absolute assholes. Even on his first day, Shiro was picked on because he was different, because he acted different and because he could not understand the emotions of fear, embarrassment and love. For a while, he blocked out their hate, ignoring them as best he could, but one's patience could only go so far.

Shiro went to a nice after-school care while his parents worked, getting picked up by his older brother after school and dropped off there so that he could go off with his friends. Shiro had fun there, and he met a few other people there who didn't mind the constant teasing he got from others. He played with the building toys, forever building dragon types and dark types from the blocks. He became known for being 'that little creep who never spoke', since he didn't like to speak with others, more involved in his building to take any notice.

The kids had come up with a plan to try and get Shiro to talk to them - destroy his creations and see if they got a reaction. For the first little while, they didn't get one, but eventually Shiro began to yell at the other kids to leave him alone, even go so far as to attack one kid who was pushing him too far. More often than not, Shiro got into trouble for attacking the other kids, while his tormentors got off scot free.

To say they the treatment got on his nerves was like saying the sun was hot, or the sky was blue - it was very apparent. At home, things were not much better. Shiro was piled with chores, his brothers would not stop tormenting him for being 'unable to stand up for himself' and his mother would tell him to suck it up and get over it. After a while, Shiro retreated into his own mind to numbly go though each day as though he was a machine.

One day, Shiro got jumped by two kids who were common tormentors. They circled him, shouting profanities and vulgar slurs. After all the months of torment from these two, Shiro was fed up. He had no weapon, but he still snarled and charged one of the kids, sending them sprawling with a sucker punch to the jaw. They fell back, hitting their head on the ground, but it didn't knock them out. The second kid went to attack, and Shiro whirled around, giving them a kick in the ribs that winded them. After his two hits though, everything went south.

All too quickly, the kids recovered and rounded on Shiro, not throwing punches, but instead favoring pushing him to each other until he lost his footing and fell, but they didn't stop there. With a combined effort, they dragged him over to one of the nearby lakes and threw him in, with Shiro unable to swim and lugged down by his backpack, he ended up flailing in the water until one of the teachers spotted him and dove into the lake to save him.

No one spoke to Shiro for a while since that day. His family was eerily quiet when he got home, and no one spoke a word when he woke the next day. The family sat in silence until they finally got to school, where the only words that were spoken were hushed goodbyes and 'see you later's. The silence bothered Shiro. It wasn't his fault, he had just retaliated to being attacked. All through that day - that week - no one talked to him. He just got hostile, or sympathetic looks. After a while, the silence became unbearable, and Shiro began to listen to music to calm himself.

A few weeks after the incident, Shiro's brother pulled him aside one day to talk to him. He said that if anyone tried to do that again, to give him - or the police - a call, and gave him a mobile phone. After a quick tutorial on how to use it, Shiro agreed and took the phone. Everything went back to normal then.

Now 8 years old, Shiro got enrolled in swimming classes, to which he gladly accepted. Determined not to have a repeat of the incident two years ago, he graduated the swimming lessons at the top of his class, and after he got over his fear of lakes, it became a very common thing that Shiro would do to calm himself down. Somehow, the cold water calmed his mind and allowed him - for the first time - to think clearly.

Things went by rather quietly for a few months, and by Shiro's 9th birthday, he had been given a protection at the school. Anyone who bullied him got a suspension for a day, and in some cases, for three days. Not that it stopped anyone though. Shiro still got bullied daily, and it was always behind closed doors, out of sight to the teachers. Slowly, he spiralled downwards into a depressive state, and his shoulders were always slumped, as though he expected another beating if he ever stood tall.

He hadn't even turned 10 yet, and already he was having bad thoughts to end it. He didn't want to be in that situation any more, and no matter why, he just wanted out of that area. Out of that life. His family didn't understand why, as none of them had ever had bullies that were this bad. It was a daily thing - provoke the freak to get a hilarious reaction. Shiro had no escape - whether he was at home, or whether he was at school, he never truly had a proper escape from things.

At least, until his 10th birthday.

Now finally old enough to register for a pokemon, Shiro signed up to get a starter, and arrived at the lab bright and early. For his first pokemon, Shiro was shown a range of pokemon, from the regular starters, to some more exotic things like Trapinch, to even a shiny Growlithe that was staring intently at the door. When he investigated the fire type, they were listed as a special case.  As much as he loved the look of the puppy, the brother advised against getting them because of how energetic the fire puppies could get and because of how it was listed as a special case.

For once, Shiro heeded his brother's warning and got the small trapinch that was in the pen next to them, As he left with his new-found companion, a pair of parents came in and went to pick a pokemon. Shiro stayed behind for a little bit to see that they had claimed the Growlithe puppy. Although confused as to why they wanted the dog, Shiro couldn't stay long to ask, since his brother was calling for him to hurry up and go.

He spent most of his days at home bonding with his new Trapinch companion, and after researching their evolution line, named the ground type Istaria, after one of his favorite dragon games. He battled with his brother's snivy, more often than not he would lose, but the few battles he did win were enough for him to stay happy.

After a few weeks of training with both his brothers and himself, Shiro finally asked if he could go out and start his adventure to become a pokemon trainer. Although his family was hesitant at first, they said yes and gave his a mobile phone in case he needed to call them for anything. Though he doubted he would, Shiro took the phone so that he could listen to his music.

For the first little while, Shiro had fun with just Istaria and him, but after a while, he grew to realize that he would need more pokemon if he were to battle the gyms. After buying some pokeballs from a nearby pokemart, Shiro set out to capture his first few pokemon.

At first his attempts weren't that successful, but after he got into the swing of battling, Shiro began to get the hang of capturing pokemon, and soon had a lovely team consisting of Istaria, a Shinx called Zapparel, a riolu called Aura and an Eevee that he had yet to find a name for.

One day when he was out training, he got a call from his brother telling his that he had to come home right away, that something bad had happened. Panicked, Shiro raced home, to find his family sitting around a table, everyone was looking glum - and one person was missing. Their adopted brother, Rusty, had disappeared. He had gone out the day before, and hadn't been home since. The news crushed Shiro. Rusty was the only brother that he actually had liked, and now they were telling him that he was gone?

Shiro left Hoenn that day. He caught the boat and travelled to Unova, where he cut off ties and started over, registering for the gyms and starting his journey over again. As he began his journey, he noticed a familiar shape on the boat with him, but he couldn't place why he knew them. He studied them for a moment, confused as to why he felt they were so familiar. It was then that he noticed the shiny fur that the figure had. It was the very same Growlihe that was at the shelter the day Shiro got Istaria - who was at that stage almost ready to evolve into a Vibrava.

Waving the other trainer down, Shiro introduced himself and said that he had recognized them from when he was at the shelter and that they had gotten their pokemon at around the same time. While not usually one for social interaction, Shiro jumped at the chance to talk to another trainer besides his brothers.

While the two of them were obviously lacking in the social department, Shiro somehow managed to get a decent conversation, and the other introduced themselves as Dazey. Seeing no reason not to, Shiro gave Dazey his full name, and asked how long they were staying in Unova. They answered with an undefined amount of time, to which Shiro asked if he could hang with them for a bit - seeing as he had no real family in Unova at that time, and he just wanted a break from Hoenn.

Thankfully, to Shiro's delight, Dazey agreed to let him hang, saying they were probably going to meet up with another friend there anyway. He hung with Dazey for a while, sharing a few stories of when he was in Hoenn, as well as doing a few battles with other trainers along the way, with Dazey sometimes joining him with battling. Every so often, Shiro would deviate from their path to challenge a gym, finally finding a water stone to evolve his eevee - now named Vapor - into a Vaporeon. Istaria had evolved into a Vibrava and was great for his battles, even if Shiro would favor Vapor, the rest of his team were all evenly matched in level.

When he was on his way back to a rendezvous with Dazey, Shiro ran across a young eevee that looked beaten and injured. Carefully picking the fox up, he looked over to Aura - now a Lucario - who dug through Shiro's bag to get a sitrus berry and a potion. When the eevee rejected the berry, Shiro got the potion and gently sprayed the healing substance over the normal type. Soon after they brightened up and although they were still too weak to walk, they were happy enough to stay nestled in the crook of Shiro's elbow.

When he finally got back to Dazey, they almost squealed at the eevee, immediately moving forward to try and coax the little fox out, only to frighten them, who in turn hid in Shiro's jacket. The disappointment on Dazey's face was almost comical. With a quiet laugh, Shiro cared for the eevee as they kept going, and eventually got them to eat a few berries and drink some water. He named the eevee Sylv, after a suggestion from Vapor. After a little while, he got Sylv to be more friendly to Dazey, and the fox spent a lot of time playing with Vapor and Dazey's pokemon.

After a while, Shiro got a call from his eldest brother who had travelled to Unova to see him. As much as he wanted to tell his brother to go fuck himself, he agreed to meet up in the closest town. When he arrived, he was waiting on one of the benches, and when Shiro was spotted, he came over and offered him an odd pokeball. He apologized for treating him like shit when they were younger, and although Shiro would never forgive him, he accepted his apology with a false smile and took the pokeball he offered, opening it to notice that it had a pokemon in it - a young Zorua. The gift was almost enough to make Shiro forgive him. Almost. With a nice goodbye and a hug, the two went their separate ways, with Shiro meeting back up with Dazey after defeating the next gym.

As Shiro returned to Dazey, Sylv evolved into a Sylveon - much to Vapor's amusement and Shiro's delight. By the time they had returned to Dazey, Sylv had grown accustomed to their new ribbons-like feelers, since the new influx of information had been overwhelming at first. Just as Shiro had predicted - Dazey flipped out when they saw Sylv's newly evolved look, practically begging for the fairy type to join her team, but Sylv refused, choosing to stay with Shiro, much to Dazey's disappointment. Dazey and the Sylveon became best friends along their journey around Unova, with the two of them never failing to be any further than a few steps apart - unless Shiro was challenging a gym. More than once Dazey tried to kidnap the Sylveon - much to Shiro's amusement and annoyance.

As Shiro challenged more gyms, most of his team had fully evolved, with the exception of Istaria, who was fairly close to evolving anyway. By this stage, Shiro had a lot of the badges for Unova, with only about three left. By this stage it had been about a year since he had first met Dazey, when the other trainer said that they had to leave. Although Shiro had been expecting it eventually, that didn't make it any easier.

The two shared a farewell, and Sylv gave Dazey a Sylveon's version of a hug, and Shiro left with a promise to see him again, though he didn't know when. To see Dazey off, Shiro gave Istaria a rare candy to evolve the Vibrava into a Flygon, who now had enough strength to fly the two of them over to Castelia, where Shiro gave Dazey a goodbye hug.

After Dazey's departure, Shiro flew back to their last town, challenging the gyms and levelling his pokemon, until finally after his 16th birthday, Shiro was ready to challenge the Elite Four.

Unfortunately, the Epidemic hit before Shiro could even start his challenge. They were ordered to evacuate, and to release their pokemon. Shiro refused at first, but eventually released all the pokemon besides the ones on his team. Their large numbers attracted a large group of Murkrow, and recalling all but Vapor and Istaria, Shiro jumped onto Istaria who flew up and attacked the undead with multiple Steel Wings. Shiro, Istaria and Vapor fled, trying to find their way away from the area. Somewhere in the panic, Vapor was lost, and they were too far away to recall the Vaporeon. All Shiro could hope was that the Vaporeon would stay safe as he and Istaria flew off, aiming for the region of Kalos - where Dazey had said they were going to before the two had departed.

FINDING VAPOR/AYSU

Shiro has become very patient in many cases, and he is very hard to anger with stupid things. He dislikes people who act out against his friends, but unless they turn on him or they outright attack his friends, Shiro would rather stay back and control his temper.

Shiro can bounce back from many bad experiences if he has a little bit of time to himself. Even if it's just with his pokemon, Shiro can adjust fast once he realizes that something will not change back to how it was before. He is very loyal to his friends and people he looks up to, following them and backing them up every step of the way. He can sometimes be too loyal, leading to him suffering when the person changes suddenly.

Shiro can be very enthusiastic about topics he loves to talk about, especially when his friends are around. Because of this, he can imagine up very odd scenarios that could very well never happen in their lifetime. Shiro is very creative in his art and writing, both of which are his favorite hobbies. Even in the most dire of situations, Shiro can still be very happy and cheerful, and will stop at nothing to make sure everyone else is being cheerful as well.

While not exactly adamant, more stubborn, Shiro is best described as very willful in the way that he puts great amount of effort and enthusiasm into things. Shiro is very kindhearted to a lot of people, often trying to bring out the best in them so that he can help them if they are ever feeling down.

Shiro can be very laid-back in certain situations, sometimes coming off almost as if uninterested or bored in the way of responding, but then immediately following up with comforting words that prove he is paying attention and genuinely cares

Shiro is a great friend to almost everyone he meets, once he gets past the horrible awkward moment, he is very nice and works well as someone to turn to when they need a shoulder to lean on, or just to vent to.

Shiro is very awkward around people he does not know, to the point where he is a complete flop in social situations unless it has someone he knows in the conversation, or if it's a topic that interests him. As much as he is awkward, Shiro is also shy as hell when someone approaches him. He can often stutter in his words when trying to talk, resulting in him becoming more flustered than he already was.

Shiro has learned from his time at the trainers school that showing emotion in front of strangers usually led to being teased or pushed around, and so because of this, he hates showing emotion to those that he does not know, instead favoring talking to his friends or drawing. He has no idea how the emotions of love, fear and embarrassment feel, and if he were to ever come into a situation where he felt these emotions, he would be very confused and probably ask someone why he is feeling like this, since he literally does not understand why he is feeling that way.

Shiro is very closed off around many people, with only a select few people knowing his secrets. He can be very tense around psychic types, especially those that have mind-reading capabilities, since he's paranoid about one reading his mind when he was mad at someone and taking it as a threat.

Shiro can not deal with sudden change. It stresses him out to no end, and he can sometimes lose sleep trying to adjust to the new surroundings. To tie in with this, he does not deal with stress, as it does not make him feel good and it can lead to many sleepless nights as he tries to calm down.

Shiro is very hard-set on his ideas, and it can be very hard to change his viewpoint once he has his sights set on something. It is also very hard to even get him to think of something that he wouldn't normally agree to.

Above all else, Shiro loves to play pranks on people, targeting the most grouchy or downhearted in a group in an attempt to cheer them up. Most of the time however, these pranks don't go the way he wants and can sometimes backfire horribly. Shiro, of course, will deny ever doing the prank.

Though he does not mean it, Shiro can be a little pushy at times when trying to get people to help out, or even when getting a group of people together to do something. Shiro can be too laid-back sometimes, often not taking some things seriously in even the most dire of times.

Despite his chill exterior and his generally 'precious' (as he has been called) behavior, Shiro has a truly frightening side that he only rarely unleashes. Able to take care of himself when need be, capable with hand-to-hand and close range, he can truly cause fear into other's, even when not able to experience the emotion himself

Shiro had a lot of physical and mental abuse from both his family and his time at the trainers school. As such, the mention of it can trigger him into horrid flashbacks, as well as wearing backpacks - which is why he prefers messenger bags. He has been tested and confirmed to be an Autistic child with Aspergers Syndrome among a few other mental disabilities, and as of right now, is un-medicated in these disabilities.

Shiro is a Demiromantic Asexual.

Shiro loves to use curses, and very often will come up with many imaginative and interesting curses to insult or make fun of people. As much as he likes to disagree, Shiro is adorable in many senses of the word. If he is confronted and told this however, he will make odd noises not unlike a cat, which one of his friends has dubbed as being called "Dumacat Noises".

When under stress, Shiro will sing songs to himself, often these are songs that fit how he is feeling, or are ones that keep him calm. Shiro also suffers from Chronic Migraines. Often he can ignore the pain but some days it can be unbearable. He also has a very high pain tolerance and can deal with a lot of physical trauma before it actually begins to hurt.