Pokemon Trainer Anne [Chasm, Unova]

Tragedy marred Anne's early life, her mother perishing in a horrific traffic accident shortly after her birth.  Thus, Anne grew up without a mother, but despite his grief, Anne's father ensured that he had himself put together enough to raise his daughter.  She was a normal child in every way; she went to school, had a few friends, earned average grades, played games of pretend in her backyard, loved sun and rain and flowers, fairy princesses and superheroes and stars.  She went to church with her family, celebrated Christmas, played in the snow.  Her father and father's Pokemon, a Lucario called Martin, raised the little girl together in the city she'd been born in, Jubilife.

One fateful day Anne decided to take a route to her friend's house that she didn't normally use because of the obnoxious boy who lived along it.  She'd hoped that because it was so hot he'd be inside, but she was wrong.  As she slowed her walk to watch the Pokemon chase each other on the front lawn, she realized when one of them crashed into her that it wasn't a playful game-- Jon was letting his Pokemon run amok.  Seeing the poor little thing dazed and confused at having just crashed into someone, Anne scooped him up and the Pokemon chasing him halted, unsure of whether or not they wanted to attack a human just to get to their prey.  Jon was displeased, and as the Chimchar slipped off to sleep in her arms, exhausted, she hammered out a deal with the boy.  She wouldn't go to the authorities and nail his butt for abuse, but in return he'd give her immediate custody of the chimp.  Disgusted and annoyed but realizing it was the best deal he'd get, Jon complied and the girl took him to the nearest Pokecenter.

For the next several weeks she visited him, bringing him treats and speaking in a soft voice, using kind words.  Eventually, he let her touch him, and it didn't take long after that for him to melt beneath her affections-- he craved it and she was more than willing to provide, so he wasn't about to resist it.  When offered the chance to be her Pokemon, he agreed, and she took him home with her, naming him Oliver.  For a year she cared for him, treating him with every ounce of love she had to give and spoiling him rather shamelessly.  Throughout all of the problems he faced, she was there to help him through it, and the two went on many adventures around the city together.

On their yearly trip to Johto, disaster struck; that morning Anne went out for a hike with her father and Martin, leaving Oliver behind to sleep.  They were attacked by undead, the father instructing Martin to take Anne and run, realizing that one Pokemon against a whole horde would do nothing.  Heartbroken but realizing the reason behind it, the Lucario scooped the girl up and ran.  Though they returned days later, they were unable to find the spot where they'd been attacked, and the cabin was empty, the little girl's beloved Chimchar missing.  Raiding the place for supplies, Martin took the ten year old by the hand and led her out into the strange, horrifying new world, searching for answers and a safe place to raise her.  

Years passed with little success; though the two eventually learned things about the infection through word of mouth, there seemed to be no safe place to settle down to live in.  Eventually leaving Sinnoh, they travelled wherever rumor of a safe haven took them, hoping for some kind of hope in the war-torn world.  Time wore on Anne, morphing her from the sweet, cheerful child she had been to a frozen-hearted, bitter teenager who has done her best to forget her past, finding that numbing the pain through not feeling to be easier than living with the despair brought on by all the loss and fear.  Martin, pained by the change in his charge, can do little to change it, unable to communicate properly with her in order to talk it out.  As the days wear on, he watches her once compassionate heart freeze even further, helpless to stop his surrogate daughter from herself.

Rumor has recently brought them to Lacunosa, Unova, where Anne acquired a strange device off a dead body that she is not sure how to work but curious about what it is; she has chosen to hang onto it ever since.  From Lacunosa she and Martin have proceeded to get lost in the forest, accidentally finding their way into a very strange area that looks like an indent into the earth...

• determined
  

-this apocalypse will not kill her

• bitter
  

-it's not fair that she's lost everything
-it's just fucking not

• angry
  

-see above
-her temper is also not hard to ignite

• spiteful
  

-she survives on sheer spite
-if some god up there wants to see her dead he will have to take her life; she will not give it voluntarily
-on that note it's not uncommon for her to do things out of scorn for people she doesn't like
-even if it bites her in the ass

• hardened
  

-blood and gore no longer bother her beyond a moment of "ew"

• numb to grief
  

-her father and beloved Pokemon are dead
-allowing herself to feel the pain is too much to take
-may as well just kill the anguish however possible

• cold and irritable
  

-having numbed herself to feelings that connect her to others (such as compassion) she is easily made annoyed by displays of emotion
-aloof, she will keep her distance and be cold and curt with strangers
-Martin is the only exception

• cutthroat
  

-whatever it takes, she will not die
-though she would prefer not to voluntarily throw anyone to the wolves, she just might if she thinks it's the only way out
-and absolutely would if it came down to Martin or someone else
-if someone attacks her, she will take them out with no hesitation if she's physically capable of it

• wrestling with her beliefs
  

-having grown up a religious child, Anne is not sure what to make of the epidemic
-a loving god would not allow such horrors to continue, surely?
-and yet the pandemic rages on
-where is Arceus?
-does he even fucking exist?
-probably not; but maybe he does?
-fuck it I don't care

• curious
  

-despite everything she's still maintained her curiosity, though not quite with the same wide-eyed wonder she had as a child
-sometimes it leads her to hang onto weird objects until she finds out what they are
-Martin is grateful for this as it's a sign that the daughter he loves is still in there somewhere

♍ Oliver: Her starter pokemon, Anne rescued the little Chimchar from an abusive human a year prior to the Epidemic, and spent much of that year helping him heal from his trauma.  She adores him with every fiber of her being, was determined to protect him and see him one day free from all the mental scarring he'd been left with.  Sadly this did not come to pass and now Oliver is a fading memory, the girl pushing him to the back of her mind; he reminds her too much of hope, and hope is not something she has anymore.  It's best to forget it and the Pokemon she failed so badly.

-she can still be reached, but it's gonna take either one big event to thaw her heart, or lots of patience
-the thing she picked up in Lacunosa was a universal communicator