&& E.lizabeth S.tokes

[Liz]

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&& name; elizabeth theresa cordelia stokes
&& nickname(s); liz, lizzy, red
&& gender; female
&& age; twenty-one
&& date of birth; april tenth
&& occupation; level 1 criminal investigator, pokémon trainer
&& hometown; olivine city, johto

&& theme song;
’Wonderwoman’ by Leaf

&& height; roughly 168 centimeters
&& weight; around 67 kilograms
&& face-value; a pretty round face, somewhat chubby cheeks and big, round eyes; liz has somewhat of a baby face (which is good; it matches her behavior at times.) and is perceived often as a cute little girl, looking quite a bit younger than she really is. liz adores the rather innocent look it gives her, because it means she can get away with a lot more of her cheekiness. as if you couldn’t tell from the lop-sided grin almost always present on her lips… the girls eyes and hair used to be of almost the same shade of light brown in a dark, distant past; while her eye color obviously hasn’t changed, liz made the decision of dying her hair a bright, fire truck red in her early teenage years. the color has grown a bit darker over the years, currently letting itself be compared best to the color of red wine, and liz faithfully continues to take care of her hair; not a streak of light brown will ever shine through ever again. while her hair is quite long, liz prefers to just let it all fall halfway down her back instead of putting it up, two rather long bangs styled to frame her face. it isn’t all that rare to spot her with her hair in a ponytail or a bun, or even hidden under a beanie of some sort, seeing as the girl has an unofficial addiction to those. piercings liz has little, save for the usual pierced earlobes seen often on women; recently, the redhead added two extra lobe piercings to her right ear. another development that’s occurred recently, is liz’ use of makeup. sure, there has been the occasional usage of lip gloss before, but only for special occasions. lately, liz started experimenting with eye shadow, mascara and lipstick; she is, however, far too lazy and can be found often having completely forgotten about putting it on in the morning.

&& rock your body; lizzy is a shorty, kind of. at least, at the department. while most people are extremely sensitive about their height, liz seems to have no such troubles. okay, so there’s a few shelves she can’t quite reach when working or shopping, but that’s where the advantage of having a very tall, very male friend comes in handy, now doesn’t it? according to the official guidelines and bmi indexes, liz borders the line of being on a healthy weight and being overweight, and while she does feel rather insecure about her body, has taken no steps aside from trying to watch what she eats in order to lose weight. why should she? she certainly has no desire to look like a stick-figure, for one, and secondly, well… so what if she’s a bit fuller than other girls? it also happens to mean her features are pretty fleshed out, meaning she has pretty curves in the right places. She is a bit broad-shouldered, which doesn't quite match with her small build, but it does enhance her figure and features.

&& fashion sense; while caring a lot for her appearance and personal hygiene, such a thing can't be quite said about liz' wardrobe. of course, she keeps her clothing clean as best as she can and she aims to always look her most presentable, but liz'd rather just pull something out of the closet and throw it on instead of spending hours in front of it, trying to think of what to wear. she, obviously, isn't all that picky and cares little for the latest trends in fashion. in her closet, one would find a fairly wide array of plain shirts, varying from button-up shirts to t-shirts to shirts with three-quarter sleeves in nearly every color imaginable. the same can be said about her pants, as skirts and dresses liz owns little: most of her pants are plain ones, either colored black, white, or a shade of dark gray. she has only a small amount of jeans, though: liz claims they aren't half as comfortable as regular, plain pants. her shoes are mostly sneakers, though liz can sometimes switch between her white sneakers and a pair of converses whenever she feels like adding a bit more color to her outfit. said converses are worn down almost completely, brightly colored and decorated with neon laces and hard rock café pins pinned onto them. the girl cares little for other accessories; she’s the kind of person that decides to wear a bracelet in the morning and take it off an hour later ‘cause it was getting in the way, refusing to wear it the rest of the day. an exception to this rule are her earrings, though she can be quick to take those off as well when she decides to wear hoop earrings and the likes; she has significantly less trouble with studs. another exception are perhaps head accessories such as beanies. while not directly admitting it, liz has quite an addiction to beanies, caps and the like and can, on colder days, hardly be spotted without sporting one.

&& all together now; relaxed, funny and just a tad idiotic. of course, you'd need a lot more words to describe liz, but those three are a pretty accurate summary of the girl. liz is a nice person, really. It's neigh impossible to get on the teen's bad side, and her relatives often wonder out loud if she even has one. usually happy and found with a polite smile on her lips, liz is a kind girl who puts the wellbeing of other before that of her own. nearly always she'll be busy trying to make someone feel better, either by making herself look like an idiot in order to make someone laugh, or just being there if they need her. she's a really good listener, and while usually using strange metaphors or just being vague by saying things out loud that sounded better in her head, is pretty good at giving advice, too.

it is because of her caring more about others than herself that people generally don't know much about liz while they trust her with some of their deepest secrets. liz is sometimes pretty secretive about her own feelings because she doesn't want to bother people with them. only the people she feels good enough about to call her friends know how she feels, and usually exactly how she feels. It's not uncommon for liz to go into a depressed state every once in a while, because she has to deal with the information and situations of a lot of her friends, and she generally just locks herself up to live in her own world. it is also not very uncommon for her to lie to people she doesn't quite trust; liz easily gets suspicious of other people and will not hesitate to put up a story if that means she can get the out of the way.

growing up in a big family meant that liz learned on an early age to fend for herself. Her older siblings either ignored her or teased her, and her parents were too caught up in their work that the eight kids were pretty much taking care of themselves as it was. despite being very independent and strong-willed, liz was born with a shy streak she hasn't managed to overcome yet. she finds it hard to be around people she doesn't know, cheeks turning scarlet within seconds and words coming out stuttered or just really softly spoken. being the youngest child in her family, she is used to a small amount of protection, from her older siblings elaine, robin and nick.

liz can be pretty protective herself, too. once she warms up to people, she'll become a little louder, a little less blushy and stuttery, and a lot more caring and protective. she hates it when stuff happens to people she cares about, blaming it on herself after which she spends a lot of time doing her very best to try and make everything right again. because she is sometimes so hard on herself, blaming every mistake on her own 'incapabilities', liz has become quite insecure. despite knowing she does something right and by the book, she will nearly always ask for confirmation from other people.

not the one to have a lot of problems with other people in general, liz is usually quite kind to pokémon and pokémorphs once they've shown they don't mean any harm to her. she's more suspicious of pokémorphs than she is of 'regular' people, though. then again, liz is a bit paranoid, so she is convinced of the fact that someone is secretly out to kill her anyway, normal humans as well as pokémorphs and the occasional pokémon.

&& a long, long time ago, in a land far, far away…
it had been a dark, rainy morning when the world met elizabeth stokes for the first time. she was a fat, healthy little baby, a pretty little thing with a good laugh and chubby little cheeks that screamed to be pinched. the family was already quite large when liz was born. there were five siblings already; 10-year old daniel, scott of 7 years old, summer and autumn, twin girls of 5 years old, and nick, who was 4 years old by the time liz was born. especially nick was very proud of his little sister, and as liz grew up, they spent the most time playing together.

the kids grew up on a ranch, not too far from olivine city in johto, and so grew up around pokémon. liz became interested in them from a young age, and thus was dying to once set out and start a journey, trying to capture and study every Pokémon in existence. she watched her brothers daniel and scott leave together when the latter turned 10, which only made her dream of once becoming a trainer bigger, but it wasn’t until summer and autumn grew eleven that Liz started to dislike the idea.

liz had never liked summer and autumn. The girls just didn’t share the same interests; where liz enjoyed taking care of her family's tauros and miltank and getting dirty while playing football and soccer with her brothers, summer and autumn liked dressing up and enjoyed covering themselves in their mother’s make-up. it was mainly because of this the older girls liked to tease their younger sister, especially when liz got in trouble. so when the girls were allowed to set out on a journey and liz wasn’t, they found themselves the perfect way to annoy their little sister. mainly because of their teasing and the fact they became trainers, liz grew to despise trainers in general.

the years passed and liz’s passion for pokémon grew. she took the time between school and chores at home to sneak away from the ranch and sketch wild pokémon she saw around the ranch. sometimes, she’d even go as far as tracking all the way to olivine city to watch the gym leader fight battles against challengers. despite the fact that they were trainers, liz enjoyed watching jasmine fight with her steel-type pokémon; they were graceful, in a way she couldn’t explain, and liz liked the idea of having pretty but strong pokémon she could show off once. her parents, however, disapproved of their youngest daughter to just sneak out of the house and hide in the tall grass with wild pokémon capable of causing liz serious harm. because of this, and the trouble liz caused at school because of her sister’s teasing, her parents decided to ground her, forbidding the girl from leaving the house to set out on a pokémon journey when she was of age.

this provoked more teasing from summer and autumn when they learned of this.

when liz was un-grounded, the girl had grown slightly bitter. just because her parents had denied her her 'right' (in the twelve yearl old's opinion anyway) to set out in a pokémon journey around johto and her sisters teased her about it, the moody teenage girl abandoned the idea of ever becoming a trainer and focused fully on her studies. liz did fairly good at school, working hard to get the best out of her grades as she could, and keeping herself occupied with music as much as possible whenever she had a minute of spare time. it was said obsession with music and the potential she showed with playing the guitar that attracted a fair amount of attention during her high-school years.

having graduated high school, liz moved to goldenrod city in order to fulfill her dream of helping people and pokémon; she joined the police academy. after progressing through her lessons and training with some trouble, the girl chose to specialize herself in the science part of crime fighting, becoming a criminalist instead of a regular cop. it was around this time she met up with another aspiring criminalist from fiore, ryan wolfe, and the two became fast friends. this eventually resulted in the two renting a small apartment in the center of goldenrod, leaving people wondering if there was more going on between them than just friendship. the two of them progressed through their education nicely, but it was mainly because of liz wanting some more action that the two decided to, instead of taking up a regular job, pursue a childhood dream. drawn to the island by its history and rumors of new kinds of pokémon roaming the lands, liz and ryan set off towards lanorae in order to become pokémon trainers. who knows, maybe lanorae’s police force turns out in need of a duo of criminalists…

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[Saint Skuntank]

Bravo, bravo! Definitely

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