Joshua 'Magpie' Brigand

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Name: Joshua 'Magpie' Brigand

Nickname: 'The Magpie'

Age: 21

Birthday: November 1

Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Male & Homosexual

Occupation: Trainer/Thief

Hometown: Celadon City

Appearance:

Joshua, despite having a bad stamina, has a slender, slightly muscled body. He has a slight tan from being outside a lot, but because of his black with white 'evil' streak coloured hair, his skin looks a lot paler than it really is. His eyes are on the small side, making it appear as though he's trying to gaze right into the core of your being. Which admittedly, can be unnerving sometimes. Long black lashes frame these dark blue eyes, like the border of a painting trying to contain all that's inside. Joshua has a favourite pair of jeans, separate them.. and you'll be sorry. He wears it often in combination with a T-Shirt with a funny print on it and a pair of worn-out red sneakers on his feet.

Personality:

Joshua has a slightly more than average intelligence, making him a very witty and cunning thief. He'll steal anything from money to jewelry and even Pokémon if given a good chance. He can do so without feeling remorse, preferring to think of himself as 'overly ambitious' rather than a common 'thief'. He has the tendency to brag about his antics, but only to people who are in the same league.

Joshua is a very emotional being and often his actions are based on those emotions. Not just emotions like jealousy or greed, but also attraction and when he cares for someone. It all depends on the emotion whether you'll see the nice or the.. not so nice side of him. He can completely drill you into the ground with stinging remarks, or make you feel good by listening to what you're saying.

The more vulnerable side of Joshua comes out in his love-life. As a closet-case homosexual he is continuously trying to impress girls to prove both to himself and the rest of the world, that he really is NOT gay! Somehow the girls he tries to impress always see through his antics and he turns out making a fool of himself. Sometimes even swooning over a good looking guy when the girl he tried to impress only minutes ago is standing right next to him! Not a smart move.. but usually he manages to literary save face by pulling his 'kicked puppy look'.

History:

Joshua grew up in Celadon City with his mother. Both his parents had en criminal history and taught him their morals and values. His father had already fled several regions for bank robbery, his mother was a Team Rocket Scientist. Basically Joshua learned as a child that stealing was fine as long as you weren't caught! So it was really no surprise he took the path his parents walked before him.

By the time he was 16, his mother introduced him as a new member for Team Rocket.
It was in that year that Joshua found out he was gay. Falling in love with a Team Rocket member is never a smart thing to do though, but still he was completely heartbroken when the Team Rocket Grunt turned him down in a horrible way. Making fun of him during a big meeting! It took more than half a year for Joshua to recover from this and feel self confident again. It took even longer though to gain the respect back he lost that day from his collegues..

When Joshua turned 18, things went horribly wrong. Team Rocket was driven out of Kanto. The members who could flee, fled. But Joshua's mother was caught and will never be released from prison again. Following the track of crimes committed in Celadon City, the police also captured Joshua's father 2 months later. Knowing if he stayed he would be captured as well, Joshua fled from Celadon City. However, the police was already searching for him and in the end he had to flee the Kanto Region altogether.

Since he fled Kanto, Joshua has tried to join criminal organizations in multiple regions, each of them getting rolled up as soon as he got higher up, narrowly escaping the clutches of the police each time. That's when Joshua gave up to be a criminal and went to Lanorae to start a new life as a Trainer. However, old habits die hard. So will his criminal past resurface again? Or will Joshua be able to live life contently as a Pokémon Trainer?

[ was an accepted character before being archived ]