Description
Name: Rouben
Pokemon: Honchkrow
Birthdate: November 12th
Age: 26
Level: 47
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Homosexual/Demiromantic
Relationship Status: Polyarmorous relationship with Tomar and Russel
Ability: Insomnia
Faction: n/a
Pokemon Stats
Nature:
Modest (Sp. attack+/attack-)
Moves:
- Psychic (TM)
- Shadow Ball (TM)
- Dark Pulse (TM)
- Perish Song(egg move)
Battle Stats:
Attack: 1/5
Defense: 0/5
Speed: 2/5
Sp. Attack: 4/5
Sp. Defense: 2/5
PokeHuman Stats
Occupation: Keeps track of the paperwork at Tomar's bar, still occasionally does some informant work, secretly though.
Town of Residence: Lumiose City
Appearance:
Short, slim and -very- easily breakable. Rouben is anything but tough when it comes to physical appearance and ability, and you could probably already break the one or other bone of his just by giving him a nasty tackle to the ground. He also already makes a not-so-healthy impression (well, he isn't exactly in good health anyway, so it's not much of a surprise) with his rather pale skin, dark circles under his eyes and constant consuming of some medication of which he's more than likely not going to reply to if asked.
However, Rouben does lay quite some worth into good looks, so he's usually seen pretty tidied up and will become very uncomfortable when seen otherwise. He also cannot stand seeing other people letting themselves go, and if you should happen to be an acquaintance of his he's not going to restrain himself from at least straightening up your outfit. If you should happen to be a stranger he's just going to internally cringe and advice you to clean yourself up.
Height: 1,60m
Personals
Personality:
Rouben could best be described as a smug perfectionist. He loaths to just sit around and do nothing, and is happiest if kept busy. To say the least, he is a little bit of a workaholic, and would rather just spend his whole day neck deep in paper work and the like. He's not exactly easily impressed, and usually you'd have to forcefully drag him from his work, but if you should manage to catch his interest, he might eventually go out of his way to beat some freetime out to spend it on you.
Now besides all the love for his work and what not, Rouben is very proud of himself and can even be considered a smug little bastard. It's incredibly hard to drag him out of his charms and pride, and will only really lose his cool when you should happen to fuck something up. The worse you did, the more riled up and insulting he'll get.
Dispite his characteristic traits, he has an enormously hard time to let any emotion pour out or get at him since he feels like that if he did, people could just use it against him the easiest or see him as weaker as he is. Hence he'll all too often come off as somewhat cold and emotionless regarding personal and sentimental matters, he'll most likely just try to either avoid it or reply with logic. However, Rouben is a quite good listener, not out of simpathy or worry, he just likes to know things and feed his curiousity.
This far he only really managed to open up towards both his significant others, Tomar and Russel, and even that only after shit hit the fan.
Of course it isn't entirely impossible for other people to crack his shell, but it will take a lot of time, investment, and patience. How he'll act then will differ depending on the person.
History:
Rouben hatched into a family consisting out of a Honchkrow mother and an Altaria father with about 4 other siblings near Laverre City. However, things didn’t exactly go all too rosy already from the start, since the little Murkrow was not only smaller and weaker than the other bunch, but also seemed to be very sick, which basically resulted in his parents and majority of his siblings avoiding him from the start. It went to the point where his mother wasn’t willing to put up with him as a burden and literally threw him out of the nest. To his luck he didn’t hit the ground, but instead had his fall softened by a pile of leaves which didn’t give in thanks to his light weight. Only his wing got a little damaged, but hey, it could’ve gone a lot worse. But what exactly was a tiny sick bird to do now? He had no real options since he neither knew where to go nor how far he might come. Rouben decided to try and crawl, or rather struggle, his way out of the pile of leaves, but was shocked to find himself being picked up by two seemingly giant hands from a human which happened to see the little guy struggeling to find his way out of the leafage. That was quite an experience, the bird had no idea who or rather -what- had picked him up there. How could he though? No one ever told him there was something else than birds! Not to mention he was barely a few days old!
Hubert, so the human’s name, and his husband Gavin, happened to be traveling doctors, and seeing that Rouben probably couldn’t have made it alone they took him in and took care of his well being. He managed to survive, but that also only because of constant consumtion of special medication to keep him from getting weaker and the general care such as feeding and keeping him hydrated after he has been mostly abandoned by his parents before. He never understood what medication it was or what kinda desease he had, but it made him feel better and not as sick as usual, so he saw no relevant reason to question things.
Hubert grew really attached to the crow, and even gave him the name Rouben, with which he ever since also stuck with. At one point or another him and his husband started several attempts to train the murkrow as well, and even bought him a dusk stone and a couple of TMs to evolve and get a decent moveset which suits his abilities. Things were good, and Rouben was genuinely happy. He loved Hubert and Gavin a lot and has spend many years traveling alongside the two doctors, and eventually they’ve also got a newcomer! An abandoned Aromatisse, which the husbands had decided to catch and take care of as well. Eventually they called her Abbigale, and have let her train alongside the Honchkrow. Several more years passed, probably around the time Rou turned 18, and the group of four were faced with a -really- bad situation. They had the really bad luck of running into a rampaging Rhyperior. There honestly wasn’t much they could’ve done except for trying to flee out of the way, and for a moment Hubert thought they did it. That was until he saw that his very own husband has been impaled by the Rhyperior’s stone edge. The now three, were only able to watch as the other pokemon left the scene as if nothing happened. It is safe to say that all of them were still in disbelief. And Hubert refused to just leave the place, forcing the two pokemon of his staying at the spot too. He has let the grief take over him, and so they ended up staying for a few days possibly there. It was only until a little Litwick appeared nearby Gavin’s corpse. And telling from the damaged eye, through which he has been impaled by one of the sharp rocks coming from the ground, they knew that it had to be him. Without big hesitation Hubert catched the tiny ghost, which seemed incredibly unhappy. But no matter how upset Gavin seemed to be, there was no way Hubert would’ve let go, hence, he now traveled with three pokemon. Rouben found it all a little uncanny, but he was glad that he wasn’t gone for good. Although the grudge which was brooding in the more or less new teammember did scare him.
And Rouben’s fear was defenitely justified since, as soon as Gavin found that he has been trained enough, only freshly evolved into a Chandelure after 3 years have passed, he killed his former husband without hesitation out of spite that he did no attempt to save him back when they have been attacked. Now it was only him, Abbigale, and Rouben.
Gavin offered them to keep tagging along with him, and while Abbie agreed considering she didn’t know where else to go, Rouben fled in fear and with a broken heart. All those years of care and loving and now in just a brief moment even the last bit of that was gone. After all that the Honchkrow has spend about a year on his own. Feeling no desire to really let anyone close to him, he has emotionally hardened up quite a bit to the point where he was confident enough to assume he’d not let anyone as close to himself than before. The whole year without going with medication left it’s marks however, and he felt how he was getting physically weaker and how the sick feeling from years back returned.
In hopes that perhaps the corpse of Hubert and his bags of medication were still present on the spot he died on, Rouben left the winding woods in which he has been making himself a home at for the time being to find the spot again where he seperated himself from his former team members. To his ‘luck’, the place was very secluded, out of sight from other humans, and the remains were still there. The smell was anything but pleasant, so he did his business quickly and took all that he could carry with his claws, it was enough to keep him supplied for a good amount of time too!
It didn’t take all too long until he, thanks to his huge curiousity, heard from diverse rumours that there was a device called the dittech, which could basically turn you into a human. He wasn’t going to lie; the thought of being able to become human by wish did thrill him in a way. Of course he could’ve just stolen it, but he rather got it through some honest work. Now that he was back on his medication as well which prevented him from feeling the full effect of his sickness, he was also able again to work a little harder. Hence after only a few weeks of work he was able to purchase his own dittech.
Good, being human needed some getting used to, but he has been watching Hubert and Gavin act long enough to know what possible do’s and don’t’s are, so it really didn’t take all too long. Seeing the most opportunity in Lumiose, that was also the first place he decided to go to. He started with some odd jobs, but that way also learned what he was capable of and what not, it gave him some experience which might turn out handy. And with the money he ended up making, he soon bought himself a small office. He became something which you could call an informant, not entirely legal probably, and also not really the safest job, but he did it well. Very well. So well that he did become somewhat of a perfectionist and hell, he did -a lot- to fullfill his jobs and bring out the best outcomes.
Thanks to a certain Tyranitar however, and a few certain events in the past months, Rouben ended up quitting his job and now works at Tomar’s bar. He’s taking care of their paperwork, considering that’s what he still can do best. He occasionally still sticks around as an informant if you happen to pay him enough though, but that only secretly to not worry his significiant others all too much. He’s also not going too far with his methods of gaining information anymore.
Relationships:
Gavin: Rouben heard that he was back around in Lumiose basically from Tomar more or less, since the Chandelure apparently has treated him more than once already. He is still -incredibly- wary and somewhat scared of him, and always ends up feeling bad when confronted with him, but since the crow has been running out of stored medication as of lately, he is practically forced to go and get the medication from Gavin. He's the only one who knows what Rouben needs and how to get that.
Extras:
- You can probably easily consider him addicted to coffee.
- If you're a bird and larger than him please make sure he's not too close, he'll try and snatch some of your feathers.
- Maybe kind of a little shit, he ADORES to tease people.
- Will more than likely become very angry and pissy if you talk about his height/physical capability.
- Is like super weak, don't let him carry heavy shit there is a high possibility he'll drop it or break together.
User Info
Chat Availability: I usually tend to stay away from group chats because I'm a tad too angsty for it but if it's mandatory I suppose I can search out times, just let me know it.
Roleplay Mediums: I'm okay with skype and note rps, though I tend to prefer skype since I happen to forget about notes, heh. Script rps in skype but para is also fine, I keep para rps mostly for notes. uou
Role-Play Example: (From a rp with my oc Janel)
Ah. Great. Yet another restless night, and a useless day. Really, nothing really happened the last days. And it started to really annoy the hell out of Janel. Being useless is just such a disheartening feeling..But what was she to do about it? No one seemed to be in need of a bodyguard as of lately, and the daycare she occasionally worked in, also got some new full-time employees which left no real room for her anymore. Now, if that ain’t just sad. Well, whining around won’t help either, so instead of sitting around at home and being sore, she might as well go out for a walk. Maybe something interesting might happen? Said and done, but the walk isn’t exactly what you could call...Satisfying.
Strolling down the street, Janel saw someone out of the corner of her eye. A...Gengar? At least this is what she’d say from the fairly odd colorscheme of that man. He didn’t seem to be too happy. Maybe..She could see if she could talk to him? It was worth a try. Turning over to him, she raised an eyebrow. The stance with which the Bisharp seemed to present herself with, didn’t seem too turning off. (Just lucky that the multiple scars on her hands and arms were covered up by some thin gloves and a jacket.) “Hey..You okay there, buddy?”