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postitive traits loyal + flexible + humble + reliable + selfless + serious + dynamic + affectionate

negative traits guarded + impolite + dishonest + envious + insecure + destructive + reckless

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zachary alexander hazel was born on the nineteenth of june in a small place known as aria village. the small populated area was hardly a fitting place for the hazel family, really; for as long as any of his close relatives could remember, he grew up in a very wealthy family on his mother's - the pine's - side, and they lived in arguably the largest residence in town. the hazels were known as flying-type trainers, specializing in bird-like pocket monsters in order to carry on the legacy of the first flying-type gym leader in lyeant and the many flying-type users in their family who failed to take the very position. no one really minded being practically forced to raise pokemon either at least one of their types being flying, guessing as their very home was known for the vast amounts of airborn creatures that lived and visited there, and so the legacy was passed happily down to the newest blond addition to the family.[break][break]

zach was born to samantha and anthony hazel, with an older sister by the name of kaitlyn by nearly seven years. however, even before his birth, his parents did not exactly get along too well, constant arguing and bickering going on between the two. in the end, when the boy was merely three years old, the two had a divorce and his father took his elder sister and moved to a place they would likely never meet again. this left the boy saddened at first, but upon seeing how crushing this event was on his mother, he was glad that neither had to see his father or his elder sister's face again. he has all but blocked their names and faces from their memories, the fact that he was quite young when he last saw them helping to erase them both from his mind, and tried to be there for his mother when no one else could. samantha hazel was by no means a good mother, however, often choosing her well paying job over her own young son and usually leaving him in solitude. the woman often left him a variety of things that he asked her for - typically through notes rather than actual conversations - and the young boy was left to his own devices. from a very young age, he found he was quite skilled with electronics and understood the nature of Pokemon quite easily.[break][break]

upon entering school, the blond was easily labeled as a "nerd", an easy target for many of the haughty kids around him and a ripe picking for the childish term known as a "bully". therefor, as a child, he was picked on quite frequently. he was also a bit of an antisocial, preferring to stay cooped up in his room for hours on end, listening to his mother's classic rock music and programming wonders on his expensive desktop. however, this did not keep him from befriending a young girl by the name of danica who would endure the same endevours as he through most of their lives. while he often chose to stay passive about many things and try to shut things out, she would often stand her own ground and stick up for not only herself, but for him when he couldn't. while their personalities vastly differed, the two got along like two pees in a pod, practically joint at the hip from the time they first met to the time where he made a later decision that would change the course of his life. the two broke his family's tradition when they discovered an injured eevee in the woods and decided to take care of it on their own, raising it in secret from his mother and dubbing it their sort of "pet". perhaps it would be one of their starters when they came of age, but that was to dwell on later. well, it would have been if things turned out differently.[break][break]

even with danica by his side to counter verbal barbs and punches with her own, the two were still often victims of the other students around them, the harsh encounters only worsening throughout their elementary and junior high school years. eventually, the eevee they had both worked hard to raise was discovered by their sort of nemesis and beaten to a near death state while the two friends weren't looking. upon finding the normal-type beaten and bloody and seeing his friend's tearful reaction to her favorite pokemon's abuse, the intelligent young man began to rethink his path in life. if he was weak, nerdy, lame, et cetera, et cetera, people mocked him and abused him. when he continued to do nothing about it due to the fact that he thought he couldn't, not only he, but the people around him got hurt, too. he could stand himself taking the beatings, but not the poor young eevee he'd helped raise and the girl who'd stuck by his side since their very young days. upon entrance into high school, the blond took a nearly one hundred eighty degree turn on life, deciding that if being a "nerd" got people hurt, than being "cool" would protect the people he cared about. slapping on a pair of sunglasses and climbing up the social later with great haste, the constant bullying all but ceased and his plan, for the most part, worked. however, in the end, danica was all but forgotten in his sea of new "friends" and the two never really had a true conversation again.[break][break]

as the high schooler's mother's health began to deteriorate, he began to see more of his far away aunt, melissa pine, an apprentice researcher hoping to specialize in the natures of pokemon and hand new trainers starters of their own along with her signature pokemon, haru. the woman was a genius among geniuses, if not a little bit messy and rough around the edged, but she ultimately became the teen's hero as time went on. when he was first shipped off to vardent town to spend time with her - what a kind mother, leaving him practically alone for nearly ten years and finally offering him a solid guardian figure when he could finally take care of himself - the two got along like chalk and cheese. he was rather cold to her and made it be known that he would much rather be practicing his new hobby of remixing music back at home while she got overly upset about ever singly little thing he seemed to do. however, on one of his earlier visits, he fixed her malfunctioning computer for her while he thought she wasn't looking, making it function as well as it would have had it been new, and the woman, having witnessed the crime in action, decided to help him grow on his skills. as she finally was accepted as lyeant's very own region-known professor, she began passing down everything she knew from her own studies, even helping ship him off to other regions rarely and letting him actually meet face to face with some famous professors like samuel oak and whatnot. it was obvious that, when he put his mind to it, he could become a very successful professor, possibly even surpassing his aunt and maybe even some of the other professors from distant regions. however, the thought of being a professor contradicted his "cool" status and he grew weary of the thought that, if he pursued such a path, he and the people around him would be targeted once again.[break][break]

the blond graduated from high school with flying colors, leaving aria village behind in order to attend college classes in erayo city, a place closer to his aunt and uncle's with better schools than in aria. after graduating from that, too, the boy returned home to visit his mother and uphold the family legacy of a full flying-type team. while he wasn't the greatest trainer who ever lived, he wasn't too bad at the capturing and training of flying types, forming a solid team that would be useful in case of emergency. while team imum spread fear across the land, the boy once more broke the tradition upon finding a shiny eevee similar to the one he and danica had raised as kids. his inability to resist adorable, fluffy pokemon in need lead him to caring for it a while before hesitantly adding it to his team. while the pocket monster ultimately fell in love with him - not romance-wise, that is, but a brotherly loyalty of sorts - the sunglass-wearing male found himself pushing the creature away, afraid it would mess up his social status that he believed was protecting him and the people around him. in the final stretches of lyeant's war that he'd tried his hardest to stay neutral in, word that his aunt, professor pine, had died in an attempt to save a group of people in vardent town shattered his stable life and sent him into near depression. the seemingly untouchable, undefeatable woman he'd grown so much on and vice versa was gone forever, fallen to the hands of a cruel organization whose reasonings were unclear. blinded by utter rage, he threw himself into the fray, tearing through imum member after imum member in a futile attempt to avenge the dark-haired woman and bring her back into his arms. but even the organization's downfall at the hands of the public was not enough to help ease his mood.[break][break]

in the years after her death, someone had to take the spot as the region's professor. knowing that it would be impossible to bring her back and that the woman really had no final wish, zach decided that he would make that final wish for her - for the boy she had worked so hard to mold into an admirable young professor to take her place. in the end, that was exactly what happened, the young man wearing the red, plush suit taking her spot in hopes to make her proud in heaven - or whatever afterlife one wanted to believe in - and to keep the region in order. while he is not a good professor by any means - very lazy about his work and not always the nicest to what he calls "the noobs" - part of him truly wants to be a professor even better than mrs. melissa pine before him.

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