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Shizuka's most common demeanor on the outside is that of innocence, hesitance and shyness. Her eyes glance everywhere at once with both curiosity and paranoia, and never locking eyes with anyone or being caught looking at other people for long. Her usual disposition is either on her guard, as if she were expecting a sudden enemy attack at any second, or a neutral, self-conscious stance when under the eyes of other people.[break][break]

Getting to know her, you'll quickly learn that Shizuka is a more quiet character than others, even her my age. Her social skills could always use some work, and she often keeps her thoughts and opinions to herself unless provoked. This is in order to protect herself from those who are incapable of not attacking anyone whose beliefs contradict their own. She often gets the label "shy," which she is never pleased to hear. She consider herself to simply be a cautious introvert, that's all.[break][break]

Despite her silence, Shizuka has a lot of opinion trapped up there in her mind. She only is unable to wield the hammer to break down the walls around her mind and expose her inner thoughts. But there is much more color to Shizuka's personality than that. A lot of adjectives could describe her: kind, polite, caring, thoughtful, determined, strong willed, curious, intelligent, wise - and intelligent as in, she knows a lot of things, wise as in, she's a pretty level headed person - humble, patient, competitive, proud, stubborn...Shizuka will hold grudges against people forever if nothing is done to right the wrong. Shizuka is a very patient person with her friends. Her great levels of patience, loyalty and perseverance are almost at a masochistic level. [break][break]

Shizuka has a low self esteem, so she is often trying to boost her ego by showing off. In pokemon battles, Shizuka is merciless on all of her opponents, and though she would never try to hurt them, she might come off as sadistic to her foes. Shizuka's a masochistic in that she tends to believe that it's good for her to endure pain, hardships, and the stress of being wronged. She's willing to endure all kinds of things for a greater goal such as strengthening the bonds of friendship by proving her loyalty. [break][break]

Shizuka's sadistic in that she absolutely loves to win to boost her ego up. Shizuka is very proud in this area of her personality. In pokemon battles, Shizuka loves winning and beating her enemies hard with her pokemon team. While she hates to lose, she never shows it. She is also brave, strong-willed, and very reckless. Shizuka will make her decisions in a tight spot within seconds, sometimes skimming over the details of her decisions in strategy battles. Her bravery and masochistic nature go along with her reckless nature. She'll eagerly dive head-first into danger, even if she knows that the chances of getting hurt are pretty high. [break][break]

But she's not foolish either, at least not foolish most of the time. She won't do something as stupid as jumping into a volcano, but in spars and combat, Shizuka isn't afraid to put herself in some pain to win. But when the task at hand is serious, Shizuka takes no chances with any of her friends and comrade's lives, becoming as cautious as can be. Shizuka doesn't trust luck either and prefers to not use Pokemon Attack moves with accuracy under 90. Even though she distrusts luck, Shizuka believes in fate and destiny, and that following your destiny is the best way to go. [break][break]

She is protective of her friends and imagines herself as their protector sometimes. She is also very detail-oriented, a quick thinker, yet slow to pick up on others' emotions, feelings, jokes and riddles, though riddles still fascinate her. Shizuka is very bad at reading sarcasm, making her terrible with jokes and conversation even though she still really appreciates a witty joke. [break][break]

She is a deep thinker, but she is also very over-reactive, trained to instinctively be ready to defend herself from danger at anytime. The problem is that she's too over-reactive, and even among friends and allies, she flinches at quick movement in her direction. Her jumpy nature has helped her avoid possible collisions and such. But she still does not pick up on others' emotions very well. She can seem completely calm and peaceful when everyone else is panicking about a storm or invasion. [break][break]

Shizuka is very dependent on others' opinions and approval of her decisions on a mission. She doesn't trust her own knowledge of even her own culture, due to her lack of social skills, and relies on others' knowledge to be sure of her own decisions. But when it comes to her own beliefs, her own schedule, and every other time that she is alone, Shizuka is quite independent, able to take care of herself very well. Though she fears disapproval from others of higher rank, she loves dragon-like pokemon, cats and dogs, and drawing them very much, and she is willing to stand up for what she believes is right, even if it doesn't go along with the normal cultural tastes.[break][break]

But Shizuka is best known for her strong and unflinching loyalty and urge to serve a master, king, queen, emperor, empress, or pharaoh whose goals are good. She needs someone whom she can protect and help carry out his or her ambitions of greatness for the world. She will fight that person's demons and protect that person with her life. Though not her main goal in life right now, she would happily like to find that kind of person and serve him or her with her strong sense of duty and righteousness.[break][break]

She didn't used to be, but Shizuka is a little bit afraid of the dark. She can't stop imagining that something is behind her, invisible to her in the darkness. Almost more afraid of being attacked by a demon is she afraid that she'll see something horrible there when she looks, so she avoids dark places when she can help it. Being a Vulpix gijinka, Shizuka does fear the cold, deadly wetness of water, and prefers to stay away from it. She can swim if she has to, not that she's a super good swimmer; she can doggy paddle furiously well enough to not drown, but the she still has a fear that she'll be dragged to the bottom, or get stuck in something underwater, and have a terrible death by drowning. Water and rock pokemon intimidate her, but she's not too terribly afraid of them. What scares her are those giant, final stage ground types that attack you from below...[break][break][break]

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Abilities

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Shizuka is not fully human. As if the two species were morphed together, Shizuka shares the genes of a species of Pokemon known as a Vulpix. Gijinka are people who are born with a few external features, the traits and abilities of a certain Pokemon. As a fire type, Shizuka, a Vulpix Gijinka, can wield a few fire typed attacks. Water, rock and earth attacks are especially dangerous to her, but she can resist bug, ice, grass, steel, and fairy attacks. While most fire types also resist fire type attacks as well, Shizuka's Vulpix side has an ability called "Flash Fire" which gives her a complete immunity to fire attacks. Instead of taking a single ounce of damage, Shizuka uses the fire attack to power up her own fire attacks.[break][break]

Shizuka also gains the natural physical abilities of her vulpine spirit pokemon. She can run nimbly at very high speeds, leap higher and farther than about three times her height and six meters respectively, and react and move with incredible agility and flexibility. She has a keen sense of smell that can easily identify people, track, and tell her about those she comes across, such as where they've been, what they've been doing, and whether they've experienced a high amount of stress recently by their fear scent. She can hear very subtle sounds, even activity happening far underground, and see somewhat decently in darkness. Despite her vulpine senses, she does not at all have superior night vision. This is likely because her human side has very poor eyesight, and the vulpix part only makes up for it so that she does not require vision aid.[break][break]

One other unique ability she has as a Vulpix Gijinka is the ability to understand the words of other pokemon in their universal pokemon language, and the natural psychic ability to create an illusion about herself should she need to hide her identity as a Gijinka by making her Vulpix ears and tails invisible to the eyes. She can conjure up the illusion that she is either fully human or fully vulpix, but doing so requires high reserves of mental and physical energy. When exhausted either physically or mentally, Shizuka is unable to keep up an illusion, especially when her concentration is broken by various other events.[break][break]

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History

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Shizuka calls home the unique region by the name of "The Lyeant Region." The region has a long and deep history that led to its founding as a brand new country in the great universe where Pokemon reside. Its early timeline was not without a great amount of strife in the form of evil organizations, evil leaders, and even corrupted government. Each time, however, the proud and powerful citizens of the region and their solders who trained pokemon would rise up to defeat the evil. But with every victory and growth of the nation, another issue would rise again. Lyeant became the first region where Gijinka began to appear for mysterious and various reasons. Despite the first recorded of the elusive and secretive Gijinkas being spotted in Lyeant, the half-human, half-pokemon people came from other regions as well where they knew to be their birthplace.[break][break]

Shizuka was actually born in the Sinnoh region. Her mother was a Ninetales Gijinka who had fallen for a human trainer. They loved each other very much, and her father even forgave her for hiding her true identity as a gijinka from him when he found out about it. Shizuka's father died from illness before she was born, and soon, her mother's gijinka secret was nearly found out by their neighbors. To avoid any further suspicion before it got out of hand, she moved out and escaped into the forest near the Sinnoh mountain range, as Gijinkas were still yet an almost completely unknown existence.[break][break]

Shizuka lived with her mother since birth in an abandoned shrine up on a mountain near Eterna City as a young Vulpix Gijinka. At first, she was raised as a vulpix, but her human nature could not be ignored either. She wanted to get out and make friends, and do the things that humans were doing. She wanted to go on a journey, but she kept this wish of hers a secret, since she wondered: how could a gijinka possibly train pokemon, and challenge the league like normal human trainers did?[break][break]

As soon as Shizuka was strong enough to defend herself from other wild pokemon that might want to hurt her, shizuka's mother began letting her become a lot more independent. She was eight years old at this time. As a vulpix, it was like a human being about eighteen. Being a Gijinka, however, she was still a bit immature, and had much to learn. Once she was in her preteens, she became a lot more independent, to the point where she was out exploring around Eterna City more often than visiting her birthplace in the depths of the forest near the mountains and her mother. Her curiosity led her to want to get stronger, and just off the wild pokemon in the area, she trained herself and leveled up quickly.[break][break]

Eventually, she was old enough, in vulpix and human years, to leave home completely, and go on her own journey. Not yet to train pokemon, but just to become totally independent. From the start, her mother had taught her how to use her illusion-creating powers as a vulpix to disguise her image in order to look like a wild vulpix, but for the first time, she used them to look like a human, hiding her ears and tail. Shizuka was about fourteen years old at this time that she began her journey in the world of pokemon and pokemon trainers. [break][break]

Getting adjusted to everything was hard as could be. Shizuka was raised as an intelligent animal more closely than she was a sociable, cultured human being. There were a lot of awkward moments; more than each hair on her tails. Far too many times, she was given a strange look whenever she accidentally let her instincts take over, and she would chase and capture a nearby pachirisu with her own bare hands, instead of battling and capturing it like a trainer, or maybe just not chasing it at all because she's not supposed to be a canine with a high prey drive. Other times were when Shizuka learned the hard way about manners and things like that in today's culture. She learned everything the hard way.[break][break]

How her mother was living in the Sinnoh region, or even how she found a shiny charizard on Mt. Coronet, she'd never understood. On her journey, she recklessly made it a goal to go to Mt. Coronet deep in the Sinnoh mountain range, and find out what was on the other side. It was a bad idea at the time, but it was a part of her story that she doesn't regret. The journey was just as dangerous for her as anyone else. Even though her Ember attack could take care of the ice pokemon, she was nearly knocked out many times by all of the rock and ground types.[break][break]

Shizuka actually did eventually lose a battle to a Graveler, and nearly died on that mountain. She honestly had no clue where that shiny Charizard came from, but that is how she was rescued. Neji the shiny charizard found her, a knocked out Vulpix gijinka lying in the snow and with only hours left to live. She doesn't really understand why he rescued her either. Most charizards are usually more focused on their own goals, fighting all the other pokemon and proving their strength, but Neji says he couldn't just leave such a young vulpix person to die, and that Shizuka was, obviously different than all the other wild pokemon that he was used to seeing.[break][break]

Gijinkas were rare even back then. Nobody even knew it was possible for a human to exist with the powers and genes of a pokemon, and even then, it only could be possible for these gijinkas to pass on their gijinka genes under very limited and rare circumstances. In Lyeant nowadays, Gijinkas are a lot more common, even though they are still as rare as shiny pokemon. But in Sinnoh at that time, Gijinkas practically didn't exist. Except for Shizuka. Being knocked out, her illusion as a wild vulpix traveling alone was completely undone, and her secrets were revealed to all. Being in Mt. Coronet, she was lucky that the chances for her being seen by a human were little to none. Even hikers were hard to come by when traveling straight over the most dangerous parts of Mt. Coronet.[break][break]

Neji started a bonfire to keep Shizuka warm, then shielded her from the blizzard and cold winds with his body, and Shizuka recovered. Shizuka actually didn't name Neji when he joined her party. Being a Vulpix gijinka, she can speak to pokemon, and he told her his name. Their relationship since has never been that of a trainer and pokemon, but more like close friends who protected and trusted each other with their lives, with Neji being more the leader at the time. Shizuka felt really bad to treat him like her pokemon, and was hesitant to put him in a pokeball, but Neji insisted, wanting to be able to protect her while staying by her side, if ever she should need it, and so, after buying her very first poke ball, Shizuka let Neji join her team as her very first pokemon and destined pokemon partner for life.[break][break]

With Neji using Fly, they journeyed around Sinnoh and even tried challenging a Gym leader. The challenge didn't go well at all. Neji was plenty confident in his power, and it was his idea to battle when Shizuka met Volkner at Sunnyshore city, but even Neji's impressive power eventually succumbed to Volkner's electric attacks. It was Neji's first loss ever since he was a charmeleon and Shizuka's first loss as a trainer, and a huge blow to his pride. Shizuka doesn't know how long it took, but it felt like forever until Neji finally recovered from that.[break][break]

That loss didn't stop them from continuing to get stronger. Shizuka captured her very first pokemon, a female Meowth she named Sakura, and trained it together with Neji; they all trained together to get stronger. When among humans, Shizuka took on a disguise as a human, and when training in the wild against wild pokemon, she took on the disguise of a vulpix. Wild pokemon learned to stay far away from the pokemon team of a charizard, vulpix, and meowth. Her time, however, in Sinnoh, was not nearly as long as her time in Lyeant. [break][break]

Shizuka's recklessness which led to her being spotted by humans with her moving, living vulpix ears and tails was an event that she does not regret either in the overall course of her life story. Neji and Shizuka were battling some Pokemon scientists that they met in Sunnyshore City, a place that they tended to hang out at a lot. The scientists were interested in seeing if a shiny pokemon was stronger than a normal pokemon. Right from the get-go, Neji began pulverizing the scientists' team of Magnezone pokemon with his fiery attacks. Not wanting to lose either, the scientists began drugging their Magnezone pokemon with X Special, Dire Hit's, X Sp. Def's, and X Defense's, and before Shizuka and Neji knew it, the Magnezone were overpowering them. Really, the battle was far from fair. The scientists had several bottles of each drug and knew not how to quit and call it a game.[break][break]

But the haywire started when the Magnezone aimed a Zap Canon at Neji, missing completely, and hitting Shizuka. The attack knocked her clean out, and her illusion was shattered. Then the mad chase began. Those persistent scientists had to find out how Shizuka had grown Vulpix ears and tails. Neji immediately grabbed Shizuka and they began to flee, but that seemed only to fuel the scientists' curiosities. They screamed for Neji to stop, then had their Magnezones start discharging at Neji. Even already terribly injured from the electric attacks, Neji somehow had the determination to fly Shizuka from the danger as fast as possible. When the scientists began their pursuit, they were no match for Neji's speed.[break][break]

He took his trainer all the way to Lake Valor where he revived Shizuka with one of the revives she had saved money for in her bag, but in less than an hour, they found out that the scientists were already searching for them in Lake Valor, and continued their desperate escape. Thinking back on it, Shizuka's really touched that Neji tried so hard for her. He had only about thirty percent of his full health at that time, and didn't even grab a Hyper potion for himself during that whole ordeal, and saying he was just fine whenever Shizuka asked.[break][break]

The chase sent the two of them and Shizuka's pokemon all across Sinnoh, until they were staring east from Lake Verity. Even then, the scientists would not give up on their discovery until they had solid proof to bring back and feed into the news. Shizuka's whole life was probably at stake, and she was being chased around her home region at the risk of becoming a lab rat in a horrible way. That was when Neji and Shizuka decided to leave Sinnoh behind for whatever could be waiting for them in a land far away from Sinnoh.[break][break]

They did not know nor could guarantee that there was even another region out west, but anywhere was safer than Sinnoh at that time. To this day, most Sinnoh citizens had forgotten about the story of the aspiring young female Pokemon trainer with a ferocious black Charizard who was beginning to tear through every gym across the region before being bested by Volkner. Shizuka knew she would miss the place where she was born and raised, but she also was brave enough to take on the risk with her loyal charizard partner. They flew for many hours, and Neji had to land in the water several times to rest, using the fire in his belly to keep him and Shizuka afloat upon the waves. They really didn't care where the waves took them, but whenever Neji took to the air, they aimed west, away from Sinnoh.[break][break]

Even Neji's immense stamina combined with the longer breaks they took just drifting upon the waves, the journey was too exhausting for either of them. They were both fire types, and hated water, and being surrounded for miles in all directions with water, as well as all possibilities for water pokemon to show up at any time, was very nerve-racking for Shizuka at least. Neji was always looking confident as could be. The Staryu that Shizuka caught on route 223 and named Ryuko didn't last long at all using surf with its low stamina.[break][break]

They were all saved from total helplessness when a Magikarp appeared out of curiosity, wondering why two fire type pokemon, a charizard, and a vulpix, (since Shizuka used a Vulpix illusion on wild pokemon) were all the way out here, so far from land. Shizuka caught it, and quickly leveled it up so that it evolved into a Gyarados, and the journey from there was much easier. Neji got the rest he so desperately needed within his pokeball, and they all continued their traveling west, faster now that they were using a very capable water pokemon experienced in long distance oceanic travel. But even still, Shizuka's hopes for finding a new place to live were growing thin and strained.[break][break]

For all they knew, they could just be traveling around the world only to die of starvation and dehydration. This sea-journey took almost three days of hard, relentless travel: one and a half days with only Neji and Ryuko the Staryu, and one speedy fast day with Otohime the Gyarados. They were all ready to give up, until on the distant horizon just above the sea level, Shizuka saw Wingulls. Wingulls were sea bird pokemon, but even they always stayed close to shore, close to the place where they were born and raised, and where they could land safely and raise new offspring. [break][break]

The Wingull led Shizuka's party to land, which she and the team had never before longed for so much. Shizuka returned Otohime to her pokeball and practically collapsed on the banks of the Lyeant region. Neji came out of his pokeball and watched over Shizuka as she rested. This was how she got to the Lyeant region. From there, they explored around carefully, finding that the region was fairly new, at least to humans. What was unique was that all legendary pokemon had been known to visit the place.[break][break]

Shizuka met her most closest friend and most trusted ally, Sora, in the Lyeant region. She also caught several pokemon and trained them herselfself. When the malicious Team Imum brought terror to the region, like most other trainers living in Lyeant at the time, Shizuka fought them herself. She even faced off against the team's leader, Lorelei, even though she lost, and somehow managed to escape before her team was totaled. Shizuka got stronger, and with her close friend, Sora, who was an Umbreon gijinka, they fought off Team Imum alongside every other righteous trainer in Lyeant.[break][break]

Since all that drama and excitement, Shizuka never really got the time, since the day they met, to talk to Sora a very much at all in private, show their real selves as Gijinkas and come to terms with their hidden feelings for each other. For nearly three years after the battle against Team Imum, they had gone their separate ways for a while. Shizuka finally met back up with Sora one day when she was training in the most dangerous, dragon infested tower in the region and was nearly killed for her recklessness, and Sora appeared and saved her life in time.[break][break]

Things in Shizuka's personal life began to settle down as she and Sora teamed up to become traveling partners, even with Sora's job as a gym leader. She lately has started a new job of hunting restless spirits with the Seers group after her gym conquering journey was put on hiatus until the current chaos in the Lyeant Region calms down. Even now however, she still struggles the social tension and stigma around natural-born gijinkas like herself, and hides her gijinka identity with her illusion powers in public as best she can.[break][break][break]

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