[CIVILIAN] volkova, svetlana

[attr="class","agar"]Just through appearance alone, many people don't believe her to be her age. She is petite, standing at only five foot one and her average weight is only about one hundred pounds. She's not the most well-endowed person (though there is something there), and tracing down to her hips there isn't that much shape to her body compared to that of a more curvy individual, so most people assume that she is in her late teens or twenty years old, despite being twenty-six.

In terms of makeup, she usually wears a small amount of eye liner and something for her lips, or a tad of blush depending on how bold she's being that day, but then other days she really doesn't wear anything. She simply doesn't like to overdo it on makeup in the first place, and likes simple outfits as well, almost always clad in black. One of her signature outfits during her time as champion was a black dress that stopped mid-thigh, hugging her body and having one strap over her left shoulder.

Moving to her hair, she tries her best to keep it a lovely green color, often going back and forth between green and a blue-ish green, the color matching well with her eyes. Her hair falls down to her chest and sometimes she can be seen with some sort of ribbon or barrette in her hair complementing an outfit that she may be wearing. It's noticeable from most of her outfits, but on the inner part of her upper left arm, she also has a watercolor tattoo of a Gengar.

[attr="class","agar"]There are many things that people describe her as. The first that usually stands out about her is that she is very calm, and even if she gets into a situation where she becomes fearful, it is very difficult for her to lose her calm exterior. While, at the same time, she does have nervous tendencies that aren't at all difficult to pick up on, though she tries to make them unnoticed. These tendencies include fist clenching, lip biting, and slight shaking, though the latter is the most rare of the three. She is often too stubborn for her own good though (and she won't believe it either), but she's not the type of person to get into fights with people because of what she believes in.

People tell her that she's a kind person, but Lana can be a bit of snippy if she needs to be or if someone rubs her the wrong way. If it's something that she thinks is well deserved and they catch her mumbling under her breath, she doesn't really care, but in past most people never really take note to her side comments - it'll be all too common talking with a friend about someone who is standing not even five feet away from them who doesn't even realize that they're being talked about. She can't help it - when she was the champion there was a lot of gossip between the members over each other and over challengers that came in.

Along with being calm and collected, she's also extremely patient and headstrong, especially with how long it took her to get to where she is today, and growing up dealing with her brat of a main pokemon. She wouldn't call herself brilliant by any standings, but most people see her as being very intelligent in comparison to the average fellow. But, in contrast, she is not at all a trusting person. Even when she was the former champion of the elite four, she found that it was difficult to trust even the other elites at times, and one of the main reasons that she retired was because of the stress and anxiety that it was causing her.

[attr="class","agar"]Lana holds her position as the leader, or President, of the Rebellion. Growing up in Cyal, she is passionate about her position, and after stepping down from her seat as elite four champion, she took up position as the leader of the Rebellion, believing full force that what the government is doing is wrong and she is ready to fight against it.

[attr="class","agar"]She was not born into some great family or anything. She was born into a middle-class family with an older brother (five years to her). There was always slight tension in her family and her parents never got along the best. There were fights sometimes, but she always kept her mouth shut, not wanting to get into any trouble or making the matters worse. When she was six, her mother ended up storming out after she was enraged, and she hadn't seen her since. So now it was just her father, her brother, and her.

She lived in Pazzeal Town, outside of which is a cemetery that's said to be haunted. One night, her brother dared her to go into the cemetery after everyone had gone their day of mourning for the lost souls. Although no one was in the cemetery at the time and there had been rumors of hauntings, she was only eleven at the time and didn't see why it was such a big deal - it was just a plot of land. When she said that she didn't want to be scared, her brother started teasing her, and she fell into the trap of heading through the gates. Not noticing anything as she first entered (though she was wary), she decided to continue her way through the cemetery, making sure to follow the paths, but trying to give proof to her brother that she wasn't fearful like he was teasing her about.

After making it further into the cemetery and out of anyone's sight, her head turned when she started hearing noises. Shaking slightly, she took a few slow steps and made her way to the sixth floor. When she felt something hit her shoulder, her head whipped the other way and a pokemon appeared before her and let out a slight shriek, sticking its tongue out at her. It scared everything out of her and she let out a scream, falling back and looking at the unfamiliar pokemon. It said its name when it spoke, "Gastly" and after see that it was really only joking around with her, Lana began to giggle and laugh, despite having just let out a scream.

She heard footsteps of her brother coming toward her after hearing her scream and she looked over at him when he came over to her, the gastly vanishing. "Are you okay?" he asked her, out of breath and panting. She only smiled and nodded, giggling a little, "This pokemon just scared me!" looking toward where the gastly was before it had vanished. The blank space then caused her to blink and her brother through that she was hallucinating, helping her to her feet and trying to check over her for any bruises in case she had fallen.

She helped her out of the cemetery without any question, leaving the gastly there, her brother still not believing that there had been a pokemon there. The following day, without his permission, she went back to the cemetery and inside, trying to find the pokemon again. She found it after making her way over to the same area as she was before, an unmarked gravesite, and she and the gastly ended up bonding, much to her surprise. She would go back to the cemetery daily to visit him, naming him Bane and playing with him day after day. After about six months, her father gave the news that they were moving, in which Lana was insistent that she didn't want to move. When he asked her why, she was a bit uncertain, but decided to show her father what had been going on. She brought him to the cemetery (which he had never really reason to go into), and after she went inside, he followed after her hesitantly. The two of them went over to the unmarked grave, and Lana was talking with Bane when her father came up several seconds behind her (a bit slower than the rambunctious twelve-year-old). Her father looked at her skeptically, telling her that he didn't know that this was where she has been playing for the past six months, having assumed that she was out with friends and not hanging out in a cemetery. She only nodded to him and he seemed to be in a bit of a dilemma, but ended up agreeing to allow Bane to join the family if he really wanted to when they moved.

Bane grew up with her, and when she turned sixteen, he was a gengar, and she convinced her father to let her go out on a journey to become a pokemon master, wanting to leave the house. It took a lot of convincing, but she finally got it through to him and proceeded off on her journey. One year passed and she was seventeen with six pokemon (and more in her PC), going to go challenge the elite four and the champion. She became cocky and quickly lost to the champion without really any challenge, thinking that she was going to win easily. That was when she vanished. No one knew where she went for three years, but she finally emerged after a long while of traveling and training.

Making her way back finally to the elite four to see redemption, she was greeted with a surprise. Her own brother had become the champion, and he was in shock to see her in front of him, twenty years of age. She succeeded in gaining her redemption and he wasn't sure what to say. He told her that he wanted to go home, to see their father again, telling her that she had grown so much that he barely recognized her when she first walked in. He ended up resigning as the champion and she took his place. Like brother like sister, they say.

It's different, today. Not too long ago, Lana retired from her position as champion to a new champion, both from the stress of the job, as well as hearing what was going on in the news about the government's meddling with the tribes of Evter Island. She felt like she had to do something, and although she did not like media attention a lot, she knew that stepping up and taking a place in the Rebellion was sure to get people talking given her status. She moved up in ranks, and was given the position of leadership soon after the Rebellion's team had formed.

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Name: Bane
Gender: Male
Species: Gengar
Ability: Cursed Body
Personality: Unlike a stereotypical gengar, Bane isn't as scary as his name. He is a pretty big softy and a bit of a spoiled brat toward Lana because he thinks that he can get anything he wants by just sitting and pouting at her. And this, most of the time, is true.
Most Common Moves: Hypnosis, Dream Eater, Nightmare, Confuse Ray, Night Shade, Psychic ™, Brick Break ™


Name: Lucifer
Gender: Male
Species: Lucario
Ability: Inner Focus
Personality: Lucifer likes to think that he's cooler than the rest of the crowd, but is very close to Lana despite most likely denying that fact. He's not as bad as Bane by any means, thankfully, but he doesn't think he'd be able to live without his trainer. As a comparison, he's like that teenage boy that doesn't think that he needs his mom, but if she were to just say "okay bye" he'd get scared and run back to her.
Most Common Moves: Close Combat, Aura Sphere, Dragon Pulse, Extremespeed, Attract ™, Shadow Ball ™


Name: Jedediah
Gender: Male
Species: Walrein
Ability: Thick Fat
Personality: A bit of a dork this one is. He acts more like a stereotypical dewgong than he does a walrein, but that just makes him all the more lovable.
Most Common Moves: Sleep Talk ™, Blizzard, Rest, Body Slam, Crunch, Hail


Name: Nyx
Gender: Female
Species: Volcarona
Ability: Flame Body
Personality: Nyx is more of a show off than the others in the party, liking a bit of flare with her moves as Lana raised her to be a contest Pokemon originally before deciding to train her more as a trainer. She was raised by Lana from an egg as a Larvesta.
Most Common Moves: Aerial Ace ™, Swagger ™, Silver Wind, Heat Wave, Flare Blitz, Solar Beam, Morning Sun


Name: Wisteria
Gender: Female
Species: Altaria
Ability: Natural Cure
Personality: Wisteria can be slightly moody. She loves to sleep, but also loves to peck, so it's advised for people that aren't Lana to not get too close to her. She's been getting a little bit better about her pecking though.
Most Common Moves: Dragon Breath, Sky Attack, Dragon Dance, Perish Song, Moonblast, Aerial Ace ™, Ice Beam ™


Name: Jealousy
Gender: Female
Species: Hydreigon
Ability: Levitate
Personality: More aloof than the rest of the party, Jealousy isn't just her name. She's not the nicest pokemon in the bunch, but she does get along very well with Lucifer for some reason. Other than Lucifer and Lana herself, she stays away from most of the other pokemon in the party.
Most Common Moves: Body Slam, Dragon Rush, Crunch, Dragon Breath, Earthquake ™, Toxic ™

She has many Pokemon in her PC box, including: Absol, Ivysaur, Venomoth, Xatu, Scyther, Eevee, Dratini, Larvitar, Linoone, Nuzleaf, Gardevoir, Gallade, Mawile, Milotic, Misdreavus, Duskull, Metang, Tropius, Luxray, Buizel, Rotom, Deerling, Emolga, Chandelure, Axew, Doublade, and Espurr.
The most notable of these Pokemon are: Absol, Milotic, Gardevoir, Gallade, Luxray, Tropius, and Mawile, who have all been part of her champion team at one point.

She has a stock of Ultra Balls, as well as Hyper Potions and Revives. She gets around mostly by Roller Skates. She also has a Mega Bracelet and Gengarite that she always has on her.