[BREEDER] akiyama, shiori

[attr="class","agar"]Growing up, Shiori always felt a bit different. Born "female" as the doctors would say, she felt the pronouns often fit but the label did not. She didn't like the label that she was given, and with much research found a better title for herself, though is still wondering if it's really the right fit because she had been calling herself female for so long. She hit her last growth spurt when she was seventeen, bumping her short height up to five feet, two inches. Her weight is average, maybe a little bit overweight, in terms of her height, having a little bit of a belly, but it is not very noticeable under baggy clothing that she normally wears. Despite being a bit overweight, she does maintain a vegetarian diet, both for health reasons and because she cannot even think about eating meat.

Her hair is often in a high ponytail, bangs falling haphazardly over her face and framing her cheeks - a mixture of being a brunette and having grey-blue hair, complimented only by almond-shaped, bright blue eyes. Her body is free of any tattoos or piercings (she's always been scared of getting them done), but she does have a few notable scars and other marks. The first is a very noticeable beauty mark under her left eye. Even with the hair framing her face, it is usually very easy to spot.

Another scar to take note of would be a distinct set of scars on her right hand. On the back of her right hand, she isn't too proud to say, but a persian had gotten mad at her when she tried to pet it and it ended up giving her a nasty scratch, which resulted in her current fear of the Classy Cat Pokemon. The final scars are on her back and up to her left shoulder, which are burn scars, though she will try her best to keep them hidden.

[attr="class","agar"]Simply put, Shiori is shy. She has always been a bit suspicious of people's motives, making her really good at avoiding people but also just feeling awkward around people in general. She twists her own words and sometimes trips over her own feet in the process. She has several little tics, including her fidgeting with her hands, which is more constant than other things. Oftentimes when she's alone, she likes to pretend that she is big and confident, but her shoulders often fall when she's in the presence of others and she can't get that confidence back.

That never stops her from working though, thankfully. She is generally a very optimistic person when in the presence of others and tries to see the best light in people, even while being suspicious of them. Her suspicions mainly stem from general distrust in people because of opening her heart up to friends when she was younger only to have them turn their back on her. While being social isn't really her strong point, she tries her best to be as honest as she can to people (unless the customer is wrong and she has to put on a fake smile and get them whatever they want).

She is a very organized person, despite her seeming like a scatterbrain, and likes to have all of her duckletts in a line before going on to a next task. She has the kind of policy that if your life doesn't directly affect hers, then she has no room to judge who you are or what you do, so if you are a messy person, she doesn't really care unless she has to live directly in that space that is messy. Shiori is meticulous and likes to take special time to do things.

When interacting with people, she is patient when listening, but not concise with her own words. She tends to ramble, oftentimes because she gets flustered and embarrassed. When she is better friends with people, her words make more sense in sequence because she is able to find a calming aura around a friend and ere on the side of caution, unlike with strangers. That's why she likes being a breeder so much and keeping up with her rehabilitation center - she feels a lot more comfortable around Pokemon than she does around people.

[attr="class","agar"]Shiori grew up and lives in Ornja City. She grew up in a small home with her mother and father, and soon her younger brother when she was five years old. It was almost the picture perfect family. When she was eight years old was when she became scared of persians, having been scratched on the hand by one when she tried to pet it (which could have ended a lot worse, now that she thinks back on it but she still is afraid of them to an extent).

She was always a shy person throughout her schooling, probably something that she got from her mother, but it was a little bit more extreme than her shyness.

When she was sixteen is when the accident happened. When her home caught fire there was nothing she could do. She tried extremely hard, but to no avail, worrying more about her family's lives than her own and not really thinking about herself. Her family made it out of the home alive, but she and her father were the last two out. She suffered from major burns on her back and left shoulder, while her father was in critical condition from being struck by the crumbling building, and ended up dying in the hospital that night.

When she was eighteen, she got in a fight with a boy in her class and he made a comment about her father. She had gotten furious despite her normal shy and sheepish nature. She hasn't spoken to this boy since the fight and has become even more reserved because of it. She doesn't like talking about her past in general, and even side comments about people's histories can often make her uncomfortable due to her own past. That's another part of the reason she is classified as a rebel. She doesn't think it's necessarily right to disrupt the tribe's way of life.

She went off to school to become a nurse, and ended up becoming a Pokemon nurse as opposed to a human nurse because she feels more comfortable around Pokemon than around humans. Instead of working in a Pokemon Center, she started her own Pokemon Rehabilitation Center in Ornja City which cares for sick and injured wild Pokemon, acting similar to a daycare center, but caring for Pokemon who do not have trainers. She works with Pokemon Rangers at times who bring in injured or sick Pokemon to her to take care of until they get better.