[TRAINER] Gutierrez, Joss

[attr="class","agar"]6’2” tall, overweight with a large belly, thick arms, broad shoulders, large hands and feet. His olive skin is rough if he doesn't moisturizing lotion every day. He has large brown eyes, almond-shaped, with a solid forehead giving him a strong, almost mean look. Thick, dark eyebrows sit over them. He has a straight, one-inch scar behind his left eye from a childhood accident. His black hair is short, usually slicked back and professional, although he's not above having a platinum streak in his bangs for kicks. He has small ears with an occasionally stubbly, square jawline.

Gulpo is, naturally, most often seen in his Assimilation Officer uniform. When he's not dressed like he's on-duty, he favors wearing different shades of blue and white, green, or sometimes purples or dark reds. He's often found wearing jeans or slacks with long-sleeve plaid button-downs, collared shirts, comfortable polos, and V-neck shirts. He usually wears sneakers, boots, or other close-toed shoes.

[attr="class","agar"]Gulpo is rather calm despite his intimidating looks, if a little absent-minded, and usually has a kind word to say. Even still, he knows how to pick and choose his fights and will try to avoid people he dislikes -- he has a distaste for the egotistical. He tends to make his discomfort of a situation known through snark. If something gets under his skin and makes him afraid or emotional, he tends to grip his hair and clench his teeth. His gaze falls. It's uncommon to see him this way.

Far from the life of the party, Gulpo is a chatty gossip. He tends to spread information without checking the facts first, and he's quick to jump to conclusions. He is rather set in his traditional ways of thinking, recognizing Pokemon as having needs and desires, but believing them to be less important than those of their trainers or humans involved. He doesn't see the consumption of game or farming of eggs for food as taboo, for example. Capable of being civil, but he is quick to wave off the experience of younger people or weaker trainers. For all his life experience, a closed mind like his is Gulpo's downfall.

Gulpo believes that cooperation, honesty, and order is the key to success in any organization, and he favors rule of law over subjective matters of "good" and "evil." No one is above the law, and if you do the crime, you deserve the time, plain and simple.

[attr="class","agar"]Joss grew up in Cerulean City with his elder brother Guillermo and two parents, making money by selling medicines made from berry powders. Guillermo left home at thirteen to begin his Pokemon journey, while Joss stayed with his parents to help with the family business. When Joss was eleven, his parents enrolled him in Pokemon Tech, with a three-year curriculum that allowed instant access to the Pokemon League at graduation.

Joss graduated at fourteen with his beloved Croconaw and entered the Pokemon League tournament, but he didn't get past the third round of the tournament before being defeated. Instead he signed up to work as a helper in Cerulean City's Gym, cultivating his affinity for Water-types. Guillermo, now seventeen with a full team and Johto badges to his name, suggested he travel across the towns by himself for experience like a real trainer. Since Pokemon Tech allowed him to travel most of Kanto already, Joss decided to begin his journey in Johto instead and collect its badges. He caught the local Pokemon, traded for some others, and diversified the typing of his team. He ranked among the top four trainers at the Silver Conference at age sixteen, beating out his brother the year before.

When his parents told him they hadn't heard from Guillermo in over six months, Joss decided to settle in Olivine City just in case Guillermo needed a place to crash in Johto. He spent his time earning money by competing at the Olivine Cafe's bi-annual competitive eating competition (earning him the nickname Gulpo) as well as becoming a rising-star Pokethlete with his faithful team. Guillermo did show up needing a place to stay when they were 17 and 20, though he was evasive about his whereabouts and what he was doing with his time. He was gone for most of the day. Occasionally Gulpo found some Pokemon missing from his PC. Guillermo disappeared mysteriously soon after Team Rocket sent out a radio signal from Maghogany Town, begging for Giovanni to lead the Rockets.

When Team Rocket disbanded for good, his brother's dealings left Gulpo entangled with the police. Gulpo was questioned for months about the whereabouts of "Gillwing", his brother's Team Rocket alias. He searched all of Johto and Kanto for Guillermo until one day he happened to show up at Gulpo's apartment. His hair had grown out from the typical Team Rocket getup. He admitted to selling Pokemon, including most of Gulpo's hacked PC Pokemon, to rich individuals and the Celadon City Game Corner to fund the Radio Tower experiment. He was on his way to Unova to evade capture; Gulpo was no longer to keep in contact with him.

When Gulpo questioned his motives, Gillwing simply said, "We were going to take over the whole world with those Pokemon. When that fell through... Money still makes the world go 'round." He left the region via the Olivine Harbor the next day. Gulpo told everything he knew to the police and requested they leave him alone after that. He was down to two Pokemon that had brought him through the League and a few Pokethlon competitions, and that was it.

Gulpo told his parents that his brother had moved to Unova to begin a new life for himself. Grieved by Gillwing's lack of human decency, he decided he needed to move out of Olivine City. He made it to the Cyal Region and settled in an apartment in Richitev City, where he studied law for several years, as if to get back at his brother for his crimes. Although he originally wanted to be a run-of-the-mill police officer, Gulpo instead applied for a position as an Assimilation Officer,

[attr="class","agar"]After spending several years becoming acquainted with the history between Cyal and Evter Island, Gulpo is of the opinion that assimilation has been a long time coming for the Islanders. Colonization of new areas is simply how the more modernized societies gain new territories. He doesn't see why people are actively rebelling against the cause but knows it is his duty to keep civilians under control and put dissenters in their place.