[Civilian] Chloe, Herbart

[attr="class","agar"]Chloe has unusual red-pink hair and dark red eyes that makes her stand out even in Cyal. Her hair are cutoff in chin-length, yet two strands are longer that the others and reach all the way to her shoulder and back.

She is on the short side of her age spectrum, due to experiencing illness during her early years. She is slim and can be considered of average built.

She likes to move around in her school uniform, consisting of a white navy shirt with light blue collar and rolled up sleeves to the elbows and a light blue skirt. Instead of wearing normal school shoes though, she prefers to have flat, calf-high, black boots. Her appearance is complete with two black sweatbands on her wrists and duffel bag that can carry her guitar and has a few extra pockets for the occasionaly herb-picking on the way home.

When not in her school uniform, Chloe will switch to jeans, shorts or sweatpants that allow her to move around without fear of accidentally having her panties being shown as it had happened once as she was climbing a tree in the school grounds. She hadn't mind then, but she was scolded at the time and now she is careful despite the fact she still doesn't mind. It's one of her 'quirks'.

She is often seen in a gardening attire, when she takes care of the small medicinal herb garden she was allowed to create at the house of her foster family. She had set it up during one of those long periods of being ignored and when they noticed it was too late because the garden had bloomed and it was beautiful enough to keep.

One thing remains constant no matter what she dressed like or where she is, a small bluish stone with a peculiar colored core. Chloe keeps this raw and unrefined stone in her a pocket as it is a tallisman her family gave her as a parting gift.

[attr="class","agar"]Chloe shows a very calm and collected nature when it comes to adults and people that she first meets and/or doesn't trust. This was a defense mechanism she developed during her first years in Cyal.

When she is with her friends and people that sincerely want to get to know her she exhibits excitement, optimism and she tends to talk too much about plants, her tribe, music and pokemon. She also cares deeply about humans and pokemon alike, even though she will not show it to them if they refuse her help or her concern. She will help without them even realizing it.

She has kept her father's last words close to heart and she is proud for being born a Soccla and isn't afraid to show it. With people who dissaprove such a behavior, she will tone that down into a 'quirk', but with her closest friends she will not hold back and she will even go to extensive lengths to explain the meaning behind her actions.

She also respects highly Tropius and Bulbasaurs because of her tribe's teachings. In fact when she was presented with the starter pokemon she actually kneeled in respect to Lotus and asked him if he would do her the honor of becoming her companion. Something she was later scolded for by her foster family. Respect for a pokemon was a must but to a certain degree, they had told her.

She loves to play the guitar and sing, whether alone or in a school band it doesn't matter. She has even attempted to write songs of her own, but what she had success with was the translation of songs in her native language or putting melody to their traditional songs. Her dream is to return to Evter one day and join her mother as an herbalist/doctor with all the knowledge she has gained from Cyal's advanced medicine. However she hasn't told anyone of it, in fear she would be discouraged or forbidden from pursuing it.

She answers to both her birth name, Rojo, as well as Chloe. Her close friends often would use the first name when they are alone.

[attr="class","agar"]Chloe was born in the Soccla Tribe to a family of well-known herbalists. It is tradional for the women of Chloe's family to become herbalists, while the men can choose to be anything. Chloe's mother is a herbalist, while her father is an experienced hunter and tracker. Chloe's name given to her by birth is Rojo, which means Red. Chloe's haircolor was not common in the tribe and thus her name came about.

Chloe was a happy and energetic child until, at the age of six, she got sick with a lung dissease and was not able to leave the Hut again. At first it appeared this was going to be a simple cold, but as time passed Chloe only got worse. In fear of the child causing an epidemic, the Tribe isolated her and only her Skiddo was allowed to be with her. Her family had limited contact with her and this made them seek out the Cyal officers. They needed help to heal their daughter.

Chloe was then taken for the assimilation programm at the age of eight after spending almost two years in isolation. The goverment used two methods to take the girl, the first one was promising her family that she was going to be well cared for and fully healed, while the second one was to show to young Rojo, who had an interest in plants, how many new things she could learn if she went to Cyal.

So Rojo was taken to Cyal and given to a foster family of goverment officials, the Herbarts. She often visited the hospital for the first year and a half in order to monitor her health. The adjusting period was awkward for her, but she was a curious child and she learned fast all that was needed to be able to blend in with the people of Cyal. She was given a new name, Chloe, because the Herbart family had 'difficulty' pronouncing her name, but it was also a trick in order to fully assimilate her.

Chloe developed an interest in music and took guitar lessons while she was at school. This was also a defense mechanism for when the Herbarts ignored her or her foster brother, Liam, would make everyone at school tease her. It's not that she hates the boy, but she keeps her distance from him. His grass type pokemon is an entirely different matter though and Chloe can't keep away for long from Thyme the Bayleef.

She focused her studies in medicinal plants, pokemon berries and medicine in general, because she has this dream of going back to her family and help her mother as a herbalist - doctor with all the new knowledge the modern world has given her. She also feels like she was given a second chance when she was cured and she wants to give something in return, she wants to do good.

However it was not all easy for her during the years in Cyal. While the Herbarts were kind to her - except the times they felt like ignoring her - her tribal habits often got her into trouble or were the cause of bullying from other kids at school, something that Liam made sure would happen.

As she grew she made a few close friends with whom she could really be herself, a proud Soccla. This wasn't easy though, because of certain rules stating that she wasn't allowed to bring her friends over or go visit them or even be out of the house after dark.

She never refused her traditions, but she learned to tone them down when around other people whom she doesn't know well. They still remain as 'quirks' to most people.

As she is comes closer to being officially recognised as an adult and can therefore travel to Evter without asking for permission, she gets more and more excited about meeting her family again.Or, at least, she hopes she will be able to see them again.But she seems to be slowly realizing that she is a prisoner of sorts and when someone approached her and talked to her about the rebellion and what they did, she decided to join and help out as she could.

[attr="class","agar"]Chloe was approached, not long ago by a man, who spoke to her about what the Goverment did to the Tribes on Evter and that they should not be allowed to continue to do so. At that time the man knew little of Chloe's circumstances, but what he had said had the girl thinking. She slowly began to realize she was a prisoner of sorts. Not allowed to be truly her self, or have friends or freedom of movement, at least the way a Cyal citizen not born in the Tribes did.Thus the next time she met with the man, she explained to him about her story and that she wished to join as long as she was not going to get into too much trouble with her foster family.