Res for his team + relations!
Tinks | Female | Steel-Fairy
Keith's first member, she's been with him since he was a toddler. She originally planned to steal a little plastic key that keith, age 2, had for teething, but the child fought back and the fairy was forced to stay for longer to try to get /her/ key back. Within a few days, she realized the kid was kinda okay, and stayed by his side as he grew. She finally got her key when Keith turned 3.
She can use flash, but prefers to show off her strength by carrying lanterns or throwing a well-placed Mirror Shot at a certain Articuno. She's surprisingly pugilistic, and sometimes Keith has to try and stop her from picking fights, when he should be the one doing so as a trainer. She also knows Keith the best, and tends to goad him into things by violently tapping him or squeaking in his face.
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Albie | Male | Ice-Grass
Abomasnow is Keith's absolute favorite pokemon. It looks like a tree, a monster, and a cuddly friend all rolled into one. As soon as Keith was able to become a trainer (Tinks getting into her ball quickly after that moment), he set out to catch himself the first snover he saw. In his haste, he forgot how deep into the forest he managed to get, and as he tried to get back home, he got more lost. Albie (after perhaps come coercing from Tinks) helped Keith warm up enough, and managed to get him closer to Snowpoint. In thanks, Keith pampered the Abomasnow, and after a few days without the pokemon leaving, Keith tried to ask it if he'd like to be his second partner. It was a yes.
Albie has a very lax attitude, and prefers to sit on the sidelines. He does not mind things snuggling into him, and he does love his naps enough that he almost cannot sleep without someone nearby.
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Allen | Female | Fairy-Flying
Keith can't give up an abandoned egg easily. Allen was third on the team, after being carefully cared for as an egg for several months. Keith managed to get the poor egg after it was found on the bodies of two people whom the rangers couldn't find soon enough. Unlike the effects of the dead travelers, there was no documentation on the egg, so it wasn't slated to be returned to the relatives of the deceased. Keith kept it. It looked nice enough, and then it hatched into something adorable.
Allen was fawned over by Keith and his two pokemon almost immediately. The poor pokemon cannot take criticism very easily, being very used to having things sugarcoated. She easily evolved into Togetic, within a few months, and it wasn't until a few years later that Keith got his hands on a Shiny Stone, letting her be the team's primary aerial fighter.
Keith was only told a few months ago Allen is, unfortunately, not a male. The name didn't change.
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Jess | Female | Ice-Dark
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Skaal | Male | Steel-Rock
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[Various] | N/A | Ice-Flying | Shiny
This Articuno... Keith and it have not have had the best of relations. While it is the last to join, Keith has known it since his early days as a ranger. A sparkling Articuno whose body could be seen from a mile away? Who also had a penchant for whipping up wicked blizzards and windstorms that have caused many fatalities? It was a menace to the rangers for years, but Keith fell under its ire within his first week.
He tried to put it into a headlock after executing a foolhardy flight attempt that almost sent him falling into a stand of pines.
They fell into a small rivalry after that, Keith trying to manhandle the bird into submission, and the Articuno trying to throw Keith off and whip up a nasty Blizzard to his face. Most of the time, the Articuno won, but not after a few ruffled feathers. But... Very recently, Keith actually managed to run the bird into the snows, his only change in tactic being going for wings other than body. And, as per their little argumentative spats, if Keith won, the Articuno had to join.
The bird likes the guy, in a weird way. Being new meant Keith is trying to find a nickname they both can get used to, and to Articuno's horror, Keith is
bad at names.
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