PLAYER: Adrien Cromwell	CHARACTER: Cheshired Kat
PRONOUNS: He/Him AGE: 24 ORIENTATION: Homosexual LOCATION: Atlanta (USA) OCCUPATION: Streamer	GENDER: <M> AGE: Adult ENABLE PKMN SPEECH? No PAIN THRESHOLD: Reduced TRAINER CLASS: Kindler

OUT OF THE GAME Born the youngest of three to a white-collar worker and a stay-at-home mom, Adrien grew up in the middle class suburbs outside Atlanta. For the most part, his childhood was fairly unremarkable - the boy was perhaps a little more hyperactive than his classmates at times, sure, and more popular with the elaborate make-believe games of some of the other girls than he was, but it was nothing the teachers couldn't bring into line with a sharp word, nothing more serious than the occasional amusing anecdote he could laugh about when he thought back on the memory (such as when he and his friends came up with an elaborate recreation of Pokemon they would pretend to engage in at recess or when his seventh grade science teacher gave up trying to get him to stop bringing his Gameboy to class that he would play on when he was done with his work). With a Christmas present of a used Nintendo 64 the year the company would release the Gamecube, it wasn't entirely a surprise that the chance to finally get to act out his own Pokemon journey instead of just watching the show on TV alongside his siblings would see him redirecting his excess energy from the sports he wasn't particularly good at (he tried, to be fair, but soccer was just a lot less fun in ninety-plus degree summers and when you were regularly tripping over your own legs) back into video games. It was a passion that he carried right alongside his love for theater, one of the few sure-fire ways to pull him away from his games, though it was never one he ever thought he would end up pursuing as a career. And yet, despite all the odds, he managed to do exactly the very thing most parents caution their children against pursuing - becoming famous making a job out of playing video games. It had been a dare in the first place, taking his friend's joke VTuber design to beat the entirety of Pokemon Sapphire with only a Skitty, but it ended up catapulting him into fame. Within a year of his debut, he was making the choice to walk away from college with his associate's degree, and a few years later, from his IT job to instead begin streaming full-time as his persona, Cheshired Kat, who quickly carved out a niche for himself both through his challenge runs of popular Nintendo games (such as speedrunning completing the Pokedex in Pokemon Fire Red, beating Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess without picking up any heart containers, and beating Pokemon Black without being able to get experience through battling) and his highlights of brand new (such as his playthrough of the entirety of the newest Paper Mario game during its release week) or niche games (such his much-beloved "chatting streams" where he plays Pokemon Conquest). Unsurprisingly, Adrien originally created his UNOVR character during its initial release, fully intending to stream the game on release; however, the instant he figured out that it was impossible to stream the game, he abandoned the account, where it would remain untouched until, years later, he would decide to pick up the game on a whim and play it as his "casual game" outside of his usual streaming schedule.

INSIDE THE GAME Perhaps unsurprisingly, Adrien is quite used to playing a persona, and in that way, Cheshired is a character he's long-since worked out. Flirty, over-confident, impulsive, brash, petty, quirky - everything that most people would come to expect from what is, essentially, a pink-haired catboy with a feather boa, multiple piercings, and a crop top (the design was an inside joke from a college friend about an entire mini-thesis he'd had about how Sylveons were actually punk, okay, it's not entirely his fault). Since his character was created a few years ago with the original intent of streaming, there's a lot of quirks still hanging over from his design at the time (mostly the piercings - they were prone to bugging out, especially the one in his tail, so he'd had to drop all of them save for a couple of golden cuffs at the base of the ears, but they're back now, with a vengeance). That being said, though, Adrien himself in-game is... a bit of a quandry. It's been a while since he's played a game that he's not streamed, and when his real life has become rather limited in deeper interactions that aren't based on his online persona ever since his last roommate moved out (largely because Adrien's undiagnosed ADHD has only gotten worse since he's been able to listen to almost every bad idea his brain throws out at him in the name of "content"), he's not quite sure of exactly how he wants to exist in this state where he's obviously recognizable as his brand yet playing in a more casual context. At moments, this will let his true personality shine through, the slightly calmer, more realistic drama student and gamer who hit it big taking center stage; at others, he'll fall right back on his usual persona, playful and flirty and a problematic cat sticking his paws into everything just to see what it does. (Part of the problem being, of course, that with unintentional fame comes the blurring of the lines between yourself and the online persona you'd create to save yourself from the worst the masses have to offer - and that's something Adrien even now struggles with, even if he'd never realize it on his own.)

FACE CLAIMS IRL CHARACTER [u]PROMISE OF WIZARD[/u] Cain as [a href="https://unovr.boards.net/post/22441/thread"]Adrien Cromwell[/a] PLAYER CHARACTER [u]HEART NO KUNI NO ALICE[/u] Boris Airay as @cheshire pics by とん && とこもこ

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