PLAYER: DAWN GORSUCH	CHARACTER: SHALIN NARIYA
PRONOUNS: She/Her AGE: 24 ORIENTATION: Straight LOCATION: Kenosha, WI OCCUPATION: Freelance Coder	GENDER: F AGE: Teen ENABLE PKMN SPEECH? Yes PAIN THRESHOLD: Reduced TRAINER CLASS: Gardener

OUT OF THE GAME Having been enamored with computers since she was seven, Dawn lived only a few blocks from Josh Devlin . The two were childhood friends, seeing each other almost every weekend until unfortunate circumstances forced her to move far away from Peoria - all the way upstate and beyond the border to Kenosha. She was forced to move to care for a family member who was partially blind and suffered from chronic episodes of extreme dizziness preventing her from working most jobs. Unable to commit to a standard 9-to-5 job, Dawn earns her pay through freelance coding contracts - largely for Indie studios lacking the capital to hire additional full-time staff, though she will take on contracts outside the gaming industry. Even the occasional illicit one through the dark web if the price is right; after all, the only person she lives with is too blind to be aware of it. As such, she is quite the night owl, sleeping whenever her body will let her. If she is full of energy, it is not too rare for her to go to bed as the sun rises. When not taking on freelance coding contracts, Dawn is a very special type of video game enthusiast: a glitch hunter. With an innovative mind and an eye for detail, she was an invaluable asset to speedrunners. Her ingenuity led to arbitrary code execution being discovered in beloved Nintendo games such as The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Jet Force Gemini, and even Pokémon Black. Dawn has naturally been drawn to UNOVR as a fan of Pokémon and as a glitch hunter. While she does not expect to ever find an arbitrary code execution exploit (and wouldn't use it, as she feels abusing such an exploit could get her banned), she seeks to abuse far more nonsensical glitches. Pokémon using incorrect animations for moves, Pokémon having different palettes than they are supposed to, and even models moving in ways they are not designed to. One of Dawn's ultimate goals, once all of the main story for UNOVR has been released, is to route the game's Any% category: beating the game's main story as quickly as possible, with no restrictions. Though she has no desire to execute the run herself, she would love to set the framework for someone else to do so.

INSIDE THE GAME Within UNOVR's bounds, Shalin acts mostly like herself. Within the game, she is as small and lithe as the game will allow a teenager to be; she looks almost unhealthily skinny. Though her ways may be mischievous, she has a good grasp on what her peers' limits are, and can turn more serious when the scene calls for it. She is not there to roleplay a character; she is there to stress-test the game and look for weaknesses in its code -- not to be malicious, but to be funny. Like her childhood friend, Shalin is particular about what Pokémon she catches. While she likes saddle Pokémon, her definition of a saddle Pokémon is much wider than what UNOVR devs intended it to be. One of her first goals is to find an exploit that lets her saddle any Pokémon, as well as move the saddle's position to anywhere on the Pokémon's model. Shalin is a bit of an attention grabber, not afraid to share her discoveries with her friends who play the game, whether she knows them in the real world or not. With UNOVR devs only patching game-breaking bugs and deeming the rest as "features", she remains incentivized to hunt for harmless exploits. Overall, she is a nice person, if not a little too trusting of others. One of Shalin's long-term goals is to meet the legendary Pokémon Keldeo, as it has been her favorite Pokémon since playing Pokémon Black 2.

FACE CLAIMS IRL CHARACTER [u]FINAL FANTASY IX[/u] PRINCESS GARNET TIL ALEXANDROS XVII as [a href="link to character app"]DAWN GORSUCH[/a] PLAYER CHARACTER [u]FINAL FANTASY IV[/u] RYDIA as @shalinnariya

OOC NAME RaikouRider

STARTER PKMN Do you want to receive your starter in-character at the Starter Lab? NO, I'LL JUMP STRAIGHT INTO RP!