PLAYER: Carolina Rose Brooks	CHARACTER: Maia Fauna
PRONOUNS: She/Her AGE: 36 LOCATION: Denver, Colorado OCCUPATION: Zoologist	BODY TYPE: <F> AGE: Adult ENABLE PKMN SPEECH? No PAIN THRESHOLD: Realistic

OUT OF THE GAME Carolina would have told you that she had a pretty successful life so far, she's accomplished everything that she's ever set out to do. Graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Zoology, raising two beautiful twin girls, and getting a proper solid job at the Denver Zoo doing everything that she has ever loved. And yet, something always felt a little bit off. Sure, she had to kick her old husband to the curb after he proved to be a terrible example for her children, and sure, she had to deal with two twin girls at the young age of 18, struggling with going to college at the same time, but she would have done it again and again. None of that bothered her anymore. The truth is, Carolina has always wanted to know what it was like to discover something new. Born in an era where the majority of the world had already been explored, and any recent discoveries were all bugs, bacteria, or deep dark ocean fish. She had missed the craze for fossils too, and the chance to dive deep into the discovery of space and the galaxies beyond their own. Even if there was potentially thousands of undiscovered animals all across the planet, she wasn't going to be the one to find them. And that was... okay. She enjoyed her life. Teaching people about the different animals at the zoo, helping reintroduce endangered species back into nature, understanding their habitats and helping the world grow and understand. It was all great, important work, there was never any doubt. And yet... she couldn't help but wonder. Her kids had gotten into UNOVR almost as soon as it came out, spending all their time in the game, always talking about the latest update, or the latest dungeon they went on. Talking about their little Pokémon friends, or people that they met. She was no stranger to Pokémon as a concept, after all many real world animals were named after them. The Chilicola Charizard, for one. She even took them and some of her extended family to UNOVRCON when that happened! But she never really embraced the craze, knew nothing about the specifics. But hearing them talk about it... she couldn't help but wonder. What would it be like to discover an animal in the world, and know absolutely nothing about it? To have to learn entirely new rules about the universe, laws of physics that needed to be relearned, to create her own observations... Maybe it wasn't new to the world, but it would be new to her, and didn't that just sound delightful? With her twins leaving off for college, she "allowed" her kids to "convince" her to get a Worldscreen as well, so she could do something with them from a distance. If only they knew how often she'd play all on her own.

INSIDE THE GAME Maia Fauna wants to know everything about everything. Pokémon are such fascinating creatures, and she outright refuses to look anything up on her own time. Everything she wants to know about Pokémon, she'll learn it first hand. She knows only the barest basics of everything, from Type Charts to how Evolution even works, from overhearing her children, but it fascinates her endlessly. She spends her free time sketching her own Pokémon, and those she sees in the wild, trying to imagine what their skeletal and muscular structures look like, buried beneath these digital pixels. The more outrageous a Pokémon's physical capabilities, all the better. Swiftly developing a desire to collect all the wildest and weirdest ones she possible can. She is far too committed to her "research," willing to delve through the mud and traverse across the extreme environments, just to get a single glimpse at a Pokémon she's never seen before. It's incredibly easy to get her attention, just show her a Pokémon she's never seen before, and watch the way her eyes literally sparkle. No matter what, Maia is a teacher deep down. She adores sharing her knowledge with others, whether that's secret dungeons she's discovered, highly niche and specific mechanics, or the unique way that Pokémon adapt to their regional environments. Her true goal, one day, is to be able to share with others her own love of learning, through a medium that everyone can understand, video games. But first, she has to become an expert, and won't settle for anything less.

FACE CLAIMS IRL CHARACTER [u]POKEMON SERIES[/u] Viola as [a href="https://unovr.boards.net/thread/3016/maia-fauna"]Carolina Rose Brooks[/a] PLAYER CHARACTER [u]MADE IN ABYSS[/u] Lyza as @maia

OOC NAME Magnere

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