PLAYER: vera michaels	CHARACTER: prince alabaster
PRONOUNS: she/her...? AGE: 15 ORIENTATION: ?? LOCATION: Orlando, Florida OCCUPATION: Student	GENDER: <M> AGE: Teen ENABLE PKMN SPEECH? Yes PAIN THRESHOLD: Reduced TRAINER CLASS: Kindler

OUT OF THE GAME A quiet bookworm is what you see and what you get when you look at Vera. Nose in various books about far away places, history, fantasy... Really anything that you can think of. Books about strong women and books about fantasy dragons. If it was a book she'd probably read it. And if it was homework she probably did it. And more often than not spent her lunch hours eating in the library, away from everyone else so that they didn't bother her. She's timid and avoids conflict for the most part. Not wanting anyone to really bother her or cause more trouble than necessary. After all what's the point of getting riled up if it's just going to lead to more problems? She sits out of gym most of the time, choosing to just walk around the track or read a book due to pretty harsh asthma. Her dad calls her his pretty perfect princess. His smart little girl. His future woman of stem. But she feels... strange... when he says that. And not in a good way. She's grateful for the compliments but when he adds the princess, or the girl, or anything about her gender she just deflates. Like it makes everything else moot. Her changing body and getting teased about it also makes her extremely... Off. Reverting to the baggiest clothes she can find has made it feel a little bit better. Albeit she doesn't get to dress as cool as the other kids she's never really cared about that either. So long as they just don't notice... her. Books being a major source of comfort she's found herself striving to find books that can maybe help her understand why she's feeling the way she does. But that's harder said than done. Turning to online she decided to get back into one of her older hobbies, throwing herself into video games. Something she hadn't been doing a lot since she felt the need to keep her grades up so that maybe her father would still be proud of her, regardless of how she felt about it. More than once she's considered just letting her grades slip so that it will all stop. But the fear of disappointment is even greater than her discomfort.

INSIDE THE GAME In the game he feels a little bit better about himself. Not completely but... better. The body feels lighter and he feels better about that. Considering his choices in game just a little fun experiment. To see how things work out. Just for fun. Chivalrous and kind he holds himself with an air of royalty. As one named Prince Alabaster would of course. He can feel himself breathing a bit easier when it comes to moving around. After all there's no asthma in a VR game. So running is a lot more fun. Even though it hasn't been that long since he's played a Pokemon game there's a soft nostalgia about it all that feels good. But he tells himself that that's absolutely just him enjoying Pokemon and not the avatar. He aims to carry himself with grace and try to make friends in the game. Also he wants to be the first one to truly complete the Pokedex in game, something he loved doing in the other games... And something he couldn't really accomplish due to not having other friends who played.

FACE CLAIMS Hilda Valentine Goneril from Fire Emblem: Three Houses Whipped Cream Cookie from Cookie Run

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