Post by Cassie on Jan 30, 2009 17:23:26 GMT -5
My Friends call me.. Most people know me as Flannery, because I'm not a great fan of my actual name. I guess you can shorten that too if you want, I don't really mind.
I'm not an it! I'm a.. Durrr Fred, I'm a girl. Jeesh, you do ask some silly questions.
I am a... Rockstar! Only joking, but I'm close enough! I'm a Gym Leader. But not just any old Gym Leader, I'm from Lavaridge and I'm a master of fire... Well, I will be!
I don't need wrinkle cream! I'm.. Wrinkle cream? Pssht, who needs that gunk on your face? All you need is a nice soak in the hot springs... Oh, I'm only 19 for the record.
Do you think I need a diet?
Diet's are for lemmings.
I don't think they work anyway. People are always conplaining about them, so they're obviously not very good. I dunno, I've never tried one and I don't intend to start now. I don't think I need to either, I'm qute slim. Which makes no sense really, seeing as most of the time I'm shovelling crap down my throat like the worlds about to come to an end. My mum cooks really healthy food (she'd one of those food people, y'know?) and then I'll eat that and then follow it up with a truckload of candy. Mew only knows why I'm not fat... Maybe it's becuase all the sugar makes me hyper and then I run around alot? Or it could just be a great mystery of life!
Well, moving on! My hair totally matches my last name. It's red (well pinky-red) and it sticks out all over the place. Just like a volcanic erruption! Y'see the colour would be the lava- eh, you knew that, didn't you? Sorry! But, like I said, really spikey. I've given up trying to make it look normal, so I just tie it up in a ponytail. I think the spkey explosion makes me looking striking, edgy and kinda cute though... What do you think? My eyes freak a lot of people out though, becuase they match my hair. Yep, reddish pink. I have no idea why they're that colour though, so don't bother asking me. I never had much of a head for all the science stuff. Maybe I had an albino in my family or something....?
My emotional disposition?
Well, I'm a very impulsive person. I like to act on instinct and I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what I'm going to do; I just do it. I don't ever spend time thinking about the consequences of my actions. Hesitation is not my thing. My grandad says I'm reckless, and my dad says I'm brave. I'm not sure... Maybe I'm a little bit of both?
I've been told I have no concept of personal space though, which I guess is true. I'm one for physical contact, like hand holding, and hugging. Some people find it really unsettling, but I don't notice that much. So if you think I'm too close and it's making you uncomfortable, you are actually going to have to tell me becuase otherwise I just won't notice. I'm kind of oblivious to these sorts of things. I do hug people and Pokemon a lot though. I hug when I'm happy, scared, sad, confused, nervous, (not so much when I'm angry though!) ... You get the point. Mucho hugging. There's nothing like a good hug in my opinion!
Despite the stuff people say about people with red-hair, I don't actually really have a temper. Everyone thinks I should, becuase of the hair thing and the fact I specialise in fire types. But I don't. I'm not going to fly off the handle at the smallest thing, and it takes a lot to get me angry. I think I have a quite laid bac attitude, but that doesn't really seem to fit seeing as I'm always running around and doing stuff. I don't know really...
I do my own thing most of the time rather than what I'm told. But I don't really think I'm rebelious, becuase I normally try to do what's expected of me, and then when I fail (I normally fail) I give up. So I guess that makes me a quitter more than a rebel. People just say I'm rebelious becuase my own thing normally involves going to rockshows and dancing 'till my legs are sore. Oh and I have spikey hair so naturally I must be rebelling. I think it's kind of stupid that people make all those assumtions though... Oh well, if that's what they want to do.
I'm a really curious person, and I love trying new things. I'll try anything once, and normally twice just to double check. I'm not afraid to do something different, and even if it seems scary I just do it anyway. It's like taking off a bandaid, you shouldn't think about whether it's going to hurt or not, you just rip it off! I'm not very judgemental, and I normally give second chances... I can get really exitable, and then I speak a lot, and really fast. Sometimes I slip into Spanish too, because that's my second language...
I don't know what else there is to say about me...
Things that are Groovy:
- Dancing. I love to dance, I do it all the time. You don't even need music!
- Speaking of music, I love that too. Rockshows are awesome. I'm always bunking off Gym Leader duties to sneak off to them. Then my grandpa always shouts at me!
- Sunshine. I'm like a little lizard in the sun really, I stretch out and soak it all up. My Pokemon like it too.
- Hugging people. I'm always jumping on people and hugging them, it gives me the fuzzies!
- Fire! I guess that's kind of obvious, right? Well, at least now you know for sure.
- Junkfood. I know it's bad for you... But it taste's so good!
- I like trying new stuff, so just take my hand and take me to a new place!
Things that aren't so Groovy:
- Being shouted at. My family can be really scary when they're angry and they make me feel really small.
- Having to be responsible. Gramps is always preaching to me about this one, and it just gets more boring. I just wanna have fun!
- Obsessive battlers. Chillax people, violence doesn't actually make the world go around.
- Having to clean. Icky and boring. I hate it when people screw up the Gym and then refuse to clean it up afterwards. You think they'd do a girl a favour right?
- People who try and tell me who I should be. I spent a lot of time trying to be who they thought I should be, but now I just want to be me... Is that okay?
- Sore losers. It's just a game!
But..I'm afraid!
I'm not scared of water like you would assume (but my pokemon are!), but I am scared of being buried alive. That was ever since my cousin buried me at the hot springs and left me there... It was horrible! -shudders- Oh, and I'm always worried that Entei's going to make Mt. Chimney explode and destroy my hometown. So please Mr. Entei... Don't?
I like to...
- Go to rockshows
- Dance
- Sunbathe
- Rockclimbing
- Ride my Rapidash
- Break the rules
- Have fun!
My reason? Because my grandad decided that he was going to teach me how to raise Pokemon. Then he decided he wanted to go and write poetry, and left me in charge of the Gym. Bish, bash, bosh; I'm a Gym Leader. It's not all it's cracked up to be though. Lots of work, not so much fun. So I've escaped to Kanto for a while! Hehe!
Mandatory Angst:
I was born and raised in Lavaridge Town, like a lot of my family were actually. Seriously, us Kazans' have been loitering in that little town throughout history. My mum didn't come from Lavaridge Town though, she came from Fortree City. I can't remember exactly how or even why my parents met but obviously they did or they wouldn't be my parents and I would even be here to tell you all of this!
I'm an only child, which is just as well because I don't think my parents would be able to handle any more of me! My dad calls me his little angel a lot though, but I know he doesn't think I'm actually an angel. He calls me a lot of other stuff when he's angry though, which now that I really think about it, does happen a lot.
Lavaridge isn't exacty a big town, so there weren't a lot of children my own age to play with. So I found way's to entertain mysef. I spent most of my chidhood running around the town and the slopes of vocano's with my Pokemon. My mum freaked out about that, claiming it was a dangerous pastime but my grandad told her to stop worrying and that I'd be fine. He and my mum used to argue a lot actually, and my mum would freak out and start screaming in Spanish. It was funny actually, because he never understood what she was saying a lot of the time and would have to ask me or my dad what she was going on about. Oh yeah, I speak Spanish becuase of her.
Because Lavaridge is such a small town, it didn't have a school. So I was sent to the school at Mauville City becuase my parents didn't really have the time (or the pateince) to homeschool me. It was kind of a trek to Mauville, but I didn't really mind. I was always late though, becuase I'd keep getting distracted on the way. My teachers got kind of angry about that though, so my dad got my a Ponyta so I could ride her and get there on time. Pretty inventive, right? I didn't like going to school though, it was never really my thing. I was never one of the smart kids, and I didn't do so well in my lessons. I tried at first, but then after a while I just kinda... Gave up. I think my teachers did too. They were aways saying I had my head up in the clouds, and they thought I was kind of slow.
When I got older, I started skipping school and instead spent my time hanging around Mauville City. I spent most of my money at the local arcades. My granddad shouted at me when he found out, but my mum said she didn't mind too much, because she knew how much I hated school. There was a massive fight about it, but I don't know exactly what was said because I was getting upset and my dad took me up to the Volcano to calm me down. When I got back my mum was chopping the vegtables with a lot of force and my grandad was sat on the sofa. I thought I was in for a huge lecture, so I was sort of hiding behind my dad who obviously thought the same thing as he kind of hugged me close. My dad was always the protective kind. I wasn't shouted at though; instead Gramps told me he was retiring and I was going to be the new Gym Leader. He said I needed... Oh I forget now. It was something about responsibility and structure I think. But the long and short of it was, no school meant I was in charge of the Gym.
I guess a lot of people would have been thrilled, but me? Not so much. I've never been one for being in charge and being responsible, and now that Gramps had gone and made me Gym Leader everybody in the town was looking at me. I had to battle all the time, and clean up after the battles, go to conrences and follow the rules. Not exactly what you'd call fun. My mum wasn't entirley impressed with it all, but my dad and grandad were always rooting for me. So I tried to be who they wanted me to be. Y'know, strong, feirce, determined and mature. I failed though, because it just wasn't me. So I gave up again and went back to being plain old me. I wasn't the best Gym Leader, I'm not all that great and battling to be honest. It just didn't inspire me like it seems to do with a lot of other people. Besides, even though I was the Gym Leader, people were still shotuing at me. Why hadn't I cleaned up? Where was I yesterday? What did I mean I'd gone to a rockshow? Had I no respect? What time did I call this? It was all so much preassure. In the end I ran away.
I spent a few days crashing out on Winona's floor (we met when I went to visit my mum's parents in Fortree), and even though she wasn't entirely impressed that I'd run out on the Gym she was still really nice to me. I only stayed there for a few days before I went back home though. I just needed that bit of space to like, relax, y'know? When I did go back home, my parents were hugging me and my mum was crying becuase she was scared I died or something. Then I told them I didn't want to stay in the Gym anymore. I was really worried they were going to shout at me, but they didn't. They just said that was fine, and that Grandpa would look after it for me. Meaning if I ever wanted to come back, I could.
So I decided that I'd go travelling, which is why I'm here in Kanto!
Oh and by the way... I'm Bi-Lingual. I don't have to battle you, because even though I'm still technically a Gym Leader, I'm a Hoen Gymleader not a Kanto one. So don't think you have the right to challenge me, becuase you don't. I really just wanna have some fun! I feel the cold quite easily, and I've been told I talk too much...
I'm just a proxy for.. Cassie!
Here's some of their writing! Do I really have to do another one? Dx [/ul]
