Post by DisplacedEarth on Jan 10, 2011 0:23:46 GMT -5
Cricket Nikkola
Age: 18
Gender: Female, bisexual
Appearance: Cricket is a slightly over-weight woman, but it only seems to show on her thighs and on her gut, which resembles a minor beer gut when bloated. She is also on the short side, making her tubbiness stand out more. Her skin tone ranges from a light shade of pink to a pale whitish color on the bottoms of her arms and wherever she usually is wearing clothes, indicating somewhat of a tan from being outside a lot. As for her hands, Cricket has a bend in both of her pinkies that makes them grow out straight and then bend so that they point inward towards her ring fingers. Her nails are nearly an inch long from the root out, and are very tough, which means that they are difficult to clip and instead must be filed to a shorter length when they get too long. Sometimes while doing this, Cricket will make them sharper.
Cricket's eyes are a murky, unremarkable brown; however, they hold a spark of mischief that some mistake as beauty. She doesn't wear much makeup since it clogs up her pores, but even without makeup she seems to get acne quite often, and she has never seen the harm in a little bit of black or silver eyeliner. Between the freckles across her cheeks and nose are scars where she clawed at her pimples and popped them to get rid of them.
One remarkable feature about Cricket is her hair; it's a dark, almost black brown color, reaches down to her shoulders, and can loook absolutely beautiful when she gets enough product into it while it's damp. Unfortunately, since her hair is naturally curly, Cricket often doesn't get quite enough product into it and it just turns into a frizzy, poofy mess. In a case like that, she sweeps it back into a butterfly-shaped hair clip and goes about her business anyways..
The one seemingly perfect trait that Cricket holds, the one glorious thing that she doesn't have to work to perfect, is her chest. Cricket has amazing breasts, just the right size and perkiness and weight. It makes it harder for her to shop for shirts, but she happily manages.
As for clothing, Cricket likes brighter colors and darker colors, but absolutely hates pale ones. She will wear bright orange and blue one day, grey and black the next day, but one will never see her wearing pale pink, beige, plain white, or otherwise. Style-wise, she likes tank tops and skirts or capris in the late spring, summer, and early fall. Once it becomes chilly, she enjoys wearing hoodies and jeans and sweatpants. Year-round, she wears a ratty pair of white sneakers that have purple accent stripes; the sneakers appear to be grey and dark-grey due to just how old they are, but she loves them and they are very comfortable for her. Cricket also has a pair of glasses that appear to be in the 'emo' style, thick-rimmed and black. She likes to wear them on the end of her nose sometimes.
Cricket's bag reflects her love of bright colors. It is a basic backpack shape, single-strapped, that is mainly colored black. Each pocket is a different color; bright orange, lime green, neon blue, bright purple, and some shade of reddish-pink. The bag is on the larger side, but there usually isn't much inside of it for Cricket to carry.
Personality: Cricket is one of those people with the rare ability to adapt to the different people around her; as she is into a variety of different interests, she needs only speak of just the relevant ones when she wishes to fit with a certain group or single person. Some might call this deceit, but Cricket calls it tact. She couldn't care less of what most people think of her, and acts somewhat like a dog or a wolf whether in public or in her own home; she will yip or give a short, sharp bark-like noise when startled, she will show her teeth and growl when feeling angry or threatened, she is perfectly comfortable walking on four legs (though it is difficult to run on all fours, she tries sometimes), and she has trained her nose to move up and down when she is smelling things and her ears to move backwards when she is feeling threatened or submissive. In a fight, Cricket is quick to use her 'claws' and teeth to defend herself and often leaps onto her opponent's back to claw and nip and pin them down. She is quick to fight back when attacked.
This girl can appreciate a good joke; it can be racist (Cricket is not the least bit racist, but she is always amused when stereotypes play themselves out) or against her and as long as it's funny and makes sense, she will laugh. However funny a joke is, though, if it is about someone that Cricket cares for, she will not hesitate to give the person making the joke a fierce warning. She is extremely protective of and loyal to her friends, almost to a fault. Even if it turns out that the person she is loyal to doesn't actually like her and instead thinks that she needs pity of some sort, she will sometimes overlook that and still remain loyal. Having grown up without many friends will leave someone clinging to whatever scraps of friendship they can salvage from the people around them, no matter how many times they tell themselves that they don't need anyone else.
Cricket adores all Pokemon, even the ones that most people fear or loathe for their various reasons. She especially loves any Pokemon that is dog-, wolf-, or tiger-like, such as Arcanine and Mightyena, and she has always had a high fondness for large, scary-looking Pokemon like Gyarados, Aggron, and Arbok. A lot of people are convinced that they will hear about her getting mauled to death by angry Pokemon when she goes running towards them saying how adorable they are and wanting to play, and they're probably right. It is something she would do, as she sometimes acts without thinking, and at a first impression she often comes on way too strong, especially to a Pokemon that she believes is awesome.
When it comes to Cricket's initial thoughts of other people, she looks first at what age they appear to be. If someone appears to be much younger than her, she usually looks right past them as though they don't exist, having a distinct dislike of children under the age of 16 or so. Though there are exceptions, she mostly finds children and - yes, even babies - annoying and pointless to interact with. The most interaction she will have with a child of young age is if they are crying or screaming, she might feign calmness and ask them in a babyish voice, "What's the matter?" and proceed to say things like, "It's alright," and "It's gonna be okay, you're alright." She gets along best with people that are much older than her and people that are what most would believe to be too young to be hanging out with 18 year olds. Though she mostly doesn't believe in labels, Cricket likes people that are self-proclaimed nerds and geeks. She has always loved gaming and roleplay-related things, always wanting a chance to sometimes be that which she is not (even though she doesn't care what people think of her, she wonders sometimes what it would be like to give a damn about things like that).
On the topic of not giving a damn, Cricket happens to be proudly bi-sexual. She doesn't really prefer one gender over the other, but she is highly fond of boobs and loves merely to rest her head slightly between them if they are on the larger side. She will openly flirt with both genders without a second thought, even if she knows that a female is straight or a male gay.
Even though Cricket is slightly overweight, she loves to eat and outright refuses to ever go on any kind of diet. Her favorite foods are things that one would associate with the diet of a three-year-old; macaroni and cheese, apple juice, Spaghettio's, and cheddar-flavored Goldfish are her four absolute favorite real foods. Along with those things, she adores brownies and chocolate chip cookies as her favorite desserts.
One more interest of Cricket's is drawing. Though she doesn't think of herself as an amazing artist, she knows that her ability is higher than that of the average person her own age. This doesn't stop her from being extremely jealous when someone her age or younger is better at drawing, but it does make her strive to improve more and more as she goes. Her home contains a large box filled to the brim with filled-up sketchbooks, which she leafs through to see how she has improved every now and then.
Though she honestly doesn't mind a lack of social interaction, Cricket is generally a very lonely person. She is always bright and friendly to people she doesn't know in hopes that they will not run away even when they realize that she acts the way she does and thinks the things she thinks. When she is alone, or even when she knows there are people within earshot, Cricket sings softly to herself, sometimes growing louder as a song progresses, in hopes that someone will hear her and compliment her voice like people used to do in her school days. She misses being the best singer in her middle school and wishes that her voice was still perfect, but on most days, her voice will crackle and fail given too high of a note or too long of a hold on one note. It is depressing to her, but she seems to manage most of the time..
History: As a small child, and even as a baby, Cricket never got along with others her own age. She would often wander off in grocery stores and would always make a beeline for an animal if she saw one; in fact, Cricket's first friend was her aunt's Poochyena, with whom she forged a strong bond that made the pair practically inseperable. She learned every instinctual thing she knows from that canine Pokemon, from knowing how to tell an alpha from a lesser person to knowing when to submit and when to show her teeth. Cricket was practically a dog herself, and she kept her mannerisms as she grew older and began to sharpen her nails and grow them out long and tough. In grade school, she would often get in trouble for clawing people or biting them when they would try bullying her by taking her things or talking down to her, but even the administration seemed to realize that she was only defending herself.
Eventually, her mother realized that Cricket's classmates treated her like crap; and though she understood that Cricket was bringing it upon herself by acting like a canine, her mother got her moved to a new school just in time for high school. In the new school, Cricket spent her first week befriending people, only to lose their friendship a day or so later by acting too spazzy and excited. She couldn't help it, though, she was just happy to have friends finally! Those few people that she found and lost that week hit her fairly hard, but she kept going, toughened by her elementary and middle school years of being picked on. Finally, Cricket found her place. There was a group of people that were all artistic nerds! She got along great with each and every one of the group and was perfectly content to be the omega of this new 'pack' she was a part of, gladly fetching food and drinks for them and throwing out their trash for them for a while.
However, good things like this couldn't last forever. One of the key members of the group, dubbed the 'circle', ended up moving away shortly after Cricket became a part of it. The other members mourned the loss of their friend, as her parents wouldn't let any of them contact her for some reason or another and she was basically lost to them all. Cricket was sad, too, but she got over it more quickly than the others had. This event had taken a horrible toll on the group, though, and it quickly fell apart until Cricket was clinging to individual members and fighting to bring them back to being friends. Everyone now hated everyone else, and she was the only one any of them would still speak to!
After about a year of clinging to everyone and attempting to draw them back together, Cricket lost the will to fight it anymore and just dropped everyone, unable to take anymore of the drama that was so often caused by her interference and everyone else's stubbornness to be friends again. Halfway through senior year of high school, almost immediately after dropping all of her previous friends, Cricket realized that she had no idea what she wished to do with her life and that high school was only useful to those who sought a career of some sort. She dropped out, then, but her mother supported her decision and allowed her to stay at home despite lacking a job. Though she SHOULD be looking for a job or something, she instead spends her time wandering around and drawing commissions for people on the Internet.
Bag:
Healing-
Hold-
Evolution/Hold-
Evolution-
Rope/Repel-
Berries-
Special/Other-
Pokemon:
Age: 18
Gender: Female, bisexual
Appearance: Cricket is a slightly over-weight woman, but it only seems to show on her thighs and on her gut, which resembles a minor beer gut when bloated. She is also on the short side, making her tubbiness stand out more. Her skin tone ranges from a light shade of pink to a pale whitish color on the bottoms of her arms and wherever she usually is wearing clothes, indicating somewhat of a tan from being outside a lot. As for her hands, Cricket has a bend in both of her pinkies that makes them grow out straight and then bend so that they point inward towards her ring fingers. Her nails are nearly an inch long from the root out, and are very tough, which means that they are difficult to clip and instead must be filed to a shorter length when they get too long. Sometimes while doing this, Cricket will make them sharper.
Cricket's eyes are a murky, unremarkable brown; however, they hold a spark of mischief that some mistake as beauty. She doesn't wear much makeup since it clogs up her pores, but even without makeup she seems to get acne quite often, and she has never seen the harm in a little bit of black or silver eyeliner. Between the freckles across her cheeks and nose are scars where she clawed at her pimples and popped them to get rid of them.
One remarkable feature about Cricket is her hair; it's a dark, almost black brown color, reaches down to her shoulders, and can loook absolutely beautiful when she gets enough product into it while it's damp. Unfortunately, since her hair is naturally curly, Cricket often doesn't get quite enough product into it and it just turns into a frizzy, poofy mess. In a case like that, she sweeps it back into a butterfly-shaped hair clip and goes about her business anyways..
The one seemingly perfect trait that Cricket holds, the one glorious thing that she doesn't have to work to perfect, is her chest. Cricket has amazing breasts, just the right size and perkiness and weight. It makes it harder for her to shop for shirts, but she happily manages.
As for clothing, Cricket likes brighter colors and darker colors, but absolutely hates pale ones. She will wear bright orange and blue one day, grey and black the next day, but one will never see her wearing pale pink, beige, plain white, or otherwise. Style-wise, she likes tank tops and skirts or capris in the late spring, summer, and early fall. Once it becomes chilly, she enjoys wearing hoodies and jeans and sweatpants. Year-round, she wears a ratty pair of white sneakers that have purple accent stripes; the sneakers appear to be grey and dark-grey due to just how old they are, but she loves them and they are very comfortable for her. Cricket also has a pair of glasses that appear to be in the 'emo' style, thick-rimmed and black. She likes to wear them on the end of her nose sometimes.
Cricket's bag reflects her love of bright colors. It is a basic backpack shape, single-strapped, that is mainly colored black. Each pocket is a different color; bright orange, lime green, neon blue, bright purple, and some shade of reddish-pink. The bag is on the larger side, but there usually isn't much inside of it for Cricket to carry.
Personality: Cricket is one of those people with the rare ability to adapt to the different people around her; as she is into a variety of different interests, she needs only speak of just the relevant ones when she wishes to fit with a certain group or single person. Some might call this deceit, but Cricket calls it tact. She couldn't care less of what most people think of her, and acts somewhat like a dog or a wolf whether in public or in her own home; she will yip or give a short, sharp bark-like noise when startled, she will show her teeth and growl when feeling angry or threatened, she is perfectly comfortable walking on four legs (though it is difficult to run on all fours, she tries sometimes), and she has trained her nose to move up and down when she is smelling things and her ears to move backwards when she is feeling threatened or submissive. In a fight, Cricket is quick to use her 'claws' and teeth to defend herself and often leaps onto her opponent's back to claw and nip and pin them down. She is quick to fight back when attacked.
This girl can appreciate a good joke; it can be racist (Cricket is not the least bit racist, but she is always amused when stereotypes play themselves out) or against her and as long as it's funny and makes sense, she will laugh. However funny a joke is, though, if it is about someone that Cricket cares for, she will not hesitate to give the person making the joke a fierce warning. She is extremely protective of and loyal to her friends, almost to a fault. Even if it turns out that the person she is loyal to doesn't actually like her and instead thinks that she needs pity of some sort, she will sometimes overlook that and still remain loyal. Having grown up without many friends will leave someone clinging to whatever scraps of friendship they can salvage from the people around them, no matter how many times they tell themselves that they don't need anyone else.
Cricket adores all Pokemon, even the ones that most people fear or loathe for their various reasons. She especially loves any Pokemon that is dog-, wolf-, or tiger-like, such as Arcanine and Mightyena, and she has always had a high fondness for large, scary-looking Pokemon like Gyarados, Aggron, and Arbok. A lot of people are convinced that they will hear about her getting mauled to death by angry Pokemon when she goes running towards them saying how adorable they are and wanting to play, and they're probably right. It is something she would do, as she sometimes acts without thinking, and at a first impression she often comes on way too strong, especially to a Pokemon that she believes is awesome.
When it comes to Cricket's initial thoughts of other people, she looks first at what age they appear to be. If someone appears to be much younger than her, she usually looks right past them as though they don't exist, having a distinct dislike of children under the age of 16 or so. Though there are exceptions, she mostly finds children and - yes, even babies - annoying and pointless to interact with. The most interaction she will have with a child of young age is if they are crying or screaming, she might feign calmness and ask them in a babyish voice, "What's the matter?" and proceed to say things like, "It's alright," and "It's gonna be okay, you're alright." She gets along best with people that are much older than her and people that are what most would believe to be too young to be hanging out with 18 year olds. Though she mostly doesn't believe in labels, Cricket likes people that are self-proclaimed nerds and geeks. She has always loved gaming and roleplay-related things, always wanting a chance to sometimes be that which she is not (even though she doesn't care what people think of her, she wonders sometimes what it would be like to give a damn about things like that).
On the topic of not giving a damn, Cricket happens to be proudly bi-sexual. She doesn't really prefer one gender over the other, but she is highly fond of boobs and loves merely to rest her head slightly between them if they are on the larger side. She will openly flirt with both genders without a second thought, even if she knows that a female is straight or a male gay.
Even though Cricket is slightly overweight, she loves to eat and outright refuses to ever go on any kind of diet. Her favorite foods are things that one would associate with the diet of a three-year-old; macaroni and cheese, apple juice, Spaghettio's, and cheddar-flavored Goldfish are her four absolute favorite real foods. Along with those things, she adores brownies and chocolate chip cookies as her favorite desserts.
One more interest of Cricket's is drawing. Though she doesn't think of herself as an amazing artist, she knows that her ability is higher than that of the average person her own age. This doesn't stop her from being extremely jealous when someone her age or younger is better at drawing, but it does make her strive to improve more and more as she goes. Her home contains a large box filled to the brim with filled-up sketchbooks, which she leafs through to see how she has improved every now and then.
Though she honestly doesn't mind a lack of social interaction, Cricket is generally a very lonely person. She is always bright and friendly to people she doesn't know in hopes that they will not run away even when they realize that she acts the way she does and thinks the things she thinks. When she is alone, or even when she knows there are people within earshot, Cricket sings softly to herself, sometimes growing louder as a song progresses, in hopes that someone will hear her and compliment her voice like people used to do in her school days. She misses being the best singer in her middle school and wishes that her voice was still perfect, but on most days, her voice will crackle and fail given too high of a note or too long of a hold on one note. It is depressing to her, but she seems to manage most of the time..
History: As a small child, and even as a baby, Cricket never got along with others her own age. She would often wander off in grocery stores and would always make a beeline for an animal if she saw one; in fact, Cricket's first friend was her aunt's Poochyena, with whom she forged a strong bond that made the pair practically inseperable. She learned every instinctual thing she knows from that canine Pokemon, from knowing how to tell an alpha from a lesser person to knowing when to submit and when to show her teeth. Cricket was practically a dog herself, and she kept her mannerisms as she grew older and began to sharpen her nails and grow them out long and tough. In grade school, she would often get in trouble for clawing people or biting them when they would try bullying her by taking her things or talking down to her, but even the administration seemed to realize that she was only defending herself.
Eventually, her mother realized that Cricket's classmates treated her like crap; and though she understood that Cricket was bringing it upon herself by acting like a canine, her mother got her moved to a new school just in time for high school. In the new school, Cricket spent her first week befriending people, only to lose their friendship a day or so later by acting too spazzy and excited. She couldn't help it, though, she was just happy to have friends finally! Those few people that she found and lost that week hit her fairly hard, but she kept going, toughened by her elementary and middle school years of being picked on. Finally, Cricket found her place. There was a group of people that were all artistic nerds! She got along great with each and every one of the group and was perfectly content to be the omega of this new 'pack' she was a part of, gladly fetching food and drinks for them and throwing out their trash for them for a while.
However, good things like this couldn't last forever. One of the key members of the group, dubbed the 'circle', ended up moving away shortly after Cricket became a part of it. The other members mourned the loss of their friend, as her parents wouldn't let any of them contact her for some reason or another and she was basically lost to them all. Cricket was sad, too, but she got over it more quickly than the others had. This event had taken a horrible toll on the group, though, and it quickly fell apart until Cricket was clinging to individual members and fighting to bring them back to being friends. Everyone now hated everyone else, and she was the only one any of them would still speak to!
After about a year of clinging to everyone and attempting to draw them back together, Cricket lost the will to fight it anymore and just dropped everyone, unable to take anymore of the drama that was so often caused by her interference and everyone else's stubbornness to be friends again. Halfway through senior year of high school, almost immediately after dropping all of her previous friends, Cricket realized that she had no idea what she wished to do with her life and that high school was only useful to those who sought a career of some sort. She dropped out, then, but her mother supported her decision and allowed her to stay at home despite lacking a job. Though she SHOULD be looking for a job or something, she instead spends her time wandering around and drawing commissions for people on the Internet.
Bag:
Healing-
Hold-
Evolution/Hold-
Evolution-
Rope/Repel-
Berries-
Special/Other-
Pokemon:
 Axel Zoroark  Dark |  (nameless) Luxcario Steel//Electric |  Amethyst Kecleon  Normal |
 Fireburst Quilava Fire//Dragon (delta) |  Druid Bachuru Electric//Bug |  Shadow Butterfree Bug//Flying |
