TrainerAidan

Future Champion Aidan Burke

New pogeymon game new Trainer I guess. Aidan's still a dumbass though.

Aidan Burke. Destined to become the greatest champion and Pokemon master who ever lived. According to uh, Aidan.

Except even the trainer doesn't really believe that. Aidan's never had any real ambition. It's easy to talk about trying to become a champion, but Aidan talked about being a musician when as a kid, even got clarinet lessons, paid by mom, that didn't really go anywhere. No big deal, because Aidan'd just go to college and study to become a doctor, or a ranger, or a researcher, or uh, maybe get a media degree and become a professional gym circuit analyst. Whatever, something like that.

Aidan coasted through school on a wave of listless mediocrity, content to do the bare minimum needed to get by and spend the rest of their free time playing games or going to parties, hanging out, whatever. Eventually Aidan would get a job, somewhere, doing something, it was just a matter of figuring it out... later. That was the plan, and it almost worked... for a while. When school got rigorous enough that coasting wasn't cutting it and Aidan's grades slipped, it was easy to shift gears toward becoming a professional trainer and eventually Champion, you didn't need to go to university for that. Aidan would just work out the specifics later.

Until, at least, Mom decided to take those vague aspirations seriously. For Aidan's birthday, the aspiring trainer was given some pokeballs, new camping gear and some cash... before being encouraged to put all that to use by packing up and hitting the gym circuit. Becoming a professional trainer requires long hours and lots of traveling, so, of course, there'd be no need for Aidan to waste time coming back home to visit. Maybe after the trainer earned their first badge.

Now Aidan's out adventuring, with absolutely no direction or any clue what the heck they're doing. Maybe sleeping through math class wasn't the right play, Aidan.






Magma Grunt Aidan

It took this dumb dragon literally like fourteen hours to come up with a name that wasn't just Alex again.

For Aidan, Team Magma was the one thing that kept her fired up. It was her life. She never quite ‘got’ the whole expand the world’s landmass for the glory of humanity thing, but whatever that was mostly just a weird gimmick, right?

Before she joined some of her old friends warned her she’d be playing with fire, but that didn’t matter to her. What mattered was that Magma gave her a sense of purpose. A place to go, rules and directions to follow, leaders to look up to, awesome pokemon (that just got even more awesome if you moved up in the ranks), friends – or at least comrades she could rely on – and most importantly, hot uniforms! Anyone who tried to dismiss all of that was just blowing smoke. She was just a low level grunt, but that was fine by her, she was still part of a community, of something bigger than just herself.

Until one day all of that was just gone. Some punk kid whose name she never quite caught, a child even according to some of the rumors, defeated her boss’ bosses, made all their grand plans go up in smoke and suddenly just like that the team was disbanded, everything was thrown into chaos and the authorities were on them like a pack of rabid mightyena. She was a fugitive from the law and she knew the heat was on, so she did the only thing she could think of and fled Hoenn as fast as she could.

Of course, fugitive from the law is really kind of a stretch here. Yeah, she was part of Team Magma and yeah, she had done some bad stuff under them, but the cops were busy doing damage control on what could have been a global catastrophe and rounding up the ringleaders and lieutenants of TWO major ecoterrorist organizations. She on the other hand was way down at the very bottom of the totem pole. They have enough on their plates without adding fuel to the fire by trying to identify and track down every low-level operative the organizations had. She probably could have just changed her clothes, went back home and no one would have even really noticed or cared. Whoops.

Regardless of whether or not it was a smart decision, she’s now found herself thrown into a trial by fire: stuck in a part of the world she’s never been before without any money, pokemon or the support system she’d grown to rely on almost completely for direction in her life.

She has no idea what the hell she’s going to do now.