RESEARCHER, TAMARINE MYRTLE

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name Tamarine Myrtle age Twenty class Researcher hometown Lilycove City personality + Hard-working + Perseverant + Professional + Philanthropic + Quick-learner - Disorganised - Impatient - Easily stressed - Confrontational - Overly Curious history Tammy was like any other kid in the Pokémon world: she loved Pokémon and pretty much decided at a young age that she wanted to devote her life to them. However she was never a really violent child, at least not as far as her interests were concerned. Her fascination with the creatures went beyond battle and entered the realms of understanding on a scientific level and after devouring as many ‘kid-level’ science books on Pokémon anatomy as she could quickly realised that she wanted to be a professor on the level of Oak, Birch and all the others. Of course her short term goal was at least to get work at the Pax Institute who was renowned for their studious advances in understanding Pokémon scientifically. When she was fifteen Tammy began studying abroad in Kanto and Johto; moving between different institutes and conducting field work in both regions. Field work was tiring but usually the favourite aspect of her studies, even if most of them ended up with a safari-zone ranger pulling her out of the way of a charging Tauros. Though she was often seen as a rather impetuous and somewhat reckless in her studies, Tammy’s passion, hard work and natural aptitude shone through in her results. Though her marks were good by the end of her studies she was far from being the best of her peers but despite that she had already gathered a minor reputation for her uniquely ‘hands-on’ approach in the field and eccentric research methods. Because of this reputation the Pax Institute was intrigued enough to take her on as an intern. Though it was certainly the opportunity of a lifetime her work was rather disappointing. She spent a whole year as an assistant to senior staff where they often made her deliver research papers and make coffee and very rarely gave her any real work so by the time she jumped the first chance she got to go do some work as a head researcher at a field post. Of course, this post was far south in the tundra where she would be recording and examining wailord mating calls and she only happened to be the head researcher because she’d be the only researcher from Pax on site. She was at least thankful for the work and as boring, tedious and freezing as it was she reported her findings twice a week diligently on a regular schedule. When the institute stopped contacting her back she simply assumed they stopped caring about her project and then half a year after starting she finished the field work and got on the first ship back to the institute. However when she got back she couldn’t get any further than the docks before hearing what had happened: the institute was destroyed and a scourge had been unleashed upon the land. The prospect horrified her and she felt many, many conflicting emotions. She felt guilty that her silly field project had saved her life when other more capable scientific minds had perished but she also felt guilty at the prospect that Pax might have been responsible for the blight in the first place, making her complicit in the subsequent tragedies. Needless to say she abandoned her wailord mating call project and focused on a new line of work in stopping the Scourge before it spread any further. TL;DR: Former Pax Institute intern survived the initial outbreak of the scourge due to being in the tundra at the time and now seeks to cure it out of a mixture of guilt and obligation. ooc face claim: VOCALOID, gumi

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