EoD: Kotona the Sawk

MOAR GROUPS. 8D
Yesss. Worked all night on this even if I should be sleeping. *Has her driver's test today* |D
So yeah.. Hopefully he's okay. >> And hopefully his backstory isn't too dramatic/cliche/boring/whatever. OTL I just wanted a bit more 'sad' an character in a group for a change. ;u;
And random pose is random.

Yeahh. Now. I shall sleep. And hope I pass that test later today. >u<7

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NAME: Kotona

POKÉMON: Sawk (shiny)

ORIGINAL POKÉMON: Gastly (shiny)

GENDER: Male

ORIGINAL GENDER: Male

NATURE: Docile

CHARACTERISTIC: Often Lost in Thought (+ Sp. Attack)

ABILITY: Inner Focus (Prevents Flinching)

MOVESET:
- Counter
- Endure
- Brick Break
- Reversal

AGE: 21

HEIGHT: 189 cm / 6'2.4''

PERSONALITY: As his nature would suggest, Kotona is very easy to handle. It would take a lot to anger him and even if you managed to do that, his way of showing such an emotion would not be exactly.. Threatening. He would be more likely to just want to settle the argument with words, but if the other side for some reason would insist stirring up a battle and attack, Kotona would rely to self-defence. He would try to make the opponent unable to move without hurting them. Them? No, him. He would never attack a woman, not even in self-defence. In such a case where a woman would attack him, he would just evade. |D Unless it'd be a friendly battle, those he wouldn't mind. Though you still would notice him being less rough than what he would be when battling agains another man.
He is rather wistful most of the time (More on the reasons for that in his backstory) and seeing him give even the smallest smile would be really rare. He also has the bad habit of dwelling in his memories or going lengthy monoloques inside his mind as he wonder about something and he might just sink in his thoughts in the middle of a conversation with someone. Because of this, he may come off as either rude or depressed. Aloof. Maybe he is like that a bit too, but if someone can manage to keep his attention and see through all that longing, he would turn out to be a really passionate, caring and overall nice individual.
Because he was truly close to only one person in his past, his trainer, he really misses her. He has a bit of a hart time getting to know people. He will come off as independent and happy to be alone but that most certainly is not true. He loves to have someone who he can talk to, but as I explained earlier, his habit of sinking in his thoughts easily makes him seem like he doesn't care. He also has the habit of being a bit naive to one's bad intentions. He just hopes that everyone is ready to settle an argument with words, which sometimes is not the case as he came to learn the hard way. This guy just never learns..
He also has a slight problem with this current form of his. To him, it's perfect. Too perfect. And he knows that once he would wake up, he'd go back to what he really is. Can a dream last forever? Wait no.. There is something that makes him want to go back too: his trainer. He would never desert her for this. But.. Why, oh, why can't have both?

HISTORY: Kotona was born as a Sawk. He was given to his current trainer at a very young age. And his trainer was also young then. In fact, they are pretty much the same age and are almost like siblings, even if one is a Pokémon and the other is a human. They grew in a modest-sized town. Not quite as small as a village, but not big enough to be called a town either. Together the two studied different kinds of martial arts with the lead of his trainer's father and Kotona's father-Sawk. They were to become martial arts teachers someday. The girl never even thought about getting any other Pokémon to her team, this one was all she needed.
Sadly, that dream didn't quite come true as when the Pokémon and his trainer were 19, some young people broke into their home in search of something valuable to take with them. Kotona woke up to the sound of shattering glass as the youngsters managed to tip a glass vase on the floor in the living room. He wasn't sure if it was real or just a dream, so he didn't want to wake up his trainer. He snuck downstairs and found 3 teenage boys messing around in the house. He confronted the boys, telling them to leave now, and no one would get hurt or in trouble. But being a pokémon, the boys didn't understand his words. They panicked, afraid that now they had been caught. One of them pulled out a knife from his belt, one he probably had used for wood-carving, and told this Sawk to back up, or he would ”not be responsible for the consequences”.
There was no way Kotona would do that. No, what kind of a Pokémon would he be, if he would let some burglars rob his family? Not a loyal one at least. In a calm manner, he approached the boy with the knife, trying to make it clear he wanted no harm to the boys who were still younger than him. But the boys were afraid and then one of them said: ”Hit it. Just knock it out and let's get outta here!” Kotona turned his gaze to that boy in surprise, not expecting such a response. The boy with the knif took the Sawk's sudden movement as an offensive sign, and he leaped at the poor Pokémon and struck him in the chest. The third boy screamed in terror an ran off, while the two others flinched in their places. Neither of them could believe that just happened, but they also started to escape as they heard noise from upstairs, the noise and screaming had woken up the other people in the house.
The boys were caught just the next day, as the boy who left the scene first couldn't take it and told his parents about what happened pretty much immediately. But even then, there was nothing they could have done about Kotona as the accident had already happened, he didn't survive to even see the next day.

After that, the girl who was Kotona's trainer gave up martial arts, she couldn't even bear to do any kind of sport as it reminded her of her 'little brother'. The next two years she just lazed around, not feeling the drive to do anything at all. The only thing she could get herself to do, was to read magazines on science. Because everything fictional woke up useless hopes of how Kotona would somehow come back and in arts she couldn't help remembering the past.
But one day a miracle happened. Somehow the sad and lonely spirit of her Pokémon had managed to be be 'reborn'. But not as a Sawk, but as a ghost, a Gastly. The lost soul found its way back to the girl. At first she was afraid, not recognising the figure. But.. The Gastly was shiny, like her Sawk had been. What were the odds of that happening? It didn't take much to tie the ends together and to recognise her old friend. She leaped at the Gastly with tears in her eyes, but she just passed through the ball of gas. After that she also started to cough uncontrollably as she had breathed in some of the poisonous gas of that Pokémon. She was fine, but her feelings were mixed.
The trainer got some of her life-happiness back with that, he could even get back to martial arts, even if it was not the same without the ability to spar with Kotona. But just knowing that he was there for her helped her through. Still, even if SHE felt much better, he was not happy with this form. To have no physical form was tough to someone who had all his life trained his physical power and technique. To not have feet nor hands. Surely, if he would evolve, he would get those, but Gengars aren't too agile either with their stubby feet and arms. The girl noticed his longing and recalled reading something in a science magazine. Dr. Fennel, was the name of that scientist, right? Didn't she have some way of putting Pokémon in deep sleep where.. Anything was possible? She said minutes and hours could feel like days or years. She decided that it was worth a shot, if they'd be lucky, he might actually dream about his past life and would be able to be happy for at least some time. For her it might be only a few hours, but to him it would be a blissful year or a few where he could re-live what he had lost.
So the trainer contacted the purple haired professor and promised to let her borrow her Gastly.
And it was not long before the Gastly woke up again. In a strange place, in a strange form! But that form was much more familiar to him than one would imagine. He was maybe taller, and all, but he was much more humanoid than he had been those past weeks as a Gastly. But seems like his trainer is not here..? He just can't have them both, can he.. But he promised Dr. Fennel and his trainer that he would enjoy this time he would be in Dream World wholeheartedly, and that he shall do! Or at least try to.

OTHER:
- He loves martial arts. Of course, that would bring back painful memories, but he just loves it too much to let such hold him back. So one needn't worry about him getting all angsty-poo for such a small thing. |D Oh, and he would always be free to teach you some Karate, Capoeira or whatever moves he may know. ^.~
- And with that, he is not nearly as angsty as one might quess from his backstory! He sinks to his thoughts, yes. He wishes he could be what he used to be, yes. But by no means is he the kind who just angsts and complains about it all the time. He doesn't want others to get involved, he wouldn't even tell anyone he's really a Gastly!
- He also hates it when people think Sawks are always aggressive and don't care about anything besides battling an training. |D Such a short-sighted stereotype..
- Yes. His hair shines and sparkles. |D He's SHINY for goodness shakes! Those are supposed to be shiny! XD
- That black mark on his face is just a different colour in skin. It doesn't alter the shape of his face at all. You woudn't notice it if you would only see his silhouette.
- His hair is actually pretty long, it reaches about 10cm below his shoulders, thus mimicing his trainer's hair. Though he usually tucks it under his robe.
- As someone who's done martial arts for all his life, he is not much of an artist. But he can appreciate arts. Especially music is something he enjoys, as long as it's not too heavy. He appreciates acoustic music more than anything else, and singing is always a plus. And he also prefers calm music over fast-paced melodies.
- His name I took from the Finnish language. 'Kotona' is the word for ”at home”. There was no real reason behind why I named him that, it just was the first 'name' that came to my mind as I drew him, and I thought it might be cute. ;u; His name MAY change before the opening if I come up with a better one.


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For:
Pokémon belongs to Nintendo.
Kotona the Sawk/Gastly is mineeeee~.