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12/2: i'm a compulsive hoarder so i'm hanging onto the old version of her app so it's easy for me to access o:

Your Klonoa evolved into a Nidorina!

guhhh my baby is growing up ;w;

i also took the opportunity to smooth out her design more, so she has less random markings. although she still has her floppy ears and freckle-ish markings where her whiskers were :3 she just wouldn't be Klonoa without floppy ears at this point!
and yeah she's kind of a chub. short chub! not as short anymore, though, i'll have to do that height meme sometime soon. gooshhhh it's gonna be so weird getting used to drawing her differently now. who knew she'd be so cute with red eyes?
she's also been aged up a year because my mind does a weird thing where its like "FOURTEEN IS TOO YOUNG [adds another year] PERFECT"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KLONOA, YOUR FAMILY IS DEAD

the Poison Barb image is from Bulbapedia, i just drew the chain on it (it's hooked onto the knot of her bandanna). you're forgiven for forgetting she wears it, because i forget a lot too. |D

i also updated her info (mainly personality and backstory) a fair bit, so lemme know if any of it sounds okay or needs improvement!

Application for !

Name: Klonoa
(Clo - no - ah or Klo'a, sometimes called Klo' for short)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Asexual
(Open to any-gender romantic relationships, tho)
Species (Pokemon): Nidorina
Ability: Poison Point
Contact with the Pokémon may poison the attacker.
Type: Poison
Age: 15
Rank: Ranger
Housing #: Rangers Room 10
Moveset: Scratch / Double Kick / Poison Sting / Fury Swipes

Held Item: Poison Barb
Boosts the power of Poison-type moves.

Other:
Klonoa stutters when upset.
She has memory problems: most of it is related to her childhood on the old island, but she sometimes forgets what she's saying mid-sentence, forgets obvious things, etc.

Personality: [Naive] / [Helpful] / [Anxious/Cautious] / [Shy] / [Hard Worker] / [Friendly] / [Somewhat Confident]

Naive: Klonoa believes there's a little good in everyone. As such, she willingly believes almost anything someone tells her, and can put too much trust into the wrong people. Klonoa is also prone to idolizing people she's heard of, and it doesn't always occur to her that there's more to them than just a cool thing they did once. She's yet to learn how things work quite yet, but that doesn't stop her from trying to do her best.

Helpful: As mentioned, Klonoa does her best, and her best includes helping people! Even Rockets, despite her reluctance. After all, that's why she joined the Rangers. Despite her general feeling of unease, Klonoa is always the first to dart forward and lend a helping paw-- or, if she can't, she's at least the first to nudge someone else into doing so. Sometimes this can end badly, however: she tends to act on it without thinking of the consequences, and can cause more trouble than she intends. Originally her anxiety and shyness would override this do-good urge, but with her newly-awakened confidence she's much more proactive.

Anxious/Cautious: Klonoa reads too much into things. She feels that every vague comment might be about her, and that everyone will judge her if she slips up. As such, she tends to give off an air of being skittish or easily upset. While it's possible to get her to cheer up and relax, especially while she's out helping people, she still has a constant worry in the back of her mind that makes it hard for her to focus. After what happened during the war, this has started to dip into Depression; she feels like she's ruined everything, and isn't cut out to be a Ranger. Thankfully, she's started to pull out of it, and is starting to work on getting her anxiety under control.

Shy: Perhaps as a result of her anxiety, Klonoa is nervous about the idea of getting close to people. Of course, it might also be because she's covered in poisonous barbs, but who knows? At any rate, Klonoa rarely has the nerve to talk to people and try to make friends. She wants to, of course, but the words just don't come out. She's been getting slowly better at it, but it's still slow going; she tends to open up more around friendly and receptive pokecats, but will totally shut down in front of her idols or pokecats that are snarky and abrasive.

Hard Worker: Klonoa has become determined to show she's capable by working her hardest. Any assignments Hallow gives her she's more than willing to fling herself into headfirst, even with her injury needing her to slow down a little. The downside is that she rarely gives herself time to relax like she used to when she was still a new Ranger, and she tends to burn herself out easily. She dislikes people pointing it out, and doesn't really understand she's hurting herself.

Friendly: Once you get past her shyness and anxiety, Klonoa is an incredibly friendly pokecat that does her best to get people to like her. Unfortunately, when coupled with her anxiety, this can cause her to act somewhat oddly and metaphorically trip over herself when she finally builds up the courage to make the first move. In a way, she's always either over-eager or too nervous to say anything, and it's tough for her to find a balance.

Somewhat Confident: Klonoa has a long way to go before she's anywhere close to the heroes she treasures and looks up to so dearly, but she's making her way there one pawstep at a time. She's still easily frightened and overwhelmed, and still doesn't have the highest opinion of herself, but she's started to accept herself for who she is and has reached a decision to do her best no matter what.

Likes: Ice cream, sweet foods in general, naps, her superiors, fireworks, snow
Dislikes: Fire-types, being touched without prior warning, her stutter being pointed out, the feeling of being useless, troublemakers
Phobias: Fire

A little background info: Klonoa's memories before the fire are very few. In a sense, you could say she has trauma-induced amnesia-- not bad enough to where she can't remember things about herself, but to the point where there are huge gaping holes in her memory of her life before Cianwood.
The source of it seems not to be the eruption or the move itself: she lost her parents in the disaster, and it still affects her. Coupled with her amnesia, and on bad days Klonoa can barely remember moments that she and her parents shared.

Of course there's more to the story than what Klonoa remembers. Her parents didn't interact with the other pokecats on the old island and preferred to stay in their tight-knit group including Klonoa's other family members; ever since she was hatched, Klonoa has been surrounded by other pokecats (and the loss of all of them, either through separation or death, has left her with her anxiety and shyness). While not directly involved with the events going on, however, little Klo' still heard stories of the happenings and grew curious about the other pokecats and their adventures.
She gained her wish to join them in an unfortunate way, however. Klonoa was separated from her family, with the exception of her parents, during the eruption, and her parents were able to keep her safe up until she was passed over to the pokecats bringing others to the new island. Her mother was killed in the chaos, and her father vanished to reunite with the rest of the family in hopes of bringing them to the new island too, but didn't survive the eruption. Beyond her parents, the status of Klonoa's family is practically a mystery: they're either dead or scattered across the world from the escape, but Klonoa is the only survivor of her family that made it to Cianwood.

Despite this, however, the first thing she chose to do after recovering from the shock of the move was to join the Rangers. If anyone asks, she says its so she can lend a helping paw-- but in truth, she wants to stop another cataclysm from happening so no one can go through what she did. She finally followed through on that secret promise when Gryla's Snovers kidnapped pokecats during Christmas, and threw herself into getting to the heart of the mystery. After that, she joined the expedition to scout out the rest of the island so that they were aware of any other lurking dangers. Klonoa means well, and now that she's got a shot of courage and knows what she can handle she's more than willing to put herself to good use.

Relationships:
Dislikes
Neutral
Acquaintance
Friend
Best friend
Crush
In love with
Rival
Respects
Deceased

Knows Well/Strong Feelings:

Ace: "Th-that pokecat... I c-can't believe people like her exist in th-this world..." // Klonoa's feelings on Ace swing wildly between fear and burning hatred. The Rocket Leader led to the deaths of so many pokecats, killed Marten, crippled her, and at the end of the day still escaped capture. When she isn't blaming herself, she blames Ace, and the Ditto pokecat better watch her back if they ever meet again.

Shirley: "Oh, she's nice! I r-really like her, but I... do k-kind of wish we'd met under, um, better circumstances..." // Shirley was supportive while Klonoa recovered from her injuries, and while Klonoa feels kind of awkward around her due to having been in a deep depression during it, she does genuinely like her and has been toying with the thought of stopping by the Pokecenter more to see her. FRIENDSHIP.

Bartholomew: "Hee... Cheshire is really nice, and... even though they're a Rocket, I-- I don't think they're a bad person! And... honestly, they're one of the only people that reached out to me. I l-like that." // Although she knows hir better by hir nickname, Cheshire. Klonoa warmed up to Bart surprisingly quickly, and spent most of her time at the festival with hir. Ze was cheerful enough to even piece through the shroud of sadness that had been surrounding Klonoa since the war, and even managed to make Klonoa comfortable enough to babble out all her feelings and insecurities to hir. Even though she knows ze's a Rocket, she's willing to put their ranks aside for the sake of their friendship.

Just Getting To Know:

Aire: Klonoa met Aire on the expedition, and warmed up quickly to her. And hey, she sounds kind of like a hero too! She wants to be more friendly with her, but with everything that's been happening lately she's not sure how to approach her.

Trefotur: After what happened with Gryla, Klonoa distrusts Treff and is always uneasy around him. She doesn't view him as a threat, nor does she disbelief that he's willing to change, but her spines still prickle when she thinks about what he's helped do and how he had a paw in sending some of her fellow Rangers to what could've been a grisly death.

Dead or Unknown Fate:

Tanaka: "... Tanaka... y-you can't be gone. P-please..." // Klonoa heard of his exploits on the old island, and as such considers him her personal hero. Despite that, she knows very little about him as a person, and her shyness prevented her from actually trying to get close to him. Over the course of the expedition, though, she started to gain a childish crush... And then he vanished, leaving her terrified and directionless. Klonoa has been throwing herself into her self-given job of finding him, but she's slowly starting to give up hope...

Marten: Klonoa never really got to know him, but... she still feels accountable for his death. The most she can do now is do her best to make sure nothing else like this happens ever again.

RP example:
She yawned wide and stretched out on the floor. The spines along her back bristled and stood up straight with the movement before relaxing into their usual position as Klonoa got to her feet. Her eyes still blurry from sleep, the pokecat trotted out the door to her room, then paused. What should she do today? The beach sounded tempting as always, but it had taken her ages to get the sand out of her fur last time and she couldn't afford to slack off again today.
Plus she didn't want to think about what would happen if someone found her. 'Yes, hello, I'm a Ranger, yes I'm asleep instead of doing my job'-- She shook herself all over to banish that train of thought. No beach today. Certainly she could just look around and see if anyone needed help today, yes? No: the thought of talking to someone this early made her fluff up again. Maybe she would just wander around the Square for a bit and keep an eye out for any suspicious happenings.

Description
12/2: i'm a compulsive hoarder so i'm hanging onto the old version of her app so it's easy for me to access o:

Your Klonoa evolved into a Nidorina!

guhhh my baby is growing up ;w;

i also took the opportunity to smooth out her design more, so she has less random markings. although she still has her floppy ears and freckle-ish markings where her whiskers were :3 she just wouldn't be Klonoa without floppy ears at this point!
and yeah she's kind of a chub. short chub! not as short anymore, though, i'll have to do that height meme sometime soon. gooshhhh it's gonna be so weird getting used to drawing her differently now. who knew she'd be so cute with red eyes?
she's also been aged up a year because my mind does a weird thing where its like "FOURTEEN IS TOO YOUNG [adds another year] PERFECT"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KLONOA, YOUR FAMILY IS DEAD

the Poison Barb image is from Bulbapedia, i just drew the chain on it (it's hooked onto the knot of her bandanna). you're forgiven for forgetting she wears it, because i forget a lot too. |D

i also updated her info (mainly personality and backstory) a fair bit, so lemme know if any of it sounds okay or needs improvement!

Application for !

Name: Klonoa
(Clo - no - ah or Klo'a, sometimes called Klo' for short)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Asexual
(Open to any-gender romantic relationships, tho)
Species (Pokemon): Nidorina
Ability: Poison Point
Contact with the Pokémon may poison the attacker.
Type: Poison
Age: 15
Rank: Ranger
Housing #: Rangers Room 10
Moveset: Scratch / Double Kick / Poison Sting / Fury Swipes

Held Item: Poison Barb
Boosts the power of Poison-type moves.

Other:
Klonoa stutters when upset.
She has memory problems: most of it is related to her childhood on the old island, but she sometimes forgets what she's saying mid-sentence, forgets obvious things, etc.

Personality: [Naive] / [Helpful] / [Anxious/Cautious] / [Shy] / [Hard Worker] / [Friendly] / [Somewhat Confident]

Naive: Klonoa believes there's a little good in everyone. As such, she willingly believes almost anything someone tells her, and can put too much trust into the wrong people. Klonoa is also prone to idolizing people she's heard of, and it doesn't always occur to her that there's more to them than just a cool thing they did once. She's yet to learn how things work quite yet, but that doesn't stop her from trying to do her best.

Helpful: As mentioned, Klonoa does her best, and her best includes helping people! Even Rockets, despite her reluctance. After all, that's why she joined the Rangers. Despite her general feeling of unease, Klonoa is always the first to dart forward and lend a helping paw-- or, if she can't, she's at least the first to nudge someone else into doing so. Sometimes this can end badly, however: she tends to act on it without thinking of the consequences, and can cause more trouble than she intends. Originally her anxiety and shyness would override this do-good urge, but with her newly-awakened confidence she's much more proactive.

Anxious/Cautious: Klonoa reads too much into things. She feels that every vague comment might be about her, and that everyone will judge her if she slips up. As such, she tends to give off an air of being skittish or easily upset. While it's possible to get her to cheer up and relax, especially while she's out helping people, she still has a constant worry in the back of her mind that makes it hard for her to focus. After what happened during the war, this has started to dip into Depression; she feels like she's ruined everything, and isn't cut out to be a Ranger. Thankfully, she's started to pull out of it, and is starting to work on getting her anxiety under control.

Shy: Perhaps as a result of her anxiety, Klonoa is nervous about the idea of getting close to people. Of course, it might also be because she's covered in poisonous barbs, but who knows? At any rate, Klonoa rarely has the nerve to talk to people and try to make friends. She wants to, of course, but the words just don't come out. She's been getting slowly better at it, but it's still slow going; she tends to open up more around friendly and receptive pokecats, but will totally shut down in front of her idols or pokecats that are snarky and abrasive.

Hard Worker: Klonoa has become determined to show she's capable by working her hardest. Any assignments Hallow gives her she's more than willing to fling herself into headfirst, even with her injury needing her to slow down a little. The downside is that she rarely gives herself time to relax like she used to when she was still a new Ranger, and she tends to burn herself out easily. She dislikes people pointing it out, and doesn't really understand she's hurting herself.

Friendly: Once you get past her shyness and anxiety, Klonoa is an incredibly friendly pokecat that does her best to get people to like her. Unfortunately, when coupled with her anxiety, this can cause her to act somewhat oddly and metaphorically trip over herself when she finally builds up the courage to make the first move. In a way, she's always either over-eager or too nervous to say anything, and it's tough for her to find a balance.

Somewhat Confident: Klonoa has a long way to go before she's anywhere close to the heroes she treasures and looks up to so dearly, but she's making her way there one pawstep at a time. She's still easily frightened and overwhelmed, and still doesn't have the highest opinion of herself, but she's started to accept herself for who she is and has reached a decision to do her best no matter what.

Likes: Ice cream, sweet foods in general, naps, her superiors, fireworks, snow
Dislikes: Fire-types, being touched without prior warning, her stutter being pointed out, the feeling of being useless, troublemakers
Phobias: Fire

A little background info: Klonoa's memories before the fire are very few. In a sense, you could say she has trauma-induced amnesia-- not bad enough to where she can't remember things about herself, but to the point where there are huge gaping holes in her memory of her life before Cianwood.
The source of it seems not to be the eruption or the move itself: she lost her parents in the disaster, and it still affects her. Coupled with her amnesia, and on bad days Klonoa can barely remember moments that she and her parents shared.

Of course there's more to the story than what Klonoa remembers. Her parents didn't interact with the other pokecats on the old island and preferred to stay in their tight-knit group including Klonoa's other family members; ever since she was hatched, Klonoa has been surrounded by other pokecats (and the loss of all of them, either through separation or death, has left her with her anxiety and shyness). While not directly involved with the events going on, however, little Klo' still heard stories of the happenings and grew curious about the other pokecats and their adventures.
She gained her wish to join them in an unfortunate way, however. Klonoa was separated from her family, with the exception of her parents, during the eruption, and her parents were able to keep her safe up until she was passed over to the pokecats bringing others to the new island. Her mother was killed in the chaos, and her father vanished to reunite with the rest of the family in hopes of bringing them to the new island too, but didn't survive the eruption. Beyond her parents, the status of Klonoa's family is practically a mystery: they're either dead or scattered across the world from the escape, but Klonoa is the only survivor of her family that made it to Cianwood.

Despite this, however, the first thing she chose to do after recovering from the shock of the move was to join the Rangers. If anyone asks, she says its so she can lend a helping paw-- but in truth, she wants to stop another cataclysm from happening so no one can go through what she did. She finally followed through on that secret promise when Gryla's Snovers kidnapped pokecats during Christmas, and threw herself into getting to the heart of the mystery. After that, she joined the expedition to scout out the rest of the island so that they were aware of any other lurking dangers. Klonoa means well, and now that she's got a shot of courage and knows what she can handle she's more than willing to put herself to good use.

Relationships:
Dislikes
Neutral
Acquaintance
Friend
Best friend
Crush
In love with
Rival
Respects
Deceased

Knows Well/Strong Feelings:

Ace: "Th-that pokecat... I c-can't believe people like her exist in th-this world..." // Klonoa's feelings on Ace swing wildly between fear and burning hatred. The Rocket Leader led to the deaths of so many pokecats, killed Marten, crippled her, and at the end of the day still escaped capture. When she isn't blaming herself, she blames Ace, and the Ditto pokecat better watch her back if they ever meet again.

Shirley: "Oh, she's nice! I r-really like her, but I... do k-kind of wish we'd met under, um, better circumstances..." // Shirley was supportive while Klonoa recovered from her injuries, and while Klonoa feels kind of awkward around her due to having been in a deep depression during it, she does genuinely like her and has been toying with the thought of stopping by the Pokecenter more to see her. FRIENDSHIP.

Bartholomew: "Hee... Cheshire is really nice, and... even though they're a Rocket, I-- I don't think they're a bad person! And... honestly, they're one of the only people that reached out to me. I l-like that." // Although she knows hir better by hir nickname, Cheshire. Klonoa warmed up to Bart surprisingly quickly, and spent most of her time at the festival with hir. Ze was cheerful enough to even piece through the shroud of sadness that had been surrounding Klonoa since the war, and even managed to make Klonoa comfortable enough to babble out all her feelings and insecurities to hir. Even though she knows ze's a Rocket, she's willing to put their ranks aside for the sake of their friendship.

Just Getting To Know:

Aire: Klonoa met Aire on the expedition, and warmed up quickly to her. And hey, she sounds kind of like a hero too! She wants to be more friendly with her, but with everything that's been happening lately she's not sure how to approach her.

Trefotur: After what happened with Gryla, Klonoa distrusts Treff and is always uneasy around him. She doesn't view him as a threat, nor does she disbelief that he's willing to change, but her spines still prickle when she thinks about what he's helped do and how he had a paw in sending some of her fellow Rangers to what could've been a grisly death.

Dead or Unknown Fate:

Tanaka: "... Tanaka... y-you can't be gone. P-please..." // Klonoa heard of his exploits on the old island, and as such considers him her personal hero. Despite that, she knows very little about him as a person, and her shyness prevented her from actually trying to get close to him. Over the course of the expedition, though, she started to gain a childish crush... And then he vanished, leaving her terrified and directionless. Klonoa has been throwing herself into her self-given job of finding him, but she's slowly starting to give up hope...

Marten: Klonoa never really got to know him, but... she still feels accountable for his death. The most she can do now is do her best to make sure nothing else like this happens ever again.

RP example:
She yawned wide and stretched out on the floor. The spines along her back bristled and stood up straight with the movement before relaxing into their usual position as Klonoa got to her feet. Her eyes still blurry from sleep, the pokecat trotted out the door to her room, then paused. What should she do today? The beach sounded tempting as always, but it had taken her ages to get the sand out of her fur last time and she couldn't afford to slack off again today.
Plus she didn't want to think about what would happen if someone found her. 'Yes, hello, I'm a Ranger, yes I'm asleep instead of doing my job'-- She shook herself all over to banish that train of thought. No beach today. Certainly she could just look around and see if anyone needed help today, yes? No: the thought of talking to someone this early made her fluff up again. Maybe she would just wander around the Square for a bit and keep an eye out for any suspicious happenings.