Description
I've been thinking about making a third character in the group for a while and Nina is an older character I've been wanting to revamp, so seemed like a perfect fit~ Just gotta send her off for approval.
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Name: Nina Cambric
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Pokemon: Audino
Height: 5ft
Bodystyle: A Plump Pear
Birthday: March 4th
Home Island: Affection Atoll
Personality: Nina is a very bashful young lady who tends to give off a "dainty" first impression. She'll often twiddle her fingers around the feelers of her ears or fidget with her skirt in anxiousness when she doesn't know what to say. Once the ice is broken though, Nina can prove to be quite bubbly. She quick to coo in awe at the achievements and skills of those she's comfortable with. When it comes to her passion for bugs and fashion, Nina can turn into quite the chatterbox. On the flipside, Nina can be the type to struggle to bring herself to give proper effort to tasks and subjects she's indifferent towards, even when she knows it's important.
History:
Nina grew up as an only child in a suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of a larger city. While her mother is also an audino, her father has mawile as his totem pokemon. Nina's father worked as a software engineer for a large company in the city and that often lead to an unpredictable schedule. Sometimes he'd be able to work on programming from home and others, he'd have to rent a hotel room closer to work for a week or two when his team was in major crunch periods. This meant that Nina spent a lot of time with her mom growing up. Her mom, while technically a stay at home parent, had a passion for sew clothes and making accessories. She's stockpile projects and then sell them at a flea market stall for some extra money leading up to holidays or birthdays.
Nina was quick to mirror her mother's interests in creating clothes. Her mom began teaching her little accessory crafts from a very young age and then sewing once she was old enough to be trusted with a needle. Of course, there were times growing up when Nina wouldn't be in the mood to make anything. If this overlapped with times when her dad was working and her mom absorbed into a project, Nina would generally choose to go outside to play, be in in their yard or the local park. She developed a wide-eyed fascination with the local bugs she'd find. From watching clusters of ledyba huddle together, to multiple attempts at smuggling metapod and cascoon into the family garden with the excuse that she only wanted to give them a safer place to evolve; it was clear that Nina had become a bit obsessive.
As the years went by, Mr. and Mrs. Cambric started to worry about Nina's future. The catching and playing with bugs seems to stay a prime interest for Nina, when they had assumed it would be a childhood phase. While she still had an interest in tailoring and craft, Nina didn't show any interest in doing it professionally. She wasn't particularly interested in most academic fields and kind of hit a slump once hitting college. Nina just sort of trudged through the general required classes, feeling no real draw or agency towards a specific major. One day Nina came home from class, all excited and rambling something about becoming a...worm farmer? After a bit of calming down, Nina show here parents a brochure she found for a rural island chain called Raccolto. She gushed about the lush forests and their record for successful farm and ranch start ups. Plus that included silk producing, pokemon! She could raise bugs like she always wanted AND and make money selling silk. Plus she could send silk home for her mom to use in her sewing!
Her parents were hesitant, and made Nina thoroughly research into the legitimacy and safety of the brochure's claims. In the end though, they gave their daughter their blessing to move and lent her some money to get started. It was the first time she had ever been to insistent and decisive when it came to thoughts of how to spend her life. After promising to stay in touch and that she wouldn't be afraid to come home if it didn't work out, Nina bought a plot of land and prepared to become a silk rancher.
Ability: Regenerator
Moveset: (Very much not cut out for combat)
Baby Doll Eyes
Signal Beam
Encore
Refresh
Job: Rancher
Ranch Name: Silk Grove Ranch
Dog Race: Swirlix
Dog Name: Macaron
Dog gender: male
Talents:
- Sewing
- Craft and Accessory making
- Surprisingly good at climbing trees for someone with such stubby legs
Funfacts:
- Being and audino, Nina has sensitive hearing which can be both a blessing and a curse. Some of the few bugs she she's not fond of include the likes of ninjask and kricketune purely because they can be too loud for her to handle.
- Her absolute favorite bug type is Scolipede. She knows they can be dangerous, but they're so towering and majestic.
- Nina is the type to hoard tons of cutesy pillows and plush toys on her bed, but then not actually use any of them when sleeping.
- Nina didn't have a lot of friends as a kid and was occasionally picked on for her eccentric love of bugs, but by high school and college she was able to find friend groups she could mingle in comfortably.