History Characters / PokemonDesolation

* ActionSurvivor: They have to survive the crash of the ship and make their way to the nearest town armed with a single mon retrieved from the ship's wreckage and some spare Poke Balls.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Her initial defeat against Baron is largely attributed to having to fight in a volcano, which severely weakens her Grass-type Pokemon. Indeed, during the siege of Blackview, she rematches Baron after setting up the field to her advantage and apparently gives him a sound thrashing.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:He releases his Pokemon in the Dreamscape because he wants them to find new trainers and get a fresh start. He then discovers that his Pokemon were just memories, and they all fade out of existence.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He's pretty open about it. He's spent most of his life hoping to be recognized and acknowledged. It's even the reason he took up Pokemon battling and became a gym-leader in the first place. Unfortunately for him, it only ostracized him further from people as they became jealous of him.

* CombatPragmatist: Like several other trainers, Baron uses his Pokemon to attack other people, although he's the only person who use them to purposefully attempt murder.

* SignatureMon: Her Umbreon, who was also her only Pokemon for a long time through her life. Her bond with it is powerful enough it's currently the only Pokemon able to reach Perfection Form.
* SuperMode: Her Umbreon is the only currently known Pokemon capable of reaching Perfection, a stage described as beyond Mega Evolution, that requires a much stronger bond with the trainer to use. In gameplay, it does function like Mega Evolution, though.

* HateSink: Not only has he killed God knows how many Pokemon and people in his Perfection experiments, and not only did he throw [[spoiler: Garret's sister]] into the Grid upon completion of his experiments, Waldenhall has zero remorse for any of his crimes and even says that [[spoiler:Garret]] should be honoured. He also actively stamps on the chance at redemption he's given at the end of episode 6. Needless to say, he doesn't have a single redeeming quality.

* TheSociopath: It's an actual plot point. Reeve describes Waldenhall as a monster who is incapable of loving anyone or anything, and thus is incapable of Perfection, which requires a strong bond with one's Pokemon. Waldenhall trying to locate the Perfection Fragment in Fairbale was his means of using a loophole to get around this limitation.

A close friend of the main character, who takes up Pokemon battling shortly after the game's beginning. She's originally from Sinnoh.

* FriendlyRival: She fills this role, even being lavelled as rival a couple times in the game's files, contrasting Hardy's portrayal as the more cocky rival. As a result, she's fought three times over the course of the story.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Even more so than the main character, who's at least noted to have been a trainer before coming to Ayrith despite not bringing their Pokemons with them. She starts catching her first mons shortly after you get your first badge and gets promoted to Crescent Admin over the course of the story. Even after she defects back to the good guys, she makes it all the way to the semifinals of the grand Cellia Tournament, only losing to the player.

A trainer you meet on Route 1. Determined to take on the Pokemon League with his partner Zorua.

* RivalTurnedEvil: He used to simply want to challenge the Pokemon league, but then he joined the Black Foxes for unclear reasons, and now he's stuck with them as he needs their work on Perfection form to save his Zoroark.

* RealityWarper: She's the one who really shows how powerful the twins are. Aside from the usual feat of teleportation and passively accelerating the growth of her Pokemons, she's shown opening a portal to presumably the Dreamscape with her powers, owning a personal space in the Grid, and turning a bush in the Dreamscape into a Turtwig for her to catch.

A Pokemon living in the depths of the Dreamscape. Their abilities to induce dreams and nightmares are central to the plot.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Much like [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers another game's take on Darkrai]], this openly malevolent schemer is a far cry from the canon portrayal of Darkrai as a Pokemon who means no harm. This is also commented on by the game itself, where Ava notes that much like in canon, Darkrai is usually a harmless Pokemons whose nightmares are only a self-defense mechanism, making the behavior of this specific Darkrai all the more jarring.

* DarkIsEvil: They're a Dark-type Pokemon who's also the main antagonist. It's actually noted by the game to be abnormal for a Darkrai to be so unrelentingly evil.

* AmbiguousSituation: Who it is, or what it is, is not remotely clear. All that is concretely known is that it is a being that has achived a partial form of Perfection, where the trainer ascended but their Pokemon did not. It also seems to despise humanity, and shows contempt towards the player and Waldenhall.

* CosmicHorrorReveal: While the plot up to when you first see it in action is quite dark, it's not that out of the realm of normal Pokemon stories - a legendary being goes berserk and your goal is to defeat it, right? Then you meet this strange, incomprehensible, non-Pokemon entity that allegedly harkens from a higher plane of existence that threatens doom for humanity, and it treats a powerful antagonist the story has been building up to like a toy.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: It achieved Perfection, which caused it to transcend to an incomprehensible plane of reality, in line with both Waldenhall and Reeve's theories. Its Pokemon did not ascend, which means that part of it is stuck in the current reality and able to interact with the world.

* LogicalWeakness: Reeve deduces that since Perfection is supposed to be a one way road, the fact that the entity is even capable of talking with and interacting with objects means that it hasn't fully ascended with its Pokemon and is only able to stay in reality because of said Pokemon. This means that if the entity's Pokemon was destroyed, its link to the world would be severed.

* TechnicolorEyes: Reeve has sectoral heterochromia, with his eyes being purple and light blue.

-->-'''Nova: '''Damn you… A purpose?! A purpose? Who are you to say you gave me a purpose? You took it from me when I was a child! I never had a chance to have a purpose! You took everything from me! Just like you took everything from the twins, and Lilith!

* Foil: Seems to be an obvious one to Waldenhall, with them both being cold, mysterious scientists who are the right hand men to their criminal organization's leadership, seem to know a lot more than they should, and were out of commission until the events of Episode 6. Their main differences so far are that Waldenhall is focused on Perfection, while Artem specializes in the Grid, and while Waldenhall is built up to as a major antagonist and threat, Artem is dispatched offscreen as a sidenote to the rematch against Baron and forgotten about for the rest of the episode.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Averted entirely. You gain a lot of public recognition following the events of Blackview City and even more so after Cellia, and most gym leaders rapidly come to treat you as an equal when it comes to dealing with most threats. Similarly, many people in the fight clubs will come to respect your battling prowesses after you manage to win enough matches.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction after throwing [[spoiler:Hardy]] of a cliff in the heat of their argument at the top of Hardened Mountain. Thankfully for her, [[spoiler:Hardy's]] revealed to have survived no worse for wear.

* SignatureMon: Tossup between her Electivire for cutscenes and her Mega Manectric for gameplay.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Pulls a heroic example of this after we help her track down Nova. After realizing the owner of the manor doesn't actually exist, she hands it over to you.

The Gym Leader of Cellia North, he specializes in Steel types. Stays calms under most circumstances.

* TheSmartOne: He's shown to be pretty knowledgeable during the exploration of the Fox hideout, recognizing the place you've been transported to by the design of it and making some good points about the purpose of the place. On that font, he's pretty similar to what Connor would be if he could stop being a self-absorbed jackass more often.

* LongLostRelative: His main reason to be so ruthless with the Foxes. They kidnapped his little sister, Eden, several years ago, and he never managed to find any clue as to what became of her.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When he realises that [[spoiler:Waldenhall]] knows where his sister is but is trying to escape, Garret takes out over thirty Black Foxes (including Amelia) who try to stand between him and his target.

* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:He used to work for Cellia Council, studying Perfection as Waldenhall's student. After their experiments in replicating Perfection ended with all the subjects dying, Reeve told the Council and was fired.]]

* PurpleIsPowerful: He wears purple and has purple hair.

* {{Irony}}: He could have been just a poor kid who got hit with FakeMemories, but then he used a Drowzee to brainwash an entire village into worshipping him and reproduced the very thing that was done to him on a larger scale.

* SignatureMon: His Drowzee that he used to continually brainwash the villages inhabitants.

* SmugSnake: He oozes this. Even as he apologizes for seemingly killing Ava as a tragic necessity, he clearly doesn't think all that much of his action. Similarly, he appears specifically dismissive of the player simply because Nova holds them in interest. But despite his grand ambitions of becoming the king of the dream world, he goes down to the hands of the player and Shiv and becomes the second villain to be put out of commission through the whole story (first being Kuiki, the StarterVillain)... [[spoiler: until he breaks out.]]

* ReformedButRejected: Downplayed. Her joining the heroes isn't met with widespread agreement, to say the least. Of the various people in the room, the only ones voicing support for her are Connor, out of rationality that she has nothing to gain at trying to trick them at this point more than anything else, and Garett, for the same reason and because he understands the upcoming fight against Darkrai must be met with a united front.

-->"[[spoiler:'''Darkrai: ''']] I gave you a purpose, Nova.
-->-'''Nova: ''''Damn you… A purpose?! A purpose? Who are you to say you gave me a purpose? You took it from me when I was a child! I never had a chance to have a purpose! You took everything from me! Just like you took everything from the twins, and Lilith!"
* SignatureMon: Her Gothitelle. [[spoiler:[[BeyondTheImpossible It apparently forces Darkrai of all things to retreat despite the type disadvantage.]]]]

* DeadpanSnarker: He cracks a lot of sarcastic jokes at Reeve's expense, regarding the partyboy gym leader as an incompetent. [[spoiler: Reeve makes him eat those words.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: She's not a good person. While she doesn't actively try to kill anyone onscreen, she blows up a boat sorely to make a demonstration of force with no regard for the safety of the passengers, hurts a village elder with her Zangoose and coldly watches him drown to his death after he tries to pull a TakingYouWithMe, and she's the reason the Black Foxes have become a lot more violent. The only person she can look somewhat good compared to would be Baron.

* AntiVillain: Despite being the leader of the Black Foxes, she's actually a pretty nice person, whose end goal is merely [[spoiler:breaking the vicious cycle set up by Darkrai]] and avenging the death of her parents. Most of her villainy stems from leading the Black Foxes, or rather, from enabling Amelia to turn them into the terrorist group they're becoming, as they used to keep a much lower profile until she became an Admin. There's also the murder of several police officers who tried to arrest her several years ago, although with the current situation, it's entirely possible she was actually framed for that crime.

* HateSink: Not only has he killed god-knows-how-many Pokemon and people in his Perfection experiments, and not only did he throw [[spoiler: Garret's sister]] into the Grid upon completion of his experiments, Waldenhall has zero remorse for any of his crimes and even says that [[spoiler:Garret]] should be honoured. He also actively stamps on the chance at redemption he's given at the end of episode 6. Needless to say, he doesn't have a single redeeming quality.

* HeroicWannabe: Part of how she copes with working for Team Crescent despite them committing unsavory actions, and how she rationalizes her suicide attempt: This time, she's the hero, and heroes make the tough decisions other cannot make. Amusingly enough, she grows closer of being an actual hero after she's talked out of it.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: At her core, she just wants everyone to live a happy life. But her method to accomplish this is to join team Crescent and try to trap everyone into a dream world.

* ManipulativeBastard: Much like the Darkrai from VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers this Darkrai is an [[WordOfGod accidental]] dead ringer of, their favorite way of getting things done is to manipulate people through their emotional weaknesses into furthering their plans. If Lilith is to be taken literally, they've orchestrated the events of their entire childhood, including the murder of her parents, to mold her into someone he could manipulate, and Nova states they took control of her life back when she was a child.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: It has one that it constantly repeats to the player. "Before you boarded that cruise ship, all that time ago...who were you?"

* TechnicolorEyes: His eyes are a strange mix of purple and light blue.

* CosmicHorrorReveal: While the plot up to when you first see it in action is quite dark, it's not that out of the realm of normal Pokemon stories - a legendary being goes berserk and your goal is to defeat it, right? Then you meet this strange, incomprehensible, non-Pokemon entity that allegedly harkens from a higher plane of existence that shares Darkrai's goal of ending the human race, and it treats a powerful antagonist the story has been building up to like a toy.

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* AttentionWhore: He seems to be desperate for the attention of other people. According to him, he tends to get ignored everywhere he go, to a point you have to wonder if it's natural.

* WorkingClassHero: Garret doesn't look like he's financially well off, to say the least. Two different characters comment that he smells like he hasn't taken a bath in a long time[[note:]]WordOfGod says he showers every day, so we can infer that the smell is because he often goes into the sewers[[/note]], and he jumps at the chance of crashing not just him, but his entire crew at your manor (although he's apparently pretty considerate about it and just hangs around in the basement).

* SatelliteCharacter: As of the current build, he's the Gym Leader with the least screentime in the story. Garret, while coming after him in the Gym Leader order, was introduced way earlier in the plot, leaving Aaron in this position. He also barely appears after the Darkrai reveal, with Reeve taking up a lot of the spotlight.

* WorkingClassHero: Garret doesn't look like he's financially well off, to say the least. Two different characters comment that he smells like he hasn't taken a bath in a long time[[note:WordOfGod says he showers every day, so we can infer that the smell is because he often goes into the sewers]], and he jumps at the chance of crashing not just him, but his entire crew at your manor (although he's apparently pretty considerate about it and just hangs around in the basement).