Joseph Lark

Joseph Lark is a young genius and pokemon trainer currently giving Team Liberty his services.

Joseph Lark
Born	December 21
Birthplace	Lilycove City, Hoenn
Age	16
Height	6'
Weight	57 kilograms
Hometown	Lilycove City
Occupation	Pokemon Trainer Team Liberty Agent
Known for	Resident genius and overall intellectual of Team Liberty; also known for his fluency in German, Spanish, and Japanese as well as English
Other Info:
Faction	Team Liberty
Rank	Liberty Field Agent
Location	Travelling to Icefall Cave from The Alamo
Status	Alive
Predecessor	N/A
Successor	N/A
Spouse	N/A
Children	N/A
Parents	Two aristocrats of the Lark family
Relatives	Volkner
Created by	Der Blitz

Personality

Lark, at first sight, appears to be a lazy bum. That's because he is. However, that is not his only defining personality trait. Beneath the facade of an apathetic sloth lies a calculating and analytical mind that is always looking ahead to the future and sifting through future possibilities to find the most likely ones (and subsequently, draw conclusions from them). His mind, albeit easily distracted, is rational and quite knowledgeable, making him a far more powerful foe than he a appears to be. And to round out his personality, Joseph has the gift of intuition: He experiences regular epiphanies that lead him closer to the epicenter of each crisis.

Intellectual Prowess

Due to certain traits of Lark's personality, he is the epitome of a strategic mastermind beneath his facade of lazyness. His analytical thinking style enables him to pinpoint weaknesses, while his intuitive side gives him a unique 'spark' that allows him true brilliance when combined with a rational thought process and ability to sift through many future possibilities to find the most probable ones. Combined, these traits make him a genius at warfare. His biggest problem is his near-obssessive planning and thinking, which can keep his head in the clouds a bit much.

As well, Joseph Lark is a master of not only the English language, but Japanese, Spanish, and Japanese. He mainly names his pokemon in the latter three languages, however, for his preference of them above his own native language.

History

Pre-RPG

Not much is known about Lark's past before he entered the RPG. However, what has been revealed is that he lived in Lilycove City with the rest of his aristocratic family. He was known to disappear from the rest of his family for long periods when not being tutored to think, read, or simply sleep, though it became harder to find him after he disappeared as he grew older (mainly due to him getting better at sneaking and hiding). As well, a young Scraggly which the parents in the Lark family assumed was a stray and 'no good news' often followed him around and silently accompanied the child. Because of these things, he was largely shunned within the confines of his ancestral manor.

However, by the time he turned 16, Joseph had foreseen a probability of a dire future if Team Liberty did not recieve as much aid as it could get. Therefore, he finally appealed to his parents to leave and become a Pokemon Trainer, asking them merely for some poke balls, enough food and water to get to Kanto, some spare change, a one-strap pack, and two pokemon which he had previously picked from a breeding center nearby: A sadistic Remoraid, and a silent Joltik. As well, Joseph promised that he would take the Scraggly (now a Scrafty) if he could leave His parents, glad to be rid of a disgrace to their family and a nuisance, let him have what he wanted and go.

However, what Joseph hadn't told them was that he was going to become a pokemon trainer of Team Liberty. He made his way through Hoenn and into Kanto, avoiding battles as much as possible while travelling on the words of rumors alone until he came to The Alamo some time after the invasion there and joined Team Liberty.

At some unknown point in time later when he was still 16, Joseph was coming back from one of his first missions and took a bit of time off resting under a tree by the way of Kanto Route 4, allowing his pokemon to come out of their Pokeballs.

Meeting Hex

It was there that Joseph saw an approaching trainer on the road.

Battling History

Type of Battle	Opponent(s)	Teammate(s)	Pokemon Used (In order of appearance)	Location	Outcome	Introducing
Double	Hex	N/A	Sasori (Galvantula) Namikaze (Remoraid) Manuel (Scrafty)	Kanto Route 4	Win	Sasori, Namikaze, and Manuel's first battle Sasori's Evolution

Pokemon

Species	Nicknames	Gender	Appearance	Specialty	Ability	Known Moves	Obtained
Scrafty	Manuel/Der Eisen Drachen	Male	File:Lis.png	Withstanding attacks, especially special-, and retaliating	Shed Skin	Bulk Up, Drain Punch (egg move), Payback, Rest, Dragon Tail, Brick Break	Starter Pokemon
Galvantula	Sasori/El Rayo Araña	Male	File:Galvantula-Sasori.png	High speed	CompoundEyes	Thunder Wave, Thunder, Bug Buzz, Volt Switch, Swagger, Gastro Acid	Starter Pokemon
Remoraid	Namikaze/ Der Vasserbewaffneten	Male		Special Attacks	Sniper	Bullet Seed, Rock Blast (egg move), Ice Beam, Psybeam, Surf, Flamethrower	Starter Pokemon

Trivia

• Joseph's overall design is largely based off that of Shikamaru Nara's from Naruto (they're both lazy and brilliant, care more for their friends than they appear to, and often use chess or one of its relatives figuratively to strategize).
• Joseph Lark is the first character in the RPG to be quadrilingual-that is, possessing fluency in four languages.
• Each of Lark's pokemon are named in reference to different people, both real and fictional, and also mean things in other languages which also call back or reveal the tactics used with them by their trainer.
  • 'Manuel' references Manuel dos Reis Machado, a master of Capoiera, which Der Blitz envisions Scraftys to fight with (as well as Muay Thai). It is also a Spanish name and a shortened version of Hebrew Immanuel, meaning 'God with us'.
    • 'Der Eisen Drachen', as well, means 'The Iron Dragon' in German. As Manuel is a fighter who often absorbs attacks and hits back, and is related to a dragon, the name is apt.
  • 'Sasori' is a callback to Sasori of The Red Sand from Naruto Shippuden, who is a literal puppetmaster using threads to control his (many) machines. Spiders, meanwhile, spin their own threads, thus making the name fitting. As well, Sasori literally means 'scorpion' in Japanese, which also references the Galvantula's speedy 'stings' of status conditions in its fighting value.
    • 'El Rayo Araña' is Spanish meaning 'The Lightning Spider'. While this aptly describes Sasori's species, it also is a pun on his strategic value as a powerful 'lightning speed'-ster.
  • ​'Namikaze' references Minato Namikaze of Naruto Shippuden as well, who possesses precise teleportation powers and is a legendary hero and fighter. Whilst Minato is a lot more powerful than any Remoraid, the fish is precise and an outstanding fighter in its own right. The name also means in Japanese 'Waves and Wind', which are both where Remoraid are found, and also two of its primary weapons.
    • ​'Der Vasserbewaffneten' is German for 'water-armed', which is a pun that explains Namikaze's long-range, with-water fighting style, as firearms in english are guns. It will become a double pun if it evolves, as it will then have many literal arms.