PHEONIX, cherise waters

CHERISE BRITTANY WALTERS
_{"But in order to get to the heart, I think sometimes you'll have to cut through."}

Appearance
Cherise is average height at five foot eight. She's a bit smaller than average, but has grown up healthy compared to her teenage years on the run. The girl is petite, but not without the strength and stamina to train and travel to her heart's content. She can walk for miles without complaint, because that's the way that she's lived her life for years now.

Where she once died her hair bright colors, she now lets it grow naturally - in it's most platinum of blonde forms. Her bangs are both long and short, and her hair is kept in a long braid that's looped behind her hear. The young woman is rather pale, but not unbelievably so because she's not the type to stay in doors very often. Her eyes are the brightest of blues, and serve as a window to much of her personality.

She carries herself with confidence, something that has changed since she initially ran away from home. There is nothing that she can't do when she puts her mind to it, and her determination knows no bounds - it shows in her stride and in the way that she talks to others. As gentle and kind as she tends to be, she won't let herself be counted short.

Personality
Cherise is a woman that can easily come off as sweet, naive even, at first glance. And honestly the former isn't too far from the truth. She cares greatly about those that can not protect themselves, and has taken to guarding the well beings of civilians and fellow traitors alike.  She's incapable of leaving someone behind if they seem to need her help. Always friendly with strangers, she will stop to speak with someone if they appear friendly and sometimes even if they don't. Pretending to be harmless to find out more about a person has become habit, but she isn't known to completely manipulate a person - she's honestly curious about other people - she just knows that most of the time she can't trust them. Cherise is a passionate woman at heart, she won't take no for an answer if it's something that she truly wants or believes in. Where she was once quiet and her voice and willpower were fleeting, she has become stubborn because of years of opposition and harsh when her morals are ignored or she finds her opinions pushed aside. 

Music is and will forever be a big part of the pale woman's life. She still sings like a lark, and will use it to entertain or lift her fellow Pheonix member's spirits - but doesn't do so to make ends meet any longer. Thieving from tyrannical governments has become something more worthwhile. Her pokemon teams tend to consist of flying types, because they have the freedom to spread their wings and take to the skies - something that she once dreamed of doing both literally and figuratively. It's also, because of her first pokemon being a pidgey that she loved very dearly.

History
At first she was nothing but a runaway. Looking for a better life, one that she herself could make - one where she was free to train her pokemon and perform to her heart's content. She was a traveling act, she and her best friend Saoirse, they were two of a kind. There was little that the two couldn't do, they understood each other in a way that only a person and pokemon who are completely in synch could. It was rumored that her pokemon could speak her language and she her trusty avian's. They survived off of pocket change and the smiles they brought to other people's faces, not really knowing how they got by but not caring because they were together and no one could stop them and for the first time they were free.

And then she met a boy as fiery as she was looking for freedom - and joined his rag tag group of rebels. They worked as hard as they could to take Kanto back from the Rockets, but no matter their struggle they couldn't come out on top. Eventually they lost the battle completely, and the region was run so far into the ground even their tyrants abandoned it. For a year she helped those that stayed, that wanted to rebuild Kanto, but they couldn't put the pieces back together, and eventually even Cherise had to move on. She moved to Hoenn, to try and help the rebellion there - but it barely was put into motion before the region was flooded, and once again she had to leave it behind. 

Coming to Sinnoh was actually for the opposite reason that she had gone to Hoenn. She wanted to get away from the rebellion, from the fighting and struggle, but there was literally no region that wasn't touched by Immortalis. She was in Hearthome when the city caught fire and burned down in the heat of a violent battle - her beautiful avian was caught in the struggle. She called for Saoirse for days, but the bird never came back - she perished in the fire.

Her own fire returned, she joined the revolution, becoming an honorary anarchist in the attempt to bring Immortalis down. She lost her family to Rockets, her home and more friends than she could count because of tyrannical bastards. Enough was more than enough.  

Pokemon

swellow
Keir
Male
level 20 
Face Claim
Neir Replicant, kaine plays cherise walters

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