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Quirks and Habits
tab • • 》Poochyena doesn't have a permanent nickname like many trainers do for their Pokemon, but on occasion he will call her Yena, after her brother's Mightyena that it was bred from. Going in-between names sometimes confuses her and she hopes that maybe he'll decide to just call her by one name really soon...
tab • • 》He shows classic proper etiquette due to classes his mother enrolled him into before he moved away with his brother.
tab • • 》A trait shared with his older brother, whenever his brother got angered or felt displeased he would glare people pointed out his likeness to a Zangoose. It was later learned that low-tempered Eli also shares this likeness when he becomes upset.
Aspirations
tab • • 》 To become a Pokemon ranger
tab • • 》 Find his older brother and bring him home
Fears
tab • • 》 Becoming helpless
tab • • 》 Learning a hard truth...

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Likes
tab • • 》Most of any kind of outdoor activities
tab • • 》Basketball
tab • • 》Baked Vegetable
tab • • 》Reading different kinds of informative magazines
tab • • 》Pokemon-watching [like bird-watching but well with Pokemon]
tab • • 》Swimming, whether in a pool or in a lake or river
Dislikes
tab • • 》Cooking
tab • • 》Bullies and anyone who harms and mistreats a Pokemon
tab • • 》Forgetting names
tab • • 》Materialistic people
tab • • 》Being cold at night
tab • • 》Wasting time

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Biography
tab • • 》 Elijah lived in Fortree City with his older brother Sasha, who worked as a pokemon ranger in the area. Their parents were never too supportive of Sasha’s career choice, believing it to be too dangerous to be ranger, but he took the job anyway and left home. Elijah thought it was amazing that he did that to follow his dreams, but his parents were enraged and afterwards never spoke about Sasha in the house again. The air at home became so tense Elijah couldn’t take it anymore and ran away from home. He got into the city shortly after and called Sasha explaining what was happening and he came to pick him up in Mauville City. Sasha tried to take him back home but Elijah begged to let him live with him in Fortree City. Reluctant, Sasha took him to his little home and called his parents for the first time in 2 years. They were furious and Sasha argued with them for about an hour. They strayed far from the Elijah running away topic, but close to the end he was finally able to get back on track and convince them to let Elijah stay with him for a little while. Elijah couldn’t have been happier with the news. He fell into Fortree life rather quickly and loved going to the ranger station with Sasha, making friends with the other rangers in the process. He had his brother on a pedestal during this time, always seeing him helping pokemon, bringing in trouble makers and other such things, so much so that he asked Sasha if he could be a ranger when he grew up. Sasha told him to push forward to it and let no one stop him if it was what he truly wanted. However, he couldn't be with Sasha all day at the station and hang out in the woods all day, so he spent most of the day at school. As soon as it was out though he would rush right over to be there. He couldn't take part in much of the ranger's work, but Sasha was able to take him camping when he wasn't working and show him some fun. He wasn't able to learn as much as he wanted from his brother however...

About a year prior, Elijah now being the age of 10, Sasha was called to a disturbance involving a Tropius nest being disturbed. He and another ranger left to investigate, but after four days passed they were declared missing and the station sent out a search party. Elijah couldn’t help but think the worst, and it was confirmed when the search party returned. He had been staying in the living quarters of the ranger’s office while waiting and ran out to meet them, but the only person they had was the girl ranger, Shyane, that had gone with him. She explained that when she and Sasha had gotten to the nest they were ambushed by poachers and all she remembered was waking up inside a tree bound with rope. They had found her wondering back there by herself but there was no sign of Sasha nor at the nest.

He was devastated, so much he had to leave it to the rangers to break the news to his parents. They arrived as quick as they could but he couldn’t say anything to them he was still too upset over the news. They felt equal sadness, not being able to make amends with him before his disappearance, and seeing Elijah the same way broke their hearts. The decided it would be best to take him back home to Mauville City. He didn't try to argue or say anything about leaving, but before they left town Shyane met them at Sasha's house. She admitted to Elijah that she had something for him from Sasha, but at the time she didn't feel like she could give it to him then. She handed him a box that contained a pokeball and note:

This will be your ranger partner starting today! Goody luck Eli!
-Sasha

Elijah was without words from reading the note. He released the pokeball and it was a Poochyena. He had very mixed emotions at the moment. His brother that had just gone missing and was probably in more trouble than he could imagine or maybe even worse,had left him a pokemon to start his own dreams. Unable to really answer in the moment he thanked Shyane and took Poochyena with him back to the Mauville. Back home he tried to figure out what to do and how to sort all these feelings he had. Sometimes he cried and sometimes he just stayed quiet thinking to himself. With new laws in the world he couldn’t just simply go out and find Sasha or go on his own journey as a trainer, but his parents gave him a huge surprise when they told him that they put an application in for him at Ordell Academy, a school for kids that want to go out as trainers or similar professions. They believed that since Sasha had helped him with Poochyena that they needed to support him as well and not make the same mistakes they made with Sasha all these years. With this school he could train finally train with Poochyena and maybe start on the road to achieve both of his dreams.