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The Regions' Legends
Character List and Bios/Relationships
Name: Giovanni Rocketto
Age: 32
Looks: Jet-black hair, onyx eyes, and very tall.
Occupation: The Boss of Team Rocket
Status: Alive
History: Born of an Italian mother and a Kantoan father, his mixed race caused him a lot of trouble during his younger years, outside of the Team. His father was the heir to Team Rocket, created by Giovanni's grandfather. However, Sousuke Rocketto wasn't too inclined towards the business, whereas his wife, Feliciana, found that she was very competent and good at managing the Team. At Giovanni's grandfather's death, Feliciana was the one who inherited the family business.
Giovanni was born and raised in and for Team Rocket. When his father died of a very harsh pneumonia, his mother strictly raised him to be ready to take over the business himself. He revered and resented his mother, admiring her ability to rule the Team and be a powerful leader and boss, despite of her sex and her foreign race, while also begrudging her lack of attention outside of the business and giving normal affection (as well as the fact he had never been given a choice to do what he wanted in life).
When his mother prematurely died at a young age, Giovanni took the mantle of boss at 21 years of age. He ran the business smoothly for some years, until a girl named Leaf from Pallet Town took on and challenged his Team and rule. After many confrontations (and losses on her side, when it came to battling him), she finally defeated him.
Sometime later, the upcoming challenger of the Kanto League Elite was in a mysterious wreck with her friend Blue, who had truthfully been trying to crash into Giovanni's limousine and kill the man he knew was the boss of Team Rocket and who (in his eyes) ruined and had caused so many problems in his friend and crush's life. However, Giovanni hadn't been in the vehicle, and had then gone on to save his enemy.
After finding out about Leaf's amnesia, he became conflicted in regards to what to do with her, but ultimately gave her a new identity to keep her close for personal reasons he doesn't divulge to himself, much less others. He named her after Eve of the Bible, and Rappaccini from "Rappaccini's Daughter", secretly alluding to things that only he acknowledges. Though he had no further plans for her other than to keep her close and let her live a quiet life, Archer took matters into his own hands and trained her to be a loyal agent to Giovanni and Team Rocket, specializing in the dirtier work that most agents don't get into.
Though it wasn't what he wanted, Leaf (now Eve) is determined to do this role for him, and so he reluctantly allows her. Since then, Eve has been his first and foremost closest confidant, as well being his top agent.
Personality: Usually very caustic and acerbic to others, but unusually very patient as well. He does have to deal with Jessie, James, and Meowth (and various other moronic grunts) daily after all. Outwardly seems to want to rule the world, but has taken to odd reflective and wistful moods recently. Has a very sarcastic, dry humor, and can also be very charismatic when he wants or needs to be. Can be quick to temper in certain situations. Wasn't really close to anyone, until Eve came along. His public persona doesn't change his behavior towards others, and he's known to be very strict and authoritarian, borderlining dictatorial. Cool-tempered and logical, he prides himself in being the best and strongest, and easily backs up that arrogance
Name: Archer Bellefonte
Age: 30
Looks: Light blue hair and eyes, tall, and wears a white TR uniform that's usually extremely straight and pressed. Always uses good posture.
Occupation: Team Rocket Executive
Status: Alive
History: The child of Rory and Kennedy Bellefonte, Archer proved to be meticulous even at a young age. As he continued to grow, he showed to be highly intelligent and well-acclimated for his age. Passing by as a quiet child, he still maintained a strong presence.
He became a Rocket agent under Giovanni's mother's reign, and was put under a young Giovanni's directive. Loyally serving the other for years, he was Giovanni's closest confidant, aside from Ariana and until Eve came along.
At Eve's induction into the Team, he personally coerced her into her current position as an assassin, behind Giovanni's back, and trained her himself. He is considered officially Giovanni's right-hand in the organization, as well as technically being his second in command.
Personality: Unobtrusively sycophantic towards Giovanni, Archer's main priority is his boss and then of course the Team. He is not usually very sympathetic to anyone or anything, but has grown to have a soft spot for his student, Eve. He has a no nonsense attitude, especially in regards to the Team and definitely when it comes to Giovanni. Archer also maintains a very passive-aggressive rivalry with Ariana.
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Name: Janet Tudor
Age: 21
Looks: Short pixie-cut hair, with blue highlights. Sometimes mixes it up with purple. Pretty short, but leanly muscled. Wears gray-colored fatigue pants, a regular Rocket-grunt top, and combat boots.
Occupation: Team Rocket Unit Leader
Status: Alive
History: Born to parents in the military, she was an army brat until her parents were killed in duty (at least it was mistakenly so). She ran away and lived on her own for a few days, usually living in shelters and the like. She eventually found herself recruited into Team Rocket and worked as a grunt for a few years, until Eve's inception into the Team. Aspiring to be like her and become a higher rank, Janet becomes more ambitious in the Team and wants to work her way up the ladder. Steadily gaining recognition, she ends up on a Team with Fred and Grant, who become lifetime friends and together they end up on a mission in Lavender Town to clean up the mess from a mission a few years back.
Not too long after, she meets Eve, her hero and admitted crush. She schools her and her temporary team on how to be a real Rocket and how to be a unit, while also teaching Janet how to be a leader. Janet takes avid notes, and as they travel back to Headquarters, continues to learn as much as she can. Shortly thereafter, she is transferred onto a new unit, with Fred and Grant under her and forming a trio, with Odette Fairchild becoming their supervisor. They then take to following a group of youngsters on their journey…
Personality: Having grown up as an army brat, she's very tough and aggressive, and dislikes being proven wrong and doesn't like to admit it when she is. She's pretty rowdy and doesn't mind being one of the "guys", but she's also keen on showing she's feminine to prove that liking girls doesn't mean one has to be butch.
Name: Fred and Grant
Age: 22 and 23
Looks: Fred has blond hair while Grant has light brown, both cut short. Of average heights and weight, their averageness somewhat equals to being forgettable, which works in their favor and makes them useful for subterfuge.
Occupation: Team Rocket Grunts
Status: Alive
History: Both of them had normal childhoods and families. They grew up, and ended up with desk jobs. Nothing was abnormal about them, and the only thing notable was that they had grown up friends and were practically like twins. Living boring, average lives to go with their average looks, things didn't stir up for them until one day, Fred's sister was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Furious and aggrieved, Fred (with the help of Grant) goes around doing his best to find the perpetrators, especially after the police stops their search and gives up the case. Hearing rumors of Team Rocket's real work, he seeks them out and hires them to find the people.
Team Rocket succeeds and faced with murdering them himself, he finds he doesn't have the stomach for it and asks that the Team do it for him. Afterwards, feeling changed and like he owes the Rockets for doing what the police couldn't, Fred joins Team Rocket, along with his best friend Grant.
Not too long after, they meet Janet and become good friends with her and end up working with her. After a brief stint in Lavender Town, meeting Eve, who lectures them (and who they remember meeting briefly not too long ago, having ordered a Beast to get her a Rocket shake and whom they'd heard about and her reputation), they end up in an new assignment as part of Team OJ and following after a group of teens on their journey.
Personality: Light-hearted usually and likes to goof around, both Fred and Grant are guys who are easy to get along with and are pretty smart. They're easily favorites of people around them, especially to hang out with, however they do have a darker, cynical side as a result of what happened to Fred's sister. Disillusioned with the system and the law, they prefer their new lives as Rockets, especially as it is a better and more interesting change than the boring lives they used to live.
Name: Emeric Hollands
Age: 38
Looks: Brown hair and eyes, average height
Occupation: Chief of Technology of Silph Co.
Status: Deceased
History: Was an average child, with a slightly above average intelligence. Emeric was the only child to two researchers, and spent his time usually alone. Befriended Gabriel Thrones at a young age, but was slightly jealous and felt inferior to the other. As they grew older, they had a friendly rivalry up until Gabriel fell in love and married Laylah, and Emeric drifted apart from them and became isolated and started forming bitter and resentful feelings towards them, but also towards himself, forming a sort of self-hate.
He gained a gambling habit, leading to a large debt. In order to clear it, he hired Team Rocket to raid Silph Co. and hold employees hostage, which would require Silph Co. to pay off employees for trauma and health hazards. In exchange, TR would be allowed to pilfer technology, prototypes, and designs for their own use. The Director of Research and Development, who reported to him, found out and blackmailed him in order to gain an upper hand in the company.
Later on, being in debt again, Emeric hired Team Rocket to assassinate Caius Darkin, an upcoming, successful owner of a business that threatened Silph Co. with an invention that could cost him his job. He also, secretly, does this to eliminate Caius, who directly threatened Gabriel's success, owing to a long-forgotten friendship from the past.
Emeric was recently assassinated by Eve, a Team Rocket agent, after Yannoa Darkin hires TR for the job to repay him for her husband's death.
Personality: More or less apathetic and uncaring towards life. He was disillusioned with it and people, and grew increasingly embittered with everything from a young age and to his death. His only friend was Gabriel Thrones, but at the lost of him and being unable to connect with Laylah caused him to grow tired and weary with everything, and lose any sort of care towards living. He lived life plainly and ordinarily, and was friendly enough. However, he mostly kept to himself. His one living family, a younger brother, berated him on his lack of ambition in life and constantly put him down, further increasing Emeric's embittered and tired personality.
Name: William Forester
Age: 36
Looks: Blond hair and green eyes, average height
Occupation: Director of Research and Development of Silph Co.
Status: Alive
History: William was very ambitious from a young age. He knew he wanted to have a top rank, and to work specifically in Silph Co. Always curious and tinkering with things, William decided he'd like to develop something so big it would mark him in history books.
After graduating from graduate school with top marks and a guaranteed position at Silph Co., he still wanted to aim higher. Soon, after being put into the R&D section of the company, he quickly rose up the ranks. His boss, Emeric Hollands, was a quiet and unassuming man, disgusting and creating resentment in William, especially at Emeric's lack of ambition or any sort of will towards anything in life.
When he found out about Emeric's deal with Team Rocket for the Silph raid, he manipulated him against the company and eventually taking a lead in business, underhanded and over Emeric's job. At Emeric's recent death, he hopes to be promoted and become the new CTO of Silph.
Personality: Extremely ambitious and wouldn't care to drag anyone down, in order to climb higher to the top. Very prideful and slightly narcissistic, William becomes volatile at the hint of anyone looking down on him or insulting him in some way, even if it's only in his head. Hot-tempered and easy to provoke, William is known around the building as an awful and overbearing coworker, and those who work under him prefer to avoid him when they can.