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--- character:rose-kaiki [2013/06/29 13:49] – A bit more about personality and her loyalties, as well as a basic blurb on gym leader style pinkgothic
+++ character:rose-kaiki [2017/11/18 21:34] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-**Rose Kaiki** is [[place:Ehqaj City]]'s gym leader, responsible for [[:Sehto gym circuit|the Haze badge]]. She specialises in [[:Types|Water and Grass]] pokémon. She's the oldest of the gymleaders (ignoring  [[character:Jagdish Tsukinaka]]'s actual age) and has a daughter by the name of //Krystal Kaiki//. She's in her mid- to late thirties, with Krystal in her mid-teens.
+**Rose Kaiki** is [[place:Ehqaj City]]'s gym leader, responsible for [[:Sehto gym circuit|the Haze badge]]. She specialises in [[:Types|Water and Grass]] pokémon. She's the oldest of the gymleaders (ignoring  [[character:Jagdish Tsukinaka]]'s actual age) and has a daughter by the name of //Krystal Kaiki//. She's in her late thirties, with Krystal in her mid-teens.
+Both her parents - Cyril Kaiki and Mira Kaiki - are still alive, and she has a distant but friendly relationship with both of them.
 ===== Personality =====
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 Ordered roughly from positive to negative, Rose...
+  * ...loves her daughter very much (though she mostly leaves her to herself, in part because she has enough self-reflection to know that she could easily smother her if she didn't and she genuinely feels freedom is the most important gift a parent can give a child; but also simply because she's busier than she'd ever admit to).
   * ...adores pokémon of all shapes and sizes and cannot bear to see them mistreated. As such, there's no battling in her gym if she can help it - just general, one-sided target practise, help with accuracy, fitness, and so forth. (In a way, hers is the only one that deserves the term 'gym'.)
   * ...has a high opinion of mankind as a whole in theory, which is what makes her so friendly to strangers.
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 ===== History =====
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+Like most people who do the gym circuit, Rose did so in her late teens. For her, it was more about the thrill of adventure and travelling than it was ever about battling pokémon, though by necessity that was a part of the deal. At the time, she didn't think much of it. She never as much as announced her intention to circuit to her father, travelling Sehto with a friend of hers and taking the Ehqaj gym second to last. She'd expected he'd approve, of course, especially since she'd already gotten six badges by the time she got there, but instead he calmly refused her battle without bothering to elaborate.
+Rather than be discouraged by this, she took a Haze Badge for herself by convincing her mother to simply pass her one by explaining the situation truthfully (including how hurt she felt by her father's refusal despite the effort she'd put into it so far). Needless to say, in her absence, her family broke apart, with Cyril squarely refusing to have anything to do with her mother any more.
+When she did return from Taqnateh (comparatively mild but nonetheless deeply unpleasant as it was for her), she couldn't find an emotional way back to either parent, seeing as her father hadn't bothered to explain the matter and her mother had indirectly helped to make it happen. She tried for a few weeks to get comfortable living with her mother again, but noticed that it just didn't work. Instead, she trailed the circuit again partially, talking to the existing gym leaders - mostly to get into Cyril's head and understand the motivation.
+Despite coming to the conclusion that he'd acted in the best way he could given the circumstance, Rose never quite managed to feel that Cyril was her father any more - but in an effort to find a place to feel at home again apprenticed under him, aware that she had the 'right' to replace him even without Jagdish expressly putting her there unless a veto was forthcoming... and perhaps subconsciously wanting to do a better job. Since no veto was ever spoken, she did take Cyril's place. Since Taqnateh, he's been more of a distant mentor to her than a father, but their relationship is at least not icy.
 ===== Appearance =====
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+{{ :character:rose-kaiki.png?direct&150|}}
 Of average build, something about Rose suggests 'wife' even though she lives separated from her once-husband for several years now and has raised Krystal basically on her own.
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 Dakarai frowns lightly. "If you so wish." He pauses, watching her for a moment of silence. "You would, though, do me a big favour by giving it to me rather sooner than later. I //do// need to be on my way." Perhaps implied by those words was 'the sooner you give me the badge, the sooner I'll be out of your hair'. Rose, seeing Redwood's reaction, closes her arms around the pokémon in a hug. "Fine," she mutters, still not looking up at him. "Head back to the doors, I'll be with you in a moment." A name. She didn't even know his name. She'd have to know for the records. Grimacing, she lets the inquiry slide for now, instead whispering a soothing "Shhh," to her pokémon.
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