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| **Terry Kiran** is the [[place:Nahla City]] gym leader and responsible for [[:Sehto gym circuit|the Dust Badge]]. He specialises in [[:Types|Rock and Ground]] pokémon. His gym tends to teach people that pokémon can die in battle, too. In the [[plot:Arsaga]] continuity, he granted the Flash HM to those that win against him. | **Terry Kiran** is the [[place:Nahla City]] gym leader and responsible for [[:Sehto gym circuit|the Dust Badge]]. He specialises in [[:Types|Rock and Ground]] pokémon. His gym tends to teach people that pokémon can die in battle, too. In the [[plot:Arsaga]] continuity, he granted the Flash HM to those that win against him. He's in his mid-thirties. |
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| ===== Personality ===== | ===== Personality ===== |
| His misanthropic outlook is, despite all appearances, not the result of an inherent destructive inclination. In a phrase, he's a bit of a slave to his own opinions and it's unlikely his true sentiments are ever going to surface - he's in his own way. He holds pokémon in high regard and humans much, much less so - and the more he observes mankind interacting with pokémon, the more he resents his own species, all the while feeling quite powerless to change the situation. His fondest wish would be for the gym circuit to be dissolved and its efforts to culminate in something of a (violent) revolution, instead, a radical rewriting of Sehto culture from the ground up to eliminate the abuse inherent to it. | His misanthropic outlook is, despite all appearances, not the result of an inherent destructive inclination. In a phrase, he's a bit of a slave to his own opinions and it's unlikely his true sentiments are ever going to surface - he's in his own way. He holds pokémon in high regard and humans much, much less so - and the more he observes mankind interacting with pokémon, the more he resents his own species, all the while feeling quite powerless to change the situation. His fondest wish would be for the gym circuit to be dissolved and its efforts to culminate in something of a (violent) revolution, instead, a radical rewriting of Sehto culture from the ground up to eliminate the abuse inherent to it. |
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| He rationalises his own position in the circuit as a necessary evil - a way to, hopefully, if all works out, wake up the respective idiot putting their pokémon through the circuit. The fact he //does// serve as an effective deterrent for about 75% of circuiters certainly doesn't do anything to dampen the cruelty of his methods. | He rationalises his own position in the circuit as a necessary evil - a way to, hopefully, if all works out, wake up the respective idiots putting their pokémon through the circuit. The fact he //does// serve as an effective deterrent for about 75% of circuiters certainly doesn't do anything to dampen the cruelty of his methods. |
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| He deeply dislikes the current gym circuit setup for its perceived passivity... and for some of the people who are a part of it, [[character:Keith Sirius]] first and foremost, [[character:Jagdish Tsukinaka]] second. That he's a part of him intimidates him - he's not sure how he got there, even if he can retrace all the steps in his head and they all check out as sane. He does know being a gym leader gives him about as much power to change the status quo as he could hope for as an individual human being, but given Nahla City's population flux, he finds himself more frustrated at the chore than not (rather than seeing it as the opportunity to reach a wide audience as he could be doing), as he rarely sees the 'fruits of his labour'. | He deeply dislikes the current gym circuit setup for its perceived passivity... and for some of the people who are a part of it, [[character:Keith Sirius]] first and foremost, [[character:Jagdish Tsukinaka]] second. That he's a part of it intimidates him - he's not sure how he got there, even if he can retrace all the steps in his head and they all check out as sane. He does know being a gym leader gives him about as much power to change the status quo as he could hope for as an individual human being, but given Nahla City's population flux, he finds himself more frustrated at the chore than not (rather than seeing it as the opportunity to reach a wide audience as he could be doing), as he rarely sees the 'fruits of his labour'. |
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| | <hidden Sexuality>Terry is pretty 'normal' all around - he's heterosexual and not in the least into anything in the BDSM corner of sexuality, be that sadism, masochism, bondage or even just playful dominance and submission. He's classically romantic. Candlelight dinner, a lot of caution, infinite mutual respect - and generally a big deal, in an utterly monogamous way. He'd never cheat his significant other - if he had one.</hidden> |
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| ==== Opinions ==== | ==== Opinions ==== |
| ===== History ===== | ===== History ===== |
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| ... | Terry's history is quite uninteresting up until his initial time in [[place:Taqnateh]]. He was born in southern [[place:Nightclaw]] and grew up there, only to end up migrating to western Nightclaw following a promotion at his work. When the company employing him folded, he had a comfortable financial buffer for himself and, having immigrant friends at this point, felt a certain draw to the gym circuit. |
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| | He was not prepared for Taqnateh, of course. To call it a turning point in his life might be an understatement. He's done the best possible job he can at blocking out the memories of what happened to him, but occasionally, details do manage to resurface. Each time that happens, it tips off a fresh bout of rage at the circumstances - he does not feel that, despite his transgressions against pokémon, he deserved any of his treatment, since he's a firm believer in restitutive and not retributive justice and the set-up sits wrong with him on a principle. |
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| | After Taqnateh and his survival, he spent a few years trying to figure out what to do about his newfound empathy for pokémon, ultimately deciding that everything he tried fell short, since it wasn't changing anything fundamental. |
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| | Not violently inclined by his lonesome, Terry at first resigned to this notion and began to travel the circuit again, this time to offer his service to the gym leaders, beginning with [[character:Yarver Bakema]] and travelling clockwise around Sehto, avoiding Taqnateh in the process. He didn't get far, since he told Yarver he was going to travel to [[place:Ehqaj City|Ehqaj]] to speak to Rose, resulting in her being 'forewarned' - and deciding to report the strange behaviour to Jagdish, wondering if it was perhaps something he'd asked of Terry. Jagdish, not having been informed about Terry's plan, spoke to him on his way to [[place:Pyu Ivvi]]. Terry... tried to ignore Jagdish, hoping desperately that either he was just a hallucination or he was going to go away if he was granted no reaction. It didn't work. Instead, he snapped at him, ranting about how the whole circuit setup wasn't getting its supposed job done, how people were going to continue hurting pokémon, and to please leave him alone while he was trying to get some atonement in (also, to please stop being quite as creepy). Jagdish, fed up with Terry's uncooperative attitude, whisked him up to Taqnateh, locked him into a cell, and went to speak with Yarver and Rose about what, exactly, they had to report, in as much detail as they could muster. |
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| | Needless to say, Terry did not deal well with even just the notion of being trapped up in Taqnateh again and very nearly literally clawed at the walls. Meanwhile, Yarver and Rose had only good things to say about Terry (Terry had expressly asked for tasks that would help improve pokémon life in the area - he'd patched up the shore fencing around Rose's gym that provided a safe haven for tame water pokémon, for example), and despite their personal dealings, Jagdish felt inclined to consider Terry as a gym leader, since he seemed to have his heart in the right place. As such, he returned to Taqnateh to talk to Terry about it, assessing him a misanthropist and thus only suitable for Nahla City, trying to convince Terry that if he wanted to do some good for pokémon, that was bound to put him in the best possible position to do so. He did, however, line out the conditions of gym leadership, including, most notably, not mentioning the circuit's inevitable end. With some convincing, Terry accepted, perhaps in very slight part coloured by the urge to get away from Taqnateh and Jagdish on short notice, but largely considering it the best of his possible options. |
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| | Jagdish told him to continue what he'd been doing and that it was customary for gym leaders to circle Sehto to get to know each other gym leader personally, and to, once he was done with that, apprentice under the current Nahla City gym leader for a year before actually taking it over, since Nahla's unique population situation gave it quite a few idiosyncracies worth gradually learning from an expert. |
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| | It's on this run that Terry got to know Keith. Keith had been entirely absent from his gym circuit run as a pokémon trainer, so there was no warning whatsoever about his personality. Needless to say, it didn't work well - it terrified Terry to the bone and he did //not// appreciate Keith's attempts to laugh it off even slightly. If Keith hadn't been the last stop on his gym leader hazing trek, he would have stopped the run there and then and gone back to simply stewing about his powerless situation in a corner. As it was, it concluded the matter and he's holed up in Nahla City ever since. |
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| ===== Appearance ===== | ===== Appearance ===== |
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| {{ :character:terry.jpg?nolink|}} | {{ :character:terry_kiran.png?250&direct|}} |
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| * [[pokémon:Tod]] (Sudowoodo) | * [[pokémon:Tod]] (Sudowoodo) |
| * [[pokémon:Zerstörung]] (Golem) | * [[pokémon:Zerstörung]] (Golem) |
| * ... | * [[pokémon:Vergeltung]] (Donphan) |
| | * [[pokémon:Schicksal]] (Kabutops) |
| | * [[pokémon:Fügung]] (Sandslash) |
| | * [[pokémon:Gnade]] (Marowak) |
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| ===== Descriptions from Sessions ===== | ===== Descriptions from Sessions ===== |
| Terry's gaze drifts across those present, still standing in the doorway, gaze coming to rest on Nikki as though asking some unspoken question, then shrugging, his fingers sliding from the doorframe. "I'm rather busy right now, so in parallel will have to do," he says, casually. "You," he points to Devi. "One pokémon. And you," he points to Nikki. "Also one pokémon. And you, sir," he points at Marcus, evidently resisting the urge to poke at his chest in the process. "One pokémon. Against three of mine. Items are allowed, any and all types... blah, blah, blah." A slight eyeroll, the twitch of his nose, and he looks back at Nikki, arching a slight brow, then shaking his head and glancing nowhere in particular. "Those are my rules." | Terry's gaze drifts across those present, still standing in the doorway, gaze coming to rest on Nikki as though asking some unspoken question, then shrugging, his fingers sliding from the doorframe. "I'm rather busy right now, so in parallel will have to do," he says, casually. "You," he points to Devi. "One pokémon. And you," he points to Nikki. "Also one pokémon. And you, sir," he points at Marcus, evidently resisting the urge to poke at his chest in the process. "One pokémon. Against three of mine. Items are allowed, any and all types... blah, blah, blah." A slight eyeroll, the twitch of his nose, and he looks back at Nikki, arching a slight brow, then shaking his head and glancing nowhere in particular. "Those are my rules." |
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| {{tag>[work-in-progress]}} | {{tag>[comprehensive]}} |
