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PCA in-depth character meme - Eric
17 years ago
I've been very negligent in keeping up with these. But anyway...
Eric DeLane
Home Life:
- Eric's late father was Mick "The Train" DeLane, a prominent arena battler in the two-on-two tag division of Felix Blackclaw's Iron League, among others. His mother Elena, a glaceon, battled as an independent throughout a number of leagues as the masked fighter better known as Tundra. Eric's older brother Matt, also a glaceon, recently signed with the Steelstar League and has been enjoying a measure of success there. Following his father's death Eric and his mother moved back into their home in Viridian City where the two now live. Elena retired from arena combat when her husband's illness was diagnosed but has been considering returning to the arena, as she's still in remarkable shape for her age and eager to get her life back to normal.
- Eric has been looking for his own place closer to the school, his family's home is fairly far away and he has about an hour commute to and from the academy. Thus far he's been busy settling back in and helping his mother with things and so still lives at home. He has about half of the fairly nice house to himself, including a room that has been converted into an artist's studio and workroom.
- Eric doesn't get to see his brother very often and spends as much time with him as possible when Matt comes into town with the Steelstar League's traveling battle shows. The two get along quite well despite their differences. Even though Matt is the older of the two (by three years), he's always been the instigator, causing trouble that the more level-headed Eric had to figure a way out of. Very little about that has changed over the years and remains much the same when the two are together now.
Personal Life:
- Eric tends to carry a sketchbook around with him on campus and will spend offtimes just drawing what he sees or whatever random thoughts occur to him over the course of the day. These drawings are fairly well detailed, he's extremely fast at doing them. It acts as something of a sketch diary, though the contents are random and disorganized to anyone who happens to view them out of context..
- Eric has always had a talent for battling and though he had more of an interest in it when he was younger his interest began to wane somewhat when his older brother Matt was the first to take up their parents' career. Matt enjoyed the focus of their parents' training and efforts regarding battles and Eric's interest began to wane as a result. He and his brother were always close and he was leery of a rivalry developing between them, so he took off in his own direction. After their father's death however Eric renewed his interest in battling and approached his brother about forming a two-'mon team after Eric graduates.
- Eric evolved less than a month after his sophomore year began and was out of school for a couple of weeks as a result of complications. As a zigzagoon he was fairly short and somewhat hyperactive, he added over a foot of height when he evolved and it took some time to adjust to his new form. His personality changed a bit as well and it was at this time that Nicole first started to notice him as something more than just a friend.
School Life:
- Eric is still working on his artistic studies in the promotions and productions program he first began at the academy, though it's mainly just to finish it up and give himself something to fall back on once his battling career is done. His grades in such are quite good and he's quite talented, some of his teachers aren't very fond of his apparent decision to abandon his artistic career for a battling one but understand it.
- Contrary to expectations of his species Eric tends to have a slow, methodical approach to battles. He plays a lot of hit and run, wearing his opponent down while slowing and hampering them, then moves in close and uses his tremendous speed and hand to hand fighting ability to finish things off. Of course if the situation calls for it he's perfectly capable of a blitzkrieg style offense that can overwhelm unprepared opponents. He's a very versatile fighter, always aware of what's going on and how to manipulate any situation to his advantage.
- Eric is taking a number of extra classes but the workload isn't really that big of a strain. Several of his academic courses are ones that he already took at his old school but due to bureaucratic or procedural hangups the credits didn't transfer. He coasts through these for the most part so he can focus on his battle-oriented classes, but sometimes doesn't remember quite as much of the material as he thought he would.
Love Life:
- Nicole Blackclaw was Eric's first true love, the natural result of hormones involving themselves in a long friendship. Although they tell themselves that they broke up because it was awkward dating after being friends for so long, the truth is that they broke up because their interests were pulling them in different directions and they found they had less and less in common. After returning to the academy with a renewed focus in battles he hoped that the common ground might get them back together, but that was before he discovered how different she had become since they last spoke face to face. She never told him about her sister, her boyfriend, or much of anything else, and the more he finds out about her the more of a wedge it has driven into their friendship.
- While attending his prior school, an art school in Hoenn, Eric was involved in a number of relationships, none of which ended well. He refers to these relationships as "trainwrecks", and truthfully the problems were little fault of his own. The string of bad relationships has somewhat soured him to the idea of a new one, and the bitterness and resentment over them has caused him to have little interest in relationships for now. One of the reasons he was initially interested in resuming a relationship with Nicole is that it's the one relationship he was in that ended well, and he considered it relatively safe.
- Eric has been spending a lot of time with Gabby Jaide of Team Driller over the past couple of months.They long insisted that they were just friends and gave little if any indication that they were otherwise, despite constant teasing from their friends. Recent events however have brought them closer together, and although they still insist that they aren't dating, they will admit to being close friends. In truth he does care about her, but isn't willing to enter into a serious relationship with her while the wounds from his old ones are still open and sore.
Misc Facts/Quirks:
- Eric's most striking feature is his ice blue eyes, courtesy of his glaceon mother. He claims that he's had girls offer to sleep with him just because of them, and few who have gotten a good look at them doubt that claim.
- Eric hates coconut with a passion. He won't eat anything that has so much as a sliver of coconut on it and doesn't even like the smell of it.
- While he was attending his last school Eric produced a fairly popular on-line comic, a sword and sorcery epic with a slight comedic slant to it. He's quit working on it since returning to the PCA and it's not even known that he's the one who created it, as he never attached his real name to the comic.
- Despite being fairly wealthy and more than capable of affording it, Eric seems to have something of a disdain for the latest technology. His cell phone is very bare bones and he often doesn't bother to carry it. He owns an outdated game system, and his home computer is several years obsolete.
Eric DeLane
Home Life:
- Eric's late father was Mick "The Train" DeLane, a prominent arena battler in the two-on-two tag division of Felix Blackclaw's Iron League, among others. His mother Elena, a glaceon, battled as an independent throughout a number of leagues as the masked fighter better known as Tundra. Eric's older brother Matt, also a glaceon, recently signed with the Steelstar League and has been enjoying a measure of success there. Following his father's death Eric and his mother moved back into their home in Viridian City where the two now live. Elena retired from arena combat when her husband's illness was diagnosed but has been considering returning to the arena, as she's still in remarkable shape for her age and eager to get her life back to normal.
- Eric has been looking for his own place closer to the school, his family's home is fairly far away and he has about an hour commute to and from the academy. Thus far he's been busy settling back in and helping his mother with things and so still lives at home. He has about half of the fairly nice house to himself, including a room that has been converted into an artist's studio and workroom.
- Eric doesn't get to see his brother very often and spends as much time with him as possible when Matt comes into town with the Steelstar League's traveling battle shows. The two get along quite well despite their differences. Even though Matt is the older of the two (by three years), he's always been the instigator, causing trouble that the more level-headed Eric had to figure a way out of. Very little about that has changed over the years and remains much the same when the two are together now.
Personal Life:
- Eric tends to carry a sketchbook around with him on campus and will spend offtimes just drawing what he sees or whatever random thoughts occur to him over the course of the day. These drawings are fairly well detailed, he's extremely fast at doing them. It acts as something of a sketch diary, though the contents are random and disorganized to anyone who happens to view them out of context..
- Eric has always had a talent for battling and though he had more of an interest in it when he was younger his interest began to wane somewhat when his older brother Matt was the first to take up their parents' career. Matt enjoyed the focus of their parents' training and efforts regarding battles and Eric's interest began to wane as a result. He and his brother were always close and he was leery of a rivalry developing between them, so he took off in his own direction. After their father's death however Eric renewed his interest in battling and approached his brother about forming a two-'mon team after Eric graduates.
- Eric evolved less than a month after his sophomore year began and was out of school for a couple of weeks as a result of complications. As a zigzagoon he was fairly short and somewhat hyperactive, he added over a foot of height when he evolved and it took some time to adjust to his new form. His personality changed a bit as well and it was at this time that Nicole first started to notice him as something more than just a friend.
School Life:
- Eric is still working on his artistic studies in the promotions and productions program he first began at the academy, though it's mainly just to finish it up and give himself something to fall back on once his battling career is done. His grades in such are quite good and he's quite talented, some of his teachers aren't very fond of his apparent decision to abandon his artistic career for a battling one but understand it.
- Contrary to expectations of his species Eric tends to have a slow, methodical approach to battles. He plays a lot of hit and run, wearing his opponent down while slowing and hampering them, then moves in close and uses his tremendous speed and hand to hand fighting ability to finish things off. Of course if the situation calls for it he's perfectly capable of a blitzkrieg style offense that can overwhelm unprepared opponents. He's a very versatile fighter, always aware of what's going on and how to manipulate any situation to his advantage.
- Eric is taking a number of extra classes but the workload isn't really that big of a strain. Several of his academic courses are ones that he already took at his old school but due to bureaucratic or procedural hangups the credits didn't transfer. He coasts through these for the most part so he can focus on his battle-oriented classes, but sometimes doesn't remember quite as much of the material as he thought he would.
Love Life:
- Nicole Blackclaw was Eric's first true love, the natural result of hormones involving themselves in a long friendship. Although they tell themselves that they broke up because it was awkward dating after being friends for so long, the truth is that they broke up because their interests were pulling them in different directions and they found they had less and less in common. After returning to the academy with a renewed focus in battles he hoped that the common ground might get them back together, but that was before he discovered how different she had become since they last spoke face to face. She never told him about her sister, her boyfriend, or much of anything else, and the more he finds out about her the more of a wedge it has driven into their friendship.
- While attending his prior school, an art school in Hoenn, Eric was involved in a number of relationships, none of which ended well. He refers to these relationships as "trainwrecks", and truthfully the problems were little fault of his own. The string of bad relationships has somewhat soured him to the idea of a new one, and the bitterness and resentment over them has caused him to have little interest in relationships for now. One of the reasons he was initially interested in resuming a relationship with Nicole is that it's the one relationship he was in that ended well, and he considered it relatively safe.
- Eric has been spending a lot of time with Gabby Jaide of Team Driller over the past couple of months.They long insisted that they were just friends and gave little if any indication that they were otherwise, despite constant teasing from their friends. Recent events however have brought them closer together, and although they still insist that they aren't dating, they will admit to being close friends. In truth he does care about her, but isn't willing to enter into a serious relationship with her while the wounds from his old ones are still open and sore.
Misc Facts/Quirks:
- Eric's most striking feature is his ice blue eyes, courtesy of his glaceon mother. He claims that he's had girls offer to sleep with him just because of them, and few who have gotten a good look at them doubt that claim.
- Eric hates coconut with a passion. He won't eat anything that has so much as a sliver of coconut on it and doesn't even like the smell of it.
- While he was attending his last school Eric produced a fairly popular on-line comic, a sword and sorcery epic with a slight comedic slant to it. He's quit working on it since returning to the PCA and it's not even known that he's the one who created it, as he never attached his real name to the comic.
- Despite being fairly wealthy and more than capable of affording it, Eric seems to have something of a disdain for the latest technology. His cell phone is very bare bones and he often doesn't bother to carry it. He owns an outdated game system, and his home computer is several years obsolete.
Sounds level headed though.
Rene: I like him! Artisty types are less likely to beat me up!
Bling: I have some art supplies for sale if your interrested.
Stormy: I don't believe it about the eyes *leans closer* show me?
Aury: Hmmm, an artists with dreamy blue eyes... ...
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