Name: Emmanuel "Sting" O'Worren
Age: ?? (appears to be late teens)
Gender: Male
Species: Tentacruel [Clear Body]
Type: Water/Poison
Grade: Senior

Team: Sikkboyz
Normal Theme: "The Collector", Nine Inch Nails
Battle Theme: "Soulwound", Fear Factory

[Moveset]

Poison Jab - Toxic Spikes - Bubblebeam - Wrap
Screech - Ice Beam - Mirror Coat - Confuse Ray
Sludge Bomb - Wring Out - Toxic - Payback
Swords Dance - Cut - Surf - Constrict

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"I'm going to teach you something: suffering is art. Now come... let us suffer together."

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The Sikkboyz are a full four-member team (from an originally nine-member gang) that, through means both fair and foul, earned themselves a ticket into the PokeCombat Academy to finish their education as well as expose them to high-end battling talent. The faculty of Everstone Preparatory School, the 'halfway house' of capable but wayward pokemorphs, hadn't banked on the four refusing to integrate, even going so far as to wearing the Everstone shield as a badge of honor. While seeming to be the Quiet One, the Tentacruel known as Sting by his teammates hides much under his quiet demeanor.

In short, Emmanuel O'Worren isn't what he seems to be; his papers are masterfully forged, his identity crafted and bought with the best talent money could buy/bribe, and even his mind has a number of mental 'blocks' put in place to prevent psychic prying revealing his secret. Sting acts as the eyes, ears and hand of the notoriously amoral Creston Toliver, and his main purpose for being sent to Everstone Preparatory as a well-concealed ringer was to find, study and mark potential talent for recruiting outside of school grounds. Outside of these tasks, he has free reign to act as he wishes, and a rather large stipend to do whatever he needs to do to get the job done.

A no-name battler who seemed a dead-ender even when he was young, Sting lived hand-to-mouth from fight to fight, entering illegal pit tourneys as much as his body would allow. What was curious about this dangerous young lad was his incredible fascination with pain, both given and taken, and his fights were known for being long, drawn-out and often wince-inducing affairs. While good, he was just another face among many, and it was only the intervention of Toliver that stopped him from dying young. The offer he was given was too good to refuse, and soon (after a fair amount of cosmetic surgery), Emmanuel O'Worren was born.

Slipping him into Everstone was effortless, and he was wily enough to quickly find a pack of ne'er-do' well punks with notable talents... and luck was with him that they only accepted Poison types into their gang. Thus he became Sting, the 'silent member'.

Manny's fascination with pain lingers even now, bordering on outright sadomasochism. When he's not doing what he enjoys, he's quiet and stand-offish. When battle is on, he's a totally different person -- chatty, energetic and almost too eager to throw down. Back in Everstone, he was a feared battler, even though he didn't win all the time -- no matter the outcome, he always made you remember him.

Manny doesn't even know his real age, but Creston believes him to be in his mid-20s, thankfully something that can be overlooked due to his somewhat small stature and the scads of painful surgery and recovery he had to go through. He looks young, but inside of him is a pit-bred fighter with more years of battle experience than some PCA members have years being *alive*. He is, of course, careful to rein himself in and portray himself as capable, but not blooded...

... unless he can get away with it. And sometimes, in the heat of battle, a stinger lashed just so, or a limb being bent just so can have effects that don't seem all that apparent from the stands. When he can pull it off, Sting fights to inflict immense pain -- working joints, heavy poisoning and tentacle-lashes in sensitive places are just a few dirty tricks he employs. Perhaps his most sinister trick is his 'Iron Maiden' combination -- laying out Toxic Spikes, and then intentionally slamming a target into them, usually followed with a Wrap, Wring Out or Constrict to let them dig in even deeper. No matter his technique, Sting's primary goal is pain, and he rarely fails to achieve his goal.