Name: Amanda "Munch" Mastic
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Species: Swalot [Liquid Ooze]
Type: Poison
Grade: Senior

Team: Sikkboyz
Normal Theme: "Extraordinary", Liz Phair
Battle Theme: "Spirit Never Dies", Masterplan

[Moveset]

Pound - Yawn - Stockpile - Spit Up
Swallow - Toxic - Sludge Bomb - Gastro Acid
Gunk Shot - Dream Eater - Shadow Ball - Attract
Water Pulse - Rock Smash - Solarbeam - Shock Wave

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"They say you can be anything you wanna be, right? W-well, I wanna be on top. Because Arceus knows that I enjoy being on top... what's the blush for? Hey, that's your mind, not mine!"

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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. The team's only girl, Amanda "Munch" Mastic is just as tough as the boys, but is still all woman.

Amanda was the youngest, and only, girl in a house full of Gulpin and Swalot boys (six brothers in total), and it was only a matter of time before she ended up as a total tomboy. The fact that she was a pretty big girl even at ten helped matters -- in the end, Amanda was just one of the boys, as far as anyone was concerned. Still, the boys were proud of their little sister, and treated her like a little (manly) princess-- even going out of their way to spoil her rotten from time to time.

Headed for a somewhat average preteen life in a somewhat average school, fate would throw her and the Mastic family for a frightening loop. What started as a nasty spill from the jungle gym during P. E. turned into a sudden seizure at school... and once at the hospital, it was all the doctors could do to save her from the surprising amount of hemorrhaging found in her brain. Amanda made it through four surgeries and a few close calls, but spent nearly three months in the hospital amassing a frightening bill... that only continued to grow. Even after her release, Amanda needed years of rehab simply to regain her previous command of speech and motor functions, and even with the help of friends and charities, the Mastics were in a tight spot. All of the boys, now adults but still crazy about their 'little bro', put aside post-grad dreams for jobs to help pay down Amanda's debt... leaving Amanda feeling intensely guilty.

On her thirteenth birthday, as she blew out the candles on her cake, she swore that she'd repay everyone for their sacrifices, even if it took her everything she had.

After that day, either by miracle or sheer will, Amanda's physical and mental improvement was rapid, dramatic, and stunning to her physicians -- some were certain she'd never walk or talk again, and instead, Amanda was participating in (regulated and sanctioned) junior battle leagues... against their wishes, or course. It was only on her seventeenth birthday that she finally got the 'all clear' from her primary doctor, and as soon as that was done, a scholarship from the prestigious Everstone Preparatory School was in Amanda's hands. The rest... well, all it took was some dropped food and a certain Tentacruel being there to bring about destiny.

Amanda doesn't look like someone who's still recovering from a major brain injury at first glance. She's a cute, bubbly and exceedingly flirt-friendly Amazon of a Swalot, pushing 6' 2". It's when she speaks, or when one is around her long enough, that the signs show -- her speech, while understandable, is a bit thick, and she occasionally stutters furiously when excited or agitated. Add to that the occasional visible tic or tremble, and her occasionally nonexistent short-term memory -- even though she's learning at her standard grade level, therapy's still a part of her daily life.

When she's fighting, she's a different person altogether -- a situation where only the moment matters suits her perfectly. An all-around fighter, her greatest asset is the determination and willpower that turned her entire life around, and she's been known to get up *repeatedly* from attacks that feasibly should've put her down. While her doctor still worries about her possibly reinjuring herself, she's far tougher now than she was before, and has her mind set on getting into pro shape so she can pay her family back for all they've given her. That is her real and only goal, and it drives her unceasingly.