periusregion

Welcome to the Perius Region

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Welcome! This is a blog to catalog all my worldbuilding/lore/art/character shitposts/etc for my Pokemon fan region/fan setting I've accrued over the years! Some art may be old. Ran by @ophiolatrix. Probably PG-13


Annabelle "Bella" Calaveras had her first brush with the supernatural at the age of 10.

She and her younger sister of 5 years, Nora, had gone into the woods to look for pokemon and/or gather berries. At some point the two got separated, and Nora ventured deeper into the woods to "take a closer look" at something. Bella tried to go in after her sister, but was jumped by wild pokemon. She was able to fight them off with her Rowlet, but was unable to find Nora, nor her beloved stuffed buneary, Nibbles.

A couple nights later, Bella awoke to a phantump and a banette knocking on her window. She went to investigate, and realized she was face to face with her dead sister (and Nibbles).

Looking for answers to what happened to her sister, where her own life should go from there, and the connections between ghost pokemon and the spirits of the dead and forgotten, Bella made it her life's mission to become a paranormal investigator and learn as much about ghosts as possible.

She may have taken things a bit far though, and became rather obsessed and bitter as she got older. She often loses sight of taking care of her sister and what she would have wanted, and just gets caught up in her own wants and possible revenge on whatever unknown (perhaps even unown?) force that took her. Since they're both paranormal investigators and specialize in opposing types, she's become kind of a rival figure to Lexa.

Eventually she moves to Dimia and becomes a Frontier Brain in the Perius League, earning the title of Tower Keeper.

Nora, meanwhile, has grown into a Trevenant (since phantump evolves via trade I assume she went back in the forest one day to be with her ghostly brethren but then wound up coming back) and can cast a mean curse.

Side note: Nora's 10th birthday was especially hard on Bella because even though she was technically there for it, she knew she'd never get to go on a pokemon journey the way they both wanted.



Bella is Tower Keeper in Iron and Patina Versions

What does this person do?

“I am Bella, Tower Keeper of the Battle Frontier and professional paranormal investigator.”
“That old goth lady we keep seeing? Yeah, I think she’s the tower keeper.”

Favorite kind of Pokemon?

“I’ve continued to keep my sister close by, after all these years… ever since the incident, ghost pokemon have fascinated me.”

Battle Strategy?

“Strike quickly and without mercy. If you’re shooting to kill, be thorough.”

What is this person like?

“Come on guys, Bella’s cool! She has an owl!”

“Some people just can’t let go of the past… instead of learning to heal and move on, Bella has let it haunt her for decades and fuel her hatred towards people and pokemon she deems suspicious.”

Family and friends?

“Oh my god, do NOT ask Bella about her family unless you want around 30 years of baggage dumped on you in around 5 minutes.”

“My sister Nora died when I was a little girl… not a day goes by where I don’t think about her.”

There’s a rumor…

“Bella hasn’t always been in good standing with the league board. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a new tower keeper soon.”

Message

"No matter how hard we try to move on, the past will always come back to haunt us."

Bio

  • Full Name: Annabelle Calaveras; known professionally as "Bella Graves"
  • Frontier Brain Title: Tower Keeper
  • Type Specialty: Ghost
  • Pronouns: She/Her
  • Age (as of 201X): 40
  • Occupation (besides Frontier Brain): Ghost "Hunter", Paranormal Investigator

Teams (bolded mon name = signature/ace)

  • Silver Challenge/Perius Dex: Dodaver, Gholokia, Grimalking (Dimian)
  • Gold Challenge/National Dex: Gengar, Dusknoir, Chandelure, Mimikyu, Brambleghast, Decidueye (Alolan)
  • Other Pokemon: Trevenant, Rotom, Banette, Mismagius

The Tower Keeper of the Perius Battle Frontier, Bella is known for her aggressive training style and obsessive fascination with the supernatural. Before becoming a career trainer, she was an amateur paranormal investigator and ghost hunter, seeking answers to what lays beyond the mortal realm. Haunted (both literally and figuratively) by the loss of her younger sister during their childhood, Bella is stuck living in the past and obsessing over things that were or could have been instead of moving on and learning to live with her grief.

Bella is often confrontational and difficult to deal with. She has a bit of a habit of dumping her personal baggage on anyone who asks, and often those who don't. As a trainer who favors ghost-types, she also has an extreme hatred of psychic-types and will treat any trainer who brings one into her tower with extreme prejudice.



BGM: Scary House (XY)

The current Dimian Battle Tower is another fairly straightforward battle facility much like the Battle Hall, but with a twist: It functions on "Nuzlocke Rules", in that if a Pokemon faints at any time during a battle, they can not be used again for the duration of the challenge. Battles taking place during the Silver Challenge are in Singles format, whereas Gold Challenge battles are Doubles.

The top trainer (both literally and figuratively) at the Battle Tower holds the title of Tower Keeper; this is either Bella (in Iron and Patina Versions) or Lexa (in Copper).