Jacob Iridis

Biography

Jacob Iridis is the no-nonsense, semi-awkward, prideful Self-Proclaimed Pokémon genius. Having essentially grown up battling, most of his personality revolves around that. He is very easy to anger when someone he cares about is threatened, and easy to bait into problems by challenging his pride or talent. He's very philosophical, often going off on rants exploring far more meaningful interpretations of subjects when unprompted. Early on he was easily brought into conflict, but has since grown out of this.

History

Jacob is the orphaned child of Marcus and Valery Iridis, two Dark type specialists. He was born in Petalburg in Hoenn where he lived a fairly normal childhood. His parents were murdered and his home was destroyed on his eight birthday, right after obtaining his first Pokémon, a Ralts who he named Regina. Jacob, heir to nothing, unable to support himself, and unwilling to be raised in an orphanage, spent some time as a beggar before coming across an illegal underground Pokémon tournament business, where he decided that how he would support himself. Seven years later, he left this, now rich and able to support himself and chose to prove his newfound strength against the Hoenn League. He beat Hoenn's Gyms within one week and then took on the League itself, winning due to a combination of his, now fully evolved, Regina's unprecedented power, strategic capabilities he had gained battling almost half his life, and a number of battle regulation violations that he was unaware of due to his near complete experience in unregulated tournaments.

After defeating the League, with almost nothing to do, he was recruited by Elityria, a girl from Lilycove who had dreamed of seeing every Pokémon in Hoenn. For the next three years the two would explore all of Hoenn, getting into many life threatening, awkward, and awe-inspiring situations, and grew very close. This ended when, just before seeing Jirachi, the last of the Hoenn Pokémon they had to find, Elityria was killed by a Scizor, who was in turned killed by Jacob in a fit of rage. After approaching Jirachi and getting assurance he could have his wish granted in the future, Jacob, to honor the memory of Elityria, vowed to see every Pokémon in existence.

He spent months planning his journey, starting with Johto, which is where his first encounter with the J-Team would occur.

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Jacob first encountered the J-Team in Olivine, where he battled to a draw with Crow. Soon after he left for Ecruteak, where he began the first of many arguments. This one in particular was between him and Zeal, Jacob believed that because Zeal had let his Quilava, Fajro, be stolen, Zeal was unfit to be a trainer. After this all calmed down, Jacob left and went on to Mahogany, where he defeated Pryce. He continued on to Blackthorn, and inside the Ice Path he captured a Sneasel, Voidstar. Upon reaching Blackthon, Jacob, with ruthless effiency, defeated Clair. He went on to explore the Dark Cave where he was someone poisoned with a Toxic, which led to him beginning to die for the rest of his time there and into his adventures in Unova.

He was brought to a hospital by Crow, having been informed by Discord of Jacob's affliction. When Jacob awoke from his Toxic-induced coma, he could barely walk and continued to cough up blood. Jacob, owing Crow for saving his life, assisted the latter in training his Gible Finn at the Dragon's Den, engaging in a double battle with Finn and Monty on one side, and Regina and Argentum on the other. It resulted in a win for Jacob, who wanted to see how Regina would fare alone against the both of them. During that battle, Regina was nearing defeat, and Jacob began to become unhinged. It was during this battle that Sakura was brought back into Johto, and witnessing Jacob coughing up blood due to his toxic induced state, became concerned. Later Jacob would begin developing romantic feelings for her, and the two had a few encounters, eventually ending up battling to a draw. Jacob was then driven to the brink of insanity by Sakura's Ralts, Daisuke.

Jacob, to escape further interaction with Sakura, left for Kanto, and ended up experiencing his first true loss in over seven years at the hands of Blue. In a fit of uncontrolled anger, Jacob left for Mt. Silver to train, only to lose function of his legs, and resorting to using his Metagross as a method of transportation. After trying again and defeating Blue, Jacob returned to Blackthorn where he met up once again with Zeal, the two on far more friendly terms, and also met Straw. These three were soon brought in to a group heading to the League, when Jacob was made an official member of the J-Team, though forced, after hearing about all the crazy adventures they'd gotten themselves into.

At the League, Jacob once again encountered Sakura, and though he did his best not to let anything happen, he snapped when he overheard her explaining why she would never want to date him. This caused him to nearly murder her, and gain the antipathy of all the people there. Notably, Des, who returned from beyond the fourth wall, and Lyuri who hit him in the face by throwing a jar of honey at him. Discord, who had been punted to an alternate dimension in Blackthorn, and who had returned when they reached the League, was the one who calmed down the situation.

Jacob went back to Kanto, then to Unova early, where he encountered Lily and Mezzo, and aided the latter in escaping the former. He stayed with the group that had also come to help Mezzo, until they headed to Pokéstars in Virbank.

Relationships

He is aquianted with Every, though he doesn't know him too much. He does find him easily approachable.

He is also somewhat aquainted with Mezzo, and doesn't know what to think of her. Though since her parents are fans of music he has a predisposition to liking her.

He has a sort of odd friendship with Herbert, though he finds him annoyingly narrow-viewed, and has frequently clashed with him, he does not doubt that there is some sort of a friendship beween them. Jacob feels like he might need to be able to steer him in the right direction from time to time, though this has probably never happend.

Jacob has a very awkward friendship with Joseph, mostly because he assumes, incorrectly, that Joseph is homosexual, and is uncomfortable with people like that due to having experienced unwanted advances from such a person shortly before Elityria's death. Had he not assumed this, and had Jacob not be worried Joseph is set on making him out to be a rival of sorts, it would much more likely the two would get along better.

Jacob see's a leader in Tagg, due to his battle experience and relative seniority amongst the J-Team. The two haven't interacted much, but Tagg is one of the few people Jacob is willing to take orders and suggestions from from without question, should he ever do so.

Jacob is friends with Arika, though admitedly he is a bit confused by her, for some reason.

He see's both a rival and distant friend in Eskay, though he has no intention of allowing this, admittedly, one-sided rivalry from impacting any interactions they may have.

Jacob is good friends with Sakura, after meeting her, falling in love with her, being drove insane and heartbroken by her, then eventually making ammends and smoothing everything over, she became one of the only people he feels he could trust anything with. She is also someone he feels a strong desire to defeat, in order to prove to himself that it's not just dumb luck that he had a five year winning streak, and that all his battling actually gave him some skill. The idea that someone could have a powerful Pokémon, skill, but no affinity for battling is alien to him.

Jacob has an odd rivalry/vitrolic friendship with Lyuri. They started out hating eachother, and now can pretty much openly talk to one another, though most of any discussion between the two is either snarky or sarcastic. Jacob does put a lot of trust in her, and is quite fond of her, though he also thinks she has a problem of not knowing when to back off.

Further Details

First Appearance: Post #227563

Age: 18

Birthday: June 25

Starter: Regina

Pokéform: Aron

Attribute: Unknown

Favorite Color: Blue.

Likes: Battling, Chess, Writing, Composing,

Dislikes: Annoying people, Abra, Loud noises, Losing

Pokémon

Regina

Argentum

Discord

Voidstar

Pest

P-1

Lethe

Sylva

Phlegethon

Helian

Salcura

Trivia

• He has an X-shaped scar on his face from when RedEyes!Zeal tried to murder him.
• He is quite fond of using Chess metaphors in battle.
• Jacob is believed to have mild Manic-Depressive disorder, and does take care of this.
• He is ambidextrous.