Chiyo
| Name: | Chiyo |
| Nickname/Alias: | Iridium, Katy Boundree, Ida |
| Gender: | Female |
| Sexuality: | Pansexual |
| Age: | 36 (Biologically), 20 (Chronologically) |
| Height: | 5'3" (160 cm) |
| Ethnicity: | General School genetic slurry, appears primarily of mixed [East Asian] and Black descent |
| Birthday: | Early 2001 |
| Attribute: | N/A |
| Trainer ID: | Unknown |
| Home: | A School facility |
| Pokéform: | Unknown |
| Starter: | Dactyl |
| Status: | Alive |
Chiyo, formally known as Iridium, is an escaped School subject and one of its longest lasting fugitives, having successfully evaded capture or liquidation for more than 20 years.
Appearance
Chiyo is about 5'3", has the general School phenotype of dark hair with purple eyes, the former she keeps in a ponytail, and has a light brown skin complexion. She tends to prefer clothes that don't stand out, partially out of personal style preference and partially to avoid School attention, but likes wearing light blue when she gets the chance. Around her neck is a birthday present from her Batch's Curium, a necklace bearing a star with a rainbow trailing behind it, which doubles as a keepsake.
Personality
Chiyo is generally kind and personable, but decades of having to dodge the School has given her a ruthless edge when it comes to life or death struggles despite her dislike of killing and compassion for her fellow Schoolchildren. As a result of being a fugitive, she has trouble getting close to people out of fear of the School harming them and/or using them as bargaining chips to coerce her cooperation.
Abilities
Chiyo is a psychic who specializes in the use of barrier constructs. While she can use them for defensive purposes as expected, she can also use them offensively in the form of sending them crashing into people, creating small barriers with sharp edges in order to throw them at enemies offensively, and having Dactyl bounce off of them in order to increase his momentum and destructive impact. Chiyo can also form miniature barriers inside people's major blood vessels in order to give them lethal strokes, but the technique requires a lot of concentration, making it impractical in open combat.
Relationships
- Tagg once saved her from Templars when he was starting out as a trainer, an action she's quite grateful for decades later.
- Gets along generally well with her fellow Oasis members, being particularly close to the Faller duo Nicky and Kendra. However, despite their closeness and a few sexual dalliances, Chiyo is reluctant to take things further due to her fears of the School harming them and/or otherwise using them as bargaining chips.
- Was very close with the Curium of her batch, and was devastated by her premature death from cancer.
- Dactyl was her first Pokémon and remains her closest mon friend.
- Has ended up befriending Tagg's Azumarill, Anguis, and Ovis, connecting to the latter over their shared love of the stars.
Pokémon
Trivia
- Chiyo has a great interest in astronomy.
- Her Aura is a unique rainbow color, as a reference to Iridium meaning "of rainbows", but has no relation to the multicolored Aura commonly seen in Aura Vampires.
- Her first alias, Katy Boundree, is a pun on "K-T Boundary", the line of iridium separating the Cretaceous from the Tertiary Period.
