Jay Young [LeT'S uP THe aNTe]

[Astraea]

[NAME]
Jaden “Jay” Young
[SPECIES]
Clefairy morph
[GENDER]
Male
[AGE]
20

[ALLIANCE]
Lucem Ferre
[ABILITIES]
Jay specializes in support during combat, though if pressed to fight directly, he will attack hand-to-hand and do so violently. He’s unexpectedly fast and strong, but many morphs can easily outclass him.
Unsurprisingly, Jay’s major talents lie in more intellectual roles. By “intellectual”, if it’s related to math or computer coding, Jay can probably do it. He also gleefully manipulates his knowledge of both – gambling and hacking are his strong suits.
… Also Jay can sew. Srslygaiz, it’s not funny!
[MOVES]
Charm, Pound, Growl, Encore, Sing, Doubleslap, Sweet Kiss, Defense Curl, Copycat, Follow Me, Magical Leaf, Minimize, Wake-up Slap, Cosmic Power, Lucky Chant, Metronome, Gravity, Moonlight, Light Screen, Meteor Mash, Healing Wish
Attract, Captivate, Focus Punch

[DESCRIPTION]
Jay is short, slight, and vaguely effeminate. This is not helped along by the fact that Jay is a Clefairy morph, because come on, he’s covered in fine, fluffy pink fur. Not helping. At all. He also has big, jelly-bean-blue eyes, which, combined with his lack of height, make Jay look younger than his years. His brown hair blends into pink tips and is slightly longer than considered masculine, which doesn’t really bug Jay all that much. It does contrast with the triangular pink and brown Clefairy ears that replace his human ears though. He has multiple piercings in both ears, just because. Jay dresses in a basic uniform of dark skinny jeans (all hand-modified by himself to allow for his swirly Clefairy tail), combat boots, and a slightly oversized T-shirt with various statements referring to math, coding, or people’s stupidity. Maybe a combination, he’s not picky. Can't forget the red Lucem Ferre collar, of course, which Jay doesn't bother to hide, CODA or not. Really, Jay looks relatively normal besides the pinkness, ears, and tail – he’s always been small, and pretty much all the Clefairy DNA did was make him girlier. Jay considers himself lucky, since his hands were unaffected beyond the fact his fingernails changed into slightly more conical, opaque white claws, which allows him to do normal things (such as hack. Shut up, hacking is normal… right?).

[PERSONALITY]
There are two ways to see Jay – infinitely annoying, or infinitely nerdy. Actually, they can overlap pretty well too. Jay’s most defining trait would be, weirdly enough, his levels of nerdness. More specifically, his love and knowledge of math (coding to a lesser degree). He’s also optimistic and arrogant, which tends to annoy people. Especially when he has a right to be arrogant after winning all their money. Drives people crazy. Jay’s also a hopeless romantic but utterly fails at flirting the normal way (come on, he has Attract, why bother?). Jay used to have issues with suppressing his emotions. Then he got morphed and stopped bothering on the most part, but that isn't stopping him from things like grudges. Jay is very good at grudges.

[HISTORY]
Jaden Young was born the youngest of three children to an ordinary, working-class family in Violet City. His two older brothers were perfectly ordinary boys – not particularly smart, but not particularly dumb, fond of violent cartoons and transforming cars, so on and so forth. Jaden, nicknamed Jay, was not. From a young age, it was obvious Jay had an obsession with numbers that went from mild to creepy. When his brothers would be arguing over whose turn it was to play video games, Jay would be working from their old math textbooks, teaching himself various things for the fun of it. Jay spent his childhood and most of his teenage years in the classroom, and while no one could call his other subjects bad, it was obvious that math was what Jay excelled at.

Fast forward to Jay’s senior year. He was sixteen at the time of graduation, having skipped two grades (to the immense frustration of the second brother, who was now in the same grade) and was accepted to the Goldenrod Institute of Technology, which Jay happily attended. For two years, all was well. Jay ignored the rumors of Pokemorphs practically knocking at the dorm room doors, instead immersing himself into studies of various branches of math and computer science.

And then the universe decided Jay was enjoying himself too much or something like that. One day, Jay Young simply disappeared. No one knew how, no one knew why, but quite a lot of people suspected he’d been swiped off the streets at random by the Pokemorphs. They were right. Jay Young woke up in what he would later find out was the Lucem Ferre lab hidden within the Ilex Forest. And then he was actually morphed, which was humiliating in and of itself – mostly because Jay was now pink. And fluffy. And cute. And part Clefairy. Oh, and the zappy red collar that Lucem Ferre used to keep its morphs in line. There went Jay’s old life.

Jay spent the next several months getting reused to the whole “new species, new you” deal. Personally, he really didn’t give a crap about Lucem Ferre’s delusions of conquering the world, but he did start to like his new body after getting over his initial misgivings. Say what you will, but Jay preferred to take the good than dwell on the bad. Pink he might be, but now he could also beat up the average human, and Jay had a lot of leftover anger stored up (being a math geek? Never easy). With the amusement of the other morphs in the group he was assigned to, Jay split his days between learning how to fight and kill and learning more about life that wasn’t covered in textbooks and newspapers. This was helped along by a female Pidgeotto morph named Amber, who delighted in alternately mocking Jay and passing down her mentality to him (including his current fashion sense and sewing ability, to her great amusement). When Jay’s group was kicked out and they returned to Goldenrod, Jay, rather than returning to college, adopted his current irritating demeanor and started annoying the hell out of the gamblers of Goldenrod by manipulating odds until he won all their spare change and then some. Most people that knew Jay recognized him, but those were few and far between, and the irony that it had taken him a pink and fluffy outlook on life to ditch college life for street life. Not that anyone would say that to his face.

Years passed. Jay and his group were broken up and rearranged over the course of the years, and, among others, Amber has essentially disappeared. Not that it really matters to Jay, since he’s still in Goldenrod, happily gambling and hacking away. Who knew the skills you learned from an organization dedicated to taking over the world were useful?

[OTHER]
Jay may or may not be in the closet. No one’s sure yet, and that’s why they have a betting pool on it.

Jay is never seen without his graphing calculator and his laptop. He usually uses one to play Tetris and the other to screw around, although really it's pretty interchangeable.

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