Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Mar 30, 2010 22:18:29 GMT -5
Full Name: Chel
Known As: The Phantom Thief
Position: Leader of Team Foxglove
Nicknames: n/a
Age: 24
Height: ? (average)
Weight: ? (lighter than average)
Gender: Female
Race: Human/Mirage Wartortle
Alliance: Neutral
Home: The Grand Desert, The Pokémon World
Franchise: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon OC
Physical Description: In her human (and true, non-mirage altered) form, Chel is a fairly normal looking young woman. As normal as a human in her world can get, anyways, considering how uncommon humans are there. Due to the region of the world she lives in, she has more than a bit of a tan, and if she lived on Earth, it would be said that she was of one of any Middle Eastern races. Despite that fact based on her skin color, she has a rather platinum blond shade of hair. Her hair is rather short and stringy, falling down next to her head. Her body is also riddled with various scars, the most prominent of which being a long, rather nasty one that goes up and down her entire right arm. This scar is usually covered up with a very long bandage, but bits of it can be seen where the bandage doesn’t cover her arm. The scar itself is a rather special one. She received it after her first encounter with Latios and because of the special nature of the scar, it will not fade with time. The scar itself is really several wounds of various types on top of each other, mainly several hundred puncture wounds. On her elbow, there’s a triangle shape much like the marking on Latios’ chest.
For clothing, Chel prefers loose clothing that shields her from the wind, sun and sand, such as a rather long cloak and turban. This cloak shields the bottom half of her face as well. Underneath this cloak, she wears a loose sleeveless garment that really only serves to cover her breasts, and not only doesn’t shield her from anything but doesn’t keep her warm in the slightest. On the other hand, her legs are much more covered with a pair of pants that tuck into a pair of boots. The pants have a golden belt, which she stole a very long time ago. Around her wrist there is also a pair of golden bracelets, which she also stole from someone else.
In the past, Chel had another form, and she’s reminded of this form constantly by the scar on her arm, as she got that form at the exact same time she got that scar. Due to Latios’ attempt to turn her into a Mirage Pokémon, Chel was turned into a Squirtle. She was actually a fairly average Squirtle, other than the nasty scar on her arm, which eventually healed in her Squirtle form, though it remained there in her human form.
She eventually evolved into a Wartortle. This form wasn’t really much different from a normal Wartortle, but she wears a few things to make herself stand out. Mainly a bandanna with her Explorer Badge pinned to it. At times, though, she wears a similar cloak and turban get up to her human form’s choice of clothing.
Weapons: In her human form, she prefers a small dagger. She doesn’t use any as a Wartortle.
Abilities/Powers: Unlike what some of the content of this profile might have made you believe, Chel can not willingly shift between human and Wartortle forms. Half of the reason the information for her form as a Wartortle is listed is because of completion purposes and the other half is because of the lingering Mirage Energy around her body. Someone who knows how to manipulate Mirage Energy could easily force her back into the Wartortle form if they so wished.
In Wartortle form, she has all of the abilities and powers a Wartortle has. She can shoot water from her mouth, swim, breathe underwater… not like that does much good considering she lives in a desert. Her moves in Wartortle form are Aqua Tail, Protect, Bite, and Water Pulse.
Skills: Chel, quite simply, is good at stealing things. She’s not called a master thief for nothing. She’s rather agile and is quite the quick thinker as well. Besides that, she’s got some skill with small daggers.
Personality: Chel is one of those people with those abrasive personalities that make you think at the beginning that she’s a self-centered jerk, but in truth, she has a softer side underneath everything, and is not adverse to helping other people out most of the time, even if it’s for her own personal benefit. If we’re going by basic personality types found in most media, she would be a tsundere, someone who alternates between two moods: cold or irritable, and lovestruck, and that last part really doesn’t describe Chel’s softer moments too well anyways. Chel would just be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold if it weren’t for one Pokémon: Pan. Pan seems to bring out those softer moments more than any other Pokemon, and they seem to have a Cannot Spit It Out situation going on regarding… several things (and anyone who argues withThis Troper This RPer on this needs to play the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games again; there is SOMETHING going on between the main and his/her partner and you know it). She also really, REALLY loves money. A lot.
History: Chel was born a human in a world mainly populated by Pokémon, and that enough was proof her life was going to be a hard one. There were not a lot of humans, and a lot of Pokémon were wary of them, even more so after an event that happened in Chel’s lifetime involving a human getting turned into a Pokémon and supposedly causing a horrible, horrible calamity involving a meteor in the northern continent. Chel herself lived on the Central Continent, particularly the Golden Desert, and in the Golden Desert, the main profession of humans was thievery. Chel showed to be particularly good at this from a young age, eventually leaving her parents and growing to be a highly successful thief herself by the time she was 20. She was rich, she had treasure, and she had her own pride. Not only that, but she had never been caught by anyone. So she felt confident about her prospects, and intended on spending her life stealing all the gold and treasure she could.
…Things didn’t exactly go that way. About two years after Primal Dialga’s defeat (an event that was heavily talked about in the Southern Continent, but only reached Chel’s ears due to some traders from the Southern Continent), a rumor began to spread of a great treasure hidden out in the desert. The contents of the treasure varied, but the main point was there was a trove of treasure out there that Chel wanted. She went alone to where the treasure was rumored to be held: Mirage Cave, a cave whose location changed every day, and thus was very difficult to find. And that’s when things got screwy. Chel herself doesn’t even remember everything that happened there. Most of what she remembers is getting inside the place, getting to the deepest part of the cave, and finding a shrine of sorts dedicated to some Pokémon. Ever wary, Chel went alone to investigate the shrine, and got cornered by a group of various Pokémon, the leader of which being a Cacnea who attacked Chel with a series of Pin Missiles. Chel managed to break through the group of Pokémon before she got taken down by another Pin Missile. It was then that a very powerful Pokémon appeared. Chel didn’t get a good look at the Pokémon due to how the Pokémon was literally shining with energy, but it managed to grab her by the arm and do something to her; Chel didn’t know what at the time. She managed to get a hold of her knife and pull away from the Pokémon before it could finish doing whatever the hell it was doing to her and she limped off into the desert. The glowing wound on her arm was getting worse, and the glow had begun to cover her entire body before she collapsed.
It was like this that Pan found her, and he pulled her off to his cave out in the mountains. He treated Chel’s wounds and cared for her until she woke up three days later as a Squirtle.
She freaked.
After her epic freakout to finding out that she’d turned into a Squirtle, Chel started trying to piece things together, and eventually tried to escape to the nearest town: Crossroads Town. On her way there, the Cacnea from before tracked Chel down and attempted to subdue her again, but Pan jumped out from behind a large rock and attacked Cacnea. Cacnea, upon defeat, disappeared into thin air, revealing that it was in truth, a Mirage Pokémon, one of the strange almost zombielike Pokémon that had been appearing lately along with the emergence of Mystery Dungeons. The incident with Cacnea had caused Chel’s wounds to get reopened, and Pan helped her back to his home in the cave, where Chel stayed for the next couple of days until it was okay for her to travel. She still didn’t know why she had been turned into a Pokémon, but she was determined to find out.
One day, Chel and Pan travelled to Crossroads Town in order to replenish supplies. The town was a bustling center of commerce mainly run by the area’s merchant guild, but it was also known for the fact that it was home to both Rescue Teams and Exploration Teams due to its location as a crossroads between the Northern and Southern Continents. However, because the Exploration Teams as of late had been taking rescue and escort jobs as well as their usual expeditions and bounty hunting jobs, there had been quite a bit of tension between the Rescuers and the Explorers, to the point of violence at times.
As Chel and Pan departed the Kecleon Brothers’ shop, they passed by a bulletin board advertizing various things. The one flyer Chel noticed was advertising apprenticeships at the Vespiquen Guild, and Chel wouldn’t have really noticed it if it weren’t advertising “FAME, FORTUNE, AND LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY MONEY MONEY FOR YOUUUUUU” (Incidentally, the flyer next to that one was Chel’s own wanted poster, which she left up there because everyone in town seemed to be too stupid to make the connection between Chel the human and Chel the Squirtle). Seeing the fortune it could bring, Chel grabbed Pan and dragged him off to force him into joining her in an apprenticeship at the Vespiquen Guild. Pan ended up naming their team, since Chel couldn’t think of anything except “money money money money I want moneeeeeey” at the moment.
Several things happened over the next few months. After joining the guild, Chel and Pan befriended a Rattata named Stuart, who tagged along for quite a few of their missions to the point that Chel eventually officially added him to Team Foxglove. Later, Chel and Pan wandered into the district of town dedicated to rescue teams and ran afoul of Team Chino, a Rescue Team comprised of Endoh the Blaziken, Chuchino the Raichu, and Zigzag the Linoone. They were saved by Team Graffiti, a rescue team lead by Monet, a Smeargle, and comprised of his teammates Clint the Treecko and Tevi the Eevee.
A while later, Chel met Team Camellia, led by Cheerio the Piplup and co-led by his partner, Piro the Pikachu. Chel and Piro immediately realized who each other was, because Piro had been the name of a human bounty hunter who had been on Chel’s trail for years. They agreed to a temporary truce and met outside Crossroads Town, where they discussed what happened to them. The circumstances were disturbingly similar; with them both being attacked by a shining Pokémon. However, Piro had managed to get a better look at her attacker than Chel had, and the knowledge she had of its appearance plus some legends Chel had researched caused the two of them to make a conclusion: they had been attacked by Mew.
It was after this that Team Foxglove began to try to track down Mew to find out why it was creating the Mirage Pokémon and why it had turned Chel and Piro into Pokémon. They eventually found Mew at Genesis Island, and after a hard fight, Chel, Pan, and Stuart managed to get some answers out of it. Namely that the Mirage Pokémon were in truth normal Pokémon who had been warped by mirage energy, and that it wasn’t the one who had been turning Pokémon into Mirage Pokémon. In fact, it was Latios and Latias who were the culprits. However, Mew had no answers for why Chel had been turned into a Pokémon, and before Chel could press it further, Mew dove into the sea.
Having been sent back to square one, Chel continued to look into things together with Pan and Stuart. However, Stuart had been acting odd since the visit with Mew, and kept finding excuses to run off and do other things, like errands for Guildmistress Vespiquen, so Chel instead got Inigo Rockkiller the Butterfree and Looper the Quagsire to help with research and missions.
Other things happened. After one mission and a close encounter with Team Camellia, Chel evolved into a Wartortle. However, it was shortly after this mission that the fact that she was in truth Chel the Thief was leaked to the townspeople, and Chel fled into the desert. Pan found her hiding out back in his old cave later, and Chel confessed to him that she’d been worried this would happen for a while, because she knew that the townspeople still hated Chel the thief. Pan comforted Chel, and convinced her to go back to Crossroads Town, saying that the townspeople remembered the good deeds she’d done for them, not the bad things she’d done in the past. When they got back, there were still a few Rescue Teams waiting for Chel, and a few of them tried to attack her, but Pan jumped in the way, trying to explain things to the attackers as he did so. He actually ended up evolving to Monferno just to protect Chel. Finally, Guildmistress Vespiquen stepped in and stopped the attacks, saying that Chel was under the protection of the Vespiquen Guild and that any further attacks would result in a rather violent response from the Guild and their Combee Corps. The Rescue Teams finally backed off, and Chel and Pan returned to the Guild, still much to Chel’s disbelief. Things had just become a lot more tense between the Rescue Teams and the Exploration Teams because of this, though.
Time passed, and Team Foxglove managed to track down Latias, the supposedly weaker of the two siblings, and defeated her in battle, releasing her from Latios’ control. Latias explained that Latios had gone mad after witnessing the deaths of several Pokémon in a particularly intense battle between a Rescue Team and an Exploration Team a few months back, and sought to end the suffering of all of the Pokémon in the world by enveloping it in an endless mirage, the Pokémon of the world existing only as lifeless mirages sustained by Latios’ own power. Chel attempted to press Latias for information, but at that moment, Latias received a vision stating that something bad was happening in Crossroads Town and Team Foxglove needed to hurry back.
They made it back as a practical army of Mirage Pokémon were attacking Crossroads Town. Chel and Pan fought their way through to the town square, where things seemed to be concentrated, only to come face to face with the army’s leader: Stuart.
Stuart, ever the strategist, got two Mirage Ludicolos to restrain Chel and Pan as he finally explained the question that had been on Chel’s mind for months. Chel was a Mirage Pokémon, and so were himself and Piro. Specifically, they were humans who had been turned into Mirage Pokémon by Latios, and because of this, they had been able to initially keep their free will. That wouldn’t last, though, as they would eventually lose their entire identity. Stuart already knew it was happening to Chel; she had confided in him once that she was having a hard time remembering her human life now. Stuart had decided that Chel and Pan were too much of a bother to keep around, though, and was preparing to execute them when Rockkiller showed up together with Team Graffiti, Team Camellia, Team Chino, and several other Teams, Rescue and Exploration both. They fought off the Mirage Pokémon and freed Chel and Pan. With his dying breaths, Stuart revealed that Latios’ defeat would cause all of the Mirage Pokemon in the world to disappear, including Chel.
It wasn’t over yet, though, as soon Latios would make his final strike and convert his own body into a Soul Dew, using the energy from it to envelop the world in the mirage. With Latias’ help, Chel and Pan managed to pinpoint the location of the Mirage Cave, and prepared to travel there in morning.
The night before, Chel and Pan met outside the Guild and talked. Pan seemed nervous, but he hardly said anything before giving Chel a foxglove flower and running back off to their room in the guild.
The next morning, Team Foxglove, Team Camellia, and Team Graffiti travelled to Mirage Cave. In the very depths of the cave, they found Latios, who had become corrupted due to the mirage he’d created. After a long fight, Latios was defeated, and just as predicted, Chel began to disappear. She didn’t seem sad about it, just… regretful. She disappeared in Pan’s arms.
A year passed. Pan had taken up leadership of Team Foxglove after Chel’s death. On his way out of his team’s base, he spotted a human who looked suspiciously like Chel, but she seemed to disappear with the sand. No one saw Chel again after that, and no one knows how this Chel appeared on the Island, either.
Other: Chel keeps foxglove flowers on her at all times as a sort of good luck charm. You can find them pinned to her clothing, wrapped around her daggers, etc. Pretty much everywhere.
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Known As: The Phantom Thief
Position: Leader of Team Foxglove
Nicknames: n/a
Age: 24
Height: ? (average)
Weight: ? (lighter than average)
Gender: Female
Race: Human/Mirage Wartortle
Alliance: Neutral
Home: The Grand Desert, The Pokémon World
Franchise: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon OC
Physical Description: In her human (and true, non-mirage altered) form, Chel is a fairly normal looking young woman. As normal as a human in her world can get, anyways, considering how uncommon humans are there. Due to the region of the world she lives in, she has more than a bit of a tan, and if she lived on Earth, it would be said that she was of one of any Middle Eastern races. Despite that fact based on her skin color, she has a rather platinum blond shade of hair. Her hair is rather short and stringy, falling down next to her head. Her body is also riddled with various scars, the most prominent of which being a long, rather nasty one that goes up and down her entire right arm. This scar is usually covered up with a very long bandage, but bits of it can be seen where the bandage doesn’t cover her arm. The scar itself is a rather special one. She received it after her first encounter with Latios and because of the special nature of the scar, it will not fade with time. The scar itself is really several wounds of various types on top of each other, mainly several hundred puncture wounds. On her elbow, there’s a triangle shape much like the marking on Latios’ chest.
For clothing, Chel prefers loose clothing that shields her from the wind, sun and sand, such as a rather long cloak and turban. This cloak shields the bottom half of her face as well. Underneath this cloak, she wears a loose sleeveless garment that really only serves to cover her breasts, and not only doesn’t shield her from anything but doesn’t keep her warm in the slightest. On the other hand, her legs are much more covered with a pair of pants that tuck into a pair of boots. The pants have a golden belt, which she stole a very long time ago. Around her wrist there is also a pair of golden bracelets, which she also stole from someone else.
In the past, Chel had another form, and she’s reminded of this form constantly by the scar on her arm, as she got that form at the exact same time she got that scar. Due to Latios’ attempt to turn her into a Mirage Pokémon, Chel was turned into a Squirtle. She was actually a fairly average Squirtle, other than the nasty scar on her arm, which eventually healed in her Squirtle form, though it remained there in her human form.
She eventually evolved into a Wartortle. This form wasn’t really much different from a normal Wartortle, but she wears a few things to make herself stand out. Mainly a bandanna with her Explorer Badge pinned to it. At times, though, she wears a similar cloak and turban get up to her human form’s choice of clothing.
Weapons: In her human form, she prefers a small dagger. She doesn’t use any as a Wartortle.
Abilities/Powers: Unlike what some of the content of this profile might have made you believe, Chel can not willingly shift between human and Wartortle forms. Half of the reason the information for her form as a Wartortle is listed is because of completion purposes and the other half is because of the lingering Mirage Energy around her body. Someone who knows how to manipulate Mirage Energy could easily force her back into the Wartortle form if they so wished.
In Wartortle form, she has all of the abilities and powers a Wartortle has. She can shoot water from her mouth, swim, breathe underwater… not like that does much good considering she lives in a desert. Her moves in Wartortle form are Aqua Tail, Protect, Bite, and Water Pulse.
Skills: Chel, quite simply, is good at stealing things. She’s not called a master thief for nothing. She’s rather agile and is quite the quick thinker as well. Besides that, she’s got some skill with small daggers.
Personality: Chel is one of those people with those abrasive personalities that make you think at the beginning that she’s a self-centered jerk, but in truth, she has a softer side underneath everything, and is not adverse to helping other people out most of the time, even if it’s for her own personal benefit. If we’re going by basic personality types found in most media, she would be a tsundere, someone who alternates between two moods: cold or irritable, and lovestruck, and that last part really doesn’t describe Chel’s softer moments too well anyways. Chel would just be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold if it weren’t for one Pokémon: Pan. Pan seems to bring out those softer moments more than any other Pokemon, and they seem to have a Cannot Spit It Out situation going on regarding… several things (and anyone who argues with
History: Chel was born a human in a world mainly populated by Pokémon, and that enough was proof her life was going to be a hard one. There were not a lot of humans, and a lot of Pokémon were wary of them, even more so after an event that happened in Chel’s lifetime involving a human getting turned into a Pokémon and supposedly causing a horrible, horrible calamity involving a meteor in the northern continent. Chel herself lived on the Central Continent, particularly the Golden Desert, and in the Golden Desert, the main profession of humans was thievery. Chel showed to be particularly good at this from a young age, eventually leaving her parents and growing to be a highly successful thief herself by the time she was 20. She was rich, she had treasure, and she had her own pride. Not only that, but she had never been caught by anyone. So she felt confident about her prospects, and intended on spending her life stealing all the gold and treasure she could.
…Things didn’t exactly go that way. About two years after Primal Dialga’s defeat (an event that was heavily talked about in the Southern Continent, but only reached Chel’s ears due to some traders from the Southern Continent), a rumor began to spread of a great treasure hidden out in the desert. The contents of the treasure varied, but the main point was there was a trove of treasure out there that Chel wanted. She went alone to where the treasure was rumored to be held: Mirage Cave, a cave whose location changed every day, and thus was very difficult to find. And that’s when things got screwy. Chel herself doesn’t even remember everything that happened there. Most of what she remembers is getting inside the place, getting to the deepest part of the cave, and finding a shrine of sorts dedicated to some Pokémon. Ever wary, Chel went alone to investigate the shrine, and got cornered by a group of various Pokémon, the leader of which being a Cacnea who attacked Chel with a series of Pin Missiles. Chel managed to break through the group of Pokémon before she got taken down by another Pin Missile. It was then that a very powerful Pokémon appeared. Chel didn’t get a good look at the Pokémon due to how the Pokémon was literally shining with energy, but it managed to grab her by the arm and do something to her; Chel didn’t know what at the time. She managed to get a hold of her knife and pull away from the Pokémon before it could finish doing whatever the hell it was doing to her and she limped off into the desert. The glowing wound on her arm was getting worse, and the glow had begun to cover her entire body before she collapsed.
It was like this that Pan found her, and he pulled her off to his cave out in the mountains. He treated Chel’s wounds and cared for her until she woke up three days later as a Squirtle.
She freaked.
After her epic freakout to finding out that she’d turned into a Squirtle, Chel started trying to piece things together, and eventually tried to escape to the nearest town: Crossroads Town. On her way there, the Cacnea from before tracked Chel down and attempted to subdue her again, but Pan jumped out from behind a large rock and attacked Cacnea. Cacnea, upon defeat, disappeared into thin air, revealing that it was in truth, a Mirage Pokémon, one of the strange almost zombielike Pokémon that had been appearing lately along with the emergence of Mystery Dungeons. The incident with Cacnea had caused Chel’s wounds to get reopened, and Pan helped her back to his home in the cave, where Chel stayed for the next couple of days until it was okay for her to travel. She still didn’t know why she had been turned into a Pokémon, but she was determined to find out.
One day, Chel and Pan travelled to Crossroads Town in order to replenish supplies. The town was a bustling center of commerce mainly run by the area’s merchant guild, but it was also known for the fact that it was home to both Rescue Teams and Exploration Teams due to its location as a crossroads between the Northern and Southern Continents. However, because the Exploration Teams as of late had been taking rescue and escort jobs as well as their usual expeditions and bounty hunting jobs, there had been quite a bit of tension between the Rescuers and the Explorers, to the point of violence at times.
As Chel and Pan departed the Kecleon Brothers’ shop, they passed by a bulletin board advertizing various things. The one flyer Chel noticed was advertising apprenticeships at the Vespiquen Guild, and Chel wouldn’t have really noticed it if it weren’t advertising “FAME, FORTUNE, AND LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY MONEY MONEY FOR YOUUUUUU” (Incidentally, the flyer next to that one was Chel’s own wanted poster, which she left up there because everyone in town seemed to be too stupid to make the connection between Chel the human and Chel the Squirtle). Seeing the fortune it could bring, Chel grabbed Pan and dragged him off to force him into joining her in an apprenticeship at the Vespiquen Guild. Pan ended up naming their team, since Chel couldn’t think of anything except “money money money money I want moneeeeeey” at the moment.
Several things happened over the next few months. After joining the guild, Chel and Pan befriended a Rattata named Stuart, who tagged along for quite a few of their missions to the point that Chel eventually officially added him to Team Foxglove. Later, Chel and Pan wandered into the district of town dedicated to rescue teams and ran afoul of Team Chino, a Rescue Team comprised of Endoh the Blaziken, Chuchino the Raichu, and Zigzag the Linoone. They were saved by Team Graffiti, a rescue team lead by Monet, a Smeargle, and comprised of his teammates Clint the Treecko and Tevi the Eevee.
A while later, Chel met Team Camellia, led by Cheerio the Piplup and co-led by his partner, Piro the Pikachu. Chel and Piro immediately realized who each other was, because Piro had been the name of a human bounty hunter who had been on Chel’s trail for years. They agreed to a temporary truce and met outside Crossroads Town, where they discussed what happened to them. The circumstances were disturbingly similar; with them both being attacked by a shining Pokémon. However, Piro had managed to get a better look at her attacker than Chel had, and the knowledge she had of its appearance plus some legends Chel had researched caused the two of them to make a conclusion: they had been attacked by Mew.
It was after this that Team Foxglove began to try to track down Mew to find out why it was creating the Mirage Pokémon and why it had turned Chel and Piro into Pokémon. They eventually found Mew at Genesis Island, and after a hard fight, Chel, Pan, and Stuart managed to get some answers out of it. Namely that the Mirage Pokémon were in truth normal Pokémon who had been warped by mirage energy, and that it wasn’t the one who had been turning Pokémon into Mirage Pokémon. In fact, it was Latios and Latias who were the culprits. However, Mew had no answers for why Chel had been turned into a Pokémon, and before Chel could press it further, Mew dove into the sea.
Having been sent back to square one, Chel continued to look into things together with Pan and Stuart. However, Stuart had been acting odd since the visit with Mew, and kept finding excuses to run off and do other things, like errands for Guildmistress Vespiquen, so Chel instead got Inigo Rockkiller the Butterfree and Looper the Quagsire to help with research and missions.
Other things happened. After one mission and a close encounter with Team Camellia, Chel evolved into a Wartortle. However, it was shortly after this mission that the fact that she was in truth Chel the Thief was leaked to the townspeople, and Chel fled into the desert. Pan found her hiding out back in his old cave later, and Chel confessed to him that she’d been worried this would happen for a while, because she knew that the townspeople still hated Chel the thief. Pan comforted Chel, and convinced her to go back to Crossroads Town, saying that the townspeople remembered the good deeds she’d done for them, not the bad things she’d done in the past. When they got back, there were still a few Rescue Teams waiting for Chel, and a few of them tried to attack her, but Pan jumped in the way, trying to explain things to the attackers as he did so. He actually ended up evolving to Monferno just to protect Chel. Finally, Guildmistress Vespiquen stepped in and stopped the attacks, saying that Chel was under the protection of the Vespiquen Guild and that any further attacks would result in a rather violent response from the Guild and their Combee Corps. The Rescue Teams finally backed off, and Chel and Pan returned to the Guild, still much to Chel’s disbelief. Things had just become a lot more tense between the Rescue Teams and the Exploration Teams because of this, though.
Time passed, and Team Foxglove managed to track down Latias, the supposedly weaker of the two siblings, and defeated her in battle, releasing her from Latios’ control. Latias explained that Latios had gone mad after witnessing the deaths of several Pokémon in a particularly intense battle between a Rescue Team and an Exploration Team a few months back, and sought to end the suffering of all of the Pokémon in the world by enveloping it in an endless mirage, the Pokémon of the world existing only as lifeless mirages sustained by Latios’ own power. Chel attempted to press Latias for information, but at that moment, Latias received a vision stating that something bad was happening in Crossroads Town and Team Foxglove needed to hurry back.
They made it back as a practical army of Mirage Pokémon were attacking Crossroads Town. Chel and Pan fought their way through to the town square, where things seemed to be concentrated, only to come face to face with the army’s leader: Stuart.
Stuart, ever the strategist, got two Mirage Ludicolos to restrain Chel and Pan as he finally explained the question that had been on Chel’s mind for months. Chel was a Mirage Pokémon, and so were himself and Piro. Specifically, they were humans who had been turned into Mirage Pokémon by Latios, and because of this, they had been able to initially keep their free will. That wouldn’t last, though, as they would eventually lose their entire identity. Stuart already knew it was happening to Chel; she had confided in him once that she was having a hard time remembering her human life now. Stuart had decided that Chel and Pan were too much of a bother to keep around, though, and was preparing to execute them when Rockkiller showed up together with Team Graffiti, Team Camellia, Team Chino, and several other Teams, Rescue and Exploration both. They fought off the Mirage Pokémon and freed Chel and Pan. With his dying breaths, Stuart revealed that Latios’ defeat would cause all of the Mirage Pokemon in the world to disappear, including Chel.
It wasn’t over yet, though, as soon Latios would make his final strike and convert his own body into a Soul Dew, using the energy from it to envelop the world in the mirage. With Latias’ help, Chel and Pan managed to pinpoint the location of the Mirage Cave, and prepared to travel there in morning.
The night before, Chel and Pan met outside the Guild and talked. Pan seemed nervous, but he hardly said anything before giving Chel a foxglove flower and running back off to their room in the guild.
The next morning, Team Foxglove, Team Camellia, and Team Graffiti travelled to Mirage Cave. In the very depths of the cave, they found Latios, who had become corrupted due to the mirage he’d created. After a long fight, Latios was defeated, and just as predicted, Chel began to disappear. She didn’t seem sad about it, just… regretful. She disappeared in Pan’s arms.
A year passed. Pan had taken up leadership of Team Foxglove after Chel’s death. On his way out of his team’s base, he spotted a human who looked suspiciously like Chel, but she seemed to disappear with the sand. No one saw Chel again after that, and no one knows how this Chel appeared on the Island, either.
Other: Chel keeps foxglove flowers on her at all times as a sort of good luck charm. You can find them pinned to her clothing, wrapped around her daggers, etc. Pretty much everywhere.
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