jack

Personality

Positive Traits
Adventurous - Description

Cheerful - Description

Loyal - Description

Creative - Description 

Neutral Traits
Flirty - Description

Curious - Description

Smooth - Description 

Negative Traits
Impatient - Description

Sneaky - Description

Stubborn - Description 

Biography

Several years ago, a certain Smeargle/Rattata orchestrated a prison break in the Lab where she was born and raised. Included in the escapees of that event was a Deerling/Pachirusu who would later reunite with said Smeargle/Rattata.

Another escapee was a Raticate. A pregnant Raticate. This pregnancy was unique in that it was part of an experiment attempting to create Male Salandits who could evolve into Salazzle. As part of that process, the genetic material of a female Salandit was spliced with the genetic material of a male Alolan Rattata embryo and inserted into a Raticate mother for incubation. The Raticate herself was unrelated to the embryo inside her. She wasn't even an Alolan Raticate.

The unnamed test subject gave birth to a healthy Alolan Rattata pup with a heavy dose of Salandit genes, and raised him with love. They settled in a Library, finding many books there that made for great nesting material. The mother named her son Ogden, and they lived happily for quite a while.

The mother raised her child on tales of the scary humans and the heroic Smeargle/Rattata who had saved her (and him, by association) from the lab coats. Ogden listened to his mother’s tales with wonder and fascination, taking in every detail of her words.

Ogden’s mother never was able to thrive, however, away from the Lab where she’d been born and lived her entire life, and she died when Ogden was still quite young. The young hybrid stayed in the Library, dragging her body out to the dumpster so that the humans wouldn’t find their little nest. He carefully separated her ear tag from her body and strung it on a string, wearing the tag like military dog-tags.

Without his mother, Ogden spent a lot of time alone, and eventually he decided that being idle wasn’t a worthwhile use of his time. He turned out to be a very intelligent little rat, and soon found it was more engaging to read the books instead of munching on their pages or turning them into nest material.

Every night once the humans had left, Ogden worked. He learned their written language and read their books. He started with the kids books upstairs, then moved onto the nonfiction sections on the ground floor before finally ending up in the complex research sections in the basement. He learned their science, their engineering, and their mathematics. Ogden learned everything he could learn from books. He learned how to tinker with numbers and make them do what he wanted them to do. He learned how to draw and write. He learned how to use their technology, and once the internet was opened to him, he learned even MORE. He started trying to learn how to speak the human Language.

Ogden also gathered stuff. It was something his mom had done before, but now it was his turn. He found a lot of neat things, either dropped by humans or deposited in the lost and found. An old pair of headphones and a walkman. A frumpy old sweater. A toy microscope. A very fluffy scarf. Books! Fun hats. Lots of things from the lost-and-found didn’t fit him, so he used them as nest material. He was… pretty happy in the Library, doing research and having fun, and probably would have spent his entire life hiding away in his little den. But then *she* appeared.

A Rattata/Smeargle hybrid showed up at the library, speaking the human language he'd been slowly struggling to learn. She spoke it fluently and she demanded research materials on legends associated with the water.

He remembered tales of the Rattata who had saved his mother. Stories of her white cap and green tail. Her bright eyes and purple fur. This was her. It had to be. There, on the ear of a strange Sawsrisu, was the same metal tag that his mother wore. There on the Rattata/Smeargle’s ear was a large tear, right where the tag would have been. Ogden watched her from the shadows, noticing the bird that stood next to her, bearing a bright red R on her bandanna. Noticing the other strange Pokemon that crowded around behind the Hero, interested in what was happening. The researchers and librarians seemed nervous around this strange group of Pokemon. The group left angrily after not getting what they asked for.

Ogden had to figure out who these pokemon were, so that night after dark he turned on the computer and began his research. Red R. Black Bandanna. Pokemon in Sinnoh.

Team Rocket. They were near a big city. Been spotted around this particular city more often than anywhere else. Team Rocket. Dangerous Criminals, avoid for one’s own safety. He considered obeying, but when did he ever listen to warnings? Ogden needed to find the hero whose actions meant that he hadn’t grown up in human slavery. Not that he hated humans, per say, he just didn’t wanna be a lab rat.

As he left, the young rat made sure his tag necklace was on securely, and headed out. It took him a long time and he got very lost, but eventually he found his way to the big city that the internet research had led him to. Ogden was tired, cold, and hungry, and REALLY wishing he’d packed more food. Or a sweater, that would have been good forethought.

Ogden shivered quietly for a few days, scavenging berries and nuts that he saw other Pokemon snacking on, but eventually the cold overtook him and he curled up in a little ball, wishing he’d never left the warmth and safety of the Library. As he faded, he heard voices, far off and distant. Wait. Voices? Mustering the last of his strength, Ogden shouted and cried out. Four strange Pokemon heeded his cries and came to the rescue.

His rescuers were a strange Swanna with black fur, a Furfrou, a blue snake-looking thing, and a ghostly Leafeon… with an R on their black bandana. Odgen clung to the ghostly Leafeon, crying in relief and fainting, safe in the knowledge that he was saved. And if that black bandana and red R were the same as those worn by his hero’s friends, he was close to finding her.

Odette, Dazzle, Hermes, and Glaive took the unconscious and near-frozen youngster back to Rocket Hideout, warming him up and bringing him to the infirmary to recover and recuperate. He was more than happy to stick around after recovering, excited to be part of the same team as Murdoch.