Felix

Felix (aka BugCatcherFelix) is a young Bug Catcher who is not native to the Pokemon world.

Information

 * Full name: Felix Declan Jenkins
 * Age: 9
 * Birthplace: It is a mystery (he's a foundling)
 * Hometown: Hearthome City
 * Location: Usually either in Hearthome, Viridian, Sunyshore, Johto's National Park or Eterna Forest. Almost always with Lory.
 * Height: 4'9"
 * Weight: About seventy pounds
 * Species: Gimpi (a cross between two different species of Gaian imp, with shapeshifting powers). Dislikes being an imp and prefers to always take a human form and never use his powers.
 * Occupation: None since he's not old enough to legally take part in competitive battling yet.
 * Badges: 0 (too young to challenge gyms)
 * Type specialty: Bug, with more than a passing familiarity with Poison too

Personality
Felix usually comes across as quite confident. He talks so quickly and loudly that it can be overbearing at times. In truth, he has very little self esteem due to a lot of trauma in his past, which he is only just beginning to tackle with help from therapists and his family. Due to repeated bullying, he is often afraid to stand up for himself and will push his own opinions aside so he won't upset his friends. This leads to him suppressing his real feelings until they erupt in what his sister Lory calls an 'emotionsplosion'. He is currently having assertiveness training to combat this so that he can learn to stand up for himself more easily.

Felix is obsessed with bugs and creepy crawlies of all kinds, not just those which are also Pokemon. He has been implied to have the ability to talk to Bug types, and once convinced a Paras to join him by befriending it. He claims to love all bugs equally and frequently takes offense to Gentapod insulting Kakuna. His current ambition is to become a gym trainer, preferably at Azalea Gym since he idolizes Bugsy.

Backstory
Felix was found by a man named Creek Crosser at a pre-birth stage of development (Gimpi 'evolve' from bottles of potion). Creek gave the bottle to his little brother Mal as a gift. Mal initially expected it to evolve into some sort of animal, but after it evolved into a baby imp, Mal started to consider the imp his adoptive baby brother and named him Felix because it had the opposite meaning to his own name. Social services didn't intervene and they spent Felix's infancy living in an apartment complex full of violent criminals. Due to differences in the way Gimpis age, Felix reached physical maturity at about six months old but had the psychological development of a toddler.

After watching his older brother be slowly driven insane by the constant violent crime in the complex, Felix was rescued along with Mal by Dollie, who was aware of their timeline and had spent some time convincing Mal to let her intervene. Her family adopted them, and now that Felix was living in a safer environment he began choosing to appear in a physical form that matched his mental age. He 'aged' rapidly until his third birthday, when he had a mental age of eight. A year before this (when his mental and apparent physical age was six), he was given Bananas' egg to hatch so he could raise her and keep her as a pet.

Although Felix was no longer in danger of being murdered, he didn't have much time to recover from the trauma before he started school. A combination of his species and his high intelligence led to him being bullied mercilessly by other kids, leaving him with severe trauma which persists to this day. This led to him eventually stabbing another kid with scissors and almost being expelled. After an investigation into what really happened, Felix was taken out of school for several months. During this time, he had his third birthday, decided he was sick of being an imp and shifted into an eight year old human form, and has refused to use his imp powers ever since, instead aging normally in this human form. For all intents and purposes, he may as well be a normal human boy now.

For a while, Felix was home schooled and trained in the basics of raising Pokemon by Dollie. In mid-2012, he was sent to the Trainer School in Violet City for a few months. While he wasn't bullied, he was too afraid of the other kids to approach them, spent all of his free time alone in the library and didn't enjoy himself at all. Realizing he was unable to settle into a normal school environment, Dollie withdrew him and has homeschooled him since then, with Lory acting as his personal mentor. He has been having therapy for his various traumas for almost two years.

Skills
Felix is being trained in Pokemon care, survivalism and battling by his older sister Lory. He is very good at these three things for a child his age. In particular, he's excellent at taking care of Bug type Pokemon. His Pokemon are stronger than someone might expect from such a young trainer, largely due to Lory's guidance in training them. He is fairly good at reading other people most of the time, though sometimes his paranoia leads him to see things that aren't really there. He is book-smart and a quick learner. He's also learning judo, though so far he's only a beginner. He's trying to learn ways to make up for his weak eyesight (ocular albinism which makes reading difficult and also makes him very sensitive to light).

Bananas
Bananas is a female shiny Furret and Felix's first Pokemon. He considers her an honorary Bug type because he doesn't want to have to stop training her just because he's a Bug specialist. She serves as a guide Furret to him sometimes, as he is unable to see in bright sunlight. However, her hyperactive and excitable personality can sometimes get in the way of this.

Pepper
Pepper was the first Pokemon Felix caught. He was just a weak little Caterpie back then, but is now a strong Butterfree who loves battling and is great at wielding his various status effect moves. Prone to flying around madly with excitement.

Apple
Pepper's less hot-blooded best friend. Apple was the second Pokemon Felix caught, the evening of the same day he caught Pepper. She was caught as a Spinarak, but evolved into an Ariados in early 2013. While she may seem scary, and indeed she can be very dangerous if she wants to be, Apple is the team mom and surprisingly affectionate towards Felix and her teammates. May or may not be capable of teleportation witchcraft.

Cranberry
Cranberry used to belong to Grey, but was given to Felix as a gift. Despite Felix not being his original trainer, he seems very happy with the kid and as a Venipede used to enjoy climbing all over him and being carried in his arms. Sadly, now that he's a Whirlipede, he can't do it anymore. He's looking forward to being a Scolipede so he can be the one doing the carrying and the cuddling.

Celery
Felix adopted Celery from a shelter when she was a Trapinch. Despite an early hiccup when he accidentally startled her and she reflexively bit him, leaving him needing stitches, they soon got along great and Celery evolved into a Vibrava not long after. She likes to fly around in big lazy circles, when Bananas isn't grabbing her and hugging the living daylights out of her. They might be in a relationship, it's hard to tell.

Strawberry
Felix found this Paras when taking part in the Bug-Catching Contest in Johto. Rather than battling and catching him, he persuaded him to join by being friendly and asking him nicely. Strawberry is starting to catch up to his teammates and is likely to evolve soon. He seems to be quite friendly with Cranberry and the two like to relax and spend time together.

Leek
Leek is a male Anorith, resurrected from a fossil given to Felix by Grey. He lives in an aquarium most of the time. Felix hasn't begun training him yet. He is also known by the affectionate nickname "Flappy Shrimp" after the reaction Felix had when Grey gave him the fossil.

Trivia

 * Felix is vegetarian and lactose intolerant.
 * Felix's best friend is SilverMerit. He's also friends with EscapedTheMask, AMayAfternoon and a few other tinies.
 * Felix likes cosplaying as Bug-type Pokemon, but is self conscious about it.
 * Felix carries around various poisons and status powders at all times. Lory does the same. It's unclear which one of them started it.
 * Felix considers himself a protag and Lory his rival.
 * Felix sees Grey as a mentor of sorts (though not as much as Lory) and an older brother figure.
 * Felix has a number of secret crushes. He'll never tell!