Hatcher Gold

Gold Wakaba, or ゴールド, is the main Pokémon trainer and Pokédex Holder from Johto manga canon. His rivals and teammates are Crystal and Silver. He is a well-meaning and carefree, but often immature and mischievous, kid from New Bark Town. He grew up all his life surrounded by Pokémon in his house, and has since been nurtured with a very strong affinity to raising them. Because of this, Professor Oak considers him the Breeder or Hatcher of the Pokédex Holders, due to his ability to draw out unparalleled potential in a newly hatched Pokémon.

Besides his interest in Pokémon breeding and battling, he is also a Pokéthlon enthusiast.

Previous Canon
Gold first left on his original journey intending to come back very shortly, after leaving with Joey to meet Professor Oak and, more importantly, DJ Mary. When he met Silver at Professor Elm's lab shortly after, he vowed to chase after the boy, and ended up getting sucked into a battle alongside Silver and Crystal against the Mask of Ice (Pryce), who they eventually defeated and trapped inside Celebi's time traveling plane.

He later traveled to the Hoenn Battle Frontier with Crystal to assist the Hoenn Pokédex Holder in beating Guile Hideout, who was later revealed to be Archie. Gold didn't reveal his presence at the Frontier, until he was unmasked as being a fake Guile Hideout during a plan to confuse Guile's Pokémon. During the incident, Gold tried to inspire Emerald to find the ability to claim one of Jirachi's wishes in himself, and worked with the other Pokédex Holders to hold off and eventually defeat the giant energy Kyogre that Archie had summoned.

In the HGSS chapter of the manga, Gold fought head-on against Arceus, but the results of that battle are clouded in fog, due to that chapter of the manga having not been fully released at this point.

Relationships
Gold is a usually very friendly towards people, though he can act mean and even spiteful to people at times, often suddenly and seemingly without reason. It's because of this behaviour that he's earned himself large amounts of friends as well as enemies, as well as a few frenemies.

Gold tries to maintain a close relationship all the Pokédex Holders. He has always tried to remain best friends Silver, though they are easily described as frenemies at time. Gold and Silver enjoy playfully tormenting each other, but can often turn cold and angry due to their ability to hit each other's deep emotional nerves. He talks a lot with Silver's sister in arms, Green, because the two share similar trouble-making hobbies. Gold usually puts the duty of cheering up Green on himself, considering her just as much of a sister as Silver is a brother. Although Gold doesn't talk to Red as much as he used to, he still remains very attached to him.

He is also very close to his counterparts from other canonical universes; Ethan, Jimmy and Hibiki. He shares the closest bond with Ethan, who previously placed somewhere between the game canon and the manga canon. Ethan considers Gold his younger brother, or a younger version of himself, because he is one-year older than Gold, while Gold tends to consider Ethan to be a weak, but trust-worthy wussy. Gold views Hibiki similarly to how Ethan views him; as a younger, inexperienced brother. Gold tries to both help Hibiki in learning the ways of the world, and use his naivety for his own amusement. He's recently decided that the quartet should form a band together called "The Golden Standard", with Ethan playing bass, Jimmy on drums, Gold playing guitar, and Hibiki providing background rhythm with a tambourine.

Gold also somehow ended up in a relationship with Marley and, though he hardly acts monogamous, he cares a great deal for her, and the two often meet to spend time with each other.

Pokemon
Gold has many Pokémon at home of various species. These include both rare and common species, but Gold has taken his closest Pokémon with him since his journey began 7 years ago.

External Sites
Twitter account: @Hatcher_Gold

Tumblr account: The Pokemon House Chronicle

Formspring account: HatcherGold

Old Formspring: BreederGold

Bulbapedia page: Gold (Adventures)

He has changed his Twitter username from Special_Gold to Breeder_Gold, REAL_Guile, then to Hatcher_Gold.