Author name: AssumptionPrime

A protector of pokemon left out in the cold, Mist Ariah began her pokemon career as a breeder and caretaker of lost or abandoned pokemon near her hometown of Snowbelle City. Mist always saw the great potential of every pokemon she took in, and eventually became a Gym Leader to show that same potential to other trainers. She hopes to demonstrate to all challengers that even the coldest pokemon can melt your heart if you give it the chance! Can you resist her team’s deep chill and emerge triumphant? Show her the power and potential of your own pokemon to earn the Crystalline Badge!

As a child, Leo washed up on the shore of Cinnibar Island and was taken in by the crazy old man who found him. During his time on the island, he became fascinated by stories of unusual phenomenon along the eastern coast, and scoured the internet and research texts for similar oddities. On his fifteenth birthday, Leo set out on his own in search of the unexplained. He traveled around the world collecting electric type pokemon with strange or unusual traits. While in the Hoenn region, Leo met another old man named Wattson, who invited Leo to train with him in his gym. Leo discovered that the only thing he loved more then discovery was battling. After opening his own Gym, he was contacted by the PAX Pokemon League and offered the opportunity to discover the power of its challengers as a leader at PAX South! Give Leo a shocking battle to earn the Glitch Badge!

From the moment he received his first pokemon, a newly hatched Dratini, Spirit knew he loved two things: battling and dragons. Upon reaching the age of ten, he began his pokemon journey, his Dragonair helping him battle his way through the Hoenn gyms with ease. However, Spirit’s overconfidence got the better of him, and he lost at his first stop at the Battle Pyramid. Interested the boy’s potential, Pyramid King Brandon took Spirit under his wing, and trained him in the arts of pokemon battling. Under Brandon’s tutelage, he trained and studied in Hoenn’s many timeworn ruins, becoming fascinated by the legends of ancient beings and the power they represented. He now works with his dragons towards uncovering the secrets hidden within the world of pokemon to further improve his battle skills. Delve with him into the mysteries of pokemon to earn the Ancient Badge!

Fangurley hadn’t always seen the power in bug pokemon; once she even thought they were the weakest type of all. One day, she decided to tryout the bug catching contest at the National Park and caught a Weedle. She didn’t win, but she couldn’t simply abandon Weedle, and decided to train it. Weedle very quickly evolved to Beedrill, and Fangurley saw the real power potential of bug type pokemon. Eventually building a team of all bug-types, she become known far and wide for her skill with these often undervalued pokemon. Recently, the PPL invited the Queen Bee to be a gym leader for PAX South. Show the value of your pokemon partners to earn the Honeycomb Badge!

A Kanto native, Allie has been fascinated by poison-types since she was old enough to become a trainer. As she got older, she entered the field of science, studying the properties, effects, and uses of different pokemon-produced toxins. This odd, and possibly mind-altering, fascination has left her lab in a constant mess of sickening sludge, poisonous powders, and (semi) fatal fumes. Convinced to take a research trip so her colleagues could clean her lab out, Allie has traveled to PAX South in hopes of testing the tolerance levels of trained pokemon against her poisonous team. Challengers need to be skilled in poison control and disposal in order to claim the Venom Badge!