PMA:: Benny

    Current Level: 30

    Nature: Bold

    -Fissure

    -Mud Slap

    -Disharge

    -Bulldoze (TM)

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what Benny lacks in speed she makes up for in a surprising amount of special attack and special defense. While working better in a paired battle where she can set up hard hits and finishing blows, she's not one to be underestimated in single battles. She hits for keeps, and thankfully, her high defense and special Defense give her time needed to plan and execute what blows she needs to move the tide of battle in her favor. Mud Slap will lower an opponents accuracy, get too close to her and you get shocked, and if you're too far for physical blows, hey, opening the ground underneath your feet or shaking the very earth itself are viable options in their own right, yeah?

    Occupation: Cyber Detective / Professional Troll 

    Town of Residence: Cyllage City

compact is the best way to describe the fish. She's short, standing at an even 5' and trends towards the slightly rotund end of the spectrum. she often times looks like she's fallen asleep at her desk and only just woken up, and most of the time that is 100% the actual truth. When needed, Benny is more than capable of cleaning up and looking the part in her police uniform, but she favors clothes that are comfortable for sitting around in for long periods of time, possibly because she spends so long sitting at her desk wathing her various monitors for any sign of illegal activity. Sweaters and loose pants rule the wardrobe for the fish, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Her hair is tied back by a yellow and white ribbon reminiscent of the markings she has as a pokemon, and her favorite sweater has the same markings on either sleeve.

Personality-- 

    Unfocused (Or hyper-focused?) /Sarcastic/Childish/Impulsive/Fair/lonely/(is there a way to say 'she tries' in one word?)

With Benny, what you see is what you get, if not actually even less approachable than she appears on twitter. Her online persona does not differ at all from the person you would talk to were you face to face, and that is usually the first source of surprise for people dealing with her. Coining the term herself, Benny describes her personality as Eccentrically Infuriating, and infuriatingly enough, it's quite a good fit. Even while on the job, she's an absolute terror to get along with due to her rather unique way of viewing issues and challenges, and for those who are much more detail and task oriented, Miss Marino has proven to be a nightmare to work with. Due to the nature of her particular job she's known to bounce from task to task with seemingly no actual goal in sight, and for those who are not used to her particular manner of approaching situations, it can seem utterly pointless.

This is usually met with very snide remarks on her to go away and let her deal with something herself. She's quick to banish people who can't adapt to her views, and is perfectly happy working on her many projects on her own. Oftentimes it isn't even entirely clear WHAT these projects are, seeing as how the amount of side projects she decides to take on can vary in number, but no matter the number they all seem rather pointless until they're finished. In Benny's mind, her work is her own, and if you don't understand it, that's not her problem, it's for the good of the people she's decided to protect and that's all that matters.

She's opinionated, blunt, and for someone that stands at a meager 5' she is surprisingly good at looking down at you. This isn't to say that she's a necessarily bad person, though. Underneath the layers and layers of attitude and haughty self presentation is an individual who not only enjoys the internet, wants others to be able to enjoy it to the extent that she does. Safely, and without any worries (which not only causes her to fly into fits of rage when she does find actual cyber criminals, she's been known to damage electronics around her with her static ability when she's upset). All Criminals are scum but the ones that have the guts to go after others on the not yet defined proverbial lines of the Wold wide web are the worst in her eyes, and she is more than happy to define those lines for them and have them 'play' on her terms. If those terms don't seem defined to them, she will make them defined, and at that point they're as good as gone.

She's not particularly accustomed to face to face interactions and generally normal conversations, and such things tend to throw her for a loop which only makes her less keen on continuing conversations. She gets awkward when online conversations don't include some form of sarcasm or anything she can latch on to for the sake of keeping the aggro going, and if she's not comfortable with you, normal conversation is nigh impossible and will fizzle quickly. This isn't to say, however, that she isn't paying attention. Benihana's got an ear and eye for details, and she picks up on a lot more than one would think by seeing her interact with others. She tries to be more approachable in person, and she's getting the hang of it, in most cases, but at times sh still stumbles and putzes up, and when she does she'll immediately retreat back to square one where she feels more comfortable; long short, being on friendly term with her is very much an upward climb.

When left to her own devices she's much more at ease because that's when things are on her terms. she can decide who to speak to. who to interact with and deal with- there's no pressure to preform or try to meet anyone's expectations, and that's just how she likes it.

The story changes whenever you ask her. It can range anywhere from being spawned of the hatred of millions from the internet, being born and sent on some mighty quest to save mankind from itself, immaculate conception and actually being the prophet of the series of tubes, here to deliver justice to the nonbelievers... But the truth of the matter is that she had very normal beginnings in a family of stunfisk on Route 14 in the Kalos region.

 As far as stunfisk go, they were pretty.. average. Everything was routine. You sit around near the shores, hide yourself under the mud, shock whoever steps on you then FLEE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER FLED BEFORE. It was a favorite game of hers and her siblings to see who could shock the most impressive 'prey' and from there spawned the first issue of many that others would have with her. While most of the others from the fry knew how to pick their battles and when to run, this particular stunfisk, partly due to her bold nature, would stick around and shock. and shock. and shock some more, with little to no regard for how big or threatening the victim was. Sure, she would always laugh about it in the end, after almost suffering the consequences, but she was always warned she would go to far- but hey, it had't happened yet, so what was there to worry about?

The young stunfisk found out what was to be worried about the day she got punted in the face by a trainer for doing that very thing. The shock of the gesture had her reeling, and it was thanks to her inattentiveness that she was caught with relative ease and dubbed "Benihana". This would quickly become the shortest, yet most terrified stint of pokemon ownership the poor boy would ever experience.

The trainer in question lasted a grand total of three days (long enough to try and teach her a TM to make her useful in battle, and make some attempts at training) before realizing his grievous error, and with little announcement and a hurtful amount of severe 'do not want', Benny was quickly returned to the wild, the sounds of her trainers voice "this was a horrible mistake" rolling around in her head even as she was dropped rather unceremoniously back into the lake.

The sudden return to the wild put things into startling perspective for the young fish. First off, people kind of sucked. Second off, thanks to having been caught for her own carelessness, her own family didn't quite want her near them, and thusly she also found out being alone really sucked. What this resulted in was a very bleak outlook on life for the schadenfreudean stunfisk, and she quickly began building walls around herself to protect from any further disappointment. 

Benny spent the next couple of years actively avoiding her family, making sure they never crossed paths in the body of water they called home, and continuing her favored hobby of shocking anyone that happened to step on her. It was by chance that one day a human stepped on her and, as expected, she shocked them just as she had the others, but imagine her surprise when they suddenly became a Gogoat! Stunned by the transformation, Benihana couldn't help but stick around and and ask questions to the rather peeved pokemon. It was through this man (She never DID learn his name) that she heard about the dittech, and once he got a good read on her situation, seeing that the other pokemon gave her quite a large berth, he couldn't help but feel a little bad for the lonely pokemon, and offered to help her get one of her own.

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