PokeGlitch app: Acantha Laine

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New app: PG: Acantha Laine Reference

Items:
- The wing armor pictured here was mostly used in battle, and is created to be light yet sturdy and also allow maximum movement for flight. However, she lost the armor when the dome collapsed and she LEFT IT AT HOME.
- Compartments can be attached to her belt to allow her to carry objects, but weight of the compartments and objects, and size of the compartments since she needs to fly, puts an upper limit on what she can carry. What is depicted in her app now is the upper limit at the moment, though as she grows stronger and more skilled, she can eventually carry heavier loads.
- She previously wore her foot-claws (whose claws can sheathe most of the way) around a lot since they are lighter and more convenient than armor, but this was also lost in the collapse of the dome.

Higher-resolution drawing can be found here.

♦ Name: Acantha Laine
♦ Gender: Female
♦ Age: 15

♦ Species: Pidgeotto
♦ Ability: Keen Eye
♦ Level: 49 (14 for cover-up job)

♦ BIRTH DATE : March 14th
♦ Height: 5’2”
♦ Weight: 91 lbs.

♦ Job: Guardian... sort of (Street Entertainer)
♦ District: Lumiere
♦ Alignment: Good

♦ Moveset:
1 - Wing Attack: She uses one or both of her wings in a physical attack on the enemy without any special equipment.
2 - U-Turn: She executes an agile and particularly fast attack, physically attacking her opponent and then immediately bouncing back, in order to retreat or simply avoid the enemy's counterattack.
3 - Steel Wing: She uses armored wings to attack, varying from a simple slap of the wing to a slash with the blades on her armor.
4 - Mirror Move: With the help of her Keen Eye ability, she watches the enemy very closely, then copies the foe's exact movements. This works extremely well with physical attacks requiring no mental power; she can perform some elemental attacks with this move, but usually is not able to mimic the strength of a Pokémon who has its type to boost the strength of its elemental attack.

♦ Likes: Washing her feet in water, running and flying, fish, playing energetically with other birds or agile gijinka, and fighting.
♦ Dislikes: Strong winds, fire or electricity, shoes, being restrained, losing arguments and is especially irritated by boredom.

♦ Personality: Acantha is very persistent, and it takes a lot to make her give up. She will not stand to be restrained, physically, mentally, or whatever; that is the one thing that will make her stay angry at a person. Other than that, she is mostly forgiving and light-hearted, and can’t stay angry for more than a few moments. She does tend to be distracted easily and forgetful, but she makes up for it with her willingness to correct herself and learn from her mistakes. She doesn’t mind working with other people, and on-task usually has a solitary nature, but when she’s not on duty, she loves being in small groups of close friends. Though quick to anger, she’s normally friendly and very understanding, and as mentioned earlier, she doesn’t stay angry for long, so she is a good friend for the most part. Acantha likes to think she is rseponsible, and has a good sense of duty. Her worst flaw is that she is easily offended and doesn’t always think before she acts, though this is developing with her age and experience. She's easily affected by the emotions of people around her, especially when others are anxious and upset, and can be controlled by her emotions frequently. 

♦ History: Acantha has always had a bit of an awkward life, thanks to having wings instead of actual hands. She tries to use her wings as normal hands, with questionable success, though she has learned how to grasp normally sized objects and write in some form. It can be difficult for her, however, and near impossible when she’s flying, so she’s also learned how to use her feet, which are more flexible thanks to her being half-bird. Because it can be more convenient for her to use her feet as hands sometimes, she almost never wears shoes, and if the terrain is dangerous, resorts to flying. She grew up and matured very fast thanks to her unusual predicament and to the fact that she was an only child and her family was heavily involved in the remnants of the class struggles.

Finally when she was old enough for a real battle, she participated in the fight with the monsters outside of the dome along with some of the other gijinka. This battle didn't go well for her, and with her only moves being physical attacks, she could hardly affect the monsters at all; furthermore, one of her wings had been broken in the monster's vicious jaws. Since then, she has healed and become more skilled at battle, but the memory of being so useless still frustrates her, and she has gained a particular determination to grow stronger and not give up in any physical or emotional fight in which she may be involved. This strong will that she developed does get her into a lot of risks, but it was helpful in the collapse of the dome and kept her on task, even though the anxiety of which of her friends could be alive was devastating. 

♦ Additional Information:
She is slightly unstable in both walking and flying due to her combination of bird and human, especially since her wings are structured largely like arms, so they're not as useful for flying.

She treats Obi Shirotaiyo as an older brother. 

Evolution: Pidgey --> Pidgeotto (December 12, 2012)

Past Updates
5/27/2013: New image and costume
11/28/2013: New image and costume
6/6/2014: Modified items (she lost all her armor due to the collapse of the dome) and modified her history and personality a bit.