PK

PK
Affiliation	Merchants
Role	Guild Head
Usual Location	Tao Village
Species	Unknown
Gender	Female
Age	Young Adult
Trait	Unknown
Nature	Unknown
Move 1: None Move 2: None Move 3: None Move 4: None

PK is a purple Kecleon who's known for being hot-headed and impetuous, earning her a fearful reputation among traders around and outside of Tao Village. She's known for being the head of the Merchants' guild, with Shroomsworth as her business partner and Sandy as her personal assistant. Her rash decisions usually result in Shroomsworth having to clean up after her. She's normally very frugal, but has a weakness for cake and pastries in general, allowing that to be her one luxury.

Background

Pre-Guild

Alomomola Bay

PK and her sister Anana both grew up in the Alomomola Bay. Their parents ran both the Merchant Hut in Tao Village and the highly profitable Merchant Dock in Alomomola Bay. PK and Anana spent much of their time with their mother at the dock, learning how to trade and do business from her. Their father was often away for weeks at a time running the hut in Tao Village. As a result of the lack of supervision created by two busy parents, PK became rebellious early on, earning Anana the reputation as "the good kid." This, of course, led to an intense, mostly one-sided sibling rivalry that carried on into adulthood.

Throughout her childhood, PK could mostly be found around the other stores along the pier doing her own thing and bothering the owners of said stores. This was much to the chagrin of her parents who instead preferred that she spend all of her free time in their Merchant Dock. She was happy to listen to her parents talk about trade and commerce, but would always slip out of the room during the business ethics and etiquette sections of their monologs. As a result, making her customers feel at ease was something that was neither in her nature nor learned from her parents.

At the Merchant Dock, PK's mother ran a tight ship, so to speak. Anana was able to flawlessly perform shop duties to her mother's exacting specifications, but PK never quite ran it like her mother desired. This furthered the rift between the two sisters, their mother constantly showering Anana with all of the praise and encouragement.

After PK had had enough of her mother's criticism of her rough personality in dealing with customers, she took to learning from the other store owners along the pier. They weren't able to refuse her company as her parents had ownership of the entire pier. As such, PK picked up useful mercantile knowledge that her parents hadn't taught her. She ended up distancing herself from her family in order to learn outside of the negative environment that had been created for her at their Merchant Dock.

Because of being quick to bore, PK often would explore areas around the bay to sate her desire to see more and do more. In one of her little trips, she ended up at a remote hut, meeting Lamia, a tribal witch doctor. Instead of being afraid and put off, she was intrigued by the Arbok - especially when she saw the doctor bandaging a wounded Pidgey, something not in the nature of many Arbok. She expected to learn how Lamia conducted business, but instead watched as the doctor let the bandaged Pokemon leave without giving payment. This was utterly new and confusing to her, seeing as her parents had never mentioned that anyone might ever offer their services for nothing.

At first, PK vehemently argued that it wasn't a good plan for Lamia to offer such valuable services for free, to which Lamia replied, "sssshut your yappy trap and wait to sssssee." This, of course, angered PK quite a bit, but Lamia wouldn't respond further. Instead, to PK's annoyance, she ignored PK's frenzied shouts and accusations and slithered off to the back of her hut. Eventually, a pair of Pidgey showed up with a giant bundle of berries and herbs for Lamia, thanking her for her earlier service.

Lamia then explained to a dumbfounded PK that her services weren't quite for free, but they were in exchange for any useful ingredients the aided Pokemon could spare. PK made a rare decision out of a newly found sense of respect to stop criticizing the Arbok and instead do as much as she could to learn from her. She spent a lot of time in the following weeks working under Lamia as a familiar, poring over different properties of berries and how to best combine them from Lamia. Throughout this training, she kept in mind that more knowledge would only lead to more convincing arguments to ensure future sales.

A sharp student, all of what Lamia could teach was imparted in mere months. During this time, PK's parents were outraged at her unexpected absence. It was family tradition to pass down ownership of the guild to the oldest of the children, and PK was nowhere to be seen, unable to be reached. Out of apathy for her family, she had forgotten that her parents had been preparing for months to leave and set up affiliated shops on a nearby continent. Oops.

She gratefully left Lamia's hut, vowing that she would never forget the service this Arbok had performed for her. It had been hard work, but it was guaranteed to pay off. PK decided that it was time to head back home to the dock, unsure of how her mother would react, but hopeful for the first time that she could be useful in the shop. She entered the Merchant Dock only to be met with a tongue lash to the face. Her mother was outraged at how far back their plans had been set due to PK's untimely disappearance.

She was immediately ordered to head to Tao Village to help her father make all of the necessary last minute preparations before his departure. Before she could argue, her mother threatened that Anana would receive control of the entire guild if PK made further made a single misstep.

Tao Village

At her mother's request, PK arrived at Tao Village to meet up with her father. She had visited a scant few times and much preferred the ever-sunny Alomomola Bay up in the northeast. In PK's long absence, her father forgot to inform her mother that he had actually found a replacement helper, so PK's help was largely unneeded. Instead of getting caught up and bothered over the possibility that she might not inherit the guild, she took it upon herself to get to know the villagers and the surrounding locales.

Her first order of business was learning how the Pokemon in Tao Village conducted her transactions. She was mystified to learn that, in fact, they did not. Michelle, Master Foo, etc. ran on donations from the Merchants' Guild itself and from Pokemon who found their services useful, similar to Lamia. Mystified over why the Merchants' Guild would provide for the other businesses, she asked her father his reasons for this bewildering behavior. He simply retorted that more services in the area brought more business to the guild and that it didn't cost much to keep the others running.

After familiarizing herself with her father's hut and making certain of the date he was leaving, she decided to make use of the free time she had left and set off to surrounding areas to explore the land.

Prismatic Jungle

Her first journey outside of the bay and Tao Village was to the north in the lush, colorful forest known as the Prismatic Jungle. The fierce and harsh nature of the Pokemon in this land meant that there were no homes or trading plazas in plain sight. She quickly discovered that there was a black market of sorts that existed within the area, though, after impressing some residents after a scuffle. She developed a network of allies after they realized she was one of the Merchant leaders' daughters. She developed some enemies, too - most prominently, Tivoli the Tyrant. In order to evade death at his doing, she was forced to cut her visit to the jungle short.

Luster Caverns

PK made a brief trip back to Tao Village for respite before deciding to head south to Luster Caverns. Her father scolded her for even trying, citing it as an 'impenetrable fortress of xenophobes.' Despite this, her curiosity about the supposed structure built directly into the ground was too overwhelming.

Upon arriving, she found that the security around the perimeter was outstanding, yet using her color change, she was able to bypass it. Remaining hidden the entire stay, she explored the caverns inside the vast structure. Finding it to be densely populated was surprising to her. Even more surprising was how dull and lifeless the inhabitants were. Before leaving, PK had a close call with Sebastian the Stoic.

Merchants' Hut Destruction

Upon returning to the village, she found her father outside the Merchants' Hut which had been reduced to ruins and rubble, setting back his plans to unite with PK's mother to establish more trade. She learned that Tivoli had sent a couple of destructive envoys after PK, but that they had lost track of her after she left Tao Village and headed to Luster Cavern, so they settled instead for ruining her father's hut; as a result, PK's father blamed her for the unfortunate event. In order to avoid his misplaced anger, she left Tao Village yet again - hoping he would recollect his cool after it was rebuilt.

Castle Draclugia

Unafraid as she could be after having glimpsed her father's wrath, she headed in the direction of Sapling Village in order to check out its trading grounds. Rather than take a trip through the Creeping Forest, PK decided to approach Castle Draclugia. She scaled the castle to avoid the guards, using both her mostly-invisible body and the darkness as her veil. Despite this, she was still captured by Merlot for a period of time. During her short imprisonment, PK became friends with Soba and Udon, an extremely unusual occurrence for the pair. At Udon's whim, Merlot decided that PK would have more uses as a friend than as a foe and gave her permission to pass freely through the castle. At that point, Merlot and PK were on good terms with one another.

Sapling Village

Exhausted from her trip through the castle, PK arrived at Sapling Village in a sour disposition.