#rival cherry

[Image Description: Two teenagers dressed as Nat Vancey and Trevor Garbo from Smile For Me. The girl (left) has light skin, blonde hair in a ponytail, brown eyes, and a fake vampire fang in her mouth. She is wearing a long pink dress with dark pink accents and white boots with pale pink soles. The boy (right) has light skin, short messy auburn hair, and green eyes. He is wearing a long teal coat, a green striped scarf, a yellow shirt, blue denim pants, and maroon boots with pink soles. The two of them each have an arm around the other, with the girl's free hand being on her hip and the boy's free arm held up in a wave. End ID.]

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Ngl Cherry and Toby's costumes were among the last to get figured out in this series hehe. I knew I wanted the rivals to match like how the player characters do, but I didn't know how I wanted them to match. Then I thought of some of my favorite kids from Smile For Me and there ya go! :D

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[Image Description: Three young Pokemon Trainers, two girls and a boy, each with a fan-made Pokemon. The girl on the left has light skin, shoulder-length brown hair, and blue eyes. She is wearing a pink hat with buttons and a darker Pokeball design, a light yellow shirt over a lavender one, and a tan backpack with purple shoulder straps. She is petting the head of a light blue egret-like Pokemon with a grey purple beak. The center girl has light skin, brown eyes, and blonde hair in a ponytail. She is wearing a pink crop-top jacket, an aqua green shirt, and a bag with a yellow strap. She is holding the trunk of a yellow and green mammoth Pokemon while rubbing its back. The boy had light skin and messy auburn hair. He is wearing a red shirt over a dark blue undershirt and a purple backpack. He is hugging a red calf-like Pokemon. The background is a pixellated gradient of blue, green, and orange. End ID.]

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Can't believe I finished this like an hour ago and almost didn't post it, hehe. Anyway, here's one of the player characters for Pokemon Plow and Circuit and her Chikret, alongside Cherry, Toby, and their starters. They're gonna be great friends with these little guys, and their journeys will only serve to strengthen their preexisting friendship as well!

All right, next time we focus on a trainer, it's not gonna be someone involved with the starters. Instead, we'll start to take a look at the gym leaders! And hooooo boy, the gym leaders...Cantessy's gym leaders are something else, but if you haven’t already seen my character refs, I'll clarify everything once we meet our first one!

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[Image Description: A young girl Pokemon Trainer in a dance-like pose with a squirrel-like Pokemon jumping up beside him. The girl has somewhat light skin, blond hair in a ponytail, and brown eyes. She is wearing an aqua green shirt under a pink crop-top jacket, a blue skirt over light aqua green leggings, pink socks, and pink slip-on shoes. She has an orange bag with a yellow strap over her right (viewer's left) shoulder, and a pink wristband on her arm. She’s holding a red and white Pokeball in her hand. The squirrel-like Pokemon leaping beside her has tan fur with white whiskers and belly and green on its paws and tail, with a red fist-like growth on the end of its tail and dark teal eyes. The background is a pixellated gradient of green, orange, and blue, the image as a whole framed in a red overlay. End ID.]

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"Oh! (Player)! How goes things, hmm? Making sure your team is at their full fighting potential? I know I certainly have. I've been working to try and create a team that covers all its weak points, so I wanna see how well I'm doing in that. Let's have a battle and see!"

And here's the other Cantessy rival, Cherry! Unlike Toby, who's more laidback and easygoing, Cherry is ambitious and hard-headed, traits instilled to her by her somewhat influential family. Thankfully, instead of her ambition being at the expense of others, she often recognizes others' potential and pushes them to be the best they can be as well as pushing herself to be her best as well.

Being one of the rivals, Cherry's team obviously grows over time. After her starter, she brings along the Twitchail that her older brother helped her catch a few years ago. By the third battle you have with her, she'll add a Zubat. The fourth battle against her will see her start to try balancing her team a bit more to counter yours, adding something that would counter something you'd presumably have to cover your Starter's weakness (Applin if you chose Haymuth, the corn-themed Fakemon Pipkern if you chose Calflame, or Lapras if you chose Chikret), and her Zubat will have evolved into a Golbat. The fifth has her add the Fakemon Snogelle (an unrevealed ice-type that resembles a snow angel) to the team, her Golbat will evolve into a Crobat, and if she had a Pipkern or Applin it will evolve into the popcorn-themed Fakemon Pepkornel or Flapple. Her final team will consist of her starter, Twitchail, Crobat, the Fakemon Glimmafrost (the evolved form of Snogelle that gains an electric type), and either Pepkornel and Lapras (if she chose Haymuth), Lapras and Flapple (if she chose Calflame), or Flapple and Pepkornel (if she chose Chikret).

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Cherry Strickland

A beginner Trainer who's starting her journey along with her two best friends. Cherry is a very ambitious girl, something instilled in her by her influential parents who own Strickland Farms. As such, she immediately chose the one of the three Pokémon presented to them by the professor that would have an advantage against her friend after sportingly allowing them to have the first choice. While ambitious and driven to do nearly anything to win within reason, Cherry cares very much for the Pokémon in her care and her human friends as well, always encouraging them all to do their very best. After all, if her opponents won't do their best in battle, it's not much of a challenge for her to grow from whether she wins or loses, now is it?

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And here's the other Cantessy rival! Cherry's a fun one, I like rival characters that wanna push you to be your best :D

As stated above in her bio, Cherry will choose the starter with a type advantage to the player's starter; ie. she will have [Calflame] if you choose Haymuth, [Chikret] if you choose Calflame, or [Haymuth] if you choose Chikret.

First Battle (Shelbyton): [Twitchail] (level 12), starter Pokemon (level 15) Second Battle (Rosin Lake): Zubat (level 18), Twitchail (level 19), second-stage starter Pokemon ( [Soystodon] / [Kinedle] / [Heronek] ) (level 21) Third Battle (Route 4): Applin (if using fire starter) / [Pipkern] (if using water starter) / Lapras (if using grass starter) (level 29), Golbat (level 30), Twitchail (level 33), second-stage starter Pokemon (level 34) Fourth Battle (Route 8): Flapple (if using fire starter) / [Pepkornel] (if using water starter) / Lapras (if using grass starter) (level 41), [Snogelle] (level 42), Crobat (level 43), Twitchail (level 44), third-stage starter Pokemon ( [Hedeomadon] / [Minosteel] / [Jabittern] ) (level 45) Fifth Battle (Route 11): Flapple (level 50, if not using Hedeomadon), Pepkornel (level 50, if not using Minosteel), Lapras (level 50, if not using Jabittern), [Glimmafrost] (level 51), Crobat (level 52), Twitchail (level 54), third-stage starter Pokemon (level 55) Post-League team: Flapple (level 65, if not using grass starter), Pepkornel (level 65, if not using fire starter), Lapras (level 65+, if not using water starter), Glimmafrost (level 67+), Crobat (level 68+), Twitchail (level 69+), third-stage starter Pokemon (level 71+)

Cherry Strickland

A beginner Trainer who’s starting her journey along with her two best friends. Cherry is a very ambitious girl, something instilled in her by her influential parents who own Strickland Farms. As such, she immediately chose the one of the three Pokémon presented to them by the professor that would have an advantage against her friend after sportingly allowing them to have the first choice. While ambitious and driven to do nearly anything to win within reason, Cherry cares very much for the Pokémon in her care and her human friends as well, always encouraging them all to do their very best. After all, if her opponents won’t do their best in battle, it’s not much of a challenge for her to grow from whether she wins or loses, now is it?

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More Cantessy, here’s the other rival. She wants to be the Champion and will do anything to get to that point, within reason of course. Cherry also tries to gently push Toby and the protagonist to improve, if only so they can challenge her better and help her grow in return. They’re all buds either way :3