Name

 

Acerbus Angerona

Meaning

 

Acerbus

 

A Latin word for “Darkness”. His family likes their theme naming.

Angerona

 

Roman goddess that relieved men from suffering

Age

 

17

Gender

 

Male

Affiliation

 

Trainer

Eyes

 

Appear to be a pale, lilac sort of colour in most lightings. Occasionally, a red light might be seen glowing behind one or the other of his pupils. Generally have a glassy sort of sheen to them, like maybe he's not not really aware of his surroundings. He has a tendency to stare straight ahead, rather than meeting someone's eyes, but his is more due to social ineptitude than a conscious refusal to make eye contact. Also, they're kind of sunken in.

Hair

 

Black, limp, shoulder-length, and unkempt.

Skin

 

Too pale, and stretched maybe a bit too tightly over his bones. Almost looks a little grey, but that's because he's emaciated enough to have started developing lanugo.

Clothes

 

Plain, too-big clothes.

Physique

 

In a word? Undernourished. He has a gaunt, spindly figure, all skin and bones, and you could probably count his ribs through his shirt when the wind blows the right way. Of course, that's assuming that you aren't shocked into a stupor by the fact that the wind didn't, you know, knock him over.

Height

 

5'9"

Weight

 

108 pounds

Other

 

Probably easy to mistake for dead when he's not moving, what with his flat affect and stuff. As for why he isn't dead yet, please refer to his bio.

Personality

 

This is... a very difficult section to fill out. Acerbus is, well, Acerbus. A lot of people might say that he doesn't have any personality to speak of, but that's not really true. Acerbus is apathetic to a fault, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't have a personality. He's a polite, passive sort of person, who honestly doesn't want to cause trouble for anyone. He doesn't really consider himself to be "living" so much as "existing" in this world, but he isn't the kind of person who is bitter about things; his outlook is that everything happens for a reason, and that there must be some point to his having been born, even if he doesn't really know what it is. If he's meant to know, he'll find out eventually, right? He experiences curiosity on an intellectual level, and knowledge is one of the few things he'll proactively seek out.

Talents/Flaws

 

He can reason perfectly well and even hold a conversation sometimes, but, because he usually has no emotional investment in things going one way or another, he is very slow to take initiative. Acerbus is very patient, and possibly a little too good at waiting. Physical activities are not his strong suit, for obvious reasons, but he's pretty good at things that are purely intellectual in nature, like reading, maths and the sciences. He, like the rest of his family, has a hard time digesting traditional foods, but his stomach can sometimes handle mashed Pecha berries in a cocktail of vitamins and live-culture bacteria. It might or might not be considered a talent that he can actually drink that stuff, since it smells foul and tastes fouler, but that's for you to decide.

Likes:

 

Learning, reading, thinking, peace and quiet, etc.

Dislikes

 

Pain, feeling cold, running, eating, lifting heavy things, etc.

Known Family

 

Lucia Angerona [Paternal Grandmother]
Noctis Angerona [Father]
Diea Angerona (birth name Diana Featherby)[Mother]
Nox Angerona [Older Brother]
Lux Lucia Angerona [Older Sister]

(There are others; he has uncles, aunts, cousins, etc., but these are just the ones he lives in the same house with and sees every day)

Dream

 

None, really. Too apathetic.

Fighting Style

 

None in particular

Proficiency

 

Adaptive

Biography

 

The Angerona family is, throughout Althea, thought to be really freaking creepy. Why, you might ask? Well, it might have something to do with the whole “they voluntarily give up their bodies to ghosts” thing. Of course, it doesn't quite work like that; the Angeronas still have their own wills, but a genetic condition runs in their family that makes it difficult to digest food, and their ancestors discovered that they could survive by living in symbiosis with ghost Pokémon. It's quite a simple set-up: The ghosts want to be able to use bodies to interact with the physical world, and the Angeronas want sustenance. As such, every member of the Angerona family acts as “host” to one or more Ghost-type Pokémon, which have time-shares, of sorts, on their body, and, in exchange, the Ghost donates some of the energy it metabolises from its food to its host, keeping their bodies alive and functioning even as they seem to whither away. Think of lichen. These ghosts tend to be, as a result, much more voracious eaters than other specimens of their kinds, because they need eat for more than just themselves.

Acerbus was one of the last of his family members to move to Althea, but they all gradually relocated there, in hopes of making a fresh start in a new land. He wasn't one of the family's higher-functioning members, having long ago slipped into dangerous apathy, but his Duskull companion, Averna, is a very outgoing sort to contrast him. It was her idea that they go and adventure around the island they now lived on, and Acerbus's grandmother, Lucia Angerona, had deemed it a good idea. The general hope was that a bit of excitement might shake Acerbus out of his near-perpetual daze.