Vervain Élysées
- Full name: Vervain Élysées
- Nickname(s): N/A
- Affinity:
- Birthday: June 15th
- Occupation: Data Scientist
- Pronouns: he/him
- Hometown: Lumoise City, Kalos
- Status: Travelling
Vervain prefers the neat and tidy. Skilled at coding and computers, he wrangles large confusing sets of data into more understandable figures and graphics. Prior to his Pokémon journey, he helped out at his father's lab and could often be found in front of a monitor. Since some aspects of field work are required for researchers, he reluctantly set out on a journey with his friends, Zeph and Eurus.
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Abilities
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- Powers: Eidetic Memory
Abilities
Vervain has no magical powers to speak of, but he does feel like he's the only person in his travelling party that has the brain cell. He is also skilled at arithmetics and has an eidetic memory.
Relationships
- Status: Single
- Best Friend: Eurus, Zephyr
- Love Interest: Zephyr?
- Sexuality: Questioning
- Mentor: Augustine
- Travelling With: Eurus, Zephyr
Family
Augustine (father): One day, he hopes to take over his father's lab. He looks up to him very much, and loves the work he does in the lab, helping his father with research. What he doesn't love is his father's emphasis on learning experiences and getting messy.
Diantha (mother):
Lysandre (father):
Forsythia (older sister): Thea is annoying, but that's his sister! He won't show it, but he adores her. Even if they call it another name, she's also doing research, just on humans rather than Pokémon.
Friends
Eurus: While Eurus possesses the ability to irritate him to no end, he relies on her steadfast enthusiasm and stubborness, and will readily admit that she occasionally has very good ideas. Oftentimes, he'll find that the risks that she gets him to take result in satisfactory learning experiences. They often butt heads over the honour of being right.
Zephyr: Vervain likes spending time with Zeph more than Eurus. He finds their presence calming, and likes the way they listen carefully to his lectures before asking clever questions that make him think further about the subject. He does find him a bit of a pushover at times though, and wishes they would stand their ground against their sister more often.
Pokémon
- Starter: Watson (Quilladin)
- Battle Ace: Watson (Quilladin)
Main Pokémon
Trivia
- Sun Sign: Gemini ♊
- Musical Instrument: Piano
- Nature: Serious
- Plant: Verbena officinalis
Vervain's birthday, June 15th, corresponds to the plant's day in the French Republican Calendar.
Vervain is another name for the plant genus Verbena, a collection of ornamental flowering plants. In flower language, vervain symbolizes protection against evil. It also has associations with the divine in various ancient civilizations.
Vervain has his mother's last name, Élysées. It's from the really catchy song that they teach young children in French class, Les Champs-Elysées, and of course, the actual avenue in Paris that the song is referring to. Translated, it is the Elysian Fields, the portion of the Greek Underworld where heroes would go after death.