#i WAS also gonna go with my type of unicorn tail y'know?

[kifu]

A little bit of character design. ;) For a comic! That may never leave the brain.

[puppyluver256]

[Image Description: A woman with lightly tanned skin, a green dyed undercut, reddish-brown eyes, and eyebrow piercings. She is wearing a green tunic-style shirt with a darker green lower half akin to an abstract representation of forest treetops, a khaki vest with yellow and white reflective strips across the chest and a silver Pokeball emblem, light pants, and brown hiking boots. She is holding a red and white Pokeball in one hand and the other is placed on the back of her Pokemon, Rapidash. Rapidash is a large horse-like Pokemon with a pale coat, orange and yellow flames in its mane and tail, dark blue hooves, red eyes, and a unicorn-style horn. The background is a pixellated image of a room with a large window looking out onto a setting sun with clouds. There is a circle pattern on the ground colored to represent the Pokemon types, the specific ones visible having matching emblems for fire, water, grass, and electric types. End ID.]

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"Hello again, Trainer. I hope you're not too surprised to find me here, in this room, where the Champion is meant to be waiting for you. You're a smart kid, so I'm sure you've already guessed. Yes, I am indeed the Champion of the Cantessy Region. I like to keep an eye on any beginner Trainers I come across on my non-League work, and something about you and your friends stood out as being pretty special. Glad I'm going to get to fight at least one of you. Well then, why don't we get started? Are you ready to put everything you've got into this? You'd better be, because when I battle I refuse to hold back!"

It's finally come down to your greatest Cantessy challenge, the one everything has been leading up to. You've encountered Caroline every so often along your journey. She helped to save one of your rivals from galling off Nature's Bridge. The two of you had a pleasant chat while crossing the Ruby River. She upgraded your bike at the Pelipsi Gorge. And now you're here, meeting her in her true role. While she definitely is a nature conservationist, Caroline is also the Cantessy League's current reigning Champion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime moment, two of Cantessy's strongest trainers coming together in a challenge of strength and wits. Who will come out on top? I know who my money's on :3c

Caroline, like most League Champions, has a strong team and balanced in terms of type match-ups, and while I'm sure you would as well long by this point, it's still going to be incredibly challenging. She has a level 55 Hedeomadon, a level 57 Beckhound, a level 59 Bulkat, a level 60 Tauros, a level 61 Frostinal (female), and a level 63 Rapidash who she will join with for Union Battle. After you've become Champion yourself and re-fought the Elite Four, her team's levels will be boosted by ten.

...Y'know, funny story, I was only reminded about Muhammad Ali being from Kentucky after I'd planned out (nearly) all of the human characters, including Caroline here, and it was also then that I learned of his nickname of The People's Champion. Looking back, I prolly coulda made a trainer based on him, either the fighting-type one if I wasn't so set on making the UK basketball reference or even the champion. Unfortunately I did not think of or know these at the time, so instead I'm just gonna reference him in Cantessy history. The first Cantessy League champion in the region's lore is gonna be based on him, and he would've had a Cantessian Machamp as his ace. Now there's a statue in Louifort (the place where you fight the Elite Four and Caroline) in memoriam to them :3

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Rapidash and other Pokemon concepts © Nintendo/GameFreak Caroline Siegel, the Cantessy Region, and artwork © PuppyLuver Studios