Name: Derek Martinelli
Gender: Male Age: 16
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 125lbs
Pokemon: Poochyena
Character Info: Derek is a scrawny, messy looking lad with scruffy grey fur from head to toe. He wears rectangular spectacles and contact lenses alternating depending on how lazy he is in the morning. His hair is a short forest of blonde-tipped spikes straight out of the Jersey Shore if any of them were so ambitious as to bleach their hair. Derek's dark brown roots accentuate the fact that he doesn't properly bleach but every three months or so. A Walmart shopper, no one piece of his clothing costs more than about $30, shoes included. His favorite outfit would be a pair of worn jeans, a band shirt, his steel toes boots and, weather depending, a cheap solid black hoody, faded from years of use. He keeps his wallet on a chain and his cell phone close lest either get stolen.
Background: Derek is neither exceptionally smart nor rich nor talented in the arena. During a budgeting conflict and a surge in student attendance, the PCA was required to take the overflow of students from Derek's public school district in order to keep it's federal funding. Derek was one of the lucky few designated to attend the PCA, and has been surviving with a staggering 2.5 GPA and a complete disregard for proper competitive battling. Derek's parents are poor, living on welfare in the slummy downtown area of Saffron. Because of this and his lack of traditional fighting talent Derek can't relate to any of the other students, preferring instead to cynically heckle the petty drama that surrounds him, providing amusement and successfully distracting him from his own rough upbringing. This habit means Derek has no real friends at the school, the closest thing to one being Shane, his tutor. Seeing as no other team would take him Derek decided to make his own. A better one, "with blackjack and hookers" he would say, named Team McJager Bomb.