Nessa

Nessa is a Gym Leader and a user of -type Pokémon.
==Appearance==
Nessa is a tall, dark skinned girl with a very slender physique, long blue and black striped hair and blue eyes. She wears a gym uniform consisting of a white crop top and shorts with blue and orange details as well as a number 049 on it. For accessories, she wears hoop earrings, two armlets, a Dynamax Band and a single blue glove on her right hand. She also wears a belly chain and white and blue sandals with buoys on them.
Her rare League Card depicts her with her hair more wavy, along with a beige-colored dress and red strappy high heels.
==Personality==
Underneath her seemingly composed exterior through her calm tone when she speaks, Nessa actually conceals a burning heart on battling with massive competitiveness and indomitable willpower. As her type preference suggests, she is a strategist that relies on powerful Water types to suppress and eventually overwhelm opponents' Pokémon.
==Etymology==
Nessa's name references from , known for its fabled sea monster. Rurina, her Japanese name, likely comes from 瑠璃 (ruri, lapis lazuli, a blue gemstone) and "marina" (a type of harbor).
==Biography==
===League Card entries===
====Regular League Card====
====Rare League Card====
===Other appearances===
==Pokémon==
Nessa's Pokémon are kept in Dive Balls.
===Gym battle===
===Champion Cup===
===Champion Cup rematch===
==Trivia==
*Nessa resembles Marina from the Splatoon series somewhat: both have dark skin, long, dark hair with teal accents, and midriff-exposing outfits. In addition, both have a water/aquatic life motif: Nessa is a Water-type specialist and swimmer, while Marina is an Octoling, a humanoid species that evolved from (and can turn into) octopi.
**Her appearance is also similar to Shelly's Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire redesign, as both are dark-skinned and have long dark hair with blue accents.
*Nessa's uniform number, 049, can be read as "oyogu" ("to swim" in Japanese).
*In the Gym Battle, Nessa's Drednaw is male, while in all subsequent Champion Cup matches, it is female.
**However, the Drednaw she uses during the Gym Battle can be Dynamaxed, while the one she uses afterwards can be Gigantamaxed.
*Nessa is the third Gym Leader with a modeling career (as revealed by her rare League Card, her only in-game appearance in something other than her Gym uniform), after Unova's Elesa and Valerie of Kalos.
**She is also the second, after Elesa, to still be active in that career, as a Kalosian TV program specifically states Valerie is a former model (as the reason Valerie can wear very high heels; Nessa's rare League Card is the only time she's seen in heels, making her the only Gym Leader with experience as a model to not wear them in-person)
==Gallery==
Nessa In Game.jpeg|Nessa holding a Dive Ball
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