Sabrina

**Sabrina** was the Gym Leader of Saffron City and is far more sadistic than she was in The Old Timeline.

Sabrina has a Darwinistic mindset, believing that there are too many humans and that most don't deserve to live. Thus any challengers to her gym are subjected to an onslaught of Psychic-Type Pokémon that actively try to kill them and after surviving a certain amount of time are deemed worthy of life.

## Personality

From an early age, Sabrina has believed that the truly talented and those willing to make the effort to improve themselves are the ones who deserve to be at the top of the food chain. To ensure this happens, she is willing to take deeply ruthless measures, most notably killing challengers at the Saffron Gym who fail to impress her. That being said, losing alone doesn't earn a challenger a death warrant, they just have to put up a good enough fight for her to determine them worthy to live. It certainly doesn't hurt that when good trainers survive, many more bad ones believe they have a chance against her.

Sabrina genuinely believes that her plans will result in a better world. Unfortunately, those plans tend to involve slaughtering those she believes are lost causes, people who fail to stand out in any positive way and cannot or will not improve themselves. She has a particular hatred for those who choose to try and pull their competition down rather than making the effort to better themselves, as shown by the tongue-lashing she gives to Dario before killing him. To a lesser extent, she also dislikes those who rely on money or connections they have not earned.

While her social Darwinist beliefs are superficially similar to those of The Bloodline King, their ideas are contrasted against each other. Unlike the King, Sabrina does not believe that Bloodliners are inherently superior; she doesn't even believe that her own status as one makes her special, considering her ambition and determination more important. Moreover, Sabrina's ideal world is a meritocracy where those who are exceptional in some way get to reap the benefits while the mediocre masses are rendered no threat to them, one way or the other. In contrast, the King's ideal world is one dominated by his Bloodliner "master race", with him as the greatest winner of all and misery for both regular humans and any Bloodliner who refuses to obey his whims.

She is also deeply pragmatic and has shown that she will spare those she considers unworthy if doing so would be in the service of her broader goal. For example, she considered killing Ito Jenny for her perceived mediocrity, but decided to spare her since her death would traumatize and depress Neko Hachi, which would only hinder her plans for him.

While she was fairly emotional as a child, she developed a cold, subdued, stoic demeanor by the time she turned 22.

## History

### The New Timeline (Past)

Sabrina was born and raised in Turquoise Town. Her mother died to an illness when she was about two years old, leaving her father to raise her alone.

Sabrina first discovered her Bloodliner powers at age ten when she accidentally used them to stop a football from hitting her. Upon discovering that she was a Bloodliner, her father advised her to use her powers for good. She took this to heart and began helping the townsfolk, although many people started taking advantage of her goodwill out of laziness, causing her to become disgusted. Her father then told her to stand her ground. Despite this, she still continued to help others.

Sometime later, while on the way to Sabrina's school, Sabrina and her father passed by a bug-catching trainer named Tommy, who kept delaying the start of his Pokémon journey because he was too afraid to take the challenge. Sabrina's father told her that "You can never improve unless you push yourself", to what she agreed.

At school, the Principal told Sabrina's father about an essay she wrote about a historical figure she admired. Much to her father's shock, the essay was about Twenty Gyarados Bill, whom she praised as "a shining example of self-improvement through hard work and determination", despite having been a mass-murderer and criminal. When called out on this, Sabrina attempts to justify herself by focusing on Bill's good traits, but her father won't have any of that and tried to ground her. Sabrina became furious at her father, as well as at the townsfolk for not understanding her viewpoint. This was even more significant because they all continue (in her eyes) to become increasingly lazy, to the point where they won't even try to do something great with their lives. She then decided she will give them motivation - by instilling fear in them.

For a month, Sabrina started choosing a random victim to terrorize every day. Her father eventually caught wind of this, but when he tried to stop her, she used her powers to mind-control him so he would leave town and she wouldn't have to kill him. She continued to terrorize the townsfolk and prevent them from escaping, all the while hoping that one of them will eventually stand up to her.

She's finally confronted by Tommy, the bug-catching trainer, who despite being deathly afraid of her decides to try and do something to stop her. Amazed at Tommy's bravery, Sabrina finally rejoiced at the fact that she was proven right, and decided to spare him and the rest of the townsfolk, before deciding to leave Turquoise Town for good, and try to change the world by pushing other people to live up to their potential.

Sometime later, Sabrina ran into Neko Hachi, who was at a crossroads about what to do with his life. She brought up Bill's story as an example, giving him the nudge he needed to decide to become the Black Arachnid. She even considered killing Ito Jenny, but decided against it as she believed it would discourage Neko.

At some point, Sabrina became the Saffron Gym Leader, but gained a reputation for killing many of her challengers when she judged them as unworthy of living. The Pokémon League sent a Buster squad to apprehend her, but they were all killed in action, and she continued to lure trainers to her Gym, only sparing them if they managed to impress her enough.

Sabrina was also contacted by The Bloodline King, even offered the position of becoming his queen, but she rejected it, arguing that she had no interest in his goals.

### Poison War Arc

Sabrina is first seen when she kills a challenger who is trying to escape her, right before confronting Dan, who had come to challenge the Gym despite the rumors abound. She then contested Dan and his Pokémon with a seemingly endless onslaught of Psychic-types, telling him to prove that he is worthy of living. Despite being unable to defeat her, she judged him worthy enough and lets him live.

The Bloodliner King's emissary appeared and confronted Sabrina about her criteria of letting challengers live, as well as informed her that the offer to become queen was still on the table. Sabrina dismissed the offer again. When the emissary insisted that she test Ash Ketchum, she eventually agreed. After looking into Ash she became increasingly interested after examining his memories more in-depth and learning about The Old Timeline.

### Fuchsia Arc

With the knowledge she gained from Ash, she decided that she would lure the trainer to her gym to test him personally. She also used Ash's memories to learn about and locate several people whom Ash met in his previous life, eventually killing many of them off after she evaluated them as undeserving to live. Among her first victims are Dario and Melvin the Magician, while others such as Keith and the twins Rhoda and Rhonda, are spared thanks to running into Ritchie and deciding to do something to improve their lives. She also managed to get a hold of Ash's Primeape, and after healing him, kept him captive in her basement to use as a hostage for Ash's challenge.

### Sabrina Arc

After monitoring Ash's progress for a bit, Sabrina sends one of her Abra to kidnap Ash and has her Pokémon attack him, in order to force him to use his Bloodliner powers. When Ash refused and decided that he was not interested in her badge anymore, Sabrina revealed that she was holding Primeape hostage in her basement, knowing that Ash would stop at nothing to rescue him. She continued to taunt Ash by reading his mind and revealing that she knew all of his secrets, but Ash refused to budge.

Sabrina grew impatient and decided to reveal to Ash what she knew about his birth circumstances; about how his grandfather actually wanted Delia to abort her pregnancy, about how his father is a monster who knocked up many women, not just his mother, and even had some of his offspring killed because they weren't of any use to him, such as John Archer. She almost succeeded in getting Ash enraged, but his Pokémon managed to calm him down, telling him that Sabrina would win if he does what she wants. Due to the efforts of Ash's Pokédex, Ash's Pokémon who were at the lab, suddenly broke into the gym through the ceiling and joined the fray.

With the odds evened out, Sabrina decided to Mega Evolve one of her Alakazam, which quickly overpowered several of Ash's Pokémon all at once, all the while trying to taunt Ash into using his Bloodliner powers. Ash continued to refuse, and much to her shock, ended up creating a Psychium-Z, which he promptly used with Butterfree to perform Shattered Psyche and defeat the Mega Alakazam. After Ash's Pokédex informed everyone that Primeape had been rescued, Sabrina grew angrier and more determined to force Ash into using his powers. She then summoned her remaining Pokémon for another go. Before the new round could begin, Ash's companions and Belladonna's harem teleported into the gym. Sabrina immediately was frozen in place by Aurora and could only watch as the Exeggutor that belong to Ash teleported to the battlefield, glared at her, and then assisted everyone in escaping the premises. Sabrina was left in a turmoil of emotions, partly because she respected that Ash managed to defeat her, and partly because she was angry that he managed to get away and that she didn't achieve one of her goals with him.

Sometime later, Sabrina was arrested by a Buster squad and had her position as the Saffron Gym Leader revoked. Despite this, the Marsh Badge picked up by Ash's Squirtle was registered to Ash's ownership, being the first and only badge she gave away in her entire career as a Gym Leader.

## Pokémon

### Alakazam (Several)

#### Alakazam 1

**Hold Item:** Alakazite

**Moves:**

* Psychic
* Protect

## Bloodline(s)

### Heart (Psychic)

Sabrina has the potential to use any standard Psychic-type move, can control Psychic-type Pokémon, can speak telepathically, and can read the minds of others even across great distances.

**Known Moves**

* Teleport
* Psychic/Confusion
* Hypnosis
* Psywave
* Reflect

## Links

1. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP022