Adrian and Adriana

**Adrian** (Japanese: **エイドリアン** *Eidorian*) and **Adriana** (Japanese: **アドリアナ** *Adoriana*) are twin Pokémon Trainers hailed from Viridian City in the Kanto region.

## **New Era**

### **Indigo Challenge**

The twins first appeared immediately after Dwayne captured his Pidgey at Viridian Forest, mocking and belittling him for his over-excitement. They introduce themselves with a dramatic motto and explain they're siblings who travel throughout Kanto looking for strong Pokémon to capture and "weak" Trainers to demolish, and arrogantly claim that Dwayne was their next "victim", and Dwayne takes offense to being called weak, and accepts their challenge, and asks which one would battle him. The twins both grin at this, and both send out a Pokémon at the same time: Adrian sends out a Bellsprout and Adriana sends out a Koffing. Dwayne claims they're cheating, but the twins merely state that when someone battles one of them, they battle both of them. Dwayne then sends out Pidgey to battle them, despite Pidgey being slightly tired from his previous battle.

Koffing's Sludge attack blinds Pidgey, but Pidgey uses Gust on himself to blow the sludge away from his eyes. After regaining his sight, Pidgey dodges both Koffing's Sludge and Bellsprout's Razor Leaf before going into a Quick Attack. Bellsprout avoids the attack by using Double Team, forcing Pidgey to come to a sudden stop. Koffing fires a Smog attack, which Pidgey splits with his wings before dodging multiple Sludge attacks and Bellsprout's Vine Whip. Despite soaring high into the sky, both Bellsprout and Koffing are able to keep up with Pidgey. Pidgey tries to hit Koffing with Gust, but misses and is defeated.

Dwayne recalls Pidgey and in a final attempt, Dwayne sends out Caterpie, which only amuses Adrian and Adriana. Bellsprout and Koffing attack and Caterpie cowers, but Dwayne orders him to use String Shot. The attack completely incapacitates Koffing before Caterpie damages Bellsprout with Bug Bite. Caterpie Tackles Koffing, knocking it into Bellsprout and taking them both out. Adrian tries to send another Pokémon, but he is also wrapped in String Shot. Taken by surprise, Adrian and Adriana flee but promise they will be back to get revenge on him.

Shortly thereafter, Adrian and Adriana return to get their "revenge" on Dwayne, loudly announcing their intentions, ignoring Dwayne's warnings that they will alert the Beedrill sleeping nearby. The sound awakens the Beedrill, who prepare to dive-bomb Dwayne and the twins. Dwayne rolls underneath their attacks and reaches his Metapod. Adrian and Adriana attempt to sweet talk the Beedrill into not attacking them, but it proves useless, and they run instead. When the twins block Dwayne's path out of Viridian Forest, Dwayne's Butterfree puts them to sleep with Sleep Powder, allowing them to leave without a fight.

The twins later sneak into the Hidden Village, having followed Dwayne, and appear from the trees, and claim the Pokémon living in the village had great potential, and announce their intentions to capture them all and use them to get "revenge" on Dwayne, despite Melanie's rule about catching being prohibited in the village. They quickly try to collect all the Pokémon in the village as Dwayne and Melanie herd everyone into the cabin, but Oddish gets almost caught by Adriana's Poké Ball, but Budew deflects the Poké Ball's direction with Bullet Seed, and Dwayne helps carry Oddish to the cabin. Adrian and Adriana move towards the cabin, so Dwayne instructs his Pidgeotto to use Gust, and this causes a tornado that tosses Adrian and Adriana into the distance, and the twins flee, screaming they would beat Dwayne one day whatever the cost.

While Dwayne was at the Safari Zone, Adrian and Adriana plot to catch more Pokémon than him to get an advantage over the young Trainer. The twins locate a Dratini that Kaiser had always kept a secret from visitors, and forcibly try to capture the Dragon-type Pokémon, until being interrupted by Dwayne and Kaiser. Adriana asks whether Dwayne has caught any Pokémon, and he answers that he has and orders her to leave Dratini alone, as Dratini was off-bounds, but Adriana laughs at this, saying that Dratini was a wild Pokémon, so it was fair game, and sends in her Goldeen inside the lake to draw out Dratini.

Dwayne and Kaiser jump into the lake after it, with Dwayne's Squirtle assisting them underwater. Dwayne and Squirtle catch up to Kaiser, and Dwayne orders Squirtle to take Kaiser back to the surface. He reaches the bottom, and catches Goldeen's attention, and starts to swim back up with Goldeen in tow, but he runs out of air and falls to the lake-bed. Suddenly, a storm begins and a giant whirlpool churns the lake's waters. A bright blue light beams through the whirlpool, a Dragonair emerges with Dwayne on its back, and the skies clear up. Dwayne throws Goldeen back at Adrian and Adriana and Squirtle blasts them with Water Gun, scaring them away from the area.

Sometime later, Adrian and Adriana confront Natalya while the latter was on her way to compete in the Indigo Plateau Conference, and created a pit trap for her to fall in, which allowed them to steal all of Natalya's Badges. Shortly afterwards, Adrian and Adriana brag about how easy it was to steal Natalya's Badges, and gleefully envision meeting Dwayne at the tournament and eliminating him to finally get their long-awaited "revenge" on him. After searching for almost ten minutes, Dwayne and Natalya find the twins resting underneath a tree, and Dwayne throws a rock at them to wake them up, and Adriana curses him for throwing the rock at them. Dwayne demands that the twins give the Badges back to Natalya. Adriana tells them that they won't give the Badges back unless they can beat them in a Double Battle. The battle begins as Adrian and Adriana send out Weepinbell and Weezing, respectively, while Dwayne and Natalya choose Roselia and Beedrill, respectively.

The battle between the twins, and Dwayne and Natalya ensues as the twins call for Weepinbell and Weezing to use Poison Powder and Sludge Bomb, but while the dodge the Sludge Bomb attack, they are both engulfed within the Poison Powder. However, it has no effect due to both Roselia and Beedrill being part Poison-types. Dwayne and Natalya call for their own battle combination. Roselia uses Petal Dance while Beedrill uses X-Scissor, and both attacks successfully connect, although Weepinbell and Weezing suffer only moderate damage.

Weepinbell then uses Vine Whip and begins squeezing Roselia, but Beedrill stops the attack by using Fury Attack onto Weepinbell's vines, hurting it and forcing it to recall its vines back. Weezing then uses Gyro Ball, but Roselia's Petal Dance traps Weezing within a vortex of petals, and when Weepinbell tries to use Slam on Roselia, Beedrill attacks with X-Scissor, sending Weepinbell back. Then, Roselia slams Weezing down with the vortex atop of Weepinbell, and the impact knocks out both Weezing and Weepinbell at once, giving Dwayne and Natalya the victory.

Dwayne then Natalya then demand the Badges back, but Adrian and Adriana refuse and try to run away, only to get clocked on the head by Natalya's Marowak's bone. Marowak then threatens to attack them with Bone Club if they don't surrender the Badges, and the twins fearfully comply, and throw the Badge case to Natalya. Marowak then fires off an Ice Beam at their feet, and the twins flee while cursing the duo for ruining their chances of competing at the Pokémon League.

Shortly before Dwayne's match against Lagi at the fifth round of the Indigo Plateau Conference, Adrian and Adriana sneak into the Indigo Plateau, and lure him into meeting them with a fake phone call, with Adrian peferctly mimicking Lagi's voice, asking for help as he was being attacked by a group of thieves. They kidnap him and take him away, locking him inside a cabin, planning to make him miss his match and get disqualified. Faced with the threat of missing his battle, Dwayne uses Wartortle to blast through the door with Skull Bash. Adrian and Adriana are not surprised, as they expected this, and wait for him outside, and without warning, attack him with Weepinbell and Weezing. Dwayne asks them to leave him alone, but they refuse, saying that they'd never been embarassed as much as Dwayne embarassed them, and vow to make his life a living hell until they grow tired of "playing" with him. Dwayne has Wartortle attack Weepinbell and Weezing with Rapid Spin, and sends both Pokémon crashing onto their Trainers, and Dwayne and Wartortle take this opportunity to run away back to the Indigo Plateau.

Adrian and Adriana return a second time with bicycles onto a road, and Dwayne has Wartortle attack, but before Wartortle can fire any attack, Weepinbell attacks with Razor Leaf, and Dwayne recalls the injured Wartortle. They hop off the bicycles and prepare for another battle, but Dwayne summons Pidgeot to use Gust to knock them off their feet, before climbing atop of Pidgeot and asking him to fly him towards the arena. However, Weepinbell's Vine Whip wraps around Pidgeot's feet, and drags him back down, injuring his wing in the process. Dwayne then summons the rest of his Pokémon and asks them to deal with the twins, and Dwayne's Pokémon all use their strength and attacks to defeat the twins and their Pokémon, sending them rolling off the cliff into the forest below.

### **Johto Journey**

Adrian and Adriana followed Dwayne all the way to the Johto region, hellbent on continuing to gain their "revenge" on him. While Dwayne and Maizie were collecting Apricorns in order to have Kurt make customized Poké Balls out of them, Adrian and Adriana dig a hole to make both of them fall into, and laugh at his misfortune and declare they would get the specialized Poké Balls instead of him. Dwayne asks if they have nothing better to do other than follow him around, and the twins admit they don't, and attempt to pick some Apricorns, but Dwayne and Maizie manage to crawl out of the hole and face the twins. Before the twins can send out any Pokémon, the group of Pineco from before charge at them, and each begin using Self-Destruct and upon seeing this, the twins run away.

Prior to the entrance ceremony of the Johto League Silver Conference, Adrian and Adriana grab ahold of Dwayne and tie him up before locking him a dark room. The twins reveal themselves to Dwayne, once again attempt to have him disqualified from a Pokémon League, and they quickly run off, not wanting to get caught. Shortly thereafter, Jade frees Dwayne from his bindings. Dwayne informs Jade that Adrian and Adriana were responsible for this, and the duo gives chase to the twins, tired of their antics. The twins eventually collide into the torch runner as he enters Silver Stadium. The runner subsequently drops the torch, but Dwayne catches the flaming torch baton in time. Adrian and Adriana's attempt to flee the scene is stopped by Jade, who manages to knock them both out with a roundhouse kick.

Though Dwayne the twins were stopped and the torch is still in one piece, the runner has twisted his ankle because of his earlier collision. Officer Jenny quickly arrives and demand an explanation, and Dwayne and Jade explain the situation. Jenny then takes the twins away, and states she would locate their parents and inform them of the situation.

## **Character**

Adrian and Adriana are incredibly arrogant, claiming to be well-known worldwide and picking on those that they consider to be weaker than themselves. However, beneath these exteriors, they are nothing more than petty cheaters who constantly use dirty tricks and refuse to follow rules. Furthermore, they are quite dramatic, creating an entire motto as a introduction about themselves.

The twins are delusional to the point that they actually believe they are not cheating at all and will even argue that they acted fair and square if their cheating is called out. Adrian and Adriana even went as far to create a "rule" where when someone battles one of them, they battle both of them, regardless of whether it's fair or not. They also have no qualms about following the rules and understanding the feelings of other people, seen when the twins sneaked into the Hidden Village and attempted to capture the Pokémon living there, despite Melanie's warnings about the Pokémon having been abandoned and mistreated, as well as the village's no-catch rule.

After their first defeat at the hands of Dwayne, the twins gained an unhealthy obsession towards the young Trainer, constantly following him around throughout his travels in Kanto, wanting to get "revenge" on him in any shape or form. Their obsession caused the twins to go as far as to commit crimes, such as illegally entering the Safari Zone to capture more Pokémon than him, and even kidnapping Dwayne himself to prevent him from making it to his match against Lagi at the Indigo Plateau Conference in order to get him disqualified.

## **Pokémon**

### **Adrian**

Weepinbell first appeared as a Bellsprout during the twins's first battle against Dwayne at Viridian Forest, where it battled alongside Adriana's Koffing. Despite the two-on-one advantage, Bellsprout and Koffing were defeated by Dwayne's Caterpie.
It was later shown to have evolved during the twins's Double Battle against Dwayne and Natalya. Despite getting an early upper hand, Weepinbell and Weezing were defeated by Dwayne's Roselia and Natalya's Beedrill.

### **Adriana**

Weezing first appeared as a Koffing during the twins's first battle against Dwayne at Viridian Forest, where it battled alongside Adrian's Bellsprout. Despite the two-on-one advantage, Koffing and Bellsprout were defeated by Dwayne's Caterpie.
It was later shown to have evolved during the twins's Double Battle against Dwayne and Natalya. Despite getting an early upper hand, Weezing and Weepinbell were defeated by Dwayne's Roselia and Natalya's Beedrill.

None of Goldeen's moves are known.