Samantha Peoisie

"Oh dear, you never had a choice to begin with!"

Samantha Elizabeth Peoisie is a member of the Peoisie Family and a Gym Leader of the Ijowa Region. She almost brought the world to her heel after she was corrupted by her own experimentation.

## Personality

Samantha was usually quite a reserved character, keeping to herself and avoided talking to other people whenever possible. When she did speak, her words sometimes came off as harsh to people she didn't care for (most people she had to talk to). Her intellect made it hard for her to enjoy menial conversation with others and the lack of attention from her parents pushed her to be active with her goals. Following on from her transformation, Samantha has a peppy and somewhat absent-minded personality with unnerving undertones. She always speaks with kindness and optimism to people, but sometimes it somehow comes off as more as a threat than anything so wholesome.

## Biography

### Background

Samantha was "fortunately" born into incredible wealth, and gifted with an incredible intellect. The problem was, her parents did not appreciate this gift, for they felt it was useless due to the family not needing to work to live a lavish lifestyle. The only person who cared any amount about her smarts or even her as a person was her brother Harry, who even then wasn't able to fully connect with her as he simply lacked the intelligence to keep up. The only thing that prevented her astute brain being wasted was due to the efforts of one of her close butlers, giving her private additional education the best he could before he was caught by Samantha's mother and subsequently fired. Just before that he gave Samantha a Shiny Gengar with a Gengarite to remember him by as she had grown a liking towards Poison Type Pokémon. Although she managed to enter a top university in Galar and graduate, over time her love for her family dwindled.

Thanks to her former butler her drive for learning only grew. Whether privately or in a fashion her parents were unable to stop, Samantha would continue to amass more knowledge, finding Neurology and Toxicology amongst her favourite subjects. As she grew older into early adulthood her parent's treatment went from dismissive to neglectful. Her parents barely paid attention to her and when they did they wouldn't listen to anything she had to say. The only person who even cared about her was her brother Harry, who even then was still just as stuck up and snobbish as her parents. Shortly after her graduation, she and her family moved to Ijowa for "business reasons" according to her father and bought out a large estate there. Some time after, Samantha's parents divorced and she was forced to be acquainted to Andre, her new Step-Father.

By this time also, she had a Pokémon team which she wanted to battle with, so she attempted the Ijowa Royal League. She lost after the 3rd gym battle. Her team wasn't strong enough and she lacked the sufficient bond with her Gengar to allow it to Mega Evolve. Her defeat filled her with anger and disappointment. However, Champion King Ebra had seen her passion for battle and told her that if she trains up her team and gets stronger he may let her be a gym leader. So that's exactly what she did. After some time, her team was much stronger and was added as a member of the league. She eventually chose to try and spend as little time in the house as possible, pursuing a career as Neurologist (she is officially a doctor). Soon after she officially emancipated from the family. Eventually her accolades and career pushed her to national and even inter-national reputation, winning various awards and other things. It was only then when Samantha's mother and Andre began to pay attention, now wanting to try and ride off of Samantha's fame which is almost superseding her family's own name, especially Elizabeth trying to (though admittedly failing to) claim that she played a positive part in making Samantha the woman she was. She hated that she only got attention from her parents once she was of use to them which further divided the family. Despite all this, Samantha was most frustrated at herself. She knew deep down that if she wasn't smart and just blindly did what her parents told her, then she might have had a better family life, even if how the family was built was inherently flawed.

### Ultra Invasion

At some point a company is found to have been running as a guise for a criminal organisation, a company which the Peoisie Family had ties to which brought them under heat also. Authorities investigated Samantha but soon found she had no involvement. Her parents and Andre however weren't so lucky. They try to use Samantha, the only truly guilt free party, to help appease crimes by testifying for them, and Andre makes the critical error of trying to make an advance on Samantha as a means of a bribe, too ignorant to realise Samantha is nothing like her mother. Not confident in the law to seriously try Andre for sexual harassment charges she passingly thinks of some kind of bribery/blackmail will be needed seeing as they need Samantha to prevent further charges placed on them. Though first and foremost, she chooses to build a charity of sorts to help people affected by the criminal organisation's misconducts.

Her charity was succeeding, despite her mother failing to understand its usefulness, though Samantha's thoughts began to grow more...intrusive. [maybe in the "postgame" UB outbreak Dilitrium just up and appears before her, Samantha catches it then sees it as a way to blackmail. Prolly tells nobody less she risks having it seized if its the only one of its kind found or due to its dangerous disposition (at least initially). Though may it becomes somewhat docile or even domesticated around Samantha due to kindred spirit-ness, like Venom an Eddie lol]

Eventually she would encounter what would change the course of her life forever, a manner of strange creature known as Dilitrium. During the midst of an Ultra Beast Outbreak a wormhole formed directly in Samantha's lab, partially by chance and likely the energy of the location acting as some manner of pull for a small wormhole. Samantha was, naturally, caught off guard by this and had to do battle with it. She knew it was aggressive due to being in an unfamiliar environment and thus didn't want to harm it too much with her Gengar, however lacking Beast Balls made catching it a non option. Thankfully the confrontation ended peacefully, both sides ceasing to attack the other. What was strange was that the pair almost...seemed to come to an understanding. Samantha eventually deduced this Ultra Beast was alone, hence how they were so effortlessly pulled to her world. Not knowing the capabilities of this Pokémon but also not wanting to risk having it being taken by bad actors Samantha had reluctantly chose to keep it. Dilitrium seemed happy with this arrangement, going so far as to let Samantha catch it.

### After acquiring Dilitrium

After field-testing Dilitrium and eventually revealing its existence the select few dealing with the Ultra Beast threat she learnt many things. Firstly, Dilitrium tend to appear in pairs, and since the one she caught lacked one it latched to Samantha due to somehow finding a sort of "connection" with her.

## Power

What she lacks in any substantial strength is her battling wit and raw intelligence.

* Team (Gym Leader)
* Team (Post-Corruption)
* Other

* Galarian Slowking
* Roserade
* Nidoqueen
* Salazzle
* Gengar (Shiny; Gengarite)

- Galarian Slowking

- Naganedel

- Nidoqueen

- Gengar (Shiny; Gengarite)

- Dilitrium

- Capable of merging both mind and body with Dilitrium, making it possible to utilise its effects to a far more effective degree

## Relationships

### Harrison W. Peoisie (Harry)

Brother and closest confidant. Harry is the only person she feels even slightly understands her. Despite his snobbish tendencies they both do care about each other a lot.

### Elizabeth V. Peoisie

Villain of her story. Samantha hates Elizabeth more than anyone else that has, is, or will live. She feels like her mother is the root of all evil in her life and the cause of all of her pain and anguish.

### Charles L. Peoisie

Abandoned Father. Despite not being fond of him due to how he too is partly to blame for Samantha's downfall she still sees him as a father and a human. Being dejected by the family only made her hatred for her mother grow.

### Andre "Peoisie"

Thorn in her side. Samantha and Andre never get along, unable to find common ground as they fundamentally disgaree on too many things. This isn't helped by him representing the reality of Charles' abandonment.

### Alexa Jewell (Alterna)

Interesting. Practically never meeting until Samantha has passed the point of return and just before Alterna follows suit. In their brief moment Samantha felt naught but excitement, but not for what Alterna was at the time. But what she was going to become. Now under Samantha's thrall she sees Alexa as everything she would want out of an ally, not like Alexa could be anything else but. Naturally they get on like 2 peas in a pod, or rather Samantha finds bending her to her will easy.

## Trivia

* Her brother nicknames her Sammy; she dislikes the name but has become used to it over time
* Her favourite colour is Lilac
* Out of every major league member she is the least liked, due to her difficulty and somewhat brash personality
* Despite the changes brought upon herself and the evils she brought onto the world like this, Samantha genuinely prefers her corrupted self because she actually achieved what she's always wanted: being exactly what her family wanted her to be

## Gallery

Rare instance of Samantha overtly showing frustrationSamantha having captured AlternaSamantha having gone too long without Angel's Breath, causing her nose to bleed a black hue