Bartie Creed

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## Bartie Creed

### Occupation

Musician (Bartie Creed and the Unnaturals)

### Relatives

Porter Fray (Estranged)Edith Fray (Estranged)

# Summary

A musician in the Blue District struggling to make ends meet. Bartie is determined to make it big in the music world, but also help “reject” Pokémon find a home. Bartie is on an adventure with Warren Arcat and Pip Stop in while trying to balance her life of music on top of it all.

# Pre-Campaign

Bartie Creed, or Bartholomew Fray by birth, has always had a troubled childhood. Parents constantly fighting, being bullied for how she looks and acts, always being dumped or rejected by partners, but there was always one thing that kept her together. That thing being music, more specifically, Thrash Metal. Through all the hardships life threw their way, there was truly no better way to let your emotions crash into their music. Growing up, Bartie always been attracted to the fast riffing and manic vocals it provides. Out of all the different genres of Metal out there(she loves them all), Thrash was and is by far her favorite. Bartie was inspired by other musicians to make a band of her own, but it’s too bad that Bartie later had been thrown out of her house by her parents for constantly causing a ruckus with the music she played(among other reasons). Her (estranged) father, Porter Fray, was never really around, only ever focusing on his work, while her (estranged) mother, Edith Fray, was constantly home but also constantly in a dunken stupor arguing with her daughter about the slightest inconvenience. Bartie quickly had to find a job and a place to stay or else she could end up on the street alone. Hopping from friends house to friends house trying to get back on their feet. She ended up staying at her best friend, Jack Derrick's house for a great while. Instead of looking for a normal job like a normal person, Bartie insisted that she find “gigs” throughout the city in hopes to make enough money to get by, eventually saving up enough money to rent out a crappy apartment, but Bartie makes do. She was on her own. Left to fend for herself, all the while still going to high school(presently a graduate). After a Gig she preformed, it started to downpour heavy rain, and she was forced in an alley to protect her equipment. She started to play music to calm her nerves(reminiscent of the start of Battery by Metallica.), which attracted a toxel, which came out of the trash to play along with her. Bartie later took in this tragic Pokémon to take care of it on her own, inferring that it had been left behind by previous owners. Bartie later dubbed this toxel, Axl, named after Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses. Axl had a talent for drumming, so became the drummer in Bartie's band, formerly known as *Bartie Creed and the baby*. Later down the line, when Bartie is 19(3 years later), they are a music duo, though still kind of living in squalor, having their best lives preforming gigs and sharing their music with all sorts of people. They’re not that popular, but they like to keep their hopes up :)

# Active Campaign

Bartie is definitely the chaos collaborator of the gang. She does mainly anything she can to pump up her "Rockstar/Thrasher image". Even with this, she is still very caring and compassionate, but also a bit coarse, shown when she beat the daylights out of Bliss Song for helping and corroborating with Team Vision's experiments on Pokémon.

Bartie often shows her love for Pokémon, almost treating her own Pokémon as her own children(Axl for instance) and siblings(Slash and Ringo for another). During her time in Shinpi Forest, she was mainly searching for Pokémon that could be future bandmates for her band. Bartie caught Ringo during that encounter, who later became her Bassist in her band, now renamed, *Bartie Creed and the Unnaturals*.

Bartie also shows great companionship with her best friend, Jack Derrick, a long time friend since middle school. They are there for each other "through thick and thin", with Jack even being the Manager for her band. When Bartie initially got kicked out of her parent's place, Jack offered to house her for a little while she got back on her feet, which she immediately agreed to. Bartie also joined in a barfight to help defend jack, later pulling him into Warren's car to get away. It seems that Bartie may even be harboring a little more than "feelings of friendship" for Mr. Derrick.

Bartie truly showed her love for saving and rescuing Pokémon when she took her prized and beloved Purple Electric Guitar and smashed it against test tubes to break out Pokémon in a mysterious underground lab, which is how Bartie obtained Slash, who is to become a backing guitarist for *Bartie Creed and the Unnaturals.*

Bartie actively tried to find a Sneasel with a "Rocker Attitude" after being told by Professor "Bruce" that there was a Sneasel that had been stealing items around the area, but the Sneasel stole some of her items. She thought a Pokémon with this "Rocker Attitude" would be perfect for the band. When she tried to get close, it would run away and laugh, then Warren threw a snowball and the Sneasel fell and created a large pit, then Bartie jumped inside almost immediately trying to make sure it wasn't hurt, almost disregarding that her stuff was stolen by this Pokémon. Frantically searching through this underground cavern to make sure this Sneasel is okay, Bartie called out Axl to try to help find this Sneasel. With help from Axl's lightning bolt on its head giving off some light, found the Sneasel, which was hanging on to a spike over a small frozen pond. Almost out of instinct, she placed down her guitar as a bridge and ran and jumped to the spike the Sneasel was on, threw it so safety, but also falling into the freezing cold water taking tons of damage but ended up climbing up and jumping to safety, making sure the guitar was safe in the process. She made sure the Sneasel was okay, and told him her true intentions, talking about how she wanted a new member of her band, and Sneasel joked poked her, to where Bartie pulled out her one and only great ball, and offered it to him. He threw it up in the air and let it hit, and then Bartie gained a new member, Angus the Sneasel, named after Angus Young of AC/DC. This was the true reminder to everyone that Bartie is willing to risk her own life for the lives of Pokémon.

Bartie proved her love of Pokémon may be a flaw after all, as she actively helped in the robbery of the museum, believing her newest 'mon, Hendrix the Riolu/Zorua hybrid stealing the relic dubbed "the Ancient Pokéball". She believed that Pokémon always have better interests in mind, but later realized that this was a flaw when she really hurt Pip's feelings leaving him behind escaping the museum mishap. She, yes did help the 'mon escape capture and being put into a "Poké-pound", but hurt someone in the process, which she feels really bad for. When the ancient ball turned out to be a fake, she felt even worse, because something she risked her and her friend's lives on what happened to be a fraud. Though saddened with the fact of Pip avoiding her, she is incredibly happy that Hendrix is safe with her and not in the pound or out on the street. When Pip gave Bartie the Razor Claw as a favor of forgiveness, she both felt really happy that they were friends again, but also a little confused as the way he gave it to her was a lot like a marriage proposal.

During the Dreamscape arc, Bartie wanted to look for a wimpod in the lake, but kept getting pebbles thrown at it by a little pink thing behind a tree. She decided to "cs:go crouch walk" to the little goober to see what it was and if it was her favorite Pokémon, Impidimp. Bartie was still getting pebbles thrown at her, but while approaching she kept catching them and "mic dropping" them, which came to surprise the lil guy. As Bartie got closer, it climbed up the tree, to which she had an idea. She used her trademark ability, Rockstar, to try to allure the lil goober with her music, which worked splendidly, as the little Impidimp came down and started to vibe with her rock/metal music she was playing. She kept playing music for it till it felt comfortable around her, even with Hendrix tapping his feet begrudgingly. Impidimp tried plucking at the strings, and even with no practice it sounded alright, which gave her the idea to ask it to join her band. She took out a painted pokeball that was black and purple with her band logo on it, and offered it to the lil guy, to whom he accepted and joined her party in her 6th slot. She named him Fender, based on the guitar brand of the same, with him probably becoming another guitarist for her band seeing as he liked plucking at the strings of hers.

# Trivia

* Bartie's namesake comes from the fact that Owlcityofcl things Bartholomew is a really funny name, and her last name Fray comes from a band of the same name, The Fray
* Bartie lives in Blue District, dubbed "York", similar to New York, but in a much lower income area
* Bartie loves music, maybe a little too much, and proves her knowledge of many different genres by pointing out each song that plays on Warren's car radio
* Bartie's love for music is mostly apparent in, yes she is a musician, but also that all her Pokémon are named after famous musicians and rockstars
* Though living in "squalor", Bartie loves to decorate her apartment in different metal band posters and fake foliage.
* Bartie's dream is to make sure Axl lives a fun life, and is retroactively trying to make Axl forget he was thrown out by his previous owners
* Bartie actually came up with the group's "team name". dubbed the Misfits, based on the band of the same name[1]
* When Warren bought Bartie her new Rotom Phone, she was so appreciative that she set her wallpaper to the Misfits
* When Bartie was told by Spruce about regional variants and studies, Bartie was pretty interested in research about Pokémon
* Bartie has proven that she is willing to risk her life for the lives of Pokémon, shown as she risked her life for Angus
* Bartie proved that her main flaw was her caring for Pokémon too much, shown when she left behind Pip to help out Hendrix
* Bartie thinks Pip has a crush on her, as he "kinda" proposed to her with a Razor Claw
* Bartie thinks The Romantic is kinda weird with his constant winking at her and throwing the roses at her, but doesn't want to say anything