Gloria

Goria in her pink delmo uniform

### Affiliation

Miette Empire, Team Delmo(former), Serena's One Army (former) Glass Legion (former), Galar Pokemon League (former)

## Appearances

### Debut

Turn 1: Recruitment

Gloria McSwordson was one of the main characters of the Delmokemon series. Knive-fan, combat ready and always happy to drink a good whisky, this galarian pokémon trainer was one of Team Delmo's first major recruits. She quickly rose the ranks to become Pink Delmo commander. Following its downfall, she became part of the Miette Empire, being responsible of resource managment and support in distant areas. Alongside many, she was captured and corrputed by Serena during the Regin of Darkness, becoming part of the Glass Legion. Thanks to the efforts of her friends, she was turned back to normal.

She kept with her job, being one of Miette's main advisors. Following Ash's kidnapping, she accompanied Miette to the Kalos Pokemon League, where she helped face the One Wing cult. She didn't return from this adventure, giving her life in order to prevent Serena's return.

Her death was a turning point for the empire, being their first major casualty on its history.

## Biography

### Early Years

Gloria was born November 15, 1986 in Wedgehurst, a small town on the South of the Galar region. Having a pokémon laboratory in her hometown, she had curiosity for pokémon since she was a kid. She often visited the place after class alongside Victor and Hop, two friends of hers. Besides that, her childhood went on without any major incident. Her biggest dream was to discover a new pokémon, one that nobody had seen before.

### Pokémon Journey

#### First Journey

Following this interest, the three recieved their starter pokémon at the age of 10. She recieved a Grookey, which she named Diddy. While Victor had an intereste in researching about pokemon alongside professor Sonia, Gloria and Hop wanted to travel. So, once they were fifteen, the two embarked on a journey, Gloria pursuing her childhood dream and Hop to compete in the Gym challenge with the goal of beating Leon, his brother and the world's strongest trainer. Before leaving, her mother gifted Gloria a pocket knife, that she ended up using a lot.

They travelled with no stop, wanting to explore all the region. She got to capture lots of pokemon and document them in her pokedex. She also attended Hop's gym battles, procclaimg herself his official cheerleader. The two got along really well. She also trained with Hop constantly, helping him perfect his battle strategies.

The duo got closer as the months passed. One night, while looking at the stars together, she thought about holding his hand. but at the same time she wanted to do so, he tried to to the same, causing the two to do a high five instead. The two looked at each other, smiled and had a long hug, realizing their relationship was perfect as it is.

One week later, while running from a wild Obstagoon at the Wild Area, Hop fell off a ledge. She rushed to attend him and ran for aid. The fall had been really bad. Doctors said that, with much luck, he could walk in a year or two. Seeing his friend in such a depressive state, her heart shank. She had to do something. She wanted to make him happy. She called Leon, asking if there was a way someone could take other's place in the pokemon torunament. There was a way.

#### Gym Challenge

Now, with four pokemon badges in, she completed Hop's journey. It cost her a lot, but she grabbed all eight badges and qualified for the 2002 Pokémon League conference. Along the way, she met a fellow trainer named Marnie, who specialized in dark types. The two often practiced together and became friends. She had qualified for the league too and were set to face one another. After a long battle, Gloria left victorious. Suddenly Marnie kissed her, claiming it was a thank you for a great battle. Gloria blushed, she shared the same feelings. They started dating during the two weeks of the conference. Gloria reached the finals, set to face Leon. Her friends and family came to cheer her. But not even her Rilaboom gigantamaxing was enough to beat him. She lost, yet the stadium cheered for her. That battle was remembered for months, one of the best displays of strategy that had been seen in a while.

#### Masters and beyond

But then bad news came. Marnie decided to cut their relationship, she wanted time to focus on her training. Gloria was distraught, she spent days in her room. But the perfect thing to distract her mind came when Victor got her a letter. Due to her performance, she had been offered a spot in the 2003 World Coronation Series. She accepted without a second thought. After a series of battles, she made it to Ultra Class in early 2004.

On February 10, 2004 she had one of her most fierce matches. She was set to face Marnie. They hadn't seen each other since 2002 and she was unsure of even attending. With encouraging words of Hop, she decided to face it. The two rivals met on the field. Both of them gave their all. But Gloria lost this time. Both had matured on progressed as trainers and women. After the battle, the two met and decided to give each other a second chance. This led to an on-again, off-again relationship, which went for years.

She attended Ash's match with Leon on October 5, 2004. Seeing the young boy from Pallet Town turned world champion inspired her. She now knew she could do it. After intense training and high support, she managed to beat Ash on October 20, 2006. Turned World's number one pokemon trainer, she had all she wanted in her life. On par with defending her title, she started travelling across the world, fighthing against many trainers and learning from them.

### Team Delmo

#### Recruitement

On June 30, 2007, Gloria was set to have a meeting with Misty in her gym to face one another. But when she got there, she instead witnessed how Brock, Dawn, Serena and Miette physically beat, captured and brainwashed Misty and Lyra into Team Delmo. Wanting to learn more about this, she knocked out a pink delmo Joy and took her uniform. Wearing this, she made her way to the Delmo submarine. Just a few hours later, Domino's attempted attack happened and she had to assist alongside the Joys. She wanted to show off using her pokemon, but seeing that they used heavy weaponry, she decided to keep them in their pokeballsm not wanting to endanger them. Instead, she took her pocket knife. The crisis was dealt pretty quickly by Lyra, but she loved the thrill of all it, deciding to stay.

#### Early missions

A few hours later, she properly introduced herself to Brock and the other girls, who accepted Gloria in his ranks with open arms. After her training, her first major mission was in June 4 asissting in May's capture. She was set to guard around the zone alongside Domino, when she spotted Cynthia watching them. They fought, but the Team Galactic leader used sleeping gas and captured them, wanting to convert them to Team Galactic.

Two days later Team Delmo assaulted their base, being rescued by Serena. She even had the honor of being the one to brainwash Cynthia into being a Delmo. Serena and her became friends, that the blonde used in her favor to make Gloria spy on Miette. In parallel to this, Gloria was tasked with brainwashing the galactic grunts to their side. She missed Marnie and the affect she gave her, so she made some of the grunts to act as her "pets" to serve her.

This was succesful, as a few weeks later Miette confided in her that she was going to meet Ash in Alola. Gloria ran and informed this to Serena. The two formed an squad and ambushed Miette. She managed to restrain her while Serena captured Ash and Lillie.

The two didn't talk until July 28, when Brock assigned her, Miette, Misty and Lillie on a task force to go look for members in the Unova region. Once arriving there, they scouted in Nimbasa city. She was with Misty when Rosa stole her pocket knife. Furious, she chased after her. Alongside Misty, they beat up Rosa and her partner Hilda, inprisioning them in Team Delmo's base. She self assigned them as her torturer, beating the two and Ash during the nights.

#### Promotion and betrayal

At this point the other girls noticed her erratic behaviour, with Miette being the first one to report it to Brock and Dawn. Yet they didn't put notice to it. Instead, she was promoted to Pink delmo commander.

Alongside the whole Team, she was present in august 28, day when the three prisioners, alongside Lillie, escaped from the delmo base. She was part of the group that almost stopped them, but fell into Elesa's trap. This infuriated Brock, who ordered them to expand on their world domination efforts. In the meeting to decide Miette's fate, she voted in against her under Serena's command. As a thank you, Serena put her in charge of the Night guard, where she could have as much fun with her pets as she wanted. She had many under her command, to the point she had started considering if she could take over.

This decision was to blow in Serena's face however, when a few days later Misty and Serena tried to seal the brainwashing gun. When they ended up in the armory, they had to face her and her followers since Gloria used the room as a place to play with her pets. With the help of Lyra they defeated them and shot at her with the brainwashing gun. This turned the champion with desires of greatness into a mindless minion, which they sent to Brock's room. She inmediately proposed her sexual services to him, causing Brock to drop Dawn. This made Dawn extremely jealous and started the chain of events that were to lead into her takeover.

#### The coup

On september 8, the two almost got into a fist fight after interrogating Miette over the Kanto campaign. She was to beat up Dawn but stopped upon noticing reinforcements were comming. That afternoon, there was a meeting in which Brock announced his intentions of promoting her to supreme white delmo commander. This decision was met with controversy among the girls. She had enought knives in her utility belt to attack them in one second, but Misty stopped her before this was possible. Dawn instead grabbed her by the butt and thew the two out of the base.

The two landed in an small island west of Hoenn. The lovers decided it was best for them to put Team Delmo in the public eye so the nations of the world could hunt them. Also, they had the brainwashing gun. They made Gloria pretend she was a prisioner of the Delmos all this time in an interview which aired the next day.

In parallel, the two hijacked Team Magma's base and started brainwashing the grunts. They knew it was a matter of hours for Dawn's squad to show up on their front door, so they prepared themselves. Indeed, once Dawn, Miette, Serena, Elesa, Misty and Ash showed up, she used the mind controlled grunts to attack. After busting Miette and Elesa recording her slaves she snapped promising them her underwear to the one that killed the two. But when seeing that Miette and Misty easily defeated her slaves she tried to escape, only to face Serena, asissted by Miette and Elesa. The last one was the one that beat her with a kick in the butt.

At this point, she escaped Brock to come after her and get her to safety. But to her shock, he had fled, not even bothering in checking if she was ok. Heartbroken, she accepted her punishment. She could only close her eyes as May shot her with the brainwashing gun, turing her into a loyal supporter of Dawn's cause.

Alongside the whole Team, she was present when Ash, Miette, Elesa, Lillie and Rosa made their big breakout. She failed to stop them however, arriving late. Instead of chasing them, Dawn decided to expand her world conquest. She was given complete control over the Hoenn region, although she first made a visit to supervise construction of Dawn's Sinnoh castle alongside Lyra. The two had a brainwashing gun in hand, to use it against reporters and curious people who snuck around.

#### Goldenrod city assault

A month later, she deployed sent to Kanto-Jotho, just in time for the Black Hat Syndicate's attack on Goldenrod city. Lyra, who ruled the regions with an iron fist alongside her pet Ethan, and her were the first to assist blue delmo Withney when the Syndicate took over her gym and helped restrain them. But a surprise attack from withney's trainers, who had been accidentally unbrainwashed by Selene, put a stop to this, forcing her to flee.

She stopped in Azalea Town, where Dawn's forces were gathering. She met a brainwashed Miette there, handing her her Syndicate uniform to infiltrate among them, incidentally causing her to snap out of the mind control. She retreated with the others once the battle was lost and Serena was captured. As part of the prisioner exchange, Dawn tasked Domino and her to set bombs across the town, in order to eliminate the Syndicate once they got what they wanted. This failed as they took notice of the explosives and fleed, but their plan B of setting fireworks saying that this was the Syndicate's idea didn't. As such, they were worldwide criminals. She led a task force that managed to stop them before they left Hoenn. She chased after them, even after Miette and Ash separated from them. Sadly for her, they managed to escape. So she set back to her palace in Gloria City.

#### Miette and the Empire

As a distraction measure, she organized a session to worship her feet due next day, that always relaxed her. What she didn't count on was Ash and Miette sneaking on her celebration and stealing the brainwashing gun while she was being worshipped. Alerted by one of her pets, she tried to stop this in a fight, but she lost. Defeated, she begged to not be brainwashed. Miette accepted this and later that night she procclaimed Miette emperess of Hoenn, setting the start of the Miette Empire.

Domino and her accompained Miette in the conquest of Kanto, beating up some thugs that tried to assault Miette when she arrived. Seeing a battle between the delmos and the syndicate, she was among those who chose to support the Syndicate, turning the battle in their favor. Domino and her chased away Delmo squads, blocking entrances to the city. As a former pink delmo, she knew the weak spots of their tanks, which she used in her favor.

She returned with the Syndicate, now part of the Empire in their yacht. Here she learnt alongside the others of Dawn and Ash's upcoming wedding. She attended alongside the group, stealing Delmo uniforms for they to disguise on and her influences to let them a seat in. In the final battle, Domino, Misty, Serena and her faced Dawn in the top of her statue, but Dawn used a metalic knuckle to knock her out, only being awakened after the battle. Alongside everyone, she attended Ash and Miette's wedding and the upcoming party. It was there that she saw Marnie was among the unbrainwashed delmos, and they rekindled their relationship once more.