Professor Camelia

### Relative(s)

Lavender Blanke (mother), Frank Blanke (father), Basil Blanke (brother), Heather Blanke (sister)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Heather

Professor Camelia Blanke was the resident professor of Anville Town in the Unova region. She specializes in Pokémon Psychology, behavior and their relationship with people.

## History

Camelia Blanke was born, and raised within Nimbasa City, with the cities architecture growing alongside her. Her upraising was mediocre, never quite having the focus or guts for pokémon training proper. Instead, she'd always been fascinated by helping others understand their pokémon better- and as such, went through the process of becoming a professor. She enrolled in Castelia University.

The schooling process was rather difficult, grueling in terms of time and money. As such, she picked up plenty of side hustles- creating pokéballs for fellow students and her teachers alike. Camelia was noted to have very rarely slept during her schooling process, instead constantly focused on notetaking and thought experiments. Eventually, after graduating, she took on a Researcher position under one of the Psych Professors within Castelia University. This professor in particular was studying the ways pokémon can help human mental health, especially through dreams. While brilliant, the professor she studied under was rather callous, and viewed pokémon as a means to an end. She stayed working under the professor, assisting in various experiments meant to see if you can use pokémon that eat dreams to remove things like night terrors. Eventually, he believed he was onto something through the use of Munna, and began a side project of breeding them- which he gave Camelia full control over.

Around the third egg set, Camelia stole one of the eggs, and set off the alarms in Castelia University, prompting someone to finally see her old boss's lab work. This resulted in the firing of her old boss, including various legal lawsuits due to the suspicious nature of one of his head assistant researchers just seemingly fleeing the crime, and the unethical work being done. Camelia then moved to Anville Town, buying a small place to live in. She laid low for a few years, becoming apart of the community, effectively quitting her research work. It's around this time the egg she stole hatched, revealing a Munna. She began to raise the pokémon as a sort of apology to the others of his egg cluster. As Team Plasma came into the public eye and their arguments that the pokémon-human relationship is inherently bad- it sparked her scientific interest in the pokémon psyche again. Still, refusing to own a proper lab, Camelia remodeled her living room into a pokémon daycare, inviting those who work on the train and have other daytime demanding jobs to leave their pokémon with her to be watched and cared for. She studied the pokémon's behavior, and began to do her work as a Pokémon Psychologist once more. She became a beloved member of Anville Town through her insightful readings on pokémon behavior, and assisted with making day to day living with pokémon truly harmonious. She also used her general skills as a professor to help aspiring trainers from Anville to start their adventures, by giving them mons that had been rehabilitated and were ready for rehoming. She used their "buddy logs" to track the progress and bonds.

She brought on an assistant, and remodeled her home once more to have more room for her work. She became an advocate for the proper treatment of pokémon, and informed pokémon raising. She used her position as a 'daycare owner' to rehome abused or neglected pokémon, after working with them through the issues that arose from a tumultuous trainer-pokémon partnership. As she became more and more known, people began to recognize her from her past. This eventually caused her to give over the business to her assistant and leave Unova.

## Appearance

With her full height coming in at 6'2", Camelia Blanke would have an impressive stature if it weren't for the fact she was built exceptionally wirey. With no muscles and nothing but height going for her- in body shape Camelia is exceptionally stick like. Her face shape is thin and rectangular, further elongating her features. She's got a notable hook nose, with heavy lidded eyes. Said eyes clearly sport eye bags, the skin underneath her eyes darkened due to perpetual tire. Her eyes are a dusty heather color, only slightly darker than her thick, coily hair that poofs outward. She has fine lines around her eyes and forehead from both age and stress.

For clothes, it's rare to see her in anything but a white lab coat (the pockets were always just too convenient for her to get rid of), a fluffy sweater, vest, and then slacks. She's also usually wearing fuzzy socks and loafers. However, her clothes are hardly the most notable part of her attire- carried constantly with her is a red plaid comforter, wrapped around her shoulders as if it were a boa, or a scarf. She uses it for on the go napping. Due to this blanket, however, she's constantly slouches and loses 2 inches in height. Not to mention the way it exacerbates her stumbling walk.

## Personality

On surface level, Camelia is aloof and entirely eccentric. Not particularly cold, but not entirely expressive either. The constant tire can be easily seen as an apathy towards the world, and her calm attitude can be off putting for the same reason. Ever even tempered, ever even keeled. Friendly enough, and quick to assist others, but she hardly seems openly eager, awake, or excited. She seems to live her life perpetually tired, and it's a mystery what one could be doing to live their life constantly sleepy. Those with a high intuition, or are psychic leaning might get a sense that melancholy follows her energy everywhere.

The tire is a symptom of another large facet of her personality- her mind. Camelia is constantly exerting effort of the mind, keeping aware and observant over as many things as she physically can. She doesn't have good work ethic, meaning she's constantly in some state of working whether she means to be or not. Still, though, behind her tiredness lies someone fiercely passionate about pokémon- enough so to break laws. She has strong beliefs about how pokémon should be treated, and will not hesitate to start fights she'll lose on the principle of it. Though, if she can, she'd rather use her wits to outsmart and outplay someone she's decided to go toe to toe with. Pokémon theft, if from corrupt or cruel individuals, is not below her. She finds deep satisfaction in seeing a pokémon grow past their own perceived limitations. This principle- an adoration of growth and potential- also follows in her interactions with others, very empathetic towards emotional responses or emotional walls. In true workaholic fashion, she often will exert a lot of focus and thought onto those who don't seem to be doing well, pokémon or not.

Still, though, Camelia holds a lot of guilt and grief for her actions in her youth that she doesn't know fully how to let go of. Blaming herself for blindly following a cruel man, Camelia prefers to keep a soft spoken, but passionate approach in all things. Due to this guilt, she can be often times quick to act where she should wait and observe- especially on topics that are sensitive to the subject at hand. She's also much more suspicious of large organizations or groups, usually seeing them as greedy profit machines unless proved otherwise. This same guilt, also, could be why she's so particular about actually owning her own Pokémon- ingrained belief that while, perhaps, Pokémon and human relationships aren't inherently sour... Hers might be.

## Ace Pokémon and Team

Main Pokémon *(Pokémon that she intends to keep for herself.)*

* Munna (M)
	+ Munna is the egg that Camelia stole, and has been her only true partner for forever. Munna is well meant, a little skittish- but easily distracted and excited by new things. His easily distracted nature leads to him being rather clumsy, and despite trying to assist in keeping his trainer on track, he often ends up just as dazed and zoned out as her. He is vaguely aware of the guilt Camelia carries, due to being a Dream Reader. He's just a little too young to understand what it all means, though.
* Mareep (F)
	+ Mareep is a very new addition to Camelia's team, but she's very much so a needed spark of Energy for Camelia. Will pretend to be a battling pokemon when she's very much so a house sheep. As far as she's concerned, it's her duty to protect the subdued members of the house.
* Eevee (M)
	+ Eevee is a calm, cuddly little guy! He very much so admires Munna and how ready he is to help everyone, but can't help but find fault in how easily distracted Munna is, too. He wants to grow up fast so that he can help other pokemon, too. Still, he is rather young, and is quick to scare when things get tough- like most of Camelias team, given they're companion pokemon.

Foster Pokémon *(Pokémon that are on her team, but after they've been fully socialized, will be given away to a trainer that Camelia believes will take good care of them.)*

* Magnemite. (N/A)
	+ Magnemite was found on an electricity sapping spree. It's likely they were close to evolving, but the other three got split up or caught by trainers. Magnemite, when not dealing with electricity withdrawals- is a very thoughtful, collected pokemon. They like to watch how things work before forming an opinion of any sort.

## Friends

Flynn - Sweet kid who she's even put aside her disdain for organizations to work with. She sees the heart and empathy he puts into everything, and would like to encourage that and see Flynn succeed. He reminds her a lot of the old worker she left her home and daycare to, which hits strange bit of nostalgia for her she probably won't ever share.

Longo - Good heart, funny mind. She'd like to do some research on Orre societal structure, because she can't help but feel like it failed him. Not that Kairos seems to be doing much better, really. Camelia would like to see him be unapologetically himself without the instinctive distrust of other people. ... She doesn't know if she can manage that, but she'd like to try. She appreciates the care he puts into his pokemon immensely.

## Foes

TBD. The good professor hasn't been around enough to form any extremely notable relationships.

## Goals

**SHORT TERM GOALS;**

* **Socialize Klefki:** In order for Klefki to be ready for his new forever home, Camelia needs to help him work on his confidence and become more socialized.
* **Socialize Voltorb:** In order for Voltorb to be ready for its new forever home, Camelia needs to help it work through its defensive aggressive habits and become more socialized.
* **Socialize Cinccino.** With the oils being tempered by a deep cleaning, now's the time to get Cinccino used to environments and less stressed.
* **Get Rid of Magnemite's Dependency.** Since it doesn't seem like a physical defect but rather a problem of emotion for the pokemon, Camelia is in the works of rehabilitating Magnemite by lowering its electricity intake levels to a safe amount.
* **Have a Therapy Session with Wooloo.** Get to understand the hotheaded sheep pokemon better. Perhaps there's something deeper going on here that needs to be addressed, or perhaps this Wooloo is just unique in temperament. Either way, it's her job to find out.
* **Train Foster Pokémon:** Foster 'mons require a lot of training to truly be ready to face the world again in its full.
* **Witness a Type Sync:** Her interest was piqued by Nadri after he mentioned Type Syncing. She wants to study how Type Syncing changes a Pokémons behaviour.
* **Explore Sahka:** Her interest was piqued by Nadri after he mentioned crystals and doppelgangers.

**LONG TERM GOALS;**

1. **Help Lost, Abused, or Otherwise Negatively Impacted Pokémon:** Pokémon abandoned by trainers, at hatching, or any Pokémon from an unfortunate situation is of keen interest to Professor Camelia. She'd like to help rehabilitate and raise them, or if they're already being cared for properly- seek retribution for them.
2. **Study Pokémon Psychology:** The mental workings of most Pokémon are barely understood, and highly guessed in professional arenas. The behavior and feelings of Pokémon are Professor Camelia's priority interest and goal in all aspects of life. How much of a Pokémons personality as an individual is defined by the Pokémon it is? How much of it is defined by typing? What causes the exceptions to this? Are there exceptions to this? What causes certain Pokémon to be naturally more aggressive than others, or outright malicious to humans? How accurate are Pokédex entries? Professor Camelia seeks to check and recheck all works surrounding this.