Neon

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## Neon

### Relatives

Neck (Brother) • Nola (Sister) • Neon's mom • Neon's dad

## Appearances

### Debut

Hope in Friends (Chapter 1) (First Appearance in Story) • Hope in Friends (Prologue) (First Appearance Canonically)

## Mew of Hope

### Followed by

*Current*

**Neon** is the main character in Hope in Friends, and is the leader of Team Hope in Friends, a team with Zander, Izzy, Volty, and Akiko. He was a human, but he gets turned into a Pikachu every time his powers transport him to Xetonoa.

## Background

### Pre-Hope in Friends

Neon was born on Earth around 1994-1995. In School he was bullied for liking Pokémon and about his favorite Pokémon being Pikachu. In the summer of 2005 Neon went on a camping trip which led to him trying to save Enone from getting killed by some humans, though ultimately failing and instead gaining the Mark of Hope.

A few days after that Neon's hair changed from brown to blonde, and his eyes changed from brown to cyan. A week after that he started hearing whispers in his head. He and his family also moved houses and schools during that same summer.

On the first day of Neon's new school, he becomes friends with Alex and Keaven. Between the first day of that school-year and December, he uses his eye-powers for the first time, to make Keaven tell him what was bothering him.

In December 2005, Neon was teleported into the Pokémon world because of Zander's hopelessness. Right after helping Zander he was teleported back to the Human world.

Between Early 2006 and early/mid 2007 Neon had 150 more of these "Dreams" (including one with Nitrous), with all of them ending with him helping the Pokémon he was teleported to except the last one, where he came face to face with Caesi and was teleported home because the Pokémon he was trying to help were killed by Caesi. Also within that time, Neon was almost drowned by two bullies, cementing his fear of water/swimming.

Between late summer/early fall of 2006 and late spring/ early summer of 2007, Alex went missing. Though right before that, he gifted Neon his collection of Pokémon cards. Axel also went missing at the same time.

After Neon's "nightmare" with Ceasi, it seemed that his sleep, grades, and mental state greatly deteriorated, as his parents fully banned Pokémon from their household for around 3 years and confiscated anything Pokémon related he had. (There seems to be a single exception to this, being the card collection Alex gave Neon before he disappeared. Currently it is unknown whether this is because of Neon hiding them especially good, or because his parents let him keep them, as they were the last thing Alex gave him.)

On May 14th, 2010, Neon's parents officially unbanned Pokémon from their household, and Keaven was able to "convince" their teacher to give Neon his DS back, making it a very good day for Neon. That is until he walks into a park/forest and then gets teleported into the Pokémon world from his Mark of Hope activating.

### In Hope in Friends

On May 15th, at around 11am-1pm, Zander finds Neon passed on the middle of a path. (A little before this point Volty had climbed in his hair.) A little bit after Zander found him, Izzy introduced herself and Neon reveals to them that he was previously a human. Izzy immediately believes him, while Zander believes that they were both crazy, and started to come up with a plan to lure them into the guild. Then, Neon goes to grab a scarf but gets trapped. Trode then reveals himself and attacks Zander, both are able to damage each other, though Trode cuts the battle short, as he doesn't want to fight Zander when he's still holding back.

Neon learns how to run in his new body, easily running far past Zander and Izzy (though taking a wrong turn).He finds Volty in his fur, and talks a while with him, he also helps Neon calm down when he starts crying. Neon then finds a thunder stone, and is both confused and infuriated when he is unable to evolve with it, he talks to Volty a little more and shows him his ability to copy anyone's voice perfectly, he then decides to throw the thunder stone away, and accidentally throws it exactly onto Nitrous, who evolves from an Eevee into a Jolteon, and proceeds to find and beat up Neon. Neon is then given a Sitrus Berry from Ben to heal him up. Neon and Ben have a race of who can get to town first. They proceed to meet back up with Zander and Izzy and Ben gives a Sitrus Berry to Zander. Neon, Zander, Izzy, and Volty then continue their walk to the guild.

## Trivia

* Neon seems to be a fan of manga/anime (from his Light Yagumi reference) and the Kingdom Hearts series.
* Neon is unable to swim and has an extreme fear of water.
	+ This was mostly because of a traumatic event regarding two of his bullies nearly drowning him.
* He still hates Pikachu.
* Neon is able to copy about 97% of voices, doing perfect impressions of them.