Alice Springs/Pokémon

"*That's a rather good joke there Ashy.*"
—Alice to Ash Ketchum.

**Alice Springs** (アリススプリングズ, *Arisu Supuringuzu*) is an *Pokémon* character and protagonist of *Pokémon Seasons*, and an major character in the *Pokémon Celestial Version* and the anime of the same name. She's an human female Easterner Pokémon Trainer, Coordinator, one of the Four Cardinals in the Pokémon League, and current Pokémon Champion of the East. Alice grew up in the town Spring in the East one of the Cardinal Kingdoms existing in Albion, becoming a trainer at the age of 14, choosing the Template:Type-type knwon as ????. Traveling across the East, she would soon participate in the Pokémon League of the West, and went to challange the gyms situated in the region. As times goes, she matured as she slowly gained ground, defeating the leaders and trainers in between, all the while gaining new types of Pokémon. Eventually her adventures leads to her being joined with two other; Austria Bulgaria and Soviet Union, and teaming up against the West's villain organization known as the Team Cadere, who tried to capture Oriens, the mythical Pokémon of the East, and stopped their plot in summoning the Celestials, and even befriended and partnered with the mythical Pokémon itself. With the power of Boul, and the power of her other Pokémon, she would break through the league's Elite and was able to defeat the champion, and becoming the Champion of the West.

After the defeat and becoming the Champion of the East, Alice ever since stood as the undefeated for a period of time until the arrival of Altum Imperium, who not only was capable of defeating her Pokémon with ease, including the esteemed mythical Pokémon itself. However Imperium declined, only wishing to move onto the othe regions. Shocked at the display of power shown the man, who soon after began the Grand Pokémon League, with the same man who defeated the Four Archangels, rising to the top as the first ever Grand Champion. Imperium as Grand Champion, Alice along with the other Pokémon Champions would fear and awe the man for his brilliance as a trainer.

## Appearance

"*What a beautiful season of spring of romantic love, allow me to give you an war---*"
—Brock before Misty drags him away.

Alice is a buxom young woman with a slender figure. Her wavy, golden hair is cropped short, reaching only the base of her nape. It is quite messy, giving it a somewhat spiky appearance. While it is mostly swept back, some bangs hang down her forehead, curving away from the face on either side. Her golden eyes droop at the edges. Her red mark of the East is branded on the outer side of her left calf.

Alice's casual attire consists of a simple red bandeau, with the upper edge embroidered with a flowery, white lace on her upper body. She also wears loose, pin-striped red and black capri pants, the ends of the legs tightening around her calves. The hems of the legs are decorated with dark piping. Her left forearm is covered by a tight, dark bracer with a wing-like ornament attached to it beneath her elbow. Her right arm is encased in golden armor. While the part covering her upper arm and shoulder is plated, the rest takes the form of a simple gauntlet. Her neck is protected by gorget with a golden border and whose color matches that of her bandeau. A dark jacket with a light border is tied around her waist, allowing it to flare out behind her legs such that it hides her legs from view from behind but leaves them exposed from the front. The jacket has a large collar and lapels. The arms are knotted loosely below her abdomen, the ends hanging down. The light cuffs are quite prominent and each is encircled by a dark band with three rows of studs embedded in it; she completes her outfit with a pair of simple sandals. Her attire exhibits minor modifications when she goes to war. Her spaulder is not as spiky and has her Empire's insignia engraved on it, while the ornament adorning her bracer sports two miniature wings instead of one. The lace lining her bandeau is also replaced by a chain.

## Personality

Like most of her age during her early childhood, Alice was shown to been rather eager to out to adventure from the start, getting carried away with her own excitment in getting her own Pokémon. Eventually teaming with two other individuals, she would cherish the friendships she made in the past, always on her mind and never forgetting them. Her demeanour does change according to how she's feeling, such as she's most soon composed, doing a cute chuckle at something she considered funny, however she does seem to sometimes laugh too hard and roll on the ground at rare instances. Her kind nature was shown many times during her travels, tending to wounded Pokémon first along with even fellow trainers before her own interests. She kept this personality thoughout her times before and after becoming a Pokémon Champion, and considered one of the more kinder of the Champions, including as one of the Four Cardinals.

Most of all is Alive is well happy to fight a fellow trainer in a Pokémon battle, finding it a perfect chance of bonding and growing between herself and her Pokémon. She'd doesn't treat her Pokémon like tools or something not alive, she treats them with the utmost respect, treating them as if they're fellow humas even. One thing people noticed was the pronoun, she never calls Pokémon "it" but by the gender they have. Id she doesn't know their gender, she'd either calls them by their name, or simply as "Pokémon" (context dependency may allow her to say "that"). Nevetheless on what type of Pokémon, their past or their deeds, she'd gives them the chances to befriendment and form a relationship akin to a "human to human" relations, thus she treats her Pokémon like humans almost.

However Alice is shown to been greatly protective over her Pokémon friends and other close friends, including the civilians and trainers of the West. During the Albion War, she was shown even fighting alongside her Pokémon against the invasive Our Lady of Endor, using her developed skills of martial arts to fight against other trainers. During the conflict, she would even sacrifice herself in order to save others who was in a danger path of becoming critically injuried. Her resolve to protect others was the driving force and eventually she was reminded by Boul to not over do it, stating she was getting too carried away in fighting and not focusing on herself to recover after every fight. While she would mostly ignore as she wishes to help, this soon learn that not ever fight can be win, which she lost that lesson after becoming Pokémon Champion.

## Abilities & Skills

**Expert Tactician & Strategist** (専門の戦術家, *Senmon no senjutsu-ka*, Lit. "Professional Tactician"): Alice is a expert tactician and strategist, being the Pokémon Champion of the West means she's understands the art of Pokémon combat, along with a understanding of Pokémon types (mainly towards Template:Type-type Pokémon due to he region of origin), whoever she also understands the type of Template:Type-type as that's her primary Pokémon during her travels. It's been shown that she's sometimes is even 5 steps ahead of the trainer she's fighting against, catching hem off guard in most cost, and doing a critical, even KO hits thanks to this.

**Expert Martial Artist** (専門武術, *Senmon Bujutsu*, Lit. "Professional martial artist"): Alice would throughout her travels self-train herself in the martial arts, commonly in unarmed combat with the Western techniques, and sometimes ge taught by Soviet's Lucario in this regard. By the time of the Albion War, where she's an Pokémon Champion, her close friends and fellow Champions considered her an expert, thanks to the regimes she utilized involving strength and increasd agility and tolerance to pain. She's capable to be on-par with Template:Type-type Pokémon, and go toe-to-toe against most them regardless of their agility and speed.

**Experienced Field Medic** (経験豊富なフィールドメディック, *Keiken hōfuna fīrudomedikku*): Alice is shown to be a capable of field medic for Pokémon, and even tending to humans. Thanks to Nurse Joy, and the Grass Gym Leader of the Herba Gym in Greenland, she developed on-field medical training, and can quickly perform first aid on injuried Pokémon. However, more severe injuries will require a proper, certified professional in the medical field.

## Trivia & Notes

* Alice is named after Alice Springs, the third largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia.
* Physically represented by Dimaria Yesta, a powerful character in the *Fairy Tail* series.
	+ The appearance description is taken directly from the source material of the physical representation of the character, such the credited authors and other ongoining editors, as the publisher CaptainFlowerss is unable to properly explain the physical description lmao.