Pin

Art by TheAlmightyTema

Pin is a character in the Pokemon Acolyte Universe, created and played by Tema. He's an ally who appears to be a Acolyte who showed up under mysterious circumstances and has yet to make his full intentions or goals clear. He's often found lurking around with his Gengar.

## Profile

### Overview

He’s lived around the Hoenn region for years, and is pretty well known despite the fact that other than him being very charismatic and good at making jokes, no one knows anything about him. He’s a decently known pokemon contesteer, enjoying the art of stage performance and theater, and is known for mostly using ghost pokemon.

How he came to find the Manor and his way into the world of Acolytes is currently a mystery, having seemingly just appeared one day outside the manor asking to be let into the club.

## Personality

A hard being to read, Pin makes his interest very clear. He wants and longs for entertainment, that’s about it. An over-the-top egotist who is always looking for something or someone to entertain him. This world is his stage, and he will entertain it, and find entertainment in others. He talks very high and mighty, and gets easily bored by people if they don't go the extra mile to impress him. He’s never actually chosen a name or a gender, people just gave them to him when they were introduced, and he often makes nods to the fourth wall. He cares for very little outside a thin scope of his interests and literally nothing outside of that interest can even get picked up on his radar.

## Relationships

### People

Amani: A work associate who he finds equally fascinating as he does pitiful. He is concerned for the man's physical and mental health for the amount of stress he puts on himself, but as someone who doesn't really do the "comforting character", he can't really help in a major way.

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### Pokemon

**Gen**: Partner Pokemon - His partner in crime, the two are inseparable and have been for ages.

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### Quotes

*"Oh, I wouldn't worry about that too much. It's mostly just a plot contrivance."* {Said to Amani in his first appearance #322: Sunny Side Up}

*"I haven't been that entertained in **so long** you know? The day to day monotony of this world utterly bores me after a while and we've only just begun here."* {Said to Amani in his first appearance #322: Sunny Side Up}

*"Dream Team, local government, secret global world power it's all the same. There is no difference, it's the same basic structure. You're the plucky underdogs, fighting a larger power that out ranks you in social skill, power, presence and everything else under the sun. But you still must win. Whom the enemy is matters very little."* {Said to Amani in his first appearance #322: Sunny Side Up}

*"Why help? Oh! That's simple! Sheer, absolute, BOREDOM! I've been bored and empty of inspiration for ages. My work has become thankless and dull. So I have come here to crave a new form of entertainment! The world is nothing but a stage after all! Watching the heroic underdogs rise against their challenges and defeat the villain they couldn’t ever dream of beating? Nothing is more entertaining than that!"* {Said to Amani after being asked for his reason in helping the acolytes in his first appearance #322: Sunny Side Up}

"Of course I do! It's a faaaascinating character arc for them all, no? And a fun setting too! A nice mix up~ If this became the new normal, dominatrix Amani and all might change this story's rating if you know what I mean~ uhuhu~" {Said to the group in #420: Amani in Wonderland}

*"My name? I haven't had a name in a while, but currently, the last thing I was called was Pin."* {Said to Aarden and Volkaire in #444: Pin Meets Tavas' Pokemon}

*"I'm nothing but an observer, a proxy for the audience if you will. Nothing more than a little background character to watch the plot unfold."* {Said to Aarden and Volkaire in #444: Pin Meets Tavas' Pokemon}

*"I don't want you giving up, it's bad for ratings. But don't worry I'll be keeping an eye on you. I'm always around after all, you just have to look for me."* {Said to Aarden and Volkaire in #444: Pin Meets Tavas' Pokemon}

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### Headcanons

1. His current voice claim is
2. His major character songs are: That's Your Role by MELOVIN, Broadcast Illusion by GHOST, Hook'd by KIRA, and Friends on the Other Side Villain Mashup made by Thomas Sanders and Friends
3. When introducing himself he always says "People call me Pin." implying that his name isn't Pin at all and it simply some kind of nickname or shorted name. He has never said his real name.
4. He is aware on some level of the fourth wall and has made many call outs to the fact that none of this is real and it's all a story being told. But he doesn't seem to be bothered by that fact and even embraces the absurdity of it all.
5. He’s able to make himself, others or objects float above the ground. The longer he does it the more it tires him. Sometimes his emotions will make objects nearby fly out around him off of other furniture.
6. He’s able to phase through magical and physical barriers with enough strength and focus. He’s better at magic than physical, as there’s less risk getting stuck halfway through having to recover energy wedged in a wall. This allows him to make things phase through him if he has enough warning that it’s going to happen. (Like seeing someone winding up a punch.)
7. When knocked out, fatigued, etc. (battle or otherwise) he recovers quicker than others. He may go down easily, but it’s hard to keep down for very long.
8. He runs on toon logic, he can do damn near anything, but only if it's funny. He has the ability to pull things out of thin air/from off screen, but he barely uses it for anything productive, only for the sake of laughs/gags and for having props to hold.
9. Many of his joints have what look like visible scarring, thin off-color marks as if he had been stitched together.
10. He's obsessed with theatre and theatrics, seeing the entire world as nothing but a play, a show to be preformed and acted out. When not observing others for the sake of his own entertainment he's often seen writing things down in an encoded notebook and muttering about sets and plotlines.
11. His favorite foods are things that are sour-sweet and rich. He's quite a big fan of slowpoke and tauros curries with rice.
12. He doesn't like the Galar region, just in general.

### Trivia

* Pin is an original character from Tema's personal alternative world related projects, brought over to the Pokemon Acolyte World. He's very similar to his Acolyte version, Being similarly snarky, witty, and aware of the fourth wall.
* His position has had no major changes from his conception, though for a long while his situation to how he became an acolyte was heavily debated between two major ideas.
* [more coming soon...]

## Gallery

Pin's Casual Clothes and Acolyte FormPin in his acolyte form, as if he had been summoned with many spirits and chains enrobing himself and the frame.