GIJINKA - matthew burke

[Matthew Burke]

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[attr="class","puppy5"] [attr="class","puppy6"]full name matthew burke [attr="class","puppy6"]gender male [attr="class","puppy6"]age in letters fourty-two [attr="class","puppy6"]alignment chaotic, neutral [attr="class","puppy6"]occupation gijinka [attr="class","puppy6"]canon or original original

[attr="class","puppy5"] [attr="class","puppy6"]likes scenic views, rooms with many large windows, sleeping on the floor, empty spaces, being in charge, the sound of woodwind instruments, fruits and vegetables [attr="class","puppy6"]dislikes other gijinkas, any kind of meat, places with dry climates, having to clean up, cluttered areas, almost all movies, standing in one place for too long [attr="class","puppy6"]fears large piles of anything, standing too close to someone else, forks [attr="class","puppy6"]goals to eliminate the gijinka race, to create an invention that surpasses those of his father, become the richest man on Pokearth [attr="class","puppy6"]quirks & habits paces whenever he's standing up, crosses and uncrosses his legs frequently while sitting down, sits or lays down on the floor if he can

[attr="class","puppy"] [attr="class","puppy2"] [attr="class","puppy3"]personality [attr="class","puppy4"] ✦ alert ✦ aspiring ✦ cooperative ✦ courageous ✦ courteous ✦ decisive ✦ endures ✦ focused ✦ hard-working ✦ intelligent ✦ perfects ✦ realistic ✦ self-reliant ✦ serious ✦ systematic ✦ conventional ✦ tries to do everything ✦ reckless ✦ passive ✦ listless ✦ clumsy ✦ impatient ✦ secretive ✦ inconsiderate ✦ hostile ✦ apathetic ✦ stubborn ✦ resentful ✦ authoritarian ✦ low self-esteem

[attr="class","puppy"] [attr="class","puppy2"] [attr="class","puppy3"]history [attr="class","puppy4"]Contrary to what many a soul will tell you, the existence of gijinkas – although unnamed throughout most of history – dates back much longer than their man made incarnations because of heinous Imum experiments and PH Genetics' surgeries. Natural born gijinkas, however, are incredibly hard to come by, and it is and shall most likely remain unknown as to how they originally came out of the void. However, one thing that is impossible to deny is the fact that Matthew's father was one of these natural born gijinkas, having been part Ditto decades before PH Genetics' CEO had even been born. This particular man was a cruel one. A creature so tormented by everything around him that he was lead to do countless sins that any normal person would be put to death for doing. One of these was a crime against a young woman who, within a years time, would give birth to the child of a gijinka who seemed to appear out of the void, and disappeared as mysteriously after his terrible act was done. As for what happened to him after assaulting the young lass will be as mysterious as natural born gijinkas themselves. However, he did not pay for his crimes in the court of law. That much can be certain. As for the aforementioned youth, though, her involvement in this history goes beyond that of the father. Sarah Arlette was only a sophomore in college when everything began to fall apart around her. When technology provided her with the information that she was to bear a child – a creature who was part Pokemon, no less – she'd hoped to find solace in the family that raised her. However, in the beginning, anyway, no one had believed her. Even when visual signs of pregnancy showed up, some of her friends and family were skeptic as to whether it was consensual or not, and hardly a shred of sympathy was spared for the young girl. By the time nine months had passed since that day, she was in such a state of disarray that she didn't even try to provide for the infant that she'd given birth to. Before the end of her junior year had swung around, in fact, she dropped out of college altogether, started to cut ties with those around her, and fell into misery's cruel arms. “It” was the name she gave to the misshapen monster she had mothered. It had no gender. Had no face. Had no form. Had no father. Had no mother. As such, It was not deserving of something as a name. It would spend hours crying – a broken noise, something no human being would ever be able to make, even as an infant – while Sarah would sit alone in a dark room, only moving for the sake of providing food for herself or the baby if its constant wailing began to get on her nerves too much. As years passed, it was a surprise either managed to survive much at all. The brunette was a mess, no doubt. Hair long, tangled, and matted. Clothes generally in tatters and bones clearly visible. Had her child not have been disgusting to look at, regardless, It would have been something unbearable to look at for too long. By the time It was three, it started to be able to change form similar to the techniques of an actual Ditto. While already slightly humanoid in shape to begin with, it began to change form to look even more like the form its mother took on. No amount of practice or time under her “care” could change the ugly pink flesh, the goo the dripped from its shape, and the lack of a face save for two beady, dead eyes. Its feeble attempts at looking more like its mother only sickened her. By the age of four, she strapped him down to a lumpy mattress, feed him only when absolutely necessary, and cut him off from anything and everything for the next three years. Around It's seventh birthday, the sound of gunfire its mother's lifeless body dropping to the living room floor echoed throughout the house. As everything of miniscule value and above was looted from the crumbling home, butchered cries resounded throughout the building. Perhaps it was mercy that spared the disfigured creature when unforgiving eyes locked onto its own. Perhaps it was something more malicious. Regardless, instead of killing it, the man that took its mother made off with the child of goo, slipped out into the night, and began planning what to do with it. Kent, as the man was named, was a shady man with a history integrated with Veherna Citadel's – then Veherna City – black market and mafia branches. There were no obvious ways to exploit It's appearance and abilities in those areas, however. In the end, Kent used these deformities and It's lack of general knowledge as a way to leech money off of the sympathetic. By doing things such as pretending the child had a strange, rare disease that caused it to look that way, or suffered from severe mental retardation as an explanation for his inability to speak at all save for simple and butchered words, even at the age of seven, he was able to earn a great deal of profits that should have gone to helping the child. In the end, these were all spent at the elder's own expense. The gijinka ended up being used in various ways to get him out of bad situations dealing with the various criminals he dealt with on a day-to-day basis. He was neglectful on a scale less than Sarah's, but still on the verge of abusive. On that note, physical and verbal abuse were not rare, either. However, despite his terrible paternal methods, Kent succeeded in one thing where It's mother had failed: taught him to manipulate his shape shifting. At first, he taught it to change into the shape of a regular human if only for the sake of being bearable to look at. As It grew better at this, though, the ability began being put to use in such things as getaways and the intimidation factor of two-against-one. When It had essentially mastered taking on the form of a grown man, he came up with another idea. When It was only ten years of age, its guardian began sexually abusing it, having it change shape into that of different women and using it as if it were the scum of the earth it was beginning to believe it was. Three years of this passed before, like its mother, “Daddy” was shot and killed by one of the criminals he'd been stealing money off of. This time, the shape shifting gijinka was left out on the street. No where to go. No one to turn to. Nothing but the tattered clothes on its back and the ability to change shape at will. The weather was rainy the day that Preston Burke found It huddled up on the street corner – shivering, bruised, taking the form of a boy he'd recently seen on one of the televisions through the window of a store down the street – and took pity on the poor “boy”. Enough pity to throw his coat over It's head and, upon learning there was nowhere for it to turn to, let it stay under his roof at least for the night. Mr. Burke was a world famous inventor, the man who had come up with the designs for many Silph Company products and the one to build the ingenious design for the modern-styled PokeBall. Many would have thought it strange for such a powerful man to adopt a mutant freak he'd found on the street. However, Preston was a good man. Having witnessed first hand the bad habits it had picked up from its criminal guardian's behavior and knowing as much of its painful past that it could tell in its limited vocabulary, he swore to change the thirteen-year-old's life for the better. He bestowed It with a new name: Matthew Burke. Despite the fact that Matthew could easily change to look like a female – something that had caused much confusion very early on in the teen's staying in the inventor's home – Preston explained that, seeing as it was a male form that he'd encountered it in, it would make more sense that male would be its “gender”. It – no, then a “he” - figured it wouldn't do him much good to complain. Mr. Burke taught Matthew many things during the former's lifetime. First, he taught the boy basic things: how to speak in complete sentences instead of the broken sentences he'd been using before; the alphabet; basic math; a bit of the history of Lyeant. Basic knowledge that the man felt would be necessary. The elder of the two helped to solidify the boy's transforming abilities. While keeping up a certain for too long used to wear him out and he would revert back to his basic humanoid, blob-ish shape, with many day's worth of work, he was finally able to maintain a shape as long as he so desired, only loosing his human form when he was incredibly weak or asleep. Preston warned him never to change form in front of anyone, and to only ever change shape if it was absolutely necessary. The face of that boy he'd seen briefly on the television became the face that he used every day for the rest of his life. However, no matter how kind Mr. Burke was or how much time they spent together, a wall of ice had formed around Matthew's heart that the man could not melt. The teen was bitter. Rude. Violent. He would constantly get into arguments with the people who opposed his adopted father in any way – even if they disagreed in just the slightest with one thing – and would often try to bite and claw at anyone who turned on his badly. He could not touch anyone without triggering terrible memories. He refused to acknowledge the existence of any woman ever slightly resembling his mother. He swore and cussed like a sailor much like “Daddy” and his fellow criminals had in years prior, and had done many an illegal drug before being caught and punished by his father. In the end, obsessed with getting his hands on his father's incredible wealth, he was the one to hold the gun that killed the man that had spent over a decade trying to make his life better. Shot the bullet that penetrated his skull and ended Preston Burke's life. And yet, it was with a terribly heavy heart that Matthew took his father's place. Nearly twenty years have passed since that day, but time has done nothing to change Mr. Burke. He has maintained and built onto his inherited wealth by creating inventions of his own. His hatred of gijinkas like the “father” that created him more than forty years ago, however, has not been quelled; if anything, PH Genetics and the gijinkas that sprang up because of it have only made it so much worse. He absolutely hates Platinum and Ulixes for their works, and hopes to someday make them both – as well as every artificially-made human and Pokemon hybrid – suffer at his own hands.

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[attr="class","puppy5"] [attr="class","puppy6"]ooc name pharaoh leap [attr="class","puppy6"]age infinite [attr="class","puppy6"]experience forever [attr="class","puppy6"]other characters zachary and frieda [attr="class","puppy6"]face claim li syaoran from tsubasa: reservoir chronicles

[attr="class","puppy5"] wonne, lightning rod, male discharge ● charge fire fang ● curse

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