Hatcher Gold

Gold Wakaba
Gold of New Bark
Age	17
Gender	Male
Home	New Bark Town
Pokemon captured	Explotaro, Ataro, Politaro, Utaro, Suntaro, Totaro, Pichu, Murktaro, Mantaro, 20 Remoraid
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Gold Wakaba, or ゴールド, is the main Pokémon trainer and Pokédex Holder from Johto manga canon. His rivals and teammates are Crystal and Silver. He is a well-meaning and carefree, but often immature and mischievous, kid from New Bark Town. He grew up all his life surrounded by Pokémon in his house, and has since been nurtured with a very strong affinity to raising them. Because of this, Professor Oak considers him the Breeder or Hatcher of the Pokédex Holders, due to his ability to draw out unparalleled potential in a newly hatched Pokémon.

Besides his interest in Pokémon breeding and battling, he is also a Pokéthlon enthusiast.

Information

Previous Canon

Gold first left on his original journey intending to come back very shortly, after leaving with Joey to meet Professor Oak and, more importantly, DJ Mary. When he met Silver at Professor Elm's lab shortly after, he vowed to chase after the boy, and ended up getting sucked into a battle alongside Silver and Crystal against the Mask of Ice (Pryce), who they eventually defeated and trapped inside Celebi's time traveling plane.

He later traveled to the Hoenn Battle Frontier with Crystal to assist the Hoenn Pokédex Holder in beating Guile Hideout, who was later revealed to be Archie. Gold didn't reveal his presence at the Frontier, until he was unmasked as being a fake Guile Hideout during a plan to confuse Guile's Pokémon. During the incident, Gold tried to inspire Emerald to find the ability to claim one of Jirachi's wishes in himself, and worked with the other Pokédex Holders to hold off and eventually defeat the giant energy Kyogre that Archie had summoned.

In the HGSS chapter of the manga, Gold fought head-on against Arceus, but the results of that battle are clouded in fog, due to that chapter of the manga having not been fully released at this point.

Relationships

Gold is a usually very friendly towards people, though he can act mean and even spiteful to people at times, often suddenly and seemingly without reason. It's because of this behaviour that he's earned himself large amounts of friends as well as enemies, as well as a few frenemies.

Gold tries to maintain a close relationship all the Pokédex Holders. He has always tried to remain best friends Silver, though they are easily described as frenemies at time. Gold and Silver enjoy playfully tormenting each other, but can often turn cold and angry due to their ability to hit each other's deep emotional nerves. He talks a lot with Silver's sister in arms, Green, because the two share similar trouble-making hobbies. Gold usually puts the duty of cheering up Green on himself, considering her just as much of a sister as Silver is a brother. Although Gold doesn't talk to Red as much as he used to, he still remains very attached to him.

He is also very close to his counterparts from other canonical universes; Ethan, Jimmy and Hibiki. He shares the closest bond with Ethan, who previously placed somewhere between the game canon and the manga canon. Ethan considers Gold his younger brother, or a younger version of himself, because he is one-year older than Gold, while Gold tends to consider Ethan to be a weak, but trust-worthy wussy. Gold views Hibiki similarly to how Ethan views him; as a younger, inexperienced brother. Gold tries to both help Hibiki in learning the ways of the world, and use his naivety for his own amusement. He's recently decided that the quartet should form a band together called "The Golden Standard", with Ethan playing bass, Jimmy on drums, Gold playing guitar, and Hibiki providing background rhythm with a tambourine.

Gold also somehow ended up in a relationship with Marley and, though he hardly acts monogamous, he cares a great deal for her, and the two often meet to spend time with each other.

Pokemon

Gold has many Pokémon at home of various species. These include both rare and common species, but Gold has taken his closest Pokémon with him since his journey began 7 years ago.

	Main team
	Explotaro Explotaro was Gold's starter Pokémon from Elm, and is the powerhouse of his team. It focuses on Fire-type moves like Flame Wheel, Fire Punch, Flamethrower and the legendary Blast Burn.
	Ataro Ataro was Gold's first Pokémon and is the most like him in personality. He's very mischievous and playful, just like Gold. He specializes in moving very fast and boosting his team through confusing the opponent or increasing his stats then Baton Passing to a stronger fighter. He evolved in the HGSS arc, by training in Ecruteak while Gold enjoyed the Kimono Sisters' show. Ataro shares an account with Pichu on twitter as SuperRisingTeam
	Politaro Just like Ataro, Gold has had Politaro since a very young age, being one of the two Pokémon he started out on his journey originally with. Politaro wanted to become a Poliwrath eventually, but ended up evolving into a Politoed because of a trade with Silver. He has an extraordinary amount of skill in controlling water, able to manipulate powerful whirlpools, and has strengths in many Fighting-based attacks such as Brick Break or Focus Punch.
	Utaro Gold found and captured Utaro during a race against Whitney. It has brutally strong Attack and Defense stats, and can go toe-to-toe against the toughest opponents.
	Suntaro Suntaro was captured near Violet City, when Gold needed his amazing jumping abilities to launch Explotaro, then a Cyndaquil, high into the air to take out a raging Skarmory. He isn't strong at fighting or defending, so his main use on the team is as support.
	Totaro Hatched from an egg from Jasmine's two Togetic, Totaro is a handful for Gold, mostly since he took after Gold's rasher tendencies when he hatched. He loves causing Gold trouble, and has a penchant for gambling. Blue took Totaro in for training, and Totaro has been much more reasonably behaved after. Though, he's still maintained much of his sudden and violent tendencies. Totaro evolved twice sometime near the battle with Arceus, after Gold finally fully realized his strength.
	Pichu Pichu was hatched during Gold's battle against The Mask of Ice, and shares Gold's courageous spirit and quick thinking, while having access to very powerful Electric-type attacks, as well as a strong affinity with the Legendary Beast Raikou. It's partly because of the connection between these two Pokémon that Gold sometimes searches for Raikou, in order to allow them to be reunited.
	Mantaro and the Remoraid This is Gold's primary method of transportation besides his skateboard. The twenty Remoraid attach to the underside of Gold's Mantine, and propel it by firing their Water Gun, and sometimes other moves, backwards. Because it relies on twenty combined Special Attack stats instead of a Speed stat, it can be an extremely fast means of getting around in the air.
	Gold also has a Murkrow, named Murktaro, that was given to him by Grey, from a large flock.

External Sites

Twitter account: @Hatcher_Gold

Tumblr account: The Pokemon House Chronicle

Formspring account: HatcherGold

Old Formspring: BreederGold

Bulbapedia page: Gold (Adventures)

He has changed his Twitter username from Special_Gold to Breeder_Gold, REAL_Guile, then to Hatcher_Gold.