Rocket Ree
| Ree Belacarus | |
 "Missing a few marbles." | |
| Age | 19 |
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| Gender | Female |
| Home | Lavender Town |
| Pokemon captured | Absol, Haunter, Gyarados, Blaziken, Dodrio, Kabutops, Gallade, Scizor, Eevee, Quilava, Aron, Jirachi, Cacturne |
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History
Ree grew up in Lavender Town. She kept to herself, reading out in the woods, playing video games in her room, and spending time with the ghost Pokemon in Pokemon Tower. When she met Adrian, who became her best friend, she did all of that with him, until he died when they were both fourteen. After that Absol was her closest friend. As she got older she befriended more Pokemon, but despite training her Pokemon she was never interested in setting off on her own to catch more.
Between the ages of 16 and 18 she developed a new favorite activity: raves. She would head to Saffron every weekend, where huge parties would be held in abandoned warehouses. Here is where she started to make friends, one of whom turned out to be a Rocket. After seeing Ree's Pokemon he offered her membership. She was wary, but accepted the invitation to check it out. Watching Team Rocket on the news, their crimes and their lifestyle had always seemed so... classy to her. They weren't just a gang of thugs like the media liked to present them as. Her friend brought her to a training base, and there she made the decision to join. She told her parents she had joined a Pokemon research team and was going to travel with them, then packed up and moved into the training facility in Saffron.
After training she was made an A rank agent. After several assignments and a few major operations, her powerful Pokemon, skillful battling, and clever and quick thinking soon got her promoted to an elite officer, where she is now. As an elite officer she's not only in close contact with Giovanni, but she gets to be in charge of teams of grunts on missions, along with carrying out a few solo assignments and at times going undercover. Recently she's been given one of the few snag machines Giovanni has obtained; she's put it to good use.
Appearance
At 5'6" and 125 lbs, Ree's figure is lithe and slender, not built with the sort of muscle for great strength but for agility. Her features are certainly not ugly, but not stunningly gorgeous either. Her eyes are a very light amber brown, usually described as golden-yellow. She's a natural brunette, but has dyed the front portion of her hair pure white and the back navy. The front is straight and a little more than chin-length, while the back is short, spiked, and in small pigtails.
As an elite officer her uniform is grey, however she has customized hers. Rather than wearing the blue shirt underneath she wears a striped shirt, with fingerless black gloves. She wears green-lensed goggles either over her hat, on her head if she is without the hat, around her neck, or of course over her eyes if the situation calls for it. She also wears steel-toed boots. When semi-undercover, for small things like going into town for something, she takes off her grey shirt, so the Rocket logo is no longer visible, and removes her hat. To go completely undercover she either dresses in her normal clothes - which are hardly normal, bright and raver-esque - or dresses in something completely different. Due to her distinct hair, she also has a straight, medium-length, magenta wig. She always carries with her the standard black Rocket backpack; although not required to wear it, she had no backpack of her own and so requested it. It has only a very small Rocket logo on it, and so she can wear it even on most undercover assignments. In it she carries a water bottle, snacks such as sticks of jerky and cookies, maps, pokeballs, her cell phone, her laptop, and more... along with a few raver odds and ends such as stickers and glowsticks.
Personality
Ree has a generally cheerful disposition, which often masks her calculating mind. She's a fierce battler and can be surprisingly cold when on the job. Despite having more compassion than most Rockets, she's incredibly loyal to Giovanni and will push aside her conscience without hesitation to carry out orders. She can be spiteful and is well-experienced in revenge; not someone you want to make an enemy of. Though rather introverted and quiet, she has a wild side to her that loves to party. She still frequents the raves in Saffron whenever she can.
Relations
- Aaron Belacarus - Ree's 29-year-old brother who set off when she was still young to become a Pokemon trainer. He's now a master-level trainer. Ree looks up to him for his integrity and power. His pokemon on hand include Arcanine, Pidgeot, Raichu, Lapras, Gardevoir, and Metagross.
- Giovanni Sakaki - As Ree made her way through the ranks of Team Rocket and particularly as an elite agent, she's been in close contact with Giovanni. Having seen him battle in his gym, his power, elegance, and drive absolutely inspired her. She became immensely loyal to him, obeying even his orders that called for cruelty she normally would disapprove of. Rumor has it she's also quite fond of his son, Silver.
- Silver Sakaki - Though occasionally speaking to him, Ree was never particularly close with Silver until after he disappeared for a few months on a trip. When he returned they began talking more frequently. It wasn't long before they were not only friends but partners in crime, teaming up for the snagging operation they were both involved in. Pokemon and other Rockets alike thought for sure they would end up dating. But when Silver began a relationship with the gym leader Janine behind Ree's back, their friendship came to an abrupt end.
- Measha Knin-Ax - Ree's first friend in the ranks of Team Rocket, who has come to be her best. Measha is an agent who works undercover on a yacht in the Sevii Islands. They attend raves in Saffron together when they can. Measha's pokemon include Espeon, Seaking, Wingull, Rapidash, Cacturne, and Luxray.
- Sebastian Conelle - A Rocket scientist Ree quickly befriended when she joined Team Rocket. He's the only Rocket scientist she really trusts. They spend a lot of time together as friends outside of business. Since he's more skilled at training pokemon than catching them, Ree has helped him catch many of his pokemon. His pokemon include Magenton, Dragonite, Nidoking, Alakazam, Gastly, and Wooper. Ree is also his official field tester, testing many of his inventions for him. Her latest machine received from him is what she calls the PokeBazooka, a bazooka-like gun that fires Pokeballs at high speed to catch masses of Pokemon at a time.
- Tyler Manik - An elite Team Magma agent. An intense rivalry began the day they met, when they were both just grunts. Both Team Rocket and Team Magma try to avoid getting these two anywhere near each other because things often get out of hand when their rivalry comes into play. Tyler's pokemon team consists of Houndoom, Charizard, Infernape, Solrock, Machoke, and Milotic.
- Blue Oak - Ree had always been fond of the gym leader. When her brother would write to her from being out training, he would tell her about two phenomenal trainers and the rivalry between them: Red and Blue. She had always favored Blue because he seemed like the more serious trainer to her, and reminded her of her brother. After meeting they slowly became friends despite his job as a gym leader and hers as a Rocket. He even once saved her from a pack of flying Pikachu in Yellow Forest, and they made a trade after discovering they both had something the other wanted, he a surfing Pikachu and her a Porygon and Light Ball.
Pokémon
On Hand
- - Ree's first pokemon. When she was fourteen the wild Absol began appearing to her; it wasn't long before her best friend, Adrian, became very ill and died. But she understood that the Absol was only warning her, and so befriended it, nicknaming it after her lost friend. It's been with her since.
- - At fifteen Ree began having terrible nightmares every night about a demonic boy named Syde. Her Absol, who slept in her room with her, eventually discovered the cause of the nightmares: a bored Haunter from Pokemon Tower had taken up residence in her attic, and came into her room every night to mess with her dreams. Ree liked scaring people as much as this Haunter did, however, and so adopted it as she had Absol, nicknaming it after the nightmare it had created for her.
- - Also at fifteen, Ree's father brought home a Magikarp for her that he had won at a fair. Despite its uselessness, she became quite taken with it, finding it 'cute'. When her Magikarp later evolved into Gyarados, she nicknamed it Deimos, which means 'terror' in Greek; a self-explanatory nickname.
- - Realizing her love of Pokemon, Ree's parents gave her a Torchic for her 16th birthday. It wanted a nickname like her other Pokemon, and so she nicknamed it Kai simply because she was fond of the name.
- - A Doduo was Ree's first stolen Pokemon as a member of Team Rocket. She stole it from a trainer just because she thought it was cute, while off-duty. The Doduo was feisty for awhile, but after it evolved it came to be fond of Ree after realizing how fierce a battler she could be. She nicknamed it Cosmo, which means 'order' in Greek, for the sake of irony: the two, what became three, heads often fought between each other.
- - A snagged Pokemon. Ree nicknamed it Dorian because it's quite prideful.
In PC Storage
- - A shiny Eevee Ree won in a three-part tournament. She hasn't decided what she's going to evolve it into.
- - Ree and Blue made a trade; she received a Porygon in exchange for one of her many surfing Pikachu. She quickly got hold of the necessary software to evolve it.
- - x4. Having gotten her hands on a map to Yellow Forest, Ree took a trip there to catch the renowned surfing and flying Pikachu. Though she caught four surfing Pikachu, she has not yet caught a flying one. One surfing Pikachu she's training for herself; she's nicknamed it Rave. The others she intends to use in trades.
- - During a freak spree of Jirachi sightings Ree caught a few for Team Rocket, keeping one for herself. They were young and easy to catch. She named it after Apollo, Greek god of the sun and light.
- - A Shadow Pokemon Giovanni recently gave to her. Being a Shadow Pokemon, it refuses to be nicknamed. Ree thinks Shadow Pokemon have many limitations and so would like to purify it, but she knows that's in conflict with Giovanni's plans.
- - A snagged Pokemon. Ree nicknamed it Kenshin, which means 'sword heart' in Japanese.
- - After being revived and studied by Team Rocket's scientists, it was decided this Kabutops could be given to a high-ranking officer for use in the field. Because of its weakness to every Pokemon type, no one volunteered to take it... except Ree. The skeletal form and eerily-glowing, green eyes appealed to her, and so she took it. She trained it to be skilled in speed and evasion so it could more efficiently avoid the hits that would knock it out so easily, at the same time being able to deal attacks quicker. She nicknamed it Kori because she liked the name. See below.
- - A snagged Pokemon Ree intends to raise into an Umbreon. She didn't nickname it because she likes the name Umbreon, and so wants to call it that once it's evolved.
- - A snagged Pokemon. Ree nicknamed it Vulcan after the Roman god of fire.
- - A snagged Pokemon. Ree nicknamed it Aaron because it reminds her of her older brother named Aaron.
Temporary
- - Rumors of the legendary bird of lightning circulated around the abandoned Power Plant north of Lavender Town. When Team Rocket sent a small group of grunts to investigate they confirmed the bird had nested there. Giovanni then launched an entire team of grunts, headed by Ree, to capture it. They succeeded, though not by Team Rocket's methods. Ree captured the legendary bird the old-fashioned way: with a pokeball. Training it became her assignment, and although she was able to battle with it a few times and even fly with it once, it was never completely obedient. Deciding it was too wild to train she wanted to release it, but Giovanni was determined. He had it contained for other methods of training, but before these could begin it escaped.
The Skeleton Kabutops
Team Rocket's scientists had been striving to imitate the technology of reviving Pokemon from fossils for some time, but they weren't content with just reviving normal prehistoric Pokemon. They wanted the revived fossils to be more powerful than they had ever been, more powerful than modern day Pokemon. They almost succeeded. They successfully revived a fossilized Kabutops, where no facility had succeeded before. The scientists on Cinnabar could only revive Pokemon from their first evolutionary stage; Team Rocket had revived a full-fledged Kabutops. But between reviving the final evolutionary stage and reviving it to be super powerful, something had gone wrong. Not only was it still a skeleton, it was weak against every Pokemon type. At the same time, however, Team Rocket had succeeded in making it abnormally powerful: while any single, strong move could knock it out, a single one of its attacks could knock out most Pokemon.
