my region and everything that has to do with it!: Lucia Froide (Ice type gym leader oc)

Hello there, flawless people of Pokecharms, Yumi here. So it has been a little while since my last gym leader was released, but I'm finally back again. This time bringing you my spin on a Ice type gym leader. Enjoy the Ice type gym leader I made. And they go by the name of...

Lucia Froide
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DESIGN PROCESS

So I started to think what I could do for an Ice type gym leader. This types pool of trainers can be divided into three categories. Category one is "Well dressed women". This category contains Lorelei, Glacia, and Melony. Then there is category two which is "Old men". This category contains Pryce and Wulfric. Then there category three which is "Braids". This category contains Brycen and Candice. I thought about what would be fun as an ice gym leader that wasn't really used yet, but eventually I put my gym leader in the category "Well dressed women". But I wanted to divert from the other gym leaders, and to devert from anything pokemon has ever put in their games. (Pokemon isn't really known for it's diversity). So because of personal issues and knowledge about the subject I put her in a wheelchair. This was my idea because I wanted to spread some more awareness since disabled people are always ignored and there is not a lot of representation. As disabled people our issues are swept under the rug. After thinking for a while I made her a writer I thought it would be fun to do so for no reason at all to be honest. Lmao. Now on to pokemon. My first idea was actually to make her ace an Aurorus. But later that seemed a bit impractical to work into the story due to it being a fossil pokemon. And because I wanted a glamorous pokemon to be her ace, I chose Frosmoth. As for her name, it's a bit far fetched. But the name Lucia was derived from a histocal priest that was born during Christmas time, thats why I connected it with the Ice type. And her last name, Froide. Comes from the French word for cold.

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HISTORY

Trigger warning
This story contains ableism
(Ableism = Discrimination against disabled people)

It is 25th of December 1966. A baby girl was born on Christmas day. This girl was named Lucia. She was born in one of the most suthern parts of the Hudson region in a city called Pladook city. From birth on it was already known that Lucia would never have a normal childhood, and on only her fourth day on this earth, she was diagnosed with a nervous system deficiency that left her legs incapacitated, in other words, she would never in her life be able to go on a pokemon journey. Lucia grew up, loved by two wonderful parents that loved pokemon themselves so she had plenty of time to learn about them. Although she was unable to go to school due to accessibility issues, when she was 5 years old in the year 1971, her parents started homeschooling her. This was also the time that she obtained her first ever wheelchair, this was needed since her parents couldn't just carry her around or put her in a baby car, she was simply growing to old and to big for that. Lucia learned to read and write at home with the help of her parents, and it didn't take much time Until she was devouring books. She absolutely loved reading especially adventurous stories. She had little to no friends. I mean... She had a lot of pokemon friends sice her parents were very fond of the wild pokemon in the area and often fed them outside the windows. Besides devouring books and playing with wild pokemon she only had one other thing she liked to do. This was spending time with her one and only human friend. This friend was named Connor, he was living in the house accross them and was about the same age as Lucia, maybe 2 years older. Connor didn't have any other friends himself, so his parents introduced them to each other. The two became very close even inseparable. Lucia's life was mostly the same for the next few years. Reading, playing with pokemon, spending time with Connor, and that was about it for her. But she was content with that. But then Christmas 1975 rolled around and Lucia became 9 years old. But as she woke up that morning she saw something moving in the glistening snow on the small balcony of her window. It appeared to be a Pokemon burrying itself into a thick pack of snow. Lucia quickly helped herself in the wheelchair and swiftly opened the window to pull the pokemon from the snow, and it turned out to be a Snom. She had never seen one before and she mistook it for a pokemon who needed help getting out of the snow. She quickly yelled to her parents as she held the pokemon, still thinking that it needed help. Her dad rushed over and took the Snom over from her as he explained that it was a Snom which is an Ice type that likes the cold, and that it also eats snow. He then put it back on her balcony and closed the window. And Lucia stared in amazement as she pressed her face against the glass to look at the pokemon. She played with the pokemon on the other side of the glass for almost the whole Christmas day but once darkness fell she remember that she had hidden something under her bed. It took abit of power and strength for her to reach in such an inaccessible place but her hands finally grabbed on to a pokeball that Connor once found and brought over. She put it outside of the window and pressed her face against the glass as she watched the little snom walk towards it and enter it, and thus she obtained her first pokemon.

She was extremely happy and proud of herself and didn't hide it as she yelled out and retrieved the pokeball from her balcony. Her parents walked in and saw her with a pokeball in her hands and immediately started to question her. She let the pokemon out and her dad asked if that was the same Snom as this morning to which she replied yes. Her parents seemed to think for a bit. Neither of them had pokemon of their own and only cared for the wild pokemon in the area, but after a while they seemed to agree that she could keep the Snom as her birthday present but SHE had to care for it. Of course this Snom became her best friend in the world. The next day she showed it off to Conner who was totally amazed by it and the two decided to care for it together whenever they had the chance to meet up just to spend some time together since Connor was planning his own pokemon journey. He did feel extremely sad about having to leave Lucia behind, but she ensured him that they would call whenever they could. And it wasn't long because that very next year in 1976 when Lucia was 10 years old, that Connor left on his journey, he was 12 at that time. Connor kept his promise and also told Lucia all his adventures which she all wrote down, hoping to eventually turning it into a book. Off course she was way to young to be an actual good writer, but she did her best and did some writing every day which made her improve even more. And it was the company of Snom, her daily calls with Connor and her constant writing that kept her sane, even on the confides of her own room. Then 3 full years later,in 1979, when Lucia was 13 Connor finally came back home from his journey, and lucia put her pen down for a few months to spend a lot of time with him and her Snom. During this time Connor asked if Lucia wanted to learn the basics of a Pokemon battle. She said yes and brought her to their front yard for Lucia's first ever pokemon battle. Which went not as bas as you'd think it would go. And with Connor's help and due to the amount of fun they had, it only took a couple weeks before her Snom evolved into a beautiful Frosmoth. But this didn't stop her from battling. Connor sugested that if she wants to continue to battle different people she should have more pokemon. But Lucia herself was physically unable to go in the wild to catch them herself. So her and Connor spend a couple of day's searching up pokemon that she would like to have. This way Connor could go out to catch them for her, the idea was great, but executing it proved difficult. Lucia had written down a lot of ice type pokemon and it was currently the middle of june... They didn't really think about that.

The idea for her to obtain more pokemon was put on the background as she started to write more in her following years practicing hard to become an esteemed author one day. The year is now 1984, Lucia is 18 years old. In the last couple of years she did focus on writing and battling and she even obtained some more pokemon, some were caught by Conner for her and the some were given as eggs by her parents for her birthday/Christmas. She battled almost every day with Connor or with some other people that would like to test her skill with the ice type, but she is currently undefeated since a long time. But one day, while cleaning her room she found her notebook from when Connor was still traveling and flipped through it, cringing a bit at her own writing. But she decided to start her first ever book, based on what she had written down. So on that day she started. She still found a lot of time time to play with her pokemon and battle. And throughout those years she upheld her friendship with Connor not once losing touch. Writing her book took long, longer then she had thought in the first place. First she needed to make an actual story from the scribbles from her childhood. Then she needed to write and rerwite and rerwite again. She also spend a lot of the time battling and playing with her pokemon. So it it wasn't surprising that her book was finally finished 4 years later In 1988 when she was 22 years old. She called it; Journey's End. Publishing this book proved difficult. Not many publishers wanted to invest into a book that was written by a disabled person. Even though her book itself was amazing, her being disabled stopped her from getting a publishing deal. Many people saw her as unintelligent or mentally ill just because she was in a wheelchair. This stopped her from getting her book published earlier, but she pushed through. And it tool two years for it to be finally published in 1990 when Lucia was 24. But many of the publishers that didn't want to publish her book soon regretted that decision, because in no time it became a bestseller everywhere in the region and outside of the region. It was also this year that Connor asked Lucia to be his girlfriend and of course she said yes to that question. They spend lot's of time together from that point onward. Of course Lucia was already working on her second book but the two also made plenty of time to battle together and even do some double battles which was one of their favorite ways to battle. And it was only a few years later in 1993 when Lucia was 27 years old that she and Connor finally saved up enough money to buy their own house which was also a good environment for Lucia since the house was a single floor with no ramps this way Lucia could freely move around.

Around this time it was the gym challenge that was widely popularized in the region, and thus gyms were popping up in every big city in the region. And thus also in Pladook City, thhe home town of Lucia and Connor. In 1993 when Lucia was 28 years old, a gym opened up in Pladook city. This gym had no leader yet but there wes going to be a tournament to decide the future gym leader. Both Connor and Lucia wanted to enter it and so they did. But this didn't go so easy as they thought it would go. Connor was accepted into the tournament immediately after signing it but Lucia was denied over and over again. This was for the simple reason that she was in a wheelchair and thus the ableist officials thought her unfit to lead the gym, even tho she was fully capable to do so. The couple tried anything to get Lucia in the tournament even with help of countless outsiders. But it was of no use. Connor came to the conclusion that if he were to win the tournament the gym was his and he could do whatever he wanted with it, after asking it to the official they said yes. If Connor wins he could do whatever he wants to with the gym. So Connor decided to enter the tournament alone, his plan should work this way. It didn't take much for Lucia to not even be able to get a seat in the arena because she was denied one, but she pushed on and forced the officials to give her a seat so she could watch the battles play out. The tournament took two day's but eventually Connor ended up in the final. He had written down Ice as type specialty but he had yet to use a single Ice type, but to throw off the other contestants, in the final he used six ice types. These were Lucia's pokemon, which the officials didn't know. He won in no time and accepted victory. When it was time for the victory speach, he said the following. "I wanna call someone to the field please for one final battle." Lucia was carried into the arena and was put down in her wheelchair. Connor continued. "Since you guys denied her an entry spot in the tournament because of her disability, I will battle her now. And show you guy's how amazing she is." He called out the officials to which the crowd responded with cheers and some even threw food at the jury council. Of course there were still people who disapproved of this saying but they were soon silenced when Connor challenged Lucia to a battle for the ownership of the gym. The two then had a battle that went down in history as one of the most amazing battles in this gym's history. Lucia won this battle but it wasn't made easy for her. Connor officially appointed Lucia as the leader of the Pladook city gym, a title she holds to this day. One of the first things Lucia did as a gym leader was order that the complete layout of the gym should be made wheelchair accessible. A few years later after being appointed gym leader she finished a new book and published it. Establishing herself as not only an amazing battler but also an amazing author. In 1995 when Lucia was 30 years old, started a foundation for disabled people and this caused a lot of cities in the region to make themselves wheelchair accessible. And she even made it possible for children in wheelchair to go on a Pokemon journey and collect gym badges. Since every gym was ordered to be made wheelchair accessible. She kept her position as gym leader until 2008 when she was 43 she handed it to Connor so she could travel the region for her cause to make every public space wheelchair accessible. She returned as gym leader 2 years later in 2010 at the age of 45. Lucia is currently a very strong gym leader. But her job as an author and as ambassador keep her from the gym which means Connor sometimes takes over. And Lucia is als also still learning so she becomes a better trainer every time she battles. Her and Connor kept living together and for the time being they have no plans for a marriage. But unbeknownst to Lucia, Connor does have plans to propose.

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TEAM

I will give her and every gym leader in the future a team of 6 which they can change up depending on how strong the opponent is. But here I mostly show up what her strongest and optimal team is. So here it is

FROSMOTH (ace)
AURORUS
GLACEON
GLALIE
LAPRAS
CRYOGONAL

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CURRENT STATE.

Right now it’s the year 2021, and Lucia is 55 years old. She has published countless books and is a bestselling author. Her job as ambassador and gym leader keep going. And she is still living happily with Connor. They have no plans to marry at the moment but she doesn't know about Connor's proposal plan, since she is to busy to notice anything. Her gym is quite popular especially amongst those with disabilities themselves because they see her as an inspiration.

DO YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT HER?!