Aspen Oakton

Aspen Oakton
Aspen Oakton is a Trainer from Pallet Town in the Kanto region. She started her journey after finding and rescuing a wild Rapidash, which made her realize her love of Pokemon and the bond that could from between one and their Trainer.

Appearance
Aspen is extremely skinny, even for a seventeen year old girl, with wavy blonde hair braided along one side of her head and icy blue eyes. She usually wears a sleeveless turquoise shirt with golden-yellow sleeves that only cover part of her upper arms, a thin gold necklace, skinny khaki pants, and white sneakers with turquoise trim. She's often described a cheerleader, which she hates because she absolutely despises cheerleaders.

Meeting Rapidash
Aspen was a young woman before she got her first Pokemon. She had never really been interested in them, even though her three siblings, Bracken, Ivy, Evergreen, and(all younger than she was), her father, and her mother all had their own. One day she was walking in the woods around her house, tracking what she thought to be a Ponyta. It actually turned out to be a wounded and wild Rapidash. She managed to coax it to the nearest Pokemon Center, where she, Nurse Joy, and the newly accepted nurse trainee Brock nursed it back to health. Aspen was the only person who could touch the Rapidash without being burned. After trying (and failing) multiple times to ride and tame it, she succeeds, making her realize the bond between humans and Pokemon. This new revelation urged her to go on a journey of her own, using the Rapidash, which she names Nova Flare (or just Flare), as her starter Pokemon.