Name: Monte Kappel Age: 20 Gender: Male Hometown: Jant Town (up to age 8) Danali Town (8-up) Starting Town: Accaliko Town Starter: Budew
Occupation: Danali Gym Leader
Personality: Monte is very quiet and almost formal when people first meet him. He’s hesitant to open up to people and it shows in how he tends to act with strangers. Despite this, as he relaxes and adjusts to the other person his more childlike qualities start to show. He speaks quickly and sometimes at great length when excited or into a conversation. Although it embarasses him to no end when he realizes he’s spoken too much. The young adult also has a love of learning and stories and can sit for hours listening to someone talk about themselves. He loves his family dearly and would gladly stand up for them if given the chance.
A doting and hard working man, Monte still keeps in touch with him but due to an irregular work schedule on both their parts, they've somewhat drifted apart.
Irma Blumstein (Cousin)
A thoughtful young woman with hear heart and head set on many different things. She and Monte are relatively close. She helped him discover his love of books and stones and sometimes steals him away for weekend trips to some of her projects. She's quiet but quite mischievous.
Lalita Blumstein (Cousin)
Hardly the picture of calm, Lalita is colorful and loud with a heart as big as a mountain. Blessed with boundless energy, she frequently helps Monte however she can and has even filled in for gym trainers on occasion.
Wolfram Blumstein (Uncle)
Ex-Gym Leader and a bit of a worry wart, Wolfram gladly took in his nephew and raised him like his own. He grew close to Monte and even mentored him while he worked at the gym before eventually allowing him to take over.
Indira Blumstein (Aunt)
A small excitable woman she has a love of her children (including Monte) that could rival a mother Ursaring. She is known to gush at each of the trio every time they meet, completely ignoring the fact all of them are taller than she is. She and Monte always have lunch at least once every weekend.
Tidbits:
Monte was born with albinism which caused his pale appearance and his poor eyesight.
His left eye is completely blind however his right still retains some sight and as such he tends to wear only one contact lens though he does still wear glasses at times.
He actually has poor depth perception and can be caught bumping into furniture from time to time.
When he was young, he had a dream of becoming a geologist
About: Located near the southern half of Danali Town, the Gym is comprised of 6 rooms themed around 6 Genres. A trainer must answer a trivia question from the room's genre to proceed. If they fail to answer correctly then they must defeat the trainer of that room to continue. The final room is the "Librarian's Room".
Genre rooms in order:
SCIFI
Mystery
Romance
Fantasy
Horror
Adventure
Appearance: Each room has two walls with floor to ceiling bookshelves filled with books of the room's genre and two door at the opposite side of the room, one to continue on and one that the trainer enters should the trivia answer be incorrect. The Leader's room's walls are comprised on three sides of floor to ceiling bookshelves- with the door to enter being set into a bookshelf- The last wall opposite the entrance has four tall windows looking outside and a small stage with a table and two armchairs.