MAFFEY, JAMES

[attr="class","mapstempapp4"]MALE

[attr="class","mapstempapp4"]HETEROSEXUAL

[attr="class","mapstempapp4"]SUNYSHORE

[attr="class","mapstempapp4"]BELDUM

[attr="class","GALACTIC3"]



alongside his twin sister, james grew up in a port city where opportunities seemed endless. he was that kid convinced he would end up champion, or spend his life as a gym leader renowned as far as volkner was. he was a good kid, too, with good grades and a good attitude. things were never great - money was tight and his dad was really hard on the two of them. it would make sense later, but at the time james and his sister had no idea his dad, a corrupt sergeant, was involved in a crime spree. his dad had always been a hero, but now the tables had turned and the siblings had no idea what was true anymore.[break][break]
his sister, as soon as they turned 18, left home. she didn't leave a note, but her room was packed clean and it was made very obvious that she was gone. occasionally james received a text, just one saying "I'm okay," so that he wouldn't phone the police and get them to search for her. he assumed she began a pokemon journey, but wanted nothing to do with her family, including james, for fear that he'd remind her of her deadbeat dad, now imprisoned.[break][break]
emotions were high at this point and james came to a pretty immature but reasonable conclusion that they were the cause of his strife. he became numb as a result, opting rather to feel nothing than sink into an ugly depression like his mother had. he trudged through a 9-5 job at an electrical plant for several years before he heard of team galactic's ideals through a coworker, a recruiter in disguise. it didn't take much convincing, and james left home to train in order to help team galactic achieve their purpose.[break][break]
he looks as suspicious as a guy can get, clad in all black and generally wearing a bandana; but it's also usually pretty hard to see him. he's good at moving quietly through the trees and not attracting much attention to himself. if he's hanging around town or otherwise off-duty, he tends to wear casual street clothes instead, but he still has no idea how to style his hair so it's generally just a scruffy blonde mess if he isn't wearing his hat.[break][break]