JUN-LI GUAN

There are two types of people in the world: those who recognize and embrace their potential, and those who shun it. For Jun-Li Guan, a fifteen-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, he is blessed with an inexhaustible amount of optimism for his life and the future for all it beholds — but to get there, he had to walk down a road that many would call dark and hopeless.

Born as a middle child to a lower-class family in humble Floaroma Town of the Sinnoh region, Jun-Li's parents were at constant odds with each other, almost solely due to his father—a short-tempered, control-minded man with an alcoholic streak—instigating much of the drama in an attempt to conceal his own imperfections. The discovery that Jun-Li had an autistic spectrum condition added more pressure to the man of the house, and soon after, he began incorporating violence into the formula.

He took it too far one day, resulting in Jun-Li suffering major head trauma and required immediate intervention from the long arm of the law. It didn't take long for justice to be delivered, as Jun-Li's father was forced to serve a lengthy incarceration and lost the right to see his children, but not without a sacrifice on the innocent party's behalf.

Jun-Li was to be taken from his mother's custody and placed into government care until someone would come to adopt him. Arguably, Jun-Li's mother had no choice: her workaholic tendencies prevented her from raising her other two children as it were, as she often had to hire people to babysit, and her lack of understanding behind the boy's autism made it even more difficult for her to think of a better solution at the time.

But it did not take long for a miracle to appear in the form of a passing monk whom had hailed from the Sprout Tower from the region of Johto, and behaved as one of its caretakers. He insisted on taking the child into the folds of the monastic order that guarded Sprout Tower, offering him food, shelter, clothing, and the means to recover from all the pain he had ever endured through his time on the planet. Desperate for a final shot at leading a normal life, Jun-Li meekly accepted the monk's proposal, and he was immediately sent down to Violet City to begin walking on the road to recovery.

Almost immediately, Jun-Li adopted the aesthetic principles of the temple and began incorporating them into his naturally outgoing, social personality; something his own father never took the time to recognize, as he was far too engulfed by the social quirks and weaknesses of his son's condition. Concepts like discipline, respect for others, compassion, and perseverance were things that he could deeply identify with, and eventually, he would come to master these qualities as well.

The short period of time he spent living and training in the Sprout Tower completely transformed the way Jun-Li perceives the world, allowing him to flourish and thrive whereas he could not do so under the chaos and disharmony caused by the differences of his parents. At the age of thirteen, Jun-Li had demonstrated an exceptionally rare talent to the monks that raised him as one of their own: he had possessed a deeply ingrained sense of empathy for all Pokémon, to the point where he could easily and skillfully direct one during training exercises, which would later lead into the development of a sharp, tactical, and perceptive mind for battling. He had noted that it was always present in his childhood, as he could easily perceive and feel what other Pokémon were thinking just through the act of playing—a concept, like so many others, his father did not truly appreciate.

This special compassion, followed with the exceedingly rapid amount of self-corrective steps and techniques he had mastered during his stay in the Sprout Tower, led the monks to convince Jun-Li into taking up the Global League Gym challenge: a feat that many Trainers undertake as a rite of passage into adulthood, to signify that they and their Pokémon can behave and act as a single, perfect unit.

Thus, Jun-Li Guan's adventures as a Pokémon Master in the making, is about to start.

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