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Post by National Pokedex on Mar 7, 2014 1:01:04 GMT
Here I will post content relevant to Netherland's history in regards to Pokemon, as well as any important or interesting NPCs (non player characters) that call Netherlands their home.
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Post by National Pokedex on Mar 11, 2014 18:34:14 GMT
Forty six year old Hugo Wolff is the Pokemon Champion for the Netherlands. He is a quiet, reserved man who is well known for getting rather grumpy with the various news crews that aim to interview him. He isn't interested in fame or charity, only with testing his might. In addition to pokemon trainer, he is also an accomplished boxer but has lightened up in his fights over the last three years due to a severely broken orbital causing him to decide to take things more on the easy side. He's been a favorite for Pokemon champion for years but fell short on his first try, the same year he broke his orbital. Favoring pokemon training over boxing, he refocused and gained his title as Pokemon champion the very next year.
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Post by National Pokedex on Mar 12, 2014 22:59:11 GMT
Olivia Vroomen is a colorful and flamboyant 40 year old woman who is well known for her obscure taste in fashion and her lavish charity parties to raise money for her campaign, Crawly Gems. Crawly Gems is an awareness campaign directed at misunderstandings about bug pokemon with the intention of giving the critters a better image. Vroomen's fashion often reflects one bug type pokemon or another. She feels the creatures are vastly misunderstood and shouldn't be feared the way they are. She uses her position as the bug specialist on the Netherland's Elite Four largely to benefit her campaign.
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Post by National Pokedex on Mar 17, 2014 17:53:16 GMT
A woman named Noor Haugen is the second member on Netherland's Elite Four. She is sixty years old and takes pride in tending to her family's farm on top of being a pokemon trainer and Elite Four member. She's a grass specialist who is a big family woman but otherwise largely keeps to herself.
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Post by National Pokedex on Mar 19, 2014 20:37:55 GMT
Sixty two year old Jan Aafjes is the third member of Netherlands' Elite Four. Before becoming an Elite Four member, he was well known for his fantasy paintings of the sea which often included sea elves, mermaids, water nymphs, and other such creatures communing with pokemon. In time, his fascination with the sea drove him to a love of water type pokemon, which then led him to become a member of the Elite Four in his home country. As an Elite Four member, Aafjes spends his time working on projects to keep the ocean clean and healthy, but he does not paint anymore. He has, for years now, insisted that he would not paint again until, as he says, he has "new eyes". His belief that he must wait until his retirement to return to painting with his "new eyes", has spurred on an Anti-3 group which oppose him being the third member of the Elite Four. Their stance is that his membership there is invariably deprives the world of his art. Some of these members have gone as far as to swear of pokemon training, while others have sworn to replace him as an Elite Four member, and thus end his absence from the art world. Despite all this, Aafjes largely ignores the group and continues on his ocean saving projects and his pokemon training.
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Post by National Pokedex on Mar 24, 2014 14:31:28 GMT
At 39 years old, Veerle Madsen is the final member of the Netherlands Elite Four. She recently replaced her father Mathias Madsen and his rock type team with her normal type team. Mathias is extremely proud of his daughter who has also taken over his old charity which raises money for pokemon trainers who have fallen on hard times. Even though Mathias has retired from being an Elite Four member, he is still very active in his daughter's life through the charity. Veerle is very happy to have proven herself to her father, and to be working on the charity with him and she greatly enjoys her new role as a member of the Elite Four.
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Post by National Pokedex on Apr 1, 2014 13:14:47 GMT
The Netherlands' Entrance Exams are in March, giving every one a solid month's preparation after the World Championships this year. This on and off pattern follows giving trainers another month's break before the Regionals in May, and another month's break before the Elite Four tournament in July.
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