Aleri

Aleri is a Leavanny that originally hailed from Pinwheel Forest. She's progressed from being a simple seamstress to being a mate, mother, and knight under Virizion Aramis. She is currently widowed from Esdin, a Scizor, and has two children, Sanviara and Basil.

Appearance
Aleri doesn't show too many signs of age to the average onlooker, but she can see it in herself. Besides the leaf clothing she normally wears, she also has a sunhat-type accessory that Esdin made for her. It has unintentional holes in it, but Aleri puts her antennae through them. She also has a dress that Ruby got her some time ago, but doesn't wear it very often. Aleri makes all manner of scarves, hats, skirts, shirts, and coats for Pokemon that need them, so her wardrobe can change whenever she wishes it to.

Personality
Aleri is smart, but she can be ignorant of many things others would know just because they get out more than she does. However, she has a working knowledge of pretty much all of Unova, including its Pokemon and locales. Virizion also taught her about certain Pokemon from other reigons, and some human concepts like cars. Despite this, she can be a bit childish at times since she didn't have a childhood of her own. She cares for anybody that she likes with all of her power, and this can lead to a bit more self-sacrifice than is necessary to her. She will only fight if she wants to improve herself, or if there is literally no other way to solve the problem - except if submitting would lead to an even greater problem. She is also easily disturbed when something unexpected happens, as is often the case with Basil's antics and his own conscience.

Esdin
Her mate that she started officially being in love with mid-January of 2012. Though Esdin is not always attentive or present when she needs him, what he does do when he's around more than makes up for it for her. They've done many a romantic thing for each other. The only upset was when Esdin decided to work for Genesect, and he pummeled her. It is still not known entirely why he did this, it could be that he simply wanted to eradicate humanity. This is one reason why they live together in Forina now instead of Pinwheel Forest.

Sanviara
Aleri obtained Sanviara as an egg early into her Twitter days. She did not have much trouble caring for the egg, but in order to keep it warm she had to vibrate. The egg did not hatch for quite some time due to it not being walked with very much, but Aleri was happy to see the little Cherubi live. She loved her with all her heart, and taught her to act the way a child should, and other tasks like swimming and such came to her. Aleri was proud to see her evolve as well, but despite that she's still very much a child. Recently they both had an out of body experience with each other thanks to Manaphy, where Aleri learned to have fun and Sanviara learned to sew. They are currently in their normal bodies, however.

Basil
Possibly the most troublesome member of Aleri's family, Basil was named on a suggestion from Jirachi. He is very different from Sanviara, and seems to treat anybody that is not in the family with disrespect. Aleri has had trouble teaching him to be nicer and more thoughtful, but his constant questions about exactly WHY this should be have not proved easy for her to answer. Despite calling him different and weird, Aleri has assured Basil that she does not love him any less. They maintain a friendly relationship, as Basil still respects his mother no matter what they go through.

Mitch
Aleri's best friend and former rescue team partner, Mitch has helped her out a number of times. They haven't had any rough spots in their friendship since he was brought to this world by Lia. They talk to each other every so often, but with both having their own lives and families they do not get together in person as often as they'd like.

Lia
Unlike Mitch, Lia and Aleri have not always had the best of friendships. Usually Lia is the one to start fights, but she ends up forgiving her eventually and they go back to normal. Lia still asks Aleri for clothes, usually for her daughter Charlotte, and currently they're friends.

Virizion Aramis
Virizion is the closest thing Aleri has to a mother. Educating her and offering her advice, and training her to be a knight are among the things she has done for Aleri over the years. Even though she's moved away from Pinwheel, she still gets messages from Virizion every so often, and she also owns a copy of her book on chivalry, which she has read at least once.

Madame Eve
A Serperior that was also originally from Pinwheel Forest, Aleri has taken a liking to her. She's envious of how Eve is able to carry herself and remain flexible and fit, despite them being around the same age.

Pre-Twitter
Aleri's father was a Heracross named Axel, and her mother a Leavanny that she does not know the name of. Axel was not the kind to settle down, and he was also the kind to appreciate Pokémon for their strength. When he learned that his mate was ready to lay the egg that Aleri was inside of, without her knowledge he took the egg and placed it in a secluded area of Pinwheel Forest so that she would hatch alone. He wanted her to be tougher than the average Sewaddle by having to face challenges head on without the aid of parents. Soon after, her mother died and Axel went to Johto.

As a Sewaddle, Aleri's life mostly consisted of running from predators and eating whatever she could find. Deathly afraid of her quadruple weaknesses (birds and fire), it took her dozens of years to actually evolve into Swadloon, where she began to adapt a more sedentary lifestyle. She established her own little outlet in Pinwheel, away from the meaner residents, and when she was satisfied began working on her talent for sewing. Eventually she was happy enough with her life that she became a Leavanny. Aleri was a resident of the White dimension of Unova, so she lived in a Pinwheel that had no such things as Cottonee, but she had a Lilligant friend that has since seemingly dropped off the face of the earth.

Twitter
Aleri joined Twitter a few months before her fourtieth birthday. She made friends over the waves with Pokémon like Dixie, a newly hatched Solosis, and Backfire, a trainer-owned Cyndaquil. Her life was mostly uneventful, and she never wandered outside of Pinwheel for fear of being captured. However, she had an aching desire to see the world beyond Pinwheel, so when she heard that WindChimecho and his friends, the Pokedex Holders of Sinnoh, were taking a vacation to Unova, she asked if there was any way she could possibly journey with them. Windy agreed, but he himself did not go on this journey.

Aleri was picked up by Diamond, and she met the humans and their Pokemon. Her journey started in Opelucid City, and progressed eastward from there. She loved to eat the food that Diamond prepared, and observing the comedy routines he and Pearl put together. Platinum, or "Missy", was also pleasurable to be around. However, the most eventful part of this journey was her obtaining of an Egg on Route 12. While sewing by herself in the morning, when no strange humans would be around, a Cherrim hastily asked for one and offered her a Cherubi egg as payment. Aleri had wanted to see a Cherubi in person since hearing about it on Twitter, and despite the odd circumstance she took the egg for her own and quickly fashioned a satchel so that she could hold it near her stomach most of the day.

The journey took its final stop in Undella Town, where the group stayed at the large villa that Missy apparently had some ownership over. They spent Thanksgiving there and this is the first good experience Aleri would have that would cause her to make Undella Town her favorite place in the world. Here she also met a group of Pokémon; a Kirlia, a Squirtle, and a Weavile. They had some nice adventures together and found things like Pearls scattered around. Unfortunately, the adventure had to be cut short because of trouble back home for the Pokedex Holders. Boldly, but not by herself, Aleri went back to Pinwheel Forest on her own accord.

Aleri slowly established more relationships over the coming months. She met Jirachi and became his Wish Seamstress, having the power of the moon embused into her leaves via a last minute wish. This way, she could create Wish Tags that could actually grant wishes when attached to Jirachi. She made leaf figurines of her friends for Christmas and distributed them, even though she was not aware that Squirtle had evolved. His bouts of depression following that led her to suggest the idea of holding a surprise New Year's Party at his den in Hoenn near Fortree City. With the help of Kirlia and her other new friend, an Espeon named Eve, they group teleported from Unova to there and held the event as pormised. During this time she learned Silver Wind from a Beautifly in the area, using it to add sparkles to what she sewed. It was then that Aleri began to fall in love with the variety of nature areas and even the architecture of certain areas as she explored Hoenn, thanks to an aerial tour given by Wartortle and his Skarmory friend.

The month of January in 2012 was an eventful one for Aleri. She met Esdin, who had no name at the time (neither did she), and began to establish a relationship with him. The egg containing Sanviara finally hatched during the middle of the month, and she christened her with the name after taking votes on a variety of them. Merely two days afterwards, she began to officially be Esdin's mate. They made up each others' current names. She also began to become an apprentice to Virizion Aramis, the guardian of Pinwheel Forest whom Aleri affectionally referred to as "Milady" with all respect. She began to learn basic offensive moves like Leaf Blade, and the defensive moves Reflect and Light Screen. She also learned Calm Mind from Mewtwo, whom she began to contact a bit more around this time.

She also had a friend named Flare that she had known shortly before he died and was reborn as a Vulpix. Around this time she began to make contact with him again as he had become less bitter and hateful due to a man called Ruby taking him under his wing. They spent many days in a villa in the Resort Area of Sinnoh, and she occasionally came to visit using teleportation as a way to go there quickly. She also cultivated a berry known as Drash that he found, used as a cure-all for various ailments (and tasted much better than Lum).

Mewtwo's involvement in Aleri's life became extremely important when one day she happened to see the image of a red and white being screaming across the sky one night. She learned that this was a being called Latias from Wartortle, and she wanted to learn more about it. Mewtwo had devised an device that could transform living things to another shape using DNA, and Aleri set her sights on using it to become Latias, if only for a short while. Since there was no way to obtain an actual Latias feather, they had to go about it in a roundabout way; using the DNA of a Mew, and comparing it against a database of many common DNA strands, isolating Latias. The experiment ended up being a success, and Aleri took Latias' form for a while, in the company of Mewtwo, Jirachi, and a Deoxys.

Aleri's exploits as Latias consisted of learning how to fly and use her moves, such as Mist Ball, Wish, and Dragonbreath, attempting (and succeeding) to seduce Esdin all over again as he was uncomfortable with the idea, and many other minute things. She eventually turned back into a Leavanny in time for her one-month anniversary with Esdin. Some time afterwards, they decided to have another child; a biological one. They succeeding in concieving an egg and out came a Sewaddle that they named Basil.

She also had a part in the Rescuers' Guild in Unova after learning that Esdin had joined it with Berries and RAMBOTOT, a Furret and Chatot that she knew in some fashion. She joined with Kirlia (known as Lia at this point) and Mitch, her new Grovyle mate. Her missions with the guild slowed down when she gave birth to Basil, however, until she decided to join the huge expedition that the guildmaster Landorus had planned. During that time she had to put her children under the care of the guild helpers as she went off with in the company of Rambotot and a Stunky named Beans. Soon the group learned the truth of the expedition, an attack on an old threat that was sealed away by Landorus a long time ago, known only as Genesect. With Beans and RAMBOTOT they group went through Genesect's domain, fighting off all sorts of Bug-types, and reaching his lair where they faced off in an epic battle, with Genesect losing.

This was not the end of his plot, though, as he had begun to exert his control on the Musketeers (including Virizion) and they turned to the side of evil, hiding in their "Mystery Dungeons". Aleri, Mitch, and Jirachi, who had replaced Lia after a dispute between the group, fought to release Virizon from Genesect's control, but Virizion turned out to be her own downfall when her rampant attacks destroyed the very dungeon she was staying in. Genesect was quiet until he decided to take matters into his own hands, by locking up those he deemed a threat to him one by one, playing dirty. To achieve this with Aleri, he took her very children hostage and she willingly gave up in order to keep them alive. Kept prisoner at Virbank Complex, she had no contact with the outside world. Only Beans, Wartortle's son (also a Wartortle), and a Bisharp known as Kuuga were her cellmates. They were eventually broken out as soon as Genesect was preparing his final bout with Landorus, where he planned to kill the guildmaster. The group met the two enemies at the Moor of Icirrus, and Aleri fought with Genesect, losing until Esdin showed up to back her up. She ended up decapitating him, thinking that would be the true end of it.

Genesect did return again, but Aleri decided that instead of fighting she would take all precautions to keep those she loved safe. Unfortunately, Esdin had been taken under Genesect's control, and he displayed this in the form of kicking Aleri's butt while they were at Undella Town, the only bad memory she has there. She had Sanviara and Basil stay with Mitch and Lia while she trained by herself on a Sevii Isle. She came back to the carnage at Unova too late to do any real helping. After this, she decided it was best to leave Unova for good and go to Forina, Jirachi's home, where she would reside permanently. She chose this place due to its lack of humans, which Esdin were unwilling to tolerate.

While at Forina Aleri experienced her number of problems, mostly regarding illusions from Miss Magius, first as a Cradily which she could not move in. She spent her days in that form sitting near a leak and drinking the water she needed to live, and not doing much else. At one time she also became a Cubchoo, and the rest of her family followed in that fashion (Basil an Ursaring, Esdin a Teddiursa, and Sanviara a Munchlax). While in that form she was cared for by Hiro until she turned back to normal.

During Samiya's first "Swap-a-thon" she swapped with a new resident of Forina, Madame Eve, while her daughter swapped with her son, a shiny Snivy. She enjoyed this form greatly, using it to hang from trees and coil around friends. Unfortunately, she was not able to expertly use Eve's inborn power to tell the future from having a Psychic-type parent. The two swapped back in time for Basil's first birthday. During the second "Swap-a-thon" she swapped with Isabella and enjoyed it a lot. However, during this time an unrelated Genesect, curious about Heart Swap, wandered into her view. A traumatic flashback to the events that had befallen her caused Aleri to nearly kill the innocent robotic bug, but she yielded after convincing from Stitch and Anthony. She later told Genesect that he had to leave in order to keep the children from making the same mistake she did, although Aleri did not completely trust him anyway.

Aleri spent some time in the body of a young Servine after a swap, and though it made her very happy to have a family with a mother and father again, she knew that for Basil's sake she had to go back to normal. She also let Basil go on a journey of self-enhancement on his own, and is hoping he comes home before his second birthday. Basil isn't the type to stay in one place, however, and that may affect the future of Aleri's current residence...

Trivia

 * Aleri was made on September 14, 2011. At the beginning of September 2013, her average tweets per day were around 67.
 * Since her creation, Aleri has gained an average of 1.4 followers per day.
 * Aleri's handle was suggested by Alxprit's friend when he was starting to RP, and he chose it because of how it flowed off the tongue. It briefly changed to "EonSeamstress" when she was a Latias.