Spoiler-free for ZA's story :) except the very VERY beginning but I don't know if that actually counts
Okay so who the FUCK was gonna tell me pink hair was locked behind a sidequest that’s like super late game /silly
But no seriously, so I had initially intended for Delphine to have pink hair but turns out it’s locked behind a sidequest that’s I think stuck in like the wayyyy late game so I might just stick with this blue gray thing she's got going on right now (hairstyle is the same as I intended thank god)
I started a new save specifically to make her appearance since my main file didn't match her skin color. So I have finished the game, just not with her because that is one hell of a tutorial
OC SPOTLIGHT: DELPHINE AUCLAIR
My Legends ZA protag oc :D
Main outfit: White shirt with puff sleeves, green vest with the four square button things, black pants, green plaid pumps/flats (idk why the game calls them pumps they're not but whatever /silly). And that little bow thing I almost forgot about that
In terms of general style, Delphine is very used to making a good impression with how she dresses. She's extremely careful about keeping things neat because she knows impressions are important. While she tries not to let it make her insufferable about it, she can go too far if not called out on it.
Delphine is about 5'4" (162 cm) and about 113 lbs (51 kg).
While well-intentioned, Delphine does live in a little bit of a bubble. She's never really had to deal with much hardship outside of her family, and while she's very attuned to people's feelings, she's not that good at registering not everyone had it as easy as she did growing up. She's not without her struggles (elaborated on in the next section), but Delphine doesn't always "get" it. Still, she tries, and she does want to come out of the bubble she's been living in, and with the events of ZA now behind her, she's at least partially succeeded.
Delphine is good-natured and tries to be kind to everyone, no matter the circumstances. She's sweet and helpful where she can be, and she does like talking to new people and Pokemon around Lumiose. She'd never call herself a battler outright, but she does like friendly ones every now and then. Delphine loves playing with her Pokemon at the end of a long day, or just relaxing with them on the benches around Lumiose.
Delphine is the only child of the wealthy Auclair family, who own a well-known jewelry business, the source of the funds for their nouveau riche lifestyle (think the Russel family from The Gilded Age). With this lifestyle came comfort, of course, and the bubble Delphine has lived in her whole life. She rarely, if ever, interacted with Pokemon outside the gardens of the house she lived in, and she didn't have many friends due to her parents keeping her away from most of the local kids so they could have better control over how she spent her time.
And spend her time she did. Every second was monitored, maximized, and Delphine became an investment instead of a person. While she did learn plenty of new skills as a result of her childhood, and a lot of business sense from watching her grandparents and then her parents run the family business for years of her life, Delphine was never really happy with the way things turned out. She wanted to be her own person and find what she wanted to do with her life... which led her to pack a single bag in the middle of the night and sneak out, vanishing without a trace in the middle of the night. Delphine set her sights on Lumiose City, hoping to disappear into the large crowds and not be seen again. Shortly after getting off the train, she met Urbain while he was filming a promotional ad for Hotel Z... and the rest was history.
Delphine doesn't have much of an interest in specializing in any type. She's a generalist, though she does enjoy just having cute Pokemon on her team in general. That team, in no particular order, is:
Meganium (holding Meganiumite) (female)
Vivillon (Meadow pattern) (female)
Florges (blue flower) (female)
Lopunny (holding Lopunnite) (female)
I really REALLY wanted her to have a primarina because it fits her vibe so so well but ZA doesn't HAVE that line </3 sad day /silly
I do wish we got more like. Cute/pretty water Pokemon this game though?? Like don't get me wrong I have no complaints about the ZA dex but like. Idk maybe this is my fault for making a character inspired by sirens and stuff in a game with not that many water options but like. Idk. I might make her an alternative team that's not limited by the dex later on if y'all want that
I'm not gonna lie I made her exclusively to ship with Urbain. Not as like a selfshipping thing (got nothing against it though), I just like making cute OCs and making them kiss canons /hj (this is now my fourth Pokemon OC/canon ship I think)
They do not have a ship name yet, suggestions welcome if you have any
They do have a playlist that I might post once I can find more songs for it and once I can think of a decent ship name so the playlist isn't just called "urbain/delphine" forever /silly
Kalosian/French accent (obviously)
She has a playlist! I'll post it later maybe if I can remember. Lots of slow piano music and a lot of siren stuff (I originally wanted her to have more of a sea/ocean vibe before the water-type situation came to my attention)
Speaks Kalosian, Galarian/Unovan (whatever the equivalent of English is), and Paldean (her parents were not fucking around when they put her up to learning a lot of different things)
Awful cook. Awful, AWFUL cook, do not let her anywhere near a kitchen she'll find some way to burn it
Has not spoken to her parents for the entirety of ZA's events. They have not seen her in a while. She doesn't care to see them ever again
Very good dancer! She knows a lot of different styles but likes the slower ones
No one in Lumiose is aware of her family or who she is, and Delphine really wants to keep it that way even if she knows she can't forever (especially not from Urbain but that's a whole other story)