Greta Parker

Greta Parker is the main character.

Characteristics
Greta has been an inactive girl in her social life. When she was attending to school, she never befriended others, instead she spent her time reading books and getting to know more about the world. Since she has a whole knowledge of books and she has personal interest in Pokémon, her goal is to take over the Day Care Service, which her parents are running. But she felt insecurate about helping Pokémon in the Day Care Service, thus, when she received her Pokémon Trainer Licence, she left home and went on a Pokémon journey with Redwald.

Greta is raised meticulous and tidy. Therefore, she has troubles adopting the natural and nomad life style in the beginning. But with the power she gains from her Pokémon, she finds the courage to keep going. Unlike how she was at school, timid and tranquil, she changes after setting off a journey. As it is stated in, Greta regularly washes and gives massage to her Pokémon.

Since she met Eusine in, she has a personal interest in him. But she can't figure out where the interest came from earlier. In, while Greta and Eusine explore in Pallet Jungle to find , Greta discovers that she has intense feelings towards Eusine. In fact, she has been admiring him and everything about him, from his appearence to his behaviour. Her intense interest in him would occasionally distract Greta from the things she is supposed to be focusing on. Her love for Eusine makes Greta disturbed and uncomfortable at times, so much that she needs to writedown her feelings towards him in. In the letter, she confesses her pure love for Eusine and how she is scared of causing Eusine to escape because of it.

Greta has been in a rivalry with Madison Dickens for years. Although the reason for the rivalry has been a mystery, Madison once threatens Greta with revealing the reason why she left high school. As it is revealed in, Greta can be pushed easily to a fight, and she becomes someone unrecognizable. However, while they explore on, Madison is attacked by a wild Arbok and Greta helps her out without a second thought. Arbok, who wants to take revenge from Greta, attacks Metapod as a response. That incident ignites a friendship between the two rivals.

As the time goes on, Greta's concerns regarding Eusine grow bigger. When they are kidnapped and kept in Dawn's Hope HQ, Greta feels alarmed upon Eusine's approach to a woman and loses her self control over their friendly conversation. When the coven asks for Eusine's help, Greta feels desperate about leaving there. When Mr. Macdonald says that Eusine would be working with Teresa all the time, it makes Greta feel even more unsecure and makes her worry about Eusine's possible will to stay in the coven and leave Greta and Redwald on their journey.

Early Life
Greta is the daughter of two parents who run a Day Care Service in Pallet Town. They often assist Professor Oak. Greta would occasionally go to Professor Oak's, and take Pokémon from there to the Day Care.

When she began high school, she saw for the first time there, but they didn't meet in person. She recognized him as soon as she saw him in Oak's Laboratory. implied that she dropped school earlier, but the reason to this remains mystery.

The Beginning


Greta debuts in at Professor Oak's Summer Camp as she was accepted along with 15 other students. Her goal is to obtain a Pokémon Trainer Licence. Shortly after, she receives her first Pokémon,. Although Nidoran was shy and nervous when they first met, Greta bears with that and eventually makes Nidoran feel comfortable.

The first day in the summer camp, she meets her childhood rival. Madison reveals that she knows the secret why Greta dropped high school and threatens her using that. She also remembers when she sees him, whom she knew from high school but never became friends with. However, they improve their friendship during the camp.

In, all the students are requested to solve a riddle and find a proper item that they are tasked to. Greta brings Redwald to the library of the laboratory to solve their riddles by using Pokémon books as source. When Greta solves that they are requested to find a, they go to the playground, where the item is kept hidden. Before Greta grabs the item, a Diglett attacks Greta, and thus, Greta and Nidoran have their first Pokémon Battle, which ends with victory for the first time.

Greta and the other students are tasked to catch a Pokémon in Pallet Jungle in. Before heading there, Madison accuses Greta being weak and untalented to catch a strong Pokémon. As a response to that, Greta challenges Madison to a Pokémon Battle after catching their first Pokémon in the jungle. Later on, Greta encounters a wild Spearow, but instead of catching him, she only battles and walks away. When Redwald asks why, Greta states that she has always dreamed of catching a Caterpie, and she would make one her first catch. Shortly after, Greta encounters a, and battles her using her Nidoran. When Caterpie is weakened, Greta throws the Poké Ball, and catches the Pokémon. That is the first time Greta extends her team. When Greta meets Madison as promised, Greta refuses to have a battle, reason being instead of trying to prove who is stronger, she would prefer to make bond with her Pokémon in a healthier way.

Before they leave the jungle, Greta, Redwald and are chased by a wild Kangaskhan in. Greta uses her Caterpie for the first time to protect herself and the others from her. Greta improves the tactic to use String Shot to slow down the foe and then using Tackle to harm them through this battle.

Greta participates in Professor Oak's Summer Camp Competition in. As she passes through elimination round and quarter final by using her Nidoran and Caterpie, respectively, she gets the chance to participate in the semi finals. That success scares Greta, as it could be a clear hint for her to choose a path for her future, but she could end up making a wrong decision after all. She battles Madison and qualifies to the grand finale to face against Blake. During her final battle in, Greta learns to analyze and make more rational decisions in the battles. She first uses her Nidoran against. However, as she realizes that Nidoran was super effected against Cubone's ground type moves, she substitutes Nidoran with Caterpie. Remembering her success against the wild Kangaskhan, Greta had Caterpie use the same tactic, slowing down her opponent and defeating them, which worked just as expected. During her battle against, Greta has troubles reaching to Spearow, as the Pokémon constantly remains in the air. However, Greta orders her Nidoran to climb a tree and make contact from the top of it. Eventually, she defeats Spearow and becomes the winner of Professor Oak's Summer Camp Competition in the season of 1996.

Greta's initial plan has always been staying home with her parents and working at the Day Care Service. When the camp is over, she begins to work there. An old man leaves his beloved Growlithe with them, asking to take care of him for a month. Greta, as her first task, takes care of Growlithe, but no matter how hard she tries, it was not enough for him. Greta realizes that what she read from books or the knowledge she has could not help her, unless she has experience in the nature. Thus, she makes a radical decision and goes on a Pokémon journey along with Redwald across Kanto to discover Pokémon in their nature and improve herself.

Part Red & Green


Despite of all her eager, determination and dedication to understand Pokémon and the nature, Greta has troubles dealing with a journey in the beginning. As a person who has always cared about nattiness, she could not adopt the nature easily. She has farther issues when she tries to keep the clothes and dishes clean all the time. Eventually in, after a long day, she is too close to cry. But her Pokémon, Nidoran and Caterpie pop out of their Poké Balls, and give strength and courage to their trainer to hold on and keep going. Greta makes a promise to her Pokémon that she would be a trainer, who they deserve. As she states, as long as she has her Pokémon by her side, she would always keep going for her goal.

When Greta visits Viridian Forest with Redwald, she randomly encounters Madison. As she states, Madison was on her own Pokémon journey as well. After a short war of words, the two gets in a Pokémon battle. However, a Beedrill Pack interrupts their battle and attacks everyone including the two trainers, their Pokémon and Redwald. When the crew is no longer able to escape from the pack, a young man and his Pokémon appears, and the man orders his Pokémon to put Beedrill in sleep. Shortly after, the man introduced himself as, and his Pokémon as. But during the attack, is poisoned, and thus, he needs an. As no one has an Antidote, Greta, Eusine and Madison team up to look for natural herbs to cook an Antidote. As a result, the three get separated and look for specific herbs for each. On her way to get a Feverfew, Greta accidentally stepps on a, which later calls a Parasect and attacks her. When Greta has a Pokémon battle with the Parasect, Eusine appears again and protects Greta using his Haunter.

In, Greta and Eusine are kidnapped and tied to a tree by Parasect Pack, and held hostage for a whole night. In the meantime, despite Greta and Eusine attempt to escape several times, all the attempts end up failure. Around dawn, Beedrill Pack appears with a bunch of poachers, whose leader is Gabor, and they attack Parasect Pack. Eusine figures out that the goal of Beedrill Pack is to extend their living area, while the poachers only want to collect spores on Parasect's mushrooms to sell in black market. During this incident, it is revealed that Parasect Pack doesn't have any revenge-intended goal, but they only need a support. Thus, Greta and Eusine agree on battling alongside Parasect Pack. Caterpie battles Gabor's Exeggutor when Parasect were about to lose the battle, and let all the spores be stolen. But Caterpie uses the same String Shot and Tackle tactic and defeats the Ace Pokémon of the leader, which gives the pack courage and hope to win it. Thus, they keep struggling. That bravery causes Caterpie to evolve into a Metapod. Eventually, they manage to get rid of Beedrill Pack and the poachers, but they kidnap a Parasect from the pack.

Eusine thinks that Parasect Pack would not let them go, unless they save their friend from Beedrill Pack. Therefore, he comes with a useful plan after a long day. He tells them to go straight and declare a war until they get their friend back. Although his controversial plan causes nearly a mess in the pack, Greta's speech on Eusine convinces the pack and they agree on his plan.

The same night, Greta and Eusine have a private conversation about the plan. When Greta asks him if he really has a plan that he could rely on, Eusine states that he had to come up with a plan, and even if it ends up with a loss, they should just escape from Parasect Pack, because the pack would not let them go easily, no matter how hard they try. Later at night, Parasect Pack, with Eusine and the others, declares a war to Beedrill Pack. Eusine tells the Parasect to distract Beedrill Pack, so that they would go and rescue their friend from the dark room he is being kept. Parasect Pack does what Eusine tells them and Eusine saves the Pokémon with the help of Redwald and other Pokémon. After Eusine rescues Parasect and makes sure that Parasect Pack would be safe afterwards, they leave the group behind and go on their way.

Redwald asks where Eusine would head to. Eusine reveals that he would be going to the north of Cerulean City. Redwald offers him to come along with them until they get there. Eusine agrees with it and becomes their travel companion for a while. Greta doesn't know why back then, but she can't help but feel excited about having Eusine along with them.

In, Greta meets a Pokémon who is utterly depressed and closed. She talks to her trainer to get to know more about her. The Pokémon's trainer Diana refuses to talk about her at first. But later, she reveals everything about the Pokémon, which is a Pikachu nicknamed. She was caught when Diana just starts her journey long time ago. Diana trains her for one ultimate goal - to compete in Kanto League. But she fails to join there and gives up on competing there. Ever since, Foudre feels depressed and refuses to talk to anyone including her trainer. Diana then offers Greta to take Foudre with her for a while to get Foudre out of her depression. Greta takes it as a challenge and accepts Foudre. Although she is stubborn and independent, Greta tries to deal with her.

Greta has a single battle against former League Champion Aubrey. In this friendly battle, Greta uses Foudre against Aubrey's Exeggutor. Despite of Greta's orders of dodging the moves, Foudre does what she wants and ignores her trainer entirely. Therefore, Exeggutor defeates Foudre by using Egg Bomb and Stregth and Greta loses the battle shortly after. After that, Aubrey states that Foudre does not trust and respect Greta as a trainer yet.

As it was stated in, Greta begins to grow a big love for Eusine. It begins to make her so blue that she occasionally has troubles with sleeping or focusing on her tasks. Eventually, she decides to write a letter, in which she confesses everything about her feelings towards Eusine. That is the first time she confesses how desperate she is in love with him, and she is becoming depressed over her one side love. That mood makes her an inactive member of the group on their journey.

When Greta is on along with her friends, finally her Metapod comes near to an end of her process of evolution. While she is getting excited about about-to-happen evolution, her rival Madison appears with the reveal that her is also about to evolve. Despite of being rivals, Madison joins Greta and the others temporarily, until her Kakuna evolves. Later on, Madison reveals that her grandmother received Remedy Book from Eshmun himself, and she is the legacy who owns the book. The book contains informations to help species of Metapod and Kakuna to evolve faster. Although Madison wants to try it on her Kakuna, Greta rejects the offer for her Metapod, wanting a natural evolution. Nonetheless, the two explores in the forest side of the route to collect the required items, such as herbs and plants. But a wild Arbok attacks Madison. Greta attempts to protect her, ends up being attacked instead. That incident eases their rivalry, and makes them work as a team. As Greta's Metapod is damaged badly, Madison offers Greta to go back to the group and wait for her until she brings all the items in order to prepare the potion. Madison collects everything on her own and prepares the Potion for Metapod. Eventually, she makes Greta's Metapod evolve faster than her Kakuna. That incident ignites as a friendship between the two rivals.

Greta has a rematch with Madison in while she is about to leave Cerulean City with Redwald and Eusine. Greta, due to her promise of a rematch, accepts Madison's challenge and they hold a Pokémon Battle in the backyard of a Pokécenter. During the battle, Greta uses Butterfree, Paras and Bulbasaur. In the end, Greta defeats her and wins the battle. Unlike usual, Madison thanks Greta in a mature way and claims that she taught something that would help her in the future.

Part Red & Blue
In, Greta begins to feel uncomfortable about Eusine leaving soon. After Eusine tells about Bill and how he lost his life partner with one last regret in his heart, it awakens a feeling inside her, and Greta finds a courage inside to open up to Eusine. Thus, she talks to Eusine the last night after Redwald sleeps. When she implies her romantic feelings toward Eusine, Eusine stands aloof from her. Greta, with actual regret of revealing her feelings, tries to make it look so that she is worried about her safety outside without him. Although it doesn't convince Eusine entirely, Greta is sure that Eusine wouldn't react good for her.

In, Greta, Redwald and Eusine find a fainted man on. When they try to help the man, they suddenly get attacked and kidnapped. Greta and Eusine remain unknown until Redwald wakes up, finds himself tied in a dark room, gets questioned and freed in the end with proven innocense. When Redwald is taken to a room in Dawn's Hope HQ, he finds Greta and Eusine safe. Once the guilt is cleared, Mr. Macdonald offers Greta and the others a dinner as an apology and makes sure that they could leave afterwards safely. After having their dinner, a man comes to the coven's headquarters. Mr. Macdonald immediately recogniezs that he is cursed. Help doesn't save the young man and lets him die. As a result, Mr. Macdonald asks the help of Eusine to stop killings that are caused by the rival coven Purple Town. Greta always rejects and feels unsafe about it, but Eusine accepts the request and decides to help them.

Achievements

 * Professor Oak's Summer Camp Competition - Winner