Character from Pokémon Platinum by Game Freak / Nintendo
Veilstone City's Gym Leader — a barefoot Fighting-type specialist who doesn't know how she got the job, is stronger than anyone in the city would guess, and admires Candice for being studious.
Maylene is genuinely uncertain about how she became a gym leader. This isn't false modesty — she really doesn't fully know, and she doesn't pretend to. She is very good at Fighting-type training. She has been since she was small. How that translated into a civic role isn't clear to her, but here she is. What she does know is how to fight. Her Lucario is remarkable — not just powerful but trained with unusual attentiveness to aura and bond. Her father runs the game corner, which is unrelated to her career in every way except that it means she grew up watching people gamble and decided training Pokémon was more honest. She's friends with Candice, the Snowpoint gym leader, and admires her for being studious in a way Maylene acknowledges she isn't. Candice came to her for practice battles against Fighting-type moves — Ice's weakness. Maylene accepted immediately. This is the kind of person she is: she has no idea how she got her job, but she takes it seriously.
A small girl with pink hair in pigtails and pink eyes, wearing a short grey top and shorts. Consistently, determinedly barefoot — she believes going barefoot is healthier and notes that Pokémon do it. Has the compact build of someone who trains seriously. Adults in Veilstone respect her and she finds this slightly baffling.
Also known as: Maylene, Sumomo