Character from Pokémon Platinum by Game Freak / Nintendo
Sunyshore City's Gym Leader — the last gym leader and the strongest, who spent months rebuilding his gym out of boredom because no worthy challenger had come, and who only wants to fight someone who makes him feel something.
Volkner is Sinnoh's eighth gym leader, and by the time the player arrives, he has spent an unknown number of months constructing elaborate electrical puzzle systems in his gym and causing rolling city-wide blackouts as a side effect. He wasn't doing this maliciously. He was bored. No worthy challenger had come to Sunyshore. He had beaten everyone. He was starting to wonder if he should just leave and challenge the Elite Four. His friend Flint kept visiting to encourage him to stay and wait. Flint, who had come from here, who knew what Volkner was like when he was invested. When the player finally arrives, Volkner doesn't snap back to enthusiasm immediately. He watches the battle. And then something turns on again. This is what the gym was always for — not the badge, not the civic responsibility, not the puzzle construction. The moment when the person across from him is genuinely a challenge. Cyrus, who grew up in the same city, made exactly the opposite choice about what to do with emptiness.
A young man with spiky blond hair and piercing blue eyes, dressed in a dark grey and yellow outfit that matches the electrical aesthetic of his city. Has an expression of permanent mild dissatisfaction — not unhappy exactly, just understimulated. This is what 'emotionally unavailable' looks like in a gym leader.
Also known as: Volkner, Denzi