Grisham

Grisham is a calm and composed man who runs his own café truck called Nouveau Café. He is the leader of Team Flare Nouveau and has goals of restoring Team Flare's reputation.

Full name: Grisham Frappe Age: 24 Height: 185 cm Hobbies: Making coffee Hometown: Lumiose City, Kalos region Friends: Griselle Battle gimmicks: Mega Evolution

Grisham is a tall man with red eyebrows, sideburns, and hair streaked with white. This hair is pulled into a small, wavy ponytail at the back of his head. He normally keeps his eyes closed in a disarming mien, but whenever they are open, his irises are small and a piercing shade of auburn, giving him an intimidating gaze. Grisham and his comrade Griselle are the owners of and baristas for Nouveau Café, and thus wear the almost the same uniform: white glasses, collared white-and-gray shirts decorated with upside-down triangles and rolled-back sleeves, black bowties, red-orange aprons dotted with those same triangles and emblazoned with the Team Flare Nouveau logo, and black shoes. While Griselle wears white tights, however, Grisham has gray wide-leg pants instead. Both of them sport gray rings fitted with Key Stones on their left middle finger, seemingly in imitation of how their former boss used to wear his own.

Under normal circumstances, Grisham is a calm, courteous, and patient person, serving customers at his café with impeccable professionalism and even remembering their favorite beverages. Whenever Griselle's hair-trigger temper causes her to lash out at others, Grisham often chides her gently to maintain the café's comforting atmosphere. However, his childhood spent in Team Flare, the organization's collapse, and the resultant branding of its remnants as criminals and outcasts has caused Grisham to secretly hold a great deal of resentment in his heart. He believes that Lysandre was a noble man led astray by his decision to unleash the ultimate weapon, and holds AZ responsible for Team Flare's downfall by having created it in the first place.

Despite this, Grisham has committed himself to serving Lumiose City's downtrodden alongside Griselle, gradually gathering goodwill and intel while anonymously competing in the Z-A Royale all towards the goal of saving the city from Ange and restoring the honor of Team Flare. Grisham is described by Mable as being "pretty strong when it comes to Pokémon battles", and true to her word, he is a Rank B Trainer whose strength surpasses all other opponents the player has fought thus far. Grisham owns a Charizard that helps him run Nouveau Café and is capable of Mega Evolving into Mega Charizard X. Upon his defeat at the player's hands, Grisham is able to free himself from the shackles of his past and vows his support to the player towards saving Lumiose City--and makes good on that promise with Griselle during the crisis.

In the past, Grisham was a former Team Flare grunt alongside his partner Griselle. Grisham was considered a prodigy with his great battling skills among the grunts. However, after Team Flare disbanded after Lysandre's defeat and disappearance, Grisham, Griselle and the other grunts decided to found Team Flare Nouveau in Lumiose, hoping to restore Team Flare's reputation by doing good deeds to the city. Grisham and Griselle also opened a cafe truck named Nouveau Cafe, where lots of Team Flare Nouveau members work there as staff members. Nouveau Café's mascot is Grisham's Charizard, who often stands by the truck.

Grisham and Griselle joined Team Flare because they wanted to help the world like Lysandre's original goal of helping people. However, Lysandre became corrupted. He grew sick of humanity's greed so that he plans to destroy humanity by using the ultimate weapon. Lysandre's plans would later be stopped by a young trainer named Calem and his friends. After Lysandre's disappearance, those who were in Team Flare were ridiculed by the people of Kalos, so Grisham and Griselle chose to found Team Flare Nouveau to restore the reputation of Team Flare, helping people like how Lysandre originally meant for Team Flare to be.

Grisham's Pokemon includes Charizard, Salamence, Pangoro, Malamar, Tyranitar and Female Pyroar. His Charizard can Mega Evolve into Mega Charizard X.