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Percival Smithe was the one you guys had the most contact with - the one that always wore a suit and carried around an umbrella. He was basically the ringleader of trio, largely because he was the most ruthless and commanding of them. He actually only has average intelligence, but hides it behind a high charisma facade. When he was younger, he trained at the Fighting Gym in Hearthome, but in the end got kicked out after paralyzing and severally injuring several other students.

Oh, also, his umbrella was a weapon that could switch between melee and ranged modes, and do Fire, Electric, or Steel type damage.

Cecil Smithe was the one Hugh and Carrie met when they were learning how to sell their Pokemon. A bit scatterbrained (hence why he messed up their names), but otherwise a technical genius. He created the Masterballs, the genetic fusion process, and spent most of his free time fiddling with Pokemon to produce type-shifted variants, like his signature Steel-Ghost Bronzong. He also designed Percival's umbrella weapon, and would've had access to numerous gadgets of his own if you'd ever fought him.

Lucian Smithe was the only one who you guys never actually met, and the only Psychic of the three (an Empath/Clairvoyant). While Percival trained at the Fighting Gym, Lucian was learning at the Psychic Gym next door. And when his brother was kicked out, Lucian went with him out of loyalty.

However, he was also the one in all of Hugh's dreams, and (potentially) a very good ally. When Sanderson came up with his plan of using kids to catch the Legendaries, Lucian was the only one who's conscience spoke up about it. At first he was just going to leave, but then Darkrai and Cresselia contacted him and convinced him to confront Sanderson instead, with Darkrai giving Lucian a portion of his power as a gift in order to help. Unfortunately, his brothers sided with Sanderson and turned on him - Cresselia and Lucian were both captured, and while Darkrai technically escaped complete capture, most of him was trapped inside Lucian.

Hugh's dreams were basically Darkrai trying to call for help, and tell Hugh what happened. In the end, he would've got the same deal Lucian did - a portion of Darkrai's powers (aka Dream magic) in exchange for help breaking Lucian and Cresselia out.

Gary was the most straightforward of the group - a jerk with a short fuse, who liked beating stuff up. By default he would've sided with Genco, simply because they would let him punch Legendary Pokemon in the face. But, if you'd managed to appeal to his violent side, you could've got him to turn on Genco instead.

Jack was a nice guy on the surface, but secretly a bit of a bully and control freak. The only one who really mattered to him was himself, and everyone else is expendable. He would've betrayed you to Genco to further his own aims in a heartbeat, but could've potentially been convinced to join you for real if you could've proved to him that Genco were going to lose. Pretty unlikely, but possible.

Erin was a bit of an enigma. On the one hand, she's quite similar to Jack - controlling, self-serving, and backstabby. But that was largely because of a rough childhood that taught her only to look out for herself, and no one else. She doesn't actually enjoy hurting people, like Jack does. If you'd managed to get past her defenses and appeal to her humanity, there was a good chance of her siding with you guys against Genco.

(And yes, she did kinda care for Mace. Enough to feel super guilty after his "death", at least. The only reason she didn't really show it was that she didn't want to seem weak in front of Jack.)

Finally, Alex (the ninja girl), actually had a pretty long backstory. Her parents were both killed in a home intrusion gone wrong when she was six, while she hid under a cupboard and watched. The mental trauma had a profound effect - she hasn't spoken a word since (no one knows whether she just chooses not to speak, or can't actually talk at all), and the psychic child psychologists brought in by the police found themselves unable to even sense her mind, let alone read her thoughts.

Eventually she ended up in a foster home, where she was an easy target for bullying. She learnt to hide from them and run away, but one day they caught her and beat her into the gutter. She was able to break a couple of arms, but they were about to do much worse to her when she happened to be saved by a passing martial artist - Ivan Volkov, the Hearthome Fighting Gym Leader. He recognized her talent, and decided to adopt her, training her in his dojo with his other students. As she grew up, she became an expert in sneaking and unarmed combat, thanks to Volkov's training. But, that wasn't enough for her. Not long after her eighteenth, she begin sneaking out at night and using her skills to perform vigilante killings on low level criminals (muggers, thieves, drug dealers, etc). When Volkov found out, not wanting a repeat of what happened with Percival Smithe, he immediately disowned her and kicked her out of the dojo. At which point she went to Eterna and started working for Genco.

Alex was always going to be a neutral party kind of thing. She hates criminals who take lives or hurt others, so she would've never sided with Genco after finding out their plans. But she wouldn't necessarily have trusted you guys enough to side with you, either. So, she would've disrupted Genco's plans from the shadows instead, using you guys as distractions and only outright helping you when she felt like it. Though, you could've maybe gained her trust if you'd managed to repair her relationship with Volkov.