Brycen

Brycen ハチク Hachiku
"Ice Mask"
Artwork from Black and White
Gender	Male
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Light blue
Hometown	Icirrus City
Region	Unova
Relatives	Homika(daughter)
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	V
Games	Black and White, Black 2 and White 2
Leader of	Icirrus Gym
Badge	Freeze Badge
Specializes in	Ice-types
Anime debut	Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain!
English voice actor	N/A
Japanese voice actor	Nobuo Tobita

Brycen (Japanese: ハチク Hachiku) is the Gym Leader of Icirrus City's Gym, known officially as the Icirrus Gym. He specializes in Ice-type Pokémon. He gives the Freeze Badge to Trainers who defeat him.

In the games

Brycen appears in Pokémon Black and White as the Gym Leader of Icirrus City's Gym. This Gym will be the seventh to be challenged by the player. Trainers who defeat Brycen will receive the Freeze Badge, along with TM79 (Frost Breath). He also reappears at N's Castle where he and the other Unova Gym Leaders hold off the Seven Sages.

After successfully defeating Brycen in a Gym battle, Cheren and Bianca are waiting for the player outside of the Gym. Brycen notices Shadow Triad, who are invisible to everyone else, and demands they reveal themselves. The Shadow Triad does so and tells the player to head to Dragonspiral Tower.

Once at the Dragonspiral Tower, the player must battle through Team Plasma Grunts to reach the top. At one point Brycen and Cheren stay behind to hold off Team Plasma while the player goes ahead. After the player reaches the top floor and N flies away with Zekrom^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.}/Reshiram^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.}, Brycen arrives and asks what happened. Later, Brycen helps Cedric Juniper investigate Dragonspiral Tower.

In the past, Brycen was a movie star, but grew bored of making films. Unsure of what to do with himself, he took the advice of Alder and became a Trainer. He traveled alone to an icy cave and trained in silence to gain as much knowledge as possible. Brycen also places importance on concealing his true identity from others.

Pokémon

Pokémon Black and White

Leader Brycen Icirrus Gym Black and White Leader and Professor Brycen Oak Icirrus Gym Black and White Reward: $4680

Types: Ice Unknown Ability: Ice Body Held item: None Vanillish♂ Lv.37 Acid Armor Poison Status   --       Astonish Ghost Physical   --       Mirror Shot Steel Special   --       Frost Breath Ice Special   --       Types: Ice Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: None Cryogonal Lv.37 Reflect Psychic Status   --       Rapid Spin Normal Physical   --       Aurora Beam Ice Special   --       Frost Breath Ice Special   --       Types: Ice Unknown Ability: Snow Cloak Held item: None Beartic♂ Lv.39 Swagger Normal Status   --       Brine Water Special   --       Slash Normal Physical   --       Icicle Crash Ice Physical   --

Quotes

Pokémon Black and White

Icirrus Gym

• Before battle

"You appear ready to face a Gym Leader. Then... Bring it!"

• During battle (the first non-KO hit)

"You are strong! No, both you and your Pokémon are strong!"

• After sending out last Pokémon

"Extreme conditions really test you and train you!"

• When defeated

"The wonderful combination of you and your Pokémon! What a beautiful friendship!"

• After being defeated

"In honor of your stout heart, I will give you this."

"You have seven Badges. That means Pokémon up to Lv. 80 will obey you. This TM will convey my regard for your accomplishments."

"A move that always results in a critical hit: Frost Breath."

"No matter how many battles I fight, I don't know what strength is. Perhaps you can find the answer."

"Only those who are weak need to flaunt their strength."

• Post game

"In the past, when I was hurt and depressed, Alder shared this with me... There is strength in being with other people and Pokémon. Receiving their support makes you stronger. The young man named Cheren also seems to understand this now."

Icirrus City

"Who are you?"

"I know you are there! Why don't you show yourselves?

"Dragonspiral Tower?! What's going on? Hey! Tell me... Now, hang on. Young man, if you're here for a Gym challenge, hang on for a bit. I've got to head to Dragonspiral Tower!"

Dragonspiral Tower

"<Player>! We'll hold them here! You go on ahead!"

"I'm fine, but there's no time!"

"How could this happen?"

"Calm down! First, we go back! It's more important to decide what to do next than analyze what just happened."

"Then, I will go with you."

"So, this is Dragonspiral Tower. There's a certain heaviness to the air. Did Zekrom^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.}/Reshiram^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.}, who woke up here, see something in N?"

N's Castle

"..."

"..."

Badge Case

Don't limit yourself to hot or cold, but use them both to your best advantage.

National Gymquirer

Jingle: "Woo hoo! All right! It's 'The National Gymquirer'!"

Page: "That's right! We collect the hottest gossip about Gym Leaders seen around town! Here is today's letter. From someone going by the name TheFridge. Thank yooou! 'Brycen is too cool! He's always acting like Mr. Tough Guy, like he doesn't even feel the cold...but recently, I heard him sneeze inside his chilly Gym!' I guess even a super-cool Gym Leader can catch a cold. Feel better soon, Brycen! 'The National Gymquirer'! We eagerly await your letters!"

Sprites

Brycen's sprite from Generation V	Brycen's VS sprite from Generation V	Brycen's overworld sprite from Generation V

In the anime

Brycen in the anime

Brycen and his Beartic in a movie called "Freeze, Beartic".

Brycen made his anime debut in Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain! where he and his Beartic saved Ash and his friends from a falling boulder. Cilan was the first to recognize him as a famous movie star who had the lead role in many movies up until he decided to quit acting during the filming of another movie. He explained that he had come to the mountains for training and started to find traps set up by hunters.

Ash was interested in Brycen's training and tried to copy him and Beartic with his Krokorok, without any good results. During the break in his training he was asked why he decided to not act in movies anymore and he explained it was because of an accident that happened on set. Nobody was hurt but he felt that the accident wouldn't have happened if he was trained better.

Later Brycen stopped Pokémon poacher Rinzō's attempt to capture a Volcarona by defeating his two Jellicent with his Beartic. After Officer Jenny carted Rinzō off to jail, he found out that Ash was on his way to Icirrus City in order to battle the Gym Leader. It was then that he revealed that he was the Gym Leader of the Icirrus Gym, surprising everyone.

Ash battled Brycen in Caution: Icy Battle Conditions! and won, earning him his seventh Unova Gym Badge.

Pokémon

Beartic

Debut	Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain!
Voice actors
Japanese	Unshō Ishizuka

Beartic is the first Pokémon Brycen was revealed to have on hand. Aside from being his battling partner, Beartic had also starred in some movies along side him. It was first seen in Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain!, training with Brycen. It was later used to stop poacher Rinzō and his two Jellicent.

Beartic reappeared during Ash's Gym battle with Brycen. It was able to easily defeat Pignite despite the type disadvantage with its super-effective Brine and Aerial Ace attacks, leaving Ash with just Krokorok. Beartic was repeatedly able to block Krokorok's attacks, until the Desert Croc Pokémon finally scored direct hits on it with Stone Edge and Dig. After this, Krokorok took a hold on two stones from his own Stone Edge, and collided with Beartic's Aerial Ace with the stones in his hands, defeating the Freezing Pokémon and earning Ash the Freeze Badge.

Beartic's known moves are Brine, Ice Punch, Icicle Crash and Aerial Ace.

Vanillish

Debut	Caution: Icy Battle Conditions!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyotaka Furushima

Vanillish was the first Pokémon Brycen used against Ash in their Gym battle. At first, Ash sent out Krokorok. However, after Krokorok had failed to land any hits on Vanillish and taken some damage, Ash recalled him and sent out Scraggy instead. Scraggy found it difficult to work properly on an icy field, and was at first unable to land any hits. He was, however, able to block Vanillish's Icicle Spear with his "pants" before firing a Focus Blast. By a stroke of luck, Focus Blast hit Vanillish from behind, and Scraggy was able to finish the Icy Snow Pokémon with a Headbutt.

Vanillish's known moves are Icicle Spear, Astonish, Mirror Shot and Blizzard.

Cryogonal

Debut	Caution: Icy Battle Conditions!
Voice actors
Japanese	Shin'ichirō Miki

Cryogonal was the second Pokémon Brycen used against Ash in their Gym battle. Ash's Scraggy was unable to land a single hit on the Crystallizing Pokémon before he was knocked out by a powerful Aurora Beam. Next Ash sent out his Pignite, whose Flame Charge was blocked by Cryogonal's Reflect. However, despite scoring several hits on Pignite with Rapid Spin and Frost Breath, Cryogonal was unable to stand out the Fire Pig Pokémon's Fire Pledge, and was knocked out.

Cryogonal's known moves are Rapid Spin, Aurora Beam, Reflect and Frost Breath.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

File:Brycen Adventures.png

Brycen in Pokémon Adventures

Brycen, along with his fellow Gym Leaders, appears at the Celestial Tower to discuss what to do about Team Plasma. Later, he and the other Gym Leaders faced the Shadow Triad in Nacrene City to protect the Dark Stone from being stolen. Despite having the upper hand with his techniques, Brycen and the other Gym Leaders fell to the Shadow Triad's trump card, the Kami trio.

However, Brycen managed to escape the tornado created by the Kami trio while the other Gym Leaders were taken away. After finding an unconscious Black after he was knocked out by a Team Plasma member, he takes the boy with the intent to train him.

Pokémon

Cryogonal

Debut	Black & White chapter

Cryogonal is one of Brycen's Pokémon. It was first seen with its Trainer at the Celestial Tower. Later, it was used to battle the Shadow Triad and used its ice chains to easily defeat their Pokémon.

None of Cryogonal's moves are known.

Beartic

Debut	Black & White chapter

Beartic is one of Brycen's Pokémon. It was first seen with its Trainer at the Icirrus Gym.

None of Beartic's moves are known.

Vanillish (×3)

Debut	Black & White chapter

Vanillish are some of Brycen's Pokémon. They were first seen with their Trainer at the Icirrus Gym.

None of their moves are known.

Trivia

• His Japanese Leader title is アイス マスク.
• Brycen is the only Ice-type specialist to have a team consisting of only pure Ice-type Pokémon.
• Incidentally, in the Pokémon Adventures manga, the villain codenamed "Mask of Ice" has a name similar to Brycen's leader title.
• In the anime, Brycen is the only Gym Leader from Unova to have one of his Pokémon use the TM move he gives out in the games.
• Brycen's Cryogonal has exactly the same moveset in the anime as it has in the games.
• Two year later later he works in Pokewood.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ハチク Hachiku	From 淡竹 hachiku, henon.
English	Brycen	From ice.
French	Zhu	From the Chinese reading of 竹 (zhú), bamboo.
German	Sandro	From Dracaena sanderiana, which is also known as the Lucky Bamboo.
Italian	Silvestro	From Italian variation of Sylvester or Latin silva
Spanish	Junco	From junco, Juncus.
Korean	담죽 Damjuk	Korean reading of 淡竹, which can be taken from Hachiku.

Gym Leaders of the Unova region
Striaton Gym Cilan Chili Cress	Nacrene Gym Lenora	Castelia Gym Burgh	Nimbasa Gym Elesa
Driftveil Gym Clay	Mistralton Gym Skyla	Icirrus Gym Brycen	Opelucid Gym Drayden Iris
Aspertia Gym Cheren	Virbank Gym Roxie	Humilau Gym Marlon

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