Souru

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== Appearance ==
Souru is a large, deep purple Lightwing with piercing lavender eyes. His horns have an odd coloration; his left horn is a sky blue while his right horn is a dark pink. His wings and arms gradate from his purple base color to a pinkish red color, similar to his right horn’s coloration. On his wings are multicolored mirror scales that seem to change color with every movement he makes, and he has a scattering of mirror scales along his snout. His underbelly is a lighter purple, presumably for a sort of camouflage against the sky.
== Personality ==
Due to an animus curse, Souru is constantly angry, whether it be quiet fuming with a pointed glare here and there, or an explosive rampage that usually results in a fire. When in a fury, he lacks any common sense or focus on what he’s doing, resulting in him acting like a feral beast. Other times, when he’s interacting with other dragons, he is sly and cunning, usually using intimidation to quickly end conversations. He loves fire for some reason, as well as starting fires, but one wouldn’t catch him dead in an enclosed space without access to the sky due to his severe claustrophobia.
== History ==
When Souru was a little dragonet, he was orphaned. His parents died in a landslide, leaving him on his own and virtually helpless as a 3-month-old hatchling. He wandered the eastern edge of Lightwing territory for 3 years, surviving on nothing but scraps and whatever animal he could manage to catch, until he stumbled across Pollen. There he found hope: a plethora of dragons that are willing to help him! Right? Isn’t that how orphan life works in cities?
In an ideal situation, it would’ve been a pleasant 4 years of growing up in a pristine orphanage filled with kind dragonets and loving caretakers, but that was pure fantasy. Instead, Souru got stuck in the slums of Pollen, living in a falling apart orphanage with hateful dragonets and even worse caretakers, if you could even call them that. When he wasn’t locked in a cage that was dubbed “a room,” Souru was trapped in the cramped, very small “living space” of the orphanage with the other dragonets. A hierarchy was very evident in the dragonets; the younger ones were nothing but scum on the floor while the oldest were high and mighty. They cruelly shredded Souru apart daily for 2 years, both physically and emotionally, until he grew to be as cold and distant as the oldest dragonets, even though he was 5 at the time. He quickly clawed his way to the top of the orphanage’s hierarchy, making it known that he wouldn’t be shoved around unless he was the one shoving. The power of intimidation he wielded over the other dragonets was amusing to him in a sick, twisted way, and he soon wanted to hold more power over others. The dragonets of the orphanage were swiftly abandoned to the next iron fist to rise up as he turned 7, leaving the crummy building and beginning his search for more power.
His search for power was futile over the months of looking; politics were a bore, wrestling was “unfair” in his eyes due to the other tribes’ adaptations, and any underground organizations scoffed at his desperation for power. After almost giving up on his search, Souru was approached by a Skywing, who offered the power he wanted in exchange for his subservience to him. He agreed to the offer, and the Skywing revealed himself to be an animus and enchanted him to “wield the power of the sun.” For two years, the Skywing trained Souru to be an assassin and a thief, unstoppable in both magical and physical skill. Unfortunately, the Skywing didn’t have the forward thinking to magically brainwash him, and Souru began to wonder why he had to listen to him, even though he supposedly “owed him.” When the Skywing caught him trying to sneak away, he almost enchanted Souru to follow his every command, but he lashed out at him and killed the Skywing. But, unbeknownst to him, when the Skywing enchanted Souru initially, he enchanted a safeguard so if Souru did rebel, the spell would consume his mind and make him a raging beast of pure fury. The spell’s safeguard activated, reducing Souru to a constant state of uncontrollable anger with no other emotions showing, except maybe predatory cunning and vanity. After the flight from the Skywing, Souru wandered the Lightwing territory, only appearing to others who want to find him. He quickly became a ghost, a rumor, a faint whisper passed along by the wind. Many attempted to imprison him, but any restraints, traps, or cages he found himself stuck in were swiftly and brutally ripped to shreds, it reminding him of the Skywing and the dragonets trying to control him. 
== Trivia ==
* Inspiration for Souru came from Marx’s Soul form
* He is deathly afraid of any indoor room, and becomes a curled-up ball of despair when in one
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== Appearance ==
Souru is a large, deep purple Lightwing with piercing lavender eyes. His horns have an odd coloration; his left horn is a sky blue while his right horn is a dark pink. His wings and arms gradate from his purple base color to a pinkish red color, similar to his right horn’s coloration. On his wings are multicolored mirror scales that seem to change color with every movement he makes, and he has a scattering of mirror scales along his snout. His underbelly is a lighter purple, presumably for a sort of camouflage against the sky.
== Personality ==
Souru is a heartless scientist with a goal to create the strongest Pokemon in the universe. He views people and Pokemon as tools to further his research. When he worked under Team Heart, a villainous team with the goal of obtaining and corrupting Legendary Pokemon, he was their main scientist who worked on creating Shadow Pokemon, Pokemon who had their hearts artificially closed and turned into brutal fighting machines. Under their employment, he was cold, calculating, and ruthless with every grunt who worked under him, and he worked independently on his Shadow Pokemon project without following any orders he might have got from the boss. After he left Team Heart, he kept his ruthless personality, but learned how to charm and manipulate others, usually to steal their Pokemon to test on them or materials he needed. He refuses to let anything stop him in his goal, and he flies into a short-sighted rage when something major sets him off track, like a chain of failed experiments or pesky do-gooders trying to stop him.
== History ==
Unlike the other dragonets setting off on their Pokemon adventures when they came of age, Souru wanted to learn what made Pokemon powerful. He always wondered why evolved Pokemon were guaranteed to be stronger than Pokemon without any evolutions, or why unevolved Pokemon always lost to their evolved forms, and went into the research field. He determined that it was something within the Pokemon that made it strong, but he couldn't figure out what it was. He ran multiple tests that pushed the Pokemon he was working with to their limits and forcibly gave them serums that he thought would enhance their natural abilities, oftentimes ending with torturous results. The professor he studied under tried helping him with his research, but his uncaring methods horrified them and they refused to let him continue. He got kicked out of the field and couldn't find a way back into it, despite all of the research labs he tried to petition to. 
After a while, Souru wound up in the Scorpion Den, where he was picked up by a mysterious cloaked dragon. They promised him shelter, food, and unlimited resources, as long as he gave them the power he was trying to discover. He agreed to work with him and was soon employed under Team Heart. As promised, he was given as much as he asked for to complete his research, and it eventually culminated into creating his first Shadow Pokemon: a Growlithe. It was more accidental than intentional at first, and it took him a long time to narrow down the techniques and chemicals he used to create the Shadow Growlithe. Once he had the mechanics needed to create them, and after he made sure that this unevolved, untrained Growlithe can bring down Pokemon like Rhyperior or even Dragonite, he began to systematically corrupt Pokemon for Team Heart's use. 
During his time as head scientist, Souru began to disregard the higher authorities in Team Heart and only focused on his projects. It worked out for the most part, since his and Heart's goals were aligned, but once he lost interest in mass producing Shadow Pokemon and turned his attention to perfecting Shadow Pokemon. The corrupted creatures would periodically be reverted back to normal by affectionate grunts who cared for them, and they were still weak to their type's weakness, and he wanted those imperfections wiped out. He slowed his production of Shadow Pokemon to focus on his new goal, but Team Heart's leader still wanted the mass production to continue. The disagreements between him and the boss culminated into Souru stepping down from his position and ditching the team entirely. He took only his first Shadow Pokemon, now an Arcanine, a Shadow Cubone, a Shadow Dragonite, and his notes on perfecting Shadow Pokemon, and struck out by himself to continue his research.
In the rp, Souru occasionally shows up to steal Pokemon from others, corrupt them, and sell them in the Scorpion Den. He battles Krystal, Starfruit, Bixbite, and Mercybringer whenever they encounter him with his team of Shadow Pokemon. Normally, Shadow Pokemon are indistinguishable from regular Pokemon, but he has managed to corrupt them so badly that their twisted auras are permanently visible. Shadow Pokemon have special shadow moves that deal super effective hits to all non-shadow Pokemon and not very effective hits to other shadows. The known moves his Pokemon have are Arcanine's Shadow Fire (a fire attack) and Shadow Break (ram attack), Cubone's Shadow Rave (launches a wave of spikes through the ground) and Shadow Wave (waves of shadow, both attacks hit multiple opponents), and Dragonite's Shadow End (deals massive damage but takes 1/2 of the user's HP as recoil) and Shadow Storm (shadowy tornado, hits multiple opponents). His Arcanine is his main and is the one he experiments on the most, his Cubone is used as bait and for a hit-and-run strategy, and his Dragonite is a last-resort tank he saves for emergencies. 
== Trivia ==
*Souru's personality and role in the Pokemon AU is based off of Ein from Pokemon Colosseum
*His Shadow Pokemon's visible corruption is based off of how Shadow Pokemon appear in Pokemon Go
*The moves his Shadow Pokemon use are from Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and the move mechanics are from the game as well
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