Solarflare

* Current
* Early
* Berserk

> "*But I'm afraid that I might accidentally hurt you.*"
> ― Flare to Leaf, "Young and Free"[[source]]
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**Coastal Green Solarflare or simply Solarflare**, more commonly known as **Flare**, is the younger brother of Speed and Crystal, and the adoptive older brother of Sunshine.

## Backstory

Unlike his siblings, he didn't hatch on the same day as them. Instead, it took almost a year longer for him to hatch. He evolved into Flareon when Crystal tripped and shoved a Fire Stone in his face.

At age 10, while taking care of his garden, he became infected with the Berserk Virus after it appeared on one of his flowers, taking the shape of some black mud.

## Personality

He's usually shy and quiet, being mostly complacent. Ever since he was little, he always wanted to become a Leafeon because he loves planting, but ended up evolving into Flareon instead thanks to Crystal and his virus.

In the past, whenever the virus possessed him, he became violent towards anyone around him, especially to those who upset him in the first place, although other emotions could trigger it as well.

Nowadays, Fluffy is more controllable, and Solar can possess Flare to keep him under control while allowing him to use higher stages of the virus, being serious and collected.

## History

Being born 1 year after his siblings, Flare is the youngest in his family. He's shy and prefers spending his time outside gardening, an interest he's had since he was young.

One fateful day, he got infected by the Berserk Virus that took the shape of black mud. Sometime later, his sister, Crystal, found his older brother's collection of evolution stones and pranked Flare with them, threatening to evolve him into a Flareon. After stumbling, she accidentally fell and the stone touched his face. His extreme emotions awakened the virus and forced Flare into evolving. Berserk Flare started attacking Crystal and scaring her until Speed came home to find them. Due to being caught off guard by the virus's enormous power multiplier, Speed's attempt to intercept his punch resulted in Flare punching a hole in his chest and damaging his heart, leaving him knocked out and Kris alone to avoid Flare until he fainted on his own.

Later, he went with his siblings to live with Pearl and the others.

## Relationships

### Solar

Solar is Flare in an alternate timeline. Unlike Flare, Solar was able to evolve into a Leafeon. He appears to Flare in his dreams and talks to him sometimes when he is awake. Flare called Solar "leafeon me", which is admittedly funny.

### Crystal

Crystal and Flare have a mostly friendly relationship. However, on the day Crystal evolved him into a Flareon against his will, it activated his Berserk Virus, causing him to become super-powered, and terrifying Crystal. For a while, he would not even talk to her, but after she apologized, their relationship has been mended back together and has become much closer. Despite her still poking fun at him, she still cares about him and still feels bad for his forced evolution.

### Speed

Speed and Flare's brotherhood is very stable. He cares greatly for his older brother, as much as Speed does for him, often reminding his rash older brother to stay safe and greatly looks up to him.

### Leaf

Leaf is his love interest, and they spend most of their time together, due to their mutual love of gardening. After Leafy discovers about Flare's Berserk mode, she wasn't afraid of it, and convinces him to not surrender to it.

### Lazuli

Despite not talking or communicating as much, Flare does respect her and enjoys her company and is often someone he can talk to on a certain level and enjoy discussing about each other's lifestyle and talking about other members. They have a casual and mutual relationship.

## Berserk Virus

Flare became infected with the Berserk Virus as an Eevee. Fortunately, the virus ending up bonding with him, classifying Flare as a Category 3 Berserker. As the series continued, the bond between Flare and his virus continued to grow. It assumed a form similar to Sunshine which Flare dubbed "Fluffy". The virus and it's powers can be activated through emotions and other things and can be deactivated by said things as well.

There are tiers for the virus, and Flare seems to have achieved the final one during the Berserk CC fight, although he was possessed mentally and unaware of anything. He is capable of cycling through the stages but can only use one at a time.

Stage 0: Grants access to the power boost, increasing their strength and firepower by 50x, it also turns the host's vision red. Requires level 1

Stage 1: Grants the ability to see in the dark, AKA night vision. Requires level 14

Stage 2: Grants the ability to see through walls, AKA X-Ray vision. Requires level 28

Stage 3: Grants the ability to see things in slow motion, increasing their perception speed. Requires level 42

Stage 4: Grants the host access to all abilities they can learn for a short time, allowing them to use more than 4 moves at a time, the normal host can learn up to 50 moves. Requires level 56

Stage 5: Grants a healing factor that can heal lost limbs as long as their head and heart are intact. Requires level 70

Stage 6: Grants the ability to copy other Pokemon abilities for a limited time. Requires level 84

Stage 7: Grants the ability to control category 1 and 2 berserks and cancel ranged attacks for a limited time. Requires level 98

The drawback is that, the higher the stage, the higher the stamina drops, leaving them knocked out once it ends.