Klaue the Lucario

## **Overview**

Dalton Inuzaka is a Lucario, hailing originally from a small town outside Silver City, presently working as the head of The Sentinels, an organization in Silver City that rose up in the wake of the collapse of Giga Impact Fight Club and The Boss's death. A capable fighter and a stoic, determined individual shaped by years of hardship and experience, Dalton compromises his honor and ideals for nobody except himself.

## Appearance

Dalton looks pretty normal, save for a large, diagonal scar running down his back and another across his left eye. Countless other, small ruffles of fur dot his arms and legs, and his ears are cropped. The most striking, visible thing about him is the metal braces he has on his legs. He can't quite walk right without them, both his legs having been broken years ago, having never quite healed properly, and keeps them on except when he's sleeping. He wears them openly and often speaks about medical procedures to fix the malunions in his legs.

## Personality

As a person, Dalton once had a rather conflicted soul; Due to his past, he was somewhat addicted to anger, conflict and fighting, and it's an addiction that he tried to avoid falling back into and embracing daily, through mindfulness technique such as meditation and reaffirmation of his goals in life. He actively avoided fighting unless he absolutely has to, and was an introvert... Right up to the moment where he would say fuck it' and starts swinging. When Dalton reverted to his old mentality, it was like some switch was flipped in his mind; He easily got lost in his own rage and desire to exert power over others, and had a somewhat sadistic, brutal mentality when fighting. Dalton didn't fight to escape; he fought to win, and when it came down to it, he tended to fight more like a wild animal than a measured combatant.

In the present, though, tempered by years of being Everhope's Deputy under Ava the Audino and tempered by his return to Giga Impact Fight Club in the wake of The Boss's invitation, Dalton found his determination and resolve and started to change. By the time Giga Impact collapsed, he had become a determined, stubborn character - No longer cowardly or with a desire of peace over all else, but no longer completely brutal or sadistic, either. In the present, the best word to describe Dalton Inuzaka is firm. He's uncompromising, driven and unwilling to do most things that would violate his personal code or result in serious harm to innocents.

## Backstory

Born to two Lucario parents in an unnamed town outside of Silver City, Dalton was a rambunctious child and somewhat of a bully, enjoying getting into tussles and fights with his friends, and everyone else, for that matter. By the age of 14 or 15, he had garnered quite a bit of a reputation for himself in his town, and not a good one. He had been thinking of running away, one day, until another pokemon jumped out of hiding and tried to beat him black and blue. It was a brutal fight, but he came out on top, battered but conscious and smiling. At that point, another pokemon, a Hydreigon who had been watching, offered to take him away, to a place where he could fight forever. An underground fighting ring, where only the most relentless, powerful fighters butted heads. It was a dream for Dalton; he eagerly accepted. Over the next couple of years, he would become The Boss's prizefighter, getting rewarded for each fight as they got more and more brutal and raw and as the spectators cheered; After he got particular praise from his boss and a day of treatment like a prince after defeating the reigning champion in the pit, he even evolved into a Lucario.

However, this wonderland couldn't last forever; Dalton eventually started to see what he was doing. See the fear on his opponent's faces, see, that even if they were fighting brutally, fighting like animals, just like him... They didn't want to. They were fighting to escape, to defend themselves, not to win. And Dalton questioned that. Asking The Boss, he was told to not worry about it, and nobody else would talk about it... So he did some digging, on his own... and learned that his boss had been kidnapping mons who fought well when jumped and didn't agree to join. That alone was enough to break Dalton's will. Fighting, no matter how brutal, was something you chose. Something you enjoyed. He started losing matches, he started faltering and getting beat down. People noticed. His boss noticed. And eventually, once he had lost one too many matches... needless to say, it was his turn to go. It was only by the grace of a passing Zangoose family that he continued to survive, and made a new life after the fighting ring, after his boss, after his family and everyone else forgot him. He went through surgery to fix his wounds and scars, he went through therapy to fix how broken he was, at least a little. And now, he wants nothing than to move on.

That is, until something triggers his memories and desire to fight once more.

[Need to add more soon - WIP]