Loupa

**Loupa** is an athletic Zoroark trickster who belongs to the outlaw trio of Team LALALA. She is a flighty and dimwitted pleasure-seeker who romanticizes abuse and actively seeks out trouble. Although she seldom strays far from Linda's side, she is often inclined to undermine the bandit leader's plans for sport and leave them both black-and-blue. Loupa's malice and stupidity can be difficult to differentiate, so she is called **Loopy** by her partners in crime.

## History

Loupa's earliest days are largely unknown, as are the identities and fates of her parents. She has only relived the full story for a handful of Pokémon, including her lover Proserpina. Loupa's father was an entrepreneur or contrabandist in Old Noie, and her mother Layla was a dancer beloved by the gangster Carboni. The gangster discovered their tryst and strangled the father, leaving Layla to flee town on a dark and stormy night. Tragically, the mother vixen slipped and fell to her death on the cliffs of Alkali Hill. Only her child survived, tucked away in her mane.

Alone in the world, the young Zorua eventually found residence at the same orphanage where a Sandile named Lemba had recently been accepted. Loupa was quiet at first, yet soon after her admittance she began to show a mischievous streak. She used her illusions to play mean tricks on her fellows and their caretakers, cuing only Lemba in on her devilry. The impressionable Sandile found Loupa funny for the most part, and they became friends. Together they broke bedtime and defied all other kinds of authority.

Shortly afterward, the Buneary Linda began to frequent the streets in an effort to carve out a life away from her siblings. She found the urchins at the orphanage, including Loupa, and endeared herself among them. Thus, the terrible trio began. Loupa was content to defer to Linda for leadership because her own plans amounted to little more than teasing her neighbors with increasing nastiness. She became unadoptable, but she did not care. United with two friends in contempt for authority and desire for mischief, Loupa was content to stand alongside them.

However, Linda had greater ambitions. She pushed herself and her friends to evolve so that they might have power to back their schemes and whims. Loupa was soon enchanted with the idea of strength enough to cast aside all rules and authority, and she followed Linda's program. As they grew up, they convened whenever and wherever they could to discuss their antisocial desires. Loupa's wishes grew darker as she fantasized about how unstoppable they would be as a team.

At first, it was world domination that was on Loupa's mind. Her sights changed when Linda evolved into a beautiful Lopunny one day. The adolescent Zorua's fantasies became more amorous, and her own drive to evolve escalated significantly. Her trickery became more ribald and meaner yet. Lemba's subsequent evolution to Krokorok only compounded her longing. Loupa finally achieved evolution when she dropped a shelf on a caretaker's head in a bratty fit. She was evicted the next morning. Nevertheless, she was thrilled to bits over her newly transformed body. Her fantasies appeared to be within reach at last, and she was quick to find Linda and bust Lemba out. They were ready to hit the road as the unruly Team LALALA.

Loupa has privately disclosed that she and her teammates traveled to Old Noie and found a remorseful Don Carboni early in their career. In a moment of humility, she forgave her parents' murderer and and offered him friendship. She learned lockpicking and honed her sleight of hand at his side—an apprenticeship that gained her life-saving skills but awakened her mother's ghost to wrath.

Since then, Loupa has been a brutish delinquent. What she lacks in wits she makes up for in raw talent, being a masterful illusion-weaver and an increasingly proficient escape artist. Her role is tantamount to keeping the team out of jail, but she has been known to bungle a job just for kicks. When Linda declared Team LALALA the archenemy of Team Baywatch, Loupa singled out Lulu as the object of her malice.

## Personality

"*Hey, you can't blame me for asking. I'm not expecting another chance encounter with a goddess.*"
— Loupa after a casual attempt to win Morrigan's affections
"*I guess I didn't expect you to take this all so seriously. I think that means you have a big heart. I'm not so worried about failing with someone like that on my side.*"
— Loupa to Proserpina, moments after two thugs nearly beat them senseless
Loupa is a danger to herself and her surroundings at all times. She gushes over one-sided abuse and acts upon her every whim. When she is not hurting or demeaning someone else, she is usually daydreaming about just that. Alternatively, she takes no small amount of twisted pleasure in seeing hurtful treatment befall herself and her friends at the hands of other rogues. She seldom settles until she possesses what she wants or else finds violence in which to partake.

In her spacious mane, Loupa keeps instruments both practical and sinister—lockpicks, files, twine, at least one burlap sack, a spice tin, a notebook, and even a nightstick. Despite her technical expertise, she is happy to roll over for her teammates and occupy the bottom of the team's pecking order. Loupa's relationship with Linda is uniquely two-faced; she enthusiastically obeys the bunny's every command, no matter how salacious or demeaning, but she tends to endanger "the boss" on impulse seemingly for no reason but her own gratification.

Although Loupa is mean and immoral, she does show some sympathy towards persons of similar taste and persons of ill intent. Those who defy authority and follow their own fancy are the first to earn her trust, though she rarely proves trustworthy in return. She is gullible but confident in her ability to deceive others in kind.

Ironically, Loupa is very astute when it comes pointing out the flaws in Linda's plans, begging the question of whether she has more common sense than she lets on. It may be supposed that she has a keen eye for others' weaknesses but not their strengths.

For better or worse, Loupa is *outrageously* forgiving—she voluntarily submitted herself to her father's murderer and fell madly in love with the mermaid who stole her purse.

In her spare time, Loupa pens schlocky erotica and occasionally sends a piece to Solon & Stuart Printing in Auril City. Her account of the Astral Alliance's invasion, *The Barbarian from Planet Eos*, was published in *Fine Tales* under a pseudonym. Readers across the country are unaware the author is an active outlaw embellishing true events.