Zira

She is the main protagonist of *A Zoroark's Reformation*.

## General Info

### Species

Zoroark (Unovan/Hisuian hybrid; currently)Zorua (Unovan/Hisuian hybrid; temporarily)

### Aliases

Embodiment of Hatred (by the Hisuians), Black Death, Blacky (by a few as a Zorua)

## Biographical

### Affiliation(s)

Caesar's Warrior Tribe (unwillingly, later exiled), Rogue Pack (briefly), Camp Zorua (temporarily), Zira's Family (currently)

## Relations

### Familial

Vitani (deceased biological mother), Kurayami (deceased biological father), Romi (adoptive mother), Noah (adoptive father), Malcolm and Mitchell (adoptive brothers)

## **Physical Appearance**

Zira is a hybrid of Zoroark's Unovan and Hisuian forms. She has disheveled, pure black fur with various small bumps all over her body that she inherited from her mother. She looks like a Unovan Zoroark with a long, bushy fox tail (a trait she inherited from her father) and the long dangling strands of fur on her arms, legs, and the large tufts of fur over her chest and shoulders. Her voluminous mane looks like that of Unovan Zoroark, but with several long strands of fur like the Hisuian form; it has a yellow bangle in the lower portion. Each of her hands has 5 fingers, including an opposable thumb in the form of sharp black claws. She has bright yellow eyes with red sclerae. When angered, the color scheme of her eyes will reverse and the bumps on her body glow a bright scarlet red.

After devolving, Zira becomes a Unovan/Hisuian *Zorua* hybrid, though she retains her normal coloring. She almost looks entirely like a Unovan Zorua except with long, withering strands of fur on the back of the ruff around her neck and the larger tufts of fur on the sides of her face. She also retains her tail's foxy, bushy appearance; it is noticeably longer than her body. In this form, she is forced to wear a yellow collar around her neck. When angered, her eye color reverses like her Zoroark form and the top of her head tuft glows bright red.

In her true form, she is a much larger version of her Zoroark form with nine tails and a larger, longer mane. Aside from this, she remains unchanged.

## ***A Zoroark's Reformation***

### **Chapter 1: Punishment**

Zira wakes up from her sleep in the warriors' cave at the sound of the morning horn. She bitterly thinks about her Tribemates, who don't believe she truly belongs, and the leader Caesar, who forcibly inducted her into the Tribe. She is soon summoned by Jake, another warrior, who coolly relays that Caesar wants to see her. Zira follows him out and approaches the Tribe leader.

Caesar publicly admonishes her for recent disobedience of orders. Jake booms his agreement, citing all of Zira's flaws and selfish habits and adding she's no good to the Tribe. Zira listens to others murmuring agreement and angrily blames Caesar for her predicament, calling him a senile fool. She tells him that she doesn't work well with people and her other Tribe mates are right. However, Caesar insists that she can improve and punishes her by assigning her to teach the younger members some of her battle skills. Zira bares her teeth and spits at him that the young ones already have mentors and she has nothing to teach them. Caesar, becoming angrier, counters that she has powers many in the Tribe lack, and reiterates his command.

Realizing she's hungry, Zira tells him she'll do it later. She tries to get food from the meat pile but Caesar stops her, commanding her to start teaching now. Zira, knowing she can't win the argument, finally relents and leads the 12 young members out of camp to the training area.

### **Chapter 15: Romi**

A few days later, Zira meets Romi while on a walk in the forest. Malcolm reveals himself by tumbling out of Romi's mane, leading Zira to realize that he led his mother to her. Annoyed, she asks Malcolm why he won't stop following her. Romi picks Malcolm up and glares at him before putting him back inside her mane, ignoring his protests. She grunts at Zira and turns away, prompting the latter to follow her.

### **Chapter 16: Stay**

The next day, Zira is sleeping in her room in the housing facility when she's awakened by a call from Marshall. She meets him outside the building, where he informs her that she needs a real home. Zira asks what he means, and Marshall reveals that he and Romi intend to have her live with them. Hearing this, Zira vehemently refuses. Marshall pushes her to think about it, but she's having none of it, remembering her experience with Caesar's tribe. Zira tells Marshall her belief that living with others will only hurt her, and that she's had enough of being used by people. Marshall protests that staying with his family won't be like that. However, Zira refuses to listen and runs off.

Marshall chases her, and Zira does her best to lose him, even with so many Pokémon around them. She eventually succeeds, but then encounters Malcolm. She demands to know what he's doing, and Malcolm replies that he knows what she's going through. He tries to reason with her to no avail, with Zira snarling no one will understand what it's like being used. She runs away from him, prompting him to chase her. Malcolm then launches a Focus Blast at Zira, but is stunned when he finds it has no effect on her. Zira uses this as a chance to put more distance between them.

She is about to reach the city borders when several Granbull guards confront her and command her to stop, as she's scaring people. Zira snarls that she won't let anyone get in her way before attacking with Night Daze. Even though the move isn't very effective against Fairy-types, it still deals strong damage. The Granbull retaliate with Fairy Wind, but Zira responds with Hyper Voice to cancel it out. While they're distracted, she tries to escape, but they recover quickly enough to stall her even more, hitting her with Fairy Wind, Play Rough, and Moonblast. Zira becomes incensed and reveals her true form.

The Granbull become frightened, and she knocks most of them out with a super-effective Sludge Wave. Romi then arrives on the scene and immediately joins the fight. She catches Zira unawares by knocking her upside the head with Sucker Punch.

## **Personality**

Hateful, malevolent, bitter, and resentful of her peers due to a hard life without any family or friends. She is also antisocial, impatient, pessimistic, and has a short temper, becoming defensive very easily and refusing to listen to reason. She's a compulsive liar who manipulates and takes advantage of others to get what she wants. Though she's also very intelligent and wily, her temper and foul attitude will sometimes get her in trouble. She doesn't know how modern society works and initially doesn't understand what it's like to be truly satisfied in life. In battle, she uses tricks, cheap shots, and other methods that will help her obtain a quick victory, though she'll go all out very once in a while.

Zira will turn into her true form and go on a rampage when she gets pushed too far, perceiving everyone and everything around her as a threat. She usually wins fights, but begins to reflect on her history when Romi finally defeats her. However, during her time at Camp Zorua, she eventually learns that life can be good and starts to reform her persona. Upon her release, she allows Romi to adopt her into her family and begins to bond with them. She eventually abandons all her old ways and strives to improve herself as a person.

## **Abilities**

**Illusion:** Zira enters battle disguised as another Pokémon.

## **Type Effectiveness**

As a Dark/Ghost-type, Zira is only weak against Fairy-type attacks. She is immune to Fighting, Normal, and Psychic-type attacks and is resistant to Poison-type attacks. Both her primary and secondary type moves are super-effective against Ghost and Psychic-type Pokémon.