Linda

**Linda** is the boss of the nefarious bandit trio called Team LALALA. She is a callous and hedonistic career criminal who revels in petty evils and delights in demeaning those around her. She styles herself an enemy of temperance and purity, aspiring to notoriety as a lawless villain, albeit with marginal results. Linda is seldom seen without her lackeys Loupa and Lemba.

## History

One of the middle children among a large family of hares, Linda was a Buneary bereft of attention at a young age. Sibling rivalry ran deep in her household; in particular, she resented her eldest sister Lindsay, who was a talented leader in the community. Linda strove to stand out from the rest of the litter, but she had no hope of outshining her upstanding Lopunny sister, so she turned to unlikely places for support. Finding companionship among orphans and street urchins, Linda quickly became friends with Loupa and Lemba, who would remain her loyal henchmen well into adulthood.

Still determined to rise to prominence, even with company as unsavory as hers, Linda pushed her gang to evolve at an early age. However, becoming Lopunny meant equality for Linda, not superiority. In order to surpass her siblings, Linda sought out the means to achieve Mega Evolution—in time, she found not only this but also an unknown means to stabilize her transformation. Since the day of her "glow-up," Linda has not once reverted to her natural form.

Prolonged time as a Mega Lopunny may have amplified Linda's combative urges. Her jealousy developed into a deep-seated compulsion to humiliate her older sister and other individuals of grace and upstanding character. She gradually became more and more evil-minded, and the masochistic Loupa only enabled her descent into petty villainy. Linda made her friends swear loyalty to her criminal genius (or ostentation thereof) and determined to take the world by storm.

At some point, Team LALALA's increasingly malicious crimes brought them to Whitbalm Town, where they met their match in the lifeguard-adventurers of Team Baywatch. Linda saw the epitome of everything she stood against in the Milotic leader Galatea. Intent on ruining Galatea and her friends, Linda has since declared them rivals and nemeses and taken to frequenting the Whitbalm coast. To this day, the lifeguards simply want nothing to do with Linda and her gang.

Linda's ambition to become a master villainess has only ever earned her a token wanted poster with a measly reward for her capture, but she remains proud of the achievement.

## Personality

"*As in 'La-la-la! We're not listening!'*"
— Linda explaining her crew's name
The leader of Team LALALA is an arrogant and self-centered hooligan to such an extent that she insists her lifelong friends address her as "boss" or else face a walloping. She seldom misses an opportunity to announce her name or that of her team, often alliterating to leave a memorable impression. Linda struts and sashays with an air of confidence, posing tirelessly to beguile onlookers, but this pretense belies her underlying need to be the center of attention. She does not take kindly to being ignored.

In the same vein as her hunger for recognition is her disregard for personal space, accentuated by the power trip of Mega Evolution and the encouragement of Loupa. The bandit boss rarely ever shies away from a chance to prove her dominance or rudely prod an enemy. She also fights with more physicality than others of her kind—her wheelhouse consists of grapples, checks, and body splashes instead of the typical kicks. As a bonus, she enjoys leaving her victims feeling debased by prolonged or excessive contact.

Linda's standing with her teammates is often in flux. Although she may threaten to hurt them sometimes, the deviant Loupa is elated to receive a drubbing from the smaller hare. Linda and the Zoroark vixen seem to have an on-and-off relationship in which the boss exercises full control, though this could just as easily be explained by their clingy personalities agreeing with one another. The remaining Krookodile is largely disinterested in their vices, but Linda does try to keep Lemba happy nonetheless—albeit on her own terms.

Whereas Loupa finds play in all things but especially pain, Linda is more serious and more pragmatic in her violence. Her ill will stems from an unhealthy temper, a lust for notoriety, and a contempt for goodness. Unless she is deliberately slighted or told to behave better, Linda can tolerate a broad range of personalities. However, appearances of altruism, grace, and purity provoke Linda's wrath. She is similarly hostile towards other Lopunny, whom she considers rivals deserving of abuse.

Being the only member of Team LALALA to have grown up in a stable household, Linda is the expert on such domestic matters as cooking and hygiene. Ironically, the otherwise antinormative outlaw feels responsible for feeding her teammates and making them shelter. She maintains a constant lookout for new recipes on their travels.