Prism Grunt 0

**Prism Grunt 0** is the poorly-disguised fugitive **Zero**, forced to join Team Prism by his sister, Grunt 1**.** He took on the name **Elam** and greatly changed his appearance, but most in the Team know his real identity.

## Personality

Elam is cold and off-putting. He prefers to be alone, and is not afraid to make that perfectly clear. He knows very well that most in the Team know his real identity, and as such sees no point to staying here. Unfortunately, they won't allow him to leave, making him aggressive and bitter.

## History

### Before Prism

A baby was found abandoned by the Magna family, and when they could find no ancestry, they took him in and named him Zero. Perhaps due to his strange origins, they were over-protective and controlling toward him, constantly needing to know what he was doing, where he was going, and who he was talking to.

#### His Greatest Mistake

When Zero came of age, he found a job working under Newton Graceland, and the two bonded greatly. Zero wouldn't admit it, but he came to view Graceland as the father he never had. Unfortunately, Zero became too loyal to their work, and when Graceland deleted his plans for a machine that risked killing Giratina, Zero remade them on his own. He split from Graceland and went his own way, completing the blueprints and attempting to capture Giratina, not caring if it survived. Thankfully, he was stopped, Giratina's life was saved, and Zero was sent to prison.

#### On the Run

While in prison, Zero slowly started to recover. He hated the fact that he would be imprisoned for the rest of his life, but Graceland's frequent visits helped to assure him that not all was lost. He still had people that cared about him (as much as his visiting sister said he didn't). However, on a day like any other, a large object fell from a wormhole and crashed directly into the prison, wounding many...and allowing many others to escape. Zero, blinded by the opportunity for freedom, fled the prison and vanished into the wilderness.

Within the first few days of being a fugitive, he found a stranger with no memory and one eye wandering the freezing forests. Against his better judgement, Zero shared his shelter with this man, who he came to know as R. The two began traveling together, helping each other in various ways. Zero taught R to speak and read Sinnohian, and R was able to enter towns to gather supplies. Sadly, R broke into the Oreburgh Museum against Zero's advice, and the resulting chaos separated them.

Zero continued his wandering alone, scraping up what little supplies he could find in the wilderness. For months he traveled nowhere, hoping to escape Sinnoh, before he collapsed from exhaustion in a blizzard.

### In Prism

Luckily for him, he was rescued by Prism Grunts 166 and 1. Unluckily for him, he was then forced to join Prism as Grunt 0. He has attempted and failed to flee several times, but the Team is intent on keeping him put.

## Relationships

### Familial

#### Parents

Zero has an obvious distaste for his parents due to their smothering actions. That being said, he does not directly wish harm upon them.

#### Grunt 1

Elam cares for his sister, but at the same time is upset with her, especially for forcing him to join her Team.

### Romantic

Elam has never been in a romantic relationship, nor as Zero.

### Platonic

#### Faller R

Though he greatly cared for R, his pride kept him from showing it, and he himself believed it to only be a grateful feeling for R's help. It is only in R's absence that Zero realizes how much he cared about the Faller.

## Pokémon

### Current Members

#### Hera (Female Heracross)

Hera was befriended and named by R before he and Zero were separated. She decided to remain with Zero, rather than return to the wild.

#### Ace (Male Melanistic Pichu)

Elam was gifted a Pichu egg by a fellow Grunt, and it hatched in Elam's arms. It imprinted on him immediately, and Elam is doing his best to raise it. Part of him is still baffled by the luck of hatching the rarest natural coloration.

### Past Members

#### Magnezone (Female)

His partner Pokémon before his arrest. After his arrest, she was separated from him.

## Trivia

* Grunt 0 is one of a few characters that are the TPverse's version of a canon Pokémon character - in his case, Zero from Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
* lmao he kinned giratina so hard he tried to kill the original bc no doubles