Luna

Luna plotting her next plan. Art made by Zenny/MegaGenesis

### Relatives

Unnamed Deceased Son (Non-Canonically named Loki) Unnamed Mate (Assumed deceased)

## Appearances

### Debut

Chapter 32: Dark Encounter

Luna, or Ludpazilis, is the female zoroark from Max's Pokémon team. She was introduced in Chapter 32 as an antagonist, but later joined the group to travel with Max. She's a reserved individual, who prefers to avoid social interaction as much as possible, and rarely speak her emotions. Despite this, cares deeply for those who she forge strong bonds with and will always put herself into grave danger to protect them from any harm.

## Moves and abilities

Luna's moveset was built mostly for hunting. She attacks with surprise hits and tries to end everything fast and with one single strike. She's one of the fastest characters in the story and she's the best tracker of Max's team.

* **Shadow Claw:** Using ghostly energy, Luna slashes her enemies with shadowy claws.
* **Flamethrower:** She uses her energy to breath a jet stream of fire.
* **Night Slash:** Luna finds an opening and slashes her foe.
* **Hone Claws:** Luna sharpen's her claws to increase her attack and accuracy.
* **Shadow Army:** Using her dark energy, she can conjure aparitions in the shape of wolves to attack for her. These ghostly wolves have a mental link with Luna, but can act independently to a certain extense. These wolves can rush to tackle the opponent and bite them. They also can be use to send messages to allies and can travel a significant distance from Luna's body before they vanish.
* **Smokescreen:** Luna creates an obscuring cloud of smoke that reduces the enemy's accuracy and field of view. She mostly uses this to hook surprise attacks.
* **Detect:** Move she mastered in secrecy while her teammates trained under Mad-Ji. She uses this move to foresee incoming attacks and avade them. If used too much the move loses eficiency.

## Life before meeting Max

#### Childhood and early years

Luna was a born a Zorua pup to a zoroark couple. According to her, she was bigger than the average Zorua, even as a newborn pup, which intimidated some males. Her parents were strict, but fair when she behaved. Overrall, her childhood were peaceful and happy. After a year living with her parents, she decided she was ready to leave the nest and venture on her own.

Guided by her curious nature, Ludpazilis spent her early years traveling from place to place learning anything possible about humans. She grew a fascination for human kind and would use her illusions to blend between them and live in cities and towns. It was this time she first discovered all the good and ugly sides of humans, mainly the many kinds of relationships they shared with other Pokémon species.

Some time later she evolved into Zoroark and grew tired hiding herself, so she left the urban areas and went to live in the woods, like any other wild Pokémon. It was then she met a male shiny zoroark - one that was even taller tha her - , who she grew to love and eventually became her mate.

#### Motherhood

Shortly after meeting her mate, Ludpazilis gave birth to a Zorua pup of her own. She admits life back in this time wasn't so easy anymore, because her mate's rare purple color and her stature drew the attention of many poachers and collectors . Despite this, the couple tried to make to most of everyday. She had "infected" her son and her mate with her adventurous nature, and the zoroark family would often go on trips around Rados exploring different places and learning new things. Life was good and Ludpazilis couldn't be happier.

In one of those trips the zoroark family was ambushed by humans and trapped. Ludpazilis was freed by her mate, but she was shot in the abdomen area by one of the humans that had a gun. The pain and damage left her in the ground unable to fight, and she had to watch her mate and son being taken from her. She would've bled to her death, had not a passerby man called Pierre found her and treated her injuries.

#### Recovery with Pierre

Ludpazilis' injuries were treated by Pierre, an ermit who lived in the forest alone. The zoroark wanted to purpue the poachers as soon as possible, but due to the damage done to her body, she couldn't go far. Pierre would always go after her to bring her back to his house. After a while Ludpazilis accepted she wasn't in to condition to search for her family, she had to heal her wounds first.

Not much is said about her life with Pierre, but it seems it was nice and the two forged a friendship, despite the barrier of language. The ermit teached her essential survival skills, such as animal hunting, foraging, and tracking. All those added to the zoroark's own natural skills and made her a highly skilled huntress and fighter. To thank for Pierre's help, Ludpazilis helped him with some house chores and food gathering. Being bigger and stronger than the man, she could carry more weight than him.

One day she found Pierre on the floor of his house, dead. He appeared to have been beaten to death by someone else, and Ludpazilis theorized the poachers came back looking for her and tortured Pierre for anwsers , which he didn't gave any. Ludpazilis grew vengeful at the loss of another loved one and set out to find those humans and kill them.

#### Search for her family

Ludpazilis followed the trail the humans left behind until she found one base of operation some captured Pokémon were kept. She freed those Pokémon, however her family wasn't there.

After following new clues, she found herself in a city, where she found her son's dead corpse in a empty room, stuffed. It wasn't clean what she did with the stuffed body, she never elaborated after this point. She never found more clues about her mate after this event, it is assumed he suffered the same fate or died at some point, so she gave up on her search.

#### Blank period

Some unspecified time later Ludpazilis resumed her life in the woods, alone. She tried to have another pup after losing her first, but couldn't get pregnant again. She came to the conclusion the gun wounds she received pierced part of her womb, making her effectively sterile. Those conclusions were made by Ludpazilis herself, therefore it isn't known the extend of the damage she received, or if Pierre's crude treatment might have done something to her reproduction system, or if the effects can be reversed by professional medicine.

Ludpazilis internalized all the blame to herself, for not saving her son and mate, for attracting danger to a innocent man's life, and her revenge campaign resulting in the humans taking revenge on her by killing her son. She grew even more reclused. She lost all her pride as a Zoroark and would only do so much as to survive day by day. She still maintained an active sexual life and would engage with different partners from time to time, however, she admits it is hard to pleasure her. It is still not known if she's just hard to please, or if she doesn't allow herself to enjoy sex again after those traumatic events, or if she fells any disconfort during the act, derived from her internal wounds.

She stabilished herself in the woods near the unnamed town Max visited in Chapter 31. The territory she claimed neightbored Qsalyla's and it is believed the two had met prior to the events of Chapter 34. Ocasionally Ludpazilis would down her human disguise and to into the town to steal things humans made, mostly food she found tasty. It was one of the very few activities of a Dark-Type she would engage regularly and enjoy.

## Life with Max

Ludpazilis first met Max in Chapter 32, when she attacked him after he peed in one tree of her territory, a sign recognized by wild pokémon as territory marking. She proved to be too strong for the team to manage, even after Aurora unlocked her ability and increased the power of her aura. The zoroark aimed to kill the lucario, but was stopped when Max tackled her and put himself as a meat shield for his lucario. This act got Ludpazilis' attention, and she plotted a test to see how far he would go for his Pokémon, offering to spare them if the human gave up on his life, which he accepted. Max didn't back away any moment, making her respect the human's dedication to his friends. She let them go and vowed they would be safe as long as they stayed in her territory.

Ludpazilis secretly followed the group from the shadows during the events of Chapter 33 and 34. She saved Max and his Pokémon from the lumberjacks who were planning to mug him and steal his Pokémon, and saved him from Qsalyla's minions. After Scarlet's sudden outburst on Max, Ludpazilis asked to join Max's team in order to protect him from the red gardevoir. She asked for a nickname of her own, and Max named her Luna.

Althrough quick to accept Max's status as a Poképhile and constantly flirting with him, Luna wouldn't engage in any sexual activity with the human. For Luna, Max was a little pup in need of protection. Back in those early days in Max's team, she made clear she wasn't romantically or sexually interested in him, and rarely interacted with him for too long, still prefering to stay alone in the woods. Stronger feelings for him started to develop as the time went on and she grew to know more about Max, day by day seeing more displays of his qualities.

She avoids conflict as much as possible, and rarely voices her opinion in any subject. After her first time with Max in Chapter 65 she quickly became more friendly with him, often being seem giving him more genuine affection than before. It was after this event Luna revealed a more playful side of her character, being more open about new experiences and apreciating the little things in life, like playing videogames with her friends in Chapter 67. She went as far as to engage with the group's plans for the future after the Rados Pokémon League, in Chapter 66, suggesting to them they should visit other regions around the world before settling down for good. But after witnessing Jade's death in Chapter 70, Luna regressed to her usual solitary nature.

She would sillently struggle with the guilt she carries for not saving Jade since then, with everything pilling up on her mind making her life choices up to that point. Despite still engaging in sexual encounters with Max and trying to have fun with the other girls, Luna still haven't returned to the happy attitude she had after Chapter 65. A disastrous encounter with a pushy younger male zoroark in Chapter 97 led her to consider leaving Max for good, in fears of hurting him, and afraid to love again. After enough talk with him and Scarlet she cried her heart out for the first time, releasing all the pain and suffering she held internally for years, allowing herself to finally start grieving the loss of her family in a healthier way. She stays with Max and tries to rebuild their relationship, whisltly rebulding herself.

## Personality

Luna is a reserved zoroark, who values her alone time and rarely engages with Max and the rest of the team unprompted. It is not know what exactly she does when she's far away from her teammates, but it is implied she's either hunting for food, looking for new sexual partners, or just napping.

She still carries a strong maternal instinct, which she tries to supress, but would surface from time to time, mainly in her relationship with Max, the most receptive to her motherly love. She was shown trying to lecture and pet Aurora a few times, much to the Lucario's annoyance, and allowing May to use her a giant pilow. Sometimes she scolds Max like a parent would scold a child, most of times when he does something that could bring him sort harmful effect.

She usually very chill and cool headed, but can be very protective of Max, her friends, and baby Pokémon, as seen in Chapters 38, 39 and 65, respectively. Max and the other girls say an angry Luna is a scary sight.

She has a few passtimes of her own, which mainly consist in hunting for fun and exploring new places. She likes to surprise people and appear unannounced, something Max has been learning how to avoid, much to Luna's enjoyment. She also likes to run in the warm rain.

## Acessory

Luna doesn't have any particular interest in human clothing, and doesn't like using anything around her neck. She was given Scarlet's old leather choker in Chapter 52, which she wears on her forearm, under her fur.

## Trivia

* The move *Shadow Army* was created by Zlewdomancer34 for this story, to give Luna more flair, very much like Bonny's Ear Punch;
* Shadow Army was called "*Beast Shadow"* in the Special Enterview Chapter;
* Some readers joked about Luna being into incest, because of how much she compared Max to her son. Because of this, Zlewdomancer34 now avoids the comparisson;
* Luna's introduction was foreshadowed many years prior, thanks to the Zoroark tag in *The Crimson Gardevoir's* page in Fanfiction.net. There's a chance a zoroark character was planned for the story as far back as Chapter 4. The tag was removed after Chapter 32 was released, most likely to prevent spoilers for new readers