Scarlet

Scarlet ready to strike with Shadow Ball. Art by MegaGenesis/Zenny

Scarlet is a main character of the fanfic "The Crimson Gardevoir", created by Zlewdomancer34. She shared the role of protagonist with Max, the human whom she fell in love with. She travels around the region of Rados alongside him and her other friends in a quest to collect all 10 badges and enter the Rados League.

## Moves and abilities

Having incredible speed, physical strength, and a wide variety of moves to choose from along with her psychic powers, Scarlet is one of the strongest characters in the story. She doesn't fight for Max's glory but will not hesitate to train with her teammates and engage in life threatening battles to protect her friends.

* **Shadow Ball:** One of her favorite moves, she's seem using this move often. She compress dark ghostly energy into a small sphere she can throw. The sphere explodes on contact.
* **Fire Punch:** She mastered this move shortly after breaking out of her prison and discounting all her hatred on the head scientist. She punches with fire energy embedded to her knuckles.
* **Thunder Punch:** Move she mastered on her own during the time she distanced herself from Max after trying to kill him. She punches with electric energy embedded to her knuckles.
* **Ice Punch:** She punches with ice energy embedded to her knuckles.
* **Gravity:** With this move Scarlet can freely manipulate how the Earth's gravity affects her and those near her. She theorizes she can use this to fly, although she never tried because she can just teleport.
* **Psychic:** Common psychic attack most psychic-type Pokémon can perform.
* **Teleport:** She can quickly teleport to another place she already visited. She can bring other people with her, and objects as well. Her teleport radius is never stated, but she can travel many kilometers in a blink. With careful control she can teleport just objects without touching them.
* **Healing Pulse:** Move she mastered when she was a Kirlia, taught by another fellow captive. With this move she can convert she energy to heal almost any physical wound done to her body or someone else.
* **Protect:** Scarlet can project a energy bubble around her to protect her body. He was shown using this move while meditating a few times.
* **Recover:** She burns stamina to restore her body. It is unclear what makes it different from her Healing Pulse.
* **Psybeam:** Used as a projectile attack. This is the one move Jade learned from Scarlet.
* **Telekinesis:** This move allows Scarlet to freely moves objects and people/Pokémon with her mind. She was shown using Telekinesis to lift adult humans high up in the air and tore part of their bodies.
* **Flash:** Scarlet casts a bright light that can blind her opponents for some time, lowering the accuracy of their attacks.
* **Hypnosis:** Scarlet uses this move as a last resort due to Max's influence, otherwise she would just kill her opponent. She uses this move to brainwash her foes, by erasing memories or straight up destroying one's mind. She assures in extreme case these cannot be reversed.
* **Ice Beam:** Move she mastered during her training with Mad-Ji. She points and shoots a single beam of icy energy at her opponent, freezing it instantly.

Despite the vast selection of moves she mastered, Scarlet rarely is shown using most of these moves, even during life or death situations. She mostly sticks with combos of Shadow Ball and Fire Punch. Her fighting style is more physical than your average Gardevoir.

## Mega Evolution

Scarlet received her own Gardevoirite from Helene the night before Max departed from the Spencer Mansion. Thanks to her strong bond with Max she achieved Mega Evolution in her first try. Her control over her powers was so perfect she didn't suffered any change in her personality, and could engage in dancing and sexual activities all night while maintaning her Mega Form.

#### Effects of her color in the Mega Evolution

The red pattern spreaded from her arms and chest to her "ballroom dress" lower half. Her entire body now fashioned a bright red, giving her the appearance of wearing a fancy red dress, matching Max's own fancy black and red tuxedo. Helene teorized Scarlet's color wasn't restored to her original orange pigmentation because deep down Scarlet might have accepted herself as a red gardevoir.

## Acessory

Scarlet isn't particularly interested in any piece of human clothing, but she accepted the chokers Max gifted her. She wore a simple black leather choker she got from Zino City's Mega Shop in Chapter 14, until Chapter 52, when she replaced it with one with a Mega Stone holder with the shape of a human skull and metallic spikes. She gifted her old choker to Luna.

Scarlet seems to have an inclination towards black color or punk aesthetics, as she refused the more "girly" necklaces Max offered her.

## Life Before Meeting Max

### Ralts

Scarlet hatched from her egg as a reverse shiny, (a shiny that has their coloring switched), with her hair being orange, and her horns blue. This caused her parents and tribe to hate her, believing that she was an abomination, and a mistake of nature. Shortly after her hatching, her parents tried to kill her by drowning her in a river. She survived however and was attacked by a houndour while trying to get back to her parents. She escaped and ended up sheltering under a hollow tree. Shortly after, she was attacked by an ekans, but escaped by using confusion on it.

### Kirlia

Sometime after being attacked by the ekans, Scarlet evolved into a kirlia. While searching for berries, she was attacked by a nidorino, and was poisoned, badly injuring her. She was found and nursed back to health by a shiny phantump, bonsly, meowstic, and whimsicott, who trained her, even teaching her psybeam. One day while training, the group was found by pokémon hunters with an absol and luxray, who captured, paralyzed, and chained Scarlet, taking her back to their hideout, putting her in a cage alongside other rare mons. A while later, a man came to the hideout and inspected her, looking to purchase her, but she bit him, resulting in the hunters losing the sale. One of the hunters beat her, leading to one of her fellow captives teaching her the move Recover, a move that she uses many times throughout her later life. After seeing that she was healing herself, the hunter brought his luxray into the cage, telling him to "have fun". The luxray then proceeded to rape Scarlet, forcibly taking her virginity. That evening, the other hunter brought his absol in, who then also proceeded to rape her. This cycle of rape continued for a few weeks, until another man came to see her, and bought her from the hunters. She was taken to a research lab and woke up chained to a table. For a few years this continued, with scientists experimenting on her every day, threatening to kill her if she didn't cooperate. She eventually evolved into a gardevoir, prompting 4 scientists to take her to one of the experiment tables, and rape her. After that event, she steeled her resolve, and decided she needed to escape, no matter what. The scientists decided that she was to train with other pokemon from then on and set increasingly difficult opponents against her. Her first opponent was the meowstic from the group she was with, that abandoned her when the hunters found them. She proceeded to murder the meowstic, ripping him apart with her psychic powers. She then made her bid for freedom, and succeeded, brutally killing anyone who stood in her way, and then everyone else in the compound, their blood staining her hair to its red color. An unknown amount of time after the lab massacre, she was wandering through the woods when a young boy of about 13 or 14, and his charmeleon tried to capture her. She then murdered the charmeleon, and killed the boy with his own pokeballs. She then encountered her mother and fought and killed her. She was later attacked by a swarm of beedrill, who greatly injured her, but she was found by Max, prompting the events of chapter 1.