Anakin

He is a major character in *A Zoroark's Path*. He is Xenra's current owner after saving her from execution by the residents of the city she destroyed.

## **Physical Appearance**

He is a tall, slim man with fair skin, a muscular frame, and green eyes. He has short brown hair and two long scars over his right eye. While working as a police officer, he usually wears a tight-fitting, black body suit with short sleeves on both the arms and legs and gray padding on the chest, back, and shoulders, which have red stripes on them. His arms and legs are black cybernetic implants after he lost them while fighting a previous war. He also usually wears black, steel-toed boots. While working as a doctor, he wears red scrubs over his aforementioned clothes. He has a larger holster on his back for his sword. He sometimes also wears a black surgical mask, like when he's sick. There is another scar on the left side of his neck where Xenra scratched him during their fight.

## ***A Zoroark's Path***

### **Chapter 7: The Lifesaver**

Synopsis: Anakin, a part-time police officer, saves Xenra from public execution and proposes that he'll take her in as a pet to prevent the disaster from happening again. At home, he tries to introduce the Zoroark to his family, only for things to go south.

### **Chapter 8: No Luck**

Synopsis: The next day, Xenra tries multiple different ways to escape Anakin's residence, but he catches her every time, causing her to grow frustrated at him. She eventually snaps and attacks his son Rudo when he mocks her, resulting in a fight with Anakin when he tries to intervene.

### **Chapter 9: A New Plan**

Synopsis: Three weeks into living with her new family, Xenra shoplifts from a local grocery store and frames Anakin's daughter Eliza to distract the family so she can try to escape again. However, Anakin quickly finds out and exposes Xenra, condemning her for her actions.

### **Chapter 10: Training**

Synopsis: Anakin forbids Xenra from having dinner and expels her from the house for the night as punishment for her misdemeanor. The next morning, he employs various methods that he previously used on both Darwin and the people he arrested to get Xenra in line.

### **Chapter 11: Anakin's Stubbornness**

Synopsis: After a week of training, Xenra has relearned obedience, but Anakin is still angry with her. Ginger and Darwin convince Xenra to work hard to regain Anakin's trust. She does this by rescuing Rudo from a pack of Houndoom, but continues to distrust him for what he put her through.

### **Chapter 12: The Whistleblower**

Synopsis: Tired from working long shifts at the police station, Anakin decides to take some time off to rest and start practicing the trumpet. However, he gets angry when he finds out that Xenra and the kids haven't been doing their chores and uses his new instrument to put them to work. His off-key trumpet playing soon starts to drive everyone insane.

### **Chapter 13: More Chaos**

Synopsis: Two days since Anakin came home. Ginger, having had enough of the kids' shenanigans, decides to go away for a while, leaving Anakin to keep house. Xenra, who's also driven mad by the kids' antics, asks to go with her, but is rejected due to her new status as a house pet. Anakin tries multiple methods to get the kids to settle down, but fails due to exhaustion from working for so long. When Xenra learns the kids have no respect for her or their father, she decides to take matters into her own hands.

### **Chapter 14: Scare Tactics**

Synopsis: Four days since Anakin came home. With an exhausted Anakin bedridden, Xenra uses her illusions and shapeshifting ability to get the kids under control by scaring them. The method works and the kids calm down, but the power goes to Xenra's head, and she starts scaring them for enjoyment. However, the fun ends two days later when Anakin recovers and finds out what she's been doing. He confines Xenra to a spare bedroom, which is now hers, and she listens in dismay as the kids soon go back to their old ways.

### **Chapter 15: Music Lessons**

Synopsis: The next day, Anakin allows Xenra to come out of her room for breakfast; she enters the kitchen to find it completely trashed. Anakin arrives on the scene and instantly realizes the kids did it. Having run out of patience with them, he gets his trombone and starts playing it loudly to get them to clean up. The kids, realizing Anakin is serious, comply, and are grounded and sent to their rooms as a subsequent punishment. After breakfast, Anakin decides to teach Xenra about music, and the unwilling Zoroark reluctantly agrees, deciding to take up the violin. However, she soon starts enjoying it when she discovers she's very talented at it. Anakin has her listen to his trombone playing to help her calm down.

## **Trivia**

* He is named after Anakin Skywalker from *Star Wars*.