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He's a Garchomp (whose name I haven't decided yet. I wanted to go with something Slavic and intimidating sounding, but I've got nothing at the moment) that is basically a bloodthirsty barbarian in the form of a Pokemon, and is a high-ranking member of a group of Pokemon (led by Yveltal. Cliche, isn't it?) seeking to put an end to existence itself. But unlike his comrades (And Yveltal herself, who I plan on fleshing out as a tragic villain) who genuinely believe that life itself is a pointless cycle of despair and pain for all involved and view ending it as an act of mercy, he's simply a violent psycho going along with the ride since he views it as an excuse to cut loose and go wild on whoever he pleases and is a clear-cut sadist among a group of Pokemon who prefer to only inflict necessary suffering (If that makes any sense to you).

He's also meant to be very important to the backstory of a major character, and is responsible for killing the two most important people (well, Pokemon) in her life: he was once a member of a rescue team that the character (A currently unnamed Gliscor, then a Gligar) was an apprentice for, and joined it with the intention of using it as an excuse to kill criminals to satisfy his bloodlust. But after realizing that a rescuer's job does not involve police brutality, he grew bored with it and started killing other Rescuers on the sly (Which aren't shown, but discussed since I don't plan on including gore). Since he and his violent nature drew suspicion from his fellow rescuers, he lured his teammates to a secluded location in an attempt to kill them and run for the hills, and successfully butchers two of them: an also currently unnamed Sandslash and Quagsire (Who are going to be written as his childhood friends) by throwing up a sandstorm to throw them off and slicing them up from behind. The psycho planned on doing the same to the poor young Gligar, but is stopped by a Rescue Team that tailed him and seriously wounded, forcing him to flee into the wilderness for his life. The Gligar however is left traumatized by him, and grew a crippling phobia of sandstorms in the fallout of his crime.

Fast forward to the present day where he leads a band of vicious outlaws that attack and abduct Pokemon, and drag them away to an underground arena where his victims are forced to fight against other Pokemon to the death for his entertainment, and will slaughter "champions" that are doing too well himself in order to keep them from potentially escaping. When two lackeys of his return from unsuccessfully destroying records that could provide information that would help the heroes defeat two of Yveltal's more powerful servants, he punishes them by smacking them both into a stone wall with a powerful tail slap that kills them both through blunt force trauma, and decides to handle things himself. He draws out the heroes by single-handedly destroying a village, and has a few choice flunkies of his wait nearby in order to get the jump on the heroes when they investigate the carnage. He attacks and kills a few before having most of them dragged off to his arena, which kicks off a story arc involving liberating his "city" and swiping an important item of his needed for summoning a powerful Pokemon.

That's about all the big, heinous things I have planned for him so far, though he's going to show up during the final story arc for a final battle where he tears through his allies and enemies alike in one final, brutal bout with Gliscor as she fights to avenge her fallen mentors, during which he mentions that he's going to leave her barely alive long enough to force her to watch him kill her friends as painfully as he possibly can.

So yeah, the story is meant to deal with some heavy subject matter, namely suffering and people's ways of coping, with the heroes believing that you need to take the good parts of life with the bad and fighting for a fulfilling future while the villains believe life is pointless thanks to the crappy hands they've been dealt and seek on ending "life's tyranny" in order to alleviate everyone's suffering. I hope he doesn't come off as too unnecessarily grimdark and edgy, but I want him to serve as a sort of personification of the kind of brutality and viciousness that drove the villains to insanity if that makes any sense. So do you have any pointers as to how I could handle him once I introduce him (I actually DO have a few chapters written... though as of now, the story is at its very beginning)?

(EDIT: Yikes, that was long! I hope it's not too much of a chore to read, I genuinely didn't mean to make it so taxing of a thing to look over)