Solstice

→ Solstice is a little bit of an ass…. Well, more like a big one. He’s pompous and full of himself and likes to be preened and given the respect he feels he deserves. Articuno’s are rare, and legendary birds to begin with… He himself is even rarer, and he knows it, and flaunts it. Because of that, he often looks down on other pokemon, finding them as ‘lesser’ than he is and automatically expects respect from them, if not, then you’re often on his shitlist and it’s hard to get off of. Often times it’s easier just to give him the praise he wants and move on. Once he feels the ‘hierarchy’ has been settled, he’s not as bad to be around and to many people’s surprise he’s rather accepting of most things.

He has a hatred for people and doesn’t trust any of them, feeling life would be better without them. He especially has mistrust for trainers and can often strike out at people who get to close. He finds his own human form odd, and where he’s grown used to it, greatly misses being a simple Articuno pokemon, rather than looking more like an appalling human being.

When he’s not busy being a ‘holier than thou’ prat, he’s actually rather good company, and rather smart, though he doesn’t care much for people’s daydreams and ‘lives in the real world’ as he says. Even so, If you want to believe in such, then that’s fine and he will respect that to a point, as long as you don’t push him on the subject.

→ He, like any other, was born from an egg, to his mother and father. His father being the Articuno residing near Shamuti island, while his mother was a simple one. His father stayed for a while, before leaving him and his mother on his own, once he knew they would be able to fend for themselves. He many a time how special, precious and rare he was… always being called her greatest gift.
He was lighter than his parents had been. To start out, he had been upset about it, finding the darker plumage of his parents more preferable, but his mother had told him it was a good thing, and that his colouring was rare and precious, and that soon made him very happy indeed, and began to preen and take very good care of the feathers that his mother so loved and praised.

One day, when he was practicing his flapping, strengthening his chest for his eventual flight, only just growing his knew feathers, having snuck away while his mother was resting to practice, came home to find his mother gone and missing, signs of a battle having happened. A trainer had come an attacked his mother while he was gone and, despite all her struggles, had been caught by the trainer, leaving the young articuno on his own. He had waited several days, hoping that she would eventually come back… but he soon realized that was not going to happen.

It was then his hate for humans began, forced to be on his own and scavenge what foods he could until finally being able to take flight. Clumsy at first, but slowly improving and eventually becoming quite the acrobat, spending much of his time in the air, the hope that his mother might show up still heavy in his chest, making the mountain his as well, fearing to leave in case she ever came back.

As time passed, he caught the eye of many who had passes by his mountain. Some had simply stayed to watch, while other’s passed the information on, and soon, many a trainer came to try and claim this very rare legendary for their own, and all had failed. He fought fiercely against those that dared tried, many simply giving up as they had realized how truly wild he seemed to be, and where smart in his defence and counter attacks, was rather feral towards the people themselves, often going past whatever defeated pokemon that had been thrown at him to try and attack the trainers.

Many gave up with such rumours of his ferocity…. While other’s seemed to take it as a personal challenge.

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