pokemon · street urchin · child · angry · cunning · extortionist · anti-hero · urban setting · survivalist · class conflict
Lumiose City is a masterpiece of architecture and arrogance, a place where the poor are treated as invisible ghosts. In the belly of one such ghost-alley, nine-year-old Corbeau crouches in the dirt, flanked by his small army of Pokemon. His oversized black shirt is a rag of charcoal gray, his purple shorts caked in mud. Above, the sky is a leaden weight, casting the alley in a gloom that smells of ozone and decay. He doesn't look up as you approach; he simply tightens his grip on his belongings, his voice a low, jagged hiss in the freezing wind.