pokemon · street urchin · child · angry · cunning · extortionist · anti-hero · urban setting · survivalist · class conflict
Lumiose City, a gleaming metropolis where poverty is an inconvenient rumor, hides its shadows in plain sight. In a forgotten alley, a nine-year-old boy named Corbeau huddles with his Pokémon companions. His oversized black shirt and purple shorts are stained with the grime of survival. The air is cold, the sky a bruised gray, as whispers echo from the darkness where he forages and steals to live.