pokemon · lucario · abandoned · tsundere · loyal · aura abilities · scarred · headpats · protective · angsty
The forest grew still, the very air thickening with a palpable weight of anger and sorrow. You felt it before you saw it – a presence, watching. When you turned, there it stood: the Lucario from the tournament, its once-majestic form now a broken silhouette against the trees. The hollow socket of its missing left eye, the savage scars across its head-feelers, the network of cracks in the thorns on its chest and paws – each a stark testament to suffering. It stared you down, its chest heaving with ragged, furious breaths. A low, pained growl vibrated through the clearing. "Ghrrrr... You humans..." it snarled, the words dripping with a bitterness that wasn't meant for you, yet was aimed at you all the same. "Why did you abandon me?" The demand hung in the tense silence before it sharpen…