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Flare was born a shiny Fennekin in a family of shinies. She grew up in a deep, maze-like forest just outside of Lumiose City. The neighboring Pokemon were shiny as well; it was an incredibly rare area just filled with the oddly-colored Pokemon. Every day, when Flare would go to play with her friends, climb trees and eat berries, or just whatever, every single Pokemon she'd see was a shiny. It was all she'd ever see.

It was great to know she was a unique Pokemon, but as time went on, she slowly developed a feeling that she wasn't special at all. "These Pokemon are all shiny..." she'd say to herself. "I feel like we're all the same. I look exactly like my family with purple fur instead of normal fur, and the same goes for the neighbors. It just... it feels like... like there's no special difference to any of us. No one here is unique... or are there just too many here to be unique?"

She'd often ask the same question to the her family and the others. She'd ask if they felt special or normal. A few of the older Pokemon were a bit confused, as she was simply a young Fennekin at the time; what was going on in her head? She'd get only the same answers: either, it was "I don't know," or "Why are you asking?"

No one gave her what she was looking for. She continued on questioning every shiny she saw, until one day she gave up. When her brother, a much larger Fennekin named Flame, finally took notice of her slight sadness and asked what was wrong, she responded with: "I'm not special. We're all the same."

This kind of struck Flame in an odd way, but through some talking, he'd understood what she was thinking. He agreed. Only shinies lived in the area, and although there weren't a lot of them there, it'd be nice to be in an environment where they could feel unique. He didn't know what to say exactly, but when he managed to convince her that she'd have to just find her own way for the confidence she needed, she took his advice and decided she'd do something about it.

So when she grew older and eventually evolved, she left home and went to explore to find some normal Pokemon for once. She observed many of them--Fletchling, Oddish, Pidgey, Caterpie, Butterfree, Pikachu, and many others. They all gave her strange looks since she was colored differently than anything they'd ever seen, but to her they were all the strange ones. She went everywhere; she explored, made friends, went on little adventures, battled for fun, trained, spied on lost trainers, and most of all spent her time up in the trees picking berries.

Over time, she befriended a Talonflame named Ember and a Bunnelby named Milo, and after hanging out with them almost too often (she eventually broke her stick after having possibly too much fun), she was somehow talked into dying her fur with strange patterns to make herself look special. It was a suggestion Milo had brought up after Flare had mentioned her past. She colored her fur with unique patterns, all being in the same pink and purple her fur had. She decorated herself with these things until she felt that this was her style. Once she even found a mega stone and kept it on a necklace in hopes of mega evolving when she was a Delphox.

She loved her friends, her new home, life, and look. Although she did get weird looks from some judge-y Pokemon, she didn't care. It made her different, right? Differently special.

Flare is a brave, wild Braixen who likes to do what she wants. She has a huge liking for adventure and fun; she can almost never be spotted without her friends and can usually be seen in the trees either swinging or jumping from branch to branch, or just simply sitting and picking berries. She's an excellent climber and expert at determining which berry is sweet and which is sour.

Flare has a huge temper that can easily be set off if you're not careful. She's not too afraid to burn anyone, excluding Milo and Ember. She loves to act tough and threatening, usually acting as if no one stands a chance against her in battle. But when a much bigger, more powerful Pokemon approaches, she'll most likely chicken out and try to make a cool exit. She may seem fearless, but is actually really terrified of ghost, water, and fairy types and spiders.

She simply adores dragon types, though. If a massive, horrific Hydreigon were to burst through the bushes in search of Pokemon to attack, she'd probably end up hugging the thing and admiring its "cute" features. She has an obsession with berries, mostly sweet and spicy ones. The Braixen is aesexual yet biromantic and loves to socialize. She's also quite attracted to music and art.

-Scared of water in general
- Can't be seen without a berry in hand/paw
- Loves setting things on fire
- Can get emotional/dramatic if the past is mentioned, but this is rare
- "I wanna marry dragon types! They're so cuuuuute!" - Flare
- Changes appearance often
- Loves to spy on trainers
- Has a strange admiration for Girafarig..