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Accumulated information known about Flare.

Distant History
Flare is an unusual sort. Although typical for his line to live for one thousand years, his life does not simply end there. In a way, it recycles, and he is born anew after death. The first two cycles of his life are a very strong mystery. All that is known is he was born to two Ninetales, who were only present during his first year. Whether their absence during the following years was death or abandonment, is still unknown. The only other discovered event occurred during the second cycle of his life, which is his apparent unnamed trainer. This too has very little detail surrounding it. Just a face and a warm personality. Everything in between these two periods, remains cloudy and uncertain, but they are far from pleasant.

Birth
On November 29th, 2011, Flare rose from the ashes for a third time atop the misty peak of Mount Pyre, located in the Hoenn region. His only company being a few Shuppet and Duskull, his behavior was very reflective of the past few millenia: Nothing but anger, mischief, and arrogance in every move he made. Flare's daily goal was to ruin someone else's mood and hopefully bring his up in the process. Juvenile and

The End of the Pack
Ultimately, the strong teamwork that made up Houndour's pack would be its downfall. Aside from general day to day survival activities, the pack often took up less necessary activities to help promote teamwork. There were often evening long trips out to human settled areas where the pack would run around, cause trouble, and practice stealing things before disappearing into the night and moving on. One of these events ended up really pissing off the local humans, and they organized a mob to chase after the pack. There was yelling, rocks being thrown, and while nobody was seriously hurt at the end of it all, it had become clear that the pack's activities were presenting a very real danger to the pups.

After everyone had regrouped from being chased by the mob, Houndour and some of the other older pack members made a hasty decision for the safety of the pups to dissolve the pack. Those still to young to care for themselves were left with some of the adults, and the rest quickly went their seperate ways to avoid the humans.

Valor Lakefront
Still very frightened by the experience, and upset about what he felt had to be done, Houndour ran off into the forest, trying to figure out a way to get away in case the humans came back. Running into an Abra, he begged to be taken somewhere safe, and found himself teleported to unfamiliar lands in the region of Sinnoh, near the Valor Lakefront. He found his way to the resort area, and spent the next year or so living there in seclusion, eating food out of the restaurant dumpsters, and generally just trying to survive without a pack.

He learned quite a bit about humans in that time from watching them, though always keeping his distance due to his growing dislike and distrust of them from the loss of his pack. Eventually he learned to type and, after stealing a tourist's laptop, found his way onto Twitter thanks to the resort's nearby wifi.

Early Days on Twitter
Houndour spent his early days on Twitter talking with other Pokemon, and generally not being very helpful. He complained a lot about water types, and often encouraged any electric types he saw to exercise their ability to electrocute any and all water types they saw. He also engaged in rather trollish behavior, attempting to get Pichu to cut himself, and giving other pokemon questionable suggestions for how to solve their problems. When not tweeting, he was usually running around burning bug types in the area, or digging in the dumpsters behind the restaurant at the Valor Lakefront to find food.

At one point while trying to figure out something horrible to do the tourists in the area, Houndour got the idea to create a giant flaming pit of gasoline. After realizing he was unsure of how to get the materials for it, he asked for advice from some of the other pokemon, and accidentally ingested a large amount of gasoline due to tweeting while siphoning gas out of a car. He spent the rest of the day complaining about water types distracting him while he was working and uncomfortably vomiting out gasoline into the lake.

Finding his Packmates
At one point, Houndour disappeared for over a week without notice. During this time, he had tracked down an Abra to teleport him to Johto so he could try and track down some of his old pack members. Details are limited on how the trip went, but he has since mentioned meeting up with most of his packmates, and he returned knowing Solarbeam from a TM given to him by "an old friend" who had stolen it.

Last Days at Lake Valor
After Houndour returned, things returned to normal for him. However, after a while, he started experimenting with Solarbeam, and went on a short trip across Sinnoh to find out of the way locations to test out using it to take out water pokemon from long range. While the initial results were somewhat lacking, he later engaged in his last major act at Lake Valor, involving much use of Nasty Plot and a high powered Solarbeam that effectively nuked all the water out of Lake Valor. The resulting chain of events later became known as the Lake Valor Incident, and in the aftermath of his unfortunate run in with Azelf, Houndour was brought to the Viridian City Gym by Buizels to recover from injury and the resort was temporarily shut down.