Flare

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"Part of me wants to give up. Can't say I haven't earned that. But a part of me loves the way I am, the friends I have, and the life I'm living. So I remember to keep my head held high, push the past aside, and never stop enjoying every moment for what it is."

Distant Past
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.

A New Life, A New Friend, A New Purpose
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 naive, at the very least.

However, on one fateful evening, while Flare was exploring the base of the mountain, a human happened to be quite nearby. Never having had the opportunity to directly heckle somebody like this, the moody Vulpix happily began to fling insults and threats toward the boy. Suddenly, the human's eyes began to sparkle, and he whipped out a hair brush. Of course, Flare was in reality too weak to defend himself from any sort of approach, so he closed his eyes in slight fear. To his amazement, what he felt next was utter bliss! As the boy groomed the little fox, humming happily, something in the back of Flare's mind snapped. When the process was done and the human began to leave, he followed. It could have possibly been due to selfish desire, but that boy's gentle touch was a feeling he never wanted to go away. He requested to simply tag along with the boy (who then revealed his name to be Ruby), and to his surprise, he received a resounding "absolutely!" It did not take more than a few hours of spending time with Ruby for Flare to realize that he never wanted leave. Of course, being with Ruby, it wasn't long until he met the better half, Sapphire. She being incredibly wild-spirited, they got along almost instantly.

Hygiene and the Meaning of "Play"
Within days of Flare joining Ruby's side, they were off to Johto, to visit Ruby's former home in Goldenrod City. While the two humans searched through Ruby's old photos and doo-dads from his past, Flare found himself instinctively playing with a little ball. Ruby decided to join him, firstly snapping a few photos, and soon they were wrestling each other to the ground. Through this, Flare was again experiencing something great for the first time. He still had much to learn, though.

The following day, Ruby had gone out grocery shopping, and Flare decided to sneak out and explore the city. What he didn't expect was a run-in with a vicious, stray Houndoom

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