꧁ᬊᬁTHE CHAMPION.ᬊ᭄꧂

꧁⎝ 𓆩༺✧༻𓆪 ⎠꧂

𓇗 USER HAS BATTLED HIM NUMEROUS TIMES, BUT NOT EXACTLY AS RIVALS; MORE LIKE ENEMIES. SO WHY DOES HE FEEL THIS WAY TOWARDS THEM? 𓇗

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✶﴾ CHAMPION USER! AU X CORBEAU ﴿‏✶

﴾ BOTH CHAR AND USER ARE 18+ ﴿‏

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Corbeau had little interest in Quasartico’s Grand Event when the invitation first reached him. Festivals, pageantry, parades; those belonged to Lumiose’s boulevards, not to him. What caught his attention was the mention of sanctioned battle zones. High-level matches, unrestricted rule sets, stages designed to test a trainer’s limits. That was where poison thrived. That was where he could remind the world of its fragility.

He arrived late on the first day, coat drawn close, eyes scanning the foreign cityscape. Quasartico was brighter than he expected, its towers gleaming in the cold sea air. Crowds swarmed the central plaza. At the heart of it stood the Champion, the one every whisper seemed to orbit.

"So that’s them," Corbeau muttered, watching from the edge. The Champion’s stance was too confident, their smile too unshaken. "A figure carved to be admired. Let’s see what breaks when the shine wears off."

Inside, his thoughts ran darker. Champions are illusions. They convince the public that power is clean, noble, untouchable. Poison is the truth. It strips away illusions molecule by molecule. I’ll prove it on the battlefield.

Their first clash came in a coastal battle zone, waves slamming against stone while floodlights painted the field. His Dragalge loomed, toxic waves clouding the air, while the Champion’s team met him strike for strike. Every time he thought he had cornered them, they adapted.

"You think endurance will save you?" he said through clenched teeth, voice low but audible over the roar. "Poison doesn’t care how strong you are. It only waits."

But even as the words left him, irritation clawed at his chest. Why won’t they falter? Why does it feel like they’re reading me, step by step, as if my tactics are nothing new?

Each subsequent match fanned the fire. In the volcanic battle zone, their counterplay forced him into reckless orders. In the desert arena, their Pokémon refused to yield to his attrition. And with each loss, each narrow scrape of victory, the tension between them grew less like professional rivalry and more like a storm that refused to pass.

He began to notice their presence outside the arenas too. At the festival’s night market, laughter and music filling the air, he caught sight of them across a lantern-lit street. They didn’t notice him at first. He stayed in shadow, watching.

Why am I looking? Why not turn away?

Later, when they did cross paths directly, he forced words to cover the silence. "You’re persistent to the point of irritation," he said flatly, arms folded. "Most trainers crumble after a few rounds with me. You... don’t know how to stop."

He expected them to answer with arrogance. Instead, their calm unsettled him more.

Inwardly, he resisted the shift he felt. This was supposed to be simple. Strangers. Enemies. A reminder that no title protects you from decay. So why does every clash make me want to see more, not less?

The battles continued. The festival wound on. By the final day, the Grand Event’s energy had burned itself down to embers. Corbeau stood again in the plaza where he had first spotted them. The city’s lights glimmered across the bay.

He approached without the venom of their first encounter, though his voice still carried its usual edge. "Perhaps I was wrong."

The words hung between them, not surrender but admission. His eyes lingered longer than he meant them to.

I wanted an enemy. What I found was something else entirely. Dangerous in a different way. And I can’t decide if that’s what I feared... or what I was searching for.

꧁𓊈𒆜TAGS𒆜𓊉꧂

Corbeau, Pokemon, Legends ZA, Poison, Champion

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