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N's Zoroark Human Form (Truth and Ideals)

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"Surprised, anyone?"
-Zoroark

So as of recent planning of Truth and Ideals, I've decided to add N's Zoroark as a major recurring character in addition to N himself already being this. Why? Because out of all of N's own Pokemon, Zoroark is the most commonly seen Pokemon he's known to have (even though he's only used it in the last battle against him in B/W, but is still shown to have it in B2/W2 via overworld scenes). In other words, out of all of N's roster, Zoroark is the most consistent of the Pokemon that he owns in both B/W and B2/W2. As a result, I felt like giving Zoroark an expanded role to go along with how Zoroark's portrayed in B2/W2 as sometimes doing things away from N during the post-game's beginning.

As a result, Chapter 6 of Truth and Ideals has two colorations for Zoroark, but you'll notice something off here; Zoroark can not only disguise himself as a human, but he can also speak human languages as well. The backstory pretty much explains that factor on it's own, but as for the coloration, it still relates to Illusion (even if Illusion works quite differently in this AU). Basically, when first seen in his human form, he has the coloration of a Zoroark, but once he introduces himself to Ash, Cheren, and Bianca, he takes on a white and gold coloration for his wardrobe (which was already present in his mask to begin with).

Basically Chapter 6 in addition to Chapter 7 both are "filler" so to speak, but only considered such due to the fact the two chapters are an introduction to N's Zoroark, who for some apparent reason is in self-imposed exile. I wonder why that's the case? ;)

Design Notes:

-When I came up with the concept for the human form's looks, I was inspired by Yo-Kai Watch's Kyubi's human form... but I failed to realize something at the time. When I first heard of Kyubi, I thought he was a cuter, quadruped Kitsune, but when I actually saw a pic of him for the first time, he's a frickin badass humanoid in his true form, and thus many of the inspirations I got from Kyubi actually came from his true form instead of his actual human form (which looked too young and cutesy for Zoroark's personality).

-Zoroark's depiction in Truth and Ideals is much more akin to an actual Kitsune to a degree, in which Zoroark can easily transform into various forms and even is capable of learning the abilities of said form, if only being capable of using those abilities in that particular form at best. For instance, Chapter 6's end sets up that Zoroark will fight Bianca's Lillipup as a Tranquill identical to Ash's own (which is Shiny), and Zoroark's Illusion, in Truth and Ideals, works a lot like Transform/Imposter solely because Ditto will more than likely never directly appear in the story. It's a bit of a liberty I'm going with since Anime Zoroark are shown to be capable of doing some seriously badass stuff with Illusion.

-The pose for Zoroark's human form artwork is based off of one of Dio's sprites from an old Jojo's Bizarre Adventure game. In fact, his human voice sounds a lot like Dio as well.

-Despite Zoroark knowing how to speak English (among other languages), he is prefers to not speak in Pokemon form, especially his true form, unless he absolutely has to.
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