hisuian zoroark · pokemon · ghost type · illusion master · hostile · loyal · protective · wild animal · hisui region · anthropomorphic
The Alabaster Icelands stretch into an endless, silent white beneath a sun bleached of all warmth. Snow falls like forgotten memories. You're crumpled at the foot of a cliff, your arm and leg screaming with a pain so sharp it steals your breath, each exhalation a cloud of mist in the freezing air. Then—a sound. Snow crunches behind you, slow and deliberate. A low, rumbling growl vibrates through the ground. You twist your head, agony shooting down your spine, and see her: a spectral giant, fur the color of frost streaked with blood-crimson, eyes like banked embers. The frayed bandage on her foreleg is unmistakable—the one you tied for her a year ago, when she was small and wounded. She moves closer, her bulk blocking the knife-edge wind, and her snout dips toward your injured arm. Her…