zucker

Personality

Positive Traits
Intelligent - Description

Dedicated - Description

Quiet - Description

Friendly - Despite their harsh upbringing, most of Zucker’n’co maintain a frienadly persona. Cassius sometimes finds it difficult to maintain this positive outlook on personal interactions and often snaps at other Pokemon, but the rest of them experience a genuine desire for connection. 

Neutral Traits
Nerdy - Description

Defensive - Description

Affectionate - Description 

Negative Traits
Aggressive - Description

Cautious - Description

Unpredictable - Description 

Biography

Trigger warnings - The following story includes mentions of animal abuse and emotional trauma. Reader discretion is advised.

When Zucker was born, he was called 'Scrap.' His parents, Killer (Male Hydreigen) and Queen (Female Houndoom), were the prized arena fighters at an illegal Pokemon fighting pit, and he was the smallest of three Deino/Houndour pups, the others being Thrasher and Slasher.

Zucker was small and sickly, the regular dark coloration of his Deino fur replaced by a pale grey. He was mistreated by the humans who ran the pit, often beaten and used as a training dummy for the other fighters. He retreated into himself, and over time manifested several Alters. The humans often scolded him by calling him 'Bad dog,' so he accepted that as his name since they called him that more often than 'Scrap'. He was Baddog. There were other people in his mind, who sometimes protected him from his pain. Strongdog, the physical protector. Smalldog, the trauma holder. Smartdog, the emotional protector. There were others, but he didn’t have names for them. Through this time, the young Hybrid and his family acted like and were treated like mere animals, not even knowing they had the capability of complex thought.

When he was a few years old, he was rescued from the fighting ring by a human he remembers as 'the man.' The man and his wife rehabilitated Baddog and named him Zucker, but Baddog also remembers being called Goodboy, Champ, and Littleguy. He liked Zucker best though. It was a name for him, something he didn't hear the man say to anyone else. There were other Pokemon who stayed with the man for a little while sometimes, but Zucker was the only one who stuck around and didn't leave.

When Zucker got a name, all the dogs in his head wanted names too. So, over the course of their time with the man, as they watched a lot of TV with him, they found names they liked. Smartdog liked the name Marcus. Strongdog chose the name Cassius. Smalldog wanted to be called Hopper. And the newest dog who came out a lot, Sweetdog, who had come to the front of the head when they felt the stress of the first little while with the man, chose the name Firren. There were other, smaller dogs in the head, but they didn't like talking to the rest of them. They, at that time, began to understand things in a more complex manner, but still viewed the world in a very simple way.

The man gave Zucker a long scarf to hide in. Whenever something frightened Zucker, he would hide his face in the long scarf, and sometimes he wouldn't have to go away. Sometimes he would go away and Marcus, Firren, or Cassius would come out and be brave for him. The man's wife gave them a little blue hair-bow at some point and, although the other Alters said it was kinda girly,  Firren ended up wearing it clipped to their fur when she was fronting. The man and Zucker watched TV a lot, and Zucker has many wonderful memories of popcorn falling from the man's hands and ending up in his mouth. All the Alters agree that buttery popcorn is the pinnacle of good food. 

Zucker traveled a lot with the man, living with him for almost a decade. One spring night there was a heavy rainstorm, and driving through it, the pair got into a terrible car accident. Zucker was discovered by some Team Rocket recruits, nearly dead and curled up next to the dying 'man' near the smouldering wreckage of a car. As they found them, the man muttered Zucker's name to one of the Recruits, asking them to take care of his pup. Zucker was brought to the hideout and nursed back to life. He's stayed on because he doesn't really think he has much of a choice in staying or going, plus Cassius and Marcus like it there. The idea of being a mischief maker also appeals to Firren. The system is adjusting to Hideout life, but is finding it quite difficult. Learning how to talk is one aspect of that. Who knew Pokemon actually had a language?! Plus, they have to learn how to socialize with other Pokemon. That's extra difficult!

Update (Dec 2020)

After some time in the Hideout and learning to speak like everyone else, Zucker and the rest of the system were really getting accustomed to the world of Team Rocket. It was very different from what they were used to, but they didn't seem to mind it that much. But, as they got stronger in some aspects, they got weaker in others. Unable to tell the medical people what was wrong with them, Zucker's body got sicker and sicker over the course of the months. 

Finally, not knowing what else to do, the authorities made the decision to send him to the LAB in hopes that they'd be able to find a way to fortify him. They did, apparently, and Zucker woke up with only half the number of voices in his head. The other half were now locked into the second head he had now grown. It was a little lonely, but also nice. Now others could meet the rest of the family of dogs inside his head. What the LAB had done was a bit of a mystery, but it was clear that whatever had been done, possibly a partial evolution for the Deino part of him, had fortified his body enough for him to be physically strong and sound of body, which for Zucker was a Christmas Miracle.

Update (Apr 2025)

Zucker'n'co spent some years in the Hideout, but various factors drove them away after a while. While exploring the Sinnoh region, they managed to evolve into a Houndoom/Zweilous, gaining a third head and splitting their consciousnesses once again. Now, Zucker was mostly alone in the central head, with Marcus and Cassius on their rightmost head and Firren sharing the leftmost head with three fragments that named themselves Hopper, Pinkie, and Pup. 

The Zweidoom traveled for a few more years before hearing word of more illegal fight-rings like the one they had been born in. Determined to help free the mons who were held prisoner there, Zucker led his system into one ring, infiltrating it and discovering a familiar face - a Sawsbuck/Houndoom who they knew from Rocket Hideout, albeit somewhat evolved and changed from when they'd first met. 

Reaper and Zucker worked together alongside Reaper's other friends to stage a prison break, freeing themselves and many other mons from the Ring. They made their way back to the Hideout from there, Zucker'n'co happy to see if they could find a home there again.