sofia

Personality

Positive Traits
Sweet - Description

Nurturing - Description

Loyal - Description 

Neutral Traits
Gentle - Description

Playful - Description

Absentminded - Description

Reserved - Description 

Negative Traits
Messy - Description

Nervous - Description

Obstinate - Description 

Biography

Sofia's story begins simply. Her father, Aleksei, was part of a large herd of Sawsbuck in northern Unova. Her mother, however, was an odd occurrence in Unova, a Girafarig/Musharna who had been bred by a human but then later released into the Unovan wilderness. Aleksei was already a father to a sweet young Deerling named Rhea, but after the death of Rhea's mother he was lonely. Lani, the Girafarig, started a whirlwind romance with Aleksei that resulted in a single egg, but after discovering the frigid cold of Unovan Winters, she fled south and was never seen again.

Sofia hatched to the first hints of spring, and several things set her apart from her Deerling peers. Firstly, she was part Girafarig, making her tower over her peers. Secondly, there was a pink flower on her head, marking her as shiny. She also inherited her mother's hidden ability, Telepathy, despite not inheriting any other Munna traits. Aleksei named the child Sofia and swore that he'd be the best father a little Deerling could ask for. Rhea also swore to take care of her new baby sister.

Years passed. Sofia grew tall, but although her peers evolved to Sawsbuck form, she never did. Perhaps it had something to do with the smooth grey everstone her mother had left with Dmitry, which was Sofia's prized possession.

When Sofia was around 15, she found a small Venipede egg buried in some leaves. It was late summer, past the usual hatching time for Venipedes, but she took the egg home and showed it to her Dad and sister. It was still alive, miraculously. After some debate, Sofia was given responsibility for the egg, and when the Venipede hatched, she named him Rashaad and became his mother. Rhea met a nice Sawsbuck named Demetrius and they had a daughter, Iris, although Demetrius died before his daughter was born, leaving Rhea to continue the family trend of single-parents.

Iris and Rashaad grew up together as cousins and friends, but when Iris was young, she vanished from the herd without a trace. The next decade or so were mostly uneventful, but when Rhea got sick and almost died, something snapped in Sofia. She couldn’t handle living in this cruel world where all of her family were suffering so much. She stayed out in a blizzard and was only brought back by Rashaad, begging his mother to come back to the warmth of the herd. Her foolishness resulted in Sofia herself becoming quite ill, but in her fevered delirium, she saw things. A young deerling, surrounded by fire. Sofia knew that deerling. It was Iris. Still in the delirious state of a fevered mind, Sofia wandered away from the herd, this time going so far into the woods that no one could find her - although Rashaad was able to find her hoofprints in the snow.

Sofia came back to her senses in the cave of a kindly old Ursaring who had found her wandering and brought her into the warmth. The Ursaring’s Teddiursa children took a liking to Sofia, and as she was still rather weak after her fevered wanderings, she stuck around for a few weeks, watching over the cubs. When she was almost fully recovered, she had another dream, of a coastline and a ship with three tall smokestacks. So, Sofia set off. Along the way, she befriended an Emolga when it fell from a tree and injured its arm. The two traveled together all the way to the coastline, the Emolga happily riding on Sofia’s back the whole time. It reminded her of her dead Rashaad, but she had the feeling her son would come along and join her eventually.

Once they located the harbour, Sofia watched the ships every day. When she saw the ship with the three tall smokestacks, she quietly said a farewell to the Emolga, who wasn’t interested in joining her on her journey across the sea. She snuck onto the ship, finding a nice hidden place in the hold where she wouldn’t be found. She stayed in the hold until the boat met land again, stealing bits and pieces of food from the galley when she could. She disembarked, finding herself in a tropical paradise - the islands of Alola. Now, she immediately knew that this wasn’t her final destination. Her dreams of Iris hadn’t felt warm. Not like this.

Sofia had no idea which ship to get on to leave the islands of Alola, so she wandered for quite a while, hitching rides on the smaller boats and larger aquatic Pokemon that seemed to happily wander from island to island within the chain of four. Whilst in Alola, she briefly encountered a Jangmo-o and helped it find its family, and stayed with a gang of Komala for a few weeks. While staying with the Komala, she had a vision of a two-masted sailing ship, and ran to the harbour to greet it. There was no room for a stowaway, so she convinced some of the Pelipper ships-birds that she could help out aboard for the duration of their travels, which were apparently headed to a place called Galar.

It took a long time to get to this Galar place. Longer than Sofia would have liked to admit. But they did make it eventually, and arrived safely on the shores of… yet another island. But apparently this one was closer to… a lot of other regions, instead of being in the middle of nowhere. It was also a little colder. Closer to what she was used to. But still, the visions that came with her nightmares did not give her hope. Iris was still out there, but not… here. Sofia met a few other pokemon while she was in Galar. She had a short fight with a Kramorant over some food, and ended up acquiescing to the odd bird. Later, she stopped some pokemon from teaming up on a Centiskorch. The Centiskorch gave her some neat earrings in return, which she carried around for quite a while. These were amongst many encounters she had in Galar before moving on - a friendly Wailord was willing to swim her across the channel to Kalos, allowing her to move on once more.

In Kalos, Sofia went on more adventures, living in a Noibat cave for a few weeks, and helping a Trubbish who had been hurt by some mons. From where she hopped onto a train which eventually led her to Kanto. In Kanto, she encountered many Pokemon, including an Alakazam and a bunch of Ghastly. The Alakazam led her to the border between Kanto and Johto, and she was able to continue on her journey into Johto. In Johto, she got into a fight with some Houndour, but ended up taking care of them later when a car almost killed them. She rescued a Corphish from a net, and in gratitude it helped her for a few days. By traveling through a cave system the Corphish pointed out, Sofia was eventually able to find her way into Hoenn. While in the tunnel she saw visions of Iris, now blazing with anger, escaping those that tormented her. In Hoenn, she helped a Cradily find food after the poor thing was abandoned by its trainer. Cradily helped her pierce her ears to attach the earrings she'd acquired months ago.

Sofia also met a bunch of Seedots who gave her shelter for a while before yet another vision spurred her onwards. She saw Iris, surrounded by reds and blacks. It was her niece. She knew it. Somewhere with reds and blacks, and a giant mountain. She remembered the reds and blacks from the Kanto region, but that place didn't have a mountain. She asked around, eventually learning there was a region with a mountain. She stowed away on a boat and sailed to Sinnoh. Once in Sinnoh, she wandered for a while, until a helpful Shinx explained where she might find the Team Rocket. Near that city and that lake. It was worth a try. She investigated, and was overjoyed when she saw a Deerling/Quilava hybrid. She knew it was Iris, despite the changes.

But Iris didn't remember her. And they went by Wildfire now. Well, that was fine. She could call her family by whatever name they wanted, as long as they were safe, that's all she wanted. Her visions fading to a much more infrequent rate, Sofia didn't know what to do, so she decided to stick around. For a while at least.