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You do something to me

• Prior to Wren himself had been the existence of his own host, of course; a younger boy by the initial name of Christopher Jason del Rosario, and known by his more familiar name of Ivan Kaleo Korigane. Truth be told, Ivan himself hadn’t quite known terribly much about his past due to the fact that he had been abandoned as an infant; long before he could have been able to even try and remember the hospital and facilities that he had been born within; let alone the faces of his parents. Nothing more than a couple of weeks following his birth on March twenty-seventh, his biological parents abandoned him with the intent to leave him for dead; never bothering to look back as they left their son within the boundaries of an alleyway closer to the slums within Johto; specifically within the bounds of Goldenrod City. He was born as a simple human.
• Although he himself still hadn’t known even before his dying days and dying breaths alike, Ivan had been of Japanese, British, Spanish, and Filipino descent; his bloodlines consisting primarily of Japanese and British genetics alike.
• Due to being left within an alleyway that hadn’t been the cleanest of places, Ivan’s condition rapidly declined within the next day or two, but before it could worsen, he was thankfully found by another woman in her earlier twenties by the name of Leilani Korigane- and a Beartic gijinka, nonetheless. She herself was homeless and constantly roamed around the streets for her own sort of living, but despite her own living conditions, she chose to nurse Ivan enough to get his health up to better standards, and did her best to raise him as her own. She was the one that gave him the name that he knew himself by throughout the duration of his life.

That I can’t explain

• As could be guessed, Ivan grew rather attached to Leilani as a result of the fact that she had been the sole person to look after him. His life was far from the best, but she treated him the best that she could despite their circumstances- and Ivan himself loved her to Hell and back for that. The first half of his childhood was spent on the streets with her, and despite the fact that his pseudo mother figure was likely forced to do less than prideful things for sake of allowing them to live as they did, they managed to make ends meet as the years passed on- even if it was by a thin margin, more times than not.
• By virtue of being raised on the streets, Ivan grew up to be cunning and untrusting of others except for Leilani herself. Having been on the streets for a year or so prior to finding him, Leilani had picked up several skills that allowed her to live a little bit easier on the streets, despite how it put her at somewhat of a greater risk sometimes; one of those skills being pickpocketing. Early on within Ivan’s childhood, she hadn’t taught him directly how to do so, but he himself learned how to pickpocket after watching her from afar. Although she wasn’t quite proud of it, Ivan began to use his image as a child to his advantage; luring various adults in and engaging them into conversations and interactions to distract them as he shuffled through their hanging bags, pockets, and other things of the sort before slicking off on his way. The majority of his street life consisted of these types of minor cons.

So would it be out of line

• Throughout the time that he grew older, Ivan had, of course, been heavily influenced by Leilani. Although their standards of living weren’t the best, she still did her best to give her informally adoptive son the best life that she could, and it was through this sole goal that she introduced him to the former hobbies that she herself used to indulge within prior to running away from her own family. Being of primarily Japanese and Hawaiian Alolan bloodlines herself, she had an intense affinity towards traditional hula dances, and had brought it upon herself to teach Ivan how to dance within a similar manner in order to give him some form of fun despite their desperate measures and lifestyles. Dancing became a common hobby, interest, and past time of theirs, as well as something that they turned to when the going got rough.
• Another one of her more favored hobbies had been ice skating, so around the time that he was three years of age, she brought it upon herself to use a little bit of the extra cash that they had set aside in order to buy a pair of skates for the two of them within the winter season. In the same year, she took Ivan to the public skating rinks that were set up during during the aforementioned season; bringing it upon herself to teach him how to skate after he showed immense interest in it. Throughout the years, he actually showed a great degree of skill and promise alike on the ice despite not being formally trained, and Leilani herself watched with a gleeful pride as she and her adoptive son made it a more or less annual tradition to return to the ice rinks at night time whenever winter rolled around so the two of them could skate together.
• While waiting for the cooler temperatures to roll around, Leilani also supplied Ivan with the occasional book whenever she could; the books themselves ranging from shorter books to reasonably lengthened novels all the same. She taught him how to read and write, as well as to do somewhat advanced forms of select and standard subjects that would be taught in school, as she herself had actually been a rather good student herself before she left home. It was because of this that, despite being homeless for the first half of his life, Ivan was actually rather well read and knowledgeable for a kid who lived his kind of lifestyle.

If I said, “I miss you”?

• At eight years of age, Ivan’s life took a turn for the worse as he and Leilani were leaving the ice rinks one winter evening. On the way back to the area that they temporarily set their belongings in, they came across somewhat unstable and mentally disturbed man. Leilani attempted to talk the man away while pulling Ivan aside, but they were quick to notice and realized that he was armed with a gun. As could be guessed, he demanded for them to give him all of the valuables that they had on him; something that they did. Even then, however, he kept pressing and pressuring them to give him more, and after Leilani attempted to throw him off, the man ended up shooting her dead in the heart. The shooter froze up and panicked before running off with their belongings.
• For a short while, Ivan was left with a bleeding and dying Leilani, and had eventually been find by the nearby police due to the gunshot that rang across the district. By the time that they arrived, however, Leilani had already bled out too much, and had died from both the blood loss and the wound all the same. With a good amount of effort, the authorities managed to take Ivan away from her body in order to take it away, and it was that night that he inherited the Pokemon that she herself had.
• After being sent to the hospital to check for any possible injuries, as well as to help him through the trauma of the scenario for a short while, Ivan was sent to an nearby orphanage to be looked after by its respective caretakers for several years afterwards.

I see your picture

• From the day that he arrived at the orphanage, Ivan kept himself extremely secluded from the other children. When the others were out playing and interacting with one another, he normally kept himself in his room; only ever really coming out in order to eat, talk with the caretakers if he had to, and do other things of necessity.
• The time that he spent in his lonesome was, for the most part, dedicated to the hobbies that Leilani had brought him into, as well as his own, personal studies. On top of the minor tutoring and teachings that the caretakers gave the children, Ivan took it upon himself to continue reading as many books as possible - and had even gone through all of the books available at the orphanage itself - during his free time. Despite the social nature he inherited later on, he vastly preferred his own lonesome at the time, and often strayed away from others in order to focus on his own activities.
• At a certain point, Ivan began to grow an affinity towards creative writing, regardless of whether it was through stories, poetry, or other things of the sort. It grew to become a rather high passion of his while he grew older, but ultimately, it was used as a coping mechanism to escape from reality, in a way. He wasn’t quite content with how his life had ended up thus far, so for sake of settling his mind, he took it upon himself to create his own worlds and universes on paper in order to escape to a more sufficient and happier plethora of worlds in his loneliness and losses.

I smell your skin on the empty pillow next to mine

• Through the years, he continued to pickpocket others throughout the few, rarer times that he did venture out. He used the money obtained to keep updating his pair of skates with the more that he grew, and also continued his annual trips to the skating rinks during the evening while doing so. He honed his skating skills on his own with the passing years due to the fact that no one had really given him enough attention and interest to consider adopting him- even through the next seven years after coming to the orphanage.
• When he was fourteen, a man by the name of David Hollens found him at the rink one night. Ivan saw him and grew cautious, but for the next nights afterwards, he noticed that he kept coming back. Eventually, David managed to wear him down enough to pull him into conversations; asking him about anything and everything from how old he was, where he was from, and how long he had been skating. The truth of the matter was that David was more or less interested in Ivan’s skating potential despite not quite being an ice skater himself, and he wanted to use his talent to better his image.

You have only been gone ten days

• The following year at age fifteen, David met with Ivan again to continue the conversations that they had beforehand, but at a certain point, Ivan took note of the fact that he stopped visiting several days after he began to visit the ice rinks again. It made him curious, but he paid little mind to it; thinking that he simply left to tend to his own life.
• A few days later, the caretakers at the orphanage let him know that he had a visitor part way through the day. Although confused as to who it could be, he went out after a little while, and was somewhat surprised find David waiting for him towards the entrance. He came with the intent of adopting him and giving him a home over in Lyeant, where he himself lived.It took a little bit of effort and thought over a few days, but ultimately, Ivan decided that he would be fine with the notion. Before the year rolled over, he was officially adopted by David and taken back to Irisia, where he was then given a proper skating instructor, as well as a couple of private tutors to further improve his knowledge and education. Alongside that, he opted to get himself a job in order to support himself, and because of that, he became a waiter at a somewhat higher end restaurant by the name of the Ionic Serenade.

But already I am wasting away

• Things were tolerable in the beginning, but as time progressed on, Ivan himself gradually discovered that David’s intents weren’t’ quite as wholesome and justified as he thought they were. While he had put up a kinder front when first adopting him, the truth of the matter was that David himself was nothing more than a somewhat corrupt and arrogant businessman who simply wanted to better his image in the eyes of his peers. His true intentions were to first and foremost adopt Ivan in order to gain credit within the eyes of others for taking a broken down boy like himself into his so called “graces”, and to simply further the credit by training him up to be a successful figure skater- which was something that he did, and something that was apparent through the number of skating competitions that he managed to win not too long after moving to Lyeant. However, by the time that he realized that, it was far too late to back out, so Ivan was stuck in that specific situation.
• David also proved to be rather abusive in multiple senses. Whenever Ivan so much as made a minor mistake, he was aggressively condemned and ridiculed; put through intense amounts of physical and emotional torment first and foremost, as well as several other things that scarred him throughout the remainder of his life. It was around that time that Ivan began struggling with his depression on an even deeper degree; resulting in somewhat constant bouts of self harm on top of many other actions and thoughts that brought his general demeanor at an all time low. David convinced him that he was nothing more than a tool, and despite the fact that he really did want to deny that thought, some part of it became a reality to Ivan. He eventually saw himself as someone of little to no value, which then brought him to have many internal struggles about why he even bothered, how much he mattered as a person, and other things of the sort.
• Ivan was there for the war that occurred, but he managed to survive throughout the conflict. David, on the other hand, didn’t. After being caught in the crossfire, David himself died, which left Ivan alone once more for a short span of time. Rather than being put back into the system for a second time, however, his figure skating coach - a man named James Reinquist - took it upon himself to take him in himself, rather than put Ivan through the trouble of having to stay in another orphanage on his own. From there on, his life took a tiny incline towards better things, but overall, he was still beaten and battered to the point where his own, deeper thoughts about himself wouldn’t quite be reversed. After a little bit of convincing and gentle prying, James managed to get Ivan to open up about his life with David and his constant abuse, and once he did so, he signed Ivan up for therapy sessions in attempt to help him recover.

I know I’ll see you again, whether far or soon

• Soon after his first official year in Lyeant, Ivan simply continued on within his life within an idle and mostly robotic and routinely manner; his social skills having improved more or less by force due to the amount of attention that he had received after winning a variety of skating competitions. His sly nature was naught but a mask for what dwelled within for the most part; a coping mechanism for the depression and self loathing instincts that remained within. However, his mood improved a little bit more after he met a younger girl that hadn’t been too much younger than he was at the time. Her name was Yue Hai Xu, and she appeared to be just as much of a flirt as he was- which was part of the reason why they hit it off so quickly. The two of them grew close within a matter of months, and it only took a shorter while before they began a relationship together.
• Through the time that they were together, Ivan managed to get her to open up more and more, while she managed to do the same with him. There came a time when he attempted to take his own life, but once that attempt in itself failed, he opted to hold off on those kinds of thoughts as best as he could for sake of staying with Yue. By that point, they more or less became one anothers’ lifelines- but truth be told, he was more or less fine with that so long as it meant that he’d be able to stay by her side, since she was pretty much the only person really keeping him emotionally anchored at the time.
• One day, however, Ivan found that Yue had ventured wherever without so much as a comment or warning. Needless to say, he was worried and noticeably frantic following the discovery, and he himself attempted to look for her with the intent of bringing her home.
• There came a day when he did find her- or he thought as much, at least. She looked a little bit different, but he recognized her rather quickly and greeted her with the beginnings of a smile and a plethora of screams and scolds, but after a small amount of time had passed, he realized that it wasn’t quite her. It was her body. Her appearance. Yet...the person inhabiting it was different. That was the day that he discovered that the one dwelling within Yue’s body had been another; the soul of the legendary Xerneas, specifically. According to Xerneas, Yue was found on hope’s path; poisoned, frail, and dying. He found out that Xerneas took it upon itself to inhabit the body and purge it of its toxins while simultaneously giving Yue a peaceful departure; something that he himself had intensely mixed feelings about.

But I need you to know that I care, and I miss you

• Ivan did his best to cope with the matter for the next few days, but a little bit over a week later, he felt as though everything was a bit too much for him. With no one else to hold him back at the time, he waited until he was completely alone before taking another try at taking his own life. Like he had done the first time, he ventured over to Firefly Springs during the winter; walking across the iced over surfaces of the water before breaking a hole and jumping in. He purposely swam a bit further from the hole and released his breath before inhaling the water, drowning himself.
• It was around this time that Articuno came around and found him, albeit on a whim. He made it a habit to travel the regions throughout winter on his own volition throughout the times that he lacked a host, and a little while after Ivan jumped in, Articuno happened to fly over the surface in time to see him floating against the ice from below. He was quick to see him, and once he did, he fluttered down and parted the ice in order to retrieve him. By the time that he took Ivan out, he was already unconscious and barely alive. After a little bit of thought, he decided to use the body as his next host in order to give the boy a peaceful and quiet passing overall.
• Soon after inheriting the body, he began to experience small memory spikes from Ivan himself; something that still continues on to this day. As of now, it’s more of an unpleasant shock rather than a surprise, but he simply attempts to ride them out despite the impact that they have on him. He believes that it’s somewhat of a repercussion for choosing to take the body for himself, but unbeknownst to him, it’s due to the fact that, although dormant, Ivan’s conscience still remains deeper within his mind. It’s because of this that his own personality traits seem to be gradually melding with Articuno’s, as well.

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