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Shadow Heat Protagonists

General

• Age Lift: Everyone who isn't obviously intended to be a child or younger teen is aged up to anywhere between 18-31 years old, Wes and Rui being the most obvious examples at age 18 each. Everyone else as to who was already obviously an adult are kept unchanged. The disclaimer at the beginning of the fic even flat out states that all major characters in Shadow Heat are 18 or older unless stated otherwise and or via flashback.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • Wes has this in spades for reasons already stated in Pokémon Colosseum as it is, due to him being a former member of Team Snagum, whereas every other main protagonist in this continuity basically has a squeaky clean resume going for them. Wes in this particular continuity undergoes a small case of Adaptational Villainy as to emphasis that he's more Reformed, but Not Tamed, instead of what the original game implied for him as a straightforward Atoner.
  • Rui is noticeably Oblivious to Love in a series that normally shies away from having such characters, as Rui, throughout her backstory and her present day appearances, never showcases any direct attraction to anyone, men, women, or otherwise. She doesn't even so much as freak out when she winds up changing into her clothes after a shower with Wes in the same room as her. She doesn't believe she's known Wes long enough for her nude form to have an effect on him, and Wes more or less proves her right even with some slight staring.
  • More emphasis on the individual Pokémon are placed as to showcase they tend to have more personality than what was exhibited by the Pokémon individuals in Truth and Ideals. In Truth and Ideals, characterization for the Pokémon was very minimalist. In Shadow Heat, Wes' Pokémon at least practically do all of the talking for Wes himself, considering Wes stays true to the Heroic Mime of the game protagonists, meanwhile his Pokémon and their behavior have much more distinct personalities as to demonstrate how Wes' own Hidden Depths have rubbed off on them.

Wes

• Abled in the Adaptation: Implied inversion regarding his left arm in some capacity. He doesn't react to the Painful Transformation of installing the Prototype Snag Machine on his left arm, considering all of the rust turning to glass and steam erupting from his aged Snag Machine attached to his left arm. In Chapter 5, he states that he would've been better off amputating it.
• Adaptational Badass: Anyone who is familiar with the Dummied Out E-Reader team Wes faces in the prologue in which he snags a Scizor from will know that Wes' Pokémon are significantly tougher to begin with here, since aside from Scizor being at Level 50, the Steelix, Claydol, and Murkrow were at Level 60.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: We get to see the past 24 hours unfold of what happens before Wes blows his former base at Team Snagem HQ to smithereens, and what ultimately happens that makes Wes defect from the ranks to begin with.
• Adaptation Expansion: The prologue is significantly longer, to the point of being split into its own miniature arc, than most other prologues within Citadel of the Heart, and Wes' backstory is given a full on exploration showcasing Wes still a Snagger for Team Snagem and showcasing the final moments of his career for that organization.
• Adaptational Villainy: Definitely not squeaky clean in regards to his resume prior to the events of his story. In fact, he straight up kills an opposing trainer after snagging his Pokémon! He also doesn't even consider himself the hero of the story, considering he just sees himself as yet another ruffian trying to survive and make a name for themselves.
• Anti-Hero: The most prevalent example of this trope among all of the Pokémon playable characters in this Series Fic. His Reformed, but Not Tamed nature of still doing morally problematic things even after he defects from Team Snagem truly shows that he's still not exactly a pleasant fellow if he barely knows you. His meeting with Rui actually gets off to an incredibly rocky start because of just insanely aloof he is.
• Body Horror: The fact he doesn't feel any pain when he installs the Prototype Snag Machine onto his left arm implies that something must've happened to his left arm to cause him to no longer feel pain in that arm.
• Broken Ace: Working for Team Snagem put quite a toll on his overall sanity and psychological health, but he performs excellent in his craft when he needs to.
• Child Soldier: Drafted into Team Snagem at a very young age, implied to be 11 when this happened. By the present, he's 18 years old.
• Death Glare: A common expression of his to indicate for someone to stop while they're ahead.
• Establishing Character Moment: For someone with such a conflicted, harsh exterior of a criminal, Wes' Umbreon and Espeon showcase that he's not all that bad of a person as he behaves in the prologue. His reluctance to Just Following Orders about finishing the job he's been ordered to do in the prologue is another fact that he's growing soft after having been a criminal for much of his life.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's not a fan of rapists. Firsthand he demonstrates to Rui his brutish strength with forcefully exposing her bra as to scare her straight regarding how easy it would be for any other male in all of Orre to do not just that, but do even worse.
• Evil Gloating: Protagonist example and one kept mentally unless in complete privacy. Wes' mental thoughts often have him think as if he were imagining himself as the villain, although this is more so due to the fact he was raised by people who spoke or thought this same way, so it's just natural to him to be like this. About the only difference between Wes and any other member of Team Snagem in this regard is that Wes keeps his gloating to himself in his head.
• Expy: As far as his relationship with Tenebra goes, he's one to John Wick, and the absurd Roaring Rampage of Revenge both characters go through when tragedy strikes their Canine Companion has to be seen to be believed in both cases.
• Eye Scream: Emphasis on the scream bit once he's sprayed with Tenebra's toxic sweat in Chapter 5 while Tenebra is in Hyper Mode.
• Flanderization: Almost fell victim to this prior to Chapter 10, in which Chapter 10 gives a rather blunt wake-up call to what Wes is currently still like; he may be no longer actively being villainous, but he's far from being done in regards to behaving antagonistic.
• Foreshadowing: Anybody who can put two and two together over what the name of the model of hovercraft he owns is will immediately be able to learn what it's capable of doing to even super strong Pokémon standing in its path. AT-Ven149 is the name of it, which references the infamous All Terrain Venomoth from Twitch Plays Pokémon and the number specifically referring to Dragonite's National Dex number.
• Hates Small Talk: He prefers to not let his words go to waste and especially not be easily heard with what he does actually have to say. As a result of this, he's kind of anti-social as far as a general conversation goes, unless the subject matter is of a significant importance.
• Hellish Pupils: And gold eyes while we're at it.
• Heroic Mime: He's more considered this as opposed to Red, who speaks irregularly but otherwise is The Quiet One. Wes' dialogue is so minimalist in nature that his Pokémon tend to showcase more of his Hidden Depths directly than through dialogue on Wes' part. He speaks more regularly in private with Cail, but when in public or otherwise in a situation unfitting of conversation, he rarely so much as speaks.
• Ignore the Fanservice/Not Distracted by the Sexy: He only mildly cares when Rui starts to get dressed in front of him when Rui gets out of the shower, since as Rui puts it, she actually didn't expect him to care at all about her changing in front of him. That said, when Wes notices Rui's Plucky Girl mood is significantly dampened, Wes asks her about this which leads to more or less the entire conversation of just the two ignoring the unintentional fanservice from Rui. Even when pulling a Scare 'Em Straight moment with Rui regarding Orre's overabundance of perverted males of his own age (and subsequent strength), Wes doesn't even seem to so much as bother giving attention to Rui's more exposed curves in said moment.
• Just Following Orders: Everything that he does in the prologue was because of Gonzap's orders. Everything that follows suit, he's already planning on ditching Team Snagem to begin with, so naturally he's his own boss now.
• Miles Gloriosus: Heavily Downplayed, considering Wes first and foremost isn't one for boasting all that much, at least, not vocally anyways. Secondly, there's the fact the antagonists do not forget to level grind, and by the time Wes had defected from Team Snagem, some of the first trainers Wes is put up against are all veterans in their own right by virtue of Adaptation Expansion, Ascended Extra, and Adaptational Badass being applied all at once to Wes' enemies.
• Moment of Weakness: When later questioned why he was beginning to act soft prior to his behavior in Chapter 10, he admits that Rui's presence was causing him to behave different and he couldn't understand why. He tries to assert his more antagonistic side in Chapter 10, just to demonstrate to Rui that he's not a gentle soul when it comes to interacting with other humans.
• No Social Skills: He's very socially inept when it comes to interacting with other human characters, considering he showcases more legitimate concern towards his own Pokémon than he does anyone else.
• Not So Stoic: He does have his emotional moments, and when they happen they're significantly more showcasing what he's truly like underneath his cold exterior. He has a breakdown regarding Tenebra's corruption, and basically goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Team Snagem and Cipher because of it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's kind of loud and chatty towards the middle of Chapter 5 of Shadow Heat once he gets to experience firsthand what an Umbreon's toxic sweat is like directly sprayed into his eyes. The experience with having his eyes in such horrifyingly dangerous levels of pain caused him to snap. Even the mere foul smell of the toxins beforehand is enough to cause him to yell out in severe pain before Tenebra sprays him in the eyes shortly afterwards.
• Overcome with Desire: Has sex with Rui in Chapter 13, out in the construction yard where the entrance of Realgam Tower where later be. With the AT-Ven14 in direct line of sight of a passing Skarmory with a security camera attached to it's neck. This causes Wes' attempts to head to Pyrite and catch Miror B. off guard to not work, as the Skarmory's security footage is transferred to Nascour which allows him to alert Miror B. ahead of Wes and Rui's arrival to Pyrite.
• The Quiet One: He speaks actual dialogue, and has very distinct mental thoughts, but he tends to Hates Small Talk and prefers to not be within public earshot.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: Wes still has spades of his criminal origins even after defecting from Team Snagem; something which was borderline non-existent with his canon self. It's borderline a selling point with Shadow Heat that Wes' Heel–Face Turn isn't an overnight event, but something that instead happens very gradually, and gives him plenty of chances to showcase his former villainous tendencies. Chapter 10 had Wes actively demonstrate this side of him to Rui, because he was beginning to feel like both Rui and himself were taking this aspect of Wes' character for granted.
• Revenge: His initial motive.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Savvy Guy to Rui's Energetic Girl. Both of them play with the part, though, considering Wes being an aloof, (former) errand boy who was betrayed by Team Snagem and Cipher, and Rui being more serious when the situation is dark, and using her cheerfulness as a means of coping with her downer side.
• Scare 'Em Straight: He pins Rui to a wall not long after their formal introduction, forcefully opens her jacket and lifts her shirt up, merely to demonstrate to her how stupidly easy any other male in Orre would be able to not only do the same, but do a whole lot worse from there.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Guy to Cail's Sensitive Guy.
• The Stoic: He's not a fan of public conversations, considering he's significantly chattier when isolated in a soundproof room with Cail. Even then, it's not by a whole lot, and Wes is eerily calm and moves very little while he's there.
• Would Hit a Girl: More like sexually assault one just to Scare 'Em Straight regarding a very brutal warning to Rui he gives that any other male in Orre could not only easily do away with her heavy clothing, but unlike Wes, more than likely would do sexual assault against her for real, if not worse.

Wes' Umbreon (Tenebra)

• Adaptational Badass: Wes' Umbreon is typically a Crutch Character for most players, so having Umbreon serve as the main combative role as opposed to Espeon is unusual, although Espeon's constant usage of Helping Hand nullifies the trouble with it.
• Adaptational Villainy: Flat out killing an opposing trainer in the prologue will do that for ya. Although, even though Wes says Tenebra would've done so without being ordered, Tenebra actively waited for Wes to give the reluctant order in question. And then on the other side of things, being turned into a Shadow Pokémon against his will by Miror B's men also will do that for ya.
• Animal Motif: Tenebra is referred to at a few times as being a dog in a world where dogs seemingly don't exist, as would be the case with the entire Pokémon franchise by this point. However, since the Pokédex blatantly uses such terms in their entries even to this very day, it's at least somewhat clear that terms based off of real world animals do indeed exist in the world of Pokémon.
• Badass in Distress: The first arc revolves around Wes rescuing Tenebra after Tenebra is ambushed alongside Wes in which Tenebra is forcefully taken, with Wes wounded in the process.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Turned into a Shadow Pokémon by an experimental Poké Ball meant to instantly transform regular Pokémon into Shadow Pokémon, solely out of spite against Wes by Miror B.
• Canine Companion: Umbreon as a whole in the Series Fic is depicted as being more dog-like than cat-like when contrasting with Espeon as a whole. Tenebra is not an exception to this, constantly barking a lot like a dog would.
• Casting a Shadow: Has an odd tendency to materialize from nothing when called upon, and has a tendency to disappear into thin air when using certain attacks. Then again, Feint Attack as a whole is portrayed as such for both Tenebra and the opposing trainer's Murkrow in the opening prologue chapter.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Tenebra was originally an Eevee that was abandoned at Outskirt Stand many years ago, being chained to a pole and left to die out in the sunlight. Tenebra survived the sunlight, but was starving and parched by the time Wes finally found him and took him in. Soliaré is his brother, but he didn't learn that until meeting his original trainer again, and actually does wind up leaving Wes to return to his original trainer once they eventually find each other again. Tenebra had to deal with further abuse when a Cyndaquil joined the team, and when Tenebra tried to stand up for Cyndaquil, was greeted with outright hostility from Soliaré. Even then, whereas Soliaré had bad blood with Tenebra initially, something between the two "happened" that caused Soliaré to become Tenebra's Morality Chain and go-to Non-Action Guy.
• Deadpan Snarker: Tenebra doesn't tend to make much vocalization, but when translated, he's almost very casually throwing around absurd insults towards everyone.
• Expy: A specific part about his backstory references Ash's Tepig in regards to its backstory.
• Fartillery: His toxic sweat sprayed in fits of rage gives the impression of a highly pissed off skunk spraying a hapless victim with an excruciatingly high amount of pain involved against the victim's eyes. It's not flat out stated this is how it's portrayed, but the characters all act In-Universe with Nausea Fuel towards Tenebra's toxic sweat. While it's true Soliaré can heal the pain and acidic burns, he can't completely heal the foul odor.
• Morality Pet: Wes is very emotionally attached to Tenebra above anyone else excluding himself.
• Neck Snap: Non-fatally via Throat Chop. Implied to at least be fatal against the poor sap who Wes had to battle a snag a Scizor from in the prologue for obvious reasons.
• The Nicknamer: When translated, his vocalization when referring to others by names tend to be... offensive.
  • Wes = Dick
  • Rui = Cunt
  • Soliaré = Bishie
  • Caine = Trogdar
  • Madam = Madam
  • Cail = Cucker
  • Silva = Pervert
  • Duking = Baby Man
  • Miror B = KALIMBA!!!
  • Dakim = Bigger Dick
  • Lady Venus = Queen Bitch
  • Ein = Molester
  • Gonzap = Boss
  • Nascour = Edmond E. Edgeworth
  • Es Cade = Evice
• Ontological Inertia: The instant corruption by the unknown Poké Ball prototype has him immediately enter Hyper Mode, and it takes Wes and Soliaré several attempts to get him to snap out of it. Wes winds up staying awake the entire night just to keep Tenebra from lashing out at Soliaré at random intervals, leading to Wes trying to rest by reminiscing on days gone by, all the while actively keeping watch on Tenebra's behavior as well.
• Poisonous Person: Not through any moves or abilities, but rather a hidden part of Umbreon's biology usually only mentioned in the Dex entries for his species. Tenebra can produce a highly volatile, toxic sweat in fits of utter rage that cause severe, indescribable levels of pain in anything's eyes once Tenebra sprays someone or thing with it.
• Pokémon Speak: He and Soliaré both qualify, as by being part of Eevee's evolutionary branches, they have Eevee's tendency to use Pokémon Speak. For context, this is important because, outside of Raichu's line and the Eeveelutions, not a single Pokémon actually uses Pokémon Speak in this Series Fic, leading to the trope itself being almost outright Averted.
• Polar Opposite Twins: With Wes' Espeon.
• Rage Breaking Point: When he enters Hyper Mode in Chapter 5, he's significantly harder to keep under control, and Tenebra actually utilizes his species inherent toxic sweat due to just how utterly pissed beyond all reason he becomes by simply entering Hyper Mode.
• Stone Wall: Tanks an Explosion from a Claydol point blank without suffering any major injuries.
• Telepathy: Something he sort of possesses, but he needs to be in direct physical contact with someone to be heard. Even then, he doesn't know how to properly speak using it, and neither does Soliaré.
• Undying Loyalty: To Wes. Originally to his original trainer as well, even after having met Wes for the first time and a few days pass. Further abuse from his original trainer from Soliaré causes Wes to snag both him, Soliaré, and a Cyndaquil which was part of the reason Soliaré lashed out against Tenebra. Tenebra had attempted prior to stand up for Cyndaquil, but only faced more abuse because of it. As Tenebra's original trainer hadn't been heard from since, Tenebra's bond towards Wes is even stronger in comparison.
• Wham Episode: He's turned into a Shadow Pokémon in the opening few chapters of the fic against his will, which is what heavily drives Wes' motivation against Cipher for the first arc.
• Wrong Context Magic: Umbreon's toxic sweat is portrayed as such as seen with Tenebra in Chapter 5. He winds up spraying some highly acidic, volatile substance towards Scizor and Wes directly in their eyes, causing them terrifying amounts of pain that causes Wes to yell out in horrifying pain. Soliaré can heal this toxin's effects, fortunately.

Wes' Espeon (Soliaré)

• Adaptational Villainy: Whatever role he had in the Dark and Troubled Past of Tenebra is ultimately up to interpretation, but he did showcase abusive attributes towards Tenebra when owned by his original trainer, which caused Wes to immediately snag both of them into his care alongside Caine as well.
• Adaptational Wimp: Relegated to a Support role for the entire team, although Downplayed in the sense that Espeon is more of a Badass Pacifist. Deconstructed once we learn that Soliaré used to be a massive Jerkass prior to being taken into Wes' care, and thus could possibly not be using attacking moves out of regret for past actions, especially since he's been one of Tenebra's Morality Chains for years by this point.
• Badass Pacifist: Only uses Status moves, usually to either heal itself (Morning Sun), defending itself or it's allies (Reflect and Light Screen), or assisting with damage output (Helping Hand).
• Barrier Warrior: Reflect, Light Screen, and Protect.
• Berserk Button: Mistaking him for a female is not going to get you anywhere in his book. He won't attack you, but he'll immediately use Helping Hand on someone else who will.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Quirky is apparently what his Nature is.
• Healing Hands: Possesses the ability to nullify the effects of an Umbreon's toxic sweat and heal victims of it.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Originally didn't use status moves only; at one point in time, under the ownership of another trainer, Soliaré actually did use attack moves, but once snagged into Wes' care away from the abusive trainer, something happened between Soliaré and his brother Tenebra that caused Soliaré to never utilize attacking moves ever again. Wes even tries to remind Tenebra while he's mindlessly lashing out at Soliaré that the latter won't fight back.
• Made of Iron: Has to endure Caine's usage of Earthquake quite a lot once he's fully evolved, and he doesn't tend to budge since he at least has the foresight to use Reflect first. Protect also allows him to tank an Explosion from Claydol in the opening chapters.
• Non-Action Guy: Doesn't do any of the fighting directly as opposed to his teammates. There's a very good reason why, but it's not directly elaborated on.
• Pokémon Speak: He and Tenebra both qualify, as by being part of Eevee's evolutionary branches, they have Eevee's tendency to use Pokémon Speak. For context, this is important because, outside of Raichu's line and the Eeveelutions, not a single Pokémon actually uses Pokémon Speak in this Series Fic, leading to the trope itself being almost outright Averted.
• Polar Opposite Twins: With Wes' Umbreon.
• Pretty Boy: Tenebra nicknames him "Bishie" because of it, and also the fact Soliaré is often mistaken for a female because of the inherent beauty of his own species.
• Telepathy: Has it, but doesn't know how to communicate in human languages. Even after 8 years since having first met Wes, he still doesn't know how to use it, as during that time, he was only evolved into Espeon for about 5 of those years, indicating it's a lot harder for Espeon to learn how to communicate with humans than it otherwise might seem.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Nobody is certain where his nickname came from, but Soliaré outright refuses to be called anything else.

Wes' Scizor (Lilith) "Crimson"

• Action Girl: Discovered to be female when she No Sells Attract from a female Loudred. Her gender isn't stated in her initial appearances because it's simply not relevant info at the time she first appears.
• Adaptational Context Change: Appears under the ownership of a trainer in The Under; in the original game, it^note (can be any gender when snagged, since aside from Umbreon and Espeon, whom are coded to always be Male, the only Shadow Pokémon locked to a specific genders are those whose species are already locked to a given gender (i.e. Hitmontop) or lacking one altogether, such as Metagross) actually was owned by a virtual trainer who only appeared in a room in Phenac Stadium which is otherwise sealed off in the international version of the game. Said trainer's remaining Pokémon are also used in the same battle.^note (Claydol, Steelix, and Murkrow) Scizor is also worth noting to not be a Shadow Pokémon when snagged, because Scizor is snagged while Wes is still working for Team Snagem.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: Hits so hard with Superpower that Steelix's solid armor shatters, layer after layer, upon impact from Scizor's attack. When her body temperature surpasses boiling levels, not even Protect or Detect will be able to block her attack's insanely powerful sheer force.
• Ascended Extra: Wes never wound up giving up Scizor to the higher ups as he got the chance to do so, and the warehouse Tenebra is corrupted at is quickly abandoned once Scizor's unbridled strength is unleashed upon them. As a result, Wes begins his ride to Outskirt Stand with three Pokémon at his side.
• Burning with Anger: Her body temperature should have her blood literally boiling in temperature with how her intensity when fighting becomes over time. The longer she's in a fight, the hotter her body temperature becomes. However, while this means her defensive abilities take a nosedive, her speed and offense becomes unequaled across Wes' entire team.
• Canon Immigrant: Only appeared in the Japanese version of Pokémon Colosseum, because the E-Reader functions of the game were Dummied Out in the international release of the game. Some liberties were taken with how she is acquired even then, however, most specifically the fact she was snagged in Deep Colosseum, and the fact she isn't a Shadow Pokémon in this incarnation.
• Eye Scream: Shares one with Wes in Chapter 5, in which Scizor and Wes are both subject to Tenebra's toxic sweat getting sprayed in their eyes.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing:
  • Wes is being confronted by Folly's female Loudred spamming Attract, and worries about Scizor's gender and only wonders if Scizor's massive rear is any indication of her gender.^note (It is; female Scyther and Scizor have larger rears when compared to males, but this is otherwise non-existent in Gen III) Which ultimately turns out to be the case, as Scizor is female and No Sells Attract and crashes Loudred with Superpower for her troubles.
  • Pyrite Colosseum's audience chanting "Crimson" in an increasingly dramatic buildup upon seeing Wes send out Lilith. Not only does it showcase that they're fully aware of Lilith as an individual Scizor, but also the fact they even bust out a Key Stone Megalith from the ceiling of the colosseum specifically for Lilith's benefit, as she proceeds to Mega Evolve into Mega Scizor due to also holding onto the Scizorite that Duking had given Wes not moments before.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: The moment Wes and Rui arrive in Pyrite Town and talk to Duking, Lilith breaks out of her Poké Ball the moment Wes and Rui ask about an interesting collection of stones on display at Duking's house. Mega Stones, to be precise, and one of them is Scizorite, from which Lilith just... stares, in which Duking notices an unyielding determination for Lilith to want to have it to the point he eventually gives Wes and Rui the Mega Stone after they help restore power to the Colosseum.
• The Nameless: Doesn't have a nickname right away in the prologue appearances. Sometime after Wes learns her actual gender, he gives her a nickname proper in the form of "Lilith". He's forced to change it upon using her in the tournament in Pyrite Colosseum, considering the crowd has already dictated her name as "Crimson".
• Opportunistic Bastard: Scizor's Establishing Character Moment has it immediately betray her former trainer the moment she's now under Wes' acquisition due to being snagged.
• Shout-Out: The nature of her boiling mode and how Mega Scizor influences it by being maxed out by default heavily homages how Lucario's aura was retweaked and how Mega Lucario first appeared in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
• Super Mode: Her boiling mode is this by default; as Mega Scizor, she's already at above the minimum temperature she needs to be to acquire her strongest amount of strength.
• Super-Strength: Knows Superpower, although in general, Lilith seems to display a tremendous amount of strength with all of her attacks regardless. Considering Scizor has Base 130 Attack, this is to be expected. This trope becomes exaggerated with her specifically when she Mega Evolves into Mega Scizor, which due to a combination of Base 150 Attack and Technician means she hits like a freight train even more so than she already does.
• The Unfettered: How her Hardy Nature is depicted.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Not Scizor herself, but Scizor's original trainer in the prologue never appears again, and his Pokémon are left unaccounted for except for Scizor. Granted, this is because the trainer in question is Killed Off for Real by Tenebra upon a reluctant order from Wes to "terminate" him.

Wes' Quilava (Caine)

• Accidental Pervert: Deconstructed disturbingly due to his background. When he was still under Rosso's command, he was kept in extreme isolation from any other lifeform that would pose even so much of a hint to Rosso's personal means of converting Pokémon into Shadow Pokémon. By the time he's introduced in the present, he's sniffing Rui's crotch a lot, but he's been raised in such a way that he has no clue what a female of any species is like and finds their different smells genuinely confusing. Most women accuse him of being a freak, and stunted mental growth doesn't seem to help matters for him either, considering while he has the form of a Quilava when he's first shown on-page, his behavior is more accurately that of a Cyndaquil in terms of his timidness.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Found by Wes on a mission to deal with a client who he initially only knew had a rare Pokémon, and then winds up learning the Cyndaquil in question, and is being abused by his former trainer... who also happens to be the former trainer of Tenebra and Soliaré. When he's rediscovered in the present, Caine had evolved to a Quilava, but he's now a Shadow Pokémon with an irrational hatred towards Soliaré that is merely amplified by the corruption.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Knows Scorching Sands, which is currently impossible to confirm whether or not Typhlosion's line as a whole gets it or not due to the whole line being considered Dummied Out in Pokémon Sword and Shield as of writing.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: He has a tendency to invade Rui's personal space and sniff between her legs. He doesn't exactly do much, but he's very easily distracted by this on most occasions. Rui even mentions, as if having had some prior experience with Quilava, that Caine's lack of female influence in his life is causing him to behave completely and utterly horny.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Being one of the many males of a 7/8 male ratio species is the bane of his existence; his experience with females, Pokémon or human, are very non-existent, so he doesn't have any proper social cues on how to behave around them aside from constantly feeling horny. Rui uses this to her advantage to prevent Caine from following Wes' order to use Burn Up on Rosso.
• Irony: The very special move he knows as a normal Pokémon that made him so sought after by Cipher wound up being the very same move overwritten by Shadow Rush.
• Foil: He's very chill compared to Tenebra when you consider both of their status as Shadow Pokémon go. Tenebra is an unstable wreck who can't control his temper and who or what he lashes out at, but as Caine had been a Shadow Pokémon for much longer, his black aura doesn't influence him as much as with Tenebra's.
• Manchild: His mental growth is stunted due to his abuse from Rosso, leading to him having the innocent, timid behavior associated with a Cyndaquil as opposed to a Quilava and eventually Typhlosion.
• Technicolor Fire: As a Shiny Quilava he has this, being green, and when he evolves to Typhlosion it's blue.^note For reference, these colors are not inaccurate for Shiny versions of Caine's line as far as Colosseum is concerned; Shiny Quilava and Typhlosion have different colored flames than their Stadium 2 models otherwise would've suggested, as the Stadium 2 Shiny palette for the line was one of the very few accurate to the core series game's Shiny coloration.
• Wrong Context Magic: All of the other Shadow Pokémon in the fic which know moves that they can't learn naturally were genetically modified to be forced to be able to use said moves. Caine with Scorching Sands, though? He's always been able to use that move due to circumstances nobody quite understands. One thing is for certain, though; Team Snagem offered a massive payout to whoever could snag him, and this massive bounty is what led to Wes snagging him and reuniting with Tenebra many years ago and also meeting and snagging Soliaré in the process.

Rui

• Adaptational Badass: She has a Minun accompanying her, but she's a companion Pokémon rather than a battler.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: The prologue centers around the events that led to her kidnapping at the beginning of Colosseum, specifically her visit to Pyrite Town. It plays out differently, however, due to the fact Wes is actually present and speaks to her face to face, prior to an entire swarm of Cipher Peons taking her prisoner with Tenebra being taken as well. Her original introduction in Phenac City is actually all a part of Miror B's unknown plan for her.
• Adaptational Modesty: She wears long pants in addition to a lengthy skirt, and her clothing heavily obscures what kind of curves she has going on for her. When she showcases spades of her Hidden Depths as a prostitute, she's nowhere near as modest as her usual attire makes her out to be, considering she's prone to being very under dressed, if not flat out nude, while working on machines.
• Aura Vision: She can see auras from Pokémon and apparently also people to a lesser degree. She doesn't know how to fully utilize it, however, so she's rather naive at times with judging people she has only barely met.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her interaction with Wes in the latter half of Chapter 6 and all of Chapter 7 implies something had happened to her which desensitized her to the horrors of the Orre region.
• Exact Words: How she alludes to her having a Minun. She doesn't have any Pokémon capable of inflicting harm, and Minny's moveset consists solely of Protect and maybe Helping Hand.
• Fan Disservice: Caine, a Quilava, sniffing her crotch in his first several appearances in the fic. While Rui admittedly used this to her advantage to keep Caine from following a command from Wes to flat out kill someone, Wes and Rui are fully aware that this isn't something that is acceptable, and most importantly Caine is only really doing it out of complete naivety towards what exactly a female, regardless of species, even is.
• Genki Girl: Who she is in public. A nice, allegedly innocent girl who couldn't do any wrong.
• Hidden Depths: She doesn't freak out at all when she realizes she's getting dressed with Wes in the same room as her, even though they've just met. Her rather down tone when discussing Shadow Pokémon with Wes only alludes to this further. She seems to casually give Wes a hint in Chapter 11 that she's a prostitute, but doesn't say it outright as to avoid making him uncomfortable, especially since the two still barely know each other.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl:
  • She starts to change into her clothes before halfway being interrupted by catching Wes in the same room looking at her. Wes has other priorities, and he and Rui converse with each other about the big deal behind Shadow Pokémon as far as both of them are aware, all the while Wes completely disregards Rui's half-dressed nature until they're about to leave the room.
  • Chapter 11 implies that this isn't as innocent as she initially lets on. When having to strip down entirely to excavate a data core from a heavily damaged security drone, she winds up dealing with a very conflicted Wes trying not to be a pervert around her while she extracts the data core. Once she has the core, she briefly takes Wes' PDA and takes a photograph of herself to him as a gift for his 18th birthday... with an attached note indicating she's a prostitute.
  • Then Chapter 12 doesn't even bother hiding the fact she's a prostitute and only simply avoids saying it flat out.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Energetic Girl to Wes' Savvy Guy. Both of them play with the part, though, considering Wes being an aloof, (former) errand boy who was betrayed by Team Snagem and Cipher, and Rui being more serious when the situation is dark, and using her cheerfulness as a means of coping with her downer side.
• Sex for Solace: Offers this to Wes without outright saying it at the end of Chapter 12.
• Stepford Smiler: Her introduction seems to have something looming overhead which implies that she isn't as innocent as one might think. In fact her being a year older than Wes actually makes her the more cynical of the duo in the wake of Wes' harsh reality check when he learns that all of the Pokémon he wound up snagging while working for Team Snagem are now coming back to haunt him in the present as Shadow Pokémon he's being reintroduced to in plain sight.

Cail

• Adaptational Early Appearance: Cail appears as Wes' Best Friend in the prologue of Shadow Heat, and appears significantly earlier than he does in the original game. In addition, his Snubbull is already present on his team even prior to his Furret being snagged, meaning in his initial battle with Wes in the fic, he has a team of 5 Pokémon rather than 4 like usual.
• Ascended Extra: Not that he didn't have a small role, especially since he has the "Rogue" Trainer Class all to himself in both Colosseum and Gale of Darkness. His role is significantly beefed up here, however, as he plays a direct role in Wes' backstory as Wes' Best Friend, as well as showcasing early on his Shadow Furret before it's outright revealed to be a Shadow.
• Best Friend: The closest Wes has to one among any of the human characters in Shadow Heat, at least initially anyways.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Cail being Wes' Best Friend raises a lot of intriguing hints towards Wes not being as aloof as he paints himself to be, especially considering, while Cail is indeed a criminal like Wes, Cail is specifically a Rogue who doesn't work for any major organization or group, nor does he work for any lesser entity. To Cail, it's every man for himself.
  • Cail also employs a lot of Pokémon in his team which aren't known to be fairly intimidating more so than they are considered cute above all else. His Furret he uses initially should be the biggest clue to him having a soft side for cute Pokémon.
• Killer Rabbit: His Furret, although anybody who has played Colosseum will already know why this is the case.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Wes' Manly Man. His Machop and Seedot are the only hints towards him having outright manly Pokémon when compared to the usual manly Pokémon that Wes employs on his primary team most frequently. Otherwise he has a Ralts and a Snubbull as his most preferred Pokémon, and his Furret for obvious reasons.

Shadow Heat Antagonists

Nascour

• Adaptational Badass: Just casually asserts his higher status than Wes by unleashing the Legendary Beasts against him. In the games, only three individual trainers had access to these particular Pokémon, all of which Cipher Admins whom Nascour is in charge of.
• Adaptational Villainy: He makes a public display of his mockery of Wes and that he informs everyone in the city to showcase Wes "cruel mercy" when he gets bored and leaves unopposed.
• The Bully: Tends to abuse his power as a high ranking member of Cipher for his own benefit or amusement, such as his treatment of Wes in Chapter 8.
• Cruel Mercy: Says it word for word to Wes in Chapter 8, to make Wes feel worse about his already damaged Pride considering he not only suffered a Curb-Stomp Battle from Nascour himself, but it involved Legendary Pokémon as to how he accomplished it. Bonus points for Nascour being fully aware of the fact Wes had already previously suffered his sole lose at Phenac City; the same city they're currently in at this point.
• Humanoid Abomination: He speaks with an echo as though it's natural to him, he appears to be able to hypnotize people to some degree, and in addition to his perpetual shady red eyes, his long locks of silver hair flow without even the slightest breeze needed for it to be possible. Oh and he showcases access to some flashy dark magic here and there.
• More than Mind Control: He's not actively using his hypnotic powers on the civilians of Phenac; he only does that if he needs them to suddenly obey a specific command alone. With that said, all that cheering and praise for Nascour seen before such a moment? All of that was on the civilian's own free will.
• Obviously Evil: He doesn't even attempt to hide it, quite the opposite; he outright advertises this fact about himself because he just doesn't care to see it as anything out of the ordinary.
• Villain with Good Publicity: It's not obvious at first, considering it could be viewed as his hypnotic powers to control Phenac's civilians, but that's exactly what he does when he needs to command them. Any other time? Those are genuine praise he gets from the civilians, as he's not controlling the civilians 24/7. In terms of some of the praise Nascour gets, some of the civilians refer to Nascour as things such as "our lord and savior".
• Voice of the Legion: Almost all of his dialogue is in bold.

Miror B.

• Beware the Silly Ones: He was intended to be Wes' client by Gonzap to deliver a snagged Scizor to, but when Wes winds up a witness of Rui's existence, Miror B. comes up with a plan on the fly to spite Wes for putting a dent in his plans for Rui.
• Break the Haughty: What he plans regarding Wes to test the viability of a prototype, instant corruption Poké Ball for creating Shadow Pokémon on the spot. He emphasizes to his men that he wants to hear and see every last detail of Wes' ensuing breakdown.
• Bullying a Dragon: He's more than aware of who Wes is, but he simply views him as a disposable whipping boy at the end despite Wes' ace reputation and status.
• Faux Affably Evil: He speaks with the tone of a clownish, sassy individual, but he's quick to the point regarding just how much malice he has against Wes despite never having met him prior.
• Funny Afro: Dyed to be red and white like a Poké Ball. Apparently Miror B. chose that color palette in spite of its silliness because he simply can and will dye his hair how he pleases.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He seems pretty confident in his plans for Wes to the point one would question what exactly his loyalty to Cipher is for deliberately igniting the desire for Revenge from Wes.
• Refuge in Audacity: Nobody in Cipher cared to try and stop Miror B. from how he chose to dye and style his hair into a Poké Ball colored Funny Afro. Miror B. is his own master in regards to how he takes care of his own hair.

Trudly and Folly

• Adaptational Badass: Folly's team consists of Loudred and Lombre when he's first battled, showcasing that this, alongside Willie possessing a Linoone already, showcases that every trainer in Orre got beefed up to use Pokémon that are in some way or form evolved at least once or as much as they can by default.
• Adapted Out: Folly's Male Whismer, which is the one he actually evolves into Exploud by the end of the game, is swapped out entirely for Folly's Female Whismer, which debuts in Shadow Heat as a Loudred.
  • Adaptational Badass: The female Whismer in question is now an evolved Pokémon who nearly incapacitates Wes' whole team had it not been for Wes' Scizor.
• Designated Girl Fight: Folly's Loudred and Wes' Scizor, due to Folly's Loudred having rendered Tenebra helpless from Attract and Soliaré being ordered prior to keep some civilians out of harm's way. As Scizor is immune to Attract, she wastes no time dispatching of Loudred with Superpower.

Wakin, Biden, and Agrev

• Adaptational Badass: Wakin and Agrev's Pokémon Corphish and Machop are already fully evolved in their first appearance. This trope applies more so to Wakin especially, as Wakin only appeared at the beginning of the game in Colosseum, and was never rematched, alike his two associates Biden and Agrev in the post-game.
• Ascended Extra: Wakin, due to disappearing for the rest of the game after the initial encounter with him at Phenac.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Biden's has a Shadow Smeargle, but it's not the one he used in Chapter 9. His team, for context, consists entirely of four Smeargle, with only one of them being a Shadow, and that one being the weakest. The one he uses in Chapter 9 is the second weakest of the bunch despite knowing Spore.
  • Wes considers Biden's glasses to be rather valuable for some reason since his Implied Death Threat showcases concern towards damaging it when chewing out Biden. They're possibly the source of his X-Ray Vision.
• The Hyena: Wakin is prone to easily beginning to snicker whenever anybody else begins to do so first, and once he starts, he has trouble keeping himself in check. Once anyone starts laughing, Wakin tends to snicker constantly for quite some time.
• The Quiet One: Biden doesn't speak as much as his two associates; he tends to go quiet especially once he winds up igniting Wakin's snickering behavior.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Biden's main difference between him and Wakin is his distinct, red eyes, compared to Wakin's green eyes.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Agrev.
• Signature Mon: Crawdaunt, Smeargle, and Machamp respectively.
• Terrible Trio: The first three named Team Snagem Grunts to appear.
• We Used to Be Friends: Wakin implies this towards Wes, considering he's confronting him because he was away for almost a year and only recently heard the news of Team Snagem HQ's destruction at Wes' hands.
• X-Ray Vision: Agrev, considering it's made known he can do this in a case of Power Perversion Potential by looking through Rui's clothing. It's implied he can't see through anything thicker than that, though, considering otherwise he wouldn't be asking how he and his two associates are going to track down Wes and Rui.

Rosso

• Adaptational Villainy: He's utterly cruel to his own Pokémon, and has the likes of Wes outright disgusted with his actions. To the point had Rosso lit himself on fire to kill himself, Wes was already prepared to arrange a similar death at the hands of Caine's Burn Up.
• Ascended Extra: Subverted. In the original game, he's encountered twice, and he's the source of where Shadow Quilava comes from. Here? He only appears once, but at the same time, he ties in heavily towards the abusive backstory that Tenebra, Soliaré, and Caine all have going for them, as at one point in time prior to Tenebra and Caine becoming Shadow Pokémon, he was the original trainer for all three of them prior to Wes taking them away when he deemed Rosso to be absolute scum.
• And That's Terrible: His dialogue with Wes and Rui showcase nothing but hostility towards him the more and more he and Wes discuss their past history. While nothing is specifically made clear in regards to exactly what he did, it's very evident from the actions and behaviors of Tenebra, Caine, and Soliaré in the present back up the implications that Rosso had horrifyingly abused these three.
• Bad People Abuse Animals:
  • Is the biggest contributing factor behind why Tenebra, Caine, and Soliaré are so problematic as individuals if anything else.
  • It gets worse in context if you happen to know anything about the species of Pokémon being referred to here. Tenebra was The Chew Toy for Rosso's team, Soliaré resists just about every chance to use his Telekinesis when it'll benefit everyone the most because of "something" he has genuine regret about, which apparently is not referring to him having harassed Tenebra, and Caine's a social outcast who acts more like a Cyndaquil in behavior as opposed to a Quilava, to the point he doesn't even understand the concept of females regardless of species, and invades their personal space not out of just hormones, but also genuine naivety to such sensitive regions...
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Be it execution by Caine from a failed command by Wes, or being arrested, either way, he didn't want to give the protagonists the last laugh regarding his fate.
• Death by Adaptation: Burns himself to death to have the last laugh against Wes.
• Kick the Dog: Cipher had specifically given him the ability to use a prototype Poké Ball that could turn Pokémon into Shadow Pokémon on the spot, which he did to Tenebra. Cipher also gave Rosso back Caine after Wes had turned over Caine to Team Snagem after Cipher came to collect their spoils from Wes' efforts, all the while ensuring Wes was left completely in the dark about what became of Caine until the present day, in which Caine reveals, solely to spite Wes without flat out saying it, that Cipher had taken all of Wes' snagged Pokémon and turned them all into Shadow Pokémon, and thus placing the blame on Cipher's success primarily on Wes' past efforts of having worked for Team Snagem.
• Nothing Is Scarier: He did something to Soliaré that ultimately caused his forced pacifist tendencies, and we never learn exactly what he did that made it so a heavy hitting Espeon would refuse to use attack moves. He's also confirmed to have abused Tenebra when he still had him, Soliaré, and Caine, with the latter two outright acting hostile towards Tenebra on Rosso's own orders. Exactly how severe it is never gets shown since it's deliberately up to interpretation. That's not even getting into what kind of social reject Caine's abuse must have made him if he's so eager to constantly invade women's personal space regardless of species...
• Small Role, Big Impact: His impact is larger from his actions in the past, but once said actions are revealed to Rui in what would be Rosso's final moments, everyone is shaken up by the encounter and Wes is genuinely in distraught.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: The only thing aside from Caine we see of his arsenal. And he uses it specifically to commit arson on himself to deny Wes and Rui the chance to kill or arrest him respectively.

Evice/Es Cade

• Adaptational Heroism: More like Adaptational Ambiguity. In the original, his grandfather was implied to have drawn water to create Phenac City, but whether or not this is actually true after The Reveal happens is unclear. Here? This little background info on his lineage is treated as fact, and Es Cade actively plays a part in keeping Phenac City a neutral zone despite his affiliation with Cipher.
• Adaptational Villainy: He's more in Obviously Evil territory than he was up until The Reveal in the original game.
• Dramatic Irony: He's a Devil in Plain Sight, one that Wes and Rui fail to notice because of their lack of information on Cipher as a whole.
• Obviously Evil: His negotiations with the different factions in Orre and classification of Phenac as a "leave your keys at the door" type of sanctuary showcases that he has significantly more control over the various factions than anyone has the right to assume he has. This is a case of Dramatic Irony considering Wes and Rui fail to understand that he's the head of Cipher's Orre branch due to both of them having next to no knowledge on Cipher enough to make the obvious connection at hand.
• Truce Zone: His brand of Obviously Evil involves him trying to maintain Phenac City as this type of area, no matter who he has to negotiate to get this goal done. He can negotiate with blatantly even more obvious villains like Nascour or even good samiritans akin to Rui, but as long as peace is maintained in Phenac, that's all he cares about in the end.

Others

"Dune Demons"

Inexplicable monstrosities that roam the wastelands of Orre upon the sun fully setting, they are the reasons that many trainers and travelers alike avoid crossing the deserts of Orre after dark, and their existence is shrouded in myth even among the most bravest of trainers to try and take them on. Anyone who has been raised solely in Orre knows to avoid the deserts during the night, not just because of the sheer cold temperature, but because these "Dune Demons", as they're called, will jump up from their sandy burrows and attack and maim anything that moves, sometimes even their own out of blind, unbridled aggression. All attempts to capture a Dune Demon to prove their existence to the public eye have proven futile; Poké Balls fail to make contact with them, and even the more specialized varieties just sink into their sand covered bodies and fade to dust. In addition, this also means all attacks from any given type of Pokémon will just sink through them with no sign of injury; however, constant attacks have been known to actually slow them down.

They are the remnants of an expedition lead by the Metal Empire from Digimon investigating an odd power anomaly which lead them to coming to Orre, getting stranded, and then something happening which killed all of them, only leaving their Digicore-less husks intact... and very much alive. None of the natives of Orre can recognize them for what they truly are, and even if a Digimon were to stumble upon them, they've cannibalized each other's limbs and parts so drastically that not even the Machinedramon among the group is easily recognizeable.

• Berserk Button: 10 seconds upon seeing a powered light source constantly will trigger them into attacking out of blind aggression. This is precisely why to not overuse their Weakened by the Light weakness they have; if you shine their eyes too much, they will become even more hostile than ever and can't be stopped until daylight.
• Outside-Context Problem: As an exploration force of Digimon of the Metal Empire they are very much this to the Pokémon series as a whole. However, it gets worse when whatever happened to these schmucks was so catastrophic that they're alien even if they were to ever return to their home universe, because they are effectively speaking, undead, mechanical Digimon with a crapload of spare parts from either themselves or other devices cannibalized into their systems to keep them alive. Also, they dislike sunlight for reasons currently unclear, but according to some who have encountered them at night, they are easily blinded by flashing lights shining at them... just don't push your luck with that though.
• Weakened by the Light: They never show up in the daylight hours of Orre. Shining a bright light at them suddenly will startle them and lead them into a panic, but if it's night time or in caverns and a light stays on for too long, they'll go berserk.