Author's Note:
Hey guys! FireFoxDriver Here! So you might be wondering if this is Troubled Days: Silver! NOPE! This is Troubled Days: Shield. This is an idea that I had planned out about half way through Bronze's storyline with Eren's creator. I wanted to make a fic surrounded around him so here it is!
By the way this should be completely approachable to newcomers!
Like always for the Troubled Days stories they will be SYOC so make sure you read to the end to find yourself the OC form!
Please enjoy!
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"There are times that I think about my past, and there are times where I think of how I want the present to be. However the future ahead of me seems bleak, not every story has a happy ending I mean that's why tragedies exist. I can't believe that it's only been three months since I won the Vital Tournament, and now look where I am."
Eren slowly opened his eyes only to be met with the Aetherian sun. He winced from the pain, he slowly rubbed his eyes wiping away the tears. The room smelled clean, in fact there never really was a oder in his classroom or an Aetherian classroom at all. It was the same old scene for him over and over again. The same rows of desks, chairs and the same holographic blackboard. It was always the same students that harassed him every single day.
He was a talented battler and a master with his conduit, but actual studies bored him to death. School itself wasn't bad and he did find it funny how much Aether did focus on school instead of letting students presue their passions. Battling was looked down upon in Aetherian society it was seen as barbaric, only something the unintelligent people of Jasper should ever dabble in.
Thoughts ran through his mind. "Passion?... I'm not sure if I have one."
It was always during breaks and outside of the school where he would be harassed and bullied by several students. It usually was the same people everyday, but more often than not Valhein would show his face and make it clear who was the top dog.
Valhein laughed and shoved Eren up against a wall. The impact hurt quite a bit as him not having his conduit on him while in Aether did limit what he could do by quite a lot.
"Where do you think you're going Barbarian? All you know how to do is fight can't you do anything else that beat people up."
Eren tried to keep still not to show the pain he was experiencing. He kept quiet and didn't say a word. He did notice that behind Valhein, his group of friends were beginning to show up, and in his group a young Espeon whom he had beaten in the past. Her name was Liliana and he thought nothing of her. She was just another pawn in Valhein's unshakable grip.
"Huh? Staying quiet are we!" Valhein slapped Eren across the cheek, he grabbed him by his collar and shoved him into the wall. "C'mon say something like you did last time I dare you. Look here bud you're dealing with royalty. I wouldn't want to think what would happen to your Dad's job if he found out you were talking back to me. After all your dad is just a simple dog to the Aetherian Kingdom so know you place dog."
Eren refused to look the young prince in the eye. He kept to himself ignoring the stinging skin on his face. It was the usual the prince would throw him on the ground and stomp on his head over and over until he had his fill. He'd eventually get bored and move on. However Liliana always stayed for just a few seconds longer than Valhein.
"Hey look, I'm..."
"Just shut up and leave me alone. Once I make enough money I'm moving back to Vexal I just want to see everyone else again. I never had the money to stay there, but while I was there it was the most relaxed I had been in years." Eren slowly pulled himself back up leaning up against the wall.
"Eren, you were great in the tournament. I have to go or else Valhein you know will..." Liliana said.
"Just scram then... I don't really care what happens to you."
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Work for Eren was never really better either. He worked under his father to make conduits. He didn't work for the part of the company he wanted. He'd rather be making custom conduits. Rather he was stuck on the assembly line making mass produced conduits for the masses.
It was day in day out doing the same action over and over. Sure he was getting paid, but this was barely considered a job in Aether. This job was usually given to people who had a less than average score in schooling and he hated it. He had some of the best grades in his class but was forced to take this job as requested by Valhein. Despite saying that he needed to save the money to move back to Nexal a plane ticket was much too far out of his reach with this current job.
He never worked to make friends and all of his co-workers had shadows for faces in his eyes. None of them ever talked to him with being the CEO's son, and they knew that upsetting him could get them fired. The only thing that was good about this job were the nice long three hour breaks, as it gave him time to eat and practice his moves for battling.
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Even home wasn't exactly his favourite place to be. He'd have to be around his wimp of a father, he was a dad but he was no parent. The man would always come home drunk and throw a few dollars at him saying that was dinner. He was a brilliant man, but ever since his mother died cause of Eren's wish he had been an old drunk constantly drowning himself in booze.
Eren's days were long and hard but nothing scared him more than going to sleep. Something that most people would say should be a relaxing time was the most fearful thing for him. As Eren laid down in his bed he saw all the shadows around him closing in, there was always this strange buzzing in his head and immense gravity in his chest. Each time he was about to close his eyes he could see the shadowy outline of a woman he knew was his mother.
He closed his eyes clenching the blanket in his hands as he drifted off to sleep. In his dream all that could be seen were the old shadows of a plain white dojo. The dojo had dark wooden floors and standing in front of Eren was a tall woman, her face was nothing more than a shadow and so was her body she held a sword and shield. An eerie voice leaked out of her mouth.
"Why...?"
Eren awoke in a cold sweat. His heart was beating incredibly fast as if it was about to leap out of his chest. He clenched his hands and felt the tears running down his cheeks. He was out of breath as he lay back down. He then thought to himself.
"So... how much longer?"
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Author's Note: Wow that was a lot darker than chapter 1 of Bronze huh. Actually this has been a lot darker than Bronze as a whole. Anyway I really hope you guys enjoyed, and like I promised this will be an SYOC so down below you'll see how this submission works!
Rules to Submit:
1 Leave a review tell me what you think of the story
2 Send by PM only!
3 Title it "Troubled Days Shield - Character Name"
4 If you have submitted a character to Troubled Days: Bronze that was accepted you may not resubmit that character. Like say Maria or Yajima can't be resubmitted
SYOC Form (Will be posted in my bio as well)
Name: This is pretty self explanatory, go ahead and choose your character's name, my only real request with this is make sure it's understandable how you pronounce the name, not for me but for the other readers. For example I mean something like this "His name is pronounced Joel, but it's spelled Jowolol." Don't do that. Also make sure to include a last name.
Age: Every major character for this fic is in high school.
Height:
Gender:
Species: Any pokemon is allowed just no legendaries, mythic, or ultra beasts.
Appearance: Describe how they look, from head to toe. Your description doesn't have to be too detailed. Although it might help if you end up describing their hair colour, how they style their hair, what their eyes look like.
For things like hair colour, go wild! This is a pokemorph story so if you want green hair on your character it's completely ok!
However there is a must for their appearance, make sure they have a trait that relates to what ever pokemorph species they are. If you're the first person who just so happens to make a Charmander pokemorph you'll be the one who's standardizing the pokemorph traits, so that might be fun.
Also just remember that just because your pokemorph might be a Charmander, that doesn't mean their hair colour has to be orange. They can be what ever you want them to be.
Clothing: What do they wear on a day to day basis, there is a school uniform, but you can pick and choose what you want for their out of school clothing. You can also give me additional things like what they wear into battle, if you don't give me that then I'll just use their day to day clothes. If you want feel free to include swimwear or heck even sleepwear. The story does take place in a cold climate like winter climate. So make sure you give them somthing warm to wear outside!
Also just remember that just because your pokemorph might be a Charmander that their clothes don't have to be orange. They can be what ever you want them to be.
Personality: Sometimes this can be the hardest thing to come up with. If you're having trouble with coming up with a personality just follow this simple rule of 3. 1, Describe what they're like with first impressions. 2, Describe how they act around friends and family. Finally 3, Describe how they act when there is no one around.
Really go nuts with this.
Likes: What are their preferences it could be as simple as food likes, or what they look into when trying to find a relationship. If you want to get on my good side I would recommend what they look for in a significant other, this could go from personality traits or even purely just physical appearances.
Dislikes: What do they dislike, it doesn't have to be what they hate. Maybe they don't like insects, or don't like sour things. Maybe watching horror movies is something they'd rather not do. Or in more extreme cases maybe describe their fears.
Opinion on Eren: Optional
Opinion on Valhein: Optional
Opinion on Liliana: Optional
Fighting Style: How do they fight, is there a kind of martial art they use, or are they some sort of mage archetype that fires off blasts of fire from a distance.
Conduit: These are weapons that the user uses. So this is where weapon martial arts would come into play. This could be anything from simple daggers to a weapon that happens to be a massive shield that turns into a sword and is also a gun at the same time.
Attacks: Attacks please limit to 8 at most! All moves are allowed except moves that can only be learned to the pokemorph through TM. Egg moves are more than acceptable.
Origin: What's their backstory or what was their upbringing.
This is a must for their origin. Please Choose one of the originating kingdoms your character is from. Choose wisely.
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The Vexal Kingdom
Vexal is the kingdom to the west. The kingdom is well known for being a place to start a family due to the high job acceptant rate. Vexal has a thriving commercial scene due to it being placed near every other kingdom.
Vexal is known to have some very strong battlers born and raised here. Despite all these advantages the only reason the kingdom has stayed for so long. The reason is their mutual respect for the other kingdoms.
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Jasper is the kingdom to the south. The kingdom is well known for investing a lot of its money into battle schools and or the military. This is because the Jasper kingdom was originally a waring kingdom, but they've stopped their rampage a very long time ago, and traded it for world peace.
Jasper has some of the strongest fighters representing their kingdom. Their fighters are feared for their pure ability to steam roll opponents due to their sheer strength.
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The Aether Kingdom (Northern Kingdom)
Aether is the kingdom to the north. The kingdom is well known for its breakthroughs in technology and science. They have quite the following since most of the tech used in the modern world was invented by them.
The culture in Aether is strive to be the best you can be as you might one day change the world. Aether doesn't pump out extremely powerful fighters on the regular but their fighters still manage to place well in tournaments, with the use of their powerful conduits.
This is the kingdom where the story takes place
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The Tsu Kingdom (Eastern Kingdom)
Tsu is the kingdom to the east. The kingdom is well known for how many movie stars come from it. Or how many contest stars come from it. This kingdom has quite the following for being home to a verity of pop idols.
The culture in Tsu is very similar to the culture in South East Asian Countries in our world. Where beauty is everything if you aren't up to the standards in beauty you are more likely to be less successful.
But this has created a lower class of citizens that are well known for their art in dirty tactics. If you ever want someone out of your way, go to Tsu's thriving criminal market, but that's if you have the right amount of cash they're looking for.
With the criminal market fighters that come out of here end up learning close quarters knife play or disarming fighting styles.
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Please explain if they are not coming from Aether how they get to Aether and why they would like to study there.
