Ok, so I've been loving Xenoblade, and I love Riki, and follow him on Twitter (nerdy right) I have also converted a friend, whom I call Alpha Midget to Riki fandom, so I wanted to write a comedic outlook and the bibliography of the cute little Heropon, sorta like the one the Meerkat Aleksandr Orlov has and dedicate it to Alpha!

Riki was way out of his depth from birth. So it was hardly a surprise that at aged 40 he was in severe debt. It was hardly a surprise that if, by magic, Dunga had predicted him to be Heropon. He was just lucky that the Homs and High Entia, Melia had come along, god forbid what he'd be doing otherwise...

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Nopon birthing was a strange ritual, in fact, Nopon relationships were a complex affair. Nopons were much like Emperor Penguins, but before getting to Riki's birth, Riki would like to talk about Riki's parents.

Riki's mother, Furor was a very desirable young Nopon. What was missed from the Nopon legends and stories was that Furor was in fact the youngest of Chief Dunga's Littlepon. Riki's father, Rara, was a worker in the pollen works, and a rugged character. Rough around the edges from the many trips into Makna's Yellow Flower Grove to collect Pollen Orbs.

The life of the Nopon that work in the Pollen Works is hard, work was twenty-four hours straight, you'd then have a day off and work the day after for another twenty-four hours. Furor used to wake up at the same time as the workers in the pollen works, just to watch the young Heropon who helped make her home function.

The typical Nopon reached maturity at 18, which was the age which Furor and Rara were. At age 18, Nopon were allowed to marry, and while relationships were permitted from the age of twelve onwards while Nopon were still in education no Littlepon were born until at least a year after marriage. Nopon lived in a society where there was no sex before marriage, even the biological clocks of Nopon would not allow Littlepon to be born to Nopon that were not married – it was a mysterious evolutionary trait.

Furor sighed dreamily as at six am the pollen workers on duty that day, roughly ten people – 4 boys and 6 girls lined up ready to here the schedule. Each was assigned a number, from 1-3 and the extra Nopon would be delgated Pollen Orb collection. The last Nopon, was, as usual the late comer – Rara.

"Rara, you're on orb collection again." The head pollen-orb maker delegated him.

"Rara is happy, Rara love pollen orb collection!" In truth, Rara just loved donning all his gear and fending for himself in Makna.

"Rara wait!" Furor called, rushing down to meet him.

"Good morning Furor, why not still in bed?" Rara smiled, grabbing his biter from his kit bag.

"Furor not tired, Rara needs new Biter!" She tapped the slightly rotten Biter with her wing.

"Rara fine! Rara strong!" He beat swung the Biter with his wing.

"Would Rara protect Furor if she was in danger?"

"Of course Rara would! Rara know Chief loves his Littlepon, and Rara know how important Littlepon of Chief are."

"That not what Furor mean!"

"Then what does Furor mean?" Rara asked confused, for all his strength and hilarity, he was absolutely clueless about Furor's flirting with him.

"Nothing Rara, you should go before you get in trouble!" Furor giggled. "Plus, Dadapon will catch me out of bed if I don't go soon."

This was a regular thing, every morning she would say goodbye to him, then when he returned with the first batch of pollen orbs she would sit and eat lunch with him and finally very late at night when he returned with the second batch, she would sneak out of her home and greet him. Her father hated him, and it was something Furor could not understand.

One morning, after her morning greeting, she returned to her room to see her dad waiting, looking annoyed.

"Dadapon?"

"What did Dadapon tell you? Rara is no good for you!"

"Rara has been Furor's friend since school! Furor love spending time with Rara! Furor love Rara!" There was a fury in her father's eyes she had never seen before. When he continued to rage at her, she simply ran out the door, straight to the nearest diving board she could use to get into the reservoir and leapt off.

She was running through Makna, not sure which way was which, but she knew roughly which way to get to the flower grove. What she didn't know was the vicious Lazy Bluco which made its home in the flower growth, which hated being disturbed. She tumbled through the forest, past the Eks and the harmless guardians of Frontier in fits of tears. She stumbled into the yellow flower patches, desperate to find Rara.

"Rara? Rara? Rara!" She cried. Rara was nowhere to be found. "Rara!" She sobbed, the ground shuddered beneath her, sending shockwaves of fear through her.

She had awoken the evil Lazy Bluco by mistake, the thing was crawling towards her. She screamed, she was terrified of anything creepy that crawled, and this thing was crawling straight towards her ready to destroy her.

"Behave!" The next thing she knew, the beast had turned away from her to face her rescuer.

"R-Rara!" She called in delight.

"Furor, run! Hide in the trees there!" He smacked the beast straight across the nose with his Biter.

She crawled to her feet and scurried off into the deep grass and up the trees, hanging onto the branches with her wings. Rara ran in the direction of the lake, he knew the Bluco would get bored and give up the chase, all he simply had to do was climb into the trees and swing back across to Furor to check she was ok.

"Furor, are you ok?" He wrapped his wings around the shivering form of the pink Nopon.

"Thank you Rara! Thank you!" She cried out, sobbing into his fur.

"Furor, forest is dangerous. You shouldn't be here."

"Oh Rara!" She sobbed. "Dadapon got mad, I was scared, I ran and ran and you saved me!" She leapt up and kissed him. "Thank you Rara! Thank you!"

"N-no problem Furor, would you like to help Rara collect pollen orbs?"

"Y-yes, ok!"

Little did they know, from the top of the Nopon tower, the head of the pollen works had been watching over the pair with his special magnifying-goggles.

"You're a smart boy Rara..." He smiled to himself.

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Furor admitted to Rara how she felt about him. At first, he thought she was kidding, being sympathetic towards him and thankful for him saving her life, but, over time he realised she was genuine. They kept their blossoming relationship secret, mostly leaving it to late night rendezvous down by the sparkling reservoir on Rara's second trip back from the yellow flower grove.

Months after the incident involving the Bluco, Rara was holding Furor tight with his wings, she was snuggling into his blue fur when she spotted a small lily pad floating towards her. Moonlight sparkled from something in the middle.

"Rara, what's that?" She asked.

"Pick it up." She crawled into the reservoir and pulled the sparkly object from the lily.

"A ring?" She was confused. Next thing she knew, Rara was on the floor, one wing supporting him, his head bowed down.

"I want you to marry me Furor. Would you?" He smiled, looking up.

"Of course Rara!" She wrapped her wings around him tight, squeezing the air from his lungs.

There was just one small problem, there was no Nopon marriage without approval from elite members of Frontier Village. That meant ideally the chief, but that was clearly not a possibility. The only other Nopon's valid to give approval were the head of pollen production or the Chief's advisor.

"Congratulations." Rara's boss smirked from behind them.

"Ah! Zalu!" They both quickly pulled away from each other.

"It's ok, I know. Congratulations littlepon, I am proud." He smiled. "You have my blessing, you may marry. Do not worry Furor, I will not tell Chief Dunga."

"Thank you Zalu!" She cried in delight.

He then explained how he knew they liked each other and of Rara's plan to propose.

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They tied the knot, which meant that Furor's body clock had started ticking, and one year later, she was pregnant.

She was scared, her Dadapon did not know of her marriage, and when he realised she was pregnant, while angry he had no choice but to accept that the life in her belly was a symbol of how much she genuinely she loved Rara.

When a Nopon was pregnant, the male Nopon built the house for the family. They shared the house and a week before giving birth the female would have to do the only ritual a male Nopon would never be able to take part in.

There was a single lesson in Nopon education which would be female only. This was about the location of the Nopon birthing place. Female Nopon would leave a week before they were due to give birth with a sack full of essentials for her and her young pup's life until they can get back to Makna. They were taught the route, starting from the back exit of the food storage area, through the trees into a secret grove covered in flowers.

Rara had packed her essentials for her. In her bag was a week's worth of food, some red pollen orbs to provide essential lighting and warmth for her, some Hode camouflage to wrap the pup in and carry them back and some warm bedding.

"I love you Rara." She wrapped her wings around him in a deep embrace. She tried to look at her father, staring down on them from the platform above, but he turned from her.

"Zula, look after Rara for me." She hugged the head of the pollen works. He was more of her father to her than Chief Dunga now.

The next week was anxious for Rara, he longed for his wifeypon and new littlepon, so much so, he barely got any work done and Zula told him to go home.

Then late, a week later, Furor returned home exhausted. Rara rushed to her, embracing her tight and the new littlepon wrapped in the camouflage.

"Rara, this is Riki!" Furor opened the wrap a little so he could see the small round orb, no larger than a Hom's palm.

The littlepon was beige, with the same cross marking as the one Furor had on her chest. This was the birth of the future of the Nopon – Riki – the legendary Heropon!

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