Cado the Luxray

Cado is a large male Luxray with unusually black fur and blue eyes. This is because of melanism.

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Personality:

Normal: Starting out, Cado was rather arrogant and full of himself, but when Malo(later Shatter), made him his second-in-command, Cado settled down and became wise and well-liked. Even as Shatter became officially mad, Cado kept his own sanity and secretly led the Ancient Army his own way, furthering his followers' like of him. Cado is a very respected and well-trusted voice in the Storming Alliance.

Mega: Gaining the Dark-Type, Cado becomes far more aggressive, and his arrogance returns, on a higher level. Despite this, he keeps his noble, king-like personality, and his protectiveness is enhanced greatly.

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Appearance:

Normal: Cado has the same shape as a normal Luxray, but the only difference with him is his coloring, due to a condition known as melanism, making him jet-black from head to tail, but his eyes, the insides of his ears, and the stripes on his forelegs, are blue, and the four-point star on the end of his tail is red. Like normal Luxrays, Cado's sclera(the white's of someone's eyes) are red.

Mega: When Cado Mega Evolves, he gains the Dark-Type, and the fur on his shoulders and backside becomes much crazier. The tips of his fur-spikes become brown, along with his muzzle, throat, chest, legs, and pointed ears. The main color of his fur remains black. His nose is sky-blue, his eyes are red with sky-blue sclera and his tail becomes a wild bolt with a four-pointed star on the end. He gains red streaks on his chest, paws and face, as well as red stripes on his legs and red fur-spikes on his forepaws. He has a couple red streaks above his eyes that look like eyebrows(and move like them). He also gains a pair of red streaks on his head, in between his eyes running from his nose to his quills.

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Abilities: Cado normally has the ability Intimidate(his Mega Ability is unknown, due to Mega Luxray being a Poke Farm Q Mega). His moveset is unknown aside from Discharge, making him one of the few Pokemon with only one confirmed move.

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History:

In the Legends of the Megastone Rogues series:

Malo's Quest: Cado is a minor, but supporting character in this story. He first appears after Malo hatches out, being first seen as a Luxio. Cado and Malo take an instant liking to each other, and both later evolve during the Ancient Battle Tournament, Malo while fighting Snipe, Cado while fighting Allon. Allon uses Wrap on Cado, who uses Discharge to free himself and knock out the Arbok, knocking him out of the tourney. Cado later makes a few minor appearances before accompanying Malo to Rockhead Village. With Cado struggling to keep up, Malo notes that Cado was starting to grow old, as the older Luxray's joints were bothering him. Cado is with Malo and Torch when the red fox says that Sonic.EXE(referred to as the "Shadow Hedgehog) killed Rocket and Ember.

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Past: Cado was born in a group known as the Ancient Army, but orphaned rather quickly due to rather vicious rogues constantly fighting them. Cado, whose name means "King" in the Army's ancient language, was raised by a female Chesnaught and Cado's reluctant brother Warri. However, Warri didn't like Cado, and the first chance he got, Warri and his "friend", an Ekans named Allon, cornered Cado and tried to kill him. Cado was badly wounded, but evolved into Luxio during the fight. Despite this, he received a nasty bite on his leg because of Allon, and a bite on his neck from Warri. Estranged from his older (normal colored) brother, Cado soon became the adopted brother of an orphaned Shiny Chespin named Malo. During a battle, Cado evolved into Luxray, becoming a full-fledged member of the Ancient Army. Cado watched proudly as Malo grew into a strong Chesnaught. Cado revealed the murder plot of Warri and Allon to Sandstream, the old Mega Tyranitar Leader, and his second-in-command Splashy. Warri was banished, but attacked Cado in a fight that cost Warri his life and almost cost Cado his. Later, when Malo was leader, and Cado himself Malo's second-in-command, an unknown assailant somehow cracked Malo's strong shell, costing Malo his sanity. Cado was forced to watch as his former friend and adopted brother descended into madness, keeping his rank even when Malo, now renamed Shatter, replaced him with Allon, now an Arbok. Cado kept his Teammates' hopes alive, and later took those loyal to him to join the allied Storm Fighters and Megastone Rogues after having had enough of Shatter's madness. Cado became the leader of the Ancient Army(with Shatter's division now being called the Shattered Army), and later King of the High Valley, with his position as the AA leader being filled by a female albino Arcanine named Snowy.

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Trivia:

Cado is fluent in the Ancient Army's language, which is known as Pokonese(for unknown reasons). His own name means "King", alluding to him being the King of the High Valley.

Cado's mate, Thundra, is Shiny, while his elder son Shiloh, is melanistic, and his younger son Sunburst, is Shiny.

Cado has the ability of using what's known as a "Pulse Roar", a very powerful attack that only he and Bolt the Manectric can use outside of Unleashed Mode.

Cado's condition, melanism, is a trait so far observed only in leopards and jaguars in the real world. What people believe are black panthers are really just melanistic leopards or jaguars(depending on the location of the cat observed)

Cado is mistakenly described with white stripes and eyes instead of blue, which is a feature of melanistic female Luxrays.