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“Demons are typically there for those who summoned them.”
Dakarai N'Sehla is a pokémon trainer. Born in Togi on the 16th of April, 33 years before the active plotline, he lived much of his regular life in Njoty.
He always introduces himself as 'Rhaptor N'Sehla', if at all.
His primary historic achievement is winning in Taqnateh after doing the Sehto gym circuit in attempted (and probably achieved) record time, pushing both himself and his pokémon to and past exhaustion achieve this stubborn goal.
For an old draft of his experience in Taqnateh, see his written back-story. For a better canonical reference, read the logs of N'Sehla, though there sadly isn't much in-character chronological overlap, even if it showed the calculating way he trained his pokémon very well. For his death in Arsaga, see Arsaga Death.
Personality
Dakarai N'Sehla before his fall was distinctly inhuman, having a slight autistic streak that he'd never managed to get rid of. With no empathy to guide him, he largely interacted with the world by analysing the facts he could observe, and quickly adopted a few axioms that, while it let him survive in society, also netted him the nickname Togi Demon. Most notably, he never raised a hand to har anyone that didn't harm him first, but was utterly famous for the kind of animalistic energy he put into his self-defence, reckless and stubborn in execution, to the point where he was near impossible to deal with once in that state.
His honesty both was and is not the candid sort, instead often considered callous by those dealing with him, though he rarely means to insult anyone. Some social etiquette is best skipped with him, such as 'Do you mind if I…?', to which he frequently responds with 'I do.' Generally, asking his opinion is commonly met with a straight, unflinching answer.
He spent much of his life trying to find a way back into social standing, not comprehending his own loneliness (if it can be called such, devoid of the usual emotional pain that comes with it but nonetheless undesired), much less how to fix it, causing him to make a series of rather bad decisions.
Before Taqnateh, he used to believe he had an exceedingly good grasp of himself, granting him an alien confidence and callous arrogance when confronted by people trying to treat him as subhuman. Generally, he ended up attracting the attention of bullies and gangs for most of his time in Njoty, the interactions with who he effectively ritualised as his source of social routine.
Taqnateh violently broke him out of his tunnel vision - he certainly hadn't considered pokémon as anything but tools before Jagdish Tsukinaka and the notion that he'd broken his most important moral guideline (not to harm someone who didn't harm him first) shook him up rather badly. He's put some effort - with Jagdish's guidance - to adopt a semblance of empathy, something he's been quite successful with given the odds (he'd certainly claim he can feel people now), though he's still likely to register to people as distant even now.
Both before and after his fall, he'd rather suffer or die than back down from a position he believes in. His virtues are honesty, integrity and responsibility - though that's about the full extent of positive things that can be said about him.
He certainly has no issue giving people the impression that he's an asshole, though he doesn't deliberately aim for the effect unless a history with the person in question kicks his pride into gear. He's quite capable of being polite - social etiquette notwithstanding - and frequently is helpful to complete strangers, in stray cases even forthcoming.
He has a certain wary prejudice toward other pokémon trainers, but at least as much sympathy, and he takes recent role as Observer quite seriously.
Appearance
His attire being black, featureless slacks, Rhaptor's coppery skin comes across as lighter than it is. His hair is a myriad of colours, base being a dark brown, but this being indistinguishable, as the short, flame-like hairstyle is riddled with streaks of various colours, ranging from white blond to black, with the extremes of the colour scale most numerous. His eyes seem to have no colour in particular, being brown flecked with silver and gold specks that seem in constant motion, a sliver of pale blue lancing through his left iris, a lack of pigmentation - people don't usually remember his eye-colour when attempting to describe him, or misrepresent it as black.
Pokémon
Post-Taqnateh, the pokémon Dakarai carries around with himself are hardly numerous:
Of those, Iris is 'his original pokémon', but both are quite free to do what they want - even leave their custom pokéballs at will.
Pre-Taqnateh, his line-up was extensive and included the following pokémon:
- Fracture (female Marowak with Bonemerang and Thunderpunch)
- ??? (Jynx with Powder Snow)
- Basilisk (male Dragonite with Outrage)
- Dawn (male Coronav with Endure, Reversal, Sacred Fire, Solar Flare and Swift)
- Fafnir (male Tyranitar)
- Fenrir (male Houndoom with Crunch, Faint Attack and Solar Beam)
- Incision (Skarmory with Drill Peck)
- Kamaitachi (Sneasel) only in some canons
- Magnolia (female ???)
- Mimickry (Ditto with Transform)
- Salt (Parasect with Slash and Spore)
- Soot (male Muk with Sludge Bomb)
- Static (Magneton with Supersonic, Thunder Wave and Zap Cannon)
- Strix (Murkrow) only in some canons
- Yena (female Umbreon with Zap Cannon)
Of these, Fracture was his first pokémon, won in a fist-fight with Auran Collins on Njoty university's campus grounds.
History
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