The Wall

You’re walking a fine line
Between protection and destruction

You are the big man on campus
You are the high guard
Everything within your kingdom, you have taken up the role to protect
Everything within your kingdom is too precious to sacrifice
With your life at stake, you would assure it stays that way

But there are caravans at your doorstep
Armies knocking at your gates
You ward them off but the insult is a lasting damage, wound unreparable
The threat that they could return is not taken lightly
With your life at stake, you would wage war to assure it never happens again

But war is not one man against an army
War sweeps up civilians on both sides, innocents behind both lines
It is not your own life at stake
And it is not yours alone that swords will be drawn again
If you step out to draw yours

If you wish to protect without destroying your home
Then you must become a wall of guards

See to it that you are not the only building block to fight for this home

Nidoran♂ , the Poison Pin Pokémon

“The male breed of Nidoran are the fighters of the Nidoran line. With a slimmer body and an array of harsh horns along their back to compliment the sharp protrusion on their heads, the males take an active stance in battle, fiercely challenging opponents even five times their size. And they do not back down even in the toughest of situations, powering through for victory and the protection of their female counterparts in the pack. Thanks to the same venom in the females being present not only in the temple horn of the males but in every horn across their body, there are very few predators in the wild who can risk a long, drawn-out battle with even some of the weaker male Nidoran in their packs.”

“Outside of combat, male Nidoran use another notable difference in their biology from the females: their ears. Capable of rotating a full three-hundred-and-sixty degrees, and the muscle control to angle and point their ears however they please, male Nidoran have a well-trained sense of hearing, able to pinpoint the direction and location of sounds made even dozens of meters in the distance. Because this use of their ears requires strength and conscious energy to be on the lookout as guards to their packs, they’ve developed a ‘changing of the guards’ trust with their fellow males, swapping out who is on watch every few hours in the day and even throughout the night.”

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