Despite Eric Kingler being notoriously known as a very cold cut off and harsh Champion, very different from the rest of his league who are known as somewhat warm and welcoming, he embodies the stereotype of the “Helpful Region”. He’s constantly working with Charities and orphanage’s to help get kids set and ready to become trainers. Schools of all age, from Pre-School to even every Collage in the Region, are in works with the Chairwoman and Champion. No Kid Left Unturned is the main slogan for all of this.
Eric has been very vocal, despite the thorn covered words, about how he was dropped through the cracks in his school all throughout his life and the struggle to get where he is today. His goal is to never see that happen to another kid again as long as he can help it. This is also what makes him a ruthless Champion to fight against. It’s not because he thinks people will see him differently if he has losses in his ledger but the fact that if he lost as the Champion everything he’s been building and working for will be for naught and he’ll never be able to see his plans come into fruition.
This also makes Orago very known for their high drive in the arts like theater, movie making, street art, and their vast genre of music and less focus on things like sport and regrettably history. Despite losing several high quality libraries filled with knowledge of the pass, due to Team Stygian, and the general assumption history would be brought to the forefront next to arts by these events. History is still very much not put into important lights to this day. Looked over for more prominent things like math, science, and most importantly agriculture.
There’s two teams that plague Orago and their known as Team Stygian and Team Lampsi. Unlike most vile Teams that plague the world, the history of Stygian and Lampsi is very well known.
Stygian and Lampsi are named after the original founders, rivals of each other from the beginning. Meeka Stygian and Venus Lampsi used to be best friends before they left to become trainers. Armed with an Eevee and Lillipup, both starting out with normal types as per their collective family’s tradition. Meeka quickly climbed the ladder of strength while Venus struggled. This gained the attention of the current Champion, Nikes (pronounced weirdly as Knights) who ironically is one of Eric’s strongest inspiration, and he immediately offered his support and guidance to Venus. This obviously blew up around the Region and Meeka quickly got jealous.
This ends up making her end her friendship permanently with Venus on the count that it was unfair to her. How was it fair that Venus got the attention willingly while Meeka, and almost every other trainer in the Region, struggled to be good enough to face off the Champion. Venus wasn’t even a good trainer to begin with. More hurtful words were said to each other and Champion Nikes guiltily retracted his help all together. Leaving the two girls fuming with an unrepairable relationship. When the two got older they created the teams using their last names.
The names basically boil down to dark and light, in context but i didn’t really try that hard with the names.
Meeka had quickly grown to dislike the Champion and his giving nature, which is selective in her eyes, and vowed to burn the mans history to the ground. Thus the events of several libraries filled with knowledge, not just of that Champion but others as well, to the ground. Venus who quickly caught onto Meeka’s plans created her team in hopes of stopping her. But instead of working with the authorities she thought all the knowledge was best in her hands, and the hands of her team, alone. Their ideals both quickly turned into toxic obsession to the point that anyone who was even remotely associated with Champion Nikes ideals were in danger.
Now both teams are scouring Orago from top to bottom for the last remaining information of Champion Nikes and others to either burn and squirrel the information away. Leaving Eric to struggle with his duties and bringing up his lack of care for history as a whole. As now his Region is in danger of having even more very important dates, events, and people lost to burning fire and half a century old rivalry. On top of that keeping his life safe alongside his friends, coworkers, and his toxic family. All who could be held against him for even an inch of ground he holds can and will be used by both teams.
Thus bringing us back around to why Eric is so cold but with a big bloody heart hidden inside of him. No Kid Left Unturned is also based off of the two Teams and their know history. Only known from a diary Nikes had left for the upcoming Champions if he was unable to disband them before his dethroning or death took ahold of him.