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Week 7.
WEEK 7 After a week of nothing but snow, it's likely that the city is a welcome sight. The city proper is likewise blanketed in snow, but it's far shallower here, easily walked through; it's soft and powdery and unlikely to cause you to slip, the kind of snow small children and Pokémon might enjoy playing in if they're the sort to enjoy that kind of thing. And if they were capable of enjoying much, in the case of the children. That said, the people here are still in the mildly improved state you witnessed in Eterna; it isn't much, but it is improvement, and the world around you continues to change in other, smaller ways as well, so it isn't all for naught. The wild Pokémon here, however, seem to be experiencing something a little...different from what you've been seeing so far - specifically, the Shellos here seem a little hostile toward one another. Snowpoint City is separate from and parallel to the giant mountain you passed last week, and it's populated by both the blue and pink varieties; the different sorts...don't seem to like each other much. It isn't all-out warfare or anything, but there are definitely skirmishes and mounting tensions happening in slug culture here. Mediate if you choose, or just enjoy your time in the city. You've earned it, after last week. POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week seven of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend!] |
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[He hopes.]
And after that?
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[He taps his fingers.]
I mean, I just realized...since you're stuck inside, you're probably, um...bored? So I was wondering...
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[...]
Maybe, I dunno.
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[Anyway, come on, let's go. As soon as we're inside Jake is sitting on the floor like the man of taste and culture that he is, the jacket is coming off and the slug is getting...kind of heaped on, jacket-wise. Good enough for government work.]
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[Sena rolls the unfamiliar sounding name around his tongue, trying to parse it.]
Is that the...uh...black cat thing you caught?
[He stares in concern at the slug. Is it okay just suddenly being covered in a jacket...?]
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[...It. Well. It doesn't seem displeased? It seems like it's just kind of decided that this is what its life looks like today.]
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[It's rolling with the punches. That's...that's nice, he hopes?]
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[Mm.]
I guess if I have to be in here, I should probably spend some time getting to know the ones I've got. It kind of weirds me out doing that sometimes, because of how blank some of them are still, but I'll keep trying it, I guess.
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[Sena grins at that, face flushing a little with delight.]
It's...I guess it's kinda silly to say it, but I think I learned a lot more about my Pokemon by just training with them. Like..it really feels like the more they battle, the more I can...I can kinda understand them a little better?
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[He's not really sure how to explain himself.]
Like, different football teams have different styles of playing depending on what their coach emphasizes and what their skillset is...I'm not really good at figuring that kind of thing out, but I did notice how differently my partners were learning the strategies I was trying to teach them!
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That's an interesting way of coming at it, actually. I know Hlača likes it when we do martial arts stuff - not as a battle thing, just as a physical training thing.
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[Sena points at his own Pokemon, who are all still eating their own bowls at the table near the door.]
I've figured out that Monta really likes to use faster strategies and stuff, while Vee is kinda...I guess a little slower on the uptake? She seems to take everything I say literally...
[He's still a little clueless as to what Nin is like, though. She hasn't expressed much.]
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You've been putting a lot of work in. Good thing if you're going up against Jupiter some day, yeah?
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but yeah she's pretty dumb.]
Uh...y-yeah!
[At the mention of Jupiter, Sena goes a little rigid. He doesn't regret the vow he made (mostly), but why is everyone pointing it out...]
W-we've got a lot of work cut out for us, I think...
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[Just...let him set up some of the kompot so this thing can eat it if it wants to.]
You okay...?
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[He's not being very convincing.]
Jut...there's something I've been thinking about...
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[He scratches behind his ear, pensive.]
It's just...that talk with Jupiter, it kind of reminded of something that I've forgotten, I think. Like...I haven't had that feeling in a long time, so I almost forgot...
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[...He's pretty sure it wasn't "insatiable bloodlust", anyway...]
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A...I think Rin called it a "competitive spirit." That feeling when there's someone so far above you, in a completely different league, and you still want to challenge them and surpass them.
[So, the nice version of "insatiable bloodlust." If you squint and look at it sideways.]
I...there's a tournament I'm in back home. The person who first made me feel like that...it's their team we're going up against next. I've been waiting for this ever since the last time we played against each other. I just sort of...realized how long it's been since that. It was supposed to be the next day...
[And instead, he woke up to this. How long was he gone? He doesn't know. Only the few weeks he's been here are certain.]
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It's been a really long time since he's thought about Ustanak, and since he spent six months wanting to forget the guy it's obvious why; there was something good about that fight with him, though, with no guns or chains or weapons, just pure strength.
...And yeah okay maybe that was a little bloodlusty...]
I think I get what you're talking about.
[Mm.]
It really has been a while, hasn't it.
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[Sena looks solemn, crossing his legs to sit on the floor across from Jake and looking down at his feet.]
It's not just that, though. If it was just how long it's been...I don't think I'd be bothered this much.
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