azume | Week 10.

Week 10.

WEEK 10

You've found a few new friends this past week, and along with them, a new town to explore.

Granted, there doesn't seem to be much, particularly when compared to the cities you started out in; at the same time, the air is fresh with the scent of flowers and honey wafting on the breeze. Along with the usual Pokémon that can be found in populated areas, it seems that several Combees have made their home here - they can be found drifting along idly, seeming no more capable of true emotion than anyone or anything else, but perhaps they're trying their best. It's a little difficult to say; they are still bees, after all.

That said, the world continues to change around you, bit by bit; you still have a long way to go before you've saved everyone, but for the time being you should probably recharge, and take some time to sort through what should happen next. Talking to the locals may net you the information that there's something odd about the meadow north of town; perhaps a few of you should go to check it out...

CURRENT LOCATION: FLOAROMA TOWN
POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES

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[OOC: Welcome to week ten 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.]

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[Hey, Jake. You're always welcome to join him!]

Honestly? You're probably right. But your world sounds fascinating, so I can't say I'd mind hearing another one.

[Mm.]

You wanna hear something I haven't told anyone yet? I'd like it if you didn't tell anyone, though, everyone's got bits and pieces but nobody knows the whole thing.

You don't have to worry about that. Anything you tell me stays with me; I'm not going to go spreading it around.

Yeah, I figured, but still.

[...Okay.]

So I told you about how we've got the world-enders that show up sometimes - Ada and her boyfriend were the recent ones, but before them there was another guy that I didn't deal with. He was apparently fucking insane because he was fucked with as a kid. Not as in "beaten", more like Saturn's sort of deal. He got away from it eventually and had a normal life for a while, had a girlfriend and a kid and everything. But the damage was done, I guess, because he decided he hated humans and the planet would be better off without any of 'em on it. So he left his girl and his kid to die in a shithole country and went off and experimented on himself. Made himself into an inhuman monster. Then created a virus that would kill almost everyone on the planet, and the ones that survived would be monsters like him. No more humans. Someone that used to be his...friend, I guess, had to put him down before he could kill everyone.

And that's how my dad tried to end the world.

[Some part of him wondered if this was how the story was going to end when Jake brought up the guy's kid, but somehow he still wasn't prepared to actually hear it. Yuri hesitates for a moment before speaking up.]

...I'm really sorry, Jake. That's really messed up.

[To understate it a bit...]

But all the apologies in the world aren't gonna make that any easier, yeah?

[He shrugs.]

He was fucking insane and needed to be put down. One of those people that just need to die, you know? Because they won't stop until they either win or get killed.

[Like Ragou or Cumore, maybe.]

It's pretty fucked up, though, I guess. I nearly shot the guy that killed him.

Yeah, he really sounds like it.

[Yuri hesitates for a moment before addressing the last part.]

I think I can kinda get that. Even if you didn't know him, he was still your dad, right? It makes sense that it'd be complicated.

Yeah, it's something like that. I dunno, I really want to hate him, but that's not working out too great.

I can see where that'd be difficult. Honestly, I wouldn't know how I'd feel if I was in your shoes. It's an awful thing to find out someone close to you was that awful, even if you never knew 'em.

Yeah. I wouldn't say I care about him at all, because he was never around and he never did shit for us. But it's hard hearing people talk about him, and people talk about him a lot in front of me. They don't really give much of a fuck about me other than the part where I'm his son, you know? Like he's got some sort of bullshit legacy I'm supposed to do something with.

It's definitely not fair to you. He wasn't a part of your life until suddenly people are more or less forcing you to deal with all of the stuff he did, yeah? You should get to decide what you want to do with any of that - if you want to do anything with it at all.

...Apologies aren't going to do anything to help, but I really am sorry you're stuck dealing with this. It sounds like a real pain.

I've been told that I remind people of him. It's not really a compliment. I guess I look a lot like him, too, the guy who killed him kept looking at me funny from about the moment I met him.

[...Anyway.]

I'm sure you're not too here for dealing with my problems, though. It's just been on my mind lately, I guess.

That sounds like a pain too.

[Both the guy staring at you funny and looking like your absent world-ending dad. Yikes.]

I don't mind listening to stuff like this. Sometimes you've just gotta vent, yeah? Like I said, I'm not gonna spread this sorta thing around or anything, so if you ever need someone to listen, I'm available.

[He appreciates it, okay.]

Yeah. ...Tell me some shit about your world, while we're here.

[Yuri leans back on his hands while he considers what to talk about. Normally he'd try to lighten the mood a bit, but since Jake trusted him with something so important...]

...This one's kind of a long story, so you might be here for awhile.

Most of the cities in my world are split between the Empire and the guilds. While they're not at war, tensions have been mounting for a long time. All of us thought that was gonna be the biggest thing we were going to have to worry about. War almost broke out twice now, first because of some falsified letters and later on it was almost a clash between guilds because the leader of one of the guilds died and they blamed the other guild just because an important figure was there at the time, even though he wasn't involved.

[He could get into that, but it's not the thing that's been bugging him since he woke up here.]

War wasn't what we needed to be concerned about, though. Sure, it would've been awful if it happened, but we didn't realize things were about to get a lot worse.

The Commandant of the Imperial Knights - Alexei - decided he was sick of the way things were being run and decided he was going to take control. To do that, he used Estelle's powers to raise a weapon from the depths of the ocean. Said weapon was built a long time ago and more or less forgotten about until he decided he was gonna use it to his advantage.

...What none of us realized was that it wasn't a weapon. We fought him, but in the time it took us to defeat him, he'd gotten the thing working and he fired it off. It broke open a barrier in the sky that was keeping something out.

Long ago there was a threat to everyone and everything in Terca Lumireis called the Adephagos. It consumed aer, which is present everywhere and in everything. The Adephagos isn't like a person or a monster, it exists just to consume aer. It was such a huge threat at the time that the only thing the ancients could do was seal it away, they couldn't hope to kill it or stop it.

So naturally, everyone forgot about this and now it's back and stopping it is gonna be a huge problem.

[...]

All that happened right before I woke up here, so...

[He shrugs a bit, but it's not dismissive. He's been sounding progressively more frustrated with it as he goes and when he trails off and shrugs it seems helpless more than anything else.]

[Jake will take all that in, and when Yuri finishes it isn't long before he manages a brief, hollow laugh.]

So between Cyrus, this Alexei guy, and my dad, I'm getting real tired of guys deciding they're sick of shit so they're gonna fuck everybody up. Can we all just agree not to do that from now on? Because not doing that sounds pretty great to me.

[This is how we're dealing with shit today.]

I know you're going to be worried about all that shit, and I don't blame you. But I'm pretty sure your friends aren't going to just leave that shit alone. They'll figure something out.

[It gets Yuri to smirk a bit, but it settles into something a little less harsh as Jake continues.]

Yeah, I know they will. None of 'em are the sort of people who can turn a blind eye to something like that. Not even the old man will, even if he'll complain about it the whole way.

[...]

Things'll probably be taken care of by the time I get back. I know I can trust them with that. It's just... frustrating, I guess. I figured taking out Alexei would be the last of my concerns for awhile. I guess there's always going to be something to worry about.

Yeah, it looks like that's just how shit's decided it's gonna be.

...You gonna be okay?

[Yuri nods a bit at that, but it takes him a bit longer than he'd like to actually answer.]

...Yeah. We've got a lot to worry about here, so it's best just to trust the others for now. Still, the timing really couldn't have been worse...

...If you ever need to talk about anything, I'm around.

...Thanks. I appreciate it.

Honestly, this is the first I've told anyone about any of this. It doesn't really feel right to trouble the others with things like this, you know?

Yeah, I get it. We tend to be pretty open about stuff where I came from, but that's probably because the situation's not too great - you want to be sure you say what you need to while you can. So don't worry about bothering me any, yeah?

...Guess I should probably tell you that the last thing I remember was being stabbed and falling off the top of Zaude - the supposed weapon that Alexei raised from the sea.

[He looks like he's trying not to smirk?? Why are you like this, Yuri.]

I'm sure I'll be fine, but again, the timing really couldn't have been worse.

...Good thing this place apparently has great healthcare out the ass.

[...Jake.]

Edited 2018-08-08 02:35 (UTC)

[That'll get him to laugh.]

Apparently! It's not like it was a bad wound or anything, I've had way worse.

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