azume | Week 13.

Week 13.

WEEK 13

The trip to Celestic Town is an unconventional one, though it's infinitely faster than walking and doesn't leave everyone feeling woozy in the same way that teleportation does. The town itself is a small one, though it's scenic, and there's a sort of beauty to it that's very rustic in nature; it's surrounded on both sides by mountainous routes that you're welcome to go on to both the west and the east, though it wouldn't be recommended that you venture too far out, seeing as they can be on the dangerous side for those who are unfamiliar with them.

It seems Cynthia was right about one thing - there was certainly an incident at Lake Verity that went off almost as soon as you left, another of those deep pulses echoing through the surrounding area; it seems that whatever Mesprit did can be felt by the region as a whole, given that Celestic Town and the surrounding areas seem to have been affected as well despite being so far east of the lake.

Cynthia herself can be found throughout the town for the duration, should anyone want to speak to her. Sometimes when left to her own devices, she can be seen in the company of a little girl who looks very similar to herself; sometimes she's with a pair of people much older. Either way, the family resemblance is strong.

Lucas is here as well; he's still willing to speak to anyone that wants to, though he seems a bit subdued.

Either way, it's been a long, harrowing trip so far; hopefully spending some time here will help to rejuvenate you.

CURRENT LOCATION: CELESTIC TOWN
POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES
SURROUNDING ROUTES: MOUNTAINS/ELEVATED AREAS

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[OOC: Welcome to week thirteen 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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[Well that 1) saved that poor Gligar from getting knocked out by Nin, because it blew her away and 2) got that same Gligar knocked out by her Fairy Wind. It just can't win, huh?

Nin, meanwhile, buzzes irritably and lashes out against whatever attacked it. Which doesn't go so well, because Lena's part Steel type, and what the heck can a bug/flying type like Nin do against it? Well, okay, it kinda knows Dig from when it was still a Nincada, but how the heck is a bug like Nin supposed to Dig the way it is now? Weird.

Anyway, there's the loud sound of clanging as Nin ineffectually tries to attack Lena. Meanwhile, Sena's just barely coming up the mountain trail, holding the Abra in his arms and Shell on his head, like usual.]

A-ah? Nin?! Wait!

[It's now become apparent that this is Sena's Ninjask. It is, however, still attacking Lena. She defends herself with her head-mouth, which sounds a lot more metal than it looks when you hit it, but she seems a little overwhelmed all of a sudden? She's never expressed that much emotion in one go.

So: it's attacking, Lena's upset, and Michael is still in a foul mood. Any of these things would have been enough reason for him to issue his next command.]

Bite!

[Lena used Crunch!]

[Aaaaand - crunch. It sure does land a hit. The Ninjask isn't knocked out or anything, no, but it sure can't get out of that giant metal flytrap mouth, either, so she just buzzes her wings helplessly as Sena finally manages to make his way over there.]

Aaaah, oh no...I'm really sorry for this! We interrupted something, didn't we?

Yeah, you kinda did.

[Ugh, and the Duskull fled the scene. He can't really blame them...Michael sighs.]

Let it go, I guess. [Lena obligingly opens her jaws.]

Hiee...sorry...

[Nin vaguely buzzess off in that way that houseflies do when they're swatted and somehow manage to barely survive. It irritably tries to attack again before -]

Nin, wait. Come back here already...

[Oh, fine. But only because you're offering her berries.] Weren't you supposed to be fighting one of those purple bat things, anyway...?

[Yeah, she was. It's fainted now. Right there.]

[...Michael, still seated, reaches out to poke it with the toe of his shoe.]

Well, don't leave that here. I'm pretty sure it's still alive.

[Lena, meanwhile, seems to have started tearing up. Michael takes a second or two to notice.]

The battle's over, Lena. You don't need to do that.

Yikes...you really did a number on it, didn't you, Nin?

[Buzzzz. She sure did! Although she's not happy that Lena accidentally stole the knockout blow, but what can you do?

Sena pads over to get a closer look at the unconscious Gligar, feeling a little bad for it. Also for Lena, especially when she starts tearing up.]

Oh, uh...sorry for startling you like that, Lena. Um... [sorry if you don't like sweet berries, but that's all he has. Here's a Qualot Berry???] D'ya want one?

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Oh, don't worry about her. That's a fake crying thing she does in fights sometimes. Usually puts the other guy off. It's actually pretty clever -

[Lena gives a sad little mawwwwwww and goes to hug Michael's side, burying her face in his jacket. Lena was not using Fake Tears!

Michael stops talking to stare at her with wide eyes. He seems to have no idea what to do with this.]

Um...

[Sena fidgets awkwardly, spraying the unconscious Gligar with Potions so he doesn't have to pay attention to it.]

C...considering what's been happening, I don't think it's fake...

She doesn't...do things like this. She's from the egg, those ones are all screwed up.

[But, uh. This sure is happening.]

Uh... [Michael winces a little, but hesitantly pats her on the head.] It's...okay. C'mere, bud.

So was Nin.

[And Shell too, technically, but it's refusing to get off of his head. Anyways, Sena's pointing to the hyperactive cicada now.]

She keeps joining in whenever Vee and Monta start fighting, so I took her out here...

[And you see how that went.

Speaking of, that Gligar's stretching its wings right now.]

Oh. That's...

[He looks down at his crying Pokemon.]

...good?

Um, I think it'll be.

[Forced laughter.]

Later. Just not right now.

[oh.]

[Michael keeps one hand on Lena's head, and puts another on her back. That's about as much as he knows to do.

Belatedly, he realizes that his obvious dicomfort with comforting someone doesn't really speak well to that whole understanding of emotion he was insisting that he had the other day. Michael narrows his eyes, looking away.]

Yeah, sure.

Um...

[Sena's not really sure if he should say this, but in the end he pipes up. Damn his irregular bursts of courage!]

I might be overstepping a little by saying this, but...um...I think you two might be able to relate to each other. Help each other a little. With, uh, this.

[Michael turns that narrowed gaze back onto Sena.]

Whatever do you mean?

[He asks in a faintly warning tone, the kind that implies he knows very well what you mean and is sort of hoping that he can make you back down from it.]

[...ulp.]

I-I, uh, I mean...

[Hieeeeee. He's not unused to this type of glaring, but why do you have to be so scary-!]

I mean, er...Pokemon, that came from eggs, they've spent their whole time just...gradually getting feelings back, right? Maybe Pokemon we caught are old enough that they know what things were like before, but the ones that came from eggs definitely don't, so now that Mespirit's given them all back at once it's probably a huge, um...rush?

[Yes, that's obvious. So?]

I've had all my feelings this entire time, same as anyone else in the group.

[So what are you suggesting]

[Erm.

He feels like he's about to say something really scary.]

Um...I think having them and expressing them are...um...two different things...

I've expressed plenty of feelings.

[Like, uh. Anger and confusion. And anger's lesser cousin, irritation. Schadenfreude is a big one too, can't forget that!]

Yeah, but not um...all of them. At once.

[Hieee...]

R...Right?

...nobody expresses every emotion simultaneously. That's not a thing.

[It's a derail, but also that genuinely does not make a lot of sense to him.]

No, but that's kinda what it feels like when you get um...overwhelmed.

[He pokes his fingers together, not really noticing when the Gligar decides to get the hell out of dodge. The tension here is hella awkward, man.]

Plus, that's pretty much what happened when Mespirit got released, wasn't it? Look at how all the Pokemon are acting.

[Vee and Monta are still snapping at each other a small ways away.

And Nin went back to join them. Again.

Sigh.]

[...that actually makes a few things about what happened yesterday click for him. And he hates it.]

Sena, I am an eternal being far beyond your comprehension. I do not get overwhelmed.

[despite any and all evidence to the contrary!]

[Somehow, a surreal claim like that actually seems to calm him. It honestly sounds like one of those exaggerated claims Hiruma would make up to bluff his way into some kind of victory. Even if it is true (and Sena holds no doubts that it definitely is), that doesn't change what Sena's about to say.]

Everyone gets overwhelmed sometimes.

[He should know. He's even seen Hiruma at his worst, when Agon outsmarted them all, when at those very last few seconds before Monta revealed how he had saved them all, that quiet resignation...

He doesn't want to see that again.]

It...um. It's just that everyone gets overwhelmed by different things.

[Whether it's by something far beyond their scope...or just their own weakness.]

What matters is how they face that. [He blinks, then waves his hands sheepishly..] I-I mean, at least that's what I think is important about it...

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