Week 14.

[azumods]

WEEK 14 Sunday is a rough day all around; it's for the best that you remain where you are for the day, for the sake of regrouping and recovering, and perhaps getting some sleep - assuming that any will come. However, as difficult though it may be (and as futile though it may seem) Monday is likely best seen as a day to depart - a day to start to take whatever actions can still be taken, and to assess where to go from here. A good place to start is Canalave City; it's where you were going to meet with Cynthia, and where you were planning on looking into the legends of Sinnoh. The city itself is beautiful, a massive port town split down the center by a large canal system filled with boats and clear water leading out to sea; however, the recent changes to the world have affected this place as well, perhaps making it a bit difficult to enjoy the city in its entirety. However, the library is here, as are several other points of interest; as difficult though it may be to see the world like this, the trip here will hopefully be worth your while in the end... CURRENT LOCATION: CANALAVE CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SURROUNDING ROUTES: PLAINS/FOREST / NEAR WATER MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week fourteen 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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[bloodspent]

[Today is really no better than yesterday, which was better than the day before solely on merit of the fact that the world didn't die that day; Jake's still feeling weird and like something in him has simply shut down, and if he's honest he kind of likes it that way, and it's that sort of sentiment that leads to him wandering out to that massive bridge in the middle of town.

He'll spend some time looking up at it, hand shielding his eyes from the sun for a moment before he simply seems to decide, and before he can think about it too long he's halfway up the supports and then it's just a matter of jumping up and climbing the rest of the way, and long story short he can be found sitting up there for a good long while, just hanging out on top of the structure like he's not liable to fall and break his fucking idiot neck from up there. He's there because it's reckless and it's stupid and who knows, maybe he'll fall and get to experience what a broken back is like, and that would suck but at least it would be different, and he hasn't thought like that since Ada offered him money to shoot himself up with medical experiments, has he.

Granted, he can't stay up there forever; if he's not up on top of the bridge (or jumping down a short ways from it to end up on top of Byron's gym, that's also a thing he'll be wandering around on top of for a little while), he can be found in the Center, where he'll likely be staying for the rest of the day. He's still alone, his Pokémon kept up and away in their Pokéballs; it's likely a bit weird, given his usual insistence on physically carrying at least one of them and letting the others do whatever they want, but he hasn't let them out since the whole...Cyrus thing. Maybe he's got his reasons, maybe he doesn't; either way, as night falls (even if time itself still doesn't seem to have budged since that entire fiasco) he doesn't show any indication of settling down to sleep. He'll be up all night again if no one stops him; someone's got to keep an eye on everyone, after all.]

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[fatalstrikes]

[Yuri's been restless since arriving, but he's had a hard time finding something to take his mind off of... well, everything that's happened. He's out wandering the city when he notices Jake up on the bridge. It doesn't take him long to figure out how to get up there to join Jake, and he flops down nearby easily.]

Hey. Nice view from up here.

[bloodspent]

[He'll just watch as Yuri comes up without comment; he doesn't try to help him, but he doesn't tell him to knock it off, either.]

Yeah, it's not too bad. Seen better, but I've definitely seen worse.

[fatalstrikes]

Yeah. Not quite as nice from the view up on the ship when Ba'ul's carrying us, but it's better than I've seen in awhile.

[Which is... really weird to think about. How are Ba'ul and the others doing? Are they doing okay after the Adephagos was unleashed?

...He doesn't really want to think about that right now.]

What brings you up here?

...sigh

[bloodspent]

We had this huge bridge back in Edonia, the view was fucking great from up there. It's all mountains and stuff, the place I'm thinking about had ways to get right up on the face of this giant cliff over a ravine. Nothing but you and the edge out there; call of the void at its finest.

The Americans took out the bridge, last I knew, but all the walkways and stuff along the cliff are still there.

[That doesn't answer the question, but it's something to talk about.]

it's okay i'm sure you'll get yeager at some point

[fatalstrikes]

Sounds like it'd be a pretty impressive view.

[...]

Do you miss it? Edonia.

[bloodspent]

...Yeah.

[It's not really something he talks about, actually missing the place; it's true, though, even though he tries to shrug it off and seem casual about it.]

Edonia's kind of a mess right now; even outside of all the bioterrorism bullshit, there's been a civil war going on for a while. I'm part of the Edonian Liberation Army back there; we're trying to take the government back from the people that are currently in charge. Too much pandering to the westerners, not enough focus on changing the shit that actually matters. We want to be out own goddamn country, not relying on the favor of the Americans, you know?

[Also fuck democracy, our communist asses are fine as they are, but that's a little harder to explain.]

So it's kind of a shitshow right now, but it's...I dunno. It's a beautiful country when it's not being torn up. The people are good there. I've lived there my entire life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. So...yeah.

[fatalstrikes]

I think I can understand that. You do what you've gotta do to make sure things are being handled well. It sounds like a pretty great place.

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[semistableman]

[Bucky can't really blame Jake for hiding his Pokemon away. After all, since nearly dying in the ice cave, Bucky has actually used Pokeballs in the first place. Six on his hip, even if he only has the four. Flora is by his side as usual, looking sleepy even if Bucky is wide awake.

Normally, Bucky would be outside camping, but, well... after everything they've been through, sticking with the group even if it involves being in cramped spaces he would usually avoid only makes sense.]

Doesn't feel real, does it?

[bloodspent]

[Jake has been pretty content to just focus on...not much in particular, really, but Bucky's company is generally always welcome, so.]

Doesn't really feel like much of anything, if you ask me.

[He shrugs a bit.]

Everyone else seems more fucked up by it than I am.

[semistableman]

I'd say I've been through worse, but I've never experienced a literal end of the world before.

[He shrugs, but it's deadpan enough it's probably an attempt at being funny.]

When I broke free of HYDRA's programming, I fled to Romania. Picked the country at random; I could speak the language well enough to sound like a native. Living like that was... pretty surreal, honestly. But it didn't feel anything like this.

[bloodspent]

We've had a few people try to end the world before. This one guy almost got far enough to be a global threat, but his plane was brought down literally two minutes before he could deploy the doomsday bullshit. The other two were working together, and they managed to fuck up a huge portion of China and the United States, but they were stopped before they could be any sort of threat to the rest of the world. So bonus points to them for going after densely-populated areas first, I guess.

[Jake.]

So we haven't had anyone succeed yet, but we've had three people so far put forth a really good effort.

[semistableman]

[He snorts.

Bucky can appreciate that sort of reaction. It's dark, and hell, it sounds like Jake's world is one windstorm away from total collapse, but so it's Bucky's honestly.]

Apparently aliens attacked New York City, and nearly leveled it to the ground in 2012.

[bloodspent]

[He just kind of stares at that one.]

...Jesus, you people get to have all the fun.

[JAKE.]

[semistableman]

I missed it, but I'm pretty sure Steve had the time of his life.

Not that he's admit it.

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[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[Unlike Jake, Sena still has his whole team out - he almost never returns them despite all the chaos they cause - and they're being appropriately ridiculous as he lines up their bowls to feed them. Vee's biting on Monta's tail (again? what did he say this time-?), Portus steals the bowl and teleports out of sight before Sena can finish setting it out, Nin is actually not flying and eating her food at the same time for once, and Shell is just resting on his head since it doesn't eat.

All in all, it's a normal noisy evening for this crew, maybe noisier than usual thanks to how...still...everything is. If Monta's protesting is a little louder than usual, if Nin is a little more restless...Sena can't really begrudge them that right now.

The thing is, Portus teleported near where Jake is hanging out, so when Sena inevitably comes to corral his wayward psychic he can't help but talk to the man.]

Jake...? [Sena hesitates. Something seems kinda...not off, exactly, but not Completely Fine either.] Er...sorry, did I interrupt something...?

[bloodspent]

[He doesn't seem bothered at the interruption, at least, hey Portus - ...also, hey kid, he isn't altogether sure what to do with that question for a moment, but.]

You're not bothering me or anything, it's fine. It's good to see 'em being so active.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Ah...yeah...I just kinda never realized how noisy they could get until everything else got all...

[Quiet.

He can't bring himself to finish that sentence.]

[bloodspent]

...Yeah.

[Awkward.]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[yeaaah, oops.]

I...er, um...

[He's starting to realize why things around Jake feel so...off. He looks...lonely.]

I haven't seen Hl...Hela...

[He can't remember how to say the name.]

...Pants. I haven't seen Pants recently...

[he's...so sorry...]

[bloodspent]

[...sena, you tried it.]

Hlača. He's... I've been keeping him in the ball lately.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Y-yeah, him.

[he can barely speak english, okay, there was An Attempt]

Uh? Why? Is he okay?

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[hyruglyphics]

[ Zelda always made pretty liberal use of her balls (most of them are in different types of them too which is kinda fun) usually only having one or two around at a time. Right now, it's Miphanus and Vah Daroh behind her. Miphanus is floating there with a bag of books she picked out under his arms, but the Porygon seems to be more interested in getting into the Sheikah Slate in her hands, somethings which makes her shake her head before--

Oh, Jake. That's... ]

Oh! Jake. We never did get that photo.

[ It's a weird time to recall it, but. She looks out of it too, like perhaps she was up literally all night studying the books. ]

[bloodspent]

Yeah, I know.

[He shrugs a little; he hadn't forgotten about it, it just seems like they discussed it such a long time ago. It's weird.

The end of the world probably does that.]

You doing okay?

[hyruglyphics]

Tired, perhaps.

[ She's still... determined to do something but it's really hard and... well, whatever. She makes to march over to sit next to him. ]

-- Did you have a means of taking a photograph? ... Oh, and yourself? About- how you're doing?