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POSTED ON Apr 28, 2024 15:04:06 GMT

"you, um, had a fight?"

priam had been on the other side of the garden. shouts from the lifebringer was enough to be heard from the vicinity, though it wasn't like it would be required for priam to take notice.

he had been in the area for a while now. his gabite had been acting up, much like how it did back then when the tree had been at the center of the crater city of sootopolis. he'd been trying to figure out why, but to no avail.

"any-"

priam stops himself for a moment, wondering if it's alright to be too familiar. at the end, he decides not to bother much with the status quo between them.

"anything wrong?"

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rifts, plates, fishies

POSTED ON Apr 28, 2024 14:32:34 GMT

"yup!"

he casts his line alongside theo. the bobber floats atop the surface of the water, moved ever so slightly by the waves of teh raging waters near the sootopolis ocean.

there had been reports of kyogre being sighted nearby, but that's what the entire hoenn says, regardless of which part of the island they live in.

"the fishing spot near the crater's top tier," he points out, pertaining to the waters of the city, "but that place already got boring after a while. this is nice!"

hands grip the pole lightly, not wanting to let the fish know the rigidity of a fisher's hand.

"did you finally get the time off? i've been takin' mine a bit lately."

for a workaholic like priam, it was unheard of. on the other hand, it wasn't strange for people to change drastically in the most subtle manner after the incident with ting-lu and the dogs.

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Tattoos, Statues, and Smackeroos [M]

POSTED ON Apr 28, 2024 2:19:14 GMT

"we actually found something similar at the ruins and it froze me entirely. i was, like, a popsicle that day."

his rambling was going to be longer, but the distance between the corner of the room where he kept his knickknacks and the door was short. it only took a few seconds for him to reach the regice outside.

"you really like holding me, huh? that's pookie coded of you, y'know, and-"

he stops when he touches the regice.

the surface of howard's pokemon felt too cold, but the sensation quickly changes when he feels the marks on his arm react to it. eyes widen like a curious cat when something happens immediately upon contact.

"woah!"

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focal point [m]

POSTED ON Apr 27, 2024 18:46:45 GMT

"i bet they are!" he says. "if pokemon eat 'em, then they must be good enough to eat, right? i bet we can juice 'em and-"

his musing is interrupted by something else catching nomi's attention. he follows her eyes when he notices his expression change, though he wasn't able to turn his head fast enough to catch the source of rustling.

"n-no?"

uncertainty comes to the fear of being wrong. he'd look uncool if he said something and it never happened.

he takes a few steps closer, but not outright going next to it. he tiptoes as he peeks, as if an extra inch or two of height will help him discern what was hidden behind the leaves.

"it ain't calyrex, right?"

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Manifest Destiny [M]

POSTED ON Apr 27, 2024 18:40:14 GMT

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priam matches oscar's stoicism, nodding his head along as he tries to explain what being in ultra desert entails at full volume. everything is committed to memory until he is reminded that he had been forgetting about things happening around him.

a hand nudges sand off of his hair.

"oh, thanks," he tells oscar softly.

the short intervention cuts the sincerity of their conversation to the sudden outburst of priam's enthusiasm for the project.

"does that mean we're going to make a greenhouse?! you know, the ones with the glass walls and stuff!"

indoor gardens still exist, but priam has never been seen a greenhouse before since hoenn never had a need to build one due to its tropical climate. anything new was cool, and his image of it was highly romanticized due to media he has seen.

he starts to imagine teatime with snacks surrounded by plants.

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blue [gym]

POSTED ON Apr 27, 2024 18:24:13 GMT

"if you're thinkin' like that, then i guess i have nothin' else to say!"

the drampa breaks through the dome. priam punches the air as if his fists could reach the dragon while his gabite stares at his trainer, waiting for a directive of sort based on priam's slightest body language and posturing.

"but i think you got the read on me wrong. i ain't here because i have some philosophical reason. i'm here 'cause fate said so."

that was the story of most rockets that had been in the organization since kanto. some may have adapted and shifted their opinions based on their circumstances, but priam remains in the middle, like every other grunt who believes they have no agency in the world.

priam turns to navy's pokemon, ready for another round with the drampa.

"ya wanna fight again?" he shouts. "we ain't backin' down anytime soon!"

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Tattoos, Statues, and Smackeroos [M]

POSTED ON Apr 27, 2024 4:13:37 GMT

"i dunno! it's just hot!"

the words come out of his mouth without much waiting, but after a few moments of pondering, a description starts to form in his head. priam yaps in real time as his head translates the sensation into words.

"but the warmth comes from the mark itself, like when you hold a hand warmer and don't realize it's getting hotter than what you're comfortable with, or push a cigarette against your skin, or or or, like when the computers overheat when someone runs a super complicated program and smoke forcibly comes out of it!"

the feeling was otherwordly, and there are no exact words to replicate the sensation. even if he knows what those were, they would be downplayed to support the idea that priam finds pain to be no big deal.

"it just flares up whenever it's near things related to it. the bigger and closer it is, the hotter it gets."

he feels like it also happened during the supposed galar dream, but there was no way of saying to prove if he just subconsciously made it up to make his story look more appealing or if it had been one of the tidbits that actually happened.

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Electric Boogaloo

POSTED ON Apr 26, 2024 15:35:26 GMT

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POSTED ON Apr 25, 2024 3:09:23 GMT

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the trip back feels weird. people were not acting themselves after the mask, and everyone is either too dazed or aggressive to talk to. he keeps mostly to himself, happy that they finally have something better for garbs.

he reaches the cell with Grigori Sokolov, where he promptly takes the cot. his cellmate doesn't seem to be the type to be assertive, but priam helps oil up the situation.

"hehe, the bed's open if you wanna share," he offers, snickering as he pats the cot. he lies down, scooting to a side to make ample space, if that was even a possibility for two grown men. "and it'll be there all night!"

tiredness and fatigue settle in. priam closes his eyes, and the dreams take hold sooner than expected.

"big guzzy!"

priam yells at the display of an oversized guzzlord in front of him.

still high from his vision from the mask, priam's false disposition of being a happy-go-lucky go-getter remains in its peak even within the dream. enthusiasm reaches off the charts the moment the ultra beast he never thought he'd see again appears.

this was the same guzzlord that trampled over mossdeep years ago, one that had been mentioned on old prophecies during their days of galar.

"oscar!" he shouts, voice echoing throughout the streets of megalopolis. "oscar! mister oscar clayton! you around?"

instead, it attracts the attention of a megalopolan.

"hey!" priam calls them, friendly as ever. "you guys have been here longer, right? do you know how to take 'em outta this thing?"

this is a dream for priam. nothing is real and everything is imaginary. the appearance of a megalopolan doesn't surprise him since it goes with the theme of his giant guzzlord and the setting of a futuristic city.

tl;dr

takes half the cot. offers the other half to greg.
sleeps
thinks it's an actual dream instead of lucid dreaming
sees giant guzzlord
asks megalopolan if they can take it out
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POSTED ON Apr 18, 2024 20:07:01 GMT

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"priam...?"

the voice of the beaten prisoner beside him shakes him to the core. he attempts to look away, but he remains frozen in place. he shudders, but eventually, he finds the strength to remains steady amid the situation.

this had been his reality before. this will be his reality from now on.

"y-yeah," he smiles, shrugging his shoulders as he attempts to be optimistic for oscar clayton despite everything. "what bad luck we all have, right?"

the sight of velmos brings a reaction from oscar, understandably so. "at least he doesn't seem to have a grudge on us," he comments with a humorous tone, thankful that they received no power tripping from him after capturing him during the war.

regardless, everything was still left up to the whims of their captors and they are forced to experience their desires.

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priam sees himself at the beaches of slateport, lagging behind the first wave of rockets aiming to overwhelm hoenn's forces during their initial invasion. he cheers and yells, supporting from the back while others spearhead the initiative.

he sees himself at a burning tower, going against a gym leader despite the recent death of his favorite pokemon. he doesn't seem unperturbed, and even managing to hold well. he wasn't soft, nor was he weak.

the vision cuts to a giant celesteela. it's just him and his arcanine, while his druddigon lays dead on the ground, stomach pierced through by a hyper beam from the ultra beast.

he then goes to a gym with a friend, stealing a specimen of a shadow pokemon from the gym leader. with it, he manages to procure an important reference for the research of artificially enhanced pokemon.

priam helps blow up a concert hall with the tree of life and escapes, narrowly condemning a few people to their deaths as a response to their overzealous mission to get him.

with the arm of the giant guzzlord, he participates in the bastardization of life itself and makes an abomination out of it with the sap from the same tree they blew up.

priam takes his guzzlord to demolish an entire tower to once again break the laws of nature to revive his gabite and--

priam participates in kidnapping the councilman with the help of--

priam helps oversee the production of genesect with--

priam leads rocket to the secrets of the world--

priam deliberately sabotages league--

priam stops the--

priam--

priam...

priam is happy that he is able to do all of these without breaking his spirit. he is fortunate enough that he can smile through everything and not find anything wrong. his parents may not have raised him like this, but he is proud that he is doing his best given his situation.

yeah, this is the best he can do with his situation. anything more or less will make things worse for him, especially since he's so well adjusted within the organization already. the great priam definitely doesn't need to change!

the priam that comes out after peering through the mask doesn't seem much different than the one that came before. the same hyperactive, optimistic grunt remains.

escorted to the next room, he meets those who go to shower with bright-eyed curiosity. there were no words that leave his mouth though, since a rocket grunt knows when to keep quiet and when to hog the attention to himself.

scalding hot water pours down on his bare skin, having forgone clothes to fit with the crowd. liquid drips down from the showers, tracing the toned sculpture of his body. size isn't everything, but priam wouldn't be shy to show off in this crowd now that he sees his competition.

tl;dr

tries to be optimistic
looks into the mask
priam's desire is to find normalcy in his daily life (being well-adjusted to rocket life)
showers with the rest, but doesn't talk bc it's awkward

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POSTED ON Apr 12, 2024 14:27:23 GMT

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Grigori Sokolov is really the only person priam gets close to, and it doesn't seem surprising when he turns out to be the person priam holds hands with.

"you guys are actually abstainin' after seein' all that?!"

they may be playing a game, but the house always wins. adding rules that don't correspond to what was already laid out risks the same punishment they've already seen on the screen.

priam wasn't a masochist. suffering doesn't make an enjoyable afternoon for him.

"if you wanna play hero, how about we stay alive instead? can't really protect your friends if you're already beaten black and blue, y'know."

beneath the mask, his expression is hidden. the devil's advocate plays, leaning to the side of realism and logic than blind optimism if it meant staying alive.

"maybe the chamber of desires has something that you guys want, like, i dunno, whatever it is you desire?" fairness? justice? salvation? their righteousness doesn't seem to know no bounds, even if it meant sacrificing the innocent people within their ward. "please, please, please, please! don't waste this opportunity for us!"

priam casts his vote. "dummy!"

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behaves himself
suggests that the chamber of desires can be their hope to better their position (to save people or otherwise)
doesn't play games in case that opportunity is taken away from them
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Tattoos, Statues, and Smackeroos [M]

POSTED ON Apr 12, 2024 5:53:50 GMT

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he hands the regi relic over, not thinking much about it. as far as things have went, nothing has happened with it, so priam thinks it's literally just a souvenir.

the marks seemed to take more of howard's attention.

"it's warm, i guess," he answers. "it gets super hot sometimes, but that's only for special cases like the one time when we got the slate on ultra deep sea."

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POSTED ON Apr 10, 2024 14:54:02 GMT

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"ugh, you're right, boss."

the nickname he accidentally calls @grigori comes from habit with the ever so rotating higher ups of the organization. his head correlates older to a superior, and it was clear grigori was one.

begrudgingly, he lets go of the bars, throwing himself away from it with exaggeration. priam behaves himself for now, seeing as there's no other choice.

obediently, he consumes his mochi and begins to work, positioning himself near his cellmate at all times as per his subconscious.

passive aggression first manifests when forced to clean each shard, polishing with loud movements to silently voice out frustrations, but after the first few, he finds himself in a groove. there's rhythm, and then there's content.

he finds himself bouncing to a song he sings in his head as he is reminded of the small little tasks he used to do in vermillion's warehouses during kanto's fall.

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behaves himself
eats mochi and gets to work
seemingly enjoys the mundane task

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POSTED ON Apr 6, 2024 3:21:39 GMT

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priam "wakes up".

grumbling, he scratches his stomach before lazily rolling off the cot from being given a wake up call, landing on the cold, hard floors of the jail cell. he immediately jolts back up.

"i'm awake!" he shouts, as if surprised by the shock of the impact.

he scrambles to his feet, acting in daze as confusion was supposed to override any kind of reaction from sleeping with a stranger. priam looks around, gauging the surroundings properly this time.

"w-wait, this isn't-" the sub, he wanted to say. "my bedroom!"

priam rushes to the bars, conveniently ignoring Grigori Sokolov so they don't have to address the fact that he had been cuddling with him. acting the supposed natural reaction out, priam skips one interaction for another.

"let me out! i didn't get caught this time, i swear!" he yells outside.

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"wakes up"
attempts to panic so he can ignore the awkward interaction with grigori
yells from inside his cell

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