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POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 8:05:49 GMT

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Grasping her prize proudly, and
Invigorated, the pair press forward.
Vivacity in her step,
Energy in lustera's... floating?

Maybe the trip was worth their time after all.
Everything comes full circle between them.

Tentacle-like arm prodding
Her shoulder, perse turns to see
Energetic shuffling in the grass.

She nudges the leafy blades with
Her foot, jumping back
In spite of herself as something
Nudges her foot back with the long and
Yellowed claw of a charmander.

Finding another empty safari ball, she
Inches forward,
Step by minute step
Hovering uncertainly over the grass.

Persephone hesitates and turns to
Lustera, who doesn't share her apprehension, and
She tosses the pokeball into the grass underfoot.

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POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 2:32:44 GMT

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the reasons for not taking up silph on the offer of accommodation and medical attention over the past week had been three-fold. persephone didn't feel she needed it and didn't want to be a drain on resources when she had been one of the few who had suffered the least, for one. for another, the memory of the titan gave her no rest, and she couldn't wait to return to her mother's library in sootopolis.

most persuasively, however, she was just too afraid? too anxious? to see the silph heir again. it was inevitable, but even the week of thinking about it made her blood run hot with nerves.

persephone hopes she's lost in the stream of faces when she enters, returning fernando's greeting with a weak, "hello, fernando," it didn't go at all as how she imagined it would. though she's struck momentarily by how tired he looked, she resists approaching him .

instead, taking care to not freeze up, she's quick to take a seat next to the most dignified and poised man in the room, although it took her another embarrassingly long few seconds to recognise him. unsure if he even knew who she was, she smiled at him almost apologetically for her presence, and folded her hands neatly on the table.

≫ went back to sootopolis after raid to collect notes
≫ awkwardly says hi to FERNANDO SILPH
≫ sits with Malcolm Stone

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 15:18:39 GMT

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up close he is somehow taller and broader than she expected, though also kinder and less intimidating when you can see the detail of his face. he looks almost shy approaching her, and with an anxious pang in her stomach, persephone makes a conscious effort to relax her default, vaguely hostile expression to something more jovial. others have commented that she has a tendency to look cold and haughty, and she hopes he didn't see or misunderstand it as a mockery.

wallowing in their own - probable - mutual embarrassment at least gave them another thing to bond over other than collecting trash.

with the due care and precision of a surgeon doing a much more serious procedure than this, persephone twists the bag into place around the man's arm with a couple of seafarer's knots she had learned from her grandma as a kid. after a few moments and seemingly satisfied with her work, she takes a step back to survey the job, clapping his shoulder in a gesture that she swiftly realises might have been too over-familiar. "let me know if it's too tight or uncomfortable, but it should at least hold," she said sheepishly.

thankfully, he introduces himself and smiles, and relieved, she smiles back instinctively, a quick quirk at the corners of her mouth that feels like her muscles are being pulled up by invisible strings. the sudden awareness of how long it's been since she's had a reason to smile at someone made it bittersweet, but it was still more sweet than the alternative. "persephone, but just perse is fine in a pinch."

taking her own bag and a waste picker from the 'slateport beach trash collection station,' persephone sends a wry look leon's way, threatening to smile again. "i kind of don't want a bunch of families and stuff watching me pick up trash so i'm glad the place is empty and it's just us," she admits.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 15:18:20 GMT

when he returns, elysia's delight is tempered by the predeiction that he would come back to them. she was right in the ultimate outcome; she could read him well enough to know where his loyalties lay - like stars in the sky that she'd connect into constellations, a series of clues that she could only link through constructed lines and guesswork.

she misunderstood; just because the human eye sees stars close to one another at night, doesn't make them actually in each other's vicinity in the cosmos.

in other words, when elysia catches his head in her hands and has to lean up to press her lips in a kiss on his forehead, she misses the electric undercurrent between them, willful ignorance or just obliviousness on her part, the truth of it carried to her grave. when her daughter wraps her arms around his neck laughing, she's beaming at them and misses that his eyes are still on her.

she doesn't ask him how he found them; they never hid, and regardless, the heart has a way.

it would be unconscionable to directly ask him to come work for her because ultimately elysia felt she knew she exerted enough influence over him for him to accept even to his own detriment. the offer was, as it always is with her, tacit.

sifting through the research pieces he had brought to them alongside her own texts in their new temporary home and office (a dusty art nouveau apartment in johto's goldenrod city), elysia eventually looks up from the page to survey first fernando, then persephone asleep on a sofa, with an uncharacteristic seriousness, contemplative, and eyes narrowed.

"i'm so proud of the man you're growing into," she eventually said, with a finality that meant that she had nothing more to add. being laconic was in her nature.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 8:14:40 GMT

malcolm is less of a bitch, she wanted to say, but instead continued smiling.

"sorry, councilman," perse said, trying her best to sound genuinely sorry. "it's just a lot to take in. the interior design is lovely." the sounds of the television in the background are a welcome distraction and she moves forward quickly at the offer as though to offer her assistance.

"some water would be nice, thank you." the news mentions something about the council members and perse inclines her head to listen closer.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 7:51:45 GMT

she shouldn't be surprised, so perse clamps her jaw firmly shut and looks at a point somewhere vaguely over yiannis' shoulder. unsure if he was joking, she smiled a faint somewhat plaintive smile.

"i'm not sure about that, mr castilla-somerville." or was she meant to call him councilman?

"i just have some papers from the shipyard for both of you, actually." without asking for permission ( faux pas ) she awkwardly heaved the stack of folders onto the impressive table.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 7:16:13 GMT

she didn't mind the idea of visiting the castilla-somervile residence because she was, ultimately, curious how the wealthy live, but the idea grew into a cold little stone in her throat the higher the elevator went. she'd pulled out a pencil skirt and adult-looking blouse for this and hated her reflection in the mirrored walls even more.

the doors ping her arrival. persephone winces in pre-emptive shame.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 6:38:40 GMT

"i miss when you didn't have those," perse says breathlessly, shaking off the arm lustera had drooped over her shoulder. she loathed to describe the touch of her precious pokemon as unpleasant but the fact was no other descriptor could be appropriate - it felt like a cold, vaguely-moist-and-yet-somehow-warm, floppy tentacle.

lustera snatched her fire-tipped hand away momentarily as though stung, but then proceeded to give a series of incessant prods in perse's side anyway, swiveling them in a bizarre circular motion from her to a shaking bush near her feet that she would have otherwise missed. at least it didn't smell bad, or perse would have bolted again.

dropping to her knees to peer into the undergrowth cautiously, perse came face-to-face with the scariest pikachu she'd ever seen; crumpled ears and glasgow smile. only secondarily did she noticed the broken-looking neck, the shaking and the little sobbing noises, and the fact that it wasn't a pikachu at all.

"wow you're so cute!" she says without thinking. the sobbing stops, and the pokemon raises its head to see if she's mocking it. "your little rag is damaged, right? that's okay, the work you've done on it looks really detailed, i've never seen a mimikyu with a design that intricate," perse continued as the lil guy straightened up proudly.

she offers him an empty safari ball, he slides in as though he's been waiting for it.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 4:08:13 GMT

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a foul smell came over their immediate vicinity and perse found herself gagging and unable to breathe. by arceus, even the ghost pokemon by perse's side bunched up her candlestick arms in front of her face (?), bristling. chandelures don't even have noses, and that's how bad it was.

the trubbish plopped out the gross in front of them, staring at them irreverently. blinking with its stupid eyes.

perse's eyes were watering. she considered telling lustera to burn the shit out of it and leave nothing but a scorch mark in its place, but that somehow seemed ridiculously cruel, and wasn't burning garbage a bad source of greenhouse gas emissions?

instead, she turns on her heel and flees, chandelure bobbing along behind her.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 3:39:47 GMT

she used to come here with her mother. actually, that in isolation isn't a particularly notable statement because it could be applied to almost everywhere in hoenn. the river outside fortree, the lavaridge hot springs, the caves outside rustboro.

coming back here was mainly meant to be for the sake of lustera - her chandelure, who had finally evolved after over a decade in her care, and was originally caught in the safari zone under the watchful eye of her mother, the trip to the safari zone a 10th birthday present no less.

"don't remember much from here, do you?" perse asked the pokemon, not really expecting a coherent answer. floating slightly overhead and swinging her weird candlestick arms around in a gentle swaying motion, perse interpreted the chandelure's gesture as a no.

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POSTED ON Oct 16, 2018 1:15:01 GMT

safari ticket pls pls pls <3

ily, sorry about the mod work, but not sorry enough to give up a chance at feebas and a mincinno tho

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POSTED ON Oct 15, 2018 6:51:45 GMT

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are there things that elysia wouldn't put words around? yes, for the first time. jagged edges and broken off pieces that she won't cast a light on, words and phrases better left untranslated. the meaning is inferred between the lines, in the space between them, in how she held his hands then and, as he vowed his life to her, she vowed to protect his too.

something like ownership, barely anything like parenthood.

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whether she could provide what he wanted or needed was debatable, lost somewhere in her own interests and stories, telling legends from a region far from here. rolling her sleeves up to show the long, white lines against tanned skin, elysia grins and tells him they're meant to be a protection symbols, bordering on cultish, the belief that the water pokemon of hoenn's mythos would protect them if its sigils are inked into skin.

the love and nostalgia for her home continent grew sharper in the change of seasons, but the thought of displacing their comfort hadn't seemed a viable possibility.

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elysia always said that the most striking difference between them was that fernando looked to the future - to innovation and ambition - whereas persephone looked backward - to history, to the arcane, to the question of how we got here. persephone, in the vague and philosophical musings of a teenager, tries to not be bitter when she says that the future depends on the past, not the other way around.

her caution bled out with the months, when his presence served to become less of an intrusion and more a a stark otherness that she could tolerate but not fully accept. it's a makeshift family, but persephone can't shake the feeling that she simply wasn't enough. calling fernando "like a brother," she watches their facial expression to give her an answer to questions she couldn't phrase and had to read in their eyes instead;

what is this? what are we? and then, the one that hurt the most in hindsight. when will we end?

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POSTED ON Oct 15, 2018 4:52:59 GMT

the place was disgusting and it offended the peak of her sensibilities; the veritable beauty of one of hoenn's premier beaches, even if it were a tourist trap and thus inherently tainted. it'd be easy to place the blame on the shoulders of tourists from other regions, but perse had the latent feeling that it was the pigs from lavaridge, who tended to be, in her objective opinion, the most disrespectful and irreverent ones.

gazing at the absolute piles upon piles of trash littering the beach with exasperated wringing of her hands, perse wondered if this was a hopeless exercise. surely more people were meant to turn up. she won't admit to herself she only came for the pitifully small amount they were paying, for expenses that she also wouldn't admit to herself.

seeing another person was a surprise in isolation, seeing his lack of an arm was somewhat stunning, and seeing him fiddling around with a plastic bag was just outright shocking. perse watched him struggle for several long moments, not sure whether it is appropriate to laugh before approaching him.

"here to clean the beach too?" she said, by way of announcing her presence. the words do you want a hand with that? died on her tongue, and she tried to continue smoothly, neutrally and as professionally as someone who was commissioned to pick up rubbish could be.

"do you need some help with that?"

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POSTED ON Oct 15, 2018 3:41:47 GMT

buying type 2 & type 3 evolution for 50 poke each; litwick -> chandelure <3

it finally happened and not at the expensive of my gacha addiction.

-100 poke

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POSTED ON Oct 15, 2018 3:36:25 GMT

honestly persephone just wanted to see this trainwreck in action, and to start unnecessary petty bullshit.

she's happy to settle for second best dragon pokemon because that's what she deserves.

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