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POSTED ON Feb 7, 2019 18:42:08 GMT

something about the beret atop his head, emblazoned with the league insignia no less, and the iconic maroon and black of the ranger uniform veils him in faux nobility; his borderline paranoia becomes harmless perceptiveness, his haughtiness becomes charisma, his sharp edges become dulled.

people look at him differently, and dominic smiles back because they don't know about the tattoos immortalising his affiliation inked into his skin under the black turtleneck.

upon catching sight of the councilman, dominic remains unmoving and statuesque for several long moments and waits for silph to come to him. he tries to make eye contact, and that should be enough. his pose is casual but the intensity of his gaze is anything but.

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POSTED ON Feb 7, 2019 17:39:50 GMT

dominic wonders if he should be annoyed, rocking on the balls of his momentarily before straightening to his full height, eyes narrowed to ruby slits but expression impassive.

the first mightyena launches forward, and a jerk of his chin sends his own pokemon forward. the houndoom leaps between his trainer and the foe. a roar halts the attacking mightyena in its steps, frozen into place for a long second until it is forced to withdraw into its trainer's pokeball. the gang member inhales sharply, but both dominic and the houndoom have turned their attention to the second pokemon.

"the kids...?" dominic echoes, the edges of his mouth slowly upturning to a mockery of a smile. "you can have them back, but the fossils are far more interesting."

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POSTED ON Feb 4, 2019 18:44:40 GMT

lunch rush, and he's sitting outside the food stall while his dish goes cold.

getting in contact with the silph was easier than expected; he pickpocketed a phone belonging to one of his multiple assistants and returned it promptly after retrieving his direct number.

the message sent is signed with a name that isn't his and reads as follows;

monday, 1pm, lilycove city, yiros stall on sea boulevard, ranger uniform jacket.

i pay my dues.

- ophelia harlow

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POSTED ON Jan 31, 2019 6:05:18 GMT

dominic nods along idly when emma speaks, snapping to attention only when she notes that the workers are missing something. he straightens himself to his full height to peer at the men through the greenery and part of the fencing, not quite able to catch their somewhat heated exchange.

he gives a contemplative sigh and returns his attention to the litter.

"i mean they're... sitting on something?" dominic says slowly, making out the edges of a number of bone-white shapes. he could make his houndoom scare them off; they didn't look aggressive and their growls are more pitiful than anything. as it is, a number of them seem to be backing away slowly.

taking whatever they're concealing by force seems unduly cruel, but neither is he going to risk sticking his hand in there.

"give it," dominic says in a tone that he hopes sounds commanding. the houndoom lowers itself to sit on its haunches and glares inside alongside his crouching trainer.

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POSTED ON Jan 31, 2019 5:03:04 GMT

the floorboards shatter at the darmanitan's punch, and dominic inclines his head side-ways to regard the onslaught. Alexei Ivanov's voice cuts through the sound of shattering of wood and series of attacks making contact with the statue pokemon.

deftly, the houndoom bounces back from the pokemon to his side, a black streak almost lost in the smoke. dominic can feel the pokemon's familiar warmth against his leg.

"flamethrower at the eye," he says, tossing out a pokeball to return the pokemon almost immediately.

dominic doesn't wait to see if it lands or if it has any effect. he could make out a figure - maybe two? - exit the room through the stairs behind the darmanitan and he won't let anyone reach raskolnikov before he's done with him. narrowing his eyes, dominic follows suit, edging along the wall towards the exit.

≫ commands houndoom to pull back to him and to use flamethrower at the blank eyes
≫ returns houndoom to his pokeball
≫ cautiously starts heading towards the exit
≫ houndoom gets two rolls + picks higher one

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POSTED ON Jan 27, 2019 4:57:27 GMT

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he inches closer to a gathering cluster of people, and overhears the tail-end of Lucas Lane's suggestion. if speed is their primary concern - with whatever raskolnikov was up to and with the smoke catching up - any true combat only serves to stall them. the best option is to incapacitate or bypass the two eerie darmanitan completely.

dominic contemplates returning his houndoom when he sees a burst of water splutter forth, but opts not to for now. at least the statue pokemon's fire can't particularly hurt him, and he trusts the pokemon to fall back to his side if it needs to.

the underboss catches someone mention the darmanitan's eyes, and finds himself gritting his teeth in thought. an apt observation, and indeed he can see their asymmetrical eyes, but the relevance is lost on him. they have more pressing concerns; whatever the pair were designed to do, they shouldn't be allowed to complete their goal.

"incapacitate them," he orders, steely-eyed. he rolls the pokeball between his fingers, ready to return him at moment's notice.

the houndoom gives a furious roar. it might not end the battle entirely, but it should at least scatter them away from the group, leaving them vulnerable and incapacitated. hell, if they're lucky the pokemon might flee entirely. the next moment the pokemon leaps forward, intending to fasten its fangs around one of the darmanitan's throats in a crunch strong enough to shatter stone.

≫ overhears parts of lucas' idea
≫ houndoom uses roar to intimidate the darmanitan into being temporarily pacified and/or dying on the spot pls
≫ houndoom uses crunch on one of the darmanitan's, aiming for the jugular
≫ houndoom gets two rolls + picks higher one

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POSTED ON Jan 26, 2019 18:51:32 GMT

"unusual place for a litter," he agrees slowly. "but it seems to not just be small, but also a thief, i could swear he was carrying something with him." arceus, he almost sounds fond of the little bastard.

dominic nonchalantly closes the distance between where he had paused and the source of the noise and peers around his pokemon into what seems like the entrance to a disused and somewhat overgrown storm drain.

he has to blink the remnants of lethargy from his eyes and allow himself to adjust to the gloom, but he can make out the writhing forms of at least half a dozen dark-furred mutts. their exact pedigree eludes him, but he can only be certain that they aren't of the same kind as his houndoom.

their yelps turn to whines and then to growls, as if somewhat afraid but unwilling to let any of them draw any closer. awfully protective, but he can't fault them.

dominic pauses to take in their red eyes and over-sized fangs, suddenly strikingly aware of the fact that he has no knowledge of hoenn's local pokemon. he turns his head to look at emma.

"what is that breed?" he says flatly and not even remotely ashamed of his ignorance on the matter.

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POSTED ON Jan 24, 2019 4:17:13 GMT

external and internal fires drive dominic up the stairs with reckless abandon, adrenaline thumping in his veins. this is it, maybe, the reason he does shit like this.

only when the group reaches the second floor is he able to heave a breath, glad for the scarf covering the elated grin on his face. the chase is what he is made for, anything for the temporary spark that makes him feel alive.

stilling, dominic eyes the group for a long moment, his gaze resting on NIKOLAI PETROV. he can tell that the flames had unusual properties - first because he's familiar with the ever-burning fire houndoom produces, and secondly, because he saw the way the fire turned the traitor's skin to ash.

he always thought it would be satisfying but it feels as empty as seizing slateport did. dominic regards NIKOLAI PETROV and Emma Wolfe for a long moment, unsure of what to make of it or what conclusion to draw. the man would most likely die, and perhaps he deserves empathy, but dominic knows nikolai wouldn't extend him the same courtesy.

dominic watches him struggle with something akin to satisfaction before turning at FERNANDO SILPH's words. "we're ready," he says calmly, gesturing to his houndoom. the pokemon raises his shackles and lowers his maw to the ground, waiting to spring into action like a coiled spring.

the man wants to lead? then let him. they all know what happened to the last man who tried to marshal the group.

≫ side-eyes emma and nikolai
≫ follows fernando's directions

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he can't say he's surprised it's raskolnikov. more than a handful of defectors had come and gone, but the memory of this one rattles around in his skull as someone prone to this type of neurotic behaviour.

the flames licking at the walls around them interrupt his thoughts, and dominic finds himself frozen for several long seconds. the fires itself don't daunt him because dominic has set more than enough of his own; but he knows that he just can never quite set them out.

as the chaos breaks out around him, he clicks his tongue in irritation. he's always fought fire with fire and this time will be no different. in a smooth and practiced motion, he flicks his wrist to release a houndoom from its capsule.

"keep the path clear," dominic calls out to it as he pulls a pair of goggles (convenient of the ranger outfit he had lifted to include these, really) over his eyes to protect against the acrid smoke and hoists the scarf around his neck up to smother his mouth.

while the others had the sense to bring water-types, its his pokemon that can manipulate the blaze to his whims. as the pair follow the group to the exits, dominic scoffs at the heroism of those staying behind to let them pass. the houndoom at his side revels in the blaze, plunging in and out of the flames with the ease afforded to it by its flash fire ability.

but he is caspian ellery today; senior ranger of the league.

dominic passes the heroes on the staircase, but halts against his better judgement. he should let them die, but in truth, he just can't stomach the smell of burnt flesh any more and that's the exact moment he knows he's going soft.

"any of you need help?" he calls back over his shoulder. even through the loud crackling of the fire, he can tell his tone is heavily sardonic.

≫ has goggles and a scarf against the smoke bc of his ranger uniform : )
≫ asks houndoom to control the fire as best it can, houndoom gets powered up and is unharmed due to flash fire
≫ reaches the staircase and somewhat mockingly offers help to those hanging back (i think that'd be Dallas Rhodes, FERNANDO SILPH and kim cole-essam?)

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POSTED ON Jan 17, 2019 6:41:18 GMT

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he's here because he doesn't trust silas' judgment and nor does he trust the mission directive. rocket is a sinking ship and if anyone knows why it has the be the defector.

admirable to try to pull an escape like that, really. but if you want to be chased you just have to run. and as expected, there was a call to hunt, and they followed. but more than a head on a platter, dominic hungers for answers. even the jirachi is secondary. children's story or myth, the concept doesn't crystallise in his mind as anything of substance.

dominic's gaze slices through the gathering group like a knife, and he can pick out some of his subordinates with relative ease. others are more difficult but he's always had a knack for picking out his ilk - maybe it's something in the eyes.

his own disguise is almost half-hearted - a colour-faded senior ranger jacket he picked out in the league headquarters after they took slateport, the name badge reads c. ellery.

hanging back at the rear of the group, dominic surveys how they spread out to the braziers with little interest until he sees another rocket ghost attempting to marshal them into cohesiveness. oh, how disappointing it would be if this is all it took to solve gain entrance. he hopes the ground opens up and swallows them all whole.

rather than remain alone and thus vulnerable to attention, dominic levels alongside a man and his charizard. he remembers the face from somewhere but can't quite place it, hazarding a ghost of a sharp smile; their identities a shared secret.

"i wouldn't stand too close to those. it might be explosive if one of ours set it up," he says quietly, narrowing his eyes at the braziers. at the least that's what he would have done if he were running.

≫ disguised as a league senior ranger named caspian ellery
≫ side-eyes everyone
≫ stands with jayde cross and says hi

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POSTED ON Jan 17, 2019 5:43:01 GMT

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replacing perse with dominic, he's non-de but the pokemon are

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POSTED ON Jan 17, 2019 5:29:02 GMT

maybe dominic wouldn't have noticed it if he wasn't watching the outskirts of the town carefully. like an afterimage, a patch of ground near the water-side begins to shift. he blinks rapidly and wonders if his mind is playing tricks on his.

true - he has been edging insomnia for the better part of his life, and the move to hoenn made it worse. is this what severe sleep deprivation looks like? like a flickering of grass and water? like its taking shape, humanoid? like its approaching him?

its too close and he's relieved when he sees black fur and teeth because at least that's familiar. when he produces an empty capsule and offers it to the pokemon it's not a suggestion, it's a demand.

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POSTED ON Jan 17, 2019 5:14:13 GMT

- redeeming winter ball reward type 1 evolution, pawniard -> bisharp
- redeeming winter ball reward level tutor move, guillotine for above bisharp
- buying type 3 evolution ( -50 ), whirlipede -> scolipede

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POSTED ON Jan 17, 2019 5:11:30 GMT

dominic gives emma's suggestion an idle dip of his head in acknowledgement, his attention fixed on his pokemon. snout pressed to the ground, the houndoom began to piece together the little attacker's path with his odor sleuth, tail lashing from side to side with barely contained anticipation.

it barely took him a heartbeat to find the correct path, and the pokemon lurched forward, dominic following a few paces behind for several moments inhaling a last lungful of smoke before crushing the cigarette under his heel and turning to emma to see if she follows.

"weird for something so small to have the audacity to come so close to us, especially in the city," he ponders aloud, his narrow-eyed gaze turning from her to the excavation site behind them.

dominic's moment of contemplation is broken by yapping and yelping that sounded like puppies and was certainly not his houndoom. hell, that pokemon didn't sound so pathetic and high-pitched even prior to his evolution years ago.

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