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POSTED ON Dec 5, 2018 18:38:57 GMT

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her intrusion is as obvious as a flare being set off.

amateurish, alone, league girls are so predictable. from appearances alone, she doesn't look like she belongs in the slateport lower district even had it been still standing, but her decisive pace made him assume she was intending to achieve something specific. regardless, dominic follows from the rooftops through the streets; grand leaps and bounds that remind him of doing the same in his youth in saffron.

he has the aerial advantage, the element of surprise, pokemon trained to kill.

he's unthreatened in these streets, in the city that belongs to them, where a whistle is all it takes to swarm a location with pin-point precision.

Stormy Silph, sorry
FERNANDO SILPH, observe or don't
Chu-e Choi, found her for you, thank me later

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POSTED ON Dec 5, 2018 18:19:40 GMT

he doesn't respond, doesn't take the words to heart because they're meaningless posturing intended to intimidate him. he knows as much, he's seen it before.

regardless, dominic doesn't flinch back even though he knows what silas is capable of; his prior actions in kanto, every moment leading up to this one, are all in combination a testament to his worth and questioning it is naught but an empty threat.

dominic raises a shoulder in a languid shrug at his words, but his answer is interrupted by his superior's capture of the pokemon. dominic watches with little interest until movement at the wayside attracts his attention. the houndoom lurches forward, flames licking at his paws as they strike the ground.

he grabs the pokemon in his jaw with the crushing force of a crunch, head inclined slightly to read his trainer's response; live or die. dominic flicks his hand dismissively, and the swalot's fate is decided as an inferno catches it in its blaze.

the result? a purple puddle on the ground.

"i'm sorry you feel that way, silas. ezra and i are the best you have." unfortunately.

SILAS BLACKWELL + skipping swalot

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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2018 3:28:44 GMT

he'll stand down, this time.

he wouldn't be doing his duty if he left his superior unchecked, hierarchy is a system of checks and balances. for now, dominic bites his tongue. no doubt silas was on edge, even if the invasion was by all current accounts a success.

"i don't know, it's difficult to measure hypotheticals."

SILAS BLACKWELL + wildspawn

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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2018 2:46:06 GMT

dominic scoffs, turning away to observe the city again.

"no shit," he repeats. a second passes before he continues, he voice dripping with a mockery that he couldn't pass up but won't push any further.

"did you want me there?"

SILAS BLACKWELL + wildspawn

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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2018 2:37:03 GMT

bitch never use this line as a impromptu lilycove missed connections ever again

the spark of irritation dies as quickly as it ignited. he drops the burner phone to the ground and crushes it under his heel.

Chu-e Choi

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POSTED ON Dec 3, 2018 16:59:21 GMT

slateport smoulders.

dominic can taste its death, acrid on his tongue. smoke plumes into the sky not unlike the coils from his houndoom's blood-flecked maw. the pokemon paces at his feet, still tense with adrenaline. dominic occupied himself with reading the updates on his phone, sporadic as they are due no doubt to the ongoing power-outage.

someone's failure. not his.

it's enough for him to hear the footsteps to identify the man. dominic jerks his head back to look at the silas, scrutinising him through narrowed eyes.

"the power is still out."

a simple statement that they're both aware of.

SILAS BLACKWELL + wildspawn

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THE AURORUS WINTER BALL

POSTED ON Dec 3, 2018 8:53:06 GMT

the renewed commotion is visible only if you're looking for it - for the ripple of hotel uniforms in the crowd, a long chain passing on his simple request.

he sees the beast, catches her gaze but gives no acknowledgement beyond that. he can blend in to a reasonable degree, but he doesn't belong the way she does, and he won't risk her cover. it's enough to know she's there.

watching them scatter is oddly irritating. dominic turns his back and stalks over to the doorway to the ballroom, watching the dancers, but it's stillness that catches his eye. he sees more faces, more ghosts, more beasts, more demons; beings that belong under his heel.

his lip curls in disgusted recognition.

oh, nikolai is right. there are more. dominic can see them in the masses. invisible to the untrained eye, he can identify them with a glance because he knows a kindred spirit. nikolai never did stop being one of their own.

time passes.

≫ acknowledges marie jules
≫ lingers between the grand entrance and the ballroom as he waits
≫ sees @devo1 and NIKOLAI PETROV talking
≫ 1/3 posts until dominic gets the key card to FERNANDO SILPH 's weird torture room

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THE AURORUS WINTER BALL

POSTED ON Dec 2, 2018 7:14:57 GMT

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they pass him by only because he allows them to.

the man looks like the type who only ever lets his pokemon fight for him; what muscle he may have is aesthetic only. it would make dominic smirk, but what humour lingers is dashed by the plea in songbird's voice.

she is an asset, and even though he was under inferred orders to observe only, the risk of anyone interfering with her in any way isn't one he could allow. leaving her alone with that man is pragmatically irresponsible at best, ethically unconscionable at worst.

he cocks his head side-ways, surveying them as they disappear into one of the far rooms. a blinking light as the door opens and he knows lock-picking isn't an option. when the door clicks shut, he lurches into action, his eyes lighting up with renewed purpose as he descends down the spiral staircase.

dominic could send an alert from his phone with a single key-stroke, swarm the room, break the door off its hinges. he could have his pokemon smog them out. neither option is suitable.

at the grand entrance, he searches for a particular man, a hotel employee and undercover rocket; his in and the chief reason he had garnered entrance to the event at all. dominic catches the man by his arm and jerks him toward him with little regard for the tray of hors d'oeuvres that he was balancing. cupping his hand over the man's ear to speak, dominic whispers his demands with a threatening urgency.

it's like dominoes falling into place.

soon he'll have the hotel's copy of the key-card to the room, and if not that, he'll force the hotel security to unlock the door remotely.

no one can deny a rocket underboss.

≫ why can't we just have a peaceful event :pepehands:
≫ is unimpressed with FERNANDO SILPH
≫ concerned about evelyn silph 's well-being
≫ forces an undercover rocket hotel employee to find a copy of the keycard to the door (will take about 3 dominic posts fyi)

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THE AURORUS WINTER BALL

POSTED ON Nov 30, 2018 2:54:32 GMT

he looted the suit from slateport - a little crushed shop he'd heard much lavished praise for. it is as though tailored for him; obsidian, with the vague hint of ash and dust clinging to the fabric as well as it clings to his frame.

dominic has to rest his hands on the marble staircase railing because otherwise his hands itched for a cigarette and it was all he could do to smooth the permanent snarl from his expression, jaw tight, shoulders raised; like a coiled spring waiting for something to happen.

he heard the voices below and was intending to head down, but they decide to come to him.

commotion at the steps, he turns to watch with a smile and a fluidity that seems unnatural for someone of his stature.

"i thought i heard kanto dialects."

his smile shows his teeth.

≫ dominic who?
≫ was observing what was going on from atop the staircase
≫ sees evelyn silph being... abducted?
≫ intercepts FERNANDO SILPH

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winning a bet [c]

POSTED ON Oct 31, 2018 8:45:24 GMT

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he wasn't intending to find anyone there, most definitely not the league commissioner, let alone alone. he halts a fair distance away - not the time nor place to act, and anyway, he's cosignant enough to realise his stature erred on the side of intimiating.

he knows her face from any manner of sources, and momentarily, it looks like she knows his too. the recognition passes quickly and he dismisses it with the ghost of a smile.

"the ships...?" he echoes, turning slowly to follow her gaze to the dockside.

he's not sure why he continues to speak, maybe the silence stretching out between them compels him to.

"i grew up in a land-locked city so the novelty of it still hasn't worn off on me."

his eyes are glued to the largest of the ships - an impressive sleek vessel, polished to a perfect silver-blue chrome that manages to shine even in the rain.

dahlia goode

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capitol [wild, solo]

POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 12:31:59 GMT

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the scene could only be best described as nauseating to the point that dominic's lip curled in disgust rather than in the typical for him haughty sneer.

he disliked the way the hair on the back of his neck stood up so he opted to quickly move on, sliding through the alleyways without having to call for the houndoom - he knew he would follow.

this time the sucker punch hit him squarely in the shoulder, sending him reeling back into a brick wall, doubled over in pain and still laughing. he liked this one - at least it could land a hit.

a whistle is enough; khayat came bounding from the shadows with a feint attack to pin the croagunk down, his flamethrower particularly painful against the pokemon's dry skin.

dominic throws the pokeball before the houndoom shreds this one, too.

@wild spawn / capture attempt

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capitol [wild, solo]

POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 4:50:32 GMT

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it tried to attack out the shadows with a sucker punch, a spiked arm lined with a dark spectral energy. the cacturne missed because inexplicably, the rocket and his pokemon weren't expecting it.

dominic's heaving sigh was disappointed, and that was enough for the houndoom to lunge forward, snarling through the pricks of pain from spiky shield on his snout as he buries his teeth in its throat with a neck-snapping crunch. he cocks his head sideways to watch his pokemon attack, bone-white fangs against flashing flames, his own blank and contemplative stare.

"were you really that hungry?" the whisper of kanto in his dialect is lost against the sound of snapping teeth and tearing plant matter. "don't make a fucking mess."

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