AQUA 001: TAPU KOKO

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silph
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silph co. ceo
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FERNANDO SILPH
AQUA 001: TAPU KOKO
POSTED ON Mar 2, 2021 7:35:57 GMT
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❝She hides, no longer. I know who you are, Desmarais.❞

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Henceforth, Selena Desmarais will be suspended from the League and her position as Lilycove’s Gym Leader rescinded until the League can conduct a full investigation into her involvement and lack of cooperation in regards to the Littleroot Incident.


There is a thought. An unbridged rage conceived by the revelation that five years of work can be so easily untangled by the incessant interference of mere buffoons’. It grows until it can no longer sustain itself. Like well stacked dominos, the truth crumbles with the clatter of each dropping piece, successive ‘clinks’ that resonate with a growing temper.

He seethes in intensity.



The culminations of the League Press Conference results in more than Selena’s temporary disbarment from her post as Gym Leader. It reveals to Fernando a long sought after answer to the question that has preplexed him to no end. Who was responsible for Littleroot?

.

Such a simple answer seems unbefitting when held against how many restless nights he’s spent combing through the reports. Through the broken camera footage. Through any scraps of information in a demented attempt to piece together the worst League operation to have occurred during his tenure.

It’s not the fact that ‘they’ lost.

It’s the fact that it’s a blight on his record.

Before his allegiance to the League, there is a solemn promise that demands a loyalty above all else—himself. To have someone on his own side serve as a hindrance to his performance, to his goals, to the results that may have allowed them to explore beyond what was thought capable, is absolutely unredeemable. Tapu Koko be damned.

Selena be damned.

There is no exemption whether it be legal, title, or organizational. herself can come down at Selena’s behest but even the Commissioner bears no weight against his tenacity. At the very least, he will have his answers. Even if he has to ram his hand down her throat to tear it from her gullet.

There is no escape from damnation, merely delaying the inevitable.

What’s left of ’s fractured subconscious can confirm as much.

Formations.”

There is no need to heed his call. His Pokemon, Legends in their own right, have come under the one force in Hoenn that they refuse to undermine. Time and time again, the Councilman has proven himself in front of them, against all adversity, and these mystical beings are reduced to the caste they were never meant to leave. In the face of Fernando’s unhinged march, they are nothing more than Pokemon.

Obedient Pokemon.

Silvally. Beast Killer. Terror of the Three Day War.

Zygarde. Unknown. A beast unseen and misunderstood.

These canines flank the Councilmen with a cordial gait that leaves purebred Arcanines envious. The way their chins jaunt upwards, condescending, poised, reeks of money. But there is no merit in showboating. The way their steps match pace, each stride coordinated, come with a poignant purpose. Their timing must be perfect in the advent of an attack so they proceed with confident caution.

This is not a show of force. This is absolute.

Vantage is not private property. Vantage is not a series of buildings with varied purpose. Vantage is not a campus Selena will find safety in. It is merely a landscape where she resides. And Fernando approaches with impunity, eyes deluded in a haze of contempt so sharp it matches the seamless crease of his perfectly ironed trousers and dress shirt.

His appearance is immaculate. His style is pristine. Compliments to his stylist , Fernando is perfection on the surface because he cannot accept anything less going into this. This is his one chance at something greater.

He must be because there is no stopping the AQUA INITIATIVE.

Therein lies ’s mistake. Hoenn may not have been Selena’s home but it will be now. She has no choice. None of them have much of a choice. The only question is will they see the roundabout method before it’s too late? Fernando hedges his money on an option call of ‘no’, well invested on the result with his exit plan well hashed ahead of time.

Today comes with a resolution that will start an era the League is not ready for.

This is Silph. I’m here for Desmarias.

Fernando enters the building by force if needed. Steel and glass cannot hold him. They may delay, opting for the easiest route of passage, but even that will crumble should it choose to oppose him.

Had either of them knew anything more, that perhaps this was all the opportune machinations of Team Rocket, nothing would change. would have his gratitude. Because as well verse as Fernando is in conflict, he cannot fault his opponent for making the correct play. There is no maliciousness in opposition. It is the faltering failures of his own side that demand reparations.

And he will have them.

Tapu Fini is the manifestation of such frustrations. The island Deity comes from the MISTY TERRAIN that floods from the pronounced green of his veins, obtrusive and blatant against the ghastly pale white tone of his skin. A complete contrast, shelled in a black carapace so dark it encompasses the yin to his yang.

It too crosses the threshold of someone wronged.

They are the VINDICTIVE.

❝Where is she?❞




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Selena Desmarais
AQUA 001: TAPU KOKO
POSTED ON Mar 2, 2021 15:26:38 GMT
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“Who says I’m hiding, Mr. Councilor?”

Selena walks out of her office, her august figure descending down the stairs leading to the lounge.

The first warning comes when Tapu Koko emerges from their abode, the capsule bares open for the legend to greet their avatar. The second comes when all of the lines buzz like an angry herd of tauros during the Oldale Spirit Festival. The last comes when the pink mist seeps through the slits of her door, taking her by surprise and wonder.

The misty surge cackles in contact with her own ELECTRIC TERRAIN, and when it does, she simply stares at Tapu Koko’s eyes and nods her head.

It is time.

“I’m surprised it took this long for you to come here. Were you lost, perhaps?”

The pinkette continues her stride down the narrow corridor, her heels clacking against the marbled flooring as she closes the distance between her and the councilor. Even when she is totally surrounded by the authorities both in front and on her rear, her calm demeanor protects her from the hostility of her visitors. The receptionist Paige, on the other hand, struggles to look at her boss as she hides away from fear and paranoia.

“There’s no need for all these aggression, Councilor Silph. Nothing to be so aggressive about such a trivial matter.”

Seeing all this animosity, the pinkette is under the impression that what is revealed—or rather insinuated—during the press conference is last straw with regards to her. She is done reading his character from all the interactions they have shared for the past few weeks: Fernando is nothing but an open book except that you have to read between the lines, the words hidden on the pages, and the messages coded in the text.

He is self-centered and goal-oriented, ambitious and ingenious, lethal and feral.

The seat in which he finds himself sitting fits his humongous appetite for power and control. She doubts his desire for servitude if they do not serve his reputation. She sees his desire for absolute control with absolute disgust.

Selena was known around the world for her battle against authorities and terrorists alike. Such is the job of a journalist who is committed to the exposition of truth when both sides want to hide it for their own gains. But unless they forgot their assignment to do her a background check, they would learn that she became the “Eye of Staraptor” not for siding with the good or the bad but because she rose from the conventions of morality by giving the people an informed choice.

She always starts it by eliminating the bureaucracy. And by extension, the bureaucrats.

The pinkette halts at a safe distance, the golden dome surrounding her figure clashes with his vehemence. Where his entourage of legends props his dignified entry, Tapu Koko is enough to fill the opposite side. Her fingers clasp at his behest but only to show compliance; should his company decide it’s best to lock her hands, they will be met with a sharp jolt of electricity running through their nerves.

“Besides, I already mentioned I will cooperate with the investigations. So leave, shall we? Or we get to do that here?”



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silph
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AQUA 001: TAPU KOKO
POSTED ON Mar 4, 2021 6:49:11 GMT
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[attr="class","spiral"]A belle deserves adoration.

The people of Lilycove may stand behind their representative, enamored by the ideals of someone who wears the mask of a candor hunter of the truth, but Fernando sees her for who she truly is. Behind the transparent veil of a pretty face is nothing more than an ugly husk of avarice. He knows as much because he is one. A well versed predator sees the sign of a struggle well before the match is decided.

He can spot the fatal flaws of her ambition as clear as day—it lies in her lack of tact.

Rancid odors pour from a kill done for sport rather than nourishment. Her conduct only points at two conclusive conclusions, neither of which Fernando is willing to accept on amicable terms. It shows in the way their TERRAINS clash, split in the middle where the two colors meet, a distinctive border erupting as the MISTY rises rather than mixes.

Their Legendaries may co-exist but fate forces their Avatars to clash. What comes first? Duty or pride? For Fernando, this is a testament of both and Tapu Fini's boon grants him the Pokemon's blessing only because he appeals to the Pokemon's inner ideals. What they are doing is right and that is enough for it to disavow its sibling.

"Obstruction is never a trivial matter."

Her gesture falls on deaf ears. Not because he suspects danger or anticipates her electricity but because he cannot control his own. Likewise, he knows the moment they make contact, his own protection will bleed into their contact, convulsing over her skin as his MIND ALTERING FOG snaps at her neurons in the same fashion as her lightning.

He avoids it for her own safety. No point in revealing his weapons now. Not while the situation is still 'civil'.

"Cooperating with the investigation would be revealing your involvement shortly after the incident. Not hiding it for months on end."

His words cut through her attempt to dictate the conversation the same way his sound pierces through her bulwark. Like oil in water, his breath slips between the pink MISTY TERRAIN and flows through her ELECTRIC TERRAIN. His expression is as short as his temper.

"Who was that with you? Back then?"



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