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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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I want corruption, I think I'm the devil in disguise.
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Cillian Quinn
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POSTED ON May 18, 2021 1:05:20 GMT
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These days, the labs invoke a range of emotions Gavin's too tired to parse. There's a distant familiarity that mixes with dread and sours in the pit of his stomach, lingers as he navigates narrow halls to 's lab.

Fingers prod at the crook of his arm. Today, a different kind of test.

"Flint."

Curt. The command of an underboss, not a brother's greeting.

"Your office; let's go."
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saoirse quinn
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29
october 27
circhester, galar
bisexual
physicist / inventor
head scientist
the shadows breathe
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5’8” height
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every night i burn, dream the black crow dream
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POSTED ON May 18, 2021 1:46:19 GMT
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Feelings were mutual. Anxiety? Whatever it was. Always. Sure. It was as promised as the skin over her empty heart in the morning. Why?

They came from the same seed, but the wind had carried them to different terrains. Blood only mattered so much, after you had spilled gallons, and gallons…

Both of them… empty, maybe…

In this cold purgatory of the submarine, she didn’t know him well enough to even guess what they shared anymore. In the end, always, he had hurt her. But, for once, it occurred to her that this time, she may have taken a part in her own demise.

Such was the nature of the machine.

It overheated, yet again, in front of her. She scowled.


’s voice came: “Flint?” A name which was not her own, and he knew that, but they were both here under the understanding that no one should know who they were.

“Watch it.” She told someone whose name she could scarcely recall, and certainly not quick enough to vocalize it in the second. It wasn’t personal. She followed after him. Merlino. The Underboss. The crack in her voice caught a couple of technicians, surrounding, off guard.

She didn’t disappear into shadow. She was careful around her brother now, knowing the things she’d done, and knowing they’d come back to her eventually.

So, was this Cillian? Or ?

Here was consequence. What did its face look like?


Knowingly, Lulu reached out a pokeball from around him, and the light of a it passed by Gavin's legs through the doorway to return a rabid-like Houndoom beyond the threshold of the room before him. Only when the door shut, enveloping the two in deadening silence, did she say a word.

“Am I in trouble?”


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POSTED ON May 18, 2021 1:57:18 GMT
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A subtle crack shows in his composure as his brow furrows.

"Was that Djall?"

He has met the Houndoom, in the past, but there had been a difference in the intimidating presence of the beast beyond the door. It had reminded him, almost, of the suffocating presence Lugia exudes.

But he's here to confront a different legend.

"That depends."

His amber gaze shifts to her own. Familiar, familial.

"What did you do to Decker and Briarwood?"
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 18, 2021 2:41:25 GMT
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“Yes. Djall’s been… irate lately.” She sniffed. She figured she knew why. She wasn’t going to explain it now.

Decker and Briarwood. ( , )

What hadn’t she done to them? There wasn’t a day she didn’t think about it. It was terrifying. Lulu didn’t feed on humans, typically.

They’d put her in that situation.

No. Killian had.

Lulu was an angry dog, who didn’t know how sharp her teeth were. Rocket had her on a leash. It had been too loose. She’d scared herself.

These people wanted her to see things she didn’t want to see. Lulu gave in, because she didn’t know how to lead herself. It always hurt both parties.

“I gave Decker what he wanted.”

She was cold from her square foot on a floor she didn’t own.

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POSTED ON May 18, 2021 3:26:11 GMT
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Lulu doesn't elaborate, and Gavin doesn't pry. It's not why he's here.

His lip curls at an answer that doesn't satisfy him.

"We both know that's not all of it."

He had consented to the experiment, perhaps — orchestrated it, even — but it was the events that happened afterward that Gavin was interested in.

"What happened with Briarwood?"

He's heard from others; he wants it from the source.
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 18, 2021 20:26:41 GMT
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“Fine.”

“Short of it is, Briarwood told Darkrai she wasn’t afraid of it. Not exactly my fault she didn’t know it was in the room. People shouldn’t be so arrogant and stupid.”

“As for Decker, he called me a bitch.” At that, she merely shrugged. “Do I look like a bitch to you, Gavin?” No, she was curious. Really.

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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 4:09:33 GMT
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Gavin huffs; it reminds him of when Plank had called Lugia a monster — how angry he'd been, and how that anger was not his alone.

"Could you have persuaded Darkrai against acting?"

His tone suggests curiousity over judgement. Could he have persuaded Lugia to inaction against Yveltal? Against @chloe's Drampa?

Her question makes him quirk a brow.

"You look like someone who should be smart enough not to rise to petty bait." Gavin leans against the wall, arms crossed. "Is that really all it takes?"
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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 4:26:48 GMT
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“Darkrai does what it wants.” No one would know, but Darkrai had prevented Lulu from killing (assuming she'd be able to otherwise). Good for Darkrai. Of course, everyone hated it. 

“And me? Next time someone blatantly defies my superiority, and disrespects me to that level in front of those I lead, I’ll be sure to hold my temper and file a complaint, if that’s what you’ll have me do, Merlino.”

Maybe said complaint would make it to the top before they were promoted. How did shit even work around here?

Was that all? Could she get back to work? They were still breathing, were they not?

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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 4:34:25 GMT
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Gavin nods, accepting.

Her next comment does not go over as well. His eyes narrow as she mocks him, jaw clenched at the sound of the name.

"There is a difference between reprimanding your subordinates and subjecting them to the influence of an Avatar, Flint."

had risen from Lulu's subordinate to her equal in the time since. Gavin hadn't learned of their spat until after the promotion had gone through, but so far Decker hadn't given him express reason to regret it.

"What does it do, your power?"
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 4:53:00 GMT
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“Mm.”

“No, hold on… I’m not quite done on that topic...” Her heel came off the spot of comfort on the floor and she realized her power as it was mentioned. This office was hers, god damnit.

“What do you mean ‘influence of an avatar'? I choked the man out with an IV tube. Darkrai had nothing to do with that one. Least not after, when all that shit happened.” She clicked her tongue and sniffed. “You know, it wasn’t just ‘bitch’. It was a command to his Espeon to attack my back as I left the room—in front of everyone.”

She glared at him. Nothing more needed to be said on that note. He didn’t need her to help him think about it.

Today was the day she decided she would have a hidden, top-secret office, where even her brother couldn’t find her.

“Whatever. My power. What do you mean 'what does it do?' I give people nightmares. Is that not obvious by now?”

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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 5:11:04 GMT
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Gavin lifts an eyebrow, a silent invitation for her to continue.

Though he'd been given a recount by a shaken grunt, fills in details Gavin wouldn't have otherwise known. His lips press tight.

"That changes things, I'll admit..."

He'll have to have another talk with . He's not looking forward to it; he and were dangerous when it came to each other. Gavin shakes his head as if to physically brush off the thought.

"I want you to try it on me," he says, sudden but gravely serious. "Let me see it for myself."
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 5:27:46 GMT
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She stared at him.

She stared at him hard, dark, with a hot fire somewhere under abyss.

“You mean to tell me that you just dragged me from my work like a child by the ear, to my own office, to reprimand me for the fallout of my poor decision, only to ask me to do it again?

Said abyssal flames could surely be felt from across the room.

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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 5:49:35 GMT
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"Yes."

There's not an ounce of hesitation in his voice. There is an air of confidence to him as he leans in the doorway to the lab, the ice to his sister's fire.

"How am I to know a line's been crossed if I can't see it?"
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 6:02:47 GMT
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Lulu scrunched her nose at him, still glaring. She crossed her arms. CONFUSION was an effective distraction from anger.

“What do you mean ‘when a line’s been crossed’? What line?”


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POSTED ON May 19, 2021 6:12:25 GMT
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They've never been the best at communication. As children, Gavin had blamed it on their difference in age. Now, it's a difference in life experiences and social skills that drives a wedge between them.

"If it happens to the wrong person, and they squeal about it, I want to know what it is they're crying over. I'll sign a damn form if you want me to."

His brow furrows as another thought occurs.

"Does it work on Avatars, even? Have you tried?"

He wasn't sure how often she interacted with Rocket's own, outside of him.
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