The Liberator
he/him/his
24
April 10
Lavaridge Town
Figuring it Out
Penitent
Renegade
Turned on my friends and brought them pain. I have no right to show I can change. But I gotta try!
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Isaac Merlo
✧ BONFIRE BONANZA
POSTED ON Jul 3, 2022 0:07:44 GMT
[nospaces] [attr="class","skullhover"] [attr="class","skullimg"] [attr="class","skulltitle"]導通抵抗 [attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW? [attr="class","skullbody"]A bonfire party, huh? And not just any bonfire party, either. This was one designed to let the people of Hoenn write their hopes and dreams, both for the region and themselves, and toss them into the great big fire.[break][break] Yeah. With the state of Hoenn, that sounded about right.[break][break] Okay, so the intent was a lot less cynical than that. The real idea was probably supposed to be something cutesy, like letting your goals float off into the sky and fly high. But Isaac and the future didn't exactly get along great so such an intent was lost on him.[break][break] Ugh. No, he wasn't spending a friggin bonfire night stuck in his own head. Not while even his Pokemon were already getting into the spirit of things. Duster smashed a watermelon open so that Watson, Sectonia, and Vivi could descend onto it like a hungering horde. Kiryu was sunbathing, a healthy glow to her metallic plates as they caught (and reflected) the sun's rays. Even Dhelmise was helping out with the bonfire efforts, shedding dry, desiccated seaweed in order to help stoke it up to greater hearts.[break][break] For that reason, Isaac tapped a pen to his chin, trying to think just what hopes he held for both the region and for himself.[break][break] The region was an easy one, if only because Isaac didn't really have high hopes for it. The League was an incompetent, bloated organization that time and time again proved how out of touch they were with the peoples' needs. Rocket was . . . well, Rocket. He met a lot of people here that he trusted dearly. Gerald. Cygne. Cer- okay, well. Trust was a stretch with her. But she was still a friend. At the same time, some of the shit the organization did as a whole disgusted him, and the higher ups? When they wanted to, they could be horrifying. These were the warring options for Hoenn's future, and if anything they were just playing tug of war over a smoldering crater. The region was under some sort of lockdown (How and why, even? Magic? Science? Arceus? Magical Science Arceus?), and a great big meteor was ready to kick the whole damn sandcastle over.[break][break] That was why, on the first strip of paper, Isaac's thoughts were rather succinct. Don't die.[break][break] Next was the harder part. His own hopes. His own future. To be frank, those weren't things he'd considered very often. He spent the past few years just wandering the region, a trail of aimless odd jobs stretching in his wake. His Pokemon were his only companions. Getting from one day to the next was his only goal. How the hell was he supposed to fit accomplishing anything into that schedule?[break][break] Besides, he wasn't the member of the family who got to do that.[break][break] Then again, that wasn't the case anymore, was it? He had companionship now, even if some considered them the dregs of society and a menace on the region. He had stability in his life, even if sometimes he had to do everything in his power to avoid thinking about how he achieved it. Best of all, he was even working towards a purpose now; the building of a better Hoenn, even if it had to be built on tragedy.[break][break] But even if Isaac's future looked brighter, his past still remained. It still loomed over him, no matter how quickly he rode away from it. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe running away from it was only making it stronger. Maybe, just maybe, he needed to turn this bike around and confront it head on.[break][break] Isaac's brow furrowed as he wrote down his wish for himself. Prove there's more to me than they always thought. It was a bitter, blackened thought, which would twist into bitter, blackened smoke. But that was okay. It just meant more kindling for the bonfire.[break][break] In a way, it was cathartic. He strode up to the fire, crumpled these wishes up, and walked away as they tumbled into the bundle of kindling. He didn't need to look back. He knew once the fire started, they'd be nothing but smoke. The tension rolled out from the shoulders. The smile eased back onto his face. And then he made a break for the waves, looking back towards Watson as he ate greedy fistfuls of watermelon. "C'mon, Watson! Last one to the water's a rotten Exeggcute!" he called, the Totodile perking up and rushing along in his footsteps. [break] [attr="class","skullinfo"]733 WORDS / M-M-M-M-MEGATHREAD! 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