The meeting is not bringing anything new to light that Cyg didn’t already know.
She doesn’t like
Raphael Pryde .
The charismatic amongst them (like
BARNABY FINCH ) want to use this as an opportunity to gain public trust.
Some people want to ally with Sea!Hoenn which seems asinine, but whatever. Go little rockstar and all that.
mint frost suggests rolling over and displaying their stomach for the League which is… both the better and the worse option.
Isaac Merlo surprises her by vouching for the
join sea!Hoenn plan and she looks at him, puzzled and concerned.
“That’s… that’s a lot of risk,” she says,
“a lot of what-ifs.” And sure, in the moment, she’s more than willing to jump in headfirst and risk it for the biscuit, but in these anxious, pre-planning periods…
…she squeezed Isaac’s hand. Ultimately, whatever they chose, she’d go with him, stupidly, divinely devoted.
Frankly, Sea!Hoenn had nothing to lose from the meteor and everything to gain, on both a small and large scale. They were a pack of wolves that Cyg felt were comfortably distant, for now. She thought they should focus on the emergency at hand and deal with the other shit later, if/when it came around.
Martín del Mar at least was very right that they were all running out of time. That, Cyg reflected, should be the focus point for this meteor meeting.
Terse words went back and forth between Bee and
THEO BECKETT ; they were both right, unfortunately. Cyg didn’t feel all too good about the whole coup in the midst of crisis thing, either, but… when would they have a better chance? Wasn’t that the part of her that had looked Theo in the eyes and said
not legally when he recruited her? You know, like a dumbshit?
Then Walsh jumps in and shuts a lot of shit down, at first. We can trust the League. Then he goes absolutely batshit and says we’re going to the moon, Alice. Oh, also we’re taking over Littleroot. And attacking a Primal Point.
“What the fresh hell…” Cyg mumbles, eyebrows furrowing.
“That’s-- that’s so much.” And maybe that was the point?
Isaac brings up a good note about stealing a back-up Primal Point instead of an active one, but it’s counterintuitive to Walsh’s plan to disrupt the-- the teleport ritual, for lack of a better word-- long enough for the people on the Meteor to mine it and get out (which was still. Absolutely batshit. What an idea.)
People start voting for what Point to attack and Cyg’s heart sinks because Petalburg is the most popular for a long time, until someone throws out Mt. Pyre and people start leaning that way, instead.
Felix Gallagher opens his mouth and disagrees with the whole shebang, which. Whatever, he’s got a point, but if anything, that just makes her want to go
against what he’s saying.
She exhales, focuses in on
Elisabeth Fiorelli . She was the important one. What she said, Cyg would follow.
Theo has to macho man in on Felix and does the whole
women want me fish fear me thing again and that Bryan guy spouts off about how Rocket’s assets won’t be good in a cave or some shit, like Avatars are the only important thing here.
“Cillian Quinn ’s right,” she says (had she said that already),
“we’re, like. We’re trying to be new, right? We’ve been actively purging the old, bloodthirsty Rockets. Why would we just… relapse?” She listens as Isaac speaks and, like, damn, when did he get so fucking smart? Her grin at seeing the Doublade do its thing is literally large and bright enough to possibly blow the meteor to smithereens. She also didn’t see what the point was for Littleroot except it was important to that one Avatar guy which seemed paltry in comparison to places with an actual tactical advantage.
Elisa steps up and lays down some amazing knowledge and Cyg’s heart sings with-- just. A whole bunch of feelings. May cooler heads prevail, and Elisa’s got the coolest head she knows.
Mars spouts some bullshit about
conquering and Cyg’s face falls, a little. Back to that dilemma of
does she really want to be a conqueror? And, like, yes, she does. But in the face of global catastrophe? Seems like a cheap shot, doesn’t it?
Chu-e Choi voices what Cyg’s been thinking for a while: a lot of this seems like a Rocket pissing contest that would be detrimental to their operations as a whole-- i.e, fucking,
conquering.
She
loves Chu-e Choi, she thinks, in that moment.
It takes every bit of conditioning in her to not heave a sigh of relief when they choose Mt. Pyre instead of Petalburg.
She listens to the captured Megalopolan general, and then to what
oscar clayton says after; and despite her general hero worship of Oscar Clayton, she finds she really can’t put stock in the weight of the words from a cannibal space invader from another world.
She squeezes Isaac’s hand again and drops a Pokeball, releasing her
GENGAR, who bounces over to stand next to the
MOSSDEEP grunt.
tl ; dr- this post took me seven thousand years to write bc my dog is have a GI attack all over gods creation
- chilling with isaac. reflects on things.
- votes for
mossdeep this changes later lol ignore it
- brief edit to add her
outfit because she is matching elisaaaaa