Aki was giggling with Catrine, holding onto her hand as her cheeks were flushed that bright red. They always were around her. "Oh come on, I totally didn't pick this place cause it was vegan...!" It was totally the reason she picked this place. At her feet was Techu, the furret watching the couple. A ear twitched towards the man that approached them, arching a brow. "Reeetttt?" She trilled.

There was a tense from Aki, looking up at the man with wide eyes. The words were stolen from her, glancing down at the paper, then back up. THen over to Cat, looking so deeply confused by what was just happening in front of her.

"Nani?" She said, not realizing for a second she flipped back into her Japanese, before clearing her throat. "I'm sorry, what? Who...?" Honestly she was so stumped. Did she even... was this a job offer?! A squint was given.

"....is this asking me to be a stripper-"

Cathrine Fisher

“You totally did.” Cathrine joked back. But like the Furret she noticed someone who wasn’t Aki, entering her personal safe space, and she did not like that.

Cathrine tensed just as Aki did. A paper was handed to the pair and she read along, confusion becoming more evident in her eyes. Is this some kind of practical joke? She took a moment to look around, nobody seemed to be in on it save for the man with a grin on his face.

Aki’s words brought her back from the scanning of their surroundings.

“It almost sounds like it.” Cathrine said. “And you do have the body for it.” She teased Aki for a moment, but then turned her attention to the man. "But I surely hope it isn't."

Her gaze turned sharp like the blade arms of an aggressive Scyther “Care to elaborate?” She did not wish for a random bout of harassment to ruin this fine date.

OOC: Sorry for the wait!
Location: Slateport City -> Upper District
TAGS: Aki Kumori + Ozni Adebayo

Though he noticed the tension, Oz kept smiling. The blinding light from his grin usually reassured people that he wasn’t some creepy molester weirdo or anything. Though his ex-fiance had called it slimy once. Then again, that same conversation had started with her blaming him for a plantwide disaster in Johto, so she had been in a bit of a bitchy-witchy mood.



That smile faltered the second Aki opened her mouth. “WHAT!?” He huffed, unraveling the matching paper inside his pocket. He scanned it for the hundredth time, double-checking that nobody had scribbled obscenities at the bottom. Indignation colored his voice. “It most definitely is not!” Not that he thought there was anything wrong with sex work. “Since when do Gentlemen’s Clubs give out cars] They aren’t talk shows!” A flush now covered his cheeks. It didn’t help that their branter had him imagining it.



Realizing he looked like a panicked high school freshman, Oz took a deep breath. Long fingers reached up to dust off his branded hoody as he adopted a straighter posture. “I’m actually looking for an EA. A real top-tier purple squirrel.” He waved around him as if dissipating a bad odor. While he’d totes go for a hot secretary, that was not a requirement. “You might have to bend over backward, but there are zero poles involved.”



Oz chuckled. “Minus the North one.” He loved Christmas. “Can’t miss that PR.” He went all out on decoration and came in dressed in Santa. The lights on his house would be considered torture in some countries.

Cathrine made no attempts at hiding the tension this stranger caused her. But it didn’t seem to matter. He kept smiling. Though a confident smile would not win her over. She had seen plenty of those.

But his response to the accusation of being a sex-work-recruiter did put a smile on her face, and grant her a small snicker.

Perhaps he is more innocent than he leads on? Cathrine pondered.

Though the words that followed did baffle her slightly. She had never heard such wording before. “Your method of finding an EA is rather unconventional…” Cathrine commented. As she watched Aki’s Furret approve of the guy.

OOC: Sorry for the wait!
Location: Slateport City -> Upper District
TAGS: Aki Kumori + Ozni Adebayo

Aki Kumori Cathrine Fisher


The laughter just made the flushing worse. Oz is glad his skin had too much pigment to get to the far end of the color spectrum. Instead of turning away, he just made his rin grow wider. Showing off his expensive dental work was his go-to out for an awkward situation. Look at his dimples! How could you be mad at those!?


Ah, there he went again! Throwing out all that cutting-edge business lingo and forgetting that not everyone was as hip as he was. “It means something really rare—like a three-segment Dudunsparce. #PINKSOCIETY.” Even his money had made it hard to find one of those. The idea that being compared to a fat snake was offensive didn’t even cross his mind.


Then, he saw the Furret. “Hey there, my sister!” Oz grinned at the pink weasel, offering a hand for a fist bump. Shaking hands wasn’t his thing. Way too many germs for his tastes. The CEO seemed surprisingly elated by the normal-type’s acceptance. Maybe it was because he and Pokemon rarely got along. Or because he really liked the big furry snake bois. “Our new mascot is pretty much a dead ringer for our new mascot! That’s a helluva omen.”


Then, the other woman (the scary one) spoke. Her question was regarded with an illegible expression for a moment. Though you could see the gears turning behind Oz’s eyes. “Well, I got really tired of the photocopies HR kept floating my way. Most of them wouldn’t know fun if it pulled them into the Ultra Zone.” A lot of them dressed the same and, if his nose was anything to go by, they all shopped at the same Bath and Body Works. “So, I thought I’d try the old ooga-booga myself.” After all, if his dad’s hiring team could find people, so could he.


The talk of details made him nod. “Compensation-wise, the sky's the limit.” Oz let that sink in a moment. “But I’m not easy to work with..” He flipped through his phone, settling on some old text messages. “I’m ‘high maintenance,’ and ‘needy’ as the bird used to say.” This idea he scoffed at, just as a pocket full of business cards spilled out of his pants pocket. “But you get a great schedule.”


And, best of all, they got to experience his genius firsthand.

Cathrine wasn’t certain if she should be baffled, offended or amused by this man’s words. Alas he simply went too fast for her to even form a reaction, but perhaps that was entirely the point. She began to ignore the oddness and focus on the information he did give her.

Honestly Cathrine didn’t like the picture it painted. But Aki seemed more responsive, and when she asked for the company name. Cathrine looked baffled. “Are you actually considering it?”

Her voice sounded more worried than anything else as the words left her mouth. She didn’t want Aki to get burned with a bad work experience.


OOC: Sorry for the wait!
Location: Slateport City -> Upper District
TAGS: Aki Kumori + Ozni Adebayo