"grrrreetings!" pippa chirped happily and loudly, boastful and haughty in even her outfit choice. seeing as the company she belonged to sponsored the party, she allowed herself a neon pink swimsuit-esque outfit. of course, pippa would wear something as flamboyant regardless of the occasion so perhaps it didn't quite matter. "it seems you are a worthy contender indeed!" a pose was struck before andrea, but unfortunately for the pink-haired coordinator wannabe, she wasn't quite anything in the face of the recent contest winner. hell, pippa couldn't even get someone to look away from doraemon to focus on her as she pointed directly between the eyes of the costume-bearing overnight superstar.[break]
"hmph," the heiress fretted, kicking one foot out as she went to step after andrea once she was finally away from the rest of the crowd. "now i have you!" an anime villainess tone of voice overtook her vocal lilt, putting a fan of fingers over her eyes as if a spotlight was shining down on her, "andrea vaneau!" a pause for nothing but drama, "you did fantastic!"[break]
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cliche even now, pippa found herself looking to the side - diverting her gaze with a theatrical tear in the corner of her right eye. "a moving performance to the very last! regrettably, i lost! nothing less than what i would expect from my rival!" [break]
then and there, it was declared: pippa now claimed andrea as her coordinator rival - whether she liked it or not.

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"yes, my rival!" another pompous laugh was in order at andrea's bewilderment. this was not meant to belittle her surprise or make her seem ignorant - it was just that pippa was quite obviously living for this moment. although the attention was obviously on andrea, the silver heiress didn't mind sharing the spotlight or even handing it over completely ... for now. the party was indeed for doraemon and andrea, pippa had no place in it but as the contestant who only got second to last place. it was a miserable position to be in for someone who wished to become a proper coordinator so badly, but there was at least one brain cell that rattled in pippa's head and let her know that she'd have her own time to shine soon enough. time and patience didn't come easy to her, but she would find it for the sake of the shiny munchlax who seemed to have won her heart as if she were a judge, herself.[break]
looking upon andrea's own reactions, pippa couldn't help but come to adore the fellow coordinator as well.[break]
"were you serious, by the way? about wanting to become a pokemon?" in a way, the ranger/coordinator hybrid found herself a bit ... worried? in another way, she admired the redhead's drive towards something so absurdly impossible that it was laughable to most. it seemed andrea didn't quite care about what others thought of her, however, given how she carried herself.[break]
truly, what a darling. the beauty appreciator saw the dragon-typed girl as a jewel in the rough, still trying to figure out what she was becoming -- or perhaps she already knew and was frustrated with the slow process of getting there.[break]
"in fact --" a bump into a solid chest cut off her train of thought. pippa had pulled back her hand to speak with it, hitting it against @romanl 's chest gently. the tap wasn't enough to merit a 'sorry' from the otherwise prideful woman and so she merely looked down (or up) her nose at him. who was this? desmond? did she know anybody by that name? and if she didn't, how wasn't she already knees deep into investigating such a beautiful man?[break]
even the strange uncanny valley nature of his unmoving eye and scarred face was a beauty frankenstein wished he could achieve.[break]
"ahem!" clearing her throat, she addressed both parties - andrea and this 'desmond.' "the competition was a smashing success. as a competitor, it is horrid to come so low on the list but as the daughter of the company holding the competition, i must thank andrea and the crowd that attended." grabbing a nearby cup, she raised it in a celebratory fashion. "ah, yes, dussy should be here, no?" addressing the question of where the ghost-type was, the duskull was promptly released from his ball on pippa's waist that was stylized as a string of jewels. "bust it open, everyone and dussy! to us living to slay another day for i'll definitely win the next competition!" she cheered as the duskull raised both flippers above its head happily, seemingly also happy about the competition and how it came out. winning wasn't everything, really, especially when even getting to compete was a thrill.[break]
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"does doraemon have any relatives?" pippa wondered out loud as she witnessed the munchlax plummet face first into his cake, her own eyes turning into happy, almost teary slits as if she was the proud trainer it belonged to, herself. what a cutie. andrea, too. the two of them suited one another and their relationship showed in their similar levels of cute behavior. as for desmond, pippa could feel her ears heat up. she wasn't blushing by any means, she simply could feel something alarming her. not good at reading her own body signs, however, she waved it off and stated something that might have been surprising to hear.[break]
"i don't know if i can. it'd be rude to leave miss vaneau unattended and i am not sure how my darling would take to me having one-on-one sessions with anyone other than him." this was to be taken any which way regarding what the 'sessions' were, but she was openly faithful and even presented her hand with its own engagement band on it. while she was indeed the 'forever thirsting one', she couldn't break @flynt's heart for anything since her own belonged to him solely. "but if you want to see dussy up close, i think it'd be adorable to have both him and doraemon finally speak to one another." looking to andrea, the heiress nudged her as if she were already a close friend - eyebrows wiggling wildly as she was ready to see some lovely and friendly pokemon action.[break]
"what say you, andrea? will you let dussy befriend your doraemon? he won't eat any of the cake so i think that's already a good start."[break]
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the reason pippa asked about doraemon's relatives was because she, too, wanted a doraemon-adjacent pokemon. while the munchlax won the hearts of many, dussy seemed to just stare at the hand offered by the normal type, the crowd, then back at the normal type with a bit of concern. the ghost type's hand seemed to phase through the offered hand but it soon materialized into something corporeal - gripping onto his new friend's hands while two little anime-style blushes appeared on his cheeks when ...[break]
everything happened all at once.[break]
"dussy!" pippa exclaimed in utter shock and anguish as she saw that once there was a semblance of light, both her duskull and andrea's munchlax had disappeared. "there's no pokemon like that in the whole wide world!" she was growing delirious at the loss already, almost as if all hope was lost from the get-go. both hands raised to her face in horror and she then scrambled to andrea's side, gripping her with gentle but very urging force. "oh no, what do we do!?" all these actions were done in a split second, showing off the heiress's talent for quick dramatics. [break]
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how could she have known a man with twisted features and a glass eye would be evil?![break]
"did you know?!" she asked andrea as if asking an imaginary crowd if they spotted the evildoer on screen. pippa knew all too well that andrea would never have a part in such a scheme but she felt rather ignorant at that moment as she popped open a pokeball, revealing a newest addition to her party that seemed to have an unlikely, non -ussy, name.[break]
"shibari, go!" the wannabe trainer claimed like a protagonist she had seen on tv would say. the dragonair wiggled its tail and looked around, unsure what this meant. it seemed to be idling before it went for a quick wrap on 'desmond' himself. "you will regret what you've done on this here day!" she declared out loud, not caring for the people who were already filtering out of the scene. all would be well for them, but this man seemed to have something precious to both herself and andrea. "let's get our babies back!" she cheered with a thumbs up towards the dino-woman.[break]
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"excuse my kalosian, but what in the flying fuck! what a story-level villain!"[break]
andrea had her embers stoked and a fire was ablaze in her small frame. this made pippa almost fearful of her, seeing as the hydreigon was a mighty sight to behold in itself. with such a cutesy trainer, the pink woman couldn't quite understand the correlation between the two but then she remembered andrea's dragon affiliation. appreciating the hydreigon's onslaught to look for the captured pokemon, pippa focused on roman who seemed to have battered her poor shibari to the side. the dragonair was winding itself up, obviously hurt by the slam from the arcanine. poor thing had held on for dear life, trying to fulfill its trainer's wish and pippa felt guilty about this. returning the dragonair to its pokeball with a small 'sorry, baby', she sent out the next contestant - her avalugg.[break]
the larger than life pokemon was meant as a physical barrier, pippa commanding it to mirror roman's motions to not let him escape. "we can't let you go until our babies are found!" the contestant declared, already climbing up her ice pokemon to stand atop it valiantly, trying to look for the newfound friends amongst the crowd of people and furniture. (ROLL: 44)[break]
sadly, she couldn't quite make them out quite yet but as the crowd was undone, it was easier to spot then. "andrea, it's up to you! i'll keep him distracted!"

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