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You're a teenager in Kanto Rocket, after having given your mission detail to your superior. As you walk through the dark corridor, you see the sight of a crumpled figure in the distance.

[break][break] It's jayden cross.

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❤️ APPROACH HIM SLOWLY

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Gavin Merlino

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A teenager? Gavin hadn't even been a teenager when he'd joined the organization, though he'd only narrowly escaped it at the ripe old age of twenty. Still, this was a game, so he adjusts his expectations accordingly.[break][break]

The third option makes him scoff softly; it's the one that rings most reminiscent of Kanto Rocket. But it's not the one he chooses.[break][break]

❤️ APPROACH HIM SLOWLY

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POSTED ON Feb 2, 2023 5:48:57 GMT

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Even though you approach slowly, the crumpled figure - who reveals himself to be a young boy - is startled. He looks up with wide, terrified eyes — which only soften a little bit once realizing that it's you.

[break][break] There's bruises that light his face, some old and some recent, and an angry red mark curling around his arm, from where it looks like someone had struck him.

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❤️ "I won't hurt you." [CAUTIOUS]

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❤️ "Are you okay?" [CONCERNED]

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❤️ "Who did this to you?" [ANGRY, PROTECTIVE]

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Gavin Merlino

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This is potentially a dating sim, but Jayden has always been like a younger brother to him. So, ignoring the other options, Gavin immediately zeroes in on the choice he might've made when they really were in Kanto.[break][break]

❤️ "Who did this to you?" [ANGRY, PROTECTIVE]

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Of course, he already has his theories. Jayden's father is the first person who comes to mind.[break][break]

Finding he's gripping his phone a little tightly, he reminds himself that this is only a game, and that Jayden's father is long dead.

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POSTED ON Feb 21, 2023 3:04:00 GMT

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He flinches, as though he's been struck.

[break][break] "A-ah, it's okay. I.. I deserved it."

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❤️ "Tell me." [INSIST]

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❤️ "Let's take you to the infirmary."

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Gavin Merlino

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POSTED ON Feb 22, 2023 7:39:57 GMT

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Gavin's skin prickles as uncomfortable memories flood his mind. He remembers all too well what it had been like to feel that kind of fear.[break][break]

Subconsciously, he snuggles closer to Tempest Quinn on the couch.[break][break]

❤️ "Tell me." [INSIST]

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It was important to establish the level of threat he was potentially dealing with. Rocket brass, and therefore untouchable? Or some grunt who got the idea that they could push his friend around?

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jayden

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POSTED ON Feb 22, 2023 9:16:55 GMT

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He flinches again, cowering, as he curls in on himself. Almost as if he could curl even further, he could hide away from it all.

[break][break] "M-my brother..."

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❤️ "Your brother?"

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❤️ "It wasn't your father?"

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❤️ "What did you do?"

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Gavin Merlino

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POSTED ON Feb 25, 2023 9:33:45 GMT

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What did you do?[break][break]

The accusatory option makes him tense up in anger. Such was the life of a grunt in Kanto Rocket; it was never what happened to you but instead why did you deserve it? Fingers clench around his phone.[break][break]

❤️ "Your brother?"

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jayden

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POSTED ON Feb 25, 2023 9:57:33 GMT

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"Yeah. It was Aleks."

[break][break] You would know the name. The rumors had trickled through the organization often enough - that Nikolai's first son was a brutal beast, clever and deceptive at one time, and then cruel and homicidal the next.

[break][break] The worst rumors had even been said that he was horrifying enough to have a taste for human flesh.

[break][break] But those were just rumors, surely? Rocket was a terrible organization, but not truly that terrible?

[break][break] "It was my fault. I got too close to him when he was just coming off a mission. Father said - I - " He swallows, blood bleeding through the bandages. "I should have stayed away."

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❤️ "I'll kill him."

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❤️ "It's not your fault."

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❤️ "Let's go to the infirmary. Now."

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Gavin Merlino

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POSTED ON Mar 1, 2023 15:14:36 GMT

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Reassurance feels futile. He knows the way that Rocket gets into your head, makes you believe the worst of yourself.[break][break]

And though he wishes he could have killed the source of his friend's problems, especially back then, he also knows that Kanto Rocket was not the place to challenge the son of a superior. Not if you wanted to live.[break][break]

Besides, it would seem that Jayden's wounds are troubling him.[break][break]

❤️ "Let's go to the infirmary. Now."

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jayden

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POSTED ON Mar 1, 2023 18:00:54 GMT

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As much as you'd like to comfort him, your upbringing within Rocket has taught you the importance of necessity and efficiency over emotion. You urge Jayden to accompany you to the infirmary, and since he's in no state to argue, he complies.

[break][break] Unfortunately, due to the state of his injuries, you're forced to carry him. It takes all but a few minutes for you to gather him in your arms and hoist him up; he's lighter than you expect.

[break][break] He buries his face into your neck, and you flush slightly at the contact.

[break][break] Sure enough, you are able to make your way over to the infirmary and get him properly patched up.

[break][break] When all is said and done, the two of you sit on the medbay bed as you await for the nurse to come back to the room. He looks up at you, all bandaged and proper.

[break][break] "Thank you, Gavin."

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❤️ "Of course."

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❤️ "Don't thank me."

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❤️ "Stay away from your brother."

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Gavin Merlino

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POSTED ON Mar 3, 2023 18:39:56 GMT

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Much as he'd prefer to never see Jayden hurt again, Gavin knows that telling him to stay away from his brother is unrealistic.[break][break]

Don't thank me, is his first choice, but he hesitates on context. Would it come across as no need to thank me, as he intended, or as more aggressive and scolding?[break][break]

It doesn't really matter. This is a game. But he still amends his answer accordingly.[break][break]

❤️ "Of course."

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jayden

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POSTED ON Mar 9, 2023 15:54:41 GMT

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Your response seems to be as expected, but one that nearly comforts nor disappoints him. He looks down at his hands, as if there's something on his mind.

[break][break] What do you do?

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❤️ "What?"

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❤️ "Are you okay?"

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❤️ Pull him in for a hug

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Gavin Merlino

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POSTED ON Mar 11, 2023 3:43:20 GMT

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Hugging felt too invasive. For as much as touch was his love language, Gavin was rare to initiate such close contact with others.[break][break]

He's not sure the tone of the first response, so that leaves one option.[break][break]

❤️ "Are you okay?"

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The route tugs at his emotions, makes him think about contacting the real jayden cross to catch up again. They saw one another more than they once had, now that they were both in upper management of Team Rocket, but work and casual conversation were two different things.

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jayden

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POSTED ON Mar 11, 2023 20:06:53 GMT

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You can sense something is wrong. He's not much of a talker, but you can tell from his body language that there is something viscerally wrong with him, even more than the wounds that layer his body.

[break][break] Eventually, your words, seem to pull him out of the trance that he seems to be in as he turns to you.

[break][break] The expression on his gaze seems raw, open, desperate.

[break][break] "Maybe I don't deserve to be a Rocket."

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❤️ "That's crazy. Of course you do."

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❤️ "Maybe you're right."

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