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they have to protect the town. no matter what. [break][break]
his blaziken surges forward in his honor. with a fierce battle cry, he releases a flurry of devastating strikes, each one more ferocious than the last. in ollie’s hand, the
MEGA STONE PENELOPE LIVY had given him glows with heat and fury, as his pokemon
MEGA EVOLVES. [break][break]
ollie shouts valiantly out from behind
PENELOPE LIVY, full of heart and determination, his eyes blazing green fire from beneath her cold flame. [break][break]
“don’t give up!” [break][break]
and they don’t. [break][break]
their foes fall, and the city cries out in relief and cheer. [break][break]
they win. [break][break]
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they become heroes. [break][break]
ollie had never considered himself a hero. of course, he’d always wanted to be, but what boy didn’t? he’d grown up on the farm in pallet town, spent days in reading nooks listening to ma tell stories of knights and monsters and the glory of heroism. [break][break]
but when the townfolk surround them, thrusting makeshift crowns atop their heads, there is no denying it. they crown him king and @ penelope his queen. his hands close around hers before he lifts in into the air, grinning from cheek to cheek. [break][break]
“hail our king! hail our queen!” [break][break]
to protect
MOTOSTOKE forever more. [break][break]
together, entrusted.
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but do they trust each other?
ONE MONTH IN
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he approaches her. [break][break]
it’s their makeshift throne room, the only building in the city that’s not yet in shambles. they might as well make the city a home as they wait to get back to their real home – at least that’s the way ollie thinks about it. [break][break]
“hey,” he says after they finish talking about the latest developments. [break][break]
Melody Miro working on healing injured pokemon,
Callan Young mobilizing the workforce to repair their defenses, even
Navy who’d quickly become an invaluable method of communication between cities. [break][break]
but when they’re done, he lingers. she doesn’t look up at him just yet, too engrossed in the scrolls they’ve just recovered, but sure enough it’s impossible to ignore his hovering. the way his eyes graze over hers, insistent, determined. [break][break]
“what is it, ollie?” her voices sounds exasperated. tired. a little like the councilwoman he remembered her as, and something different still. [break][break]
he pushes forward anyway. someone has to. [break][break]
“what - ” he starts, fingers fumbled around a scroll.
“what are we, penny? i need to know.” [break][break]
she looks at him, then smiles, but it doesn’t quite reach her eyes. [break][break]
“we’re friends, of course.” [break][break]
friends. [break][break]
“of course,” he says, a bit numbly, smiling back. his don’t reach his eyes either.
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-
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TO Caleb Harcourt: [break][break]
it’s hard. we work together all the time, but i never know what she’s thinking. i can’t tell! you’d think things would be easier now since we’re both ‘royalty’ together, but it’s just. it’s so hard. [break][break]
i’m not smart enough for this. [break][break]
i want to run. [break][break]
-
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but he doesn’t leave. he persists. he has to. the town people are relying on him, and he’s their king. [break][break]
ollie takes the job as seriously as he can, quickly taking over the mantle of the same charming, charismatic prince that had graced the town in the early days. he’s everyone’s king, chatting alongside them and addressing the petty squabbles that arise. every day, he brings freshly baked bread to the square as everyone works together to combine their efforts to restore the town. [break][break]
they hope. [break]
they hope against hope. [break]
but each passing day begins to wear them away still. [break][break]
Callan Young quickly claims title to the royal advisor, and their staunchest ally. ollie has always liked him, and his usefulness in rebuilding the town’s militia is indisputable. but even as close as they are, ollie can only rely on him for so much. there’s no
Caleb Harcourt, there’s no
Laurence Anderson to spill his worries to. his concerns. [break][break]
no
willow atkins. no
annalise henderson. [break][break]
he misses his friends sorely. [break][break]
he finds friendship in an unlikely source. not
DEREK HOFFMAN, but his sobble jonesy. there’s just something warm and welcoming about those blue, oceanic eyes. the they remind him just enough of
Caleb Harcourt for him to open up a bit. [break][break]
“it’s okay,” he tells jonesy, placing a hand over the sobble’s head with a smile.
“i can do this. i told her i’d be by her side no matter what - and i meant it.” [break][break]
-
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TO willow atkins: [break][break]
i miss you. how’s ro? how’s bo? you guys doing okay? [break][break]
send some pies to wren rourke sometime - i know he never remembers to eat. [break][break]
Katherine Fairburne told us more of her theories. you know, she’s wicked smart? THEO BECKETT’s here too - maybe rocket’s not as scary as you thought. [break][break]
i wish you were here. [break][break]
you’d put my head on straight. [break][break]
love, [break]
ollie-
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he tries to get over it. [break][break]
they’re
friends, he tells himself, so he ends up spending time with his other friends. forging bonds both new and old. [break][break]
when
Melody Miro approaches and says she’s found some injured, abandoned pokemon and wants to start up
PROJECT HOME again -
here - he obliges. he’s the king, of course he has to help. and as a ranger captain, bonding with pokemon has always been his strong suit. [break][break]
rumors float - the famous popstar
Melody Miro and beloved
ollie morales. it seems an obvious choice as any. even though both deny both claims, laughing it away, saying that they’re just friends. but the way that ollie smiles at her, and the way that she blushes, seems to speak of something more. [break][break]
townfolk whisper. [break][break]
some say they spotted the two walking along the city’s bridge, standing on the border outside. holding hands, kissing, spinning her in the air until her laughter trickles through motostoke like a song. [break][break]
hope, they say, it’s what they need. [break][break]
-
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not what they deserve. [break][break]
-
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“mels, i can’t,” he says, shaking his head.
“you’re too good for me.” [break][break]
“good?” she repeats.
“good? what does that mean?” [break][break]
the king’s eyes are somber. [break][break]
“i’m sorry.”-
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he just loves
her too much.
-
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his feelings don’t fade. [break][break]
in fact, like a low-burning fire, they endure over time. [break][break]
no matter how distant penny was acting, he stayed by her side no matter what. as king and queen, they worked together closely and often. it was only a matter of time before they fell into routine like they had before. [break][break]
he never brought it up again, the idea of
them, but he’d never given it up on him either. it was impossible not to, when it came to them. [break][break]
they spend a lot of time together, just because of work, but also because they fall into a routine. it becomes normal for the two to be seen side-by-side in public, either solving disputes or discussing politics or working on the defenses alongside
Callan Young and the others. [break][break]
but they spend time together behind closed doors too. [break][break]
strategy meetings turn into long nights as the pour over the scroll that calyrex had given them. there’s no end in sight, it seems, no matter how hard their scientists work to find a way back to the present. but ollie keeps her hopeful, and she keeps him practical, and together they bring their kingdom back together. [break][break]
ONE YEAR IN
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and slowly but surely, overtime, they grow back together. [break][break]
the light returns to penny’s eyes, like it has before. ollie doesn’t know why but it’s like the old penny returns to him. [break][break]
he can’t quite explain how it happens either. one of them realize that they can’t just rely on their scientists to unveil the prophecy, so they start to do it together. spending late nights in the royal library, together they pour over the reports from their scientists, from the adventurers outside, to the prophecy itself. a secret, a clue,
anything they can get their hands on. [break][break]
temporary become permanent, and they realize that it may be a while before they can ever return home. the idea of
home shifts too - from hoenn, to motostoke, to the throne that they share together. [break][break]
-
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“i have to go. i’m an
avatar, ollie!” [break][break]
they discover dynite ore and the importance for their ability to dynamax. however, venturing into the power spot was a dangerous thing indeed - fraught with disaster and death. they agreed that they would send their strongest soldiers into the cavern, the ones that could defend against dynamax or gigantamax pokemon without worry. [break][break]
but then penny said she wanted to go. penny said she had to. [break][break]
they glare at each other until she wins. the sun gives into the moon; he grabs their pokebelts.[break][break]
“okay,” he says, reaching for her hand.
“but together.” [break][break]
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summer turns to winter turns to spring. [break][break]
they spend more and more time together, until they are practically inseparable. wherever the queen goes, her lionheart follows. [break][break]
some say they can catch the king and queen late at night in the library, long after everyone has fallen asleep.
work, they say when asked, and it is. but it is also something more, something that has already burned for the two of them, long before they were sucked up into that sword.
one of the royal staff mention witnessing them dancing in the library late at night. but there’s no music. there’s no anything - just the sound of laughter and joy as ollie spins penny like he used to when they were dating. [break][break]
together, they forget. they forget about hoenn, about the war, about the problems that plague them. [break][break]
in those moments, there is no one else. it’s only them — spinning, entwined, infinite. [break][break]
-
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hey ollie? [break][break]
mm? [break][break]
kiss me. [break][break]
-
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he kisses her. [break][break]
she looks at him, full of daring, and it stokes a fire in his chest. he pushes her against a bookshelf and kisses her like his life depends on it. [break][break]
it’s full of fire and heartbreak; he pushes all his feelings into the kiss from the past year, from the past decade of their lives. he’s loved her,
he’s always loved her, and he wants her to know it. [break][break]
and maybe, from the way she kisses him back, he knows she loves him too.
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THREE YEARS IN
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“marry me.” [break][break]
“what?” she laughs, turning around, only to find himself kneeling on the floor before her. In front of everyone. In front of the guard, their advisors, and even the townsfolk.
“we’re already royalty.” [break][break]
“so? marry me anyways,” he says, lips twisted into a smile. In his hands, a brilliant diamond ring, and her heart surges. [break][break]
“of course. of course i’ll marry you, ollie.” [break][break]
grinning, he leaps up and slides the ring into her finger. he pulls her up and swings her around, laughing, as the crowd cheers.
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they wed in celebration. [break][break]
surely,
MOTOSTOKE starts to be renown as the city of love, as the king and queen’s feelings for each other finally reach it’s pinnacle. [break][break]
long over his feelings about
DEREK HOFFMAN, ollie asks the former ranger to be his best man.
Katherine Fairburne is
PENELOPE LIVY’s closest confidant and maid of honor, so that’s no surprise. [break][break]
jonesy’s the ring bearer. [break][break]
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he dances with
Katherine Fairburne in the reception, reminded of the night they’d spent together, sharing drinks and secrets. [break][break]
she was like
willow atkins - she’d seen in long before he had. [break][break]
she’d have to be heartless to keep a grudge against you. [break][break]
no one could hate you, ollie. [break][break]
“thank you,” ollie whispers, pressing a grateful kiss against her cheek.
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when he takes his wife’s hand in his, headed back to the dance floor, his gaze glance over at
Melody Miro. [break][break]
Navy spins her in a twirl, drawing a trickle of laughter from his throat, and ollie smiles. [break][break]
her eyes catch his too - [break][break]
and she smiles back. [break][break]
FIVE YEARS IN
his letters to
Caleb Harcourt don’t stop. they never really did. [break][break]
but now they’re more hopeful. happier, even. [break][break]
he talks about him and penny, talks about their wedding and then later, their kids. two of them. a daughter named evelyn, after
Eva Morales, and a son named caleb. [break][break]
eve and cal. [break][break]
the lights of his life. [break][break]
he could only wished caleb would be here to see it.
TEN YEARS IN
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necrozoma arrives. [break][break]
but they’re ready.
Callan Young and
Cain Toman have strengthened their defenses, having spent the better part of the decade preparing for the unnatural beasts that climbed out of the power spot. [break][break]
he and
PENELOPE LIVY stand side by side, ready to face this threat together. to protect their home, their people, and their family. [break][break]
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“is this it?” ollie looks up to see the friendly face of jonesy and his trainer walking towards them. but
DEREK HOFFMAN was more than a trainer. he was the royal blacksmith and weapon forger. he was a friend. [break][break]
handed over to him is a beautiful bow, much more ornate than his usual one. but what drew ollie’s attention to it was the shimmering forest-green orb that sat in it’s center, powering the black metals that were flecked around the weapon’s bronze. in some light it looked ethereal and wooden. [break][break]
the magnificent visage of a staraptor was curved around the face of it, and resolute black crystals served at it’s eyes - [break][break]
his heart squeezed. [break][break]
it was tabs. tabasco, the staraptor that he’d lost at mt. pyre. [break][break]
he looked to his friend, and grinned wide. [break][break]
“it’s perfect.”[break]
RgM|pJy_
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[attr="class","title"]tldr;
• MOTOSTOKE (w/
PENELOPE LIVY) [break][break]
• apologize shiverly for the most indulgent piece of fiction i've written ever (pt 1) [break][break]
• PELLIE FOREVER — they become king and queen, fall in love, have two kids named after
Eva Morales and
Caleb Harcourt. [break][break]
• as king, ollie becomes "king of the people" - is charismatic, charming, and all around lovable. [break][break]
• works alongside many others, with
Callan Young as his military advisor,
Katherine Fairburne for science,
DEREK HOFFMAN the blacksmith and jonesy his bffl. [break][break]
•
FUTURE FC [break][break]
•
WEAPON -
BOW | GRASS PLEDGE
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