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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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POSTED ON Jun 11, 2023 21:34:55 GMT
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THREE DAYS

people are crowned. the peasants wearing faces of their remnant memories rejoice. in this sad, lonely, nearly-forgotten world, they find peace. but the rest of them - those she came with - do not share the same enthusiasm. this is not their home. it will never be their home.

there are jobs to be done. people smarter than parker start to make plans. and she does not talk to nomi those first few days. she spends her time fortifying barriers, carrying supplies, doing anything and everything she can with her hands to forget just how many they've left behind. 

but eventually she breaks and the loneliness is too much. it's not hard to find her. the people speak of them reverently - these world saviors stuck out of time. pink hair. still, it takes half an hour for her to find the scientist.

she sits across from her and stares down at her hands. 

"is this it? are we stuck here now?"
SWORD RAID - CIRCHESTER

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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2023 1:12:44 GMT
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At first, confusion.[break][break]
When the hard-won battle against Zapdos, the poisonous abominations, and the Gigantamax Kingler had ended, Nomi had expected the Calyrex to return them home. After all, had they not done what it had asked? Bolster the people, clear to toxin, defeat the onslaught?[break][break]
To her horror, however, it seemed their stay in the Memory of Circhester had only just begun.[break][break]
Next came denial.[break][break]
Surely there had to be a way out. But everything she tried was met with failure after failure: her scrutiny of the Calyrex's prophecy, the usage of her Unown, the power of Tera energy, her knowledge of Pokémon phenomena...none of it worked. No matter how hard she tried in those first three days, she could not find a way out.[break][break]
Finally, she resigned herself to working together with the others who had been trapped in rebuilding the city of Circhester. They needed to eat. They needed to build better defenses. Her scientific knowledge was like wizardry to the peasants of Circhester. Every small innovation made a huge difference in their collective survival.[break][break]
Then came the guilt.[break][break]
She hadn't wanted to face at first, look into her troubled stormy eyes and see only fear and grief. After all, Parker was only there because of Nomi. If she hadn't been roped into being Nomi's bodyguard, she would be back in Hoenn, living a normal, modern life. Nomi didn't even know what family Parker may have left behind, or what dreams she would now have to set aside. Nomi's selfish desires and involvement in Rocket as a Head Scientist had forced Parker into this terrible, uncertain fate.[break][break]
So Nomi did not speak to her, instead busying herself with the things she did best: research, invention, consulting. But then, on the third day, Parker approached her and Nomi could no longer avoid the heartbreak that was sure to follow.[break][break]
Actually seeing Parker sitting there across from her, however, Nomi felt only a sudden and intense longing. It had only been three days but she'd missed the other woman. The desire to reach out and touch her was stronger than ever.[break][break]
"I don't know," she murmured. It was an honest answer. "I've spent every waking moment trying to find a way out." She'd found precious little sleep, and so she'd worked through most of the nights too. Parker would surely be able to see the circles under her eyes.[break][break]
"I'll keep trying," she mumbled, hating how little control they seemed to have over their own fates.



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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2023 1:44:48 GMT
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THREE DAYS

it has only been three days and she has missed nomi. she thought it was just the loneliness - fuck, maybe it is just the loneliness - but in this moment, right here, she can kid herself into believing that if she were stuck here with anyone in the damned world, she's glad it's her. 

and she feels awful seeing those circles under her eyes, the stressed pallor of her skin. her own fingers are wringing together with anxiety. she's been fortunate enough to work her body to the bone, to the point where she has no choice but to collapse after a hard day's work.

parker bites her lip. and then she puts a hand on nomi's knee and she gives her a smile. not the wolfish one, made for display, with glinting teeth and a calling for battle. but a more intimate one - that curls at the corners and lights up her eyes and eases away the tension in her jaw. 

"i know ya will, doc. and i'll help ya however i can." she gives a squeeze. 

and it starts something. some new hope. some fragile blossom amidst a landscape of toxins. she's scared. they're both scared. but she won't lose hope. and she won't leave this woman.

because if she does, then they have already lost. 
SWORD RAID - CIRCHESTER

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Help her? Stay by her side?[break][break]
Nomi's gaze snapped up, crimson eyes widening. Parker's hand was on her knee, squeezing reassuringly. Parker's face was inches from her face, smiling like she'd just won the lottery and Nomi was her prize. She certainly did not look like a disappointed, resentful woman trapped in some supernatural nightmare at the behest of a person she was unfortunately indebted to.[break][break]
Less than a week ago (it now felt like a lifetime), Nomi had been lamenting to about the woes of being unwanted. He had advised her to be honest about her feelings, lest she drive herself mad with "what ifs:" after all, she did not actually know how Parker felt about her. Loneliness was a curse she desperately wanted to break.[break][break]
And so, despite the fact that they were a billion miles away from home - literally, across time and space - with no clue what to do about it, Nomi decided to believe that things would be okay.[break][break]
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SIX MONTHS[break][break]
Nomi stood in front of the recently renovated Hero's Bath, alone save for Parker. She had come here to test the water's healing properties - for medicinal purposes, at the request of her professor , who had begun working as the city's primary doctor - but as she gazed into the pure, toxin-free depths, she suddenly remembered something.[break][break]
"Parker," she called out, beckoning for the other woman to join her at the water's edge.[break][break]
She glanced up, feeling spontaneously playful. Life hadn't necessarily been easy over the past few months, but they had fallen into something of a comfortable routine. Nomi had started sleeping more, and actually taking breaks from her work researching the land and its various phenomena.[break][break]
"We never did get to skinny dip, did we," she joked, thinking of the quip she'd made on their very first day in Circhester, when the Hero's Bath had still been poisoned.[break][break]
It was a lighthearted sentiment, but as she turned towards Parker, Nomi brought her fingers to the hem of her own tunic, teasing at pulling it up.[break][break]
"Maybe we should," she murmured breathily, expression growing more serious, her eyes smoldering. Soft lips turned up in a suggestive grin, all of the wanting that had been a subtle undercurrent behind every interaction she ever had with Parker - before and after their journey to Circhester - suddenly bubbling to the surface like a volcano about to erupt.



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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2023 3:15:58 GMT
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SIX MONTHS

she still takes her bodyguard duties seriously. one week turned into two, turned into three, and then four and five, and somewhere around then she lost count. they adapt, because they have no choice. they adapt, because the alternative is despair. acceptance isn't so hard, though, and it gets easier every day/week/month that passes because she is there. 

she watches over her while she studies. the corners of her eyes crinkle when nomi's nose scrunches as she reads in the late hours, and this is when parker dramatically insists she's tired and please let me take you home so i can go to sleep

she listens patiently as she talks to - while they philosophize and hypothesize and try to fulfill her promise: that she won't stop trying to get them home. the confession comes, of what she did, why she did it, and nomi understands. of course she understands. and that passes too. 

and they recover. and they heal. and eventually she can meet gideon's eyes without flinching. 

when they are at the baths, she is carrying science equipment (or what can pass for it in this time). nomi skirts around the edges of the bath and she sets it down, rolling her left shoulder. it popped out again a few weeks ago. nomi helped set it back in. 

old wounds from a lifetime ago. 

her name is called and she's beckoned, she stands by the water's edge. it sparkles brilliantly, nothing like the oily, horrific surface it had been when they first came upon it.

we never did get to skinny dip, did we?

her eyes light up. they've skirted around the edges of whatever this is for months. she has thought about this a hundred and one different ways, but it's here and it's now, with nomi thumbing at the hem of her shirt, that parker makes a decision. and when parker jones makes a decision, it's quite impossible to change her mind. 

"whatever you want, cupcake," she says and she strips off her own shirt. and then she steps closer, and then she is wrapping one arm around nomi's waist, and she is grinning like a damn fool as she presses their hips together and she is searching her eyes, looking for and finding everything she wants, everything she needs, and she is tilting her head, lashes fluttering, lips on nomi's own - finally, finally, and it is not soft. 

it is rough with desperation and pent-up emotion, months of falling and falling and falling only to crash now, so fervently and desperately and wantonly. 

she laughs against her lips and, like the shit she is, drags them both into the bath. 
SWORD RAID - CIRCHESTER

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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2023 11:46:57 GMT
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ONE YEAR[break][break]
For the last twenty years of Nomi's life, there had always been a missing piece: the gap in her heart where a mother's tenderness should be, where a father's guidance should be, where the closeness of a family should be. Over time, that gap widened to include a lack of intimacy so profound, Nomi had begun to think herself undesirable. Crushes were misunderstandings, friendships nothing more. Her luck in love had been fleeting at best: not because she wasn't beautiful, not because she wasn't charming, but because the shifting of tectonic plates is a slow, steady thing until it isn't. Until the right person finally shows up and shakes the very foundations of the earth with their devotion.[break][break]
Parker was the earthquake Nomi had been waiting for.[break][break]
And how sweet, how perfect, how indescribably blissful it was to have her world come crashing down, crumble into a thousand pieces impossible to mend, and to find that behind the shattering of her expectations she was loved, really truly wholly loved. How they laughed - and bickered - and held one another on the nights when things felt hardest. How they melted together as if intentionally molded to be the compliment of the other, their desire for one another as rich and deep and pure and unending as the baths where they'd first kissed.[break][break]
Parker was her undoing, able to distract her sufficiently from any given task with a hungry smile and rough hands against soft skin, always leaving stupid little love notes in the margins of Nomi's research. They fell into a rhythm that was both like and unlike what they had been before: protector, protected. Knight, princess. Brawns, brains. More often than not, any given experiment ended with equipment shoved rudely aside as Nomi was lifted and thrust violently onto her worktable by a woman that would stop at nothing to consume her.[break][break]
And through it all, Nomi made good on her promise: she never stopped trying to find a way home, even though a part of her could now feel grateful for this strange land, its strange people, and its strange gigantic Pokémon. Even though matters of Rocket and League were inconsequential now, but by returning home, there was always the risk that new allies would become old enemies again.[break][break]
"I love you," Nomi said one night, looking up from where she had been scribbling about infinity energy infusion - a new theory she was developing. Her eyes found Parker's and she blushed. "You know that, right?"



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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2023 16:36:15 GMT
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THREE YEARS

the attacks are scattered, but they are devastating. there is always work to be done. three years of this has been hard on her body. when her shoulder pops out on the regular, nomi's concerns turn to frustration. 

and she gets it. if they don't have each other, what will they have? the people of circhester love them still and yet there will always be a divide. but still they drink with them (turns out folks across all ages and dimensions love 's bootleg moonshine) and they laugh with them and they share stories and griefs and dreams and desires and hope. 

always hope.

she and nomi make friends with a married couple; they attend their funerals a year later, and it hits her harder than she thought it could. 

elbows on her thighs, head hanging, nomi rubbing circles on her back - suddenly she is reminded of when they were last in this room, sharing companionable silence, until the woman confessed her love for her. 

i love you. you know that, right?

she hadn't said it back. not at first. and it only took a few more days, but those days had been awful. awkward. painful. confusing. parker knows it hurt her.

now she can't stop thinking - if their lives could be cut short at any moment, she'd kill to get those few days back. she would do it all over again, if she could, and in a heartbeat smile and laugh and whisk nomi off her feet and tell her with mouth and hands and soul that she loved her too. 

she will always love her too. 

"i thought it wouldn't matter. i thought they were just dust. and now that they're not? that i'm sad they're fuckin' dead and gone? this was s'poseda be a dream. what does that mean, nomes? we keep holdin' out, thinking we can get back, but everything's blurry now. and i don't know what to do."
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"I don't know, either," she'd moaned into Parker's lap. Because she didn't know. And not knowing was terrifying. Even after three years of painstaking research, in collaboration with and others, she still did not know where they really were or how to leave, and she did not understand how the people around them could be so real if they were only memories. All she knew was that they were real enough to die and have it matter, one tragedy after the next.[break][break]
What was the point of being brilliant if she could not find a way to save everyone?[break][break][break][break]
SIX YEARS[break][break]
They aged, celebrated birthdays, attended more funerals. Nomi grew her hair out, tied it in a long braid down her back. She had a small "lab" now - still rather rudimentary given the lack of modern advancement - but she'd been able to do a lot with nothing. She obsessed over infinity energy - so much of it permeated their new home (could something be "new" after six years?) and she'd started to collect it, study it, make use of it. She accompanied expedition groups mining for the mysterious substance she'd labeled DYNITE ORE in hopes of better understanding the origin of the gigantic Pokémon that often emerged from the power spot. The Zapdos that accompanied grew stronger, larger, and fiercer: Nomi recorded everything she could about it. A Fighting type instead of Electric? It was fascinating.[break][break]
And still, no sign of Calyrex. No way out.[break][break]
One thing in particular began to occur to Nomi: if they could only strengthen their fortifications and weaponry with something stronger than metal and wood, they might stand a better chance against the onslaughts that continued to rage against them. She had a prickling feeling in the back of her mind that the attacks were just the herald of some far more terrible foe. As if reading her mind, talk of the "Black Knight" began to circulate in whispers around the city. Hadn't the prophecy mentioned its coming?[break][break]
A forge was built at the lab, and with the help of the blacksmiths who'd already been present in Circhester, Nomi began to practice.[break][break]
"Here," Nomi took Parker's hand in her much smaller one, slipped a hammered iron band onto her ring finger. It was still warm. "I made this for you." She blushed - because even after six years, Nomi still blushed a great deal around Parker.[break][break]
The ring glowed softly, just barely. Faintly. Could have been mistaken for an after-effect of the forging.[break][break]
"I finally did it. I infused metal with infinity energy," Nomi's tone was triumphant. "The ring should absorb a little bit of health from the foes you punch, heal you back in return. Like some Grass Pokémon can do."[break][break]
She smiled, and it was tired, but it was also something else: a spark of the Nomi who had promised she could get them home. The Nomi who's God was science, who she believed would answer their prayers.[break][break]
Something else occurred to her as she stared down at Parker's hand. The thought deepened her blush.[break][break]
"You may also consider yourself proposed to."



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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2023 23:38:50 GMT
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SIX YEARS + EIGHT MONTHS

it's not a priority, not really, but it breaks the monotony. they've been working on this end for so long. and now? now they're building towards a new beginning. it had seemed foolish, at first, like sitting down and talking to the local tavern keeper about what flavor of cake they would have. 

but then she looks at nomi and sees her enraptured, working everything to the finest details because of course it's got to be as perfect as it can be. the crops still struggle in the soil, but she promises she can get the strawberries delivered; he can keep half of them, so long as the other half are used for the cake. 

it's like that over the course of months. planning something like this back home usually takes a long time. eight months ago, she'd thought that would be it - be proposed to and  she'd take the ring and she'd say, well duh, and they'd find the nearest qualified person to do the damn thing. 

but fiance had sounded so wonderful. they held onto it for a while, this new thing between the two of them, because it was theirs and it was real and it was something new. so a couple months in, parker said, "let's do this for real."

they get distracted. scheduling and tasting and coordinating is difficult in a post-apocalyptic world. who'd have thought? nomi's studies pull her away. parker is called to the walls. armies attack and it's rinse and repeat, on and off for months, until finally they're sitting across from each other with quills and ink, putting together letters with a date three days from now. 

nomi's doing most of the penmanship. for consistency. and because, as she puts it, 'by the time you're done, there's less parchment than there is ink.' despite this, parker has slipped a few personal notes, splotchy as they are (writing with quills is hard as fuck) in the scrolls when nomi isn't looking:

: HAHAHA i got the girl. your GRADE A STUDENT. my WIFE. dance at the wedding? 
: come back down from the clouds every once in a while. miss you, fucker
: fuck you i'm still king of the wall and you know it (gunners a dirty cheater)
: o captain my captain (skyler thinks u cheated to win king of the wall)
: nomi said the tavern's open bar for everyone but u but i already told bart what's up - yw

the night wanes on. they curl into each other as the last of the candle's wick snuffs out. cheek to cheek, flush with the woman she loves drawn against her, she says, half-asleep, "it's gonna be a good day."
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Nomi; The Visionary
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25
November 9
Ecruteak, Johto
Bisexual
Prophetess
Head Scientist
I cannot conceive of a universe
without you in it
5'2" / 157 cm height
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NINE YEARS[break][break]
The Black Knight gave them no warning.[break][break]
One morning, Nomi rolled over in the bed she shared with Parker - perhaps the coziest, safest place she'd ever known - to find the windows still dark. When she pulled back the curtains, a black sky greeted her. Not just dark: inky, endless black. Like a massive maw had opened and was beginning to swallow their little city whole.[break][break]
She'd leapt from the bed, raced to the forge. They weren't ready. Arceus, but they weren't ready. She'd been able to infuse infinity energy into weapons and shields, but it was only temporary. One-time use. The ring on Parker's finger had long since lost its ability to heal her. Nomi's heart raced, dread causing her chest to ache.[break][break]
From the void came a terrible creature, alien and cruel, made entirely of jagged black crystal, its body so thickly armored it was nearly impenetrable: more asteroid than living organism. Its eyes were frenzied, unhinged, and everywhere it went, it swallowed up all of the light.[break][break]
And so the war began. The people of Circhester - the original people - begged Queen and King to do everything in their power - throw every resource at - stopping the Black Knight from entering the Power Spot. If it managed to consume the light of the Power Spot, the Skeleton might appear and if that were to happen, nobody would survive the clash.[break][break]
Luckily for them, Nomi - and all those from Hoenn, really - were quite familiar with the threat of an apocalypse.[break][break]
"Promise me you won't do anything stupidly courageous," Nomi murmured to Parker, and though her eyes were worried - terrified, really - she smiled just a little. It was a special phrase between them - "stupidly courageous." Nomi would stay at the lab, churn out as many infinity weapons and defenses as she could - they might be weaker than she'd hoped, but it was better than nothing.[break][break]
When she kissed her wife goodbye before the first battle, it was needy and urgent and Nomi held on tight until the very last second. Parker was strong, but this new foe was stronger. Collectively, they might win, but at what cost?[break][break]
I love you, I love you, I love you.[break][break]
She sent Valerian and Nu, the Unown-N, with her. She begged, prayed, insisted they all come back safe.



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Nine years have passed


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NINE YEARS + SIX MONTHS

dad used to tell her she oughta die young. nothing work living for when your body's old and broken, when the world spits on you for being useless. she thought it true then. of course she did - eight years old, watching him lick his plate clean while she dug through the neighbor's trash. and now?

she is held by the woman who loves her. the first signs of nerve damage had been a battlefield between the two of them, fostered out of love. they both wanted to protect the other, in their own way. but for parker that meant sacrifice. and she'd do it all over again, in a heartbeat. 

much of that day still eludes her. a particularly bloodthirsty, gargantuan beast had grabbed her by the arm. they say she flew a good sixty feet before hitting the wall. but all that matters is that she woke up. that she can walk. that she's whole.

it's hard, looking down at this useless thing pinned to her side. there are times she goes to reach for nomi, but nothing happens save a small lurch, and she remembers, but she puts a smile on her face and grabs her with her other arm, laughing and joking that she can still hold her tight. (and who needs a dominant hand when i've got a tongue?)

but she asks, a day or so after breaks the news that the nerve damage is permanent this time, if nomi will please take off her ring. and this foolish woman, after all these years, blames herself. as though she has not given parker so much love, and life, and breath, and meaning. 

but parker is the fool too, for not saying quickly enough, "to put it on my neck. to put it where i can feel it. please, i want to feel it," but she says it eventually. so nomi fashions a silver chain and hangs it from her neck and the metal is cool against her skin, and nomi is warm against her. 

parker tells her what her dad used to say and tells nomi how she used to think it was true, but now she says, "it's just sad, 'cause i'd lose all my limbs and let my body break down to nothing if it means getting old and gray with you."
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Nomi; The Visionary
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25
November 9
Ecruteak, Johto
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5'2" / 157 cm height
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TEN YEARS[break][break]

Against all odds, they pushed the monster back. Necrozma retreated, licking its wounds, disappearing into its void and blinking out of existence. The people tried to rejoice, but it was a hollow, empty victory. Too many dead. Too many injured. The rest, alive but exhausted. Nomi had been part of the effort to cure the poisoned; some wounds never healed, however.[break][break]
Nomi made a habit out of walking the former battlefield alone in the early mornings, gathering black crystals to busy her hands. Her chest ached when she thought too hard about Parker's ongoing struggles with her useless arm, her wife re-learning how to live life without a limb. She'd begged to heal her, but it was a lost cause. He was just a man. Parker needed a miracle.[break][break]
When the ring had to come off, it cut deep. Parker had fumbled through an explanation, but Nomi could never blame her. No, she only blamed herself. After nearly a decade, the guilt from their very first day in Circhester returned, threatened to overwhelm Nomi. Parker had suffered so much because of Nomi. And even though her wife insisted she would do it all again if asked to, that her love for Nomi was as strong as ever, Nomi had days where she wanted nothing more than to find Arceus if only to beg the God to turn back time and prevent Parker from ever getting wrapped up in Nomi's dangerous, volatile life.[break][break]
At night, she held the other woman so tight, afraid if she let go for even a second the rest of her would start to disappear along with the severed nerve endings.[break][break]
Eventually, on a whim, simply because she could not quiet the fire of innovation that burned constantly in the back of her mind, Nomi attempted to make something with the black crystals. They were surprisingly malleable. So much so, that Nomi found herself growing curious about what might happen if she infused them with infinity energy.[break][break]
And so it was that Nomi stumbled upon their miracle.[break][break]
"Try them on," Nomi insisted, unable to suppress her grin. For the first time in what felt like months, enthusiasm and vigor colored the scientist's pale complexion, her cheeks flushed and eyes bright. She heaved the massive obsidian-lined gauntlets onto the worktable, pride swelling as she triggered their power. They began to glow with a soft white light.[break][break]
"The black crystals enable the infinity energy infusion to be permanent," she babbled excitedly. "With normal metal, it seeps out and can't be contained after one use. But this...this..." She took Parker's useless hand in her own, rubbed fingertips across skin that could not feel anything more than a subtle pressure, then kissed them lovingly. "This should make it so you can fight again. Really fight. With both hands."[break][break]
After all, no matter what anybody said, Nomi knew the war wasn't over. The Black Knight would return. But this time, they would be ready.



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THIRTEEN YEARS

the gauntlets have given her new life. she had always managed with a smile on her face, had swallowed the pill and said fuck it, i'm fine, but nomi always knew the truth. just as she knows that giving her these weapons would put her further in harm's way. 

but it would also set her free. 

the pokemon outside the walls never stop with their relentless attacks. she and make a game of ripping the creatures apart. one point per body, five points if the kill is sick as hell. no points if they get help from their partner pokemon (and parker has a sneaking suspicion angelo's invisible airplane thing helps him, but whatever). 

something new is in the air. a quivering, anxious thing. the hope they'd all had for so long has returned, as the prophecies start to unravel. as studies are made and folks say seven years left. we have seven years left before the battle.

parker thumbs the ring on her neck. suddenly seven years doesn't feel like enough time. 
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Nomi; The Visionary
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Ecruteak, Johto
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