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Monster. Abomination. Demon.

What word is there for the thing before Howard other than one of vindictive defilement? There was no graceful away to describe this. It was an angel stained black by ichor, mortality curdling away in favor of something greater and more terrible. A lasting testament to Eternatus's ability to corrupt and darken even the most pristine of souls, and Tsubaki's had never been clean to begin with.

What other word for that was there other than 'mother?'

"Evil..." Howard took a few steps backwards with shaky knees and bated breath. Evil. What was this? This was not a piece of the histories he studied. This was something else, never done before in the region. "What the hell is this...?"

He turned and ran from the sheriff and his malformed daughter. As he attempted to flee, a swarm of titanic Nihilego appeared in the distance, cutting off the archaeologist's escape. The Ultra Beasts seemed particularly focused on Tsubaki's ascension.

They were surrounded.

"This isn't good." Howard trembled and shook, his eye wide with fear. Reacting to its master's distress, Atlas lunged forward towards the Nihilego swarm, winding up a Dynamic Punch as it flew forward.

"Atlas, no! Come back!" With his guardian gone, who would protect him from... he looked over towards Tsubaki.

...that?

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“Baki, what—” She throws him from Silver Bullet with surprising strength. His Rapidash cries its protest, kicking up a storm and running off just in time to avoid being overwhelmed by the darkness. One of the Nihilego has claimed Tsubaki, embracing her with jet black darkness.[break][break]
Behind them is a swarm of other Nihilego. Above them stands a beacon hellbent on killing them. Enemies ahead, enemies behind, and his own daughter caught somewhere in the middle.[break][break]
One of the Nihilego intruding into the cavern makes the mistake of treading too close to Navy. A heavy fist, surging with the power of water, shatters its glass body into a thousand pieces. Ichor and diamond dust spray across the floor. Their blood mixes with Eternatus’s blood, seeping into His flesh.[break][break]
“Good grief…” Standing up, Navy adjusts his hat. Reaching into his satchel, calm while chaos circles him, he pulls out a megastone – one of the rarest megastones in existence. If other megastones are sapphires or rubies, then this one is a diamond. It allows an Urshifu to show their true power.[break][break]
“You know what you’ve gotta do, Howard.” Cracking his knuckles, he turns back towards Tsubaki. “I’ve gotta help her. There’s something only you can do…and you should do it.” Ancient power, shaped in ice, given the title of a king and told to defend the realm. Mankind’s champions must rise to defeat their many enemies.[break][break]
“Baki,” he speaks to his daughter, trusting in Howard, “what’s going on?”

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POSTED ON Apr 5, 2024 5:22:34 GMT

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Obsidian glass tendrils contort, geometric shapes in flux brimming with unnatural energy. Pitch body is wreathed in an angelic halo of prismatic technicolor. She sings with an unearthly melody, that same song to which the angels had been dancing and humming all this time. [break][break]

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MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO

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Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki [break][break]

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TRIGGER: Nihilego fuses with its trainer[break][break]
Gains the additional ability ATOM HEART NIHILEGO. [break][break]

ATOM HEART NIHILEGO: When this ability is active, MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO acts as a POWER SPOT, allowing TWO OTHER TRAINERS to use DYNAMAX in its presence even in locations where it wouldn't normally be possible.[break][break]
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When in Ultra Burst form, MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO's body shifts across the color spectrum and can emit any type of light to blind foes. Its two primary appendages grow long and hard, and form large poisonous barbs. The black ichor surrounding its trainer will badly poison a target on contact if it is made to bleed.[break][break]
When in Ultra Burst, MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO and its trainer become one in both mind and body. Senses, pain, and emotions are shared between MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO and its trainer. The trainer's positive and negative personality traits are both accentuated, and the combat capabilities of MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO are strengthened. The trainer becomes immune to being poisoned.[break][break]
Inside and outside Ultra Burst, other Nihilego and Pokemon native to or related to the Ultra Deep Sea see MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO as friendly and will not attack unless directly targeted by it, even if ordered to by their trainers. This extends to MOTHER BEAST NIHILEGO's trainer during Ultra Burst, and with repeated use, may even apply to its trainer outside of Ultra Burst.

"... Navy."[break][break]

There is a strange menace in her voice, dripping with venom. She watches him through the black, but he can see only the shape of her constant, dull eyes inside the prison Manjushage has become. [break][break]

"Presume to be a lawman... but you're doling out 'justice' without all the facts, aren't you!?"[break][break]

The fused abomination takes in light, becoming impossible to stare directly into for a moment. Then, all at once with little fanfare, a wicked beam of perdition burns a hole through the void-sea, aimed directly at him. [break][break]

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Oh, how the tapestry of fate burned on its loom.

A monster behind him, monsters in front of him. On all sides, the two mortal men were surrounded by gods and angels. When Tsubaki had described them as such, Howard had envisioned them as fallen. He made a point to amend that statement. They were blank slates, angels that stood in purgatory with no discerning purpose other than to haunt the realms of men.

When they fused with another, they were stained. That is when the first angel learned to fall.

"I can't take this many! I'm done! I'm out!" The admin shouted at Navy as he fought with his daughter. "I said I'd help you and Tsubaki. I'd give her counsel in the name of the region. She has FALLEN, Navy!"

He threw a second Pokémon from his belt. Howard tended to use one at a time. He was not half the trainer Navy was. He could barely command one, let alone two. His Stonjourner stood up, its Power Spot enhancing Atlas at it struck at a Nihilego, cracking its shell and spilling toxic blood.

One of the only Pokémon Howard never trained, and it was one of his strongest. As it smashed two Nihilegos together, Howard thought they were actually winning.

Within Eternatus's heart, a great organ throbbed. Dynergy flowed through it, a sluice gate that had been opened for its chosen ones. Around them, more and more Nihilego began to Dynamax. They'd die when the fight was over, but that did not matter. To die in Eternatus was to die in ecstasy.

A colossal tentacle smashed Atlas into a wall of flesh. The Deep Sea rumbled. He turned to Navy, as if begging for help. None would come.

"I can't use it here, with her like that! We're too close to Eternatus! She's not supposed to know!"

Michael Navidson Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki

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Navy

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Sheriff

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Two eyes gaze out from the darkness, distant galaxies beckoning pilgrims forward with false promises. They do not offer salvation – nothing down in these dark waters can grant them that. Behind and before him, judgement is passed through lips.[break][break]
“Good grief.” An echo of earlier words, spoken with no fear. He will not dignify Eternatus with fear, even as His angels claim Tsubaki. Shuwen is still there. Hattori, too. Light persists against an endless darkness. So long as the light survives, when so many things conspire to snuff it out for good, the light wins.[break][break]
Shuwen’s burned face does not react to the overwhelming beam. He detects a path forward, a path that ensures his survival and that of the man whose warrior’s spirit could call to him from the dark places below the earth. A hand grabs Navy. Whether through preternatural sight or fighting instinct, he acts with no delay between thought and action.[break][break]
Shuwen seems to fly through the ethereal ocean, swimming with Navy caught on his back. Up, and up, and up he swims, winding up with a pitcher’s precision. He tosses Navy back down, aimed like a baseball, towards her. Hattori rides his back.[break][break]
Hattori will take it from there. Bathed in light, Shuwen transcends his normal form. He becomes the creature spoken of in ancient legend when man speaks of Urshifu.[break][break]
His form is blue, save where he has been burned. There, his skin is red. Precious few battles demand he take them this far, to use the full extent of his power. Flying down to Howard’s side like a meteor, he bellows out his cry.[break][break]
“ORA!”[break][break]
He has not been granted the gift of human speak. Shuwen can only guide through actions. Until Howard can make up his own mind, Shuwen does the craft for which he was made: he punches.[break][break]
“I’ll tell you one fact I know, Baki!” Shuwen’s trainer shouts as he shoots towards her, counting on Hattori to break the fall. “You’re in danger, and I’m way, way too stubborn to stop until you’re safe.”

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Baki

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POSTED ON Apr 8, 2024 20:00:53 GMT

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Sea swirls, the Mother at its center. Angels turn and follow the currents, attracted to one of their own dyed in her colors, in her light. The core at its center is intoxicating, colors stirring them all into a frenzy. Big and small, all of them are positively enraptured by the crystal chalice of void-space. They long to drink deep of it, as they drink deep of Eternity. And as they do, they ascend, expending everything til they're burnt away, to become one with the Sea again... [break][break]

The ultimate salvation. [break][break]

Howard's desperate pleas are drowned out by the song. So, too, are Michael Navidson's. She looks down at them both, needing neither sight nor sound to pass judgment on their words. The bear... whatever its name is... it's merely a trifle. She ignores it. [break][break]

"Danger? What danger!? The only ones who've murdered anybody here are you two!"[break][break]

Words are dyed with the conceit of the girl at its center, but it feels off somehow, as if these are not her words, merely the words of something speaking through her. The words of something else. An empty shell.[break][break]

She speaks of condemnation, in the harshest possible terms. [break][break]

Murderers. [break][break]

They are two of the worst villains, those who felt no remorse carrying out the most heinous crime of all: the sundering of an angel from its rightful place, a defilement of all that is holy, to kill that which should have lived forever.[break][break]

She focuses her gaze on Michael Navidson specifically. [break][break]

"... So eager to save the angels now, are you? That's 'justice', huh!? Tell me, where was this mercy when you slayed one of Her daughters!?"[break][break]

She raises a tentacle, jagged spears of poison-tipped stealth rocks ripped from walls of flesh. They careen toward Dewford's stalwart protector, the avatar of his warrior spirit, and the crafty admin alike, honing in on them wherever they go in orbit with the rest of the maelstrom. [break][break]

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Shuwen's aid is appreciated, but ultimately not enough. The Urshifu has a warrior's spirit, but such a spirit cannot stop the march of divinity coursing around himself and its two unlikely allies. The Golurk that fights alongside it lacks a genuine soul, but it remembers loyalty. In that, the two are similar.

Even enhanced by the Power Spot emanating from Howard's Stonjourner, the two struggle, for the ability cannot match the raw potency of the genuine article.

It simply cannot compete with the power of Eternatus. Nothing could.

"No!" The admin dodged falling boulders as the Deep Sea trembled. Stonjourner knocked several toxic stones away with a flurry of kicks, protecting its trainer. It moved slowly, though. It lacked training. When compared with the length of eons, a falling boulder was barely a blip.

The girl was a hypocrite, he was beginning to realize. No, it was always clear. Ever since that first journey together.

The Golurk they caught together, a testament to their friendship, fell under the weight of the storm and the flurry of tentacles. It parried one strike, then two, then a third. The fourth and fifth struck the titan, and caused it to fall. It raised a hand to block a final stone from hitting its lord, before falling to a heap.

"Atlas! No..." His precious artifact. His beloved Pokémon. Crushed by a girl who preached justice while assaulting everything around her. He could not fight her. It was not his war to fight, but Navy's. "That's enough!"

Instead, he could fight her choir. He reached for his belt.

"Activate..." The admin threw the ice-crusted Pokeball. "Regice!"

A wall of cold struck the vicinity. Nihilegos froze and fell to the ground, and shards of ice joined the maelstrom surrounding the two trainers and the Mother Beast. Mercy. Justice. Those concepts had no place in a world as vile as this.

⠑⠝⠛⠁⠛⠑

Regice understood neither. It only understood the war it was built to wage. As it charged up a Blizzard, its prepared to wage it.

Michael Navidson Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki

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Navy

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E4; Gym Leader

Sheriff

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Shuwen’s fists don’t stop moving. He beats them forward endlessly against the tide, pressing on towards the horde. There is no end to the monsters. When ancient ice is brought forth to do battle with the angels, he breathes easy. At last, worthy aid.[break][break]
The attack meant for him from the mother beast never reaches him. Hattori’s substitute sees to that. Navy lands near Tsubaki, his loyal shinobi clinging tight to his back. Both disappear, leaving green dolls in their place. Navy and Hattori leap from Tsubaki’s shadow.[break][break]
She is draped in a veil of darkness. Glassy dark slime reveals the girl trapped within. To her father, who seems to shift between old and young, it looks like a hellish prison. He has no specialized tools with which to safely pry her out.[break][break]
“Anyone ever tell you that you’re extra, kid?” He speaks in a confident voice, the voice of some scrappy kid on the streets. Time works differently under the sea. It flows backwards. Water leaks out the side of the stream. His hands seem to function as they used to, before they first came here.[break][break]
He plunges them into the abyss. He plunges himself into the darkest pit, the vilest poison every concocted. Every millimeter of them is made to poison. Pokemon can withstand it enough to do battles. For humans, it is like dipping his body in molten liquid. It seeps into him, his first taste of an angel’s kiss.[break][break]
It’s all for her. Every scrap of pain, every old wound reopening at once. Reminders of all the many battles he has fought in one short year scream up at him in agony. His heart feels like it’s ripping again.[break][break]
But he has her. He feels her body within. Navy screams as he pulls her out.[break][break]
“HE. CAN’T. HAVE. YOU.”

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Baki

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Saffron City

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An observer of eons cannot feel the warmth of another.

POSTED ON Apr 23, 2024 5:46:33 GMT

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[attr="class","star2tsu2"]Black thorns clash against hardened fists, organic and metallic alike. Barbs black as midnight, reeling in the current of the maelstrom. At its center, the angel lies. [break][break]

Golden eyes grace cold steel. The body of an ancient golem, made of the metals of the sea. Recognition, finally, of a truth she had hidden from herself. [break][break]

Before she can process that lingering feeling a wall of ice obscures her vision, hides that truth a little while longer. A more ancient golem takes its place, one far more of interest to the angels. [break][break]

The nihilego are encrusted by a layer of frost. Weighed down, their elegant dance is thrown off. With each step, they begin to clash against one another, cracked and shattered broken bodies like glass that turn to fine dust amid the snow.[break][break]

And yet, they frenzy all the same, clashing against one another wildly like waves clash amid a stormy sea. No regard for their safety, merely excitement at the prospect of what is to come. Their bodies are of little object, of little concern. They are forever in Eternatus. [break][break]

"Hypocrites, all of you! Everyone - humans - is such a hypocrite! What gives you the right!? You'll kill, in order to save... but more'll be killed than you'll ever rescue! All you're doing is perpetuating the very cycle you hate so much!"[break][break]

Malice pours from her lips. Words ostensibly belong to her, dyed in her colors, but Navy would recognize they're words she herself would never say. They're too direct, too concerned with the logic of it all. The ichor taking its toll, deep within the shell.[break][break]

As Navy plunges his hands deep, the pain is unbearable, liking plunging one's arms into molten slag. The black stains his hands, sets him alight. The motionless corpse within, proof she's alive coming only from glowing golden eyes, suddenly grabs his wrists with inhuman strength and speed. They hold him there, as the tentacles wrap around him. Poison barbs shoot toward him at all angles.[break][break]

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+ Twobaki fusion stabs at navy

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Admin Fox

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Rustboro City

Bisexual

Archaeologist

Rocket Admin

5'9 height

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POSTED ON Apr 24, 2024 1:56:01 GMT

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If Eternatus was eternal, than so too was the human concept known as 'love'.

Such a claim would result in mockery, Howard suspected. Like all things human, there was a natural limit to what one was capable of. A body could fail. A mind could break. A soul could die. Yet what made humanity so worthy of respect was their ability to shore up their own weaknesses with great power, such as the golem waging war on a god before Howard.

Or, instead, to exceed their own boundaries. As his comrade pulled, Howard suspected that Navy had exceeded his limit. To push past and exceed what was possible, that was the might of humanity.

"Our world.... is rotten." Howard's lips were blue as his breath fogged. He shivered, but from fear instead of cold. His teeth chattered. "It's a vile place, full of wanton suffering. When our war is over, you'll inherit a world full of ash. But still..."

More and more Nihilego began to Dynamax from their god's power. Regice's Blizzard faltered.

"But still..." His Stonjourner's Power Spot struggled to push more energy into the ancient golem. Howard's eye flicked up. "This is our world! Our right to exist outweighs theirs!"

If the Nihilego had a problem with that, then Dewford was waiting. Mankind was waiting. There would never be a home for Eternatus or its ilk in Hoenn. Navy would be waiting. A hero would be waiting while Howard hid.

With a visible spark, Regice slumped down. The Blizzard stopped immediately as the automaton stopped moving. A puppet with its strings cut, a golem with no power to call its own. Howard knew that it ran on Dynergy, but still the golem seemed a mystery. For the first time in a while, Howard considered the fact that its might was on borrowed time.

"What the? No! Nononono...! Turn on! Get up! Regice!" Howard let out a desperate snarl as he shook the colossal golem. His hands crusted with ice as he shook it. "You're meant to fight these things! Get up! GET UP!"

A colossal tentacle swung at Howard. The admin let out a scream.

"REGICE!"

The shining core in the Deep Sea glimmered with primordial light, and a night sky of Wishing Stars sparkled above. Then, the core reacted with a bright light as Regice's pattern ignited.

⠗⠊⠃ ⠉⠕⠝⠝⠑⠉⠞⠊⠕⠝

⠁⠏⠏⠗⠕⠧⠑⠙

The golem Dynamaxed and froze the world.

Michael Navidson Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki

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Navy

He/Him

October 13th

Slateport

Heterosexual

E4; Gym Leader

Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"

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POSTED ON Apr 24, 2024 6:05:04 GMT

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Somewhere along the way, he has an epiphany. This is the first Nihilego sting he has ever personally endured in his long tenure as this place’s warden. Sealife blossoms along his arms, the wounds growing and dying in endless eternal repetition. Barnacles decay, only to grow again. Maggots crawl and turn into flies, falling dead out of the shell. Nihilego are beautiful, false sirens guiding the way. They are not meant to be touched.[break][break]
He’s too dumb to quit, especially when he’s in this deep. Her wrists grab him, holding him there steel securing him to an electric chair. Whatever possesses her has made a false assumption: that his first instinct would be to pull away. There’s human wisdom in that course of action, to shy away from pain. Human wisdom will not avail him.[break][break]
Instead, he pushes inward, a violent assault upon the black afterbirth. Dark tentacles creep up to sting him, to spread the sea through the rest of his battered body. Hattori clings to him, lashing out with a kunai at anything that gets too close. The frog is inhumanly fast, inhumanly fierce, inhumanly small. Though this course is foolish, it isn’t his place to question.[break][break]
“Listen to you, spouting all these five dollar words when you can’t even go to class—” His words are cut off as his head plunges beneath the surface. Both eyes shut on reflex, new life springing over them. His hands grab her. Navy kicks back, muscles crying out from strain.[break][break]
From far away, he hears the sound of something growing. The winds of winter course through the chamber, rolling over all of them. Somewhere in his distant mind, he asks a simple question.[break][break]
What the hell’s going on out there?

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Baki

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December 21

Saffron City

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156 cm // 5'1" height

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An observer of eons cannot feel the warmth of another.

POSTED ON Apr 25, 2024 5:32:08 GMT

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[attr="class","star2tsu2"]The body of the Beast groans and cracks, shuddering with growing pains as it responds to the light above, the shimmering of stars. [break][break]

The woman dyed the color of the sea pulls him deeper into the toxic morass. [break][break]

He can hear the choir of the angels. Sirens on a distant shore calling him to join them, to live with them forever in forests of azure. To envelop him in beauty and pleasure, to smother him, til he becomes so lost in it he is liable to disappear. To be swallowed completely, teetering on the precipice above the howling abyss, scarcely out of reach of oblivion. The silence, the peace... what could be more maddening? [break][break]

Black hands grasp his face and pull his gaze toward her, where gold meets steel gray. [break][break]

This gaze-- knowing, pained-- pleads with him to save her, to rescue her from the chains of this mortal coil. She longs to join the angels. This incomplete form, this incomplete world, it shall never come close to the ideal that is to be near God, to live forever amid the choir and the danse under a sea of stars. [break][break]

But these are not the eyes he is familiar with. They are the eyes of something that is not used to seeing the world this way. Innocent, yet pained. As if it cannot bear something so incomplete. Whatever is behind that gaze is not the girl he remembers. It is the influence of the black ichor that surrounds them gazing through Tsubaki's vision at Navy now, the eyes of one of the angels.[break][break]

Eventually you will come to love this world. [break][break]

You were made here, and to here you will return. [break][break]

This is the rebellion of youth. Your kind is too young to know anything different. [break][break]

Too short-lived, you believe you know best. But one day, you will realize your mistake, and return to us. [break][break]

When that happens, we will be waiting. [break][break]

However long it takes.[break][break]

These words, they seem meant for him. All the same, they seem directed at something else.[break][break]

The midnight sea grows. Beyond the black, winter wails. And yet, here at its core, the angel protects him from the chaos outside. It is as a womb; protective, warm, inviting. He can stay however long he likes. [break][break]

Outside, the black of ideals is overtaken by the truth of white frost.[break][break]

Their world is rotten.[break][break]

It can be saved. It must. [break][break]

Shards of ice crack and fall away, as a gigantic tentacle filled with barbs sweeps at the similarly gigantic iceberg, attempting to swat it away. The sea is dyed black, hole ripped in the angel's chest seeping blood into its surroundings. It does not seem to notice. Instead, it focuses its animosity on this prodigal giant. Returned, though its blaring voice is dissonant with the song of the sea. [break][break]

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Admin Fox

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POSTED ON Apr 25, 2024 8:52:30 GMT

Outside the womb, there was only ice and cold. Angels made of glass dusted themselves in snow as what little kinetic movement left them, freezing crystalline limbs in place. One by one, they shattered like statues sculpted from hot glass dropped in snow.

Glassy remains fell around Howard, cutting his cheek. He didn't feel the slicing of the skin. for the cold had robbed him of that ability to feel.

Navy and Tsubaki were warm in the embrace of divinity. He stood outside, alone, shouldering the weight of a defense he was incapable of doing alone. Shuwen and Hattori were somewhere, but Howard couldn't see them. Out of sight, out of mind. Howard lacked the object permanence to retain their existence.

They were bodies of warmth, and did not need to exist in this frozen wasteland of death. Hopefully they still lived.

"Hah..." A fog left his lips as he breathed out. "I can feel it. I haven't felt this biting caress in months. I'd forgotten it."

He let out a laugh, breathy and sore and raw.

"I'm cold."

When Walsh had bestowed Regice's Pokeball unto him, Howard had acclimated to the freeze of the titan with remarkable ease. He had wandered Snowpoint in his youth, and had spent many nights in cold deserts that lacked warmth as soon as the sun dipped beneath the horizon.

He thought he had gotten used to Regice, but he could feel it now. It was stronger.

"This is what you were meant to look like. Like the murals from those ruins. This is what you should've been capable of from the start."

The titan's arm met the barbed tentacle. Where it met, Dynergy coursed and the Ultra Beast's appendage shattered like glass. As blood oozed from the alien's wound, it froze. The ocean froze. Everything froze. In the distance, things still moved. Within the vicinity of this battlefield, there was no room for anything with warm blood coursing through its veins.

Regice let loose a Zap Cannon, bringing down the remaining Nihilego.

"But... wait." A realization. The admin looked at his arm. He was missing something. Something important for this transformation. "Ah."

As the admin's eye rose to the sky, he saw a star.

Michael Navidson Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki

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Navy

He/Him

October 13th

Slateport

Heterosexual

E4; Gym Leader

Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"

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POSTED ON Apr 25, 2024 15:50:00 GMT

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BETWEEN THE VELVET LIES, THERE'S A TRUTH THAT'S HARD AS STEEL. THE VISION NEVER DIES. LIFE'S A NEVER ENDING WHEEL.

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His arms and legs wrap around her in the darkness. With no eyes to see, he is reduced to feeling his way through what comes next. It starts with a push, all his weight pressing downward. Tsubaki is in his arms. That’s a start. Whatever Eternatus thinks, He cannot have Tsubaki. He can’t have Gabe, He can’t have Crystal. So long as he has working muscles and two raging fists, he can still fight. So, he pushes.[break][break]
It feels like he is sliding down something long and warm, tearing Tsubaki from a prison of flesh. She looked like a corpse he once read about, frozen forever, perfectly preserved. His daughter yet lives. She must return to the world. All he has to do is push.[break][break]
Navy fades in and out. He shifts between old and young, blue and red. Fever dreams of a bygone time bring to mind the crown that his king and queen once wore. It evokes the heavy crown of heroes and the burden they bear. Somewhere along the way, his head crests the edge of the darkness.[break][break]
He feels the edge of oblivion, the end of pain. One last push and they are free. His hands, torn open, bloody, red, reach for his eyes and rip the growths there off. It is a return to red, pain flashing before him. Yet, at last, he can see.[break][break]
Tsubaki falls with him, a trail of black viscera trailing after them. They fall like a star, a reminder of the universe’s primordial birth. They fall, and fall, and he is just happy that she is there with him.[break][break]
“I’ve…got you…Baki…”

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Baki

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Officer

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