cass, cassie
she/her
seventeen
november 7th
petalburg city, hoenn
grey-aroace
student (private school)
civilian
i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
PRISMATIC PENITENTIARY
POSTED ON May 17, 2024 9:42:21 GMT
"Uh, I think that's- uh, don't sweat it," Cass replies to Ettie remarks her smell, not connecting it to her purple-ing skin, but the fact that she still sniffs garbage smell coming from her, given the ability her toxic chain granted her.
She is surprised that the other teen actually joins with her, but nods - in absence of her dearest friends, she does value some company as she rushes towards the most disgusting water slide of her life time. And while she can avoid any injuries from the stealth rock due to her ability's clarity, she can only barely dodge Nihilego that suddenly appeared next to her, brushing her arms, leaving them with burning sensations.
The fleshy feeling around her as she descends after Ettie's O.K. is ... truly an experience that she'll have a hard time forgetting. The "dark slide" of the water park is definitely off-limits forever now, as well. Shortly after Ettie, she lands in the pool of cold, green liquid - and frowns, but doesn't dare opening her mouth until she's escaped it, following after Ettie and following that pull. It's softened now that she's down, leaving room in her headspace to make use of the other part of the clarity that poison gives her.
The sight of the breeding pit is ... unnerving. And confirming. Suspicions that have lingered in the back of her mind are now made manifest, and she feels a bit of a relief about that. Now, the threat is imminent. Now, the threat feels real. The pokémon here are ... duplicated. The Toxic Chains just like the ones she's seen outside of these green-liquid confinements ... and she swallows, her throat dry.
Who ... was freed from the toxic chains?
But she has no way of telling if the breakable toxic chains back then are the same as here. Or if maybe, the ones here are made to last. Like they simply did trial runs before. Would you still love me if I was a clone?
She focuses up at Ettie's call, and sees her depart in the direction of a Lycanroc. Right, she's so close- she can't let herself be distracted. She now finally takes off the loosely hanging mask, but still holds onto it. Her finger presses into the spot where she's collected her tears before, and she runs. The pull is still here, even if it is frayed now - maybe one of them is poison-tinged, but ... she moves onward, soon finding herself running into the same direction as Hideo Kino and Eris Halla . And there they are.
Azelf.
She feels like she's left all alone with her thoughts now, without the delirious singsong in her mind now that she's reached her goal - a goal. But she feels it connected to her pokémon, too, who are, somewhere, trapped. Her eyes are then drawn to the two younger teens with her, who both display a glowing mark all of a sudden - there's something going on, and Cass feels incredibly confused by everything. Nonetheless, she'd hover with her hands over Eris, wondering if it'd be good to touch her. "Hey, it'll be alright," she whispers this and other sweet nonsense, trying to calm her down.
And then. A voice. In her mind.
"WILL AWAKENS TO CURE THE SICKNESS, WHEN ALL ARE KNOWN. WITNESS THE WILL OF THE WEAK. THE WILL OF THE RIDICULED. THE WILL OF THE UNLOVED."
Her hands are balled to fists so tight that her knuckles turn white, as she stands rigid - only for a moment more. Green goo is blasted in her face as Azelf bursts the tube with all the will they mustered, and she quickly turns away, using the mask in her hand as a way to "shield" herself. And there, glancing at her hands holding the mask, she notices it. Light skin met with where she, indeed, actually, has turned purple. So no hallucination.
"You're purple and covered in green goo. Bad combination."
As the poison is purged from their systems, as they all are now truly freed from the Toxic Chains, she sees it flicker for a moment. A painful fantasy echoing within her. It's what she dreams of, wakes from with tears in her eyes. What would you do? And then it's gone, like such a dream.
Azelf's fall distracts Cass from how not all of the purple fades from her. Seeing that Eris got Azelf caught, she looks around. Pokémon start emerging from their tubes, but curiously, the toxic chained versions do not move ... She thinks of Trubbish eyes. Her Jon's eyes. Hostile towards her. She still feels affection like sorrow, deeply carved into her brain.
"Yes," she agrees with Eris, snap back - but ... there's nothing she could do. She doesn't let it show, however, giving Eris and Hideo a thumbs-up in the most dire times, "We'll make it." Even with the poison washed away from her, her mind feels clear. She's about to continue speaking some nonsense to sound she has a plan as two things happen at once.
Mesprit appears and uses Wish.
Pit, pat, pitter, patter ... She almost collapses into tears on the spot as her eyes finally land on the trash bag she's been looking for for weeks it feels like, looking disoriented and determined as ever. He's soon picked up by friendly claws, as her Fletchinder Effie helps to get him to Cass faster. Cass only sees the yellow shadow of her Emolga Saude briefly, exchanging information with Effie before hurrying elsewhere. They probably broke out amongst the first, she thinks before fully weeping as she buries her face in plastic, warm, stinky and alive. And she feels him wiggling in her arms. Small, determined creature. "I can't ... you can't Pain Split with me, silly," she laughs and sobs, seeing as he seems to try his damnest. Never in her life has anything felt so right.
Unbeknowst to her, her Charcadet Delilah and Tinkatuff Sona have answered Ettie 's and Anne's Call of the Pack, followed by her Comfey Martin. The trio has no idea what happened, but Saude has briefly stopped by them to fill them in on some details, and they quickly go to find Thea Naito and Knight Naito 's pokémon. They'd try to quickly explain, but frankly, both Del and Sona suck at it and just keep pointing upwards. Martin's doing a slightly better job, but even he is a bit at a loss. Admittedly, Saude, in the first place, hasn't been too detailed before rushing off back to Effie.
She smiles as Ettie stops nearby, too, reaching out a hand to her. She's relieved to see that her other pokémon are with them, too, feeling the last bits of tension finally fade from her body. "Uh, yeah, back to the pack." She lingers a bit awkwardly around Azelf, Eris and Hideo, pointing at Ettie, "Oh, uh, do you wanna come with?" she asks, but also looks at Ettie if she'd allow that. She still isn't sure what happened, but the words linger in her mind.
She can't stay for much longer here, even if her eyes are also drawn towards where Jon has emerged. (A Toxic Chained Trubbish, just like Jon.) However, she has to see if her friends are safe. ... that is until something unexpected happens. She sees jayden cross in the distance, as he seems to move to attack - Eris?! She squeezes Jon in her arms tighter, her head whipping around to see the child and Azelf, unconscious-
"EFFIE!" she shouts, bewildered still, but determined. "-Tailwind!" And the Fletchinder leaps into action, as agile and quick as ever. Her Gale Wing beat creating the Tailwind is like a hurried heart beat, pumping adrenaline through the body - empowering, bordering on dizzying as she flies to soften the blow, divert it, disperse it.
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tl;dr flesh tube > breeding pit - enters the flesh tube after ettie - parts with ettie, makes her way towards azelf and joins up with hideo and eris -- ponders the nature of clones, wondering if chained mons from before/pp threads were clones or original - confused what's happening with azelf/eris/hideo, gets blasted by goo as azelf frees itself -- impacted by azelf's words & peaceful hoenn vision, clenches fist - pretends to have a plan (lying), then fully collapses as she sees jon as mesprit shows up - effie delivers jon to cass, who weeps and hugs him tight - del, sona & martin are briefed by saude and start gathering thea and knight's pokémon, join up with ettie and her pack - as ettie shows up, saddles up as well, extending the offer to eris/hideo/azelf if allowed by ettie - sees jayden going for an attack - MAIN ACTION effie uses tailwind (empowered by gale wings?) to try and thwart jayden's attack
toxic chain ability: with you totoxic chain ability: with you to cass smells like a trash bag (lol) close-up and floral hues farther away. there's faint, flickering illusions around her, mirroring her team before this happened. while still fighting against physical and mental exhaustion and despair, persevering's a tad bit easier on herself at the moment as she has a smelly reminder of herself and who she still is missing, giving her a clear goal. she is more nimble and speedier, allowing her to progress faster. if allowed, she feels a pull into "the right direction" - either to azelf to help (or even her pokémon).
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