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 21, 2024 8:37:38 GMT
The wind rises.
Effie's Tailwind surrounds her as her Fletchinder joins up with Melody Miro's Meloetta to disperse jayden cross's frost beam aimed at Eris Halla with Azelf in her arms. Only then does Cass realise how long it's been that they've seen something like outside, feel something like a fresh breeze. It almost makes her weep again. It makes her heart ache with longing and determination. Though her physical Toxic Chain and the abilities Azelf embued it with are gone, she almost feels no different compared to before as Effie comes to a short rest beside her, brushing her wing against her cheek. It's highly likely she's in denial, clinging onto the hope she can make manifest right now, right here. So she wouldn't fall into despair instantly; so she can keep fear at bay.
Surrounded by her beloved pokémon, she feels an odd clarity amidst the calamity. And even if the pull towards Azelf is gone, even if a clear goal would only be revealed heartbeats later in the form of a Rookidee first, then gigantic foes, she ... is hopeful. It feels cruel as her gaze lands on the unmoving Azelf, despite the desperate Wishes, but its words still echo in her mind.
"WITNESS THE WILL OF THE WEAK. THE WILL OF THE RIDICULED. THE WILL OF THE UNLOVED."
"Nothing's lost yet - we gotta make up first what we owe to Azelf," she says to Hideo Kino and Eris Halla in particular, her smile lopsided and awkward - she's trying to land at reassuring. (She's unsure if anyone else could even begin to find the language of favours and owes comforting.) Her connection to the mysterious sprite is non-existing compared to the other two, but she has a hard time believing in its complete absence right now, when this whole prison break, their reunion with their pokémon is proof of a lasting impact. (She intends to ride the high of reunion as long as possible.)
Hey, Azelf? Not sure if this telepathy goes both ways, but you better be a witness, too. I'm gonna go to my trio now, so return to yours, too.
And she turns to Ettie again, cradling Jon who is holding onto her oddly purple spotted arms tightly. She still feels emboldened by the Call of the Pack, as if it's echoing within her. And now it's time for her to reunite with her trio, her pack, properly again, too. "Let's-! OH! Follow that Rookidee! Perrin!" she calls out. She hopes Ettie would understand that this Rookidee belongs to Knight and would lead them to him, and hopefully Thea just nearby ... As she sees Thea Naito and Knight Naito (seemingly uninjured as she missed the whole part before the heal), she wouldn't be able to hold back tears once more, relieved to see her friends. "I didn't-" There was a thought in the deepest corner of her heart, cast in shadows, that she'd lost them. "You're okay."
But before they could say anything more, things start happening really fast. First, the Toxic Chained pokémon emerge from their tubes at last, and she immediately has her eyes fixed on not!Jon, moving towards the Megapolans ... she holds Jon in her arms tighter, wondering. (She can't fight any Jon. Which also means she has a really hard time going against other Trubbishes, Garbodors and general spring cleaning that involved throwing things out. [Nowadays she gives all that to Jon to eat which throwing out things way easier.])
She immediately tenses up as she sees the Loyal Three again, now also with another Megalopolan ... and another strange, Pecha-shaped thing. And it opens- and throws Mochi?! They explode, and Cass quickly buries her head in Jon's smelly side again. But now's not the time to hide behind a trash-bag-shaped mask, especially when she can feel Jon stir and move. "Now here's for weak, ridiculed and unloved ..." Cass murmurs, knowing very well that she is an outlier for adoring the little garbage bag so much.
There's a weak smile on her face as attacks erupt around them, as all wards start opening fire on the masks and their captors. She turns to look at her closest friends, her pokémon companions who look onward with determination (and horror, Sona's definitely not having a great time) at the gigantic wardens and their manifold barriers. Her eyes are fixed on their own personal warden, Munkidori. "Combo? Did we call it Brutal Sludge Toss now, or?"
(It's like they've discussed it in a group chat before.)
She puts Jon on the ground, who then seems to pretend to put on a pair of imaginary sunglasses. (He'll give her a proper heart attack one day.) "Sludge Bomb!" Cass calls out as Jon starts to create and gather sludge from the debris and himself, forming it to a Sludge Bomb which he throws into the air - waiting for the next act.
Cass does not get into pose, but realising her mistake, she'd hurriedly get into formation (whatever that means).
fNCuq_z2 tl;dr breeding pit - is really hopeful & determined that they'll see this through, layers of denial - tries to reassure eris and hideo in the most awkward of ways, not convinced azelf is dead atm -- silly attempt to telepathy azelf back by thinking really hard - departs with ettie from them to follow knight's rookidee to him and thea - tearful reunion pt2 - as everything opens fire, does a combo chain with thea & knight - MAIN ACTION jon the trubbish uses sludge bomb @ munkidori (part of combo; counts as 1 hit still, confirmed with shiv!) - gets belatedly into pose
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