FIND THE FLAME [M]

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Michael Navidson
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October 13th
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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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FIND THE FLAME [M]
POSTED ON May 2, 2024 6:30:59 GMT
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People grow bolder every day. They head for the high tower, where inherited will promises liberation. Will is kindled, conviction that carries into the waking world through fallen tears. Fewer and fewer folk pass by every night. No one pays attention to street trash.[break][break]
Can’t even stand up, Michael. His father says. Stuck on the sidelines. You talk a big game, but you get hit once and you stay down.[break][break]
That ghost chains him to the floor, tethers him in place. Tonight, he stares at a sleeping prince, floating in green light. Arthur came all the way from Alola to fight for this region, a truth shown to Navy when they first melded their souls through the sygna suit. He cared about a foreign land, and this is where his conviction brought him. There is nothing to be done, nothing except sit and wait.[break][break]
He looks awful, covered in trash and refuse. Each night, his hair has grown longer, the beard unkempt. Standing is hard. Walking, even harder. A clear mind does nothing but remind him of what he’s lost, and what he stands to gain. Chained in place by poisoned sinew, the world passes him by.



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Admin Fox
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An observer of eons cannot feel the warmth of another.
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POSTED ON May 7, 2024 5:09:40 GMT
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The world passes him by, but mankind does not.

To embrace memories is to be chained by the past. It is easier to embrace a brighter yesterday than it is to hope for a brighter tomorrow. It is easier to look backwards or forwards. The immaterial is far easier to embrace than the physical. Dreams are lovelier than reality, after all.

If that's the case though, why does this world leave them with pain and misery? Why does it leave them with memories?

Doug is dead. My bear is dead. My sweet and loving bear is dead. My precious artifact is dead. My bear and my Gigaton Ball are gone. Howard stalked the city of dreams like a specter, not willing to embrace the hope that Azelf offers to bring. That is a gift for the brave and the bold, those who will write the history books that Howard studies.

That tower is not his to visit. Yet he steps forward.

Just because he is not worthy does not mean that others are. Mankind will escape from this prison, and it will be with Howard's help, but he will not lead the charge. He will simply lay the groundwork for success. Why, then, did he refuse to visit the tower?

"Doug..." His eye was still missing in this world. "Where are you? Shirley... where are you?"

Their containers eluded him, even now. Still, he asks himself the questions. Questions have answers. Answers have truth. Truth has purpose. The admin stopped in front of a bench, at the wreck sitting there, chained by worldly desires.

"Navy?"

He didn't expect to see him here.



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Michael Navidson
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October 13th
Slateport
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E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
5'10" / 177.8 cm height
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 May 7, 2024 5:18:58 GMT
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Howard.” He states the name, having recognized his friend from the feed. “Shit, it’s good to see you, man.” Just as it was good to see , , and all those who passed him by. At the heart of this broken city lies their salvation. Navy cannot stand, cannot bring himself to visit the pixie sleeping at the center.[break][break]
Some part of him, the part bound to his chain, wishes to stay planted at precisely this place. If he can simply endure, then he will go back to the place he’s supposed to be. That thought, and that thought alone, sustains him through the delirium, and the beatings, and the malice of the wardens. As much as he would enjoy ripping the veins out of Fezandipiti with his teeth, he can endure the great god king’s company until his daughter is returned to him.[break][break]
I’m sorry. ‘Bout how my ward voted for yours.” It’s something that will be forgotten when the story is written, he thinks. When the tale is inevitably told to future generations, they’ll remember the three wards coming together and forming a chain.[break][break]
To hear the wardens tell it, we’re almost done having to work. Ain’t that swell?


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Admin Fox
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POSTED ON May 7, 2024 5:30:24 GMT
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"It is what it is."

As far as Howard was concerned, it didn't matter if he was in this prison or another. When he woke, he was imprisoned by a monkey that mocked his existence. When he dreamed, he was imprisoned by the chains of Team Rocket. It didn't matter, really. Not for him. There was no light at the end of this tunnel.

He conformed to prison surprisingly well. Better than Navy likely had, at least.

"Not your fault. There was no justification on a ward getting picked. It was a coin toss." A coin toss they had lost, but at least the coin toss hadn't killed anyone. If anything, Howard had committed the greater crime. "It's not your fault."

He said it again. There was no blame to be issued. No individual to be tried. No guilty to be punished. The system dissolved blame by making the system impersonal. Dummy. Weakling. Ugly. They were just words, freely uttered from the lips of the shackled.

But Howard would not forget. It was his duty not to.

"You're not at the tower. I thought you'd be there, leading the charge. Instead, you're here." He gestured at the shattered city. "Gathering moss. Why?"

He had a suspicion, but fact trumped fiction every time.



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Michael Navidson
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October 13th
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E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
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5'10" / 177.8 cm height
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POSTED ON May 7, 2024 5:42:40 GMT
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I’m tired.” He confesses, something he would never admit in the world outside this prison. There are only two active Elite Four seats. He chases a carrot endlessly suspended on a stick. Eternatus awakens, and no one cares.[break][break]
It feels good to sit, to rust. There is hope in a foretold tomorrow.[break][break]
I…I thought I was strong, that nothing could get me, but that mask, man.” He holds up an accusatory finger, adjusting, pointing to the sky as if the mask is written in a constellation. “Arceus, I want what I saw in it to come true so bad. I miss how things were. I miss riding my Valkyrie. Miss my kids, I miss…”[break][break]
His eyes are red, and once more the dam threatens to break.[break][break]
I miss Galar. Miss it enough to put up with that fucking bird they’ve got guarding us. If they can really help us win? Now when the League’s so weak…maybe it’s worth the price.



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POSTED ON May 7, 2024 5:54:23 GMT
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"...what?"

Howard didn't know what he had suspected. It was a million different things at once. A million scenarios that could cause the flame of passion in the sheriff's heart to sputter. Maybe Navy had lost a Pokémon too. Maybe the prison had beaten him down until his knees were rubbed raw and his back was shattered and his palms bloody. Maybe as he had tried to rise, they had taken something to remind him that he belonged in the dirt.

Those would have been fine. They would've been understandable. He could empathize with that. He had been mocked and laughed at. It had broken him, forcing him to find solace in this unconscious fiction that acted as the single salvation for the dozens trapped here.

No, Navy's reason for breaking was not what Howard suspected. It was worse.

"You..." Images flashed. Memories. His tether to the world that Navy turned his back on. "You..."

A historian vowed to preserve the past and the truths that it held. To destroy was to potentially raze information from existence. Destruction was a tool, but it was not Howard's tool to use.

He could make an exception, though. He struck Navy in the jaw, the admin's fist scraping against rough and unkempt hair. If the sheriff was half the man he had been, he would've blocked it.

"YOU PIECE OF SHIT!"

But a shadow could block nothing.



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Michael Navidson
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POSTED ON May 7, 2024 6:00:51 GMT
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When he falls, he does not rise. Gravity holds him down. The weight of the world crushes him. In his waking hours, his body grows frail. The mochi poisons as much as it heals. Within these Cresselian dreams, his mind is sharp enough to recognize the aches.[break][break]
Shit.” He spits out blood and teeth. A quiet thought is filed away, a thankfulness that he’ll still have that tooth in the morning. Pain is an old friend for him. It neither wakes him up nor sharpens anything. Instead, his hands twist on pristine concrete and try to right himself, looking up at Howard with weary eyes.[break][break]
Wouldn’t it be something, if it was showing us the future? A future like that…where Eternatus is dealt with, and I can just…go back. That don’t sound so bad.”[break][break]
He forgets Dewford, he forgets the League, he forgets everything, just as he did when he sat on the sidelines. Everything is thrown away save a selfish desire to save but a few.[break][break]
Come on, man! You tellin’ me you didn’t see anything you liked when they made you put on the mask?!



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"Liked it?"

One good eye bore down on Navy, judging him. The sheriff was used to waging his war on Dynamaxed Pokémon. He was used to looking up at monsters who could rip the world apart. There was a comfortability to standing among giants that dwarfed him like an ant. When was the last time a man looked down on Michael Navidson?

"I fuckin' loved it."

There's no shame in admitting it. Everyone indulged in the dream. Everyone supped upon the mochi-coated lies that were whispered into their ears. That icebound world that he had envisioned was a perfect one where nothing ever changed. A universe that was eternally preserved and unchanging. A multiverse where Howard's ideal was applied absolutely, where his viewpoint became truth.

He loved that world.

But he still woke.

"If I could make that world exist tomorrow, I would. If I could live in that fiction tomorrow with no repercussions, I would. But that won't change the fact that the people who put us into that dream are fucking murderers." He leaned down and peered into Navy's eyes. The admin's breath stank of mochi and shame and hatred and self-loathing. "Everything I've done to get where I am, I've done because I want to reach the world I saw in that mask."

He had dealt with so much shit to make it possible. He had dealt with snide remarks and derision and scorn and poverty and everything else under Hoenn's blinding sun to reach this precise moment in time. had almost died at his hands and every time he looked in the mirror, he recognized himself less and less.

There would be a day where he forgot himself. People would cheer for Michael Navidson, but what about Howard Slayte? Who would remember him?

"You made me a promise. You promise to not abandon Hoenn for a fictional Galar. Was that a lie? Did I paint a target on my back and move to Dewford so you could fucking lie to me?"



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Michael Navidson
He/Him
32
October 13th
Slateport
Heterosexual
E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
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In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"
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He sits there, eyes racing. One eye is slower than the other, a reflection of its state in the waking world. Navy sits, hunched on the floor, unable to do anything save listen. A lifetime of experience has made him good at listening.[break][break]
…my wife’s as good as dead, Howard.” He accepts a harsh truth. “Melody….she’s great. She’s the best damn woman I know. This chick, the one in Hoenn, she’s not the same person.” How out of place that must sound, given what Howard just said. Navy does not care. He simply keeps talking.[break][break]
Crystal told me I was a bad dad. I’d ride off at the first sign of trouble. I think…I think it’s cause I just didn’t wanna…sit down and deal with normal people shit.” The intricacies of human interaction, the way lives touch one another, that flow of calamity is too much for a man like him. Better to enjoy the simple pleasures of an open battlefield.[break][break]
I…I want…” His knuckles ball up into fists.[break][break]
I want a past that never happened.” Except in dreams, he’s never really free.[break][break]
I…I ain’t…a liar. I’ve seen too much of what makes me happy to think I’m some good man, but I ain’t a liar.



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Admin Fox
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Rustboro City
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Single
5'9 (with hat) height
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POSTED ON May 7, 2024 7:35:18 GMT
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"Then get the hell up."

A past that never happened? What could compare to that? A perfect world that existed outside the paradigm of fate could never be replicated in yesterday or today. Howard knew of a million years of history. A thousand different skills and stories were coiled up inside his mind. A tapestry of unadulterated truth. His truth.

was right. The truth was dictated by those who wrote it. If history was written by the victors, then he'd need to be the victor. Only then would his truth exist as undeniable fact. If his truth of yesterday was real, then...

"...make a future that's better than what you lost." All Navy had to do was reach out his hand and dream of dreaming. Howard studied the past so that others could build the future. He would never partake in building that paradise. That Eden was closed to him. "Reach it. Grab it. I don't care what you do, but don't break your vow."

Even in this dream, he was needed. The Pale Rider had to saddle his horse again and march for that tower. Crystal's name enraged him. That fictional person's name enraged him. Even if she was real to Navy, that reality had faded. It was gone.

"You are a liar." Spittle flied from his mouth as Howard's rage warred against his composure. "Crystal is gone. You can't make amends with her. She'll always be with you, but your daughter is gone."

Despite his wrath, the archaeologist's gaze softened.

"But you have another waiting for you." Navy's successor. "Her and this whole damn region need you. I don't care if you're tired, if you're spent. You'll give everything you have, because you must. I can't do this alone."

None of them could. Hoenn needed a hero.

"So pick up your sword. Pick it up and fight."



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Michael Navidson
He/Him
32
October 13th
Slateport
Heterosexual
E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
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In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"
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Human words liberate him as gods never will. His hand balls into a fist. Beneath him, the warrior feels strength in his lungs. Steel eyes look up at the tower that lays in the heart of the city.[break][break]
…Arceus. I’m so dumb.” He states what would call an evident fact. People are waiting on him. Dewford’s people are waiting on him. waits for him in the waking world, a man to whom his fate is bound.[break][break]
I’ve sat around too long.” When he sits up, his body feels light. Liberated from the chains, he starts to walk, but not alone. His hand grabs Howard, dragging him along.[break][break]
Free me… Go… Together…

We’ve gotta do this together.”[break][break]
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