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freya morningstar
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POSTED ON May 2, 2024 17:46:36 GMT
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they shared an awkward comradery at the best of times, but that was before the region split him in twain. she knows, maybe better than anyone else, what it means to let madness eat at your fraying ends. all the hurt is easier when you can justify the pain with your own blood, tricking yourself into thinking all that hatred is spilling out of you. 

but she has struggled too far to pity him, to double back now and lend her hand. there are already so many responsibilities shouldered on her back; the weight of the world is a suffocation she has grown all too used to.

when she enters his chambers, she thumbs the pokeball in her hand. 

"connors," she greets, formality rearing its head after their last foray in area zero. "glad to see you got out of the chasm in one piece."
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Greyson Connors
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POSTED ON May 4, 2024 1:50:14 GMT
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Greyson busies idle hands as he mindlessly rolls clay into a ball. At the Councilwoman's arrival he tosses it to a Combee and watches casually as it works with its hive to repair a hole in a nearby wall.

Freya's appearance is not an unwelcome one, though it certainly brings with it the memory of that day in the chasm.

"Right back at you, Freya."

Greyson did not believe in the militaristic usage of last names and her title held no weight in this chamber — at least so long as she was a would-be competitor.

"State your terms, challenger."

He leans on the familiarity of professionalism in the face of the unknown.







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POSTED ON May 4, 2024 17:05:08 GMT
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he has a diverse team and a wide skillset, even though he favors playing at range. she'd go as far to say he's the most lethal of the elite four. matias is volatility; greyson is surgical precision. but now things are spinning out of control and he's started to corrode. 

"they're not fully broken yet," she says as she reaches for a peculiarly painted ball at her hip. "i imagine yours isn't either."

what she wants out of this is more than a showy display of their battle prowess. she knows what he's capable of. he knows what she's capable of. they've little left to prove themselves, but heralding their monstrosities? tempering rage in its most carnal form and redirecting it, commanding it, taming it - that's what she wants.

for the both of them.

the twin-tailed paradox pokemon emerges in a flash of light, snarling and spitting furiously. it paces in front of her, eyes trained with malice on the trainer opposite them.

"let's see what we're capable of."
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Greyson Connors
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POSTED ON May 4, 2024 17:14:43 GMT
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The implication settles in the air between them. Silence follows as Greyson considers.

Finally, he nods, voice even, wary.

"No, it isn't."

Reaching for the orb at his waist fills him with uncertainty. It takes a moment but he pushes oast it.

A Gouging Fire materializes from ivory light. A NOBLE ROAR shakes the entire arena.

"Don't disappoint." A phrase that could apply to any present.

With a start, the Paradox shoots forward, claws gouging the floor as its name suggests.







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freya morningstar
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POSTED ON May 4, 2024 17:23:34 GMT
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its pupils dilate when its natural enemy materializes on the field. freya's gaze flickers away from greyson and to the wake, measuring its bodily responses to the paltry headway she's managed to make at the draciary. she has a slight advantage here, but only just.

the twitching of its tails, the stamping of its right hind paw makes her mouth twist, command shifting. that roar lingers in the back of her brain, scratching at memories she'd rather forget, and its own claws scrape against the ground as it lurches forward to meet its adversary in a horrendously vicious clash.

the shield comes up and her wake brings its weight down with a snarl in an attempt to break its guard.

hone claws into breaking swipe
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Greyson Connors
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POSTED ON May 5, 2024 0:17:03 GMT
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The Paradox Pokemon rips through the space between them in no time at all.

Walking Wake's attack meets a BURNING BULWARK. The shield pulses heat and flame, any who touches it succumbing to painful BURNS.

It doesn't stop there. This was a fight between two beasts at the apex of their respective food chains. Between titans. Between dragons.

Gouging Fire tackles the Walking Wake, pushing it's superior weight onto his opponent, eager to feel its blood quench his maw.







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freya morningstar
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POSTED ON May 6, 2024 2:56:57 GMT
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that shield does not falter. sparks fly and the bodies are almost a blur, with both dragons trailing flame around their manes. the walking wake snarls as weight bears down on it and freya glimpses the whites of its eyes, fury and instinct overtaking it. 

that will be its undoing. 

freya hisses and the string of draconic seems not to reach its ears while it thrashes, gouging fire's snapping jaws a hair's breath away from sinking through mane and sinewy muscle to the lifeblood at its throat. 

and then its prehensile tails lash themselves around one of the quadruped's legs. its own back legs scramble, finding purchase, and lift as steam and hot water pours out of its mouth.

tentacle tail hours
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Greyson Connors
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POSTED ON May 6, 2024 11:44:54 GMT
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"Back!" He orders, but the Gouging Fire's snarl drowns it out. Frustration ripples across the sharp lines of his jaw, muscle tensing.

What use was a battle like this if it was won without him?

Gouging Fire's roar shakes the room again as pain blossoms. It burned in a way that went beyond typing.

It simply would not do.

Pressure pushes him back, face and shield low to take the brunt, but his anger was a RAGING FURY.

Its entire body radiated a heat unimaginable and, baring fangs, it swipes claws tinged bright scarlet beneath the heat.







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freya morningstar
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POSTED ON May 12, 2024 5:06:43 GMT
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it's the grasping of its tails that save it. not because they manage to pull the gouging fire off balance - no, the creature is too stocky and thick for that - but because it gives the wake enough momentum to lurch out of the way of that glorious, jagged shield.

the heat is nigh unbearable in the room and the water has billowed into a humid fog. she feels almost as though they're back in area zero, surrounded by uncanny tropics. 

"vram!" she snaps and the wake hesitates, water turned to spitting embers in its mouth, but then they die. one eye rolls back to look at her and grant her this moment of trust as greyson's beast rampages on. 

"draushum docar." those embers snick blue and rather than a flamethrower, a dragon pulse shrieks outward towards the fire as it looms closer. 

dragon pulse
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POSTED ON May 12, 2024 15:15:39 GMT
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Consumed in his rage the Gouging Fire meets the DRAGON PULSE with the same reckless abandon that had been its downfall to Greyson in the first place.

As both flames meet they form a symbiosis of color—blue and red mixing to become a brilliant purple of licking flames. Gouging Fire emerges from that torrent with another cavern shaking roar, fur singed and bleeding, but nevertheless pushing forward with an undeniable will backed by its RAGING FURY.

If the Walking Wake was a lithe, agile hunter, then the Gouging Fire was an unstoppable bulwark of flame and steel.

Across the field Greyson's brow furrows at the harsh, gutteral characters leaving Freya's lips. What was that?







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freya morningstar
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POSTED ON May 15, 2024 4:50:04 GMT
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they will fight each other to the death. they are their most innate selves, fortified by a draconic spirit unencumbered by centuries of man. it is a brilliant marvel to watch; greyson's feeds so hungrily from his raw pain and anger and sense of loss. her own's spark is smaller, but the fire is no less concentrated.

she has chiseled away at some of its pride. trust comes in the form of a backstep, a rolling of its eyes until all she can see are the whites, its pupils flashing minutely at her for some sembleance of direction.

now, to prove herself.

steam billows, providing cover, and freya calls - listening, watching, waiting, and when she sees the opportunity to strike, her draconic cry is met with fang and blood.
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POSTED ON May 19, 2024 3:19:40 GMT
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Letting this battle go-on further would only put both of their Pokémon at risk—poorly trained Pokémon were already a risk, much less these primal creatures.

Amidst fang and flame, Greyson recalls the Gouging Fire. Greyson allows the field, and Freya's Walking Wake, to settle, before speaking up. His lips angle into a frown.

"That was more than simple training. What was that voice?"







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fangs sink, trying to burrow through impossibly thick fur, enduring the lashing of hundreds' degree heat. anticipation makes its tails writhe and the snarls that rip viciously from its throat are that of a rabid dog's. 

and then there is nothing clamped between its jaws, only empty air and a fading red light. it gnashes, turning around in circles at its loss of prey, and the harsh syllables of the draconid language tone down to light, whispering snarls in an attempt to soothe the best. 

its bloodlust still radiates from it and, finding the exercise annoyedly unsuccessful, she recalls the pokemon. still, you did well, she thinks to the creature as she clips its ball back to her belt.

she clears her throat and raises a brow. 

"a language," she says, amused. "draconic. most people don't speak it - gives us a bit of an advantage." she shrugs. "and dragons hear it better than our tongue."
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Opening his mouth into an 'o', emulating a soft "ah", Greyson finishes it off with a nod.

It wasn't the most surprising thing he's ever heard—why wouldn't people be able to speak draconic? Just another Hoenn oddity.

"Well, it's certainly an advantage, but the entire point of this gauntlet is to use everything you have—this match was won as fair and square as one can make it." He chuckles to himself.

"I expect our next rematch will be different, once I can reign this dragon in."







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her shoulders relax. there's still so much she doesn't know about her past. and what she does know is colored by alternate strings of fate. the differences in that world could have been far more than her mother's life being spared (but i don't feel that's true, she thinks). 

"and i look forward to that match," she says, in all earnest. so much of greyson is in that gouging fire right now but he doesn't have the advantage of being impervious to his own flame. 

scars of her own immolation still linger, but the foundation  between them is too unstable for her to attempt to connect. no, she'll have to leave that to others. in the meantime, she'll watch out for him from afar - whether that be in the skies on the field or at his back in the inferno. 

"well, melody's next for me. wish me a bit luck, would you?" she says with a smile.
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