Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

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Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

POSTED ON Jul 28, 2024 16:31:08 GMT

Indiana John

ft. howard slayte, Yuina Higashi

"Somebody has to." He said airily, looking out into the woods for any signs of approach. His earlier shout had been loud; if there was anything other than pokemon on the island, surely they would come at least check things out.

He heard the nerds speak of Draconids, heard Yuina make mention of Remiel Calcifet, and wondered what was going on behind him.

Yuina's effort to hold the 'piece' would be fraught with effort.

Though it was a 'piece' of something bigger, that was not to say that it was small or light, and though made of 'clay', the block appeared to weigh over a hundred pounds easily, making efforts to move it, and specially hold it aloft, a grand trial.

As the large bear began to sniff the clay for a scent, finding it somewhat difficult to discern the structure's original scent from the fragrance of nature and time...

Not impossible, however.

The Ursaluna would soon find what it was looking for— though there was no immediate track it could detect. The smell seemed to vaguely permeate the air, making it somewhat difficult to pick a direction to go on.

Though one got the impression that if they drilled unto the soil beneath them, they may find, if nothing else, the rest of the structure the clay block once belonged in...

"Look sharp, nerd-os." Doug suddenly called out to the nerd duo, eyes straight ahead, narrowed as he looked at something in the distance. "Someone's coming."

Someone indeed was. Two someones, as a matter of fact. It took them a while to get there, but by then all of them had long gotten a good look at them.

The one leading (so to speak) was a young child, a girl, her legs kicking up and down widely as she approached, looking both smug and determined as she came to a stop before the group, feet squared and hands on her hips, chest puffed. On her hip, curiously... pokeballs rested. Just regular, non-ancient-tech-looking pokeballs.

Behind her, a little slower, was a slightly hunched old man, his long beard reaching down to his belly as he leaned on a staff, following at an even, calm pace. Where the girl's face was a mask of smug determination, his was a calm smile, eyes seemingly closed shut as he came to a stop shortly after.

"Greetings. Who might you be, visitors?" The man spoke in clear, if accented hoennian. Besides him, the girl looked at him, blinking slowly, before speaking in a rambling, speedy tone.

Unlike the man, she spoke in some unknown language, resembling both ancient hoennian and draconid, but so further down the pipeline of history and possibly having undergone so many modernizations as to become near unrecognizable.

Occasional words that almost seemed nixed from modern Hoennian appeared to be lightly interspersed in the parlance.

The old man responded slowly, drawing a pout from the girl as she crossed her arms and looked away.

Despite the odd language, it wasn't difficult to guess what was said: she was upset she wouldn't be able to follow the conversation.

The old man turned back to them, smiling.

"Apologies. Children, yes?" He said with a chuckle, recieving a squinted side eye from the girl as she tried to decipher what he had said, sensing it was about her... "What brings you here, visitors?"

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Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

POSTED ON Aug 6, 2024 20:34:22 GMT

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The two emerge like figures from mist. Howard's eye narrowed as they approached, cautious.

Hoenn was a dangerous place, and strange people were always a risk to one's well being. Unfortunately, Doug, Yuina, and Howard were just as alien to them as they were to the trio. That common ground was a crutch, though it was a crutch that seemed to not matter. The elder spoke their language, and thus implied a connection to the mainland.

Maybe this wouldn't be so bad.

"Children." Howard's eye flicked to Doug. He could relate with the elder's statement. "I apologize for trespassing on behalf of the group. My colleagues and I are looking for a ruin."

In the end, the earth would shrug them off like fleas in their impudent youthful arrogance.

Yet as the girl spoke, Howard's eye widened and began to sparkle. It was the same expression that he got whenever a new knickknack appeared at the museum, or whenever GIDEON GRAVES wore crocks and socks to the office. It was a gaze of pure delight and wonder.

"Woooooooooooow~" Howard beamed at the little girl. "What language is that? It's clearly an offshoot of a proto-Hoennian speech, but it's taken an entirely new route! I've never heard anything quite like it before!"

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Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

POSTED ON Aug 11, 2024 21:35:50 GMT

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Keeping close to Dig, both to make sure nothing happened to the bear and realizing that his lumbering steps made easy work of guiding her through the thick foliage, Yuina wondered if the Ursaluna would be able to guide them in one direction or another.[break]
It seemed though, that their traversing alone through the distant jungle was just about through, Doug's ~~uncalled for~~ call to both her and Howard gave way to the notion that they were in fact not alone.[break][break]
For better or for worse, Yuina was ready to prepare for the worst, trudging through the unknown and suddenly becoming aware that they were being encroached upon had rarely, if ever, been a good thing in any given expedition she had gone on thus far.[break]
She didn't know what she was expecting... But it certainly wasn't a child and an elderly man who came through the foliage and bushes... That was certainly a change of pace.[break][break]
Immediately it was known that they weren't hostile, at least not yet. They could have attacked outright, and it would have been merited as they were tresspassing essentially. The girl had Pokeballs... she could call for an attack at any moment, they perhaps shouldn't let their guard down entirely. And then they began to communicate between each other.[break][break]
"Incredible... A divergent language... if we could figure out the root dialect then we could start to understand where it evolved from," Yuina was fascinated, but that wasn't the purpose of being there... At least not the main purpose... She had her own whims on wanting to learn another language that could be considered dead.[break][break]
"Uhm, well, it's possible we may have already found it, or really what remains of it," Yuina added with Howard, regarding the remnant clay they had been investigating on the ground near them.

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Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

POSTED ON Sept 2, 2024 1:31:15 GMT

Indiana John

ft. howard slayte, Yuina Higashi

The archaeologist would find the doctor's eyes squarely back on him as he side-eyed.

"What." Doug asked flatly.

The elder man chuckled at the brief interaction, slowly rubbing at his beard as the Howard continued.

"Ruins, you say?" The old man asked, humming thoughtfully. "That's not an issue, though... I'm not certain there's anything of the sort on this island."

The man tapped at his chin thoughtfully, thinking of what he knew.

In the meanwhile...

The little girl huffed and puffed up her chest before the two unknown nerds, clearly not understanding almost anything they were saying but unafraid all the same.

At Yuina's words, the old man's attention drifted towards the clay blocks they had unearthed, cocking his head for a moment.

"Those'd be remnants of an old totem, I'd wager." He didn't share his reasoning for this deduction, merely closing his eyes and continuing to think.

"I'm don't believe you'll find any significant 'ruins' on our island, but... You may come with us, if you desire. Perhaps you'll find what you're looking for all the same." The old man said, brushing his beard.

He gasped softly.

"Ah, we haven't introduced ourselves, have we?" He realized then. "I am Koa-Kanno. That little one is Kimyo. It's... a pleasure to meet you, I believe your sayings go?

At the mention of her name, the little girl grinned confidently at the two nerds babbling nonsense at her, arms akimbo.

Doug grinned back, before turning his gaze to the old man.

"I'm Doug. Nerd #1 over there's Yuina. Nerd #2's called Howard. Pleasure's all ours, gramps!"

Koa-Kanno chuckled and nodded, before turning to lead the way, Kimyo following close behind... though she kept glancing over her shoulder to make sure they weren't up to anything.

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Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

POSTED ON Sept 20, 2024 0:32:05 GMT

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"It's ancient Hoennian, Hoyeon, or Draconid. It's always those three, unless we run into braille or something." Howard raised an eyebrow at Yuina as he absentmindedly fingered the Gigaton Ball at his hip. "Wish I had brought my notebook on language trees. I suspect everything in Hoenn originates from the same source."

He turned to peer at the clay totem that Koa-Kanno had mentioned. As he leaned down to inspect it for the final time, he nodded at Doug's wording.

"Yes... I am in a nerd." He said it with a remarkable amount of confidence as he scratched his chin thoughtfully. After giving the clay blocks one final look, he rose to his feet and adjusted his hat. "Archaeologist. Historian. Historian. Archaeologist."

He pointed at himself and Yuina to insinuate that they were both. Then, he pointed to Doug.

"Employed."

He followed the old man, giving Kimyo a glance. He winked, though the motion was lost on a face with one eye. He could've produced a more satisfying motion, but it'd require him to take his eyepatch off. Not ideal.

"By significant, Koa-Kanno, I assume you mean that there are still small pieces around the island? Effigies and whatnot? Small things?" He would've killed for a smoke, but Doug would've killed him for littering if Yuina didn't throttle him first. Somehow, someway, he'd get a littering fine delivered to his mailbox if he tossed away dead cigarettes out here.

"Those are historically relevant. They're just not... grand."

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Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

POSTED ON Sept 22, 2024 18:49:57 GMT

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Taking a moment to return Dig to his Pokeball, Yuina looked to the older man again as he spoke in regards to ruins. She supposed that what they might call ruins from the outside might not be as such to a civilization that was still maintaining their society... It was likely even a bit insensitive to say.[break][break]
"Uhm, apologies, ruin might have been incorrect to say. We appreciate your accommodations all the same though," Yuina offered in an apology, as he was kind enough to offer to show them where the civilization remained on the island. They were in no place to disrespect or disregard the culture of the island.[break][break]
Introductions were given, and Doug handled things on their end. She knew he meant it endearingly but she walked just beside him and elbowed him with a soft nudge. She was a nerd, as was Howard, but she couldn't just let him get away with it so easily.[break][break]
"It could very well be that 'significant' to us might be 'normal' to them all things considered. This is their home, someone would say the same thing about Draconid if they were new to Hoenn, or Hisui if they had never visited Sinnoh before," Yuina wondered with Howard. Their everyday life on the island was just that, their life as they knew it, it wasn't history in the same was as it was still happening in real time in the present day.

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Indiana John [Howard/Yuina/M]

POSTED ON Nov 13, 2024 3:35:43 GMT

Indiana John

ft. howard slayte, Yuina Higashi

Yuina elbowed him, gently— and he folded like an omelet, his spine audibly popping as he bent at an angle with a dramatic wheeze.

In the meanwhile, Koa-Kanno hummed at Howard's request for clarification.

"You'll certainly find no little amount of 'small' things in this island." He said, dragging his hand through his long beard. "However, that is not what I meant, no."

Ahead of the group, Kimyo marched with a puffed chest and broad steps, arms swinging wide.

As Yuina spoke, the old man gave her a smile.

"Exactly right." He said simply, before gesturing forward with his staff as they jungle around them began to thin. "Look for yourselves."

As they stepped out of the jungle, a hill stretched out before them, with Kimyo sprinting ahead of the group before coming to a stop at the top, gazing beyond it.

Past the grassy hill— a sharp decline, what appeared before a hill turning out to be a cliff. And gazing down below— a large settlement.

Carved into the cliffside and the earth, stone and soil shaped into home and edifice, monument and temple.

What would've been the 'ruins of a long gone civilization' stood well-preserved still, for the people remained.

Kimyo didn't wait for them to take it all in— she immediately half turned and descended down the cliffside, showing them the stairs carved into the mountainside leading down into the valley settlement.

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