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Absinthe Blackwood
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POSTED ON Sept 16, 2024 6:16:49 GMT
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the midnight air is like a thick, black curtain draped over route 102, a stifling darkness that would smother any light foolish enough to reveal itself. absinthe sweeps through the dense undergrowth with trypsin, her sleek seviper, coiled tightly around her shoulders like a living, breathing scarf. she is a diva, afterall, and divas do not crawl on their bellies like peasants. normally, absinthe would not tolerate such behavior. she makes an exception for one of her only companions.[break][break]

trypsin's tongue flicks out to taste the damp air, her beady eyes searching through the shadows for any sign of life. somewhere in the distance, a noctowl calls out into the night, and its cry echoes off the trees and drowns the silence in a momentary wave of sound.[break][break]

the familiar weight of her scalpel presses against absinthe's hip, a cruel reminder of the night's grim purpose. she can almost taste the tension that hangs in the air like a fog; the constant push and pull between team rocket and the league, each vying for control of petalburg and its surroundings, has been rapidly approaching a boiling point. tonight, she wants to ensure that she is useful, in whatever way possible. she craves blood.[break][break]

her breath comes slow and steady, collected in the confines of her ever present gas mask, creating a steady, low hiss as the air struggles to filter its way through the charred remains of her lungs. what she wouldn't give for one deep, clean breath. but she had been choking on the poisonous bile of grief and guilt for years, now. what difference does it make if her lungs were filled with toxins, too?[break][break]

nonetheless, absinthe keeps the mask. it has another purpose, a darker one. one only she and the only admin she can trust knows.[break][break]

a pitiful state of affairs. absinthe's fingertips itch. she will replace her need for clean air with a lust for blood. maybe, then, she will forget about everything else that falls down around her.



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"i'll be on the way home, just right after this, pen!" he says, probably to 's voicemail. but there's a good chance that the councilwoman had gotten home early after hard's day work, and was irritable that ollie wasn't going to make it home in time for dinner.

[break][break] but she would understand.

[break][break] such was the nature of the work that they did.

[break][break] unaware of the viper that hung in the shadows, ready to lash out at a moment's notice, the head ranger strides confidently throughthe woods of petalburg, having let the last ranger patrol home early for the evening. they'd all been working late shifts ever since the scrimmages between league and rocket had increased.

[break][break] but tonight was a dull night, one of them had said, with nothing else to report.

[break][break] ... and oh, how wrong they were.

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abby, lady taipan
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Absinthe Blackwood
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POSTED ON Sept 16, 2024 6:31:21 GMT
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there is the faintest rustle of clothing as trypsin shifts, unseen, her scales barely glinting in the dim moonlight that dares pierce through the black canopy above. her beady eyes, much more adjusted to the darkness, narrow as she senses a warm body approach.[break][break]

absinthe can tell little of the nature of the potential victim, only that she desperately wants something to take out the fury of existence on.[break][break]

she thinks of the seviper around her neck, the power and pain she is able to cause with a flick of the wrist. she almost delights in it, in being able to bring death upon the so-called innocent. the thought consumes her. it maddens her. it blurs her vision.[break][break]

they are coming closer now. their steady footfalls are louder, the rustling of their clothes clearer. her hand rests on her scalpel's hilt, waiting.
and then, something in absinthe snaps. perhaps it is her newfound bloodlust, or the endless weeks of depression and spiraling insomnia. perhaps it is the erroneous way that she thinks with absolute certainty that she will get away with this, that nothing will stop her from continuing to carve a path through league bastards like a hot knife through butter.[break][break]

whatever it is, it spurs her on. the long, deadly knife leaves its sheath with the quiet whisper of metal on leather, glinting once in the moonlight. as quick and silent as death itself, the white-clad woman lunges from the shadows, her scalpel poised to strike like a cobra ready to sink its fangs into its prey.



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- tldr: absinthe lunges out from the darkness at ollie in an attempt to overpower him physically based off of sheer surprise and throw him from his wyrdeer.[break]
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ollie, oliver
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33
august 5
pallet town, kanto
bi (complicated)
evergrande
head ranger
ruin us, ruin me
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6'5" height
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"okay guys — just one more last walk around the perimeter, and then we can get home!"

[break][break] his stomach rumbled, reminding him that he hadn't quite eaten earlier that day. he's had a half-eaten roast beef sandwich that he'd eaten earlier in the day at 's insistence — 'you're a head ranger, ollie. you have to remember to eat' — because he had a horrible habit of forgetting to eat otherwise.

[break][break] thinking of his next meal, ollie isn't prepared for the fact that something - or someone - has already marked him as theirs. his emerald eyes widen perceptibly at the sudden movement to his side, the silver-sheen of a dagger that cuts against the leather of his uniform, sloughing his ranger comms off his belt and tumbling to the ground.

[break][break] shit!

[break][break] quickly, the head ranger springs backwards as a brilliant blue light erupts in front of him — TOFU surges forward to protect his trainer, a crackling DISCHARGE shooting towards the figure that tried to slice him into two.

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abby, lady taipan
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November 4th
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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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Absinthe Blackwood
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POSTED ON Sept 24, 2024 1:06:56 GMT
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even amidst the crushing darkness, the scalpel's razor edge ripples like water with its speed. absinthe slices down blindly but with lethal precision, cutting cleanly through leather and wiring alike, her lips curling upwards as the rush hits her.[break][break]

that smirk is wiped away in a flash of brilliant blue light.[break][break]

absinthe watches in growing horror as a pikachu materializes between her and her intended victim, electricity crackling in the air. she has only a second to recognize it - as well as the crackling feeling of a sub-par discharge as it arcs towards her - before the attack slams into her body, making her muscles lock up and her nerves scream.[break][break]

she grits her teeth behind her mask, her scalpel falling to the damp earth below as her arm spasms. still recovering, she looks up at her attacker, vision swimming as pain lances through her with each movement. then, with that mad fury that she keeps so well hidden boiling up inside her again, absinthe sweeps down to collect her knife, eyes flashing dangerously.[break][break]

let them come. her wounded trypsin coiled around her shoulders, even she is eager for blood. absinthe could never tire of proving how far she has fallen. it seems to be the only thing she's good for these days.[break][break]

"let's make this just between us, shall we?" she hisses, and her arm, rising with smoke, flicks for the briefest moment. on cue, trypsin slides off of her shoulders and levels a NIGHT SLASH directly at ollie's pikachu. for the briefest moment, the snakes coiling body hides the way absinthe lunges forward once more, blade seeking the ranger's flesh.



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- tldr: absinthe gets electrocuted and is like 'yeowch!', but keeps on attacking through the power of hate! seviper aims a night slash at ollie's pikachu, absinthe lunges for ollie again.[break]
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ollie, oliver
he/him
33
august 5
pallet town, kanto
bi (complicated)
evergrande
head ranger
ruin us, ruin me
and i'll let you
6'5" height
6'5" height
everyone's a sucker for a taste of glory
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ollie morales
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POSTED ON Sept 25, 2024 20:04:20 GMT
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[break][break] relief blossoms in his chest when he realizes that tofu has come to his defense, and he scrambles quickly to his feet to get his bearings as the agonized scream of the masked assailant curdles through the air like spoiled milk. it's almost as terrible a pain as having gotten stabbed — at least for someone like ollie.

[break][break] he doesn't want anyone to hurt. he never has.

[break][break] "come on!" he shouts, hands thrown up. "can't we talk about this?"

[break][break] but he knows that they can't.

[break][break] images of a digitized face, NEON'S () morphing in agony and despair, flicker through his memory.

[break][break] beside them, the snake coils again and strikes — nightmare slashes through the air and cuts through his trusted partner's tail, who tumbles far better with the pain than he ever could. a DISARMING VOICE echoes through the air after, making ollie wince.

[break][break] this time, however, when the other lunges — ollie is prepared. he darts backwards, as if dodging a taurus' horns.

[break][break] "come on," he pleads, throwing out a wildcard. "you don't want this! i know you don't. can't we just talk?"

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[attr="class","tldr"] tldr; [break]
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• ollie is like CMON CANT WE JUST TALK :PLEADING_EYES: [break][break]

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abby, lady taipan
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32 years old
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slateport
bisexual
bar owner, drug manufacturer
scientist
i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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Absinthe Blackwood
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POSTED ON Sept 26, 2024 5:01:48 GMT
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her jaw clenches beneath her mask as she watches the man step back from her lunge, leaving her stabbing uselessly at empty air. she doesn't need to see his face to know the wide-eyed expression of pity she'd receive. it was the same look she had gotten after cole's death, when everybody whispered about how they thought that she did it. typsin recoils from the pikachu as the disarming voice comes out, and it returns to coil around absinthe's feet, who herself cringes at the grating noise.[break][break]

anger flares, hot and bright.[break][break]

"talk?" she says, and sweeps her scalpel in a wide arc to place it between them as she shifts her stance. the hell did they have to talk about? "you don't know me. you don't know what i want."[break][break]

something broils just beneath the surface. i don't need your words. your salvation is lined with thorns.[break][break]

absinthe chokes out a laugh, cold and broken. "you don't know anything about me," she repeats again, quieter, and her grip tightens around her scalpel as her voice drops to a low hiss. "choke on your fucking pity."[break][break]

she doesn't want him to see her for what she is. she doesn't want him to see her like this, a broken mess, lashing out to reclaim some control over her miserable existence. the same person who sits slumped over the bar in the early hours of the morning, straining to remember why.[break][break]

absinthe has too much to hide. anger coils like her snakes, demanding her to attack.[break][break]

beneath her mask, absinthe's teeth grind together as she stalks towards the man again, eyes flicking to his pokemon. the pikachu. beside her, trypsin slithers closer, eyes gleaming with malevolent anticipation.[break][break]

a moment passes, and then both absinthe and her pokemon lunge at ollie, trypsin aiming POISON JAB at his abdomen, absinthe aiming her scalpel at whatever pound of flesh she can find purchase on. in this moment, she resembles a caged animal more than she resembles a woman—gnawing at the bars of her cage, so beaten by the world that she is desperate to feel something, anything, even if it means staining her hands red for the rest of her pitiful existence.



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NOTES


- +10mp ic post, +50 MP have an antagonistic exchange of dialogue between your character and another writer's character or NPC, +50 MP: Showcase a meaningful moment between your character and their Pokémon[break]
- tldr: absinthe mocks ollie for wanting to talk, her seviper aims a poison jab for him and absinthe lunges again, ignoring tofu






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ollie, oliver
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august 5
pallet town, kanto
bi (complicated)
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head ranger
ruin us, ruin me
and i'll let you
6'5" height
6'5" height
everyone's a sucker for a taste of glory
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ollie morales
hold it close | c, skirmishes
POSTED ON Oct 16, 2024 5:49:24 GMT
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[attr="class","postbox"] "pity?" he repeats, shaking his head. "no, i'm not - "

[break][break] shit.

[break][break] not for the first time, she slashes at him — both she and her Seviper in perfect sync. the double attack makes it's mark, the venomous tail of the serpent lashing painfully across the head ranger's abdomen. a warbled cry rips from his throat as he instinctively rolls away, just narrowly evading the deadly edge of her blade. a stray lock of his hair drifts to the floor. tofu's DISARMING VOICE pierces through the air, a sonic wave slicing toward the masked rocket as she dives down towards him.

[break][break] shit. shit. shit.

[break][break] this was bad. he staggered to his feet, clutching his abdomen as he fought — unsuccessfully — to suppress the pain.

[break][break] "fine!" he agrees, heaving out a pained breath. "you're right. i don't know you. so tell me! tell me what you want. tell me who you are!"

[break][break] his emerald eyes gleam sympathetically at her.

[break][break] "you're not a bad person."

[break][break] "no one is ever is, not completely."

[break][break] a flash of a memory, a face bathed in digital light. NEON.

[break][break] no.

[break][break] he wasn't going to let him win. he wasn't going to let rocket win.

[break][break] if he didn't at least try to believe in people, what were they even fighting for?

[break][break]


[attr="class","tldr"] tldr; [break]
• ollie is HURT by poison jab, but still tries to talk to her [break]
• pikachu using disarming voice [break][break]

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abby, lady taipan
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32 years old
November 4th
slateport
bisexual
bar owner, drug manufacturer
scientist
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Absinthe Blackwood
hold it close | c, skirmishes
POSTED ON Oct 17, 2024 1:35:51 GMT
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absinthe's knife misses its mark as ollie rolls to the side, leaving it to clang against the root-scarred forest floor. her head snaps up in time to catch the full brunt of the pikachu's disarming voice. the sound, it seems, resonates through her bones, making her vision blur and her movements uncoordinated as she weaves to the side and stumbles to the floor.[break][break]

her grip on her knife tightens as the sharp pain fades to a low throb, boiling in her blood. not enough to stop her completely, but enough to hurt. behind her, trypsin hisses, straining to launch another attack but held in place by absinthe's command, the same one that keeps her own feet bolted to the floor.[break][break]

what do you want?[break][break]

absinthe lifts her head from where she had stared down at her palms on the forest floor. she meets ollie's eyes, and rises to her feet, albeit unsteadily.[break][break]

"what the hell makes you think i want anything from you?" she spits out in response to his words, stalking towards him again as she struggles to recover, left eye twitching as she sizes the man up like a slab of meat. absinthe's voice is shaking as she speaks. "what i want is none of your goddamn business."[break][break]

god, he's persistent. absinthe's stomach flips at the last word, even as she tries not to let it show on her face. she's heard that before. she's hoped for it before.[break][break]

you're not a bad person.[break][break]

at that, absinthe loses it. something snaps inside of her, like a match igniting, and the nervous breakdown that she has been carefully curating for the past three years comes rushing up, hot and blazing.[break][break]

"yes i am!" absinthe screams, hurtling towards him with more fervor than before. a whirlwind of violence with no reason to it. the scalpel in her hand feels like an extension of her, feels like truth, and she is swinging it without care, without anything but the fury in her veins that only grows stronger the longer he pretends to know her. her movements are not poised, poisoned by the disarming voice, poisoned by her fury.[break][break]

absinthe hates him. she hates him more than she's ever hated anything in her entire life.[break][break]

and she hates him because he's everything she's not. he's kind. he's brave. he doesn't walk the world wearing scars and secrets like jewelry. he didn't let the world chew him up and spit him out and ruin him like it ruined absinthe.[break][break]

the part of her that hates him the most is the part that agrees with him. that she's not a bad person. that she deserves better than this miserable life.[break][break]

but absinthe is too busy clinging to the hatred. it's what's kept her alive, after all. she can't let herself believe anything else.



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NOTES


- tldr: absinthe gets knocked out of bloodlust by the disarming voice. then, she goes ballistic as he claims that she is not a bad person, and begins swinging wildly with her knife.
- +10 mp ic post, +50 MP: Have your character self-doubt or cast doubt on another's confidence/allegiances/beliefs, etc., +50 MP: Have your character attempt to or successfully take revenge in some way






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ollie, oliver
he/him
33
august 5
pallet town, kanto
bi (complicated)
evergrande
head ranger
ruin us, ruin me
and i'll let you
6'5" height
6'5" height
everyone's a sucker for a taste of glory
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ollie morales
hold it close | c, skirmishes
POSTED ON Oct 24, 2024 4:34:18 GMT
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[attr="class","postbox"] "what makes you think i want anything from you?"

[break][break] "because!"

[break][break] "because you're a person! just like me. you and i, we're the same!"

[break][break] he leaps back, only narrowly dodging blow after blow. his body tenses, rolling out of the way as each strike misses, dirt and leaves flying up as he scrambles back to his feet to avoid another. though he tries to stay calm, panic tightens in the head ranger's throat with every concurrent swing. doesn't she give up? the woman in front of him blurs with his memories of NEON and the digitized expression of a pained .

[break][break] "i -"

[break][break] forest-green eyes widen, however, when something in the other seems to snap.

[break][break] if he thought she was angry before, she is absolutely livid. like flames ripping through dry brush, a spark ignites in the venomous rocket's gaze. her attacks become wild and frenzied, more than before, and while less precise, they were now easier to dodge.

[break][break] he's reminded of the way he fought as a kid — back when he was young, bashful and unafraid. back when he hadn't had anything to fight for, throwing punches without rhyme or reason as he brawled with his brothers in the back of their farmland home.

[break][break] "no, you're not!" he shouts back, still stubbornly clinging to this hope that she can't be all bad. that there must be some goodness in her, even if she's trying to end his life.

[break][break] "you're not! you can't be! trust me - i can help. i can save you. just let me help !"

[break][break] but it's not just her that's moving too fast. it's him too. the back of his heel knocks against a stray rock, sending him tumbling backwards, leaving it open.

[break][break] startled, his wyrdeer attempts to defend his trainer by trying to tear the blades from the woman's hands with PSYCHIC.

[break][break]

[attr="class","tldr"] tldr; [break]
• ollie is still being stubborn and accidentally falls on his behind while his wyrdeer tries to use PSYCHIC to get the crazy woman off of him/take her blades [break][break]

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50 MP have an antagonistic exchange of dialogue between your character and another writer's character or NPC[break]
50 MP have your character reflect on why they're fighting/reflect on their loyalties. [break]




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abby, lady taipan
she/her
32 years old
November 4th
slateport
bisexual
bar owner, drug manufacturer
scientist
i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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Absinthe Blackwood
hold it close | c, skirmishes
POSTED ON Oct 24, 2024 23:47:45 GMT
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"you can't save me!"[break][break]

absinthe's voice is a raw, ripped-out scream, tearing through the quiet of the forest like a saw blade. her eyes are wild behind the lenses of her gas mask, animalistic, tears of rage and despair blurring her vision as she swings the scalpel in wide, reckless arcs. the very idea of strategy has left her mind, reason has fled her senses. she acts on nothing more than instinct and hatred.[break][break]

but just like any animal that scents blood in the water, her desperate ministrations render her reckless, her reason sloppy. she feels a sudden, sharp tug at her wrist, and she spares a glance downward just in time to see the scalpel wrenched from her grasp, floating in mid-air, and then flung away into the darkness by an unseen force.[break][break]

an unfortunate turn of events. but absinthe can be dangerous without a scalpel.[break][break]

"you want to help me?" she spits, grass shifting beneath her weight as she stalks closer. trypsin, coiled around her, hisses in warning, ready to strike again at absinthe's command. "you want to save me? you can't even save yourself."[break][break]

"we aren't the same."[break][break]

a spherical device appears in her gloved palms, fished from the depths of her pockets. it is a dark harbinger of doom, inscribed with grooves on the surface, complete with a button at the top.[break][break]

"you are weak and useless. i'm the woman who's going to make you suffer. i'm the woman who's going to make you pay for every sin committed by the people you fight for."[break][break]

to punish a group for the sins of the one is evil. to kill solely for revenge against parties she cannot touch directly is the malady of a blackened heart. absinthe had prayed as a child, but not anymore. she kneels at the altar of ritual sacrifice and begs whoever may listen that she is not the lamb led to the slaughter. that it may be somebody else.[break][break]

she is prolonging the inevitable. today, the man in front of her, wide-eyed and desperate, is the sacrificial lamb. tomorrow, it may be her.[break][break]

she doesn't want to kill him—she wants to make him think she will.[break][break]

a click of the button at the top of the spherical device releases the valves within the orb. a hiss slices through the silence, accompanied only by absinthe's heaving breaths, and begins to release billowy plumes of rich green smoke into the air. absinthe's eyes are manic and tinged red at the edges—the look of a woman who has lost everything, who knows she is safe with the gas mask permanently choking her mouth.[break][break]

absinthe's body, coiled like a viper, implies that the gas is truly as she will describe her. her mind knows otherwise—sleeping gas, made from the spores of her wretched little monster, to inflict the body with sleep so dark that one will mistake it for death until they awake, writhing in their own skin.[break][break]

"you want to talk? let's talk about how you're going to die." her voice is a low, deadly hiss, like the sound of a snake about to strike. "let's talk about how you're going to choke on your own blood, how your lungs are going to fill with fluid, how you're going to drown in your own body. let's talk about how you're going to beg for mercy, and how i won't give it to you. just like no one gave it to me."[break][break]

she draws closer. she's leaning over him now, so he can see the severe, bone-deep curl of her eyebrows, so severe they nearly eclipse her eyes. "but don't worry," she says, her voice dropping to a whisper. "it'll be quick. quicker than what i went through. quicker than what my husband went through. you'll be dead before you hit the ground. and then, maybe, just maybe, i'll find some peace."



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- tldr: absinthe's scalpel is wrenched from her hand. she says some bullshit and drops a bomb of sleeping gas that she pretends is lethal.[break]
- +10 mp ic post, +50 MP: Have your character “hit rock bottom”, +50 MP: Showcase your character’s weakness(es) meaningfully






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ollie, oliver
he/him
33
august 5
pallet town, kanto
bi (complicated)
evergrande
head ranger
ruin us, ruin me
and i'll let you
6'5" height
6'5" height
everyone's a sucker for a taste of glory
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ollie morales
hold it close | c, skirmishes
POSTED ON Oct 31, 2024 9:03:32 GMT
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[attr="class","postbox"] "save myself?"

[break][break] it was stupid. it was stubborn.

[break][break] somewhere deep inside, ollie knew that he should've run away. he should've given up. he should've taken flight the same way that he'd done for years

[break][break] yet, something told him, he couldn't.

[break][break] he thought about the wild way that had tried to tackle , thought about the brave way that had stood up for him, regardless of the danger.

[break][break] the danger. the danger. the danger.

[break][break] wasn't this dangerous now?

[break][break] emerald eyes smolder in the sight of the faceless mask in front of him, in the mangled shadows that no doubt constrict around her and the rest of rocket.

[break][break] "there's nothing to save me from —"

[break][break] a flash of amber eyes. rivers of magma that bleed behind eyes of evergreen.

[break][break] .

[break][break] "i'm - we're the good guys. i'm just trying to help you! rocket is just lying to you. they don't actually care. they're just going to ruin you, make you do whatever they want until they're done with you."

[break][break] "and i know you're a good person deep down inside. i know you don't really want — "

[break][break] but even as he said it, he doubted himself. she advanced on him, a haze of thick green smoke swirling around her, choking the air.

[break][break] FEAR stifled him, constricting him into a PARALYSIS. behind him, the both his pokemon are disarmed by the smoke too, staggering, before they slump onto the grass.

[break][break] ollie, too, stumbles back. he coughs, fist over his mouth, as he tries not to breathe in the toxic fumes.

[break][break] the poisonous smoke coalesced around him, green eyes glazing over with pain.

[break][break] "i - you're a good person. i promise."

[break][break] and just like that, the head ranger of the league slumped over.

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SKIRMISHES: PETALBURG [break][break]

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50 MP have your character be injured by another's pokemon directly or indirectly [break]
50 MP have an antagonistic exchange of dialogue between your character and another writer's character or NPC[break]
50 MP have your character reflect on why they're fighting/reflect on their loyalties. [break]
50 MP showcase your own character's weakness(es) meaningfully. [break]
50 MP have your character directly or indirectly spotlight another writer's character's strengths. [break]
50 MP have your character be injured by another's pokemon directly or indirectly. [break]
50 MP have your character self-doubt or cast doubt on another's confidence/allegiances/beliefs, etc. [break]
50 MP have your character make a regrettable decision or make a sacrifice. [break]
50 MP reference (tag) another character that is not in your thread in a meaningful way. [break]
50 MP showcase a meaningful moment between your character and their Pokemon. [break]
50 MP include a motif or recurring symbol of some kind in your thread. [break]
50 MP pace your narrative accordingly by featuring a "back and forth" in terms of advantage and raising the stakes until the climax. [break]
50 MP for getting your Pokemon knocked out in your skirmish thread. [break]
50 MP have all of your character's Pokemon be knocked out or killed. [break]
25 MP for completing your Skirmish thread. [break]
150 MP for "losing" or having a "negative" outcome for your character and their Skirmish thread. [break]
150 MP for having Rocket and League characters and faction-based conflict in the thread (no NPCs). [break][break]

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sunny.html

abby, lady taipan
she/her
32 years old
November 4th
slateport
bisexual
bar owner, drug manufacturer
scientist
i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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Absinthe Blackwood
hold it close | c, skirmishes
POSTED ON Oct 31, 2024 21:09:11 GMT
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absinthe watches as the man's form falls limp into the fog, laying on the ground with an audible thump. even trypsin looks up, surprised by how quick the gas works.[break][break]

it is a quiet moment.[break][break]

the woman who had, mere seconds ago, been snarling and hissing and angry now stands there in silence. the plumes of green smoke start to dissipate into the dense black fog that shrouds this part of the forest, leaving the scent of bitter chemicals and decaying leaves in the air.[break][break]

she looks at the scalpel in her hand; at the mask on her face; at the limp body of her would-be victim. she looks at her world - this violent, chaotic, cruel world, one she has only ever tried to survive in.[break][break]

but maybe surviving isn't enough anymore. she watches him lie there, completely unconscious, at the mercy of her scalpel, her venom, her gas, and she feels the sinking, sick feeling she gets every time someone looks at her with pity.[break][break]

she didn't want him to pity her. she didn't want anyone to pity her.[break][break]

for a moment, she almost leaves him.[break][break]

almost.[break][break]

before she turns, she kneels next to him, rolls the body over, and takes his wallet from his back pocket.[break][break]

that accomplished, she leaves him. there's nothing more she can do there. the longer she stays, the higher the chance that the gas will start to affect her, despite her mask, or that he'll wake up before she's gone.[break][break]

either outcome doesn't bode well for her.[break][break]

besides, there's something she needs to do, somewhere she needs to be, and the revelation that comes with it:[break][break]

absinthe blackwood is going to fix herself. and there's a good possibility that team rocket, and the rest of the world, will suffer for it.



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- +10 mp ic post, +50 MP: Include a motif or recurring symbol of some kind in your thread, +50 MP for "winning" or having a "positive" outcome for your character and their Skirmish thread, +150 MP for having Rocket and League characters and faction-based conflict in the thread (no NPCs)






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gremlin creature

the shadow mod
wing attack
wing attack
wing attack
wing attack
wing attack
wing attack
mod
googoo gaga
spiral is my big poppa pump (positive)
600 foot tall baby height
600 foot tall baby height
sleeping in mod reqs
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spiral and shiv's baby
hold it close | c, skirmishes
POSTED ON Oct 31, 2024 21:49:31 GMT
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