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Kat scoffs as she sees yet another masked Rocket. "At least fight head-on, cowards," she murmurs, before shaking her head. It only makes sense as even those rebelling against society can't quite live outside of it - in a different way, she's familiar. Less severe, even if she's lost many a scream about being more interested in actual biology and medicine than physics.

A simpler time, changed by a mere move.

"If that would be so easy, don't you think I would?" she retorts, the sleep-deprivation of the last days not doing her any favours in terms of thinking things through rationally. "Numbahs!" She sees the Shell Smash and needs swiftness. With decisiveness in her throw and a lack of hesitation, she calls for a pokémon that is similiar in nature. Though wavering sometimes, Katharina yet has to see the Dewott, shimmering and shining brightly from Illumina markings, falter in battle.

Still, Katharina holds her pokémon back for a moment, shaking her head. "Do we have to fight?" she murmurs, her voice half-raised in a desperate attempt to win more time, perhaps, to have her colleagues move the others, have backup arrive, to block out the silent cries of pain behind her with her own voice. "It's just one tent, and none of them will fight anytime soon." A tent that hastily has been put up after a group has been attacked, and then left behind - no one of them thought there would be another Rocket coming by so quickly again.

Her fists are balled, with her nails, despite how short they've been cut, digging into her palms.

Madeline McKenna
post count: 2
50 MP describe your character's pokeball throwing style. (decisive)
50 MP have an antagonistic exchange of dialogue between your character and another writer's character or NPC.
TOTAL: 170

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"Smart like starting a losing battle?" Katharina spits, but immediately something in her voice also wavers at that. Because she isn't sure if she isn't about to start a losing battle, either, but she knows ... she has some wildcards at her disposal should it really be needed. She still ... isn't sure if she should actually.

Numbahs seem to stand even more to attention at the remark about her name, frowning as Kat does about it. "It's a perfectly good name," Katharina says with certainty, before shaking her head. She tenses up as the Rocket goes to take something - and then relaxes and intensifies her frown as she sees it's a pack of cigarettes.

She is ... baffled. On one hand, the lack of battle is a relief for the tent behind her, on the other hand ... that's not the usual Rocket interaction. "Smoking is bad for you," she frowns, in tandem with Numbahs not wanting to take that smoke - a shell is thrown to cut off the lit end of the cigarette, a quick, precise throw. "If it's a battle or a smoke break, I'll take the battle."

Arguably, a battle could bear worse consequences, but the smell of smoke is something that makes Katharina's hair stand on edge, as smoke always propels them into a state of oh shit, what went wrong this time and what do we have to fix?.

Madeline McKenna
post count: 3
50 MP have your character's Pokemon symbolize or represent in some way, the condition of your character. (smoking bad)
10 MP use a starmobile, shadow, illumina or toxic chain pokemon in your thread.

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"Who started it, really?" They wouldn't be there if Rocket hadn't invaded Petalburg first - though Katharina is also aware that the League has been gearing up for this confrontation, too. Both sides are to blame, but she's thrown her lot in with some. And well, the League didn't fly in a whole army from elsewhere ... yet. She sighs as her mind wanders to war logistics - better stick to the current situation, her job. The job that she so abruptly lost after just settling in, though she hasn't been hit as hard by it as others.

"It's for calculator," she actually explains before becoming irritated by the wisps of smoke. Numbahs in that regard is as hot-headed as Katharina is, quickly putting an end to the lit cigarette by cleanly cutting it off. "Do you know how much money you could spend on other things if you didn't pay to ruin your lungs?" she snaps back.

She catches a brief glimpse of the Rocket looking behind her - something that she is well aware of. However, there's the end of the rope and a release of the tension that she's held in her body as the Blastoise starts spinning. "Ceaseless Edge!" she tells Numbahs, who charges forward to meet the Blastoise as much away from the tent as possible. She takes out both of her shell blades that start extending and glowing with dark energy as she pushes against the Blastoise - damaging herself in the process as she pushes onward to stop its advances.

Madeline McKenna
post count: 4
50 MP have your character reflect on why they're fighting/reflect on their loyalties.
50 MP showcase your own character's weakness(es) meaningfully. (nurse occupational disease being annoying abt the enemy's health, unwanted advice)
50 MP have your character recall a past thread or event that they have participated in or not (link the thread).

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Katharina is well aware that a single cog in the machine can't do anything to stop it all ... especially when it's not an actual machine that can be so finnicky. And yet, the anger still persists. Anger that might have drawn her more to the frontlines than usually, daring her to fill in a role that is not exactly a fit for her. But she's got ... means. Pokémon. Powers that are still beyond her scope, but powers that she can command if absolutely needed.

Still, she doesn't comment further now, knowing that this is a battle that she can't verbally win. There's other things to focus on, except ... "Numbers themselves also can have meaning," she remarks, actually not finding the concept of naming pokémon too strange. In fact, one of her closest friends Xuying Zhou has his pokémon named after letters ... gods she can only hopes he's staying safe out there. She sometimes regrets having extended a recommendation for him, putting him into war territory for his knowledge of computers and their linguistics ... but she knows that there should be actual fighters guarding, too.

"Well, ask your monthly bill," she simply returns, not feeling the need to elaborate - in fact, it's kinda ... too much talk. It makes her wonder, what the use of an actual fight would be. Has there been a solution that she's been missing? She really hopes not - but then, the actual fight picks up violently. Numbahs does her best effort to keep the Blastoise away from the tent, which ... actually seems to work, somehow.

It's not without losing one of her immaculately crafted and maintained shells, but it's- they're parts away. Confused, Katharina squints slightly as the pokémon unleashes a devastating Water Pulse now. It distracts her from Numbahs, but never too long - the glowing marks flash red, hastily letting her to pick out the correct ball to recall her in another pulse of red. The Illumina Dewott disappears in a ball that is befitting perhaps more of an ocean princess, not a warrior and fitting still - it's a dive ball decorated with small sea shelles, carefully taken care of by the pokémon herself.

(Is this Rocket ... actually also looking out for the tent?)

But this also ... she can't gamble on kindness here. "Teein, your turn! Teleport!" she calls for her Natu, who immediately latches onto the Blastoise and teleports them together - but given her opponent's massiveness, they only manage a couple of meters ... but a couple of meters that they well need.

Madeline McKenna
post count: 5
50 MP reference (tag) another character that is not in your thread in a meaningful way.
50 MP have your character self-doubt or cast doubt on another's confidence/allegiances/beliefs, etc. (has she been too aggressive?)
50 MP have your character earn the respect of another character in some way.
50 MP have your character learn to respect another character in some way. (madd leading away from the tent moment)
50 MP for getting your Pokemon knocked out in your skirmish thread.
50 MP involve the pokeballs of your pokemon in a meaningful way (e.g. type of pokeball described to reflect the pokemon or character, damaging them, seizing them).

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"Personal meaning?" Katharina offers as explanation, though she still isn't ... what's going on here? It's hard not to appreciate it when it feels like the distance between them and the tent is growing, though she can't say to what purpose ... to lure her away so they won't hit it, or to ambush it and take some prisoners? For now, they're close enough still that she should be able to intervene if necessary ... and she really hopes it won't be.

"Well, take off the mask and then we can talk," she snaps in return, though there's not much heat behind it - they both know what'd happen once a face is revealed, and Katharina would actually rather not become someone taking prisoners, either. It's already aplenty that she's here on the field, battling for her and others' lives.

Numbahs passes the baton to Teein then, who actually seems to inspire fondness in the Rocket ... perhaps. "Maybe we do," Katharina replies, well-aware that Teein isn't a complete powerhouse ... but she also is, even if her skills are capped at the moment. But for now, Teein just made sure the Flash Cannon isn't pointing into the direction of the tent - though she didn't have to use Psychic - before Katharina's hand goes to their pokéballs again. Teein takes a backseat as ...

"Wild Charge!" she calls out towards the Iron Thorns, Irohta, that appeared with a flash and a digital roar. A paradox pokémon that she still learns to control, though it's easier to understand for them than the primeval ones. Machines she could do, to a degree, especially machines that also ... do not really make sense. The mech immediately lunges forward, not hit by the Flash Cannon due to its slowness, its fangs crackling with electricity.

Madeline McKenna
post count: 6
50 MP use a legendary, mythical, ultra beast, paradox pokemon in a way that reflects your character or highlights another character.

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Kat isn't sure what called for these dire strats, but maybe it's a mix of things. The battle still being ongoing and undecided, the tent that is now farther away, so hopefully safe until her colleagues manage to evacuate it completely ... she can see flashes of white medical clothes running here and there. Still, it's done now and ...

"What?" she asks, confused, at the Rocket's broken sentence - so did she not- imagine things?! "What do you mean?" she asks, though it's unlikely she will get any reply as a Garchomp enters the field to Bulldoze Irohta, as well as ... more Rockets. The Iron Thorns roars as it's hit, and pushes forward, onward as it summons a Rock Tomb to trap the other in.

"Just leave here!" she shouts, disregarding any stealth attempts as it's lost anyway. "There's- just scram," she says, though confusion still lingers in her voice as she takes out another pokéball. Might as well try and scare of all of them ... a Roaring Moon appears, mighty and lethal as it regards the opposition with wary look. "Better think twice," Kat shouts over the roar, though the roar itself is definitely way more effective as an intimidation tactic.

Madeline McKenna
post count: 7