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Nomi; The Visionary
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Ecruteak, Johto
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I cannot conceive of a universe
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5'2" / 157 cm height
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POSTED ON Oct 28, 2024 3:49:09 GMT
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"Yes."[break][break]
Slowly, her fists unclench. Her shoulders relax, and the Unown back down, their collective anger dissipating like an ethereal smoke. In its wake, there is only an age-old curiosity: an eternal investment in the "what comes next."[break][break]
Perhaps Freya expects the Visionary to be cryptic; the enigmatic prophet of the Unown, harbinger of doom. But that is not who she is anymore. She's done with warnings. It is time for actions.[break][break]
"But I need help."[break][break]
So much has already been asked of this woman. She stands before Nomi a prisoner, chained to Kyogre's fate, forced to march to 's macabre tune. It is incredibly unfair, to demand even one more thing of Freya.[break][break]
"The Avatars of the beasts of ruin must not be allowed to co-mingle with Ting-Lu, wherever it is. I fear is beyond saving, but I am close with . I will endeavor to erode his bond with Chien-Pao. The League would be wise to keep very close tabs on Livy. She cannot be trusted."[break][break]
For more reasons than her treacherous fish, but Nomi will not belabor that point.[break][break]
"Father Winter appeared recently...spoke to the leaders of Rocket," Nomi continues. She fingers a stray lock of hair by her ear, white against blue. "I..." For the first time, her voice grows distant. She gifts Freya a window into her fraying psyche. She does the thing so many with power are loath to do: admit she might have been wrong.[break][break]
"I think he may be more friend than foe."


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- Talking to Freya in the Unown Dimension


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POSTED ON Oct 28, 2024 16:30:41 GMT
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help. she knows better than to interrupt when an enemy seems so willing to spill their secrets, but she balks visibly at the request. there is a weary frustration that drapes over her. the two of them should have broken down months ago and even though they're running on empty, they've no choice but to keep going until they run themselves into the ground. 

nomi seems to understand that price now, after all this time. 

has been ruined by wo-chien. anger has nearly devoured her once-brother. it's an ignorant fool's game to discard the warnings and to not turn a suspicious eye to her fellow councilwoman, but she can't. 

she can't

for months, they've been combatting the insidious weeds that have flowered from budding seeds of distrust. only a few short weeks ago was she accused of being a willing bedfellow to walsh, as though everything she'd ever done for her people was nothing

"i will not turn against the people i trust to chase an alliance with an elusive variable. you were the one who told us the drk triad was the real enemy."
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Nomi; The Visionary
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POSTED ON Oct 28, 2024 17:03:15 GMT
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"They are. Some of them."[break][break]
The memory of Nisa Holo's cruel laughter, the mockery by which she'd aimed her relentless assault on Nomi and in the RKS Machine, is a poignant reminder. Nomi's expression troubles. She'd allowed that particular vendetta to take up too much space; she needs to make room for nuance. It could be the difference between life and death; all scientists understand the implications of being even one decimal-point off.[break][break]
"But Father Winter, he's different. He seems to have his own agenda, outside of the Triad's usual modus operandi. He gave us a warning - one he didn't have to give. There's a fourth party, another entity, vying for control of Hoenn's fate."[break][break]
There is more to it than that - 's existence, a fatal attraction - but there are some secrets Nomi will not tell, not even to achieve her own ends.[break][break]
"I also have reason to believe, that the Origin Point the DRK Triad are so keen on containing...it may not be a physical place, after all. It may be an event. A point in time, rather than space."[break][break]
Can Freya draw the same conclusions; see past her stubborn framework and understand the greater danger? Nomi is not asking her to set aside her loyalties. If anything, she is insisting that Freya remember who she ought to be most loyal to: not a fellow Councilwoman, but the people they have vowed to govern. The innocent citizens of Hoenn.[break][break]
"There are layers to all of this, Freya. Layers and layers, and I cannot peel them back alone. Incurring Walsh's wrath by outright defying him is a foolish venture I will not entertain."[break][break]
She pauses, sensing the attention of a distant awareness that has nothing to do with the Unown who call this realm their home. She and Freya cannot stay here much longer.[break][break]
"But I want to save our world, and there are subtle ways I can work against anyone who would oppose that goal."


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- Talking to Freya in the Unown Dimension


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POSTED ON Oct 29, 2024 23:44:55 GMT
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nothing is ever black and white. freya is not a woman who trusts on words or whims; while she doesn't think the visionary would lie to her now, can't trust a hunch. swapping theories and hypotheses would go over better with their peacemaker.

when she mentions time, though, freya's lips thin, and 's reminder scratches the back of her mind. space will mend while time continues to bend.

"they bide their time while we wait like rattata in a lab." she thumbs a patch of scales near her thumb, brows furrowing when she finds them cold. "what good will it do to dig through those layers if we're not even sure we're digging our own graves in the process?"

then comes the unown avatar's warning, mixed meticulously with a plea. freya considers her, and she puts a hand to the pommel of her sword. 

"then stay out of my way while you do it. out there, naomi, i will not hesitate. and i will not be merciful." her gaze hardens. "so tell your loved ones that too."
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Nomi; The Visionary
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November 9
Ecruteak, Johto
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POSTED ON Oct 31, 2024 4:37:28 GMT
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She recognizes the kindness beneath Freya's threat. It is the best she can offer Nomi, given the circumstances, but it is woefully predictable. It is stubborn to a fault.[break][break]
"You are the head of the League's Amnesty program," Nomi murmurs. "You are not incapable of mercy."[break][break]
She gives no warning; it's payback, perhaps, for the flash-bang theatrics. The alternate reality of endless starscapes collapses in on itself, funneling the two women back to Hoenn in a shimmering burst of blue crystalline energy. They land exactly where Nomi had initially found Freya; as expected, is absent.[break][break]
The rain has also stopped. The myriad of Unown that had shadowed Nomi are no longer visible - left behind in their pocket world. Only one remains: a shiny blue K, hovering by Nomi's shoulder.[break][break]
"Please let King know, we wish him the best on his new path." He'll know who the other part of the "we" is, even if Freya doesn't. "He's League now, so we won't come by his bar anymore. Assuming it stays open."[break][break]
She pauses, another portal beginning to form behind her out of thin air, its edges lined with ethereal quartz.[break][break]
"You can tell your loved ones, that the Visionary will never mean them any harm."[break][break]
And then she is gone.


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POSTED ON Oct 31, 2024 16:50:59 GMT
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"i know what i'm capable of," she says and she says with bared teeth, "but there is no mercy in war."

when the battlefield is burning and her people are dying and the opposition stands before her, she will not hesitate. she will incinerate that which stands to oppose her, even if it is being done for posterity. naomi sato has made her choices, and those choices have bound her as much as they bind freya to her own allegiances. 

the world pitches. her expression darkens and she curses herself as she throws out her arms against nothing. leaves rustle from her breeze. somewhere, in the distance, a dragon bellows with rage. she tastes smoke in the air. 

when she's gone, freya tugs off a gauntlet and sticks her fingers in her mouth to let out a sharp whistle. 

the visionary will never mean them any harm.

and freya says softly, quietly, "that is how you'll lose them."

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