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Absinthe Blackwood
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POSTED ON Oct 19, 2024 4:30:40 GMT
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in the distance, through the fog, fallarbor town looms like the shadow of a headstone. it's silent, hardly bustling by any sense of the word, the only movement to be seen is a zubat flapping across the sky. absinthe trudges through the tall grass, eyes scanning the horizon. her breath comes in rasps, filtered through her gas mask as usual, and the air is cloying and humid as it hits the back of her throat.[break][break]

she's been telling herself she wants to find more examples of creatures affected by the never rot to study, that she's just curious, but there's a coil of fervor in her chest that reminds her too much of being back in school with animals pinned down on black wax dissection trays. it had ignited the bloodlust in her heart then, and she knows that working with live creatures will only be worse.[break][break]

the chemist swallows, breathes in deep, and keeps walking.[break][break]

up ahead, she can see the shape of yuina—vague, blurry through the fog. "has ruza picked up a scent yet?"



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Yuina Higashi
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POSTED ON Oct 19, 2024 16:57:15 GMT
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Keeping a steady, quiet pace in the early morning outside of Fallarbor town, Yuina followed Ruza carefully as the hound sniffed through the fog and mist the rolled through the area. As soon as she heard of reports from Petalburg that those beasts might have resurfaced, and how she couldn't know, it was a no brainer to take an opportunity to try and ascertain more information. The toxic chain had continued to hold onto various parts of the region, Yuina had found a handful of Pokémon that were either still inflicted or newly targeted... So it could very well be true.[break][break]
Where Ruza scouted just ahead, Beo hopped along the ground beside Yuina, a Breloom adorned with toxic chains along the brim of his mushroom, skin tinted purple from its influence. Yuina glanced back to her... well, she wasn't sure what they were to each other, fellow researcher perhaps?[break][break]
"Not yet," Yuina offered back, still considering the implications of what it was they were setting out to do. She had her reservations, Absinthe seemed... A bit too excited at the prospect of her Pokémon afflicted by the toxic chain and onward... But it was all still so soon to tell.[break][break]
Just ahead, as Ruza lifted her head to gain another perspective for their surroundings, the dog's maw snapped open in a snarl, ichor beginning to drip from her arched jowls. Her hackles raised, and her tail held high and still.[break]
"Wait," she spoke first, approaching carefully, watching Ruza's body language. For as many times as they had gone out to find traces of the toxic chain, she hadn't yet acted so... potent before.[break][break]
"Something is out there... She's become very agitated."

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Hoennian Ghost Tales: Ghost Story I -> Route 113[break]


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POSTED ON Oct 20, 2024 5:23:05 GMT
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a thrill of excitement runs up absinthe's spine. she steps forward, black boots crunching in the grass—if there's something out there, affected by the toxic chain, they need to have it. it could also be dangerous, of course, but the chance of discovery? the possibility of getting their hands on it, of prying it apart and figuring out how it ticks?[break][break]

absinthe doesn't think she's ever wanted anything more.[break][break]

at absinthe's side, the form of a frosmoth appears in a flash of white. asbestos blinks. the powder on her wings shakes loose, glittering in the pale morning light like dandruff. without turning her head, absinthe can see the moth's wings flit, and from them emanate tiny spectacles of poison.[break][break]

"let's find it," the chemist says with nonchalance, voice cool as the toxic chain around ruza's neck. in a couple of quick strides, the chemist has caught up to yuina's side, her hands tucked loosely in her pockets. her breath comes in a snarl, filtered through the respirator at the front of her gas mask, the only sound cutting through the silence other than the crunching grass. on her shoulder, asbestos and his wings, toxic scales fluttering to the ground around them.[break][break]

she pauses, eyes narrowing. up ahead, something silhouettes through the fog. beautiful, deadly, adorned with feathers and wings.[break][break]

absinthe's eyes spark with latent electricity. "is that...?"[break][break]

she's heard the tales. she's also been told she should try to kill the thing on sight.[break][break]

she doesn't want to.



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Yuina Higashi
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POSTED ON Oct 20, 2024 19:09:53 GMT
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Keeping still, quiet, watching Ruza carefully, Yuina bristled when Absinthe too came closer, stalking forward much like the hound had, something on the hunt, something that had just found pray...[break][break]
Yuina looked around through the fog, Beo beside her bobbing on his legs, tail swaying, ready. Ruza was the only one of them for the moment that had any indication that something was near, something too afflicted by the toxic chain, until Absinthe caught sight of something in the near distance through the mists.[break][break]
Turning to look, a taller, slender figure stalked through the grasses, marred by fog, but discernable as movement. Ruza snarled again, listening to the shifting of grass, there was definitely something ahead of them, and it was the object of her attention. The mist rolled by for just a moment, becoming thinner, where she could see bronze and magenta... A sweep of a wing, an avian body...[break][break]
For as much as Yuina was a conservationist, and ecologist, with a deep understanding of environmental impacts and trying to find a place for every species as they existed, she burned with a seething rage at finding her warden standing before them.[break]
"It's true...," she muttered, eyes sharp, and instead of seeing magenta at the corners of her vision, she saw red.[break][break]
"Kill it," she ordered, sending Ruza and Beo forward imminently. It would not see the light of day again.

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Hoennian Ghost Tales: Ghost Story I -> Route 113[break]


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POSTED ON Oct 21, 2024 1:44:16 GMT
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absinthe moves to step forward, reaching out towards the bird—a rising, vicious hunger curling in her stomach. oh, how she yearns to study it, to cut it open and find out what makes it tick. her fingers stretch almost reflexively, claws opening up at her sides. she wants to hold it down. she wants to kill it.[break][break]

but—no. that's not the practical option. they'd be throwing away a perfect opportunity to study a rare creature swathed in the effects of the never rot. they'd be idiots if they didn't try to take it in, to figure out its physiology. it is clear that absinthe has not faced the brunt of this creature's power.[break][break]

the grass crunches beneath her boots as she wrenches herself to a rude stop. through the fog, she turns, and her gaze flares as she stares at yuina with an expression bordering on anger. a tense silence stretches between them, and absinthe's breath comes out in a low, threatening snarl.[break][break]

"are you out of your goddamn mind?" she hisses, voice low and dangerous. "why would we kill it when we could take it back with us? don't you see the opportunity we have right in front of us?"[break][break]

her head snaps back to look at the bird, wings extended out into the sky. her fingers flex at her side. the thought of its blood on her hands sends a shiver down her spine and a flare of hunger through her stomach, and she's reminded horribly of the first time she has ever killed something. she can still remember the animal pinned down on a black wax tray, can still remember the tear of its flesh between her claws.[break][break]

her breath comes out in a low snarl. "you really want to throw that away?"[break][break]

she pauses. her eyes narrow and find purchase on the figure through the fog—a fog that is now turning a noxious purple.



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Yuina Higashi
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POSTED ON Oct 23, 2024 0:30:39 GMT
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There was no more brevity that Yuina can give, no more a direct order than to kill it where it stands, as that is all she wants, all she can think about. And when Absinthe stalks up to her, seething at an opportunity missed by not taking it instead, Yuina understood. The only possible reason that she too wouldn't want to allow the bird to see the light of day again was that she wasn't there like so many of them were... There wasn't a single person on that ship who would vouch for the life of any of the Pokémon that took on their imprisonment.[break][break]
"If I'm out of my mind it's because of that thing," Yuina bit back. A week being starved, beaten, and drugged into a magenta induced haze, how empty they had all become, vessels for the poison coursing through their veins and nothing more... She had lost her mind then, she was nearly gone.[break]
"They're a plague, they have no place here. The only chance we stand is by trying to cut off the disease before it can spread, again," she had no compassion, no shred of empathy to spare this living thing.[break][break]
"I won't go back there, I won't be its prisoner again," and there was nothing more that she could be told otherwise. The bird was marked for death as far as she was concerned, and if she saw either of the other two cretins, they too would bear her same fury.[break][break]
Without call to stop or cease, Ruza and Beo made their way through the trees and mist towards the bird's figure in the near distance, and as Yuina turned then to face the aberration, she was intent on fighting to kill.

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Hoennian Ghost Tales: Ghost Story I -> Route 113[break]


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POSTED ON Oct 23, 2024 2:52:19 GMT
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THE MAZE OF THE HEART


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THE SCENT IS SWEET. Seductive. Smooth and siren-like without voice. Just the perfume of watchful eyes, elusive plume, and powdered face.

To be frank, FEZANDIPITI had been eyeing from afar for awhile. Or perhaps, to be more accurate, had been smelling her; the scent of the snake pit, indistinguishable to all but this sadistic bird, has captured its attention.

Though may be a dying heron, the FEZANDIPITI believes he can grant her new wings.

Not completely. Not yet, however. More time is needed. More time for the poisons to seep in. More time to bide for their Lord's return.

The bird will still spar and her HOUNDOOM and BRELOOM if aggressed—and it is no feeble fighter.



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POSTED ON Oct 23, 2024 3:42:48 GMT
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life is chaotic. the nature of the world is to begin perfect and descend further into madness. threads, once seared into submission, begin to fray at the ends with every eon that passes. seams come undone, stars explode into supernovae. many people, throughout the course of absinthe's life, have told her to destroy that which is wrong, as if that act of menace will prevent the wrongness from seeping back into every facet of life once more. tells her to destroy the monkey when she sees it, her husband told her to destroy the parts of herself that were unsightly to gaze upon.[break][break]

once, she did what they told her to. she cut away the rotten pieces of her body with the exacting knife of a surgeon, seeking the perfection of a form loved by the only person she has ever cared about. she changed everything steeped in the darkness of her birth. she was brought into the world broken—she believed cole could make her whole.[break][break]

but, as the porcelain grew over her body, the cracks festered beneath. the darkness grew inside of her, fed by an umbilical cord connected to the hatred that yet clung to her heart. she nurtured the darkness, she prepared for its coming.[break][break]

and then it never came. it died inside of her, and the rot that once defined it seeped back into absinthe's body. the porcelain blackened and cracked. all at once, she wasn't perfect anymore—she never had been. she had only acted like she was.[break][break]

it was the tangled threads of life, slinking around her throat, the throat of a child she never had, and pulled.[break][break]

the child's destruction did not save her. it made her worse.[break][break]

absinthe’s gaze hardens, her breath rattling through the respirator, thick with memory and regret. destruction has always left her empty. she knows that now. entropy had left her battered, bruised, filled to the brim with scars. she tried to destroy the chaos, she tried to avoid it—the only time absinthe has come into contact with entropy and made it to the other side unscathed is when she has instead come to terms with it. when she has tried to guide it. destroying the fezandipiti will only bring ruin. yuina can’t see that, but absinthe does, and she won’t let the chance slip through her fingers.[break][break]

her hand rises slowly, a deliberate motion, her heart thrumming with determination and fury. at her side, asbestos—the frosmoth bound in toxic chains—flares her wings with a soft hiss.pale powder wafts through the air like a warning shot, shimmering with faint poison. absinthe’s voice is low, commanding, and edged with that same menace she keeps hidden beneath her mask.[break][break]

“enough.”[break][break]

asbestos obeys without hesitation. her wings beat once—twice—and the world is swallowed in a swirling gale. the fog thickens, turning into a torrent of snow, ice, and toxins. the battlefield is engulfed in a brutal blizzard, whiteout conditions that swallow yuina, her pokémon, and the fezandipiti in a freezing vortex. flakes whip through the air, tearing at skin and fur alike, as the temperature drops rapidly, the landscape buried beneath a sheet of cold.[break][break]

the intent is not just to freeze. it’s to halt, to overwhelm, to remind. remind yuina what it feels like to be powerless—just as absinthe has been powerless so many times before. a storm born of control, yet driven by chaos, a reflection of the world yuina wants to fight and the world absinthe longs to understand.[break][break]

“stop this,” absinthe snarls over the howl of the blizzard, her mask vibrating with the force of her words. “you think destroying it will set you free? it won’t. you’ll cut it down, and the rot will find its way into something else. you can’t fight it this way.”[break][break]

her boots crunch through the snow as she steps closer to yuina, unbothered by the frigid air slicing across her skin, no worse for wear as her mask filters out the toxins in asbesto's snow. the frosmoth flits above her, toxic chains dragging through the snow with an eerie hum. i’s scales continue to flutter down, lacing the wind with poison that’s subtle, but ever-present—a reminder that this storm is absinthe’s to command.[break][break]

"i don't give a shit about your freedom,” her voice is sharp, a scalpel cutting through the storm. “if you want to kill it, you will need to get through me.”



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the maze of the heart | hgt
POSTED ON Oct 25, 2024 19:37:31 GMT
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There was no marring her intentions, no parsing words. Yuina didn't have much in the way of violence or the need to feed into death, but perhaps it came from somewhere deeper within herself, the shadows of her lost self, capable of drawing blood. She had already watched the bird die once, and that should have been the end, and yet it stalked the fog before them as if its demise had never passed...[break][break]
Yuina felt a familiar pang, disorienting almost, the memory of time looping over and over again as they were faced with their masked wardens swallowed by dynergy. But there was something more, as they all fought tooth and nail to chip through the dynergy barriers... Something heavy, incessant, a proclaimation that everything was final...[break][break]
They didn't fell the three Pokemon before a fixed point in time tolled its proverbial bell.[break][break]
The realization made the appearance that much more personal, that much more intimate... Time was hers, time was her domain everlasting, inescapable, and yet as she was a puppet made to walk a path that was running out of time, why was it that that abbhorent creature was able to transcend the boundary of time to live again?[break][break]
There was a flash of frost, ice and snow descended upon them at the behest of the moth that Absinthe commanded, but in spite of the encroaching threat, the tone in which the woman seeths and snarls at her, Yuina meets her sharp eyes with her own.[break]
"Don't do this," she returned, a tap at a Pokeball, and from its energy a ghostly, ghastly figure emerges with a Fire Spin that works to dispell some of the ice and snow around Yuina's immediate area. Looming behind her, the chained Typhlosion burns in toxic purple flame.[break][break]
"Do not stand between those beasts and the dozens who wish them dead, and a dozen more who will fight to see that happen," she thinks of herself, her beloved, and her many friends that had suffered at the hands of each of the three wardens, and what of their return? Would they come for each of them again, in an act of vengeance, sent forth by their precious never rot?[break][break]
"There are worse people than me who will see to your demise if you make this choice. I don't need your demise, but I will fight you to kill it. It's cheated more than death, its more my enemy now than ever."[break]
How dare it cheat time?

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Hoennian Ghost Tales: Ghost Story I -> Route 113[break]


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the maze of the heart | hgt
POSTED ON Oct 26, 2024 22:38:34 GMT
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THE MAZE OF THE HEART


ABSINTHE X YUINA


FROM THE PERNICIOUS CRAWL OF PLANTS, the vain pageanteer launches forth with stunning flight.

The FEZANDIPITI takes advantage of and 's confrontation. As the Loyal Three often do, they sneak in between the cracks of contradictions, of irreconcilable desire and ambition. There, their poison is allowed to fester freely. Smoothly. Beautifully.

Work can be play: the Fezandipiti believes in this sweet marriage. As the bird passes by , it dispenses a cloud of PHEROMONES to distract her. is not spared the same fate, for the bird seeks to capitalize on the delicious fruit of Lady Taipan's ambitions.

The FEZANDIPITI flies past . Courts her gaze with an alluring lock of colour. Feathers shuffle off as a FEZANDIPITI SHARD emerges from plumage for to control.

SHARD


Should (Sunny) accept, she may add the FEZANDIPITI (SHARD) into her PC and and choose its moves like a GACHAPON POKEMON.

A "shard" is a piece of a Pokemon with mythical or legendary levels of Infinity Energy. These shards can not speak, do not have the same memories, knowledge, wisdom, and personality as the original. This Fezandipiti Shard also lacks the ability to spread its TOXIC CHAIN (FOR NOW).

Receiving this shard from FEZANDIPITI can be seen as both a dangerous omen (to most others) and a powerful boon. In the future, narrative developments in the Site Plot, including the original FEZANDIPITI/LOYAL THREE will follow-up with this development

The FEZANIPDITI departs, a snicker sharpening its beak.



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POSTED ON Oct 27, 2024 6:10:52 GMT
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there's a sudden pounding in absinthe's ears. it sounds like waves crashing on the beach—the tide coming in, sweeping away the sand she stands on. she feels the soft, sick feeling of vertigo, her head spinning as if the world is lurching beneath her feet. she can hear cole's voice, feel the press of his lips against the side of her head, urging her forward as the first time he ever took her out on his boat.[break][break]

'keep your eye on the horizon, abby,' he had said, so steady and sure, as if guiding her back to land even when her grip on the rigging was lax and lazy. 'i've got you.'[break][break]

absinthe, even now, feels the phantom sensation of his hand on the small of her back, keeping her steady as the waves pitched her from side to side. her heart flutters like a bird caught against the inside of a glass window.[break][break]

her gas mask ruffles as her breath quickens. with the fezandipiti's alluring gaze upon her, she can almost feel its eyes piercing into her skin, as if seeing all her darkest secrets and desires and fears. it spreads before her a cloud of pheromones, beckoning her closer, deeper into the mists and the chaos of battle. and without knowing why, she takes a step, her boots crunching through the ice and snow. her fingers outstretch for the shining shard of fezandipiti that breaks away from its body and drifts towards her, its feathers shimmering with color and mystery.[break][break]

yuina calls out from behind her, a voice cutting through the haze in her mind like a knife. but it sounds so very, very far away, as if underwater, drowned beneath the waves of the past. her voice sounds thick and drugged, as if every word she says is swimming upstream through honey. absinthe can barely make out that she's speaking at all, and even then, she can't seem to put together what she's trying to say.[break][break]

but then, it doesn't really matter what yuina has to say, does it? absinthe can hardly remember why she's even here, except for the warm fluttering sensation in her chest that draws her ever closer to the fezandipiti. her hand reaches up towards the feather, and her breath hitches, anticipation sharp as cut glass in her chest.[break][break]

her fingers brush against it, and it's as if something in her chest rips open. she can suddenly feel it all—her past, present, and maybe even her future—blending together into a hot, messy tangle of emotion and memory. the phantom of cole's hand against her back is replaced by a new hand, one she doesn't recognize, but one that she clings to as she's dragged deeper and deeper into the black waves of oblivion.[break][break]

then, the real bird is gone, and an imposter rises in its place, sunken-eyed and empty. its is hers, standing firm and tall, but with nothing more than power to offer.[break][break]

it is only now that absinthe tosses her head over her shoulder, towards yuina. her eyes are dark. she is different.[break][break]

"yes," she says finally. "the world is my enemy. i would have it no other way."[break][break]

absinthe turns to face the woman fully now. her body is tense and coiled, like a sword held back by a sheathe.[break][break]

"do you count among my enemies, yuina?"[break][break]

the question is quiet and low. the idea is clear, as she is flanked by her frozen moth, by her new omen. do you provoke me, and all the consequences that come with that?



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