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Absinthe Blackwood

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POSTED ON Nov 19, 2024 0:51:55 GMT

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life leaves little room for mistakes. it holds so much, but mistakes as big as the ones absinthe is prone to making tend to swallow up all the good. she made a mistake when she was a kid. she made another four years ago. she made another just a week ago. by now, there's no more good left. absinthe's life consists only of mistakes and their progeny now.[break][break]

she walks, languid and hoping, under the shroud of nightfall. to anyone who asks, absinthe would claim that she prefers her life dark and ruined and terrible, slain by her own two hands. she would say that the suffering makes her stronger, reinforces her skin. anyone who looks twice would know this to be fault. absinthe, for all her posturing, reaches desperately for the light, seeking a world where she can be happy. her demons, numerous and plenty, seek to render this impossible at every turn. who would bother to save a woman who revels in the sorrow, after all?[break][break]

nobody. to the outside world, once more, she claims she likes this facet of her torrid existence.[break][break]

once more, it is a falsehood.[break][break]

perhaps, then, that is why the echo of the devil walks alongside her, drawing in poachable nocturnal pokemon with a wry twist of its beak and a shift of its beautiful plumage. absinthe has determined the bird to be a worthy secret to keep, and yet her mind ticks along, drawing the bird out into the open for little reason other than hatred of life and its wretched circumstances. they step in tandem, eyes glinting in the night, seeking their next prey.[break][break]

then, soon enough, they find it.

Josh Devlin[break][break]

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fezandipiti shard / ♂ / toxic chain / moonblast, roost, flatter, cross poison, swagger, attract

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Josh Devlin

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POSTED ON Nov 20, 2024 4:24:33 GMT

Rocket's capture of Petalburg made routing the rest of Captain Shalin Nariya 's Pokémon away from the forest a gigantic pain. Before the capture, Josh could simply pass through Petalburg to get to Verdanturf. Now, he had to go through Rustboro, Meteor Falls, Fallarbor, and Mauville to get there. With the Rocket city being a no-fly zone for a high profile Leaguer like him, the long land route was the safest way for him to transport sensitive cargo.

Even Josh got saddle sore when he rode for so long; the terrain was rough enough that Swift couldn't let loose. Being made of ash didn't make traveling through ash storms any easier; one was so bad that it delayed his travels by a couple of hours, forcing him to complete the last leg of his journey by nightfall. Night had proven to be dangerous, as Elisabeth Fiorelli had taught him long ago.

Stopping at his Gym after hours to retrieve the RAINBOW FEATHER and some of his more powerful Pokémon just in case, Josh hopped back onto his Manectric's thundercloud saddle, the full moon illuminating the road to Verdanturf enough to see without needing to rig a headlight to the electric wolf.

Absinthe Blackwood

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NAME SPECIES STATUS
Swift Raikou Good
Aleph Type: Null Good
Saber Manectric Good

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November 4th

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Absinthe Blackwood

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POSTED ON Nov 20, 2024 22:54:28 GMT

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luck has never seemed to shine on her in situations like these. in one hand, it's quite tragic, how she needs luck to just get by, and now there's none left. but the luck she depends on favors the people who deserve its rewards, and in her estimation, she deserves absolutely none.[break][break]

instead, she finds herself walking head-on into danger she cannot shake with a word or a dodge, hidden from view under the curtain of pitch-black skies. nothing around her will help. the moon, encased in clouds of a storm, seems only to highlight the imminent end awaiting her on this path.[break][break]

even now, it never crosses her mind that there is somewhere she should have gone. instead, the stubborn, tireless shadow and her silent pokemon continue their trek. every inch of her body wants this walk to reach its conclusion. every inch of her brain does not, petrified of the consequences to follow the satisfaction of this wish.[break][break]

but the looming storm fills the air with anticipation anyway and makes the decision for her. just before lighting strikes from the sky for the first time and just after the soft sound of static grows loud enough to be recognizable over the noise of rain pounding into earth, she sees a flash of luminescence through her gas mask. her head snaps upwards instinctively to better look at the source of light, seeing the colors change and warp like the tail of some celestial dragon glowing purple, blue, pink—[break][break]

but before her mind can wander any further down that thought, a bolt of lightning strikes the road right between her and her devil. steam rises with a hiss from where the bolt struck.[break][break]

fear comes naturally to her. it is etched into her very bones, born from the agonizing and relentless crucible that her life has become. her fear creates an awful quiver that shakes through absinthe's insides, threatening to spill out into her words. without thinking, a hand lifts up to one half of her face, still pink with heat from the severe burns sustained the last time she saw this man. this time, however, he holds much stronger company. this time, absinthe does too.[break][break]

she fights with every ounce of her being to keep her voice steady, though venom is clear in her tone. "josh devlin. how fortuitous for us to meet again. do you remember humiliating me, or is that common in your line of work?"

Josh Devlin[break][break]

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Josh Devlin

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POSTED ON Nov 21, 2024 0:25:28 GMT

Josh was right at home in the dry, late-season thunderstorm; the bright flashes of lightning made his electric-types faster, putting on an adrenaline-pumping burst of speed in sync with the thunder in its wake. Were he in ideal shape, it would have been his first good opportunity to see what his ashen Beast was truly capable of. Alas, his Pokémon were still training him, and he needed to work up to that final step if he didn't want to wind up back in a hospital bed.

As he was about to slam his heels into Saber's sides, poisonous words reached his ears. Familiar ones. Ones he remembered from his run-in with the lady outside Petalburg Woods. Eyes reflecting the lightning strike's intensity as though he controlled it, he pulled back on the reins hard. Saber slid to a stop and dramatically reared, crackling sparks flying from his front paws. "Spare me your pittiances," the rider barked back. "Why are you here?"

Absinthe Blackwood

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NAME SPECIES STATUS
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Aleph Type: Null Good
Saber Manectric Good

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Absinthe Blackwood

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POSTED ON Nov 21, 2024 0:35:20 GMT

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the static charge is thick in the air. the shadows cast by the lightning flicker wildly, giving the whole world the impression of a living ink sketch. it feels fitting that the meeting transpires under a palette of colors, strange and eerie and otherwordly.[break][break]

"why am i here," she repeats slowly, words dragging through her teeth like sandpaper. it should have been a rhetorical question, but in the space between seconds, absinthe forgets entirely what answer she sought to provoke. her cheeks, steeled over with severe and throbbing burns, tighten with a grimace.[break][break]

"you are a fucking nuisance," she spits instead, each word heavy and burdened with frustration. the words taste bitter in her mouth. it suddenly becomes clear that they reveal far too much. revealing ire is equivalent to revealing weakness, after all.[break][break]

absinthe digs her heels into the dirt. her devil slides in on cue, cloaked in the night and her frustration, steps measured, unafraid of the man, dog, and lightning on the horizon. they come to a stop, just inches away from her.[break][break]

but regardless of her front, she is very afraid.[break][break]

so, absinthe does not play around. "it doesn't matter why i'm here," she declares stiffly, one hand outstretched, palm upwards. "only that i want to kill you."[break][break]

without warning, a command is issued. malice wreathes the fezandipiti's wingtips in poison, and then draws it towards the manectric and its rider, seeking purchase on either form with an unexpected CROSS POISON.

Josh Devlin[break][break]