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Endeavoring the Wilds

Ground / Steel Solo Wild

"Huh." Doug intoned as he ran across a large herd of Piloswine and swinub.

Thank the gods all mighty, there didn't seem to be any Mamoswine nearby. He didn't feel like trying to dodge being run over.

Still...

"That's a lotta piggies." He mused dryly, wondering where exactly all of these ice types had come from. They had come a long way from the Shoal caves, that was certain.

"Uh, let me just... if you would excuse me." He said, trying to tip toe around the many large piggies, ocassionally bumping and stumbling over the beautifully dangerous creatures.

None of them got triggered into a maddened stampede, fortunately.

By the time he got through to the other side, however...

He had something following him.

"... Huh?" He uttered dryly, scratching at his cheek as he stared at the Piloswine following after him.

He took a step to the right, it turned to look at him. To the left, same once again.

"... I wonder if Yuina would like one o' these?" He pondered dryly, scratching at the back of his head.

Yuina Higashi liked ancient pokemon... Piloswine evolved by learning ancient power, so... that kinda counted, yeah?

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CAPTURING PILOSWINE!

TL;DR:

Strong

ft. Lucia Aldrete

He had nothing to say, so he just hugged her more tightly, hoping it alone brought some comfort.

But it didn't. She was beginning to spiral— to say things that would make most ask questions.

But he wasn't most.

His hands fell over her shoulders, spinning her around.

"No. No. Lucy. Listen to me— " He intoned firmly, lips set in a thin line, before pulling her into another hug. "No. It ain't your fault. None of what's happening is your fault."

He didn't know precisely what she meant, but he had seen this enough times to know that he had to fight her back on such notions at every turn.

Children were not responsible for such things.

"Nothing about this is fair or just..." He muttered, holding her tightly, jaw tense.

The hell hole they had found themselves in had become something even worse. All of the kids were there, trapped and enduring the same tortures fully grown men, grizzled soldiers and criminals, were breaking under.

Is there really no justice in this damned region?

LESSER MEGALOPOLIS: JY

Ft. Yuina Higashi

"Salamences are very vicious pokemon, silly. They're not recommended for beginner trainers." He explained to her prior to their landing. "Usually, anyway. Been a while since I read freya morningstar's book."

He preferred entomology to dragonology.

Perhaps the karmic backlash of stereotyping the entire Salamence species had been what tripped him. Lyune's spirit itself had tripped him.

"I refuse to answer that question." He grunted, patting off dirt and dust off his top.

But if someone must know— he been prone to little slips long before meeting Lele.

But it had certainly not gotten any better after.

"They're... zombies or something, yeah? I doubt we'll find all that many up here." He said with perhaps far too much confidence, palming a pokeball.

A moment later, a familiar worm popped out.

Yuina would know it— She had witnessed Doug go cray cray over it not too long ago.

"Alrighty, Goro— helps us out ere! Dig through the concrete!" He ordered, his Orthworm snapping to attention like a soldier before promptly beginning to dig through the rooftop, opening up a rather precise looking hole.

Because Doug wasn't even going to pretend he could fix an elevator.

"Careful, okay?" He said as he glanced back to Yuina, nodding at her before holding his hand over the hole, letting a number of glowing scales drift down to illuminate the area below.

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TL;DR:33 repair the elevator or find some way to get to floors 5-10. in these floors, encounter various rooms and corridors with flickering lights, laboratories, and ultra beast egg nurseries guarded by mad megalopolans.

St. Jude

With illeana reyes

"Yeah... wait, what?" Doug's face blanked, his head tilting slightly as his lip quirked.

He looked half amused and half jealous.

"An innate understanding, huh?" He echoed, laughing. "Sorry to say, ya got me there, doc."

He couldn't even pretend he understood what Lele wanted half the time.

"I get feelings— No context, though. Couldn't parse them half the time. Before, anyway." He said, leaning his head onto his other fist. "Galar gave me a lotta time to learn the intricacies of Lele's, and I hesitate to use the word, 'language'."

He snorted.

"Some of them, anyway." It was less sign language and more vibes reading, really.

"It's like a game of charades for us— the more you know someone, the easier they are to read, even if they suck at the game." He said, before rolling his eyes. "But I'm guessing she wasn't quite so obtuse when the two of you were linked?"

Tapu Lele didn't treat no two people the same, after all— And there was a reason his epithet was The Jinxed.

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TL;DR:
Making small talk while getting needle'd.

Sweet Lady Lioness

From one Silph to the next— hello, Delilah Silph!

"Yup." He muttered back, taking a sip from his drink.

He was not going to think too hard about what he had just said, for his own sake.

"I intend to dedicate myself to Hoenn as a physician for the foreseeable future." He said, gathering his chin atop the back of his palm. "Callin' it a concrete goal whilst the war shows no signs of ending feels naive, though."

The goal would never be reached as long as the battles didn't end.

"I had fancier goals before, but they're just side projects nowadays."

Tackling the Elite 4 was just an exercise in ego stroking by now.

"But I'm barely worth discussing! As a dutiful soldier of the Hoenn Army, my future is rather unmalleable at the moment... I'm more curious about what your plans are, Delilah."

Catch up with her family, get more involved with Hoenn's stuff... sure, that made sense. It wasn't concrete, though.

PRISMATIC PENITENTIARY

Made the landing

He had lost sight of Yuina Higashi. He had lost sight of Lucia Aldrete. He had lost sight of the kids.

"LUCIA?! YUINA!?"

At some point, the bird died, but it brought him no satisfaction. The misery had washed away and taken all of his vitriol with it; he could not take any pleasure in the death of anyone or anything with a clear mind.

Then the ship crashed, and he lost consciousness for who knows how long.

When he awakened, he found himself in the city lost to the dark.

Hovering over him was Tapu Lele, her hums casual as she gazed down at him, her head balanced on her palms as she cocked it at him.

He grunted, rising to a sit and looking around. Many were around— he didn't see any dead or grievously injured, however... so he focused on finding his group instead.

He didn't immediately see the kids— but that familiar shock of brown hair was hard to miss. He scampered to his feet at the mere hint of it, eyes zeroing into her familiar frame.

He had found her. And Daikenki.

And Celebi?

What?

A croon, right over his shoulder jolted him, an irritable glare snapping towards his matron as she stared at the prince of the forest, before darting forth to welcome her old dancing partner, leaving Doug to chase after her in a rush.

"Yuina!" He shouted, stumbling over dirt and debris.

Unfortunately, they had all, once again, found themselves in tense circumstances.

Cyllora rambled and screamed, threatening everything around her whilst the menace hiding behind her wielded its chains.

Doug felt no compulsion to do as he was told, however— as far as he was concerned, it was just a really sticky chain. And the same seemed to apply to every other hoennian.

The same could not be said for the megalopolans, unfortunately.

For now, he decided to focus on what mattered most, and harrumphed at Tapu Lele.

The deity's psychic grip briefly seized at the chain link around him, before popping it open, allowing him to stumble away, and towards Yuina.

He threw himself at her, his arms wrapping around her and celebi, careful not to crush the little onion as he hugged her.

His frame glimmered and shone too, bathing them both in the healing light of the scales.

He wanted to say, and do, more, but they didn't have the luxury of time yet.

An decision had presented itself— and in true Hoenn fashion, it threatened to split their already tentative alliances further asunder.

It came down to a simple choice, ultimately: Let the megaopolans all stay there and return home, or...

Revenge.

Well. No.

Nothing was truly so simple. To leave now would be to abandon the rest of the megalopolans to the Pecha-shaped thing's will.

It had an iron grip upon the megalopolans... and likely, upon Cyllora as well. Furthermore, they had no clue as to what its desires and intentions were yet.

Didn't know why it was called The Never Rot either, mochi tended to rot just fine.

The situation was a complex one, and would've required a measured hand and a thoughtful approach if it was to be solved in a non murderous manner.

Should that, indeed, be one's intention.

Otherwise, one could just, say, try to kill every last one of them.

And frustratingly, it wasn't even just the Rockets trying that approach in this instance.

"Oi! LELE!" Doug shouted as he sprang to his feet as illeana reyes seemingly went off the deep end— he and Yuina happened to be unfortunately close to that mess.

The Tapu Lele moved sharply, eyes aglow as spatial energy blasted towards them, Nature's madness rising like a barrier.

"What are you even trying to do!? Calm down!" He shouted, spreading out his arms widely, sending his healing scales everywhere once again.

He wasn't going to endure much more of this shit— he had enough of people unilaterally choosing how others lived or died for a week. Yet, here they were, choosing once again how an entire other civilization's future would go.

Why did these choices keep falling upon the single most unqualified group of people to ever exist in the multiverse?

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TL;DR:
-lost sight of the kids. crap
-fezandipiti died, and Doug just felt sad about it.
-wake up, look around, find bae
-get chained by mochi, it doesn't even matter
-chad stride to bae despite the mochi
-heal Yuina Higashi and the onion
-get almost sucker space punched by illeana reyes
-Tapu Lele intervenes, using Nature's Madness to contest Illeana's space punching— mostly cuz Doug and Yuina are within vicinity.
-Doug throws out every single healing scale he's got left in the tank out there, because ain't nothing dying in his immediate presence if he can help it, screw the haters
-Initially trying to consider a more complex stance on the whole thing, but with his hand forced: Mercy.

daybreak

With freya morningstar

"I know. Thanks!" He said cheerily, clearly aware of his fortune, and somehow not noticing the stiffness of her words.

Utterly blind to the depths of the gutters Freya's mind mired in.

At her question, he pursed his lips, hand reaching up to cup at his chin.

"Do you...?" He asked right back, before something flashed behind his eyes.

The memory of a burning station and shadowy bastards came to him, his brow upturning briefly before he smiled again.

"Oh yeah, you do." He said, scratching at his cheek. "I don't think you mad a great first impression though, she seemed scared of you."

He glanced her way, cocking his head.

"Do you recall Yuina?" He hoped he wasn't stepping past some boundary by bringing it up... he wanted to mend singed bridges, if possible.

Hopefully Yuina Higashi wouldn't mind.

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TL;DR:

PRISMATIC PENITENTIARY

Made the landing

To Lucia Aldrete, prior to the healing'ing:
"Not weird, Lucy, just different. They're, uh... they're from another world. Got it?"

He hunched over, hands falling to his knees as he panted, deep, raspy breaths welling up in his chest as he swiped thick beads of poisonous sweat off his brow.

"I... am a magic man, Lucy." He said between pants, chuckling at her question as he forced himself upright, pushing his palms against his lower back. "Let's go with that. And... Yeah. Yeah. Think I'm good now."

He didn't usually need to release so many scales in such wide reaching bursts... but it felt good to be able to heal again, even if it felt like he had just sprinted a mile.

No time to linger on that, though—

"We'll cross that bridge when we get there." Doug said at Lucia's frankly reasonable questioning, giving her an easy smile and a tired shrug. "Doctors don't choose their patients, Lucy. That's what the Hippopotas Oath means."

Not that he had ever been sworn to the thing.

"You're right, though— We gotta go back to the kids." He said, finally collecting all of his breath before turning his gaze up. "Lele—"

Tapu Lele hovered above, her gaze locked onto the ceiling as the thrumming came louder and louder— and finally became a booming crash.

With a yelp, Doug moved to try and cover Lucia, debris flying towards them and getting repelled by invisible force. He didn't have a moment to mutter his thanks at his matron—

Trouble had come crashing through.

"Oh come on—!" He groaned at the gargantuan wardens and their shiny new masks. If the little punter could become such a menace with one, what were they to expect from those now huge bastards?

"Bring out your strongest pokemon, Lucy." Doug instructed his little student, still standing in front of her as Tapu Lele's frame shimmered above, her gaze shifting from one masked entity to the other.

Of course she had some business with them and their 'never rot'.

"Fight and run. Got it?" He said, holding out his hand to her, his eyes narrowing at their opponents.

Where's Yuina Higashi? He wondered, eyes drifting ever so slightly. Is she okay?

Shit. Hopefully, she would be going back to the kids as well.

"Let's go!" He said, nodding at Lucia before beginning to run, his hand reaching for his hip and snatching a glimmering orb. "Lele—!"

He raised it in the air, bright light rays bending around his palm, energy pooling into the tera-orb as his matron over head.

His hand swung, throwing the orb at her, her own arm moving to snatch it out of the air.

A surge of light and a thick, rippling dust cloud followed before a glimmering, crystallized Tapu Lele came flying through, punching a hole through the curtain of dust as she zoomed in towards the bird-looking titan, arm cocked and overflowing with psychic force, and swung at its masked face.

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TL;DR:
-chatting with Lucia Aldrete while gathering his wits.
-oh fug.jpg
-Stellar Terra'ing Tapu Lele.
-Stellar Tapu Lele used Psychic punches Fezandipiti.
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The Spider and the Fly

With Yuina Higashi

Fuck fuck fuck.

Pain was an inevitability in these sorts of circumstances, and he did his best to not let it bother him when providing treatment.

It was impossible to put aside in his mind Yuina's pain.

She wasn't screaming, but her arms were strong around his neck, and her shudders were wracked against his chest.

"You're okay. You're okay." He mutters against her ear insistently as if it will make a difference. No, it'll not— the only thing that will is—

His hand glows, his frame shudders and glimmers as pink petal-like scales distend from his silhouette, merging into her skin.

Behind them, his Flygon faced off with the Spidops leader, flying around the arachnid lithely before blasting a stream of flames its way.

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TL;DR:
-Guirus used Fire Blast.

Rewriting History

With Yuina Higashi

"Back when Father Dickhead sent me on a roundtrip 'round my childhood days, so... I wanna say like, christmas-ish 2023?" Doug said, cupping his chin whilst squinting at hisuian ball selection. "Think it's... that one? Kind of. Looks a little simpler than I recall."

He pointed at the black, hefty ball. A heavy ball.

"The one I own's got tons of little details on it." He mused.

"Darn heavy thing, too. I do curls with it sometimes."

He shoved his musings onto the backseat once Yuina began recounting her past experiences, way back when. He doesn't know what tumblestone is, but the word tatami is familiar.

It isn't the only thing that sounds vaguely familiar either. A peaceful village, a flowing river, peace and beauty and an undisturbed environment.

He was taking her words with broad strokes, but it all nonetheless reminded him of his childhood home.

Even her first encounter with her Kleavor.

"They tend to do that." He said wryly, lip quirking as he brought his digits to his cheek, dragging it over his scar.

Kleavor or Scyther, some things never changed, apparently.

What was changing, however, was Yuina's voice— her voice trembling as she carried on, the corners of her eyes almost shimmering in the dark.

He squeezed her hand back, his other hand reaching up to brush his thumb against the corner of her eyes.

"Do you miss it?" He asked, brushing gently past her attempts at changing the topic.

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MAY 2024 NON-CANON AVATAR ACTIVITY CHECK

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• player/ooc name: EBC
• character tags: John Sullivan

4 ic posts for avatar character:

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• ER: HOENN EDITION
• DAYBREAK
• ONE LAST HOPE
• DREAM

summarize how you've utilized[break]the avatarship for collaborative narrative:

• 1. AVATARSHIP: TAPU LELE[break]
  Subject: 'Dr.' John D. Sullivan (No MD, no PHD, all vibes).
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  John D. Sullivan has continued his savage guerilla campaign against Hoenn's healthcare industry. By way of indiscriminate free services, an absolute disregard for any 'real' doctor or hospital personnel trying to stop him, and utilizing his AQUA membership and high military rank to more or less martial law his way into any hospital, he has continuously forced hospital personel into allowing him to heal people for free, the barbarian. Well documented cases of such criminal acts include the likes of Isaac Merlo , Yuina Higashi , DESIREE BLOOMS , Thomas Benoit, amongst others.
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  The public has been fooled into believing that free, results guaranteed, cavalier treatment that dismisses the shareholde— er, hoenn's health economy is somehow justified just because some may be unable to afford healthcare. The public, a mob as ever, does not consider the possibility that perhaps some may be undeserving of treatment. Er, moving on—.
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  I can't keep this bit going, I'm too lazy.
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  Tl;dr Doug continues to menace hoenn hospitals by doing their job, but the hospital staff likes him for the most part since surprise surprise, people who go into nursing tend to be good folk. (actual doctors may disagree)
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  Doug essentially breaking and entering into any hospital he wishes to offer his services in is mostly something he's adopted from Tapu Lele. A 'do as you please, when you please' approach to helping others based of her own 'do whatever, whenever, because it's funny' approach.
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  Doug would be offended if you pointed out any similarities in personality between him and Tapu Lele, though.
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  Even skittish, hopeless folk like Aubre McKenna-Settentrione have turned up at to his doorstep... Petalburg General's, really. Andrea Vaneau & Chomper benefited from his 'healing first, ask for money never' policies as well. And freya morningstar put aside her... understandable doubts regarding Tapu Lele to try and help bring her oldest Salamence to full health.
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  I need to make an exhibit or HNN article about how Doug said fuck the healthcare industry on poketweeter and all the ritchie ritches are upset about it.
  

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