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hiding behind masks [mission]

POSTED ON Sept 8, 2019 21:40:43 GMT

dahlia joins in the laughter, her eyes carefully following the pipe cradled in lars' lips. she sees it as a plank which bobs and struggles with an invisible weight.

"i have to admit," she whispers back as she leads them to the tree, "the transition has been... interesting... i'm trying to get used to the nothingness of it all. do you know what i mean?"

she settles in the grass, painfully aware that she had forgotten her picnic blanket in her car. yet, she bears no discomfort on her face. instead, she pats the earth beside her.

"sit, sit. enjoy yourself, sealubber." she says. "in any case, there are still things to fret about if you need it. aggressive pokemon have been popping up here and there across the region- like those tentacruel you fought."

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Judgment Day (Closed)

POSTED ON Sept 7, 2019 6:33:55 GMT

"just take care of yourself, thomas."

dahlia's smile is small, like a ribbon cut too short to fully set a gift in place. its brittle shape rests across her face, held together by the simplest kindness she can afford.

"being in the public eye is not meant for everyone." she says. "pressure may make diamonds, but they also break pipes."

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POSTED ON Sept 1, 2019 20:01:44 GMT

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fodlan winds [c]

POSTED ON Aug 29, 2019 5:21:45 GMT

"nice to meet you! i'm dahlia goode."

dahlia graciously takes her hand, careful to cradle the blue box against her side. the shake is firm, but the skin is soft. a paper cut does little to mar her

"welcome to hoenn!" the excitement gets the better of her, and the box jostles, which she quickly corrects upright. she has nothing to worry. the capsule's orientation does little to disturb the gift inside.

"transfers can be hard... are you settling well?" dahlia smiles. a small one. one that is not enough to bear all the sufferings gemma has endured until now.

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hiding behind masks [mission]

POSTED ON Aug 26, 2019 7:11:29 GMT

"oh, i'm fine. it's hot in the stall, but i'm on break."

dahlia laughs, plucking a few beads of sweat from her forehead. suddenly conscious of her appearance, she draws back the golden ring of her hair stuck across her forehead.

"rocket's gone, lars! it's time to celebrate!"

one of the workers leans down, providing her with a paper takeout tray so heavily weighted by melted cheese. she takes it carefully, cradling it with her smile.

"here. let's share. let's have a country banquet by that tree over there, okay?" dahlia leans back, biting her tongue as she strains to grab plastic utensils from the stall.

she anchors her voice in a terrible pirate accent, her true tones cracking through in awkward splashes. "so, captain lars... how did you lose yer eye?"

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paparazzi [c]

POSTED ON Aug 3, 2019 22:19:14 GMT

"why would fernando do such a thing?" dahlia's laughter echoes against the beautifully crafted walls as it ascends and fades. "dragons might seem intimidating, olivia, but what can they do against a fairy?"

another breath and she fights the urge to scratch her head. the fine designs. the chichi configurations. after the initial layer of flamboyance is burned away, she's left with numbers, like a digital photo stripped away to reveal its binary code.

"i'd love to see more of the castle, but... how did you get all the funding for this, olivia?" dahlia moves toward the gym leader's vaporeon, inclining to see if meara would accept a pat.

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fodlan winds [c]

POSTED ON Jul 31, 2019 9:42:28 GMT

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here, in Alexei Ivanov's home, the ranger headquarters rises proud among fortree's outstanding woodland. anchored close to quaint wooden homes, rope bridges pluck the incoming summer winds for the occasional off-tone note found within a creak or groan.

it's sweltering today. a fervid temperature. even the breeze does little to tame the heat. instead, it fans it hot.

inside the ranger headquarters, dahlia finds refuge in an air-conditioned training room. the tiled floor is damp. like a swimming pool, puddles and rubber mats add to the pattern.

quietly, she enters the room to personally welcome a new transfer from johto-- and to inspect a routine exercise of firefighting pokemon. nearby, water pokemon scramble through a mock scene of an urban fire while spewing water at controlled flames.

in her hands, dahlia holds a welcome gift box, packaged neatly in hoenn blues. "is there a gemma here? gemma waters?" she waves her box around in circles like a silly flare.

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POSTED ON Jul 31, 2019 8:44:35 GMT

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"show me what you've been working on? you've been so busy, olivia. i don't know how you do it." dahlia shakes her head, rings of blonde cascading against her cheek.

upon olivia's guidance, she wades into the spire. half out of interest and half out of a powerful desire to flee the incessant paparazzi-flashes. however, it is not the flash that stuns her. it is the immense opulence and size of the architecture that paralyzes her. a momentary flinch.

a sad note sobers her. she glimmers past the sculpture of petrov and settles her open jawed awe into the palm of her hand. olivia's voice recalls her into lucidity alongside the appearance of a sweet vaporeon.

"oh no! renovation is... neverending. it's gorgeous. everything is." dahlia says, the wonder still jeweled in her breath. "are you ever worried that a meteoroid might strike again?" a joke, but one that may be lost within the grandeur of the embellished expanse.

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fight like a dragon [ o ]

POSTED ON Jul 31, 2019 8:26:12 GMT

"you might've already realized, but we track who graduates through the system."

in her mind, dahlia filters through the papers, the documents, the reports like a file cabinet thrusting its drawers out like outstretched arms. for a moment, the fresh air is too fresh. almost causes a headache for the office-addled psyche.

"and so far, you've blown through our gyms like a tornado. then again, i suppose... you were a gym leader previously. are you a prodigy, maybe?"

her skin remembers the cold of the water while her dratini plays. the commissioner hides a blush with a big smile.

"oh, you won't! you better not."

dahlia darkens for a brief shadow of a second before casting the utterance in jest. quickly, she dawns and replies with a firm nod.

"just kidding! one warning of caution though. people might deride you as being a foreign talent... but talent is talent. we need some fresh dragon blood in hoenn anyway." she pulls out her poryphone. "if you don't mind... let's exchange numbers, ok? keep in touch."

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POSTED ON Jul 31, 2019 5:56:03 GMT

"i suppose that's true."

dahlia says wistfully- but the feigned naivety is whisked away as quickly as it came.

"however! he'll serve not only as an admirable account of triumph, but as a tempting target to strike down." she balls her hand into a fist. "sometimes you just get the urge to punch a pretty face!"

she grins. the stoutland accomplishes his work with apt timing and nuzzles deep against kyle's hands.

"good! we'll be in touch with you. we, being the league."

dahlia laughs as she pulls out a pink poryphone.

"sounds slightly ominous, doesn't it? 'we'! anyways, let's exchange numbers. i'll give you a personal line..."

the commissioner taps her screen with sprightly swings as if ringing in a new era. an era that kyle will help usher in.

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POSTED ON Jul 18, 2019 23:05:35 GMT

how sad is it to say that the days of celebration are over. no parties. no parade to usher the fresh energies of starting anew. truth be told, becoming commissioner is no ascension. it is a gradual descent by rickety rope. she hopes to land well.

however, the winds of wormholes and rockets threaten her inversed climb. she frowns small, seeing one of the casualties of the recent storm.

"and thank you for taking me out as well." dahlia says, quickly replacing the sad tilt of her lips with a smile. "i'm lucky to meet a hero of hoenn in person like this."

she nods, allowing bailey to stretch time within the clinical stillness of the hospital.

"of course! formalities in a place and time like this?" dahlia slices the air dismissively. "i'm not an old fogey, sergeant- or bailey, if you so choose."

as they leave into the hospital hallways, dahlia notes the colorful panels and paintings of swablu and roselia fixtured into the walls. however, they're not match for the obscenities on bailey's hardened cast. she doesn't mind them. yet, she holds her tongue from inching into laughter.

"one thing though. bad news... i was planning on taking you on this lovely stroll up lilycove's hill... but a snorlax decided to take the longest nap on the path." she sighs. "we can chat along the beach, maybe?"

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Judgment Day (Closed)

POSTED ON Jul 17, 2019 8:23:39 GMT

"we'll have to spend some time easing out the wrinkles, but it's nothing a little maneuvering here and there can't handle."

dahlia sighs, as if her breath were the last petal curling off from its bud.

"people forget, thomas. it'll only take a little bit of time. after all... you and your troop didn't truly mean to do what they did, yes?"

she gathers every flower of interest. places it like bouquet atop her precious nose. bobbing her head up and down, she indulges in thomas' passion for defense and martial art.

"good! good! then it's settled. verdanturf. dark-type. a revival of self-defense education." dahlia claps. applause meant for the future. "sooner or later, the public perception will turn around. an accident is an accident, but this reversal of image will be no mistake."

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paparazzi [c]

POSTED ON Jul 17, 2019 7:34:55 GMT

the loudest of birds built their nests big, dahlia tells herself. they adorn them with trinkets from faraway lands, arresting the rays of a hoenn sun in their overwhelming exorbitance.

dahlia does not dress up. she dresses down. although a short distance away in evergrande, she finds traveling tiring- even more so, after her kidnapping. clad in the thinnest of armors, she wears a simple professional get-up of white and black.

she arrives by dragonite, two bodyguards tailing her as the winds of her dragon spiral upon landing. safe within the crater, the commissioner comfortably detaches from her men as she waves to olivia, eyes catching the diamonds of light scattered by the gym leader's embroidery.

"ms. abbiati, you look positively gorgeous! you didn't need to dress up for me." dahlia laughs, her black sneakers crossing squares of white sootopolian rock. she leans forth, kissing the other's cheeks in greeting as her dragonite looks upon sternly.

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POSTED ON Jul 17, 2019 7:24:06 GMT

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hiding behind masks [mission]

POSTED ON Jul 17, 2019 6:54:38 GMT

lars' reputation precedes him. although this is by no means the duty of the commissioner, dahlia keeps tabs on the rising stars of the region. their presence ascends from the script of papers. words are scavenged for any meat, but they remain plain. official. objective. reports barely betray the dramatics of a region riddled with strife and excitement while she sits alone in her office with a stale cup of coffee.

but here, in the ren-faire, which she gladly obliged to offer her time and passion to, she enjoys a break from the sweaty, bombastic action of melting cheese. she spots him in line. carefully, she leans out of the stall. dressed as a morgan le fay type of some imagination, her dress dangles above the squashed grass.

"pssst. mr. anderson. come here." dahlia's damp face peeks out of the stall and she beckons him with a finger. "get out of line. i have you covered. hurry!!"

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