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CLAMPERL DIVING (CARNIVAL)
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 16:27:46 GMT
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this was the classic game kyle has played last year. no one liked it, but everyone did it anyways. there's beauty in the mundane, or something like that.

with a heavy sigh properly displaying the disappointment kyle has with himself for trying this out once again, he adjusts the goggles over his eyes. he needs it to get the proper prizes under the sea after all.

here we go again, he tells himself.

with a silent prayer, he wades through the water until he's in the deep enough parts of the beach. that's where the good stuff are, probably.

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EXTRACTION: NAVY & KYLE [HEART GOLD]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 16:18:51 GMT
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"it's not being lazy. it's about being efficient."

it's his brand at this point. without the privy eyes of those that might use his title as an excuse for their own whims, kyle returns to his primal urges of exerting as little effort as possible.

it demonstrates itself with the lack of care at the trail of resources they left behind upon their escape.

"fine, i'll give you a show sometime." he doesn't like doing it despite the indifference with how he's perceived. "you're lucky you're, like, my third favorite gym leader."

the ranking went noah, then cian, and finally, him. fernando would have been in the running but kyle doesn't actually count him as one.

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Campfire Stories [M]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 10:54:32 GMT
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"you got boring tastes," was all kyle can deduce from it.

he was never going to let this go. they have all the time in the world, and they are going to use it.

"being relatable is one big criteria for a main character, and only then do you mix it up with the fantasy. a lot of them have it around. they make for a good cast, sure, but not main characters."

he stuffs his mouth with the smore and walks over to a cooler they brought. kyle takes a can of chilled beer, tosses one to navy's direction, before taking his own.

a fizz marks the opening of the can on his hand.

"a lot of them are too perfect. the tragic backstory that built an over-the-top character is overdone. odds stacked against them and they still manage to power through? that's plot armor. boring. i'll take 'guy who can't say no to the media' over them, thank you."

a swig of the golden liquid breaks his whining.

"people like things simple now. that vanilla girl might make for one though, i'll give you that." it's even in her name.


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Summer time fun [m]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 10:37:18 GMT
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"going to school is actually the normal thing to experience," he tells matias with a shake of his head.

sometimes, it's easy to forget that he's the only one out of this trio that had a moderately normal childhood.

"it's mostly for fun. high school boys really like the musician aesthetic, i suppose," he answers melody. "we mostly played the most popular songs at that time. it's really fun since we're just children with too much free time."

he was unlike melody, who had to be perfect for her scene, and matias, who had to meet the silph standards in his chosen field. he was pretty normal back then as opposed to now, but he wouldn't have it any other way.

his attention goes to matias' flute.

"do you guys really not take any lessons normal kids have?" he asks, confused. "we had to play the recorder for third grade, and i think the flute's kind of similar."

granted, he only knows the most basic chords.


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King's Knight [M][C/Kyle]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 3:26:29 GMT
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he smiles. this was nostalgic.

he recalls his pokemon, and with a tap of his foot, silhouettes of suicune and raikou appear from the ashes.

"don't get too excited, alright?" that was josh's reaction every time, regardless of how much time he had spent with the beasts of johto. "you don't want your pokemon to get jealous," he teases.

they probably were used to their trainer's childhood springing back up to the surface every once in a while already. at the end of the day, it was just teasing.

kyle takes his seat on suicune, giving it a light pat at the side of head.

he turns to the gym leader as he waits for him to take raikou. it was always the same routine, but he knows it wouldn't get old for the fanboy in him. "take the lead, josh."




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Campfire Stories [M]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 3:16:41 GMT
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"that's exactly your archetype. easygoing, honest-to-fault main character who likes doing good but is so bad at keeping things lowkey. bonus points if you're oblivious to things. i don't even know how you found success as a private investigator."

he takes a moment to blow the steam off of his snack before continuing his tirade.

"and don't worry. he knows. he was ready."

that's why what happened to him happened.

he wasn't at the top, but he was above average. someone who has been with pokemon that long has to be.

"you've always babied him so hard, man. he was naive, but not that naive."

kyle attempts to take a bite out of his smore, but upon finding out that it still needed to be cooled down, he goes back to puffing at it.

"i think i'm just indifferent at this point," he answers, pertaining to the fame he now has. "and you don't need to accept all interviews, you know. are you accepting all offers? you have an option to say no, by the way."

maybe kyle was an exemption, cause he doesn't feel threatened about saying no to things with his current position.


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EXTRACTION: NAVY & KYLE [HEART GOLD]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 2:59:17 GMT
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while the urshifu was dealing with the problem and its trainer was stunned at the show his own pokemon gave him, kyle makes his way to the objective and starts stuffing their bags with loosened shards and crystals.

"let me know when you're done," he casually calls out as he fills bag after bag with resources. "actually, do you want to switch? urshifu can probably carry more of these than smeargle can."

it meant that they won't need to do more return trips, which meant more work, which meant less time to actually do the things he wants to do.

kyle drops a bag full of these crystals by navy's feet as he takes position behind the urshifu. he feels himself sync with the smeargle with the next move that comes out of the pokemon's tail tip.

as soon as the barrage from the urshifu finishes, glaciate freezes the abomination all over. whether the damage dealt was enough or not was undetermined, but the important part was that they're free.

"my heart tells me i want to go home and shuwen over there can make our lives easier. please."



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without boundaries [gym]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 2:41:39 GMT
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he blinks at the disappearance of his phone. eyes follow the greninja.

"oi. you don't want to see the contents of that phone. trust me."

a furfrou is released with a light tap on a pokeball on his waist. he issues a command at the lowest volume and then urges the pokemon to chase after the greninja.

sucker punch. the furfrou disturbs the greninja with the move on its attempt to take the phone back.

in a similar vein, entei's move was disturbed by the stealth rocks. better than toxic spikes or sticky web, he supposed.

"looks like i better train my pokemon in a different way again just for that." he scratches the back of his head as he thinks of all the effort he has to do. "what kind of smeargle do you want on your match?"

the entei remains still, holding his ground as the arcanine blindly charges at him. it stomps on the ground, and reflective of kyle's passive nature, erupts a stone edge defensively.

a wall of rock emerges from the ground, blocking the arcanine's path with it. it times it with the fire-type's acceleration, propping it up before the arcanine can decelerate at a decent speed.



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Campfire Stories [M]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 1:22:39 GMT
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"that was a different era, to be fair."

the stakes were lower. the only real threat had been actual humans tempting fate by poking the beasts, as opposed to today's gods actively going after them. it was the difference of him rejecting tapu koko and accepting terakion.

"also, stop. please don't go saying things like that. you're the type to find it difficult to go against their word."

kyle sighs.

"i was teasing, alright. once you become a key player on hoenn's game board, someone will notice you. better you than someone else taking the power, in my opinion."

in retrospect, kyle had figured that's how entei got him.

he prepares the smore as he briefly takes his attention off of navy. the roasted marshmallow goes to kyle's nth sandwich as he decides it's worth destroying his diet for the recent stress inducers he had faced.

"you're different. the way you show off your character isn't to force people to read between the lines, like they do with my actions. you fall under another archetype."


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nostalgia [m]
POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 0:49:59 GMT
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it happens in a second.

a silhouette of a suicune appears for a moment, shielding the champion at the point of impact, before disintegrating into ashes, which then disappear with the grit and dirt.

"yeah, don't worry," he reassures, casually brushing off the use of his powers.

he picks up the poochyena and forcibly closes its mouth. he had to wrestle it at first, but it eventually yields to its trainer. with a finger over his lips, he shushes the lycanroc afterwards.

"we might have overstayed our welcome, i think." they disturbed their peace. it's only natural for these pokemon to deal with intruders. "i think we should go now. i'd rather not beat these glimmora up. they're pretty nice deterrents after all."

a cheeky smile flashes at zev with the last statement, refusing to elaborate further.

the more inhospitable the place was to average trainers, the better it would be for natural selection to take place when it came to procuring power, in this case, terastalization. whether it was out of greed or concern, it all heads to the same conclusion.



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SECRETS OF THE SWORD VOL. 2: SPIRIT
POSTED ON Aug 6, 2023 10:14:11 GMT
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his grip loosens, shifting the way he holds the sword as the count down runs.

one! two! thr—

kyle drops to a squat and swings the flat side of the sword towards the hunter's legs, gauging the swipe to hit the back of their knees as they pass through. it destroys part of the thorny entrance of the secret base, but the collateral doesn't matter in this scenario.

on the other hand, it collapses the majority of the base's only exit, leaving the person who checked stranded outside with them as kyle has cut off the only entry way his backup could have used.

"i'm not good with interrogations," he tells gwyar as he shifts the sword once more in his grip. "i'm too soft to actually push buttons. can you do it instead?"

he notices he missed something crucial.

"please?"



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POSTED ON Aug 6, 2023 9:42:43 GMT
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instead, they play a less taxing game of ring toss. kyle played these a lot during festivals and other carnivals held around hoenn in his childhood.

"not really," he answers.

he takes his aim right beside fernando on a different set of dugtrio-ring-toss game. he feels the weight of the ring, and then the material, before tossing it over to the target.

"or i guess it's because it's easier to pick out the louder celebrities in the crowd than the one trying to be discrete." his ring hits the target. "it also helps that i've been stuck doing office work the past few days."

with enough practice tossing frisbees and balls for dogs, kyle manages to guide the trajectory of this throws easily.

Involve or reference a Tug-o-War Contest.
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EXTRACTION: FERNANDO & KYLE #1
POSTED ON Aug 6, 2023 9:32:27 GMT
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Threats may begin to encroach upon this chamber. Nihilego, Poipole, Naganadel, and mutated Pokemon who have found themselves unluckily teleported here.[break][break]

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EXTRACTION: FERNANDO & KYLE #1
POSTED ON Aug 6, 2023 9:32:05 GMT
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fernando doesn't explicitly say it, but kyle could surmise it's about the tank role that people have suggested for explorers of the realm. the core was understandably a danger, and there was logic behind it.

"we both have sygna suits, so i don't see why we should bother for a while," he answers, defying the conventional method of approach when it comes to extraction trips.

kyle scouts for the most clumped cluster of shards and crystal for them to mine. eventually, he finds one closer to the core, as the further they went in, the less likely people would attempt to try their luck.

"that one looks promising." kyle motions to the one he found. "your dog is a ground-type, right? are you using him for this extraction?"

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The Poison Tera Crystals glow bright as all manner of terrible things appear, drawn from the conscious of those affected by the Eternatus core. Eventually, these manifested figures will expire, disintegrating into nothing but residual Dynamax Energy.

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