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the water serves as a shelter from the sweltering heat of the day, encouraging orchid to relax some more as she dives. running her hands along the sandy bottom of the ocean, she wonders what it’ll be that she next brings up to the surface.
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orchid almost pities whoever is in the tank now, if she’s successful. key word: almost. she can only hope she is, as she gets ready to throw.

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okay, she’d done pretty well last time. now it’s time for another dunk tank try. she gives the person in the tank a brief glance before gearing up to throw. like usual, she doesn’t recognize the inhabitant, and relief washes over her. since jupiter had been in there, she’d been a bit nervous about the whole thing. however, she’s determined to not let one encounter ruin the whole thing. [break][break]
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after a brief trip back to the shore to dump some of her finds, it’s time for another dive. back to the bottom of the water to search the sands for a new addition to her growing collection. [break][break]
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pft, okay… another miserable failure from orchid. that was pretty sad. now that she’s tasted victory, though, she doesn’t want to give it up. she’s ready for another primarina twist attempt.
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pushing the previous failure aside, orchid approaches the dunk tank. she’s failed plenty, but also succeeded enough that she isn’t feeling too badly about the whole thing. orchid bellerose is more than plenty to try again, as she prepares to throw.
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finally! a success! it had only taken her countless attempts, but she’d finally succeeded at something. she isn’t going to test her luck too much, though, doubting she could get so lucky twice in a row. she resigns herself to attempting a primarina twist, ambitions lower.
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that was a decent enough find, whatever it was — but it still isn’t enough to satisfy orchid. she knows she’ll have to return to shore briefly soon enough to dump the contents of her finds, but for now she’s still fine. once immersed in water, she wonders what finds this day will bring.
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okay, so maybe thinking of @jupiter wasn’t the best way to go about things. [break][break]
as per usual, orchid does not know the person in the dunk tank. nor does she particularly care to. all she cares about now is the sense of victory that dunking them could bring her. she steps up, ready to once more take her shot.
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not having failed quite enough times to discourage her yet, orchid climbs back on to the mantine, preparing herself mentally for another attempt. clearly, she just really needed to work a little harder at it. so she gets up, trying for the starmie 720.
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freshly surfaced, orchid takes a breath to prepare for her next dive. after all, the ocean floor is hardly devoid of items waiting to be found, even as others may scour the bottom in search of their next reward. once reassured that she’s ready to dive again, she slips back beneath the waves.
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so the last round hadn’t been perfect for orchid, sure. that was fine! she could recover from this! it’s not like her experience is in swimsuit modeling, anyways. she’s a singer, for heaven’s sake. [break][break]

ahead of her, the runway is soaked from the combination of the actions of the previous contestants and the octillery shooting up jets of water. she knows just how to handle this, though. it isn’t her first time performing in falling water. countless times she had been onstage during a downpour, and, well, the show must go on.[break][break]

she could use her soon-to-be soaked state to her advantage, she just knows. just as she had done at any of those performances. [break][break]

beginning her way to the end of the runway in a confident strut, orchid gives the crowd a grin and a wave. but that’s not enough, no. reaching up to the pins and ties holding her hair in place, she undoes it, allowing her hair to flow freely down her back and around her shoulders. a soggy bun was unimpressive, but long, flowy hair? that could do the trick. spreading her arms out around her, she girls a few twirls as she moves down the runway, face up, smiling, and reveling in the water spouts.[break][break]

next to her, pink little quartz knows just what to do. providing a dulled icy wind upon her now-soaked cover-up, the vulpix freezes the water into small crystals of ice covering the lace. these crystals refract the light of the sun, giving her the effect of almost seeming to glow in rainbows under the summer rays. sure, it’s cold, but anyone who thinks that would stop her from enjoying the moment doesn’t know orchid.[break][break]

at the end of the runway, she runs a hand through her wet hair, shaking her head to ensure that it's got its time to shine. a bit dramatically, she reaches down, positioned carefully to ensure view of her swimsuit — after all, this was a swimsuit contest — as she flips her head and hair back up, straightening her posture as her hair forms a ring of water around her. an aqua ring, you could say. it takes effort, that much hair combined with water weight isn’t exactly light, but orchid knew she could do it.[break][break]

maybe it was overkill, with the attempts at crowd-dazzling — but orchid is used to being called overkill by now, anyways. she’d be nothing without it.[break][break]

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[attr="class","llppromisedblurb"]maybe something about the feelings brought up in her at the sight of jupiter in the tank had helped her, because she’d hit the last one almost dead-on, knocking her ex into the target. she wonders if she could use this to her advantage in the future.[break][break]
she doesn’t know the person in the tank now, so it’s hard to feel too strongly any way about them. closing her eyes for a moment, she tries to recall how she’d felt the last throw, how that had led her to victory, in the hopes that it will once more serve her well.[break][break][break]