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cutieflyaway from me pls [trade]

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 5:30:57 GMT

lam logan is trading a cutiefly to GIDEON GRAVES in exchange for a hakomo-o from BARNABY FINCH

cutiefly (f) / sweet veil / dazzling gleam, stun spore, fairy wind, struggle bug, aromatic mist

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POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 4:42:08 GMT

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straight into your arms [m]

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 4:38:07 GMT

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Lam sighed, shoulders slumping somewhat. “Because they are supposed to be fun,” he replied, defeat creeping into his voice. “It’s competitive and educational, like a sport, but there are people who still view it with the wrong lens. I’m lucky, though, there are still some people who are trying to subvert the belief.” His discussion with paxton concordas a few months prior had reassured him of as much.[break][break]
That the gym circuit wasn’t meant for churning out battle ready fighters. Skill building, yes, but not for war. There were different routes for that. But it didn’t quell the guilty feeling that lingered when he thought that maybe that influence still pushed literal kids into risky situations just because they had a badge and thought they could handle it.[break][break]
The little poke drew him back to the present. His nose wrinkled and he poked Rook back. Then tilted up and kissed him on the chin despite the water pelting his face. “As long as you think so. It’s always the most exciting to tell you. Maybe I should’ve become a professor instead,” he remarked. “Then I could actually study all this weird stuff.” It was a little laughable to consider.[break][break]
He was far from booksmart enough to be so science-y.[break][break]
“Nope, no way. You’re like…the coziest room with the biggest, warmest bed. NIce and secure.” He rolled his eyes, but his smile remained. If Rook continued to debate him, he might have to relent (even though it wouldn’t be true, because Rook was the safest.)[break][break]
That smile only grew wider and he reached up to swipe his thumb under Rook’s eye affectionately as he brushed a stray rivulet of water away. “I do, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. I think you’re more stable now than you realize. I don’t know what I’d be doing now, if you weren’t here to remind me to separate myself from work sometimes.”[break][break]
He wouldn’t have been happy, Lam knew that much. “Like… it’s how I know you’re gonna be a good dad, y’know?” The quiet thought had dawned on him, and he didn’t fully realize he’d even said it aloud.[break][break]
As Rook worked the shampoo out of his hair, he let his eyes fall shut again. He soaked up the heat of the water and the warmth of the other’s comfort. Only the sound of the showerhead continuing to spit water against the shower’s basin. “Mhmm,” he hummed, one eye cracking open to peer at his fiance playfully. “Ohhh, I dunno, figuring out how to wind down for the rest of the night?”[break][break]
There was a high chance he’d pass out within minutes of contact with any soft surface, but that was alright too. So long as he wasn’t required to drift from the nook of Rook’s side.

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When All the Holiday Lights Go Out [FIT]

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 1:58:00 GMT

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He’d thought that the sense of familiarity and déjà vu would’ve subsided by now. That once they’d landed on the boba contest, that would be the end of it. And yet, the longer they stood there, the more the feeling increased. So he must have known her from somewhere else. Lam wasn’t sure why that seemed to matter so much, or why his intuition wouldn’t just rest.[break][break]
After all, right then, they had more important matters to deal with.[break][break]
But Aurelie didn’t seem like the sort of person he would’ve met anywhere outside of Lilycove. Unless… but nah, there was no way, right? She certainly didn’t strike him as someone he’d encounter in a conflict.[break][break]
And then the lights surged overhead, overpowering the glow from all of the pokemon that had begun to fill the room. It served to cut through the clamor of this thoughts as well, and he let out a sigh as cheers went up all around. “Phew, I’m glad I don’t have to actually even attempt to mess with that generator..” He cracked a smile and laughed before shaking his head. “No way, I think they’re still trying to get over here. We definitely just got lucky.”[break][break]
But he was not complaining.[break][break]
He took in the message that crackled on the overhead speaker, and there was only more relief that there didn’t seem to be anything else required of him. Quickly, he tapped out a text to his partner—both to check in with him and let him know that Lam would be probably pretty late getting home.[break][break]
He shrugged then in response to Aurelie’s own helplessness and another chuckle slipped free as he pocketed his phone again. “I mean, I’ll never say no to a chance to be festive…or go to town on so fancy snacks.”[break][break]
Grinning, Lam looped his arm with her offered one. “Don’t mind if I do. ‘Tis the season, right?” And he was pretty sure he’d peeped some excellent looking spinach artichoke dip earlier. And a particularly ornate looking chocolate cake.[break][break]
“Lead the way.” Again, he reminded himself that however he’d met her before probably didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. She had been nothing but pleasant and helpful tonight, and that was what was important. And If the memory did come to him down the line, it would still count for something then too.

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- bingo: cake

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POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 1:38:03 GMT

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He finds himself on the paths to and from Petalburg, because, well, of course he does. Much like his involvement at Mossdeep and Sootopolis, Lam can’t bring himself to ignore the call for backup as Rocket attempts to push outward from the city they’ve laid new claim to. He is better off supporting his own city because Lilycove needs countless repairs, but he still makes the time.[break][break]
But he keeps to the background this time around, and focuses on the civilians who need to be escorted away from the fighting rather than plunge toward the front lines.[break][break]
It’s quiet on the stretch of road until it isn’t. He’d paused to catch his breath after seeing a group back to Oldale, but there never really was any time for a break, was there? The sound of multiple attacks colliding propels the gym leader forward. From behind, Virizion bounds to his side to assist on the scene while his pidove unleashes a preemptive, sweltering HEATWAVE on the perceived assailants to hopefully slow them down.[break][break]
At first, Lam thinks that the group of saboteurs are ganging up on this poor civilian kid, but her rebuttal and the moxie that her pokemon companions show quickly prove him wrong. The nerve she has draws a laugh from him. Misplaced, given the situation.[break][break]
Because it’s still a low blow to outnumber her so severely.[break][break]
“You heard her!” Lam calls out, tone chipper as he makes himself known, and Virizion leaps ahead to stand in front of them. The sword of justice acts as a parrying shield as they raise their own measure of PROTECTION. “No easy wins here today. Oh—well, apart from ours, of course.”[break][break]
He grins at her sidelong as Poppy moves in on tiny wings, taking the offensive again. The bird swinging all of her force with a DRAGON HAMMER aimed at toppling the closest genesect to her. “Want an extra hand?”

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mp: ic post x1 (10) + recall a previous thread (will add in link later,) linked in post (50) = 60 mp

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home underwater [m]

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 1:35:51 GMT

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whatever relief lutgarde feels, lam mirrors the same. it is much easier, he thinks, to undertake this particular project if they tackle it head on, and with the confidence that it will all come together. Though a part of himself also knows that if he slows down long enough to worry about it, he'll get hung up on how much there is to repair.[break][break]
"lutgarde," he echoes their name with an affirmative nod of his head. "great to meet you." his smile slips into a mild grimace, though. "i'm sorry to hear that, but i can commiserate. they gym was hit pretty hard too." he was honestly lucky his house was just enough in land to avoid severe damage. it had certainly made the gain of neutral ground in sootopolis something he found himself less eager to celebrate.[break][break]
lam tucks the clipboard under an arm and nods again. "yep! i think that's a good of a place as any to start. if i remember right, there's a fair amount of displaced pokemon out there too, who were caught up in the floating debris." if they could return them to the ocean too, it would be two birds, one stone situation.[break][break]
as he turns to lead them down to the beach, his psyduck waddles forward. not an ounce shy, she meets the offered ribbon with one flipper and a proud psssssyy. lam laughs, "and that would be peaches. i'm sure she'll rope your sylv into some sort of shenanigan or other sooner rather than later."

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feathered friends [m]

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 1:34:21 GMT

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lam nodded, an exasperated sigh on his lips. "yes, unfortunately. cherry's a bit headstrong - he has no problem sharing his opinions. like how he thinks my hair is lettuce." it was probably the reason he could only handle keeping one or two of that particular species. unlike the oricorio, of which he now had six or seven of. but there was also some bias for the alolan bird, no matter their natures.[break][break]
"they are neat," lam agreed, though a soft frown settled on his expression. "but I've never been too good at science-y things, so i haven't restored many fossils myself." it was all a bit difficult to wrap his brain around. "he looks like a good companion, i'm glad you found him."[break][break]
he picked through the contents of his lunchbox and idly watched the synchronicity develop among the gaggle of dancing birds. "hm, i think she found me, really. otherwise it would just be coincidence. she's the first pokemon i caught in hoenn." she'd been on his window ledge when he'd moved into his first apartment in slateport. like she'd just been waiting all that time for him to show up.

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rise up to meet me | dw

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 1:33:39 GMT

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The Sky Pillar offers itself as a place of solitude. A natural roost for the spectral, the draconid, the avian. Lam hasn’t had the opportunity to visit the ruin that rises straight into the sky like a gateway to all that wide open space. Not all that often. The rip in reality’s fabric ripples across the sky even further above the pillar.[break][break]
He’s used it to traverse the gap between here and there—the ruined, decrepit city on the other side. But today he doesn’t climb the spiraling stone steps for the sake of alien exploration. This visit is a collectively held breath being released. Respite from the region and its steadily unfolding turmoil.[break][break]
In his rucksack is a sketchbook. Soft pencils. Some birdseed. Draped around his neck, a set of binoculars.[break][break]
The natural aviary offers him the chance to return to a hobby that he’s sorely missed. Birding calms him, it has ever since he was small. It offers him the opportunity to disconnect and he be no more than a blurred part of the scenery.[break][break]
The wind picks up the higher he climbs, but he catches the sound of shutter clicks over the whistling as he reaches the topmost floor. It’s a nauseating height, but Lam has never minded it all too much. “Can’t say I was expecting to find anyone else up here,” he says to the figure off to the side—a way to announce his presence.[break][break]
No one except for the birds, of course.

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bird's eye view

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 1:28:50 GMT

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Ah, shoot. He’d been caught in the act.[break][break]
Not that Lam had really done all that much to disguise his napping, or the consequential rousing of his drowsy focus. The sticky note futtered away from his cheek and he snatched it from the air with a sheepish laugh. “uhh, yep. Really riveting paperwork to review, y’know?” Another wave of his hand, “But you’re not interrupting.”[break][break]
Clearly.[break][break]
For a moment, Lam observed them, a curious tilt of his head as he woke up properly and they seemed to cycle through a variety of emotions. Eventually, they apparently landed on what looked like dread and alarm when what he’d said dawned on them. That Adone was not, in fact, still present. “Yeah,” Lam confirmed simply, shoulders lifting in a shrug. “With Cherry. My chatot, who is no longer with my pidove.” He pointed at the chatot-less roost in the corner.[break][break]
Whatever unease he’d felt at the prospet of two MIA chatot running amok paled in comparison to Adele’s immediate panic. “We’ll find them,” Lam insisted, head bobbing as he turned to slide his abandoned documents back into their folder. But Adele was already booking it out the door. “Hey! Wait—“ he scrambled to catch up.[break][break]
Papers wedged under his arm, Lam jogged to catch up. Poppy fluttered after him, intent on landing on his shoulder. “Slow down, take a breath.” He gave them a smile, the most reassuring one he could manage. “We’ll find them,” he repeated. “They couldn’t have gone too far.”[break][break]
…so long as there were no open doors or windows for them to find. Okay, he’d keep that particular thought to himself.

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DREAM BOY [past] [m]

POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 0:10:51 GMT

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Lam frowned, squinting at him. “Are you really..? Somehow I doubt that.” Or, well, maybe he was. He probably needed an eye for it in order to steal the good stuff in the first place– wait, no. Why was he trying to find a way to explain away this guy’s obviously criminal occupation? Was he that desperate to have someone actually look at his work and tell him he was good? (Someone who wasn’t his dad, thanks.) Sadly…yeah, he sort of was. He craved that validation, and it was probably obvious.[break][break]
And because of that, he was being clowned on. He was turning himself into a total, walking meme for this guy, who was probably just waiting for the right moment to stroll away. And Lam was completely handing that opportunity over to him for a crumb of praise.[break][break]
Plus, maybe…he wasn’t sure. People didn’t really flirt with him often. As flustered as he’d grown, that was its own sort of nice attention too. As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Lam scolded himself for it. This wasn’t the sort of trouble he should’ve been asking for. “Well, yeah. Because–huh? No, I’m not implying anything!” he replied, much too fast as his face stubbornly retained warmth.[break][break]
His stomach twisted with nerves hearing the other mull over his name, like he was trying it on for size. Lam chewed on his lip, green eyes darting away. “I mean, it’s not that hard to spell. But people do think it’s Sam a lot.” He paused, “Okay, but you didn’t answer me. Who are you?” How had he already forgotten?[break][break]
Dumbly, he nodded. The guy would know his own pokemon best, after all. “Right, if you say so.” His fingers curled around the other guy’s and he hoisted him back up to his feet. Pretty boy, he felt like he was drowning in oppressive heat. He tried to look anywhere, but at his face. Those eyes. “Cool, sounds good.”[break][break]
They were standing close. Probably too close. Belatedly, Lam realized he was still holding onto his hand. He abruptly let go with a stammered sorry. But had he imagined the electric feeling? Like a bunch of sparks kicking off the contact. He must’ve been. Jerking his head, he swiveled toward his space.[break][break]
“My stuff’s back here.” Maybe he was the one trying to run away now.

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Kick Bird | Trade

POSTED ON Sept 30, 2024 16:03:56 GMT

EEEEEE confirming, thank YOU i've been looking for one of these

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Shiny Pheasant for Weather Yokai [Trade]

POSTED ON Sept 30, 2024 16:02:37 GMT

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“I guess when you put it that way..” Lam shrugged, “Just dunno why you’d be interested.” He regarded the other, sprawled on the floor, suddenly wary. “You’re not gonna try and steal it, are you?” Not that he thought it was really worth anything. It made Lam feel exposed, sharing something like this.[break][break]
“Sure you won’t..” His brow rose as he looked at the other skeptically. He certainly didn’t look like he was about to start blushing. “Seems like you enjoy causing it more than doing it yourself.” Still, Lam pulled him up, hesitating a beat too long before letting go of his hand.[break][break]
Lam’s own glance traveled to the mimikyu and the way her head hung limply to one side. “Is she okay?” Poppy had fluttered down from her perch, settling herself in the nest of Lam’s hair instead. Beady amber eyes narrowed at Rook.[break][break]
He blinked as the question was turned back on him. “…Lam? Wait-“ Once again, he’d answered automatically without thought behind it. What was it about this guy that made him so…dumb?? Charming smile and good looks aside.[break][break]
He sighed.[break][break]
“Look—I won’t call the cops on you, if you’re not lying. I don’t really want to deal with all the shit that comes with it. Not tonight.” It was late, and the procedure was tedious. Nevermind that he didn’t want to have to tell his boss what had happened. “Deal?”

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straight into your arms [m]

POSTED ON Sept 20, 2024 17:39:59 GMT

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“Me too.”[break][break]
No matter how much he wished to help, or how noble the cause was, he wasn’t wholly selfless. Even if Rook didn’t see it. “I will, I promise.” He held his pinky up for emphasis. Childish, but sincere. “I know it doesn’t really seem like it sometimes, but I don’t really like going off to do battle, y’know. There are people who look at the gym circuit like this means of preparing civilians for battle, or giving them the tools to fight. But I don’t really agree with that, it’s not the same at all.”[break][break]
He preferred the education and mentorship entailed. He liked the simplicity of his life, and the clear line between work and home. But there was something about this region that always tried to blur it. But like Rook had said, that was probably a bit by design.[break][break]
He knew he didn’t make much sense, no matter how much he tried to explain it. He could tell by the way Rook looked back at him, not wholly comprehending. There was a slight gap there, but it didn’t mean there had to be. Lam shook his head. “I sound like I’m talking nonsense, I know. But I’ll show you—tomorrow, when we visit the gym.” he threaded his own fingers through Rook’s hair. “They should meet you anyway.”[break][break]
Despite the familiarity and comfort that had been long established between them, Lam still flushed slightly at the words spoken. “Aw, c’mon..” he shied from the praise, ignoring the fact that he’d chided Rook for doing the same mere minutes ago. “They just haven’t met you yet. You’re the safe place.”[break][break]
And Lam meant that. Rook was secure and warm in a way that Lam didn’t experience elsewhere. There was a reason Rook was a natural in taking in stray pokemon.[break][break]
He nodded, “I know you are. I don’t think you realize how much that means, really.” His eyes had squinted closed against the soap that threatened to seep in, but the cracked open to peer at his partner again. “I would’ve lost my head by now, if it weren’t for you.” He’d talked to Robin about the importance of having something or someone that anchored you down in reality.[break][break]
A reminder that there was something beyond the immediacy of all the fighting. If Rook hadn’t made it clear how important it was to weigh the risks, Lam was fairly certain he would’ve caved to that irrational sense of obligation by now, and he wasn’t sure where he’d be.[break][break]
“For right now, though, I kinda just wanna worry about tonight. And the gym tomorrow.”

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