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sail away [dw]

POSTED ON Dec 20, 2022 21:24:54 GMT

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“Awww, it must be in there somewhere,” he says with a bubble of laughter. The bonsly is, like, super adorable, but a bubbling sound is quick to distract him.[break][break]

A large, blue monster of a fish rises up out of a pond. It really doesn’t look like much more of a puddle, but it must go deeper down than he assumes. “Woah! What is that?” Wren scoots closer, eyes wide. “Tag team it!” His politoed shuffles forward, the spiral on its belly twisting to put the dondozo into a HYPNOTIC slumber as Jupiter smacks it with another AURORA BEAM before Wren chances throwing out a pokeball.[break][break]

“Sorry!” Wren chirps as he turns back toward his newfound companion, “that was a little distracting!” He’s more than a little flighty, unfortunately. “I’m just exploring, really! I’m a ranger in the area, so I’m trying to get a little more familiar with it all.[break][break]

He gives Jupiter a pat on the head as he returns to Wren’s side. “How ‘bout you?”

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solar power [m]

POSTED ON Dec 20, 2022 21:17:15 GMT

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Winston only stare up at Ollie with a blithe expression.[break][break]

“Yeah! What comes first?” Wren sure doesn’t know! But he’s pretty much excited to do just about anything expected of him. “A battle sounds fun! I never did the whole challenge thing, mostly just fooling around with friends, and helping my dad with farm stuff, but if it’ll help!”[break][break]

Was it an unfair advantage to do 2v1? Well, if Ollie offered…Wren was definitely less experienced so he opts for the learning curve, though both don’t go on the offensive. Hey! He does have a little familiarity with battle tactic![break][break]

More excited than he is daunted by the prospect of battling (and possibly, probably losing,) to a ranger captain, Wren claps his hands together. “Alright! You guys ready?” On cue, Winston waddles forward first, innocuous as he looks about as if he doesn’t know where he’s doing or what he’s doing.[break][break]

Only to turn at the last moment lappy hands falling away from his head and barrelling forward in Tofu’s direction with a charged ZEN HEADBUTT. “Back him up, Juno!” So the eevee, meanwhile, circles around, yipping and cajoling to add energy to the scene, a HELPING HAND giving the psyduck an extra motivational boost.

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I found you [p][s]

POSTED ON Dec 20, 2022 21:15:52 GMT

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[attr="class","star2"]Wren huffed determinedly. “Yeah way! I think it’d be a good show,” his cheeks puffed in his vigor, just slightly, brows pinched together. In all truth, his opponent would only proceed to wipe the floor with him, but this was his heroic daydream, dagnabit! “Juno snuck out of her ball again..” he relented afterward, grumbly over the fact that he hadn’t actually done anything to warrant the detention.[break][break]

“Oh.” Wren’s face flushed pink as his eyes widened. “Really, they do?” Did that mean, uh…no there wasn’t a hidden meaning behind the tease. No way. Levy was just messing with him. Besides, despite the new detention slip stuffed in his pocket, Wren was probably the furthest thing from an actual bad boy and therefore should be excluded from the insinuation. Levy probably liked actual bad boys. Not wannabes and pipsqueaks like him.[break][break]

It made his tummy turn over uncomfortably to think about, so he shut the thought train down with squealing brakes.[break][break]

Unconsciously, though, his hand squeezed Levy’s tighter at the same time. Instinctively possessive of what he knew he couldn’t have. But it was fine, it was cool. All good, peachy keen. “Do you cut class a lot?” he asked as Levy mapped out a plan of escape for them, Juno chasing after the two of them. Not that Wren really minded whether the other did or not. It was actually kinda thrilling to break the rules for once.[break][break]

“Wow!” he said breathlessly once Levy wove them through the halls and out the back door. Through the narrow alleys between buildings, hidden away from janitorial staff and any wandering teachers who weren’t in class at the moment. Soon enough, they were truants standing on the sidewalk down the street. “You’re like, a total pro!”

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growth [m]

POSTED ON Dec 20, 2022 21:14:26 GMT

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“That’s pretty cool, though!” Wren replied, enthusiasm heavy in his voice. “Variety can be nice– keeps you on your toes!” Maybe it was boring, only doing standard challenges for each and every gym? The opportunity to tailor to a variety of different formats and styles seemed smart. Kept one prepared for any challenges they might face outside of the battle court.[break][break]

Wren’s nose wrinkled as he laughed. “I’ll have to find an engineer to ask, then!” Heck, he didn’t know any engineers, but there must’ve been someone who might be able to give an answer to the oddball question. He brightened at the idea as the conversation turned back toward future missions. “Sounds good, though! I look forward to it!”[break][break]

The dragonair’s EXTREME SPEED could be a nice little kept secret for now.[break][break]

“You good, Clyde?” he asked the flareon as Kamuy edged closer by mistake. The flareon only faltered slightly, falling back somewhat to compensate for the close call before regaining his stride. “No worries! Happens to the best of us!” Wren called back, grin still wide across his face. “I probably would have collided with you entirely!” A quick glance over his shoulder revealed Juno still running along with the group, but beginning to lag.[break][break]

He whistled to her in encouragement and that perked her up, but it was clear the smaller eevee was starting to get tuckered out. “Good thing we’re nearly to the city limits! I think Juno’s had the run of her life up to this point!” he remarked with a laugh.

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locus deliciti [m]

POSTED ON Dec 20, 2022 21:12:02 GMT

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Coming back to Littleroot is honestly the last thing Wren would like to do. But he has questions that can’t be answered. Or, they could be, if Levy Alinsky would text or call him back. There’s a deep seeded fear in his belly that it’s because his friend is still down there. Wren found his pokemon partner wandering through the chaos that day, when elijah gardner carried him out on his gogoat.[break][break]

But there’s been no sign or word from the other boy. Only the dirty owl mask that he’s almost certain Levy had been wearing that day, if it really was him. It’s held in shaky hands as his gaze drifts over the edge, down into the darkness.[break][break]

(Wren still doesn’t want to admit, even now.)[break][break]

“Oh!” Wren whirls around, eyes going round with a look as if he’s been caught doing something he shouldn’t. And really, that’s not even the case. The area isn’t restricted or anything.[break][break]

But maybe he shouldn’t be out here given the cast and boot his foot is done up in. It’s bulky and clumsy, and really, he’s enough of a klutz that he could fall right in if he steps wrong. In his surprise, the owl mask falls right through his fingers to the ground again.[break][break]

The face he finds is a familiar one, though. “Hi! Elijah, right? Fancy seeing you here..” A nervous giggle stutters up from his throat, further adding to the ‘caught red handed’ effect. “Ummm…I’m not..I don’t know. I don’t think so.” He doesn’t know how to answer the question. The trainerless salandit sitting by his foot looks droopy and forlorn.[break][break]

If Sal can’t sense Levy Alinsky , then that probably means that, no, Wren hasn’t found what he’s looking for.[break][break]

“Do you live here?” His face reddens, “In Littleroot, I mean. Not the sinkhole..obviously.” He’s always been a nervous babbler.

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hellebore [dw]

POSTED ON Dec 18, 2022 4:46:51 GMT

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Wren nods because there’s really nothing else to say. Despite his habit of nervous babbling, he finds himself reticent on the subject in the presence of this newcomer.[break][break]

A cubchoo waddles closer out of curiosity. Wren’s own intrigue is piqued as he stares down at it from his perch. It’s almost a comedic sight—looking at how tiny the bear looks next to the other man’s massive, ruby gyarados.[break][break]

He makes no moves, though, and instead focuses on the question.[break][break]

“Yep, that’s me.” Not even just a rookie or cadet now, but a fully-fledged ranger. Crazy, really. “I was curious about all of this.” His arm sweeps out toward the icy expanse.

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THEO BECKETT | ice/steel | skipping!

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UNEARTHING MYSTERY: ATLANTEAN ARTIFACTS

POSTED ON Dec 18, 2022 4:33:34 GMT

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Pain lances up his leg as a carvanah latches onto his shin and bites down through his suit. Despite the muddied water that obscured the area, he can see the bloom up around his shin, and more to the side where Kieran Roth floats with him. A garbled soon comes from his vaporeon, his tail lashing to dislodge the ravenous fish that swarm around them. Still, they need to push through. If they can just get a pause, they can recharge and maybe quell the steady flow from multiple bleeding wounds.[break][break]

ollie morales ’s voice cuts through the din, crackling through the comms. “Yep! All good, just a little bite— we’ll do that.” He looks over to Kieran, “Teamwork, yeah?” A distortion ripples overhead, and bigger fish rocket out. As Kieran doubles down on countering an approaching sharpedo, Wren makes a snap decision. “Keep focusing on the sharpedo, I’ll focus on us!” [break][break]

Jupiter drifts back to his side and the command comes through another wince as pain continues to sting from the deep bite on his leg. “Put up an AQUA RING around all of us, let’s try to get all this blood cleared up.” Eager to heal his own wounds, the aquatic ring ripples out around the four of them, if anything just to stop the flow of blood that draws the more carnivorous Pokémon to their location.
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can you feel my heart [m]

POSTED ON Dec 17, 2022 0:00:33 GMT

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[attr="class","star2"] Golden eyes cut to Levy’s sharply as the protest began to form on the other boy’s tongue. Slowly his head shook side to side. Once, twice. Nope. Wren was not going to hear any potential for why he should hate the person that he, well…[break][break]

“Thank you,” he said quietly as Levy finally relented. Grumpily so or not, it meant that Wren didn’t have to round and round debating it with him. At least not right now. Wren was too tired to fight and argue by that point. It was an activity that tired him out more easily than other things—the sort of emotional duress he wasn’t well equipped to handle. He already had to navigate the lingering mortification of his earlier kiss while acting like he didn’t want to cry about that, so combatting more protests was a bit too much all at once.[break][break]

Wren’s face blanched at the sight of the extensive bruising across Levy’s shoulder. It was enough to distract Wren from the fact that the other was now shirtless. Well, mostly anyway. “Levy…you should’ve probably stayed..” Even as he said so, Wren knew that Levy wouldn’t have. And he wasn’t going to push the subject too hard. They’d make due with what they could and what the other would allow.[break][break]

“okay, um…” Wren fumbled through everything until his fingers curled around the icy pack he’d grabbed. They had tons of these on hand, given how active his household had always been collectively. Sprains and sore spots were a common thing. Wren smacked at it until it activated the contents and it began to cool rapidly in his hands. First he handed the other a packet of pain reliever, then looked up again.[break][break]

“I’m going to lay this on your shoulder now, okay? I’m sorry if it hurts..” he warned quietly before leaning forward into Levy’s space to do so, gently settling the pack on the curve of his shoulder.

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can you feel my heart [m]

POSTED ON Dec 16, 2022 19:30:10 GMT

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[attr="class","star2"] He still felt dumb for his impulsive decisions. Kissing Levy had probably been the last thing that the other needed to calm down, and Wren had still acted selfishly. Levy probably felt so awkward now. Maybe Wren couldn’t blame him for wanting to leave when he’d made things so weird between them with one tiny action.[break][break]

Usually, he didn’t care to regret things. But Wren regretted this a little. Not because he didn’t want to do it—he definitely knew what he wanted. But it was obvious that wasn’t something shared, so it would’ve been better if he’d never done so at all. He wanted to melt into the floor, and not confront the other in his room again.[break][break]

But that wasn’t how life worked.[break][break]

Once he managed to sit, Wren puffed out a sigh of relief over being off of his foot again. “Hey,” he poked, reaching over to swat Levy’s knee. “Stop trying to convince me, okay? I’m not going to, and that’s that.” There was still a frustrated twist to his words, but they had softened considerably from his outburst in the hall. He didn’t like being mad or frustrated with Levy. It felt like it ran contrary to the dumb, soft emotions that normally settled in him whenever they were together.[break][break]

Wren watched him, towel full of first aid held limply in his hands before it sagged to the ground. “Where are you hurt?” He wasn’t usually any good at this stuff to a great extent, but he’d try for Levy. He watched salandit scuttle away, probably looking for Juno, who had been trailing them both at a distance.

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can you feel my heart [m]

POSTED ON Dec 13, 2022 20:15:51 GMT

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[attr="class","star2"] Wren didn’t mention the fact that he saw Levy’s mask slip when he fell. It felt like it would only add further insult to injury, though he’d had that gut feeling when they’d first fought. Juno’s own reaction hadn’t helped his suspicions either, of course. Even now, she kept a short distance from Levy. Not fully hostile, but still wary in a way she hadn’t been with Salandit. As if evaluating him to discern whether or not to forgive him just yet.[break][break]

“What? Of course what you want matters,” he answered simply as a small frown slipped over his face. “Stop talking nonsense.” Why wouldn’t it matter? Particularly when Wren had always cared about whether or not the other was happy or having his needs and wants met. Now, he felt he’d done an awful job of that, having discovered that Levy hadn’t been doing well without him there in Slateport.[break][break]

He felt selfish and raw in the center of his chest. He felt like a let down. How could he not tell that it had hurt his best friend? He had hurt his best friend.[break][break]

It only compounded the guilty feeling that arose when he shouted at Levy. Surely he could’ve made his point without doing so. But the threat of Levy turning around and walking out the door had felt pressing and imminent. And in the heat of the moment, Wren had reacted as immediately as he could muster to make Levy stop. It seemed to be effective, too. Because he silently pushed by and went to Wren’s room, leaving him alone in the hall.[break][break]

For a moment, Wren simply stared into the closet, trying to figure out what to do next. They couldn’t just act normal. Not with what was lingering between them now, and after what Wren had just done back in the woods. Unbidden, he felt his face heat aggressively, despite the hurt and the upset still bubbling in his system.[break][break]

Nothing to do but keep moving forward. It was all he could think to do. So he hopped down the hall on his crutches, awkwardly bundling the stuff he’d pulled into an old towel to keep it all from falling. For some reason, even though he’d made the demand, Wren didn’t think Levy would actually sit himself in the too-small beanbag. So when he pushed the door open, in spite of everything, a soft scoff of laughter slipped loose.[break][break]

Shaking his head, he dumped everything on his bedspread, and then leaned his crutches against the bed frame before lowering himself awkwardly to the floor in front of Levy. “Are you done acting like I somehow hate your guts, yet?” he asked, blunt but still soft. Tentative.

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petalburg city, hoenn

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hellebore [dw]

POSTED ON Dec 13, 2022 19:51:33 GMT

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“Oh, uhh…” he looks down at his foot with a frown. “I was at Littleroot.”[break][break]

Wren’s an awful liar. So it feels a bit pointless to do anything but skirt around the whole truth and hope that this stranger accepts the general answer.[break][break]

He definitely doesn’t need to know that he helped a Rocket and they broke his foot in turn.[break][break]

A strange MIST cast by an amaura filters around them, but his umbreon cuts through it in a dark blur, barreling into the other pokemon in a QUICK ATTACK.[break][break]

“Happened on the job, y’know?”[break][break]

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THEO BECKETT | ice/steel | catching amaura!

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processed shop

POSTED ON Dec 12, 2022 1:34:54 GMT

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ARBOLIVA SWARM (ILLUMINARY LUMINARIES)

POSTED ON Dec 12, 2022 1:27:05 GMT

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The last thing Wren really wants to be doing at the present moment is traveling all the way out to Fortree, dragged by his younger sibling, to procure a christmas tree for decorating. Not because he lacks holiday enthusiasm (well, his anxious mood as of late has put a bit of a damper on things, sure,) but more because traveling further than what is immediately closer to Petalburg is a bit taxing on his very slowly healing ankle.[break][break]

They seem to know he needs to get out of the house, though, and so away the two of them go. Of course, he loses them immediately, as he hops through the rows of conifers, unable to keep a quick pace. Couldn’t they have just decorated wreaths, or something? But the more he wanders, the more movement he notices. And the strange Pokémon weaving through the actual trees prove not to be trees at all. He considers having Juno attempt to herd one, but instead simply tosses a ball at the nearest— for curiosity’s sake.[break][break]

If anything, it’ll be something to show his sibling and say they missed out on it, because they were too busy running off on their own.
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POSTED ON Dec 11, 2022 4:18:33 GMT

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“Gotcha!” Wren waves a hand dismissively, watching the way the stranger takes on the avalugg as well.[break][break]

A forretress drifts over, confused by the commotion. If he’d had Jupiter along with him, Wren would have sent the vaporeon forward with a blast of AURORA BEAM, bright like the aurora borealis itself.[break][break]

Instead, Stella sends it spinning away with the pitched, aural energy of a DARK PULSE, instead.[break][break]

Wren glances back up at the man, who has now lowered down some. “Yep! I was..” his brows furrow as he looks down at the big boot on his foot, “tired of sitting at home.”[break][break]

Probably a little risky, exploring a newish area like this, but some of his caution is faded as of late.

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THEO BECKETT | ice/steel | skipping!

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