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CLODSIRE SWARM (BLIGHT & BANE)
POSTED ON Jun 6, 2023 21:37:45 GMT
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Somewhere, out there…

(In another universe, things would’ve been different.)

“Are you… a frog of some sort?” he blinked, watching the cute… wait, they looked like Quagsire but were they actually—no wait, they were regional variants!

Although…

“But I’m here, and I’m on a mission to make someone else happy!

…never mind if the rank stench of noxious fumes in the air almost made him hurl. Whoops.



Making sure to stay a safe distance away from the mass of friend-shaped poison, he then lobbed a Pokéball at random and hoped for the best.

(Because this wasn’t for him. It was for the Frog…)

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GOODBYE GALAR: RUSTED SWORD
POSTED ON Jun 6, 2023 21:26:19 GMT
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“Are you—Tat!” he exclaimed. Boy, doing that all at once and spreading himself too thin was a nightmare. Now, he knew that everyone was going to be lasering in on whatever else they were doing, so he sighed…

“Sorry, Tat… I let you down.”

Regretfully, he recalled the Gardevoir. But that was the only respite he was about to be granted, because the sounds of something large-ish crashing against the barricades near the city limits drew his attention.

(Thankfully he didn’t notice the gigantic Charizard because the crashing noise was getting louder.)

Having swapped to his shiny Braviary to take the short cut to where the barricades were holding—for the moment—he realized that whatever this thing was attacking the defenses also brought backup.



“…right,” he continued as he leaped down for a landing, switching out and recalling the Braviary (whose sole purpose was to ferry him towards the gates as fast as possible) before realizing that…

Heroic deeds, right?

He had just the thing… however there was going to be a bit of a problem. Shame he couldn’t ride on the cranky one’s back yet… so this would temporarily have to do for now. For the moment.

Reaching into a hidden pocket, he produced one of the four remaining feathers and began spinning it in his hands, before deciding to go all-out against the incoming horde of poisoned Galarian Pokémon that were following the big… kicking thing. It… looked like a landbound bird of some sort?

“Never thought I’d see the day that a bird was stuck on the ground, but here we are,” he laughed with a bit of a crass edge in his voice as he then pointed the purple tip of the feather towards the incoming blitzing… thing… that looked ready to ram the blockade down should it not hold.

In addition, he’d made sure to click a certain Cherish Ball open as discreetly as possible, and lo and behold guess who made their appearance from the beam of red light—the Wandering Stormbringer himself, one of the Djinni Four Three from home—

Tornadus.

Turning to face the miniature weather ‘deity’, he wondered if the other could understand him… he rather liked to guess that the other could, but then again…

“Time to put that thing to test—no, not the extremely powerful one, the other one! You know…” he trailed off while wringing his other hand as he braced for whatever impact…

Raising his arms high, the beast on the weather cloud then brought forth a chilling Bleakwind Storm towards the incoming kicking bird… and whatever horde was following them from behind!

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• Hammerlocke(d) and loaded, time to fight the horde!
whoops, maybe try not to do everything yourself next time Alex?!
• Gardevoir recalled, swapped for Braviary to transport towards the gates where the giant kicking avian is and recalled Braviary upon arrival at the Black Gates
• pulled out one feather and pointed it towards the incoming horde of poisoned Pokémon and their equally-crazy leader
• also discreetly summoned Tornadus, who then used Bleakwind Storm in an attempt to stop the incoming hordes!
• feather usage this round: one
• Salac usage this round: one (I ain’t keeping that abysmal four roll!)

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HOENN HIGH: THE HIGH SCHOOL AU
POSTED ON Jun 5, 2023 21:52:00 GMT
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WELCOME TO HOENN HIGH!


PLEASE FILL OUT THE SENIOR YEARBOOK QUESTIONS BELOW!


(Answer as many or as little as you like, and feel free to add your own!)[break][break]

Show us your yearbook photo! (High School FC)

(still the same! See when you have Hetalia as your source material, there will be fan art of them at different age points. So yes Alex is still Russia a.k.a. Ivan Braginsky, just a lot younger than what y’alls are used to)

Which high school trope were you? (The jock, the prep, the goth, etc)
the transfer student (Unova), the sick one (iykyk), the ‘ghost’, closeted and HELLA scared on coming out

What was your GPA?
2.7, pretty bad cuz I missed a lot of lessons and had to do a LOT of make-up work

What was your favorite class?
literature. history being a very close second.

What was your LEAST favorite class?
math. who liked this shit?!

Did you ever get detention? Why or why not?
kinda hard to get detention if you’re in the clinic half the time (or homeschooled)

What clubs/sports teams were you on?
the birdwatching one, if there was one!

Who did you sit with at the cafeteria?
“I sat alone. Mostly. I did sit a lot with before I was homeschooled, poor kid was just as confused and gay as I was and needed a momma hen to mind him.”

Who was your high school bestie/s?
@mattis #nohomo but it was also #allthehomo and then there was this kid too. If you wanna talk BIRDS, then , and (all the avian-adjacent people). And then booooooy the arguments we get into about UNOVAN FOOTBALL I SWEAR TO THE DJINNI. Oh and we never forget miss , such a nice young lady, which also led into close proximity with another fellow transfer student (a Galarian one this time), .

Who was your NEMESIS?
, come at me клубничный котенок!

Who was your High School Crush?
okay it was at first. AT FIRST! after that it was . after that though. yeah… life happened and I kind of vanished from school.

What did you do for prom?
“I never got the chance to go to prom since by then I was already homeschooled; and was in and out of the hospital.”

What was your Senior Superlative? ('Most Likely to…?')
most likely to fly. No that is not a joke.

What rumors about you would you like to set straight?
“I didn’t die. I was homeschooled after sophomore year. If you know me, you’d know why that happened, when I ‘disappeared’ from school.”

Any final thoughts for the yearbook?
what would HE say?!

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POSTED ON Jun 1, 2023 6:27:21 GMT
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REDEEMING


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20 PD + 2 Rainbow Shards (May Contest Awards | Cool & Tough Contest winner)

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GOODBYE GALAR: RUSTED SWORD
POSTED ON May 31, 2023 21:49:56 GMT
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The moment they were taken to their respective destinations, there was… one thing on his mind: trying to get out of Hammerlocke to head over to Spikemuth—which, if his memory was thinking right—was rather close by.

Now the problem was that… there was so much going on with the… with the people(?), and then there were the piles of goo. Which… weren’t really actually goo, but actual sludge monsters!

“What the hell?!” he exclaimed the moment he saw a ‘hand’ of some sort rising out of the noxious-looking goo. “That’s… what a mess.”

He was debating on whether or not to use one of those, but decided against it and would save them for much later.

In the meantime, though?

It was clobberin’ goo-exterminating time.

Swapping Pokémon companions to his Gardevoir, Tatiana, he knew he had his work cut out in front of him—just how much of these puddles were around the place? Judging by the size of the city… this was going to take a while.

“Tat, let… let’s get to work.”

The dual-type gave him a look that literally screamed ‘dismay’, but sighed—and began setting off to work, making their way downtown, walking fast, faces flash and I’m homebound through the city and getting rid of as much of the puddles of goo where the poison ‘hands’ would emerge with the Gardevoir’s Psychic.

It would take them some time to get back to where they came from, however he hoped that what he’d done would be enough—considering that was a lot of goo they had to get rid of with a good Psychic scrubbing here and there.

But was it going to be enough?

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• Hammerlocke, here we are. Looks like trying to go to Spikemuth would be a bad idea…
• ‘what the hell are THOSE things?!’ (sees poison ‘hands’ coming out of the goo piles)
• Alex.exe gets to work, swaps Lucario for Gardevoir
• the two then spend their entire day going around Hammerlocke, getting rid of the poison hands with Psychic

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GOODBYE GALAR: RUSTED SWORD
POSTED ON May 24, 2023 21:31:39 GMT
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The moment Vincent growled a warning, he realized that they weren’t alone—the approach of something riding a ‘valiant steed’ made his blood run cold the moment his own incessant, prickly feeling about the ‘g-dar’ suddenly went to all fucking hell.

See, if there’s one other thing Alexei’s good at—it’s easily discerning ghosties. And that thing the bulb-headed rider was on? Definitely reeked of ghostly vibes. Ugh. Was that why all the hairs on his arms and the back of his neck were prickling like crazy?!

“F-f-f-f-fuck,” he hissed, biting down on his tongue and trying not to scream because that was a fucking ghost horse the other… was it a Pokémon? was riding on!

Even if he did fancy himself as a collector of lore, a vast majority of what he kept track of was (hilariously) ironically from the region that he left twelve years ago, now…

Either way… the Lucario was still growling a warning, arms ready and poised to throw out some kind of attack when he made a shushing gesture in the dual-type’s direction.

He wondered what his boyfriend would think of this… this entire thing had he been here. But alas… he was here for the both of them—and possibly the entirety of Fortree at this point.

He would risk a question, then.

“Why were all the other… all the other places laid to waste, was there something hidden in those locations?”

Maybe… just maybe, if he could get to the place closest to Spikemuth he would have to check on something—but barring that, he would prefer to be sent to Hammerlocke—when things came down to the wire.

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holy shit is that a G H O S T horse?!
• r.i.p. Alex’s ghost-dar it’s not gonna shut up anytime soon (Spectrier is setting off the HEEBIE JEEBIES okay?!)
• takes a risk and asked a question
• choosing Hammerlocke—as this js the closest location to Spikemuth (look Birddad has another reason why he wants to check out Spikemuth but in order to get there, he has to get somewhere close to the location? Maybe?)

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GOODBYE GALAR: RUSTED SWORD
POSTED ON May 21, 2023 21:50:02 GMT
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The good thing about this situation was that he was airborne, and was mostly out of harm’s way with what chaos was happening on the ground.

Unfortunately, though?

The reverberation that rippled through the entire space where they all were—was nothing short of pure, abject terror. While they remained airborne for the moment, the longer the strange noise rang out, the more…

(Unfortunately, he’s unable to put this into words; and much as he wants to scream, it hurts it hurts the sound is driving him crazy and the snide laughter’s picking up again—)

The loud scream of the Braviary momentarily shatters him from his little spiral, and to his surprise they’re being pulled towards the ground—he attempts to make a hasty dismount before they both crash into the muck—

And then, nothingness.

Again.



Good news: he’s already been to Galar, exactly once before. He’s sure that he told the story about his one visit here to , because it involved William the Wooloo.

The bad news was that he’d only managed to reach the glowing shroomy place (Ballonlea) because he was accompanying that time and—

“Where—are we?” he coughed, spitting out dirt as he looked around. This place was… definitely unfamiliar. As his brain finally kicked into gear, he realized—

“Remy!” he shouted as he pulled himself up and off the ground. Never mind that he didn’t do the precursory checking if he was injured or what, the good thing about this was that he’d somehow managed to recall his Braviary in time before they both became pancakes.

“Where… what is this—place?” he asked the other man, pretty sure that the Galarian was familiar with this place.

And just for reassurance, he summoned his Lucario, Vincent, who immediately stood beside him and then threw out his ‘aura’ trying to pick up any strange, unknown—or even dangerous presence/s nearby.

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Birddad™ has a little internal breakdown because of that ringing noise
• upon being pulled towards the ground, he attempted a hasty dismount and recalled his Braviary
• the next thing he knows he’s somewhere. Somewhere in the homeland of his boyfriend with zero clue
• (look he’s only been to Ballonlea and this is definitely not it)
• immediately gets up and makes a beeline towards wherever had landed (or fallen) and asks where tf they are
• summons his Lucario who immediately tries casting out and picking on any unfamiliar / dangerous presences nearby

@tags up above but mostly Remiel!

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homing pigeon [gym]
POSTED ON May 15, 2023 22:03:40 GMT
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What Lam didn’t know (or maybe he did?) was that his Yanma had a particular ability, which only made the little dual-type get faster with each turn—while it wasn’t as obvious now, wait until several turns had passed then it would be utter hell trying to hit the Yanma with an attack due to how ridiculously quickly the thing was flitting around!

The little one had half a second warning as the crackling in the air quickly made him get out of range—before a loud rippling noise shook the area—it was a Bug Buzz attack!

Even the momentary cringe on Alexei’s face betrayed the fact that he wasn’t a fan of this attack—what with the way the noise reached particular levels of hearing and made his teeth chatter.

Unfortunately the Wingull didn’t know anything that was weather-relted, and so was battered off-course with the sudden force of the incoming attack from the Pidove—even then, wasn’t there something that correlated size to the power of the ramming attack that the other avian had done…?

Shaking off the surprise on his face, the Wingull let out a singular loud squawking noise, before ramming back at the Pidove in a blur of a Quick Attacking motion!



Yanma and Wingull are out on the field!

Yanma gets out of attacking range by dodging the Thunder attack before letting rip a Bug Buzzing noise; while Wingull took the full force of the Dragon Hammer attack! Undeterred, the seagull sasses back with a Quick Attack!



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laying low [gym]
POSTED ON May 15, 2023 21:48:01 GMT
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By now the Xatu had been forced to land—however there was a break in the stream of flames. Instead of another expected burst of heat, the Masquerain looked around, wondering what the Xatu was up to.

He never saw what was coming next—only a barely discernible shimmer of the air gave away that there was a Psychic attack headed the Masquerain’s way.

The loud shrieking was the sign that there was something attacking, and just like a swatted bug, the small dual-type fell to the ground before a red beam of light recalled the passed-out Pokémon.

“I never thought you were going to switch moves from Heat Wave, you know,” he began as he picked his way across the arena, making sure not to step into any of the puddles caused by the surprise downpour earlier. “Surprised me you swapped at the last second,” he added with a short laugh.

As he continued to approach the other, he’d already reached into a pocket of his jacket, and already palmed something small and cold. Once he was close enough, he would gesture for Aaron to hold out his hand.

“Switching things up every now and then actually works, you know. What if other Gym Leaders who you challenge catch you with your ‘stick to one’ move and counter it with Disable, for example? What would you do, then? he asked the other quietly.

“That’s why it’s important to branch out into more moves, catch them off-guard when they least expect it.”

He then placed the small, cold metal object in the other man’s hand.



“Keep that in mind for your next Gym challenge, hm?”


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love's true form (gym)
POSTED ON May 15, 2023 20:36:45 GMT
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Now of course he didn’t mean to hit Nike that hard, however the way that the Frog had gone momentarily mid-air made his eyes widen out of concern—and alarm.

“What the—?!” he barely had time to exclaim before the other had managed to recover and—

Right then and there a wheezing laughter came from the ‘referee’ of the match, while Idun the Pidgeot could only look on with incredulous shock.

“Really, guys? Righ’ out ‘ere in fron’a me?!” he wheezed before looking away—geez, it was no open secret among everyone who worked at the Sanctuary that these two were doing things behind closed doors.

(There was a betting pot between everyone who worked at the Sanctuary and mysteriously, Claire almost always won every single time. Gee. Wonder why.)

“Wha—hey,” Alexei on the chuckled quietly as his Flygon let out a surprised squawk at the sudden weight that joined theirs, and of course he was facing his boyfriend and—

Well, obviously they kissed. Only briefly, though, because he then gave the challenger his partner a quick noogie before hissing, “Look, just… try for me, okay? I’ll give you something later after this.”

The extremely mischievous twinkle in his eyes meant that something had recently arrived there and things were going to happen, yes.

But only if he got back on Nike the Flygon and finished the challenge!



:kekw: lol

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GOODBYE GALAR: RUSTED SWORD
POSTED ON May 15, 2023 20:10:08 GMT
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He remembered the little spat argument disagreement that he’d had with his boyfriend , regarding getting involved with anything that had Galarian mentions in any way, shape, or form.

‘Then we should both stay away.’

‘You would. I… on my conscience I can’t. If I stayed away, wouldn't that give her more reason to oust me from here and leave Fortree to the proverbial Pyroar?’


He’d slipped away from Fortree as quietly as he could to join the insanity, leaving a small piece of paper on the kitchen table that had one singular word hastily scribbled on it in Cyrillic (with the matching translation underneath).
‘Извини.’
‘Sorry.’

Arriving at the scene on the back of Kyouya the Braviary, the very first thing he picked up from the air was the smell of proverbial fear. For him, that was many things… until lately.

Scattered mental images began to rise unbidden in his mind’s eye before he quickly slapped himself to reorient himself, a sharp reminder that blanking out amidst the insanity was a bad idea; and to stay alert.

For lack of better wording the place had already devolved into mass insanity, however he caught sight of a figure that had decided to book it straight towards the entrance of the ancient tomb—

Along the way, the blue-plumed Braviary then dropped an avalanche of boulders in the form of a Rock Slide to impede… whatever that thing was that was approaching the entrance (he had no idea, it just had a funny bowl on its body) while gritting his teeth.

He thought he could hear snide, ugly laughter rising in the back of his mind again, as he bit down on his tongue as another wave of potent, terrible fear rippled throughout the clearing—the shrieking of the Braviary tried to bring him back to his senses as they approached who’d boldly made the move of going towards the entrance of the tomb proper.

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insert lil’ flashback of Birdfrog actually having a small argument about getting involved in Galarian shite
• (un)fortunately, Birddad™ is going to get involved regardless
never one without the other, but he’s out here alone so yeah
• enter Alex stage aerial, on Kyouya the Braviary—hurtling full-tilt towards where Remiel is
• along the way, the Braviary drops a Rock Slide in an attempt to impede the funny bowl creature’s approach

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POSTED ON May 15, 2023 19:09:25 GMT
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PURCHASING & REDEEMING


welcome to the poké mart!


(kasib & egg move tutor are coming from his PC stash!)
1x kasib berry (00 PD) on Kyouya the Braviary to give him a seventh move slot!
1x egg move tutor (00 PD) to teach Kyouya the Braviary Roost!

1x passho berry (350 PD) to replace the harvested passho berry!
2x salac berry (50 * 2 = 100 PD) to replace the harvested salac berries!


HARVESTING & REPLANTING


be sure to visit the pretty petal flower shop near rustboro!


1x passho berry
2x salac berry


TOTAL


do come again!


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Gifting Crimmas Bird [Gift]
POSTED ON May 14, 2023 23:59:22 GMT
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Moroz gonna have some competition here XD

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SILPH CUP 2023 AT FORTREE GYM
POSTED ON May 14, 2023 23:45:41 GMT
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He wasn’t going to look at the screen. No, no, no, he had to resist the urge to look!

Instead, he clung onto the back of his mega-evolved Salamence for dear deer fucking life, the hairpin bends finally straightened out and left a literal straightaway to the very end of the—

“Gabe, I know we’re pushing it, but let’s give it all we got, okay? All of it!” he hissed as he looked up marginally and clung as much as his knuckles would allow—never mind if they were already turning white due to holding on for deer fucking life!

He had a feeling, though, it wasn’t going to be enough—and therefore hissed—

“Gabe… Rock Slide—propel yourself forward, use your weight to accelerate and gain speed!”

With each boulder that appeared in front of them, he felt the momentary stop as the mega-evolved Salamence used each as a spring board to propel them both forward with as much energy as they had left in them!

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Speed: B ↠ A
Endurance: C ↠ B
Reaction: B ↠ A

Mega Evolution turns: 3 of 3

m!Salamence used Rock Slide to propel them forward, leaping from boulder to boulder to gain momentum and charge forward!

(yes, he is using the lone speed BOOST he has!)


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GOODBYE GALAR SIGN-UPS
POSTED ON May 9, 2023 22:00:31 GMT
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GOODBYE GALAR SIGN-UPS


RAID: RUSTED SWORD



CHARACTER: [break]
PKMN TEAM (6 MAX): see below.[break]
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?: “honestly a loaded question if I ever encountered it. lately, though, the answers to that have changed… one of the things I absolutely would not want to come true is to wake up in a world without . that would be even worse than my own fear of bleeding to death.”

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The Shula Region
Hogwarts AU
RPG Unlimited
MR
The Enroi Region
N:FB
Vyrehaven
Celestial Guardians, AU Sailor Moon RP
EO GENESIS
Code and Crown: An advanced literate warriors cats RP, set in medieval times
Swords Clashing