Michael Navidson

“Wait, are you telling me this isn’t your first time?!”

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CANON AC TEMPLATE

AUGUST 2023 CANON ACTIVITY CHECK

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• player/ooc name: ven
• character tags: Laurence Anderson (Alexei Ivanov will be listed in a separate post)

4 ic posts for canon characters:

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• fluctuate (august 3)
• never grow up (august 9)
• AAPT 4 (august 16)
• regroup (august 23)

summarize 2 plots that are in-progress and being threaded:

• 1. RESCUE, DISILLUSIONMENT & POTENTIAL FALLOUT [break]
  Now that cousin Elinor Anderson dearest is back safe from the hands of Rocket’s clutches, he’s started to notice changes happening to her—back then, there was this optimistic flame that burned so bright in her gaze. Right now, though?[break][break]
  
  After what she’d been subject to and him finding out what exactly happened to her while she was in Rocket’s clutches at the cost of freedom he’s come to realize something ugly as well: despite having several high-profile targets captured by Team Rocket, the League in general had not mounted a rescue effort; in fact the rescue effort that broke her out was done thanks to Callan Young, Thomas Benoit, John Sullivan, Michael Navidson’s efforts along with his own.[break][break]
  
  Why would the League abandon people to Rocket? Especially if they were in a position of power?[break][break]
  
  His conversation with Navy in regroup makes him mull over just how and why the League chooses to operate the way they do.[break][break]
  
  (It’s also giving him second thoughts about remaining in the position he has, however if he would leave then that would put the rest of the Rangers at the mercy of the proverbial Lycanroc.)

• 2. (RANGER) WORK-RELATED BUSINESS[break]
  Right now, he’s overseeing Shalin Nariya’s training for her to ascend to the position of Ranger Captain of Rustboro after observing her handle the situation that broke out in Petalburg Woods thanks to Elisabeth Fiorelli’s indirect involvement with withering the land and poisoning it (as shown in ruinous recovery) therefore making the place ‘uninhabitable’ in a way; because what else does a Ranger do but solve nature-related problems?[break][break]
  
  (Now since the problem is potentially avatar-related that’s going to get real crazy moving forward.)[break][break]
  
  Between the three Heads (himself, ollie morales and Razz Kingsman) setting out a series of challenges for Shalin to overcome (we talked about this through Discord), it is through completing these challenges, and observing how she handles herself, that would determine their decision in allowing her to take the reins of being Rustboro’s Ranger Captain down the road (this is due to proximity to Petalburg Woods where Shalin’s ‘base of operations’ is located).[break][break]
  
  Among other things, he’s also taking part in the Extraction series, which involves the League-aligned characters finding resources in the Ultra Deep Sea (but not without disastrous mental-related consequences): josh, shalin, ollie, elinor, with more on the way.[break][break]
  
  He also made it a point to bring up (albeit indirectly) what’s going in in the Ultra Deep Sea during AAPT4; however with the way the energies affect those mining in the Ultra Deep Sea, would it be too late for everyone to back out before they get in way over their heads?
  

• 3. THE COMPLETIONIST (GYM CHALLENGES) [break]
  As he’d mentioned to noah faber during his battle for the Knockout Badge, the main reason Lars is still at this (despite being Head Ranger) is due to the fact that he wants to continue testing himself.[break][break]
  
  While taking the champion Assessment is not in the cards (for now), the disastrous results of Lars’s challenge for Josh Devlin’s Quick Badge shows that there is something definitely wrong between him and his patron deity (tying in to his not-so-little personal problem).[break][break]
  
  On the flip side of things, with the newly-opened Tagteam Badge’s gym headed by lam logan, him and Elinor Anderson are coming and ready to bring the house down![break][break]
  
  At the same time, though, he would notice that unlike before when cousin dearest would readily fling herself at the nearest Gym to get a badge, something is definitely amiss with her.[break][break]
  
  (This, by the way, is related to what she’s going through after being rescued.)[break][break]
  
  The other gyms are also on his to-go list: Hideo Kino’s and Michael Navidson’s, however those would be done at a later date (as I already have a character taking both of their respective Gym challenges.)
  

if an avatar, summarize how you've utilized[break]the legendary/avatarship for collaborative narrative:

• LARS & ARTICUNO[break]
  The Copperajah is still in the room, however with AAPT4 currently going on and Lars himself revealing to everyone assembled that there is something wrong with his connection with the Iceborne Mirage, things are about to come to a head.[break][break]
  
  Never mind if he’s tried negotiation (with ollie morales in another try) and brute-forcing his way through (see previous attempt with Elinor Anderson), he’s going to be the region’s most stubborn idiota and still try to force his way through.[break][break]
  
  He’s also gone to the Border with Aaron Toral and Audric Black in an attempt to find answers by searching for the so-called spirit of ‘Moltres’ running around the place and hopefully engaging it in a fight. He needs answers, after all.[break][break]
  
  The moment he’d dropped the actual bomb by confirmation in AAPT4, an ugly realization developed—if the instance where their connection was severed involved getting into an extremely dire situation, wouldn’t that also be the answer to lure them out and have them return?[break][break]
  
  (As it is, at the end of Meteno, snarky here took a Glaciate to the face and almost died. What if the answer involves Lars himself almost getting killed?)

• any notes/comments: hilariously the last time the canon AC came around it was Alex I was worried for that didn’t have substantial content, however the see-saw is a really wacky place since now it’s Lars who’s on that end. The cycle continues between them (well, Alex was in GG but Lars was part of the ‘rescue bust out’ and he has some personal issues right now so there’s that too) however as Thanos once said, “all things are balanced as they should be”.

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