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POSTED ON Oct 15, 2018 3:22:22 GMT

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DELIVERANCE [ KANTO | INV | FLASHBACK | TRIGGER ]

POSTED ON Oct 14, 2018 12:04:57 GMT

she listens with a strange expression, a smile that was too clinical and didn't cover the way her eyes narrowed when she watched him, curious and distant. examining him from all angles, elysia felt that no answer she could offer could be sufficient, so she waited in contemplative silence for several long heartbeats before responding, unmoving and statuesque.

"it sounds like you are giving it away again," elysia said with an eventual cautiousness, querying but not dismissive, an observation but not a judgment. how little his life must mean to him? or in the alternative, how much it meant for him to offer it to her with such speed and clarity that it seemed almost like an instinctive response?

she sits placidly at the end of the better almost careful, like approaching a wild animal. crosses her legs and folds her hands neatly. she'd gotten used to it; the brokenness of him. does he realise that the boy that went up is not the same who came down? surely he realises the metaphorical bits of the soul that got torn apart, shredded, gored. what about the physical? would he recognise himself in the mirror?

elysia holds his hand in her own because she's sympathetic, she thinks, skin like cold porcelain.

by no right could she have known, no calculation could tally matters of the heart; it was in the strike marks against his bones, invisible and woven into the very sinew.

words have power when they're spoken; the the act of communicating is enough to bind a contract, the vow of it heavy in the air.

"stay here for as long as you like," she said, and even then the generosity of the offer never did meet the clipped tone.

contradiction over contradiction.

FERNANDO SILPH

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diagram the light [mission]

POSTED ON Oct 14, 2018 12:04:29 GMT

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a thought is brought to its knees

like a mirror indiscernible
through the blossoms of gasoline

The city felt like an oppressive and claustrophobic box. She didn't trust the long indoor halls, sterile even in places she assumed were meant to be residential quarters. Something between hospital and college dorm, artificial lighting cast and unnatural sheen on the polished marble floors.

She smiled at his comment questioning his own helpfulness, a small quirk of the lips and a quick but confident shake of her head. "To be perfectly honest with you, I'm incredibly unqualified for this and only got the assignment because I happen to have Pokemon suitable for the job," she admitted. It was meant to be somewhat encouraging, but maybe while establishing their mutual borderline incompetency did bring them together on some level, it was also probably did little to assure either of them of the success of the mission.

Curious, Persephone wanted to ask where he was transferred to Mauville from, but decided to hold her tongue for now. As personable as he was, that was probably still too personal a question. "At least we'll go in together and have each other's backs. I take it you're the bravest member of the Mauville Police Department?" she said, grimacing slightly. In the time she had earlier, she did try to look up the specific case for details, but all that seemed to have been published is just that an Alolan trainer died under strange circumstances and no further substantial material was provided - only vague fearmongering about the ferocity of the attack.

Stepping through the front door to the lobby, Persephone turned to her partner again as they made their way to the lifts to the upper floors. "I assume you were never able to identify what actually caused the death? I hope you have a key, by the way." It's not that they couldn't break down the door regardless, but that would probably still be considered property damage in the eyes of any court, even if its done in the presence of a police officer.

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tbh i have no idea what mauville's meant to look like either but you did great lmao!

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DOMINANCE [flashback pre-raid]

POSTED ON Oct 14, 2018 6:32:06 GMT

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she's there for the sea salt in her blood, the wind on the eastern seaboard, for the buried places, for the secrets in the earth. she's there for her home, for hoenn.

persephone could never protect anyone; she isn't a shield, she's a sword.

looking at the emerging figures, she accepts that she'd die for any one of them. maybe she just wanted to die that night.

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I. DESERT RUINS RAID

POSTED ON Oct 14, 2018 5:26:06 GMT

on some level, incomprehensibly, persephone feels the titan's collapse as her own. a shattering of a legacy before her eyes that she couldn't prevent; that her pokemon took a part in.

she know the red glow emanating off its body like a searing burn, and contemplates accepting it, watching the rush of movement towards the exits with a disconnected borderline lack of interest, like her consciousness wasn't attached to the body.

maybe it was shock, maybe it was a death wish; it didn't matter.

she returns the relicanth to its capsule without looking at it, stumbles a few steps at the incessant pushing of her lucario before the motion sparks a burst of adrenaline that makes her run regardless.

"help me direct them towards the doors," she tells prosper, as the two of them grab an injured explorer off the floor and catch the attention of two others to marshal them towards the exit.

➺ returns relicanth
➺ looks around for people who are having difficulty
➺ perse and lucario help an injured explorer and catch the attention of two others to lead them to an exit? idk
➺ basically this @ the explorers
➺ wants to play hero and be the last one out

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persephone's gachapon

POSTED ON Oct 13, 2018 3:44:06 GMT

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ily for giving me gen3 ghost pokemon and i'm gonna go with the shedinja <3

i swear i'll stop with the gacha at least for the next two weeks lmao

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diagram the light [mission]

POSTED ON Oct 12, 2018 13:50:28 GMT

a thought is brought to its knees

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Her mounting apprehension melted away the moment she saw the uniformed figure and was quickly replaced with a strange sense of relief. In truth, one of the few times a cop had ever made her feel more at ease. She stood up quickly to accept the handshake.

"A pleasure, I'm Persephone. And don't worry about it, I'm just glad you came and weren't scared off by the idea," she said with a small smile. "Ghosts, supposedly," she agreed, pondering it for a moment longer. "Could be that or just kids messing around in one of the abandoned blocks? Or just paranoid neighbours."

Abandoned because there was some messed up murder in there, admittedly. She didn't add that in because she assumed he knew already and making a point of it seemed somehow inappropriate. Some things are better left unsaid.

"Honestly, I'm not really sure where the place is, so lead the way. This city's layout is a bit confusing to me." As much could be said for Sootopolis, but at least there you can more or less see where to go, if not how to get there.

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DELIVERANCE [ KANTO | INV | FLASHBACK | TRIGGER ]

POSTED ON Oct 12, 2018 13:50:08 GMT

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he says no hospitals and, inexplicably, elysia follows his directions for reasons persephone never could fathom. her mother watched over him with a warm curiosity. she always liked a challenge, and keeping him alive was one she could dedicate herself to; like a riddle that needed to be solved. the mystery of it compelled her to; who was he? why did he push himself to the brink of life itself? how did he get so high up the slope? a lone child who would rather trust himself in the hands of strangers than professionals.

she couldn't pinpoint the exact moment her fascination went from clinical to genuine; but a person can get attached to anyone with mere proximity.

persephone was barred from entering the room, which predictably, festered into a childish cyclic jealousy; for both her mother and him in equal measure, she didn't know what inspired that stab of envy in the chest other than the feeling that there was a bond and, it expressly excluded her. purely out of spite for her mother, and she would stand on her tiptoes to peer through the keyhole just to see if he's breathing, the severity of it all lost on her mind after elysia relented and called out a doctor who promptly announced he'd live.

the day he woke is the first day the sun lit up the sky in weeks, untouched by cloud. light filters through the streaked windowpanes of the cottage's room, motes of dust illuminated in the pillars.

elysia cracks open the door to peek in without knocking, and she's smiling with a soft and distant mirth, a smile belonging on a painting, not a living woman. "my pokemon told me you're awake," she said simply, as if that should answer any and all queries he might have.

regardless, she had no interest in answering questions, the idea that he had any didn't even occur to her. he was the patient, the subject, and she was both yet neither; doctor and scientist.

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I. DESERT RUINS RAID

POSTED ON Oct 12, 2018 8:10:49 GMT

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it's too much. it's too loud. the oppressive silence that followed too quiet.

persephone staggers, drops to her knees, unsure how she even manage to pick up relicanth in the first place. she's shaking and she can't look around, her muscles won't let her. she can only watch in vain as her two companions acted against her will.

incomprehensibly, she still feels the titan's pain as her own.

lucario couldn't bear it any more, restricting himself wasn't in his nature and the wave of anguish in the room threatened to overwhelm the aura-sensitive pokemon. he spins forward, flashing steel and sharp edges, in a swords dance. with no regard for his own safety, he lunges forward into close combat against the regirock's bowed form.

lucario;

J2mBovoT

the relicanth, having been dropped to the floor, sucked in his cheeks and let loose a series of blasts in a water pulse

relicanth;

➺ how am i alive
➺ perse is in shock and can't stop lucario from using swords dance and close combat on regirock
➺ relicanth pitches in with water pulse

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I. DESERT RUINS RAID

POSTED ON Oct 11, 2018 12:03:47 GMT

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there's too much energy in the room, a searing force that sounds like screaming in her ears. persephone staggers, falls to one knee. with the earth shuddering underfoot, she could only look at her relicanth ( her mother's relicanth, her grandmother's relicanth ... ). wincing at the pain in her arm, she gathers rigel in her arms and runs, near blind, from the falling debris.

perhaps overconfident, prosper leaps from spot to spot in a series of pirouettes, a barely visible blur given the quickness of his movement due to his extreme speed.

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➺ rolls for persephone, lucario and relicanth. i rolled before posting properly so idm how they're allocated! my intentions were pure ;^;
➺ lucario attempts another sweet dodge with extreme speed?
➺ persephone grabs relicanth off the floor and runs towards the rest of the group to try outrun / avoid the hyper beam + collapsing shit?

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POSTED ON Oct 11, 2018 6:12:48 GMT

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leaping back from the grasping wall almost reluctantly, persephone watched in awed fascination as the arms grabbed ava and pulled her inward. at her side, zoroark's concentration is broken and the illusion shatters. switching zoroark for relicanth, she directs it to blast the rock arms holding the young woman with a water pulse.

she feels it like a physical sensation, an invisible pulling at her wrist. distracted from the struggle with the statues, persephone's gaze is pulled across the arena to a specific place, a specific man nearer the back. she could barely make him out through the blistering sandstorm, but it was enough. she could pick him out anywhere. throat tight with a new burst of nerves in her chest, she returns her attention to the young woman, reaching out to steady her, her eyes fixed firmly on the living stone arms.

having healed the gigalith, prosper glances down as rocks jut out the ground near him, the regirock's stone edge sharp and decisive. he darts sideways and back, a zigzagging motion in an attempt to dodge, fists ready to counter if need be.

roll to dodge;

Brt6p9TF

heeding persephone's direction to not attack regirock itself, the pokemon regardless attempts to blast the rocks gravitating towards the regirock with a volley of aura spheres.

roll to attack;

➺ tries to help Ava Rosewood get out the hands-wall with relicanth's water pulse
➺ ~~feels a weird metaphysical sensation and sees FERNANDO SILPH save me~~ eta: nvm don't save me my rolls are good lel
➺ lucario tries to dodge and is ready to counter, helps destroy regirock's healing (?) rocks with aura sphere
➺ i've given up on quality at this point ✌️

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DELIVERANCE [ KANTO | INV | FLASHBACK | TRIGGER ]

POSTED ON Oct 10, 2018 17:17:28 GMT

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she came here often. toeing the line, the border of the worlds, neither living nor dead. she always wanted to find the holy and liminal spaces, follow the path until she's lost, blind but ardent.

( read 'she' as: elysia,
or in the alternative,
persephone retracing her mother's steps )

cresting that threshold horizon between here and there, then and now, mt. silver is the stage and this is a the conference for the ghosts. the dying boy, the spirit, the echo. remember the order and repeat it back.

he's on the wrong side of the line, scream piercing again like a declaration, not a plea. it's a signal fire demanding an audience to witness him, not a saviour to halt the journey. she comes anyway; faceless in persephone's memories, always blinding and radiant, the light of her more real than the physical sum of her parts.

her shrewd hands hover over him, and the daughter can't look at him, at what's left of him. she's always been characterised by a fear of that vulnerability and the truth is she doesn't want him to see her cry. she can see his bone, as brilliant white as her mother's hair. she keeps him alive, and the girl isn't sure how. by what divine rites can he still draw breath?

she's speaking, her voice distant and pleasant and not meant for her; questions to keep him tethered to the living. would you have kept going? elysia marvels, not needing to hear an answer because that much was clear. she tells him to rest, that his journey is over now.

and in hindsight persephone was unsure if she was expecting him to return to them, to the place where the crossings from one world to the next happen.

dying, dead, designed to die. repeat the words like an invocation, retrace mt. silver's paths. not a maze with abrupt ends, but a labyrinth; the spiral path that, unicursal, eventually always lead them back to each another in some form.

( read 'form' as: elysia,
persephone,
the ghost possessing her body )

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POSTED ON Oct 10, 2018 10:05:45 GMT

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The doors open, designs alight with an alien glow.

Their party member, impaled overhead, life extinguished, and Persephone could only stare at the golem. Ardent and alone. Imprisoned and furious.

She caught @silvia ’s gaze momentarily, gives a quick, small shake of her head that was as sad as it was apologetic. Platitudes wouldn’t help them now, they all knew as much. Persephone hesitated, touched her shoulder briefly before crossing the room, a prayer of safety that didn’t need words. Maybe there was something to say about blood pacts.

Nearer to the second group, a rock on the ground seems to move, almost slither towards her – Rigel pushing forwards with his pectoral fins. Someone must have carried him along all this time… The relief and gratitude were short-lived as a flurry of Pokemon attacks surrounded them, and Persephone withdrew the Relicanth and ducked to the back wall.

Paralysed, she watched with something akin to horror as they moved on to attack the titan. The pain in her chest was inexplicable, illogical and searing. She watched in silent exasperation as they moved to attack the titan, but it was stillness that caught her attention instead. Moving along the wall to stand closer to Ava Rosewood , Persephone followed her gaze to the markings on the walls.

“Do you see anything?” she asked softly, voice tense in desperation. A long pause, and Persephone remembered her Pokemon by her side. “Go support them with your Heal Pulse but please… don’t fight it yet,” she said, gaze fixed firmly on the glowing inscriptions. Suddenly conscious of how exposed they were, she released the third member of her team without so much as a second glance. “Keep us out of sight as best you can.”

➺ more or less / sort of apologises to @silvia
➺ finally reunited with relicanth <3
➺ joins Ava Rosewood at the wall to potentially look for a non-combat solution
➺ asks zoroark to disguise / camouflage the two of them
➺ tells lucario to use heal pulse on anyone who needs it but not engage with the regirock
➺ too tired for template, will edit it in later maybe
➺ rolled just in case you need it for the mod post even though i’m pretty sure it wasn’t necessary…?

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POSTED ON Oct 10, 2018 5:39:42 GMT

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POSTED ON Oct 9, 2018 8:47:18 GMT

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temperance faded and edges serrated, i am the bent blade

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"thank you for your contribution." neat and pointed. a full stop.
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persephone bites the inside of her cheek when sylvia passes; her eyes narrowed, mouth a curt cheshire cat smile. it was short-lived, her attention rapt so that whatever hostility lay latent in her features bled out between them.
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the words of the text gave her pause, and she wondered, idly, if this was 'willing' blood as per the instructions, or if it was extracted through underhanded intentions.

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➺ finally shuts up and ~~smugly~~ stands aside

#TEAMSAUSAGE

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