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DUNK TANK (SPLASHFEST)
POSTED ON Aug 5, 2022 11:24:12 GMT
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Not that anyone would recognize him; boasting a more sporty physique and standing half a foot higher at least, he's a stranger to those who knew him. Rikki is with him, grizzled and aged beyond his years, watching after him despite a now daunting difference in stature.[break][break]

Aedan winds up his pitching arm, hoping to put his minor league baseball skills to the test after being subject to a spatial distortion.
Let's see where I'm at now...![break][break]

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BECOMING LOST [M]
POSTED ON Jun 4, 2022 1:07:12 GMT
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SPACE-TIME DISTORTION #5


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SLATEPORT CENTRAL MALL, ???


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The best way to find yourelf...


[attr=class,bulk]It feels like forever that he's trapped in this membrane. When he looks at his phone, it somehow connects to the gps through the space-time phenomenon, telling him he's somewhere in Slateport Central Mall... But there's no way that could be right.[break][break]

And yet no matter how far he runs, it's always more untamed patches of grassland, and ranging hills and valleys. Ever since he'd slipped across, nothing resembled what it should. It was as if he'd tripped back in time. For a long time, all he can think of is to run, and perhaps stumble across a breakthrough this way.[break][break]

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Only after tiring himself out does he stop. When he finally sits down to rest, he notices the sun shifting in the sky. A mountain in the distance, presumably Mt. Chimney, stands taller than expected and without its volcanic plumes breaking out across the skyline. It's all more than passing strange, leaving the boy to curl up and worry.[break][break]

Eventually he releases Rikki, his Zangoose, to help him scrounge enough materials for a small fire. Here he huddles for warmth, whiling away what he expects will be a short stay. It wasn't the first time he'd heard of people getting spun around in a distortion... Most of them came back, with weird side-effects that tended to resolve themselves over the course of a couple weeks. This would be no different...[break][break]

While staring out into the wildlands, he sees images in the bending light of a setting sun. Shelves with merchandise, like little mirages meant to tease him. When he tries to chase through them, he fails to pass through. Eventually he stops looking altogether.[break][break]

These little deceptions only make him increasingly desperate to return home.[break][break]

This passes for what feels like a few days. There are bags under his eyes and streaks where the tears tend to trickle down across his cheeks. His clothes feel tight against him, and have wear marks from the unexpected run-ins with the pokemon here. Zangoose is hard-pressed to keep its usual cool, becoming sullen and reproachful.[break][break]

This was not the adventure he had planned for himself, and try as he might, his spirit remained crushed as the finality of his situation settled into his conscious mind.[break][break]


Somewhere in Slateport Central Mall, a little ginger boy can be seen in the reflections of the mirrors or windows throughout the complex, at unpredictable intervals. As time passes, he seems to grow increasingly despondent, with a look mature beyond his years and sunken eyes.


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Hope you're still down for this thread, Kodi!
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wayward son [w]
POSTED ON Mar 30, 2022 23:31:47 GMT
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"Hi there," he'd wave his arm enthusiastically, a soft smile that made his face glow like sunlight.

Yet it didn't seem like this Ralts was one much for howdy-do's, staring up at him curiously as he speaks in an alien tongue. But his emotional aura, now that is something it can understand, and it finds him a sweet young boy innocent and unassuming. And so it followed him.

He enjoyed its company while it lasted, though surely it would skitter away at the first sign of other wild pokemon with a less-than-pleasant disposition.
Skipping Normal/Fairy/Ghost spawns (1/3)
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POSTED ON Mar 29, 2022 3:43:41 GMT
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PURCHASING


1X form change (50 PD)
Typhlosion became Hisuian Typhlosion [x]


REDEEMING


1X level tutor
Hisuian Typhlosion learned Infernal Parade


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SPACE-TIME DISTORTION #5
POSTED ON Mar 29, 2022 3:35:42 GMT
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It's been almost a week. Aedan has managed to make it camping in the wilderns, avoiding cities out of fear the police will have been notified to look for him. But his respite away from home has been the stuff of his wildest dreams...[break][break]

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Pokemon unlike those he's met, and he with them—fast friends in a world of abundant adventures, and theirs was a call to follow it—through the deepest dark or the highest haven—if only to say they'd done it together. It was about the journey.[break][break]

And so Aedan finds himself inextricably drawn to the allure of his first ever space-time distortion, heading south from his camp near Mauville Hills, arriving in Slateport out of breath, but with time to spare. He checks his phone, which is running quite low on charge, and discovers that the phenomenon has still overtaken much of Slateport Central Mall. Aedan is immediately en route.
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It's not unusual for kids his age to go running through the mall, but he's not looking to grab the latest CD's or the trendiest fashion items, but to uncover the mystifying wonder of a distortion. Many are trainers like him looking for an opportunity. With Shelgon at his side, they begin their search.[break][break]

It isn't too long before he comes across the first strange pokemon... A rather mellowed out Typhlosion with purple flames curling around its neck, wreathing it in noxious flames. Shelgon as his chosen companion, they begin their battle in earnest, the air around them 'glitching' as the intensity of the battle escalates. He can see a verdant wilderness at times, though the mall persists through it all, compelling Aedan to rub at his eyes as if to help him see straight.[break][break]

Eventually the battle is won, and Aedan's pokeball finds purchase on Typhlosion.[break][break]

[break]TYPHLOSION WAS CAPTURED!
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Aedan begins to feel the weight of uncertainty upon him as the distortion seems to unwravel the reality of nature around him, the young lad hurrying to snatch up his pokeball and perhaps seek refuge elsewhere. But as the sound of echoed thunder and the discharge of volatile arcs causes him to freeze stiff, he realizes he is not in the same place as before. The mall flickers in and out of view as a more natural terrain overtakes him. Geographically speaking, he has not moved... but the space is different. Perhaps several hundred years different, or a century different. He couldn't know.[break][break]

Wordlessly he would run, as if to find his way back home. But where space remained at his side, time denied him at every turn, leaving him stranded in this world for a moment's eternity. Honeyed eyes bead with tears while his lip trembles uncontrollably.[break][break]

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Every passing minute couldn't even account for the minute vibration of an atom in his origin point. While his perfect prize began to lose his luster, and he pulled at his hair and screamed for some sort of salvation, only but a fleeting moment had begun to breathe itself to life back on Hoenn. Not even long enough to recognize he'd disappeared. To think, he might be lost to Hoenn forevermore...

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Aedan has been lost to the space-time distortion, and must be freed! [x]
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COMMUNAL CURRY #2
POSTED ON Mar 27, 2022 19:29:46 GMT
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STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED

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thread summary: Aedan (finally) decides to run away.
why is it important?: I'm taking Aedan a direction where he can (hopefully) feel less restricted by the (self-enforced) headcanon of his parents holding him back; I've got something in the pipes related to space-time distortions and involving that is going to build off this development, and the aim is to bring Aedan up to speed with Hoenn's userbase so that he's not landlocked to Rustboro. That's the plan.
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wayward son [w]
POSTED ON Mar 27, 2022 6:49:12 GMT
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He'd made it all the way to Mauville without arousing much suspicion. It was a straight shot through Rusturf Tunnel, into Verdanturf and then passing Route 117 that brought him here. Aedan was feeling confident about himself.

But then, these lands were still tame.
Normal/Fairy/Ghost spawns (0/3)
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stranger things have happened [w]
POSTED ON Mar 23, 2022 21:46:17 GMT
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Aedan has to look up what the pokemon even is before continuing forward. It's a psychic pokemon, and those tend to freak his parents out (something about being vastly intelligent isn't desirable to them, in what they see as a form of 'pet' or otherwise subservient creature,) so he knows better than to try bringing it home.

It would only be inviting trouble.

But the pokedex entry is oddly striking, like a parallel of his own indecisions. The creature floats about him, bobbing and weaving as both minds decide to follow their own path. Left. Then right. They cannot decide on what the right path is, much like him; torn between his desires and his familial duties.

Finally, a moment of clarity. The both pause and gently lower into Aedan's hands, allowing him to give them a squish, hugging it tightly. This is what being a pokemon trainer was about, to him... Enjoying friendship with pokemon. But he has to let this one go...

...And he is starting to make up his mind.
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stranger things have happened [w]
POSTED ON Mar 23, 2022 5:27:39 GMT
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While on his little jaunt, he would happen across a particularly sluggish Slowpoke, which he gave a hearty pat for good luck before continuing on his way.

Despite the burst of glee at seeing one of his favorite, dopey pokemon, he's still caught in a slump. Being boxed up in his house, it feels wrong somehow... it's not the childhood his father had gotten, or his grandfather before him; there was so much to experience out there.

And they were denying him his chance to go and see it.
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