October Catchall! (a Mix of Open and Closed)

[autumnrainrunaway]

Who: Dolly + you!
What: None Quests Threads first. Will be adding Quest Threads later on :3
Where: Southern Forest, Bay Town, Lum Berry Low Tier Housing, The Archives, and more to be added on as the month goes on.
When: Throughout most of October
Warnings: Animal/Pokemon death that comes with hunting, Wild Parties, and Nerd Violence. Will update more as it goes along.

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[improvking]

He's not sure how to go about changing the subject. Help.

"...So what were we talking about?"

1/2 CW for continuing Possession mention AKA body roommates

[autumnrainrunaway]

"Pretty much, my kind had a pretty strict contract to abide by if we wanted to stay there. It wasn't the most ideal deal there was, but we didn't have any other options. Pretty much blend in with humanity, don't stand out, and don't cause harm to the humans or we all get returned to our birth island."

Home is a weird topic for sure, Dolly had three homes before landing here for home number four! Dolly goes to listen on to the Ring Spirit, curious to learn a bit about her neighbor.

Oh? The Ring Spirit had to live inside someone else's body for a time? Well that's perfectly normal, totally normal, nothing wrong to be seen there! Dolly knew a few campus classmates that were possessed. Sure one of them was hellbent on turning the cafeteria into a den of undead horrors, but that was a rare one off incident.

"..Oh you had a body roommate?"

Oh..it wasn't a great body roommate situation for the Ring Spirit..

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[autumnrainrunaway]

"Oh! We were talking about possibly meeting your family. I'd like to meet them if that's alright?"

Dolly inadvertently slides in to help change the subject. She earned a cookie right there.

1/2 [more reference to 'body roommates']

[improvking]

"...H-heh."

'Body roommate' eh? Sounds like a nice dynamic...

"I had a landlord, and... I was a bad tenant."

He's mostly come to terms that the bad blood was his own fault. As much as he hates admitting fault... things, ultimately, had been solely his fault. He still wishes there had been... well, more effort on his end. Too late now.

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[improvking]

...But then Dolly offers a subject change, and he latches onto it for dear life. "YES! My family! That sounds great!"

Hm! He'll have to figure out the logistics for this. "Lets see... It might be better for you to meet in town... either the Bay or over at the Outpost. Bringing a stranger into their territory unannounced might come off as too presumptuous. So I'll send off word that you'd like to meet! Maybe they'll have time to get together within the next couple months... I imagine their neighbors have already warned them about having to prep for winter here, and they're accordingly busy..."

The Ring-Spirit's already perking up as he ponders arrangements.

"They're all one pokemon, by the way - a Spiritomb. I think condensing like that helped them a lot, their souls were pretty ragged before we made it over here... They're the village of Kul Elna."

...And something finally occurs to him.

"...Oh. Is there something I should introduce you as...? I forget about that, since... I don't really have a name, myself... though Shoka calls me 'Freakazoid', which serves the purpose well enough... but then again, Pokemon in this world seem to usually just go by their species name, so maybe I'm overthinking things."

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[autumnrainrunaway]

Dolly listens and watches the Ring Spirit after talking about his former Body Landlord(?). That sounds like an incredibly rough situation to have been in for both parties and an even harder thing to talk about....

2/2 I love that these eldritch goobers' conversation, its perfect

[autumnrainrunaway]

And here come that mood shift coming in like a wrecking ball, catching Dolly off guard a bit! Okay cool, changing the topic to that one instead!

A few months doesn't sound too bad at all to Dolly, that's pretty reasonable amount of time. "I think the town is a very good place to meet up in a few months from now. Winter preparations are going to be worry for sure for them and don't need the added surprise of a visit on top of it."

That...okay that makes sense. If it was like an entire ghost village, surely they're going to be much more comfortable in a Pokemon that's like a generational home for them. Yep...a centuries of being on Earth with different sorts of magical beings did a number on Dolly's sense of what's normal.

"The raggedness must have been unpleasant beforehand, I'm glad they got a Pokemon form that's comforting for the village of Kul Elna...Oh! My true name is cursed, but people have been calling me 'Dolly' for the past century and is usually my go to when introducing myself when asked."

Dolly tilts her head in thought, "Oh, if you're alright, may I give you a handle to go by? I'll understand if you want to wait a bit on that though."