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bottlecaplogs2025-11-05 12:36 pm
friendlyflower) wrote in bottlecaplogs2025-11-05 12:36 pm
Garden of Delights [Flowey November Catch-All]
Who: Flowey & Akechi, Ren, Fireheart, Siffrinx, maybe more?! And maybe YOU!!!
What: These violent delights are awesome I wonder how they end (Quests, arguing, emotionally charged cat brushing, training...)
Where: Southern Forest Tunnels, Canopy Low-Tier Housing, Training Grounds
When: Throughout November
Warnings: Pokemon battling (violence/injury), mentions of blood, allusion to Pokemon death. Flowey's typical warnings (child death, depression, depersonalization, unreality).
What: These violent delights are awesome I wonder how they end (Quests, arguing, emotionally charged cat brushing, training...)
Where: Southern Forest Tunnels, Canopy Low-Tier Housing, Training Grounds
When: Throughout November
Warnings: Pokemon battling (violence/injury), mentions of blood, allusion to Pokemon death. Flowey's typical warnings (child death, depression, depersonalization, unreality).
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As for Flowey-- he seems fine? He can also be good at hiding his feelings behind an implacable smile when he's not throwing a tantrum. He's gotten pretty busted up a few times- his shell scratched, his leaves bitten off, the works- but he always seems to bounce back quickly. He's not delirious anymore, it seems. Without clear animal-like features, it's a little more difficult to tell if he's sick or hurt.
... Do his shades look a little off? Hard to tell without seeing color. If he is looking a bit unusual, it could just be because of the approaching Winter.]
'Sunshine'? So nicknames are your new thing? Woooow, that's definitely helping keep everyone at a distance. How's the new personality working out for you? Trust me, I know all about forming a convenient mask out of the shreds left of your old self that haven't been stolen from you.
[He's really not pulling any punches today.]
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[...]
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[Though, come to think of it... wasn't Flowey going on about something to do with multiple Siffrins at some point? Had he actually figured something out, back then...?]
[Well, they're not going to ask about it now!]
What, don't you think sunshine is cute?
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... He honestly doesn't know how to approach this situation. How did Frisk do it? If he had to talk to himself post-transformation, he would have gone insane.
Well, at least they can segue back to the nickname conversation.]
No. I already CHOSE a perfectly stupid name for myself. [He continues brushing them, piling up all the fur.] Why 'sunshine', anyway? Let me guess, mocking my bright and sunny personality?
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[If Flowey wanted to talk to someone about forming a personality out of shreds after losing everything, it's stardust he should be talking to! He's still working off that one! (Haha, funny joke, there's no way stardust would just talk about it.)]
[But whatever Siffrin is thinking about it not applying to them, or at least not this particular act... something about Flowey coming at them with that, right out of the gate, has put them on the defensive...]
It's because of how much time you spend basking in it, of course! [...of course.]
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[He recognizes he put them on the backfoot. He's not really good at this whole 'gentle sympathy' thing. Most of his later pacifist runs were dragging people to confront their problems because he already knew the stupid solutions and was sick of them dragging their feet.
And at least in his earlier runs, he could fall back on knowing people like Asgore well already. He only just started to understand Siffrin, he thinks, and now they pull some stunt like this.]
... so. I'm guessing you didn't kill the other Siffrin.
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[Their smile tones down into something a bit more genuinely amused. Or... no, it's hard to say? But it is less sharp.]
[They lift a paw up in front of their face, giving it two licks, then leave it positioned there.]
He was already all mushy and guilt-ridden about it! I didn't have the heart to do anything else to him.
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[Hmm. Two can play at that 'nickname' business. With that said, the creator behind the ingenious name 'Flowey' isn't that good at coming up with names. Something to tease them about losing their identity... no, about the time loops. 'Loop'? Nah, too obvious, even for him. 'Resetty'? Maybe...]
-- Loophole.
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[- they hear 'Loop' and go very still under Flowey's brush for a moment -]
[- then snicker into their paw.]
Good one, sunshine! [They get it, 'Loop' for the same terrible reasons they picked it, and then the rest because they're an assh -]
I thought you didn't like puns?
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[As far as he's concerned, getting your own name and cutting off that last rotting part of your past life is crucial.
... but maybe they still want to be Siffrin. The thought occurs to him so suddenly that it catches him by surprise. Not everyone is like him. They still have a soul.]
You were holding back, weren't you? Back in Heavy Downmoor. You really did care!
[This, notably, is in past tense. There's an unspoken question in it. Flowey felt shocked by their desire to kill. Are they still friends? Can someone like him really have a 'friend', anyway...?]
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I was trying so hard, sunshine! You have no idea how many puns I had to swallow.
[Their tone... is it self-deprecating (past-self-deprecating) or just amused...? If it's the former, do they really mean it, or is it just what they think is expected of "Loop?" (The trouble is, even they don't always know. Teehee!)]
And then you went all scandalized on me over the pearls! Knife right to the back!
[They're smirking at Flowey. Which. Doesn't exactly answer the unspoken question.]
[(Were they friends? Did they actually get to that point, or just agree to not be at each others' throats? Siffrin didn't really have enough time to figure out which of those Flowey wanted, but even if they were... that was with "Siffrin," not "Loop." Flowey was pretty clearly disgusted by them! So who knows now.)]
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In any other case, he would've taken it as silent confirmation that Siffrin hates him and these two were never friends. But, now... after all of the fights he's had with them, not to mention just in general in the last week? He's tired. And as much as he hates to admit it, some of the things Bigby told him have begun to resonate a little.
... ]
You don't get it.
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How do you think someone like Shoka feels seeing you flip out and completely change your personality?! Look, I get it! You're not you. Your friends back then are alive and love another you who did it better. You shouldn't even be here. There's no one else who gets it better than I do!
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He understands them so much (or at least, so he thinks) that he immediately realizes why they haven't just 'gotten help' and 'solved their emotional issues'. HE sure as hell hasn't!]
... I'll just take the fur and go.
[1/3]
[Maybe they should have been.]
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[3/3]
You're right, sunshine, you get me so well! You understand exactly what I care about, and what it's like to have another you around!
[With the dam broken, they nearly keep going, but they abruptly remember that Flowey is like, barely a teenager and pull themself back in.]
[Most of the way. They can't quite resist adding, sweetly:] But you can't just go yet! There must be some advice you're itching to give me, right? Let's hear it. I'm your eager audience!
[Look how perked their ear is!]
[It'd definitely have been easier to just let Flowey storm off, they're thinking, but it's too late now: they have to commit.]
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You know what? With that in mind, he's not going to give them some last word for them to pick apart and mock. He looks at them almost with... pity? Is it apologetic? Both? Either way, he's gone.]