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bottlecaplogs2025-04-03 03:40 pm
arceusstansme) wrote in bottlecaplogs2025-04-03 03:40 pm
Earning her keep
Who: Akari and any poor sod who crosses her path.
What: Akari is here to prove her worth to Bottlecap Bay. Whether you like it or not.
Where: Bottlecap Bay
When: Sometime during April (all of it)
Warnings: Swearing, the traumas:tm:
Some people (or, well, Pokémon) would take a day or two to adjust to having their bodies shaped into something new and thrown into a new location. Maybe take a moment to adjust to any weird dysmorphia about suddenly having no fingers or being a sentient bag of garbage (which, let's be real, isn't a change for some people.)
Akari on the other hand started to work. Someone needed a berry delivered from point A to point B without being eaten somewhere in the middle? Akari was on it. Needed someone to go tell their kid who was playing dangerously close to a ledge to stop it? Akari was already there. It didn't matter; it seemed like the moment someone looked mildly uncomfortable, the Cyndaquil was already there trying to fix an ill or find something.
It would be impressive if it seemed like she took a break. Or if she didn't seem like she was just sitting in traffic waiting for a light to turn as she listened to whatever someone needed. It was also obvious she was also trying to make sure the task was done 100 percent, even if she checked back in with the person like she was throwing a cigarette butt at them when she was done.
That was just the nature of her. Sometimes you might see her resting her feet for a second or two; other times you might see her waiting for someone or something to appear to give a message or deliver something. Or sometimes, she might stop and stare at you for a moment before asking if you needed help.
What: Akari is here to prove her worth to Bottlecap Bay. Whether you like it or not.
Where: Bottlecap Bay
When: Sometime during April (all of it)
Warnings: Swearing, the traumas:tm:
Some people (or, well, Pokémon) would take a day or two to adjust to having their bodies shaped into something new and thrown into a new location. Maybe take a moment to adjust to any weird dysmorphia about suddenly having no fingers or being a sentient bag of garbage (which, let's be real, isn't a change for some people.)
Akari on the other hand started to work. Someone needed a berry delivered from point A to point B without being eaten somewhere in the middle? Akari was on it. Needed someone to go tell their kid who was playing dangerously close to a ledge to stop it? Akari was already there. It didn't matter; it seemed like the moment someone looked mildly uncomfortable, the Cyndaquil was already there trying to fix an ill or find something.
It would be impressive if it seemed like she took a break. Or if she didn't seem like she was just sitting in traffic waiting for a light to turn as she listened to whatever someone needed. It was also obvious she was also trying to make sure the task was done 100 percent, even if she checked back in with the person like she was throwing a cigarette butt at them when she was done.
That was just the nature of her. Sometimes you might see her resting her feet for a second or two; other times you might see her waiting for someone or something to appear to give a message or deliver something. Or sometimes, she might stop and stare at you for a moment before asking if you needed help.
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Most humblest and adorablest, there she is huh.
"And I'm learning a lot in the archives. ...e...even if I still haven't figured out everything about myself..."
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He's very much saying that to join in on the bit, but considering what Akari sounds like at the best of times, that's probably the best way to go about it.
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"There we go, it is. Like- you don't know all your moves yet, and like, how do we evolve, will it feel weird?"
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Actually, that last comment made him realize- "Oh...a few others mentioned that, 'evolving'. It sounds more...sudden than what it normally means at home? Do you know what normally happens?"
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She shrugs, "But they can try again later. Sometimes there is a good reason to not want to evolve just yet."
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Right not the point. "Well that's definitely different here...Evolution normally explains the process a species takes over thousands of years to do that... ...so it's just a part of growing up a pokemon then?"
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...
No there's really no word for it. "...I get the feeling I'll have to just see it in person huh..."
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Neat. Couldn't be him.
"But in my case it's just 'level' huh..."
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Deflates.
"That just means no one knows at all then..."
He feels somehow disheartened...
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She says, as she happily thinks about the things she learned about Pokémon in her own journey.
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"I must be low leveled because I don't even know Ember yet, but- thats a good thing! Like, you can train yourself up. Pokemon caught at a lower level and trained up tend to be stronger than their wild counterparts of the same level."
She pointed out. "Plus, because you're not being told it and get to discover it, that means you can fine tune it best for you."
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"...They are..?" he finally says though, probably in reply to that matter of wild versus young caught. "...I guess that's a bit better... ...and I was picked for Lum more than anything known for combat I suppose..."
He is, admittedly, feeling a bit like he's floundering and tends to panic in such a moment.
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NooOOoOOOO-
"How do you even know that'll fit..!!"
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Act first and all that.