Earning her keep

[arceusstansme]

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.

Comments

[bladeofnymeia]

But you do have a body, and a mind. And both work at their best when rested.

[Why does she feel so much like her own friends, herding her into her quarters for a nap or something after the day's latest overwhelming obstacle?]

You can't do anything for anyone when you're hungry and exhausted.

[arceusstansme]

I eat when hungry.

[She defends weakly.]

[bladeofnymeia]

And do you rest when exhausted?

[arceusstansme]

If I am in the mood to.

[That answers nothing!]

[bladeofnymeia]

Is that a collapsing mood, or a reasonable mood?

[arceusstansme]

Depends on how I am feeling. Like one time I was in the Icelands studying Garchomps. And I just got into such a groove watching them do Strong-Style moves, a few days passed and I didn't even realize it.

[Akari, thats not healthy!]

Did similar with watching Magikarps use 'Splash' it was just nice to sit on Basculegion watching them fight and nothing happening.

I slept really well after that though.

[bladeofnymeia]

...That does not sound healthy.

[Said very bluntly, like your big sister exhaustedly telling you to go to bed.]

[arceusstansme]

[FIGHT HER, BIG SIS.]

It is fun though.

[bladeofnymeia]

...

[Well.]

Okay, yes, it is a little fun to see just how long and how far you can go.

[arceusstansme]

It is, like I remember working the field lands were tough, then eventually there I was in the Icelands, beating up Alphas like I was getting paid to do it.

[Because you were.]

And catching Gods and stuff. Just ask Ingo. I caught his God.

[bladeofnymeia]

You...caught a god.

How.

[arceusstansme]

Two actually, and in the normal way- beat them up then threw a Pokeball at them.

[bladeofnymeia]

...How large is a Pokeball, anyway?

[arceusstansme]

Like the size of an Apricorn.

[She says as if that explains everything.]

[bladeofnymeia]

Is that very big? I'm - what I have in mind, from my own reference, is something moon-sized. Literally the size of a small celestial body that is actually very big when coming towards you.

[arceusstansme]

About the size of a berry. Pokémon shrink when they get captured in a Pokeball.

[bladeofnymeia]

...Oooh. Huh.

[Sounds like some Allagan technology if she ever heard of it.]

I like that better than what I was imagining.

[arceusstansme]

Like, what were you expecting?

[She said running around Firoza a little. Obviously more of a way to burn excess energy than trying to hurry the other up.]

[bladeofnymeia]

[She doesn't turn her head/body to follow Akari, but does keep track of her movements. Out of curiosity, really.]

Something literally the size of a small celestial body. But not actually small, because in order for them to be small so far away, they're actually immense.

[arceusstansme]

Naw, they shrink down when beaten. They are Pokemon after all.

[bladeofnymeia]

That does not usually happen where I'm from. Dissipate into aether, yes - shrink? No.

[arceusstansme]

Dissipate into aether? They just die and explode?

[bladeofnymeia]

No, no, exploding is only if explosives are involved. [Except if you're in a Hildibrand questline. Bombs just do the cartoony things.] Dissipating is just...fading into motes of light, and your soul returning to the aetherial sea - er, the afterlife, if that makes more sense.

[arceusstansme]

[She thinks about this for a moment.]

What about ghosts?

[bladeofnymeia]

Oh, of course there are ghosts. The souls who have unfinished business and cannot pass on can be put to rest, though the method differs between ghosts. Some need to be defeated in battle, and others can be brought to peaceful resolution. And then they stick around the aetherial sea for a while, too. It takes time for the soul to renew itself, so they're still sort of...waiting.

[A pause.]

I only know that because of very unusual circumstances.