October-November Test Drive!

[indigo_league]

TEST DRIVE MEME

➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!


NOT SURE WHERE TO BEGIN YOUR TEST-DRIVE JOURNEY?
CHECK OUT ALL THE LOCATIONS WE HAVE AVAILABLE IN:

JOHTO | and | KANTO

ALSO, AS PROMPTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, and in the spirit of Halloween: August's GHOST TRICK event!

O-Bon festival: The streets are lined with NPC-run stalls for food, games, and the assorted tchotchkes of every summer festival you’ve ever seen in your animes! There’s Goldeen Scoop, heaping cones of Swirlix Candy, Test Your STRENGTH (there are two different machines for people and Pokémon; HM04 not required); basically, if you can think of it, it’s there. There will also be a yukata rental stall if you want to go full hog on the cultural side of things. Ecruteak boasts a small stage where the Kimono Girls give a short performance once every two hours; the festivities in Lavender Town are a little quieter, but they also have Haunter-shaped ice cream treats. When you lick them, they Lick you!

On the last evening of the festival in either location, there will be a large bonfire and traditional bon-odori dance in which everyone is welcome to participate. In Lavender Town only, they also set paper lamps afloat in the water past the cliffs.

Who you gonna call?: Remember “The Ghost of Maiden’s Peak”? Well, some of the local Gastly, Duskull, and Yamask seem to have gotten it into their heads that this kind of tomfoolery is somehow good medicine. If your trainer had someone in their life, someone now dead, that they have unresolved business with, these ghosties may take it upon themselves to play a little dress-up and follow your trainer around in the guise of said dead person until the issue is resolved. It’s their way of saying thank you for all the spiritual appeasement of the festival.

These ghosts won’t speak; Pokémon don’t talk, after all. So yes, your trainer is going to be followed around by some silent echo of their past who will not leave them alone.

Or, of course, write your own!

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[notvaljean]

What do I even say?

[Normally, the fact that Mikasa is letting him touch her would be cause for celebration, but Jean can hardly be delighted by it when this is so stressful. Sorry, Blitz, there will be no egg making tonight.]

[Jean looks over his shoulder, and it makes his heart ache. He knows it's a Pokemon but it looks so damn much like him, right down to the freckles and the neat part in his hair, and he... it... it's smiling. If Jean didn't know any better, he'd think his best friend was going to open his mouth and start talking to him, would say exactly the right thing to make Jean feel better about this whole situation.]

Um... shit.

[Blitz nudges Jean side, much more gently this time. You can do it.]

So... he's dead. I found him. [Jean's voice cracks a little at the edges.] It was... it was fucking awful. Like a nightmare come to life.

[Behind them, the ghost shifts forms. It's not smiling anymore; now it looks like he did when Jean found his body. If you didn't see it at the time, Mikasa, now's your chance!]

[callyourname]

Anything. ...Whatever comes to mind.

[ He is a lot better at this thing called talking than Mikasa anyway. Blitz may or may not have more reasons for all those thoughts later, no one ever knows how situations go. Though if Mikasa could hear him, she'd just coldly ignore him so maybe it's good that she has no idea what Blitz is thinking.

She's still trying to not look at her. She remembers what she looks like, she remembers her trying to reach out to her to protect her from those people and she's never going to forget that screaming. She just... Tries to keep her walls up by not looking at her mother at all while the flashbacks keep repeating in her head.

And if she was brave like most people, she'd try to reach out to Jean now when he is .... obviously having .... a difficult time dealing with that ghost. Instead she waits patiently in silence. There's no rush. ...Then there's the part where Mikasa should come up with words and she is not good or comforting at all. ]

... You shouldn't have been alone there when you found him . . .

[ Not that they can change it among with many other things. So how is this going to roll? He tells something about Marco's death scene and Mikasa tells something about her parents? Maybe, or then one listens to the other first but that's almost as if she'd be ignoring her being there. ]

It's always awful and worse than any nightmares.

[ Mikasa glances over there, not expecting to see that but well. She looks at him for a moment, then she swallows as she turns to look at Jean again. ]

Especially when it comes out of nowhere.

[ Sigh. She really wishes she was better at this whole talking and comforting thing. She should be considering what their world is like but ...nope. Usually she leaves this to anyone else, this time that's not an option. It's also not an option to dodge the whole thing this time. So. She should probably say something about that day too... ]

We lived a peaceful life in a cabin at the mountains. ...They were... expecting Doctor Jaeger for a visit since he was the only one, who ever came there. ...My father died as soon as he opened the door... It took us a moment to even realize what the fucking hell just happened.

[ Congrats, Jean. No one else besides Eren and Armin has heard of this from Mikasa. So obviously she considers him as a trustworthy friend after all these years. ]

[notvaljean]

[It's really for the best that no one knows what Blitz is thinking. Pretty much ever.]

[Jean looks up, surprised when she says he shouldn't have been alone. That isn't something anyone has ever said before; most of the people they know just pretend that they don't know how it went down, and that's honestly what Jean prefers. It's easier to pretend than to admit that it felt like a part of him died right along with Marco on that day. And maybe it was a part that needed to die anyway, a part that had been holding him back, but if it had meant Marco would live, then he would have gladly carried it for awhile longer.]

[He nods when she agrees with him, but doesn't look back. That's for the best; he wants to remember Marco the way he was before Trost, not the way he was after.]

[When Mikasa starts sharing, it's obviously hard on her. Jean has never heard this story before, and he takes another step closer, sliding his arm through hers. It could be considered chivalrous, he supposes, but really, he just wants some physical contact himself, and figures she probably does as well. He'll try not to think about how, if Eren or Armin were here, she wouldn't be paying attention to him at all, and he'd only have Blitz to hold onto while grappling with his own demons.]

That sounds horrible.

[An inadequate word, but the best one he has.]

[Yes, good, that's the way, now tell her how strong and powerful you are and how good your eggs will be!]