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Hunk - Voltron: Legendary Defender

[ironchef]

LAVENDER TOWN - MAKING A ROCK FRIEND

[The cafes have been great. Being able to go in and sit with a new friend and enjoy your meal while it munches on a poffin? That's been the best part of randomly showing up in a new world, as those 'randomly hijacked to a new life and new job in a new world' experiences tend to go.]

[Which people shouldn't really have a whole lot of experience with that. But it seems like a lot of people here do? Which it's nice to have shared experiences but sheesh. Anyway...]

[The very best part, though, is helping out and there's a lot of that needed around here. Some of these pokemon have had a really tough time, and when Hunk sees a rescue party out trying to find an especially skittish stray with bad experiences that ran away from the shelter where it had been living and into danger he feels the need to join in. You've just got to, right?]

[He probably should have checked what a Geodude looked like before he set out in search of someone's wayward pokemon. He just gets caught up in the ferver of calling out 'Charlie' and hoping something comes out of the bushes. He's got a big heart and a strong mind he's just a little overeager sometimes. He's got the spirit. But it does mean that in the middle of shouting another-] Charlie! [-and some big round thing with beefy arms flees across the road, he shrieks in a not-exactly comforting fashion.]

[He's learned there are all kinds of ways for animals and people and everything to look by now. Just... you know... sometimes you expect legs and there are no legs!]

[So now there's Hunk at the edge of Lavender town, crouching down and trying to sweet talk a rock monster out from under a porch that he has no idea how it even managed to fit itself under.] Come on, big fella! I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I got a great poffin recipe to try out. You could be my first taste tester! That sounds pretty great, right? ...Someone help me out here.

MOO MOO FARM - OBLIGATORY KALTENECKER JOKE

[Hunk's decided to do a food run with some friends, and he's excited for it! Fresh ingredients, a bit of travel, a road trip across beautiful countryside. But he's pretty dependent on other people for rides since none of his pokemon are of significant useful size. They're all still pretty small and growth is slow going because he's not been eager to battle them.]

[They're just cute babies, right! It's sad to see the cute babies fight. Sometimes they really seem to want to, though, and then he lets them.]

Do you think I need a Miltank? I think I need a Miltank. How much do they even cost here?

[Because he would happily buy an egg and love it and raise it and yes, even battle it if it wanted. Just because in this new life he's briefly been committed to? It would be best to have access to sour cream and milkshakes at a moment's notice. One needs to pre-emptively prevent culinary disasters. Speaking of which.]

Okay. So there are plant-like pokemon. If there are vegans in this world, is the rule that it can't be a pokemon? Or that it can't be meat? Would they drink soy milk if it came from some kind of theoretically plant-type Miltank? What are the food rules here? This is crucial, need to know high priority information that I... for some reason did not think to ask until just now. My bad.

WILDCARD

[Open to working with whatever, prose or script.]

Moo Moo Farm

[heartofalioness]

[Allura, meanwhile, has been traveling with Keith for the League Challenge. And while she already has a perfectly good Rapidash (a sparkly and jealous one, at that)... the Wooloo and Yampers are ILLEGALLY CUTE, it's tempting to get one of them as well. But then she hears an oddly familiar voice rambling about dietary norms in the world of Pokémon and her head snaps in that direction.]

Hunk?!

[So here, Hunk, have a still very Altean-looking princess run towards you, accompanied by her glossy Alolan Ninetales Coressa.]

[ironchef]

[He did not expect to see anyone from home. He doesn't know why. He just didn't. So he's a little surprised to see Allura especially since she sort of did one of those noble self-sacrifice things that no one likes to have to see. He's quickly hopping down from his borrowed mount and rushing her way.]

Allura? Allura!

[Ever seen a big guy scramble over a fence and start wading through a wooloo pen to reach someone? That's what he's doing now, so eager in the effort that he didn't even think to just, you know, run around the other way. A good shock and logical Hunk jumps right out the window about 50% of the time.]

How-? Where did you-? What-? [He asking all the way over to the other side, before scaling the wooden slats to keep going from over there.]

You're here? That's really you?

[heartofalioness]

[Oh my gosh, it's been months since she's seen Hunk scramble like that... Ancients she'd missed it. So her smile is warm and bright and she even lets out a laugh, and the second his feet touch the ground she pulls him into a hug. (Thankfully, her Altean strength did get nerfed, at least a little.)]

It is! I'm amazed it's really you! It's so good to see you again!

[ironchef]

[He gives her a big hug in return, using that heft of his to briefly pick her up off the ground and then just squeeze (honestly he thinks she's just being gentle). He rests her feet back on the ground and grabs her shoulders.]

Are you okay? You-

[But she looks okay, right? She seems perfectly fine and happy.]

....Wait, okay, I need to check. You're not like some Allura native to this pokeplace and you don't think I'm some Hunk that lives around here and just returned home, right?

[This is a very real possibility.] I'm from Earth with cows and chickens and things like that. [Just have to double check things like that nowadays.]

Geodude Lost

[questioneverything]

Hunk!

[Now here was someone Romelle had been hoping to see again for a while. She came closer, ducking down to see what he was after. Oh... a shy Geodude? That was a surprise, but Romelle crouched with him.]

Hello there, little guy. You have a worried trainer out here who would like for you to come out.

[ironchef]

Romelle?- Ow!

[Hunk bops his head on the underside of the porch railing he sits up so quickly, but after the brief wince he stops and stares at her with wide eyes.]

You're here? Ah... right, he got lost and I was trying to help him, but then I think I scared him a little. His name is Charlie, apparently.

[He reaches to drag his pack over to him.] Can pokemon eat people food? Will they need to go see a nurse?

[questioneverything]

Oh! [Oops! Sorry, Hunk. She didn't meant to startle him like that, and she momentarily raised a hand to reach out to him in case he needed help from that bump. He seemed okay, though, as he started reaching into his pack to find food.]

I haven't tried people food with them, but I have some berries. Maybe Charlie doesn't want poffins?

[She pulled a couple of Oran berries from her pouch, not sure what Hunk's poffins had been made from, but it was worth a shot, right?]

Hey, Charlie... how about some berries, huh?

[ironchef]

[Charlie rattles off a 'Geodude!' from under the porch and Hunk cannot tell if it's scared or angry or happy or anything. And it's so dark under there, he wouldn't be able to see its face. But, right! The berries.]

I think I might have some cookies in my bag. I'll look.

[He starts unloading items out of his backpack, most of them food-related, searching for cookies that don't contain chocolate. Socks and underwear get shoved into a small cooking pot. An inexplicable metal spork and chopstick set are piled off onto a campfire stove kit. He's tetrised in his possessions as carefully as he could so as to not damage the baked goods in there too.]

[Romelle is a little less intimidating (in stature, anyway) than Hunk so the Geodude does move closer to the underside of the porch it had managed to wriggle its rocky self into. He has been away from his caretakers for a while. And he is very hungry.]

I found some lemon drops...

Making a rock friend

[titanbabysitter]

[Levi couldn't help but stare at the scene that Hunk was unknowingly making. He wasn't sure what to make of the other calling out a name over and over again. And lurking around someone's perch. He was going to pretend he didn't know that as going on and continued on, but the persistence held his attention. With reluctance he approached Hunk.]

.....Who is "Charlie"?

[Togepi was inside his bag that was slung over his shoulder and could be seeing peeking out from the flap of the top.]

[ironchef]

This Geodude, apparently. I startled him a little bit. [And he feels bad about it, even if he couldn't help being startled himself. C'mon. Most things with giant buff arms also have legs.]

He's got some caretakers out looking for him. They've been looking for a while. He spooks really easily.

[He moves away from the porch, sitting cross-legged in this stranger's yard as he contemplates how to help the little guy.] I tried to get ahold of them but they must be on the other side of town by now. And I don't want to lose track of where he's at.

[titanbabysitter]

[Levi sighs, already regretting having asked. Now he feels obligated to help the stranger out. Warily he approached the perch and crouched down to try and get a better view of the Pokemon. He swore a bit when he finally spotted "Charlie".]

Can't you bait it out with food? I doubt going under the porch will help but make it run away more.

[ironchef]

I don't have any poffins on me at the moment. I do have some cookies I made at the last town. I did some bakery work and they let me make some. [Information Levi does not need to know, but he's getting anyway. At least it means he's armed with a small stockpile of cookies.]

[He still isn't sure how good people food is for Pokemon but he's not risking giving it chocolate since that seems to be bad for everything. Soooo... okay, after rifling through a few packages in his backpack? He hands Levi some lemon cookies.]

I think these will be okay.

Lavender Town!!

[shiro2hero]

[Shiro normally sticks close to the Sevii Islands - to keep an eye on the shenanigans around there because someone has to. But in light of coming events, he's ventured out and about to get supplies rounded up. Lavender Town was on the list.]

[A literal list. In his hand. He's actually reading it when he steps out of the pokemart, his Umbreon at his heels.]

Okay, we need... [Hold on. Is he going crazy? Or did he just hear - ?] Hunk?

[That. Can't be. That cannot be Hunk over in those bushes, right? It's been way too long, or it's a weird weekend or something. But it looks just like him. Like the last time he'd seen him. Though, on the other hand, Shiro probably looks... a bit different these days. Right down to the white shock of hair dyed in a Lion-Themed rainbow.]

[ironchef]

Shiro! [Hunk's already starting, crawling back away from the porch so he can look behind him and see- welp. It sounds like Shiro. And in theory, it looks like Shiro. If Shiro had significantly less trauma and had been off-duty for a full decade.]

[The pause lingers and finally Hunk just says-] Yeah, okay.

[There's a number of unanswered questions he's just accepted that he doesn't even want to ask, at least at this particular moment.]

Do you got a minute? I think I scared this little guy. And I still have no idea what I'm doing still. I didn't mean to. [Well, okay, he'll say one thing.] Nice hair, by the way.

[shiro2hero]

Hey!

[Chores abandoned, Shiro is actually smiling. He looks elated to see his teammate here. And, well. Maybe a "decade" off duty isn't too far off for how long he's been in this world. He crosses over to the bushes in a few quick steps, like he's worried he's going to blink and lose sight of Hunk altogether.]

Yes, of course. I - how long have you been here? When did you get here? [His Umbreon looks between them for a moment, before darting into the bushes herself. Maybe she can coax the Geodude out while the humans stand there.]

It's okay, some of them are skittish no matter what you do. They - ["Nice hair"] - Ah, thanks. Lance's idea.

Moo Moo Farm

[crystalmaster]

[Radley is walking with his Eevees when he hears the strange ramblings. He goes over and leans on the fence with folded arms.]

You know, those are good questions. I honestly have no idea. But eating Pokemon seems pretty grotesque.

[He tries to picture happy plants like Sunflora or those hula dancer Pokemon being eaten and immediately wants to stop.]

[ironchef]

It does. [He agrees, settling down from his ride so he can go look at the sheep.]

At least in this case I'm thinking like... Soy milk. And not, you know....

[Though he doesn't really want to think about that, either. He's often tried not to think of where food he eats at home comes from. Just, in this case? He got swept up in the confusion.]

[crystalmaster]

I'm guessing soy milk comes similar to how to how it comes back home. I haven't heard of any soy bean Pokemon, so you're probably safe on that.

[He hopes. When there's even cream puff Pokemon ... yeah, no. He's not going to go there.]

[spacebaloney]

[There's no real reason for Lance to be around the Moo Moo Farm when he has his own Miltank he can get milk from, but there's only so many times Kaltenecker (Jr!) will let him at her in a day. Making sure there's enough for milkshakes on hand, especially with the way Sasha empties out the household fridge, means Lance ends up at the farm anyway to re-up the dairy supply.

But his main task is completely forgotten when he hears a familiar voice musing and even if it's been like 5ever since Lance has last seen his best friend, there's no way that tone of questioning will ever leave his brainmeats.]

Hunk? [He's glancing around excitedly until his gaze falls on that equally as familiar face, running to throw his entire no-so-skinny-anymore body at Hunk.] Hunk! You're back!

[ironchef]

Lance? [He's about to get excited about Lance being here, even in the process of jumping down from his lended mount, when that question throws him.]

I'm... back?

But I was never here. I mean, this is the first time I came by.

[Is there another Hunk? Does he have a brother from another universe? Is there a Pokehunk out there somewhere? He must know. But it's in the middle of thinking about this that a less Beanpole Lance lands in his arms and he gets the patented Hunk big squish hug treatment, size difference or no.]

Ah, man! It's so good to see you.

[spacebaloney]

Yeah, you're ba-- [Lance's mouth is moving faster than his brain, as per usual, but he just manages to catch himself before saying much more and confusing Hunk a whole lot more too.] Yeah, sometimes that happens. You're here, and then you're not, and then you're here again. Sometimes you remember, sometimes you don't. General you, by the way. It happens to everybody. In your case, you just forgot. No big deal. We'll help you settle back in.

[He gives Hunk a pat on the shoulder that he hopes is comforting. Lance, though with some muscle gain (not too much now. Keith still beats him in that department) and a couple inches of height in the last few years doesn't look too different. His ears are pierced, skin even more tan from hanging out on the beach in the front yard, but most of all is the ring circling his finger on his left hand. That piece comes with a long story to bring Hunk up to speed on.]

Man, it's been so long. Like years, bro. [Lance squints and tilts his head.] What's the last thing you remember happening at home?

WILDCARD

[pidge_out]

((would you be down for something some time after Hunk's bumped into someone already? like maybe someone's already gone and told Pidge that Hunk is around so she goes out to find him?? :D))

Re: WILDCARD

[ironchef]

[Yeah, that's totally fine!]

[pidge_out]

[Pidge does not often leave the sanctity of her home. She has a routine that she likes to stick to and that keeps her pretty grounded in about the same parts of the world. Except today someone has told her that they saw Hunk, and that's all the reason she needs to break out of her cycle. It doesn't even take her long to make her way to the Moo Moo Farms, which is where she heard Hunk was last sighted, and once she's there it's only a matter of time before she spots that familiar friendly figure.]

Hunk!!

[That's about all the warning he gets before Pidge is basically launching herself at him for a hug. It's been ages since the last time she saw him, after all. And he's one of the few people in her life that Pidge actually wants hugs from. It feels long overdue.

Hopefully Hunk isn't caught too off guard. Pidge was the youngest of the group, so the passage of time is more obvious on her than it is on everyone else from their team. She's gotten a little taller, not more than a few inches, but she's not quite as gangly as she used to be either. Her hair has grown out past her shoulders and is currently pulled back into a ponytail on the side of her head. But at least her voice and her lop-sided grin are unmistakable.]

Ohmygosh it's been forever! When did you get here?!