TEST DRIVE - NOVEMBER & DECEMBER

[indigo_league]

➞ 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!

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CHECK OUT ALL THE LOCATIONS WE HAVE AVAILABLE IN:

JOHTO | KANTO | SEVII ISLANDS

Feel free to make various prompts in multiple locations!

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Comments

[styxiedust]

Hello, Jane! How lovely to see you! Still the greatest baker in the Pokemon World?

[Tis a little tease, of course, she can get away with that.]

I can't say I'm unhappy about being back! Although—[She gestures to her Ponyta.]—This is new, to me, somewhat.

[schachmeister]

[He knows exactly what she is talking about, but wow, so many disasters happened since then. Still, she is asking him about how he is doing, and he supposes there is no sense in dredging up old disasters long since dealt with.]

Oh, uh. Well, I'm a gym leader now. I don't-- I can't remember if I had already taken on the Elite Four when you left, but I eventually opened my own gym. It's on the Sevii Islands and it is all about battling underwater. I'm still running the Lapras Breeding project too. That's part of why I opened a gym, so I'd have the resources to continue the project.

Oh, and.

[His cheeks pinken a little as he reflexively reaches up to tuck his hair behind his ear, even though it is now too short to do so.]

I'm engaged? I should've led with that maybe.

[bent_the_world]

It's not silly. But there's nothing to worry about. It's...not that different than when you left, really. Some new Pokemon and some new curtains, but that's about it.

And that's fine. I can meet you along the route. And speaking of Pokemon, I've been looking after some of yours. They're gonna be really glad to see you.

[styxiedust]

[MAYBE?

Maybe so!

Because she is DELIGHTED by the news judging by the gasp and the sparkle in her eyes.]

Oh!! —I, I don't have any confetti poppers—CONGRATULATIONS! I'm so happy for you! What are they like? Do you mind if I ask??

[styxiedust]

Y-you have?

[She can see some of them again? They're not all lost to the aether??

That...]

Oh...piffle...

[She's tearing up now.]

Oh, no, I'm sorry, Korra...

[nellacerniera]

There's something to be said for consistency, I suppose.

[Acero giggles and gestures at his trainer.]

"And that's Bruno! He and I met on Halloween!"

[styxiedust]

Bruno, I see, a very strong name as well!

[Botan directs a sheepish smile to Bruno.]

Sorry, Your Phantump is adorable. I wish I still had mine so they could all meet and play.

Network

[shiningkindness]

[ Fluttershy had been just a bit hesitant when she saw the familiar face on the screen, but him saying that he was back confirmed exactly who it is, and she can't help a bright smile. ]

Louie! Wow, it's great to see you again!

I have some of your Pokemon, if you want them back. I'm sure they'll be happy to see you too.

[bent_the_world]

Of course I have. And a lot of your stuff is stored in the closet. I kept it all...just in case.

[Sometimes people come back. And remember the time spent here. How could she haven gotten rid of Botan's things, when there was always that little chance?

Clearly it hadn't been in vain.]

Hey...hey, it's okay. Really.

[schachmeister]

No, no, you can ask. [Why would he not want to talk about the best girlfriend-- fiancee in the world]

Do you remember Angel?

[styxiedust]

Yes, I do! I'm so happy to hear that, she deserves so much goodness in her life and—hard to think of a much better good than you!

[The Mom attitude never changed even in her absence.]

[styxiedust]

I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't cry—this is...I'm home, and you're here. I just, I had accepted that things weren't going to be the same anymore even if I returned.

I want to go home, to our home.

[bent_the_world]

Some things are different, sure. But not everything. Not me. Not our place.

Well the Pikachu are even fatter now, but I've just accepted that's a losing battle.

[styxiedust]

...Ehe, of course not. You can't stop the chunk.

[She's smiling again, at least, and wiping her eyes on her sleeves.]

And you remain the expert damsel rescuer, my dear fiancee~

[schachmeister]

I think you might be a little biased, but I try. She does deserve everything I can give her. And more. She makes me so happy.

[Just look at his lovestruck face. The boy has it bad.]

[cyan_maid]

Oh, shucks, I don't know if I count if I'm not from here - I'm part of the Aurora League now, though! And having my own gym is pretty darn exciting, all things considered.

[Jane makes a sound of understanding.] Mm, that's a new-to-us type of regional variant of Ponyta from a region called Galar. They're Psychic and Fairy typed, if memory serves.

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[shiro2hero]

... Botan?

[Wow, he really should say more, shouldn't he. But here he is, just staring at the feed. Little older, little more tan. The white fluff of hair streaked with fading rainbow colors.]

That... Botan?

[styxiedust]

I know I'm biased...but I didn't think I'd get to be biased like this again, since usually by nature of my work I can't. I'm happy to be as biased as possible!

[The sincerity of love always gets her deep down in her heart, it's something unique and beautiful but so conflicting at the same time.

She never gets tired of seeing people experience it.]

That's good. That's the best part of love.

[styxiedust]

Hello, Shiro. I was waiting to hear from you.

[By nature of what she is, Botan doesn't change, that remained true until she became a human and stayed in the same place for nearly a decade. The fact that she can look at someone and recognize them even though they have aged is an inexplicably striking feeling to her.]

I hear our Armin is getting married now and, fortunately for me, my house with Korra is still around. How about that?

[styxiedust]

Psychic and Fairy, hm? [Then she supposes that's PokeGod's little joke to her.] I'll have to think of an appropriate name for it in that case.

[Right, it's coming back to her, ever so slowly, she remembers the chatter about the Aurora League, though it never mattered to her since she was designated a Breeder. The universe did it again, of course.]

I suppose you don't get a fancy castle like the Elite Four does, do you?

[liedtoyou]

[Machi is somehow completely stumped to find someone anywhere near his age talking to him. That's the impression he gives; he turns to stare blankly in Louie's vague direction, his mouth suddenly closed and expression (at best) nonplussed.

It probably doesn't help that the nuisance bird in the bush nearby has chosen to replicate Louie's infectious giggles.]

So? Bird no listen. What I supposed to doing? No listen.

[Bitterly:]

Stupid bird.

And then I KOed myself doing dog sports irl lmao

[liedtoyou]

[Oh, yes, very funny.

It's a good thing this place is an automatic translator, though, because Machi would not have known the word 'parrot.' The problem with this is that, because he doesn't know the word in English and he is stubbornly sticking to using English despite his self-taught, amateur grasp of it, he can't say anything about the parrot thing.

Which results in him turning in Radley's approximate direction, the corners of his mouth pulling down sharply under his dark sunglasses.]

Annoying bird, is I having.

[He wants to trade it in for a different starter. Why isn't that an option!?]

Val | Vampire: The Masquerade NPC I made up for a chronicle once lmao

[valkavian]

Network

[ There's a woman on the screen who looks to be about...21 or 22? She's a lot older than that, but who the fuck's counting. Her blonde hair is kinda messy and she's...oh god, she's wearing a damned ahegao shirt under that hoodie. I'd say she needs Jesus, but with the necklaces she's wearing, one that bears a cute little Jesus fish and the other of which is a tiny cross, that clearly seems to be the problem. ]

I just want one of y'all to tell me who the fuck did this.

[ There's a palpable rage in her voice even as she keeps it low and soft, as if she's saving up all that anger to tear out the throat of whoever it was who did, indeed, do this. ]

This? This is fucking disgusting. I mean none of you fucks asked to be turned into a goddamned monkey, so do I just not get a break or something?

[ There's also an Espurr next to her, eating one of the rice balls Mom packed while she gives it affectionate little headpats. Because as much as she hates everything here, the cat is fine, okay? ]

Cherrygrove

[ Having just beaten up a small child's Pokemon team and taken their lunch money, Val now finds herself in...honestly a convenience store or a Pokemart or something, staring at the variety of goods while occasionally peering off at the window where it's very clearly afternoon, the sun fully aglow.

Looks back at some drinks.

Grabs something red.

Grabs something for her Espurr.

Looks back at the sun.

And then she just...looks out the window, flipping the bird at the fucking sun, but it looks like she's flipping off absolutely no one in particular.

As her what that's about and she turns, a slight growl in her voice: ]

The fuck're you lookin' at?


(As an ooc note, I'd like everyone to look at her permissions and opt out page.)

Cherrygrove

[rolltoavoidpossession]

[Ryou is a bit taken off guard by that response, but recovers quickly enough.]

Sorry, I was just wondering. You don't have to say.

[His own Espurr stares from her perch on Ryou's shoulder, apparently unbothered by Val's rudeness.]

Network

[thornsofmalkav]

[The person on the other side of the screen is a Latina woman in her mid-twenties with pink-tipped black hair in that awkward in-between stage you get when you're growing out an old haircut. She's wearing a black hoodie which unfortunately is fairly recognizable as the zip-up version of the infamous Homestuck Space godtier hoodie over a purple shirt with a stupid joke about time travel.

There's also a little blue seal in her lap that keeps poking it's little clown nose up to peer at the screen.]

I mean, personally I think I'm okay. Like, it's weird being alive again after the whole not thing, especially considering I'm straight up for real alive and all that shit, but it's not bad. I mean, I get to eat regular food again! I love eating regular food again! And I can just eat as much as I want and I don't have to be super careful about how much I'm eating and like... always pre-eat less good food so I don't accidentally fuck up with the good food. That's priceless.

Also chocolate. Just getting chocolate again. Fuck, I missed chocolate.