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Isabela Madrigal | Encanto

[senorita_perfecta]

Route 29
Isabela is still in shock of what happened to her right now. She has went from tending the gardens at Casita only to be blacked out to waking up at a strange house and being sent off her way by a cheery woman who certainly isn’t Julieta. There was apparently no time to ask questions of her current whereabouts or about her family. And yet she got no answers

She barely survived countless Sentrets and those squirrel things whose name evades her as she tries to get to the end of the route for what might have felt like hours and yet Isabela manages to get out of the forest, pretty much out of breath and with a little green bud like Pokémon with stubby legs.

“Bud, Budew, Dew? Budew,” the little bud creature wonders if they have escaped those pesky normal types by now.

Violet City
After a few days have passed, Isabela manages to find her way into Violet City to make a stopover, rest up and get more supplies. She is looking around the city for some stuff for the trip ahead and the Budew (named Carmen) is wobbling behind her, practically in awe of what she is seeing. Turning to find a PokéMart, she enters the establishment, hoping to find supplies she would need within her budget since she has not applied for a job just yet despite being of age by Jotho standards.

“Hi, I’m looking for some stuff for the next couple of weeks. Is there anything I can find within my price point?” she asks to anyone near her while Carmen happily dances around her feet.

Bellibolt-Oh No!
It had to be her most unlucky day that she has taken the moment to have a nice relaxing lunch by the pond and possibly catch some water type Pokemon while it is raining. The young lady does wish that she could have gotten a sturdier umbrella and yet it somehow managed to slip out of her mind as she fights to keep the one she has in place. But that is nothing compared to what happens next. While she is trying to steady the umbrella for her and Carmen’s picnic and fighting the March rain showers, Isabela could hear noises from near the water’s edge though it is hard to tell what species it could come from due to the current weather.

The little Budew nervously shakes as she turns her small body around to find it. Isabela can tell that those noises are giving her quite a fright that she gets up to walk up to the edge to find a big green smiley frog thing(?). This is clearly the first time she has seen something like this. Yep, that is enough Pokémon spotting for her as she tries to return to her resting spot and yet the frog Pokémon is following as if it wants to hug her. This is getting her to be pretty nervous as she tries to back away from it, not knowing how powerful this thing could be. And yes, Isabela might have made an unlikely new friend in this unbelievably friendly wild Bellibolt.

Wildcard
Hi this is Mari the Harry player. I am testing out Isabela right now. Have a different prompt in mind? Put it down in the comments below. You can find me at Plurk (mariscorner) and Discord (Mariposa21 #4257). I can match your style (brackets or prose).

Bellibolt

[crystalmaster]

Radley is in town filling an order or two and happens to see the scene. He has never seen Bellibolt before and also has no idea what to expect. And now his adorable Evie the Eevee wants to make new friends!

"Vee-vee-vee!" she exclaims, barreling towards them both.

Radley gives chase, trying to hold on to his own umbrella. "Evie! Wait!"

Evie sits down and tilts her head. "Vee?"

[senorita_perfecta]

Isabela is still spooked out by the Bellibolt’s desire to find a friend when she also hears other voices coming into where she is at. Soon she is able to catch a glimpse of a fluffy brown fox Pokémon running towards her and the Bellibolt. This little one is so cute and adorable.

“Bud?” Carmen squeaks up from the blanket she is sitting on to keep it from flying away.

“Oh why hello there,” Isabela greets Evie while exchanging glances at the big electric frog, “You want to get a closer look at this fellow too?”

[crystalmaster]

"Eevee-vee!" Evie squeals.

Radley catches up. "Hi. This is Evie. I'm Radley." He smiles. "Any time she sees potential new friends, she runs over."

[senorita_perfecta]

“Nice to meet you, Radley,” she turns to meet Evie’s trainer, “I’m Isabela and that little bud creature is Carmen, she is my starter Pokémon. That big frog is a, um, Bellibolt as my Pokédex has told me.”

“Bud-Dew! Dew,” Carmen calls out from her picnic blanket sitting.

“Belli-bolt, Bolt! Bellibot!” the Bellibolt happily croaks.

[crystalmaster]

"Hi," Radley smiles.

He pales to hear the frog's name. "Belli ... bolt?" It's electric?

"Eevee-vee-vee!" Evie says cheerfully to Bellibolt.

[senorita_perfecta]

“From what I read in the Pokédex, it is definitely an Electric type. And for a wild one, he sure is being absolutely friendly to strangers,” Isabela awkwardly confirms it with Radley, “Unless I have a Ground type to shoo him away, he might be following me and Carmen around Jotho until I could somehow catch him.”

“Bellibot! Bolt,” the frog croaks again.

[crystalmaster]

Radley tries to back away without it being obvious he's backing away. "I don't think you should make him mad," he says. "He's so friendly, he probably wouldn't be hard to catch. Maybe he wants to go with you and he'd just agree to it without a battle. A couple of mine just followed us around and came with us willingly."

[senorita_perfecta]

“Wait, I could catch him if he doesn’t want to fight? He doesn’t look like the type to start a fight.”

Radley, did you just encourage her to catch this electric frog? She does have some PokéBalls laying around for her to use. So maybe she can get her first catch right about now. Rushing back to her bag to retrieve one, the Bellibolt happily cheers as she returns with it.

“Belli-bolt!” the Bellibot croaks again as she puts it near him so he could touch the ball’s button.

“Um here? Try to touch the button on this ball to get inside,” she tells him.

The Bellibolt happily taps on it before he gets sucked into the ball via energy. It took a while for the ball to register it but the Bellibolt has now joined her team.

Violet City

[mamalike]

[Eda sighs and shakes her head at the question.]

Your guest is as good as mine, sister. I haven't been here long myself. I was planning to swipe what I needed from this place, [The way Eda sees it, this realm owes her big time.] but their security isn't as pathetic as I'd hoped.

[senorita_perfecta]

Oh wow. That’s pretty fair. I heard that the Jennies are very diligent to find any criminals on the loose. I certainly didn’t expect them to this tough though.

Bud? Budew.

[mamalike]

[Hearing the young woman deem her idea of theft as "pretty fair" - at least that's how she hears it - brightens Eda's mood a bit.]

Don't get me wrong, if I had my powers back, I could take care of them without breaking a sweat. [She snickers. Even with access to just glyphs, Eda's confident of that.] I'm just not sure my Pokemon partner has it in her to take them on. Don't get me wrong, she's got spunk! But the strength to back it up? That's debatable.

[senorita_perfecta]

Sounds like she must have some spirit in her. I got to admit that my partner is small at the moment though it is not without her wanting to take on battles and challenges. She does have some moves to defend her in any situation.

Bud, Budew! Dew!

[mamalike]

You keep her out of her Pokeball, huh? That's fun. I'm not exactly what you'd call a plant person, but I gotta admire something that puny wanting to battle.

[senorita_perfecta]

Budew! Dew, Bud!

Well as it turns out, Carmen hates being stuck inside a Pokéball. I tried to get her to go inside a couple of times and she is like nope, I am going to stick with you all the time. Funnily enough, I guess that the reason I got her might have to do with my knack for plants.

[mamalike]

[Eda looks down at the Budew with a snort of a laugh, looking almost fond.]

Well, dang, I wouldn't have guessed it was your call, Carmen. Good for you, ya little bud. [She looks back up to Isabela.] Plant fan? Not my thing, but I know someone who's made that kinda thing work well for her, in a way. So, are you a gardener?

Route 29

[duelingexpert]

"Hey, uh.. are you alright there?" Catching sight of the lady as she emerged from the forest and could begin trying to catch her breath. He took note of the pokémon at her heels but said nothing about it. It clearly wasn't acting aggressively, so it likely belonged to her.

Tristan was still trying to get the hang of everything himself, so unfortunately there wasn't much he had to offer her other than an ear to tell her troubles to. One forest looks like any other if it's a forest you've never been in before.

[senorita_perfecta]

It took Isabela a while to take note of where the voice came but she did get up to find a young man person who happens to be near by. Clearly the route forests are completely different from the jungles near the encanto, she have seen many of them for most of her life.

The little bud squeaks as she sees Tristan as well, “Bud? Budew.”

“Um, I’m definitely alright, but it looks like some of these squirrels and rabbit earred things just wanted to chase after Carmen just because she is pretty small,” she explains to him, “I tried to shield her from them but it did got out of control.”

[duelingexpert]

"It looks like they were chasing more than just Carmen," At least from his perspective, and he suspected she might have felt the same way otherwise she could have just recalled her pokémon into it's ball and deescalated the situation that way.

It was at about this time, when his chimchar swung down out of a nearby tree to plop itself onto his trenchcoated shoulder. He hadn't thought of a name for it yet, but it seemed friendly enough despite that.

"You were lucky to make it back here. Were you traveling out there by yourselves?"

[senorita_perfecta]

“Unfortunately yes, I have no one else but Carmen with me when I left New Bark Town,” she replies to him, “It must be terrifying that have all of those creatures wanting to chase after her like she was food to them and me having to keep her safe.”

“Budew! Dew,” Carmen squeaks as she sees Tristan’s Chimchar coming down from the tree, “Bud, Dew?”

[duelingexpert]

"Then it looks like we're in the same boat." Although Tristan hadn't made it anywhere yet he was set to start traveling on his own too. "I guess to them, she does kind of look like food." After the briefest pause and some quiet consideration he added the following, "Look, I'm definitely no expert on ... any of this, but wouldn't it be safer for her if you kept her out of sight?" Deciding to voice what he'd been thinking earlier.

"Chim char, char." The pokémon returned in kind. Chimchar wouldn't be opposed to a little snack himself but Budew wasn't on the menu. Something fruiter perhaps would be more appealing.

"Though I guess that would make it hard to train her, right?"

[senorita_perfecta]

“Correct considering that she is a grass type, it would be too easy for them to see her as food. Yeah it would be very difficult to get her to be strong enough to battle other Pokémon if she does not have a lot of battle experience. She wants to help though she doesn’t know where to start,” Isabela nods in agreement.

“Oh I got an idea, maybe I could on check my Pokédex to see what moves she can to keep those squirrels away from us.”

[duelingexpert]

"You're kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place then." Absentmindedly, he reached up to give his pokémon a few strokes to the head as he kept his attention on her. "You know what she's thinking?" That only sounded a little peculiar to Tristan, as his gaze swept down to the Budew and back. "Did you get one that's able to talk or something?" There were times, several in fact, where he couldn't tell what his monster wanted at all. Maybe if he'd had a pet or something growing up then it would have made it easier.

"So you already know how to use that thing? ... I know I'm supposed to be helping you but I'm clueless on all of this. Can you show me what I'm supposed to do with this stuff?" And which one the Pokédex even is. That would be a good start. "I'm Tristan, by the way. Tristan Taylor, you are?"

violet city

[nonmagical]

Mirabel was visiting Violet City to check out the gym, having been interested in these "gym challenges". As she's exploring, she gets caught up in the rain. The Pokemon Center seems a little too far away, but as she's making her way there...

"Isabela!"

She'd recognize her sister anywhere... the rain is forgotten as she runs to her.

"ISABELA!!"

[senorita_perfecta]

Did someone called her name? Isabela could have sworn hearing that familiar voice anywhere as she turns around to find the soruce. When it happened, Isabela almost forgets about her supply shopping and goes running for Mirabel immediately.

“Mira! Mira!” she cries out while Carmen wobbles after her, trying to play catch up.