Test drive meme - July & August

[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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JOHTO | KANTO | SEVII ISLANDS

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Comments

[oleaeuropaea]

What?

[That's all Vash can think to ask at first. His mind, once racing with the possibilities of this strange future that Livio describes, now goes deadly quiet. For a long moment, he feels nothing. There is no desperation — not yet at least. Just a simple, flicker of hope that he's misheard.]

[livlaughlove]

[Ah. Yeah. That's what he was afraid of.

What more does he even say? He removes his hand from his Pokemon, balling both fists in the sand, not risking harming anything.]

Nico protected every one'a those kids. Miss Melanie, too. An' he saved me.

[oleaeuropaea]

[In many ways, Vash is unsure why this news hits him so hard. Wolfwood was a good man, to be sure, and had even been something of a friend to him. But they hadn’t known each other that long. In that time, they’d frequently butted heads. Hell, he couldn’t even be sure that the Undertaker even liked him.

And yet, it was as he’d only just said. Wolfwood was a good man. Vash had seen that in his eyes from the moment they’d met. It didn’t matter, where he’d come from, who he was working for, or what his end goal was. You didn’t give everything to save a friend, a city, an orphanage, if you didn’t have a good soul.

And now the world felt a little duller, knowing that in some way, he was gone.]

I’m sorry, Livio. I can’t imagine what this must be like for you.

[livlaughlove]

Ah... Ya don't gotta worry about me, really. Hell, he'd be pissed t'see me mopin'. I'm just glad it ain't like this fer you.

[He shakes the sand off a hand to rub at his head again, and gives a short laugh when -- surprise, he missed some, and now it's all in his hair and on his shirt.]

Heh... guess some things never change, though.

[oleaeuropaea]

[The distraction is nice, because Vash has no idea what to say about that. There's knot in his stomach that won't go away, doubts for the future that gnaw at him endlessly.]

Some things but... [He nods to the bay.]

I don't think I'll get used to that.

[livlaughlove]

[Time to suppress again! Livio's real good at that. His eyes follow Vash's gesture and he focuses on the gentle waves to dull the throb in his temple.]

Yeah... Almost makes ya forget what things were like on No Man's Land. Can hardly believe what we've been missin' the whole time, 'n how it's just taken fer granted here. [His tone isn't accusatory at all, just awestruck.]

[oleaeuropaea]

[At that, Vash can only make a face.]

The people of No Man's Land deserved better than what they ended up getting. The home they wanted, all those years ago.

[It's been awhile since he's been able to say that out loud. But he's pretty sure Livio understands where he's coming from. Otherwise this conversation is about to be real awkward.]