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JANUARY - FEBRUARY TEST DRIVE MEME

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[A is for Action in Azalea]

[Surely...this should be easy, right? Battle a Pokemon, weaken it, then catch it. As long as you don't touch the Slowpoke in town, nobody will mind.

Except her Rufflet seems to be terrified of even a Bounsweet, which at first shivered in fear at the sight of a potential predator but...stopped when it realized that it wouldn't fight.]

Come on, Courage... [The Meister tries to coax her Pokemon, and yes the Rufflet's name is straight up Courage.] It's okay, just use a Peck attack.

[Courage squeaks instead of doing anything as the Bounsweet made a slight investigative move towards him, the small Pokemon retreats behind his trainer's legs shivering with fear.]

Aw...that's okay, we'll try again later. [Even the Bounsweet looks like she feels sorry for the scared little thing.]

[B is for Booooooks in Ecruteak.]

[Now this is what Maka is all about--a vast library nearly on par with the Academy's, stuffed to the brim with all the information she could feasibly want about the world.

Of course, the problem is that Maka Albarn is, in fact, a short 14 year old girl. How will she solve the problem of wanting to get a book on a top shelf without inconveniencing anyone around her?

Climb right up, of course. It's...actually quite impressive how nimbly she climbs up.]

Got it! [That was totally worth it. Though now she'll have to judge how far she can drop down without hurting herself. Courage the Rufflet is, of course, flapping and flailing on one of the tables looking as worried as all get out about his trainer.]

[C is for Can't you see I'm out of ideas?]

[This is the wildcard option!]

That is either adorable...or pathetic I'm not sure which...can it be both?

[A pink haired, pink eyed girl is watching the display, a massive white beast of a pokemon with bright orange stripes trailing behind her holding shopping bags. If Maka's done her homework she'll recognize it as a Incineroar, though it's colors are not the normal colors for one.]

Has he had any actual fights yet? Or was that his first?

[~~If Maka has done her homework, that's a funny joke--nearly every moment not spent training, Maka is reading about Pokemon.~~ Pink eyes, pink hair, no big deal--one of her best witchy friends has pink hair, after all. A white bipedal tiger is very interesting as shown by the momentary pause where she examines it, tilting her head to one side.]

Well... [Technically Jinx said something insulting about Courage, but...didn't mean to, exactly? It's not as though she's wrong, anyway, the display was very much unimpressive--if her Pokemon were a Meister, there would be some unpleasant consequences for cowardice, like death, or torment. Maybe both.

But since there hasn't been an occasion to bring up the more extreme parts of her lifestyle, nobody would know about that.] He did fine against some Metapod before, for the most part though I've been the one to protect him from wild Pokemon. Not that I mind that, it's just people seem a little freaked out when I ask if antidote works on people and so on.

[ ~~as a closeted nerd, Jinx can respect that.~~ The massive fire cat flexes proudly, always enjoying the attention she got from being a shiny. In the meantime Jinx listens and nods thoughtfully.]

Been there, done that. I'm used to fighting threats myself not making my minions do all the work. But in this world it's almost impossible to keep up with pokemon power.

[She shrugs and pats her pokemon who purrs like a giant kitten.]

Not that we stop trying of course.

Mm, yeah, like in some kind of special unit? That's how it was for me back home at my school, but here it's no weapons, no abilities, lots of adults saying it's okay to make animals fight.

[Of course, it's very bloodless combat. Almost more fantastical or like an RPG (which Maka has also played). But they couldn't possibly be in a video game world, that would just be preposterous.]

It'll take a while for Courage to grow, but that's okay. I just don't have the advantage of being here that long. Like your...that's an Incineroar, right? It must be really strong.

Yeah...actually that sounds about right. In my school we were a team of three until we graduated. Then we upgraded to five.

...well maybe upgrade is the wrong word. It didn't exactly make us more effective all the time.

[ Miss Fortune lowers herself to Courage's level offering a friendly smile...but it's also full of fangs so it's hard to overlook them.]

Yeah! I've had her for almost a year. She's one of my most ambitious pokemon. That's why she had to be my choice to perform in the pokemon contest...wait have you been here long enough for that?

Haha, nope, especially not when you have meatheaded boys on your team.

[Mild dig at the opposite sex aside, Maka kneels to be at level with her Rufflet who happens to be shaking in response to Miss Fortune's niceness. She hopes, maybe, with her right next to him the Pokemon will realize the cat is just being friendly and not intending to eat the bird.]

It's okay, Courage, she's not gonna hurt you. --Um, a couple of weeks? I usually head to whatever bookstore or library when I come to a new town, though, so if that was on TV I would have missed that. It sounds fun, she probably did a really cool performance right?

And not even the high quality meat either. Like mystery meat in a jumpsuit basically.

[She treasures her friends, honestly she does.]

Pfft, OK you and I are gonna get along just fine.

[Jinx too basically threw herself into books on her first week, but they were all in the Team Rocket Library.]

It's super fun. It's like...instead of battling you can choreograph and perform using your pokemon's attacks. Ms. Fortune was a natural.

[Ms. Fortune purrs louder and offers the Rufflet a thumbs up praising in the language of the pokemon.]

Someday you'll be a big shot too kid. Just gotta find your backbone!

[Fellow book lover! Harry is in the library as well when he notices the young teen....climbing a bookshelf. He walks over. This would be more alarming if his daughter wasn't....Heather. You get immune to phases like CLIMB ALL THE THINGS after a while.]

Are you alright up there?

[A wild adult appears! Of course Maka has no reason to be anything but polite towards adults, it's the basic rule at the Academy to always be polite to authority figures. She nods, smiles, gives a thumbs up--that's safe to do while hanging on a bookshelf, isn't it?]

Yes, sir, I'm fine! Just figuring out how best to get down now.

[The distressed bird thinks this is the opposite of fine.]

[Yup, you definitely remind him of his daughter.]

Okay....just stay there. I'm going to see if I can find a chair....or maybe a ladder. If you jump from that height you're liable to hurt yourself.

[She would perhaps be violent enough to pick up a rusty pipe in lieu of a proper weapon, but as for everything else related to Heather that remains to be seen.]

Well...I know that, sir, but I'll be fine. I've had worse.

["Worse" evident by whatever caused the traces of scars along her legs, no doubt. There's small ones that look like scratches from rough and tumble kid stuff, sure, but then...there's ones that look like claws, teeth marks, burns. Not something generally found on teenagers.

But she's fine.]

I don't want to be a bother.

That's .....

[Not really reassuring? Sorry he's worried already.]

No it's not a bother. Just wait there. I'll be right back.

[He's going to get a step stool, or a chair, if he can't find an old fashioned library ladder.]

Aw, heck.

[Now this poor man is troubling himself because he happened to catch onto her adventures! It's weird how attentive adults are in Johto--her own father would have been concerned like that, of course, but most others would leave it to her to handle it. That is how a Death City kid does things.

Though he did ask her to "wait there"--would ignoring that and jumping anyway be disobeying an adult? It's not like he can ground her or send her to a dungeon, even if the inclination to obey is still stronger than be independent.]

I should've just jumped right away.

[That morbid thought spoken aloud brought to you by no mental filter.]

[Harry manages to find a small library type ladder and brings it over. It's just a little shorter then where she is.]

Alright. Try climbing down the shelves and onto the ladder. I'll hold it still, so it won't fall.

[Sorry, he's in dad mode.]

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