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uncle-dusknoir · 4 months

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Pelipper Mail!

In the box is four things.

One, a picture from long ago; a younger Basil, around eleven or twelve, carrying a Purrloin in her hands and holding it up like the scene from that one movie The Pyroar King.

Two, a picture that that appears to be taken from some sort of magical camera (how it was taken, there is no clue) of Basil, a few weeks earlier, digging for bones for her Bhalloween Bash. One of her arms is lifted up slightly, and nudging it is the specter of a Liepard, appearing to be purring, tail wrapped gently around Basil’s sides.

Third, a Liepard plush made out of surprisingly soft cotton, with a very familiar and worn collar around its neck, sitting down.

Fourth, a note.

‘Hope this finds you well. Happy New Years, cugina.’

[Offscreen Response]

Basil's got no idea when the box got here. She might have passed by it a hundred times already, it could have appeared overnight; she just knows that one morning, after another sleepless night, she noticed it for the first time, sitting on her table as if it had always been there.

Frankly, she wasn't even sure if she wanted to open it, convinced that it would spray out a cloud of Musharna smoke and knock her out into a dream that wasn't hers- but, with a little shake, she figured whatever was in that thing was at least something solid and tangible? And she doesn't want to risk that it could be something that could go moldy.

Doesn't stop her from holding her breath as the lid cracks open... But instead of a cloud of magic mist, it's just some dust that kicks up.

(And Toothy, of course, comes to see what Mom's doing because WHAT IF IT'S FOOD?, prompting her to gently push his slobbering muzzle back because there's PAPER IN HERE, TOOTHY, I would appreciate if you didn't melt it please!)

Her eyes go first, of course, to the stuffed animal; but she moves to grab the papers first, because they're probably more important. She doesn't know what exactly she expects to see here- though her hopes aren't high- but her breath catches in her throat when she sees the first picture.

She looked so young. Corro was so small. Her coat- still a vibrant purple, even after the million years since this image was taken- and Basil can't help but remember that that was her favorite skirt when she was a kid- and oh Arceus who let her put her hair up like that- and she has to squeeze her eyes shut and wipe away the budding tears and take a deep breath. What was the last time she's even seen a baby picture?

Deep breath. It doesn't help that Mint's found her way up onto the couch, trying to grab Basil's glasses off of her face. Though she tries to stop the Sneasel, she manages to get at them first. She has to wait patiently for Mint to stop staring at them before she can get them back and (gently) prod her on the nose.

When she managed to look at the next picture she stopped breathing entirely.

She was still here.

She felt something inside of her ache, tensing like she had been shot. She was still here. There's still a chance. If she could only do the right thing, find the right materials, speak to the right- no. She can't. She's not going to let herself slide down that path. But she's still here... and really, how hard would it be?

She feels herself get dizzy and suddenly gasps, starting the Pokemon on the couch, when she realizes she wasn't breathing. A couple more deep breaths, but they were less to quell the tears and more to fill her lungs again with oxygen. Fuck. She's still here. Basil can't do anything about it. That's not a statement of life, that's a command. Please, please, don't let her do anything about it.

She barely even cares about the last note other than to see who sent the package in the first place. Cugina, cousin, of course it would have been Sage. Did Rosie set him up to this? Or was it just chance?

Finally, finally, she can grab the Liepard and clutch it to her chest, trying not to let the poor thing get wet against her face. With a nervous whine, Toothy noses at her; she lets her other arm reach around him and scratch at his thick winter coat, as if it's the only thing she can do. As if it's not an Obstagoon sitting next to her.

Fuck. She's still here.

#basilblogging #ask #tw pokemon death

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nemesis-is-my-middle-name · 1 year

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Arezu thinks that because they're both wardens and wearing Clan uniforms that she and Ingo more similar to each other than they are to the other two. She is sadly very mistaken. Actually, does she even know that Ingo isn't native? Sure he's the weirdest person in Hisui, including the protag, with weird clothes and turns of phrase, but that's easily handwaved as prophet bullshit. Unless the Pearl Clan kinda rolled him out like, "hi, thank you all for coming, this is Ingo, he's our newest warden and... drumroll please... a prophet of Sinnoh who fell from the sky onto our lands! Boom our Sinnoh is clearly the correct one since they blessed us with him and not you, suck it haters." But yes, Arezu is really the only one on this trip who actually cares about their god, aside from maybe Lilligant and the protag. Even Sneasler, a noble descended from Sinnoh's champions, is just here because that's where her dude and the entertainment are. Ingo and Cyllene are most definitely in the "not my god" camp.

Yes, oh my god, and now I also can't help but think that in OoP she was pretty bummed out that she was tasked with keeping Rei out of the fray when Emmet turned out to be a really good battler who made that fight look awesome lol. Wait, okay okay, so we know that when you fight Ingo with his own team he says part of Emmet's pre-multi battle lines. What if, were he to battle against another person with Sneasler as either his ace or a 1v1, he did part of Emmet's pre-super double battle lines instead? Telling them to give it their all, because if a battle is not serious, it is not fun.

Well, my thinking re: catching pokemon to break the frenzy, was because when you catch an alpha pokemon in the game it's completely chill afterward. Fighting them to a k.o. might work too, since part of breaking the nobles' frenzy is wearing them down enough for the bags of comfort food to actually work their magic, but if the option is fight or catch, catching is probably easier in most cases because it won't completely exhaust their pokemon. And also catching in pokeballs is really the only thing I could think of that could be even vaguely vaccine-esque that'd also work with arceus sending a teenager from the future to fix things, especially if we keep the seek out all pokemon mandate. Maybe arceus gives the protag the ability to like, imbue pokeballs with a bit of their power or something, idk.

If battling can break the frenzy if they're knocked out, then the best case scenario would be for Lilligant to frenzy first, because should the others somehow not be able to stand up to her, Sneasler would be on her level and also super effective against her. The frenzy would give Lilligant an extra boost, so it likely couldn't just be Sneasler though. If battling on its own doesn't work and the nobles have to be caught somehow... well that might cause problems with the clans, for one thing.

LOL YEAH... sorry arezu you might have been right if you were paired with Literally Any Other Warden but nope you got the weirdo one instead. and HMM that's a good question... lol you know what would be funny is if the other wardens don't really know not bc ingo intentionally didn't tell them but bc he. didn't realize it was news. like everyone in the pearl clan knew immediately bc they were There when he got there, but the diamond clan wardens? everybody just forgot to update them on it. but that might not be super believable either... it might be like ounce of prevention's adaman, where she knows he's not native bc that's fairly obvious just from talking to him but didn't realize he was from The Sky. or maybe not idk!

wkwjhwjh YEAH she mighta been huh. and. OOOOH... aaaa man that little bit of trivia still hurts my heart so much and this spin on it is SO good... yes yes i love it. also the fact that he presumably remembers the multis lines in canon bc he would have been hearing those semi-daily when they battled together, but if the super doubles lines are also so close to hand then that means he's also heard those really frequently, maybe bc they spar battle each other in different formats a lot too which is already a hc of mine and YEAH. I LIKE IT

no no yeah i think the reasoning for this au works i was just saying that it's kind of. a goofy decision on the part of canon to make that work shksjhskjh. i think to make the "seek out all pokemon" thing more plot relevant it's actually a very elegant solution!! and ooh "imbuing pokeballs with divine power" is a cool thing... then i wonder if instead of balms, it works functionally the same way but you're hucking blessed pokeballs at them instead? hmm

ooh yeah, maybe sneasler's battling to keep her attention and wear her out, and then the protag is busy lining up a throw? but YEAH problems with the clans is a fair point... although lilligant's warden would be there to sign off on it so maybe that would give them some legitimacy? idk

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #origin visions au

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