Pokémingle 2: The Pokémingling

[a_gentle_boy]

It's another lovely summer day! It's later in summer now and as the excitement from the previous weeks die down, another sign goes up in the local park...

Pokémingle!! Back by popular demand!

It's an open event for Pokémon of any kind! Play games, walk together, and relax in the sun! Trainers, let your Pokémon take the day off! Let's make Pokéfriends!! (^_^)

((Pokémingle returns! While the base premise is that it's a relaxing day at a park, feel free to respond with other top-level comments with what else your Pokémon might be doing around Union. No real rules about top-level threads, so if you want to include all of your Pokémon in one thread or do separate ones for a few Pokémon, go ahead. (Try not to make top-levels for 15 different Pokémon though if possible.) No trainers allowed!! Or at least, minimal trainer interference!

Let's make PokéCR!! ^_^ ))

Comments

[niepokonany]

You don't think so?

[She doesn't seem like she'll try to say too much -- she's listening, though, and she'll keep prompting, keep trying to open up a safe space for him.]

[future_sight]

I've never been very good with others.

[niepokonany]

[Bless his heart, poor thing...]

Some of us aren't. That doesn't mean we don't deserve friends, too.

May I be your friend, perhaps, if you don't mind?

[future_sight]

[He pauses as if to contemplate it.]

If you'd like.

[niepokonany]

I'd like.

[She sits in companionable quietude for a minute or two.]

And how long have you known your trainer? Did you grow up in the city?

[future_sight]

Since we were very little, right after her parents died.

[niepokonany]

I'm sorry to hear that, about her parents. At least she had you there to help her...

I met mine a long time ago, as well.

[future_sight]

It was all very sudden, and she doesn't like to talk about very much.

[He bows his head a little.]

How did you two meet?

[niepokonany]

When I was a Ralts...

[She draws her knees up and in slightly, protectively.]

Some human boys were picking on me. My trainer... He's small even now. He was tiny then. But he's never liked bullies.

He was hurt fighting to protect me, even though he didn't know me, but it didn't frighten him. He knew what he felt was right, and he was so determined...

He's always been so strong, and so kind. I was the only one who knew it for a long time, though. He isn't... very good with most other humans.

[future_sight]

That's very sweet of him. He's lucky to have you. [Not one of many words, the tone of voice, and his warm smile, say it all.]

[niepokonany]

I try. We've both grown up a lot together.