Cue training montage

[blade_psychic]

[Video]

[Hey look, it's a pompadour on your screen, followed a close-up eyeball as Kuwabara tries to figure out if this is working or not. Finally, he pulls it back a bit, and you get to see his face, with an entertained grin.]

Hey, everyone! This thing is pretty cool, heheh! I'm Kazuma Kuwabara, and I'm the worst punk at Union University! But that's not what this is about. I was just wondering, does anyone know how to get a pokemon to fight? I mean I'm not gonna force him into fights or anything, but he's scared of pretty much everything, so I wanna teach him how to fight, so maybe he won't be as scared, y'know?

[Action]

If you're wandering the streets between towers in the Residential District, you might see something strange - a teenager trying to get his own pokemon to attack him.

"C'mon, Eikichi, just hit me with whatever you've got. I promise it won't hurt me, I'm way too tough. I bet it won't even be that strong, you little wimp!"

The poor pokemon he's yelling at is an Espurr that's just staring passively at him. It might be a statue if it didn't blink periodically. It would be almost impossible for most people to tell how it feels about this, but someone that could sense emotions would feel that it's scared and anxious - not of the trainer, but pretty much everything and everyone else.

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[for_realsies]

[Action - Caves: Any day during the past week.]

Since the quakes had died down, and things seemed to be back at a level of boring, Imogen figured she would take some time to herself and go check on the Pokemon she met during the mine expedition. Make sure the icy ones were out of the caves and the groundlings were happy. She also wanted to be sure they were okay after all the problems the quakes caused. The Earthquakes had to do some damage, and maybe she could do something to help? While she was there she took the time to train. Along with her partners.

She found a cavern that the Arons were okay with her training in, since some of it required use of powers. Coldwave set up an icy floor as her exercise, with small patches of bare ground just the right size for an Eevee to land on. Which is why Brighteyes and Lash were playing the floor is lava ice, racing from one bare spot to the next. Sandtrap was waiting to clean this mess up with his arena trap as his exercise. Flatform and Bluescale weren't along, they weren't keen caves. And Bluescale terrified the locals.

Imogen was tech climbing one of the walls as her bit of exercise. She'd already done her runs on an obstacle course of ice and earth from her partners. But if anyone is here, due to general exploring or more specific missions... come bother Imogen while she trains.

[Action - Union City Shopping District: Evening]
Imogen had cleaned up a bit, changed, and made sure her partners were fed and resting after a hard week of intensive training. So now she was doing some R&R. Which means shopping! She was done up in her best noble gear, as it made it a lot easier to get service in the shops. Her travel worn Delver gear always left people questioning her means. While useful to go unnoticed it left quite a bit of rude sneers she didn't have time for.

She still had about four colors too many in her outfit, but anyone could tell the quality of the silks and cottons were top of the line. She had to have some coin to her name. She's looking through the raw fabrics, and the clothes trying to decide if she wants a new mix and match outfit, or to make something more elaborate when she gets home. Choices choices....

[Action]

[choseneutrality]

[With everything winding down and settling back into the usual routine Flynn was once again back in his usual routine. For now at least. Currently, he was in the market area trying to restock on the food he'd been meaning to get for awhile now. Mandrake was with him, bouncing up and floating back down to the ground in long leaps, keeping up with him.

Flynn managed to get the bread he wanted and was currently heading towards the vegetable stand when he passed by a father and mother with their child. He didn't mean to stare after them but seeing the happy sight made it hard not to. It took the green Hoppip at his side asking him what he was looking at to bring him back to earth.]

It's nothing.

[His lapse in paying attention to what was in front of him resulted in him accidently bumping into another body.]

Excuse me.

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[rydiaofmist]

[Amidst the snow and cold of Union, a strange woman walks the streets in minimal, what looked to be handmade winter gear, not nearly as affected by it as she has any right to be. She is tall, striking green eyes and even more unusual green hair thrown partially over on shoulder, looking more wild than anything else. Gliding above her is a Pidgey, a band of brightly-colored beads wrapped around its right ankle; and rested on her shoulder is a Goomy, likewise adorned with a necklace of differently-colored beads, part of which seem to have been enveloped within its gooey body. She walks without purpose, simply watching, seemingly mystified by what she saw.

Scouting the outer wall did not prepare her for what was inside. These people lived piled atop one another, and there were so many of them! They dressed strangely, too (what were these things called petticoats, and why did some women insist upon wearing them?), almost completely covered from head to toe, and in such drab colors. This Union, it was a strange place, so very different from what she was used to.]

Video / Action

[comparative_insanity]

[[Video:]]

[Well, someone is certainly using the new video function to its full advantage. That is to say showing himself off by pirrouetting happily for the audience - presumably someone else is holding the band - before saying anything at all. That sure is a snazzy waistcoat, and a very sharp ruffled shirt. The fact that he's chosen to combine these two items with a flouncy skirt and something quite like this only makes it more fierce, right? Right.]

[Then he's leaning in against the camera and smiling widely, in a way that suggests even through a recording that this boy might not always understand all the subtleties of personal space.]

Well, that was all rather exciting, wasn't it~? [If he'd ever been utterly terrified to the point of possibly suffering a heart attack during that entire intermezzo, he certainly isn't showing it now.]

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but after all that adventuring and all that followed, I've got some steam to blow off before I spontaneously Selfdestruct, you know? [He laughs, happily bouncing a bit where he sits.]

So, what do you say? I'll be hitting Teeter's later tonight, and anyone who wants to come can tag along~. Drinks are most definitely on me for all those who can and want to drink. Sooo~, how about it? Anyone else care to loosen up a bit and have some fun?

[[Action:]]

[And indeed, later that night Fai is to be found at Teeter's. and he'll buy anyone a drink who asks for it, prattle happily at everyone he recognizes - and some people he doesn't - and generally looking slightly out of place in those fancy, fancy clothes of his that just scream nobility. The pokémon that are with him are similarily dressed up to the teeth too. If you've never seen a rather stroppy Croagunk in a little dress, well, here's your chance.]

[Still, nothing seems to be stopping him from having fun, so do follow his example. Feel free to pester him, or be pestered by him, or be a sudden and involontary perch for a Pidove in a tiny vest, or anything else that you can imagine.]