Pokemon: The Beach & Bay

[idolpro]

Keep heading past the downtown area and you'll come to a sunny beach and the ocean! There's a stall where you can trade your uniform for a unit-appropriate swimsuit so you and your Pokemon can enjoy the sand and the sea together! There's a cart nearby that gives out lemonade and ice cream for free to help you beat the heat. You can also take advantage of the local ferry: although there's a massive sign that reads "Safari Bio-Dome, Coming Soon!" for now it's mostly good for sight-seeing all the marine Pokemon in the bay or catch-and-release fishing off the side.

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And happy chirps as Dratini stands at her full height with good posture so Ditto doesn't fall. Why their trainers gotta be like this?

And once they get out of the Game Tower, Intensity will walk with B back to the hotel, leaving it up to B to choose the floor when they get into the elevator]

[liarliarliar]

[strangely enough its FIN

cuz worried brothers can be a pain]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[That's fair.

But instead of the lab (which is a horrifying mess of mechanical limbs at the moment), he leads B out to the balcony. Which is enclosed - and has Blue Eyes gently napping in her oversized pet bed.

She opens her eye to regard the two (and the pokemon) but then quickly goes back to napping.

Intensity gestures for B to sit where some blankets have been piled together near Blue Eyes on the floor]

[liarliarliar]

[ugh heights

B will get comfy, turned so he's not looking out into the endless expanse of sky]

There's not really too much to tell. Ah...

Know of the novel light novel concept of being trapped in time loops?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Oh that's not a great start]

Yes.

...

So you and yours are in a time loop?

[liarliarliar]

Mmm. Murdered repeatedly by the same guy.

So.

Neechan felt she had to end the loop. For all of us. Herself, me, our siblings. Her friends.

It's hard to be upset when there doesn't seem to be any other choice.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

[Older siblings, man. Older siblings.]

Does that mean you can now take the Heaven option if you're given a choice? And if you do - will you see her again?

[liarliarliar]

I can.

Ah. She even. Just to be sure. Wished for our entire family to be moved to where the twins are from. She gave me the happy ending. She didn't. Ask any of us though.

And I don't know if...

Even if she can visit, is it really okay to. Leave her like that.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Better that than left behind as an idol.

...

Do you know what kind of responsibilities she has? I only heard about them briefly from Yasuragi.

[liarliarliar]

No. She didn't really elaborate. A lot of our time was spent with her explaining why she was doing what she did. Sorry.

But she does intend to do games so I can ask when she does. Neechan wouldn't yank me around on this sort of this.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That wasn't for the sake of information. That was for you. According to Yasuragi, you don't have to run games. But there is an expectation that you do some service in accordance with Azzy's domain. So in that sense - games might be easier.

But I'm more concerned about how you are going to handle seeing her as a host. And how she's going to handle that if that's her intention.

[liarliarliar]

Internal screaming. Which I've been doing for days now and only the twins noticed so.

[thumbs up]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Do you need to do some external screaming?

[liarliarliar]

That would be very unbecoming....wouldn't it?

Especially with new girls to look after.

Ah, X is gone. Make may have told you.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

My lab is soundproof.

[But that gives him pause and his expression is rather conflicted at the news.

Partially because B is trying to change topics on him. And partially because what did he feel about X really]

No. I hadn't heard anything about that.

[liarliarliar]

Sorry, I thought Maki would have told you... I should have texted you. I know you two had some. Weird thing.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Well. A lot of things are "weird".

[As he makes the actual physical quotes in the air]

Maki and I are still...

[How to put this]

Recovering from her Live. And everything that happened afterwards.

[liarliarliar]

...yeah. She and I. Made up? Ish? From our own situations? But it felt. Mmm...

I don't know if she actually cares about how I feel I guess.

Are you having that sort of problem?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She's infatuated with King now. Apparently they got together shortly afterwards. "Doesn't know what she'd do without him."

Her words. Not mine.

On one hand, maybe next time she decides to kill someone she "loves" in a murder game or utterly humiliate someone publicly, it won't be me this time.

On the other hand, I'm pissed off about it. And the other involved parties don't seem to understand why. And I'm not willing to give them that sort of ammunition against me.

[liarliarliar]

Ah, of course you're upset about it. It seemed like you two had something more special than her other relationships. And the moment it got rocky she well.

Gets someone else to fill in the spot rather than work on things with you.

Am I understanding right?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's not just that. It's the who.

She's done that with Mars before, which was only irritating. And Man Eater to a much lesser extent - something about kissing and doujinshis. She just can't stand being alone. That isn't new.

[liarliarliar]

Mmm...is she doing anything on her side of things to work all this out with you?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Lots of words about feelings that ultimately don't matter. She's looking for a romantic partner. And you and I both know that I will not ever be that person.

[Ugh. He already hates this line of conversation (and not for anything on B's part - he has no one but himself to blame for the situation he is in)]

I'd rather focus more on work. The fact that this is already distracting me so that I'd miss something as important as a graduation is already irritating.

[liarliarliar]

Not to be presumptuous, but I feel you have been that for her though? You've done quite romantic things for her.

But that being said. It seems she's. Mmm. No longer satisfied? Which like. A relationship is never going to be constant romantic escalation. That's exhausting.

Is it a case of you neglecting her or just being a bad romantic partner or her having unreasonable expectations?

Like our situation isn't romantic in the least but. She was mad about me caring more about her possibly hurting C than C hurting her feelings. And while objectively it was unfair I didn't care about her feelings enough when C was hurting her... I'm not sure the expectation that I care about her feelings as much as I do C's safety is. Fair? I'm uncertain. I apologized for not caring about her hurt feelings and that's resolved now. But I wonder about that. The expectation she had of how I should react.

Does she have fair expectations of you? I think that's a better question than whether you're a romantic partner.

What are your expectations of each other in the relationship. For you as well. Is it fair to expect her to realize who she chose would anger you?

1/3

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[A relationship can't be constant escalation? Well shit. There goes his plan A. Now what the fuck does he do?]

Your story about C is also not unique. I saw her give Mars the third degree when he went into a mirror to try and help Joker. She was upset because it hurt her. But any fucking idiot knows
that there wasn't any other option for Mars when it came to Joker.

It didn't used to bother me as much ---