adamant | 19th roar [ video + action for Olivine ]

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19th roar [ video + action for Olivine ]

[ The feed opens on Olivine beach. Judging from the bobbing, it's being held by a pokémon, one that doesn't have arms to stabilize it. A metal grating sound—Skarmory, then.

The camera flicks up suddenly, sliding across a long stretch of sand to...Leon. Leon surrounded on all sides by his team. Lucky behind him, her head in his back. Strike and Scizor in front, pulling him by the arms. In the water, Flood waits, making soft mournful noises, tentacles reaching for his trainer. Leon, for his part, has both feet planted firmly in the sand and is not moving.

Not.

Moving.

An inch.

They push, they pull, he doesn't budge. His expression is one of rock-solid concentration. He tries to shake them off, but they're stronger than he is, and he goes back to putting his energy into doing his statue imitation.

It looks for all the world like they're trying to feed him to his own Tentacruel.

Skarmory chirrs in amusement, then quickly drops the 'gear to go join the fun. ]

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Are they trying to feed you to that thing?!

They just want to play.

[ Looking hale and healthy when he picks up the gear, at least. ]

I wouldn't play with that.

I've had Flood for ten months now. I'd trust him any day. [ He turns away, eyes to the ocean. ] It's...more myself, that I don't trust.

You don't like the water?

I don't blame you. I don't like to get wet, either.

I...yeah.

[ GOSH THANK YOU KYO HE FEELS VALIDATED NOW ]

There wasn't much of it around, when I was a kid. Not like this.

Just tell them you don't want to get in.

I did. They're...insistent. I'm sure they think that nothing'll happen when they're watching, but...

[ yyyeah, he isn't so sure ]

--Wait. Do you mean you can't swim...?

[ He...nods, once. ]

Yeah.

You didn't have swimming pools or anything...?

We had fountains. Nothing that deep. [ It didn't really get that hot. ]

Edited 2011-08-17 00:07 (UTC)

Maybe someone can teach you. If you'd even want to.

[ A long pause. A total stranger...and yet, it's a better thought than any of Leon's friends attempting the same. ]

Are you offering?

Er... I'm not in Olivine right now, sorry. I'd kind of have to be there.

[ A small exhale. Thank goodness--would've been awkward. Possibly not as awkward as swimming lessons with Minnie Mouse, but. ]

I'll find someone. It is...something I should learn, I think.

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