The mienshao paused for a moment, turning to look off towards horizon as she thought about how to answer Dravol.

Time froze for the fear incarnate as her light activated from Linda revisiting an old memory. And was left horrified by what she witnessed in it. However she quickly snapped back to reality when she heard Linda continue, who didn’t notice the look on her face yet.

“It’s not something I talk about that often. But it’s also something I can’t really ignore. It’s been taking a long time and has been a lot of work. But hey, I wouldn’t worry about eavesdropping. I’ll be able to handle it one day. And it’s not like there are any walls out here for privacy.”

The dragoness let out a sigh as she turned to face Dravol and attempts to change the subject.

“Anyways, what about you? What’s stopping you from going home?” She asked before she realized something was bothering the delcatty.

“Hey are you alright?” She asked with both a tone and look of slight concern. “You look like you saw a ghost or something.”

[@asksavel]

Psst… Hey! Anyone interested in having a cameo in an upcoming ask?

I’m looking for mega pokemon specifically that aren’t the lati twins or mega rayquaza if so.

If you happen to have a character that has a mega form. Feel free to reblog with an image or ref!

Seems like it would be more fun as opposed to just using basic designs.

Linda held Kass in place with a strength and grip that felt like she could break off his horn if she held any tighter, as she spoke her threat casually with an underlying irritation in her tone that was clear the mienshao’s eyes.

“Now if you’re really so curious, this ‘quest’ wasn’t my idea in the first place. And it’s not about the mega stones either. But they do know that I have a few of them. Although what’s it to you if they do?” She asked rhetorically as she loosened her grip a bit for the other dragon could pull himself free if he wished. “A soft little dragon like you is in no position to be judging me on anything unless you want to learn how to fly.”

[@leilani-and-kass]

“It sounds like you have a rival that looks out for you. But to answer your question. Mega Evolution is something that few kinds pokemon have the ability do, and even less are capable of performing it.”

Tsubayuki looked off into the horizon as she continued. “For me, it does not hurt. In fact, it feels a bit… I suppose, ‘liberating’ is a word I would use to describe it?” She explained before a slight grimace appeared on her face. “Fear however, is the problem I have with undergoing mega evolution. But I should stress…”

-There seems to be more to the story behind this. Perhaps you should ask why Tsubayuki would be afraid of herself mega evolving.-

[@vall007]

“It is not the act of preforming it that concerns me. It is what my actions that would follow might be.”

- Tsubayuki seems hesitant to properly answer the question. Perhaps she will elaborate if pressed on it. -

sleepyinteractions:

{Response to @askiceboundlopunny}
“I huh?” Monarch blinekd taken a back that she didnt back down his eyes wandered to the necklase seeing the different colors
Mega stones…? Is it truly a real necklace..?
The eon wondered before looking back to her listening as he stuttered slightly wanting to answer back - awkward interacting with creature when he wasn’t threatening them
“Well uh..I suppose knocking someone out as a last resort wouldnt be bad…but it also matters I guess if it’s right in time?” he sort of agreed with her “Because what if its too late and they just wake up as a shadow pokemon…er..nevermind..you wouldnt know the answer anyway…” he quickly dismissed it as he gulped eyes wandering away as he tried to stay clear headed and not too stiff when talking - before his attention again was grabbed

To fight her? Was she serious…I mean its not like we dont train daily with some fair sparing or against dummies…

“You actually mean it…?” the words escaped his lips before he couldn’t think them through as he gave a meek nod “I mean uh…MAYBE… sometime..I’ll consider your offer…” he murmured under his breath pulling the hood over his eyes to hide his face

Linda has made a (light) impression on Monarch

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(Meanwhile…)

Sandra and Nintai have been traversing the barren tundra in silence, awaiting for Lake Acuity Forest to come into view on the horizon.

Nintai has been staring at the snow the entire time as she traveled along with her teammate. Sandra, seeing the froslass looking saddened leaned forward and broke the silence to check on her.

Sandra, understandably, wasn’t buying Nintai’s answer. Her voice was shaky and just kept staring at the ground. And wanting to console her team mate, she brought out a vine from one of her roses and lifted Nintai’s chin so they could talk eye to eye.

“It’s better you get this off your chest sooner rather than later.” She stated as her vine retracted back into her rose. Her tone sounding like that of a caring older sibling.

The froslass let out a sigh as her gaze shifts off to the side.

“I suppose you’re right.” She admitted, disappointment clear in her voice. “I just… I didn’t expect to feel such strong hatred and anger. It was as if I’ve done something to her in the past.”

She thought back to Tsubayuki’s reaction to her and her, and her disappointment turned to worry as she looked back to Sandra. “Did… did I do something wrong?”

“Heeey don’t be ridiculous.” She reassured her. “You did everything just the same as everyone with your role before you, and I think this is the first time I’ve seen a reaction like that.” The roserade stated confidently. “It’s not like we could have known she’d go all gyarados on us anyways.”

“Oh absolutely! Clementine is from Orana, so you know she really does care about us. You can bet she’ll work on getting you a second chance with our little rabbit friend. And if she doesn’t I’ll eat my black roses.”

A small smile formed beneath the froslass’ cowl. Sandra’s efforts to reassure her worked in improving her mood. However she still looked concerned as there was still one more thing she felt she needed to address. “W-well that’s good to hear. But still… what am I supposed to do now? I’m still out of the mission.” The ghost asked.

“We’ll find stuff to do around camp don’t worry!” She giggled a bit as she turned to continue walking. “And you won’t be alone there either since I’ll be spending a lot of time there myself since this isn’t really my type of weather.”

Nintai chuckles as she follows her teammate again. “I see, well that good to hear.”

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(The girls are now available for asks again!)

[Response to this] @ask-noonescity

The mienshao seemed unfazed by the sharp ribbon that was pointed at her as continued waving it away with her tail.

“I’m no stranger to facing tough mons, the stones on this necklace is proof of that.” She stated pointing her thumb inwards at said necklace. “I’ll admit I don’t know much about these shadow pokemon or how strong they might be. But it’s a shame that you’d become one yourself if you use that curse of yours too much regardless. Someone knocking you out as a last resort wouldn’t do much for you then huh?”

The dragoness both looked a bit disappointed and had a hint of it in her voice with the last sentence. Perhaps for Monarch. As if she was hoping her idea would be able to help him utilize the potential of his curse more freely due to having a failsafe.

However she didn’t dwell on that as there was something else that also piqued her interest.

“These shadow pokemon though… You’re building them up as if they’re something to be afraid of. And on top of that, you say you hunt them for a living?”

“If not, then I might try and find one of these shadow mons before I head back to Yuki. But it’s definitely be an open invitation to come find me if you need to blow off some steam.”

ask-the-royal-absol:

(Pokeask community. Small request. Could I please ask for a pic of your character’s head? I know, very random. 850x850. Preferably transparent. Just reblog this image with it. I wanna do something with them and I wanna get as many as I can. Thank you!)

You have me curious what this thing might be. But here ya go!

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There was silence for a moment before it was broken by a quick calling whistle from Clementine, followed by the sounds of a rotom coming from behind her, before it then came out to show themselves.

The rotom zips around and in front of Clementine as she taps their screen a few times, with a few beeps to signify an application being started.

“Where are you two from?”

Linda furrows a brow. “What do you mean?”

“Where were you born and raised?” She quickly clarified.

“Ah. Well, for me, I grew up in my mom’s forest next to Dragonspiral Tower.”

“In Lake Acuity Forest.” Tsubayuki answered bluntly.

Clementine hides her growing nervousness as she notices the lopunny’s ears twitching in agitation and glances towards Linda as she taps Malware’s screen.

“From Unova huh? You sure came a long way to get here didn’t you?” She jokes to try and lighten the mood a little.

“Alright next question. Can you tell me how old you two are?”

Tsubayuki ponders the pokemon trainer’s question with her chin resting on the thumb of her closed hand. “I must admit, it has been getting difficult to keep track as the time has passed. The years begin to blur together after a while, so I am afraid I cannot give an exact number.” She explained. “But I do believe I am around 480 at this point.”

The lopunny’s answer caused Linda to raise an eyebrow and glance at her with a surprised look in her eyes. Just as quickly though she looked back at Clementine to give her her own answer. “124.”

Clementine flicks her wrist to point towards Linda, not looking away from her rotom dex. “And would that be young or old for you?”

“Pretty young I guess, why?”

“Just to get some perspective.” She answers as she taps Malware’s screen a few more times. “You’re already older than humans can be, So some people would be shocked at the idea of that being young.”

“Next, how long have you two been here?”

“About a year.”

“My whole life.”

“Have either of you two visited anywhere else before?”

“Eh, quite a few places actually. Travelled across Unova before I made it to Hoenn. Saw quite a bit of that region before I got to this one and been to a few places in this region before I eventually heard some rumors about Yuki and came here.”

The lopunny has been gazing off to the side at nothing while Linda spoke. Appearing a bit bothered by the last thing Linda said. “Only to Mt. Coronet…”

Clementine gives a small nod as she presses Malware’s screen again. “Alright, last question. Do either of you plan on leaving in the future?”

“No.”

“Yeah.”

The two answered quickly. Tsubayuki looking at Linda, surprised by her answer. However before the bunny could say anything to her, a chirp came from Malware followed by a short jingle coming from their speakers.

He then zips around to Clementine’s side as she gives him a small nod of approval before returning to her back pocket.

“Alright then. That’ll be all for now. Thanks for your time you two. I’ll go ahead and get out of your hair and let you get back to your sparring session.” With that Clementine turns to head off after Sandra and Nintai. As she is walking she looks back and waves goodbye to the Linda and Tsubayuki. “See you two soon!”

The two ladies waved back as they watched the human shrink off into the horizon.

“You know it’s a good thing you didn’t react to me that way when we met. Things could’ve gotten messy.” Linda joked as she gave the lopunny a playful nudge with her elbow.

The lopunny’s snout scrunches in irritation and holds up a hand to tell the mienshao to stop. “Not now Linda.”

Linda furrows a brow seeing that Tsubayuki is still a bit agitated. “Alright fine.” She says with a shrug as she takes a few steps past the lopunny. Stretching her arms upward with her fingers linked together and palms facing outward. “Shall we pick up where we left off then?”

After a brief moment of silence there was a small huff that came from the rabbit. “Sure.”

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[Response to this] @ask-team-misfit

“A trainer huh?” She mused in a disappointed tone. “That explains a lot actually.” She said with an unimpressed frown.

“One sec…” She quickly said before she leapt up to a treetop, the force of the jump pushing the grass and a small cloud of dirt away from where she was standing.

Linda smiles again as she now stood closer to eye level with the giant. “Sorry, it suddenly didn’t feel right with you looking down at me.” She explained with her casual tone. However you can’t help but feel she was being a bit condescending.

“Sounds to me like you have no business being this far from home kid. The wild isn’t a place for a sheltered mon like yourself. Especially since you don’t know how to fight. But then again, I can’t imagine a human would want to keep a pet as big as you if you could.”

The mienshao turns around to leave before turning her head to look back at Pikavee once more. “That said, you should count yourself lucky. Your size is probably the one thing you got to keep others from causing you trouble. I suggest you learn how to put on a mean face so you can keep it that way until you get back to your trainer. Who knows, might actually get you something you need too.” She states as she turns her attention to the treetops ahead. “Anyways, good luck kid.”

And with that Linda leapt from tree to tree before landing on the forest floor and out of sight of the two mons.

[Previous]

The ice types stood there for what felt like hours, one cowering in fear, and the other glaring with ire.

To everyone else, it has been only few minutes.

Clementine however wore a look more of disappointment than worry. She turned to Sandra to see the roserade staring on uncomfortably. The trainer tried whispering her name expectantly.

However when she still got no response…

Clementine simply snapped her fingers and Sandra came to attention. And without further instruction she released a soothing aromatherapy from her roses that quickly spread, and wasted no time taking effect.

The tension in the air melted away along with Tsubayuki’s anger as she took a deep breath and let out a annoyed huff. And Nintai was no longer paralyzed in fear from the lopunny’s hate fueled gaze. Instead the froslass simply floated in front of her nervously.

With the situation simmered down thanks to Sandra, Clementine rushes to her pokemon’s side to comfort her. Once the aromatherapy faded she looks up at Tsubayuki with a look of concern.

“Are you okay? What was that?”

Instead of answering, Tsubayuki simply approaches the two and crouches before them to look the froslass in the eyes. This time, without the anger from before.

The two sat there in uncomfortable silence as the lopunny inspected Nintai. The froslass in question finding herself unable to break eye contact with the rabbit once again.

Nintai both sounded and looked confused by Tsubayuki’s assumption. However the lopunny only leaned in closer. Her stoic expression unchanging. Which only served to make the froslass more uncomfortable.

“Your evolution, it was a deliberate choice correct?” She asked bluntly.

“W-what do you…?” Nintai trailed off, becoming even more confused to what Tsubayuki is eluding to.

“Your eyes. They are not like the others. Or like mine. And that tells me you evolved, rather than being born like this.” She stated, her tone was calmer as she backed up, now looking at the rest of the ghost type in front of her. “However I cannot help but wonder, why you would chose to evolve into this?”

“I-I don’t…” Nintai stuttered as she was unsure how to answer Tsubayuki’s question, now feeling pressured on top of how uncomfortable this whole ordeal has been.

Realizing this, Clementine leans in between the two to cut off the conversation.

“Hey, perhaps we should try this again later since Nintai clearly put you in a bad mood.” She says cutting off the conversation and gently shuffles Nintai off behind her. Waving her off towards Sandra. “I didn’t know you’d get so upset by her, would you maybe like to talk about that?”

The lopunny lets out a frustrated sigh. “Not now, but perhaps another time.” She says as she shifts a tired gaze off to the side. “You had no way of knowing anyways.” She barely muttered.

“I see… Well in that case, would you mind if I ask a few questions about a some other things then? It wouldn’t be anything too personal. Just some basic questions I ask all my subjects of study.”

Linda furrows a brow. “Uh, sure.” She answers in an uncertain tone. Curious what sort of questions the human would have.

“…”

There was a moment of silence before the lopunny also agrees. “Fine.”

“Alright then!” Clementine says as she stands upright and turns back towards Sandra. “Sandra could you be a dear and walk Nintai back to the camper for me while we do this?”

“Oh. Uh, alright.” She nodded in compliance, wrapping an arm around the froslass and helps her up. “Come on.” Nintai, wearing a saddened look, follows Sandra without a word.

Clementine simply let out a saddened sigh, seeing the look on her pokemon’s face as the two left her alone.

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[Previous]

With the approval of both Linda and Tsubayuki, Clementine grabs two of the pokeballs off her belt, and with a click of the small button to enlarge them, held them out in front of her to release their occupants.

The flash of light from the pokeballs quickly fade to reveal the roserade and froslass that were inside.

Nintai bows as she proceeds to introduce herself.

Midway through her sentence, Nintai felt a chill run down her back as there was suddenly a tense feeling of animosity in the air.

This same feeling was distracting her as she began to trail off during her introduction.

As Nintai failed to finish her sentence, everyone else also noticed something was off. And Clementine started to worry as this was far from the reaction she was hoping for from Tsubayuki, and noticed Nintai began to sink towards the floor.

The froslass found herself stunned like a deerling in headlights, intimidated by the presence of the lopunny staring down at her.

Time felt like it stopped for Nintai as she stared helplessly back into Tsubayuki’s gaze. The lopunny’s eyes were glowing with hatred and fury that felt like they were piercing her very soul. The aura around her also was radiating with anger that was intense as the air was freezing.

Nintai had no idea what she had done for the lopunny to feel this way towards her, nor was she prepared for it. The froslass was also too afraid to speak or even move out of fear of making things worse. So she simply cowered before Tsubayuki, hoping someone would intervene.

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[Response to this] @askcursedtales

Tsubayuki was seemingly unsurprised by the fox’s response. He may not have answered her question, but the lopunny decided to respect their decision in doing so. Besides, with how he spoke, there was something else she wished to press the ninetales on instead.

”I must admit that my knowledge of ninetales is rather minimal. All I have heard is that your kind places curses upon those that pull your tails.

However with a title like ‘the demon of fire’, it has me wonder just how much of these tales I have missed over the years. But I will respect your wishes and save the question of what happened for whoever you would deem fit to answer.” She said, her tone was calm and respectful as she spoke.

“A millenium certainly is a long sentence for a punishment, but at the very least that time does have an end. And I will agree with you that compassion is a welcome thing to receive from time to time, especially when you live with decades of contempt for yourself. However I must say that my words come more from a place of empathy rather than naive kindness.”

“But perhaps said empathy truly is misplaced. And for me to be sure, I have only one other question.”

“If you do not, then that would be what is disappointing.”

[Previous]

After searching the Tundra for about 30 minutes, Clementine eventually heard the sounds of combat and headed towards the source of the noise.

When she arrived she found the two ladies she was looking for in the middle of a sort of training session. Seeing Linda fighting multiple snow duplicates of Tsubayuki which are standing between her and the original Tsubayuki.

Realizing what she walked in on she decides to pull out Malware, her rotomdex, and sit and watch their session instead of interrupting them.

She sat there for about 6 minutes watching the snow copies attempt to swipe at Linda with ice staffs, swords, and whips to keep her from reaching the real Tsubayuki, whom Clementine put together that Linda’s goal was to land a hit on.

Clementine proceeded to watch Linda smash through the ice swords and snow copies to get closer Tsubayuki, only to be repeatedly blocked and thrown back by another copy just as Linda was about to land a hit on the lopunny. And this continued for several minutes before one of the snow clones noticed Clementine.

In the brief moment of distraction that Clementine provided, Linda once again smashed the snow copy to go for another strike on Tsubayuki. This time however, Linda was met with Tsubayuki dodging her punch by turning her body and leaning back out of the way. Shortly afterwards opening her eyes and standing up as the rest of her ice copies collapse back into the snow they stood in.

”Hmm?” Linda, curious as to why Tsubayuki suddenly got up, turned her head around with a furrowed brow to see what got her attention. “Oh hey.” She said as she found her answer waving at her as she did to Tsubayuki.

“Yes, hello Clementine. Is there something that you need?”

“Hello you two, I’m sorry if I interrupted your training session.” She said as she got up and brushed some snow off the back of her pants and coat. “I came out here to because I felt I should introduce a couple members of my team that will be helping me out with my job during I stay here. One of which has been looking forward to meet you Tsubayuki. If you two don’t mind that is.”

There was a moment of silence as the two lady mons paused to consider Clementine’s request before they turned back to her.

“Yeah a little introduction never hurt anyone.”

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