shamelessness | ❀ 9th Weed in the Garden

❀ 9th Weed in the Garden - Voice/Action ❀

[The victory against Masaomi, the hard training from Green, and Green's question about power... It's got her thinking. Is she powerful? Is she catching up? Is the day she can fight side-by-side with her impressive friends close? She doesn't want to be a burden. She wants to be strong. She wants to help.]

Luceti? I want to know what you think makes you strong. How does a person get strong? Or what do you do to make yourself strong?

[If one-on-one is more your sort, anybody can find Shiemi outside of the clothing shop trying to wrap a scarf around her 7ft+ metal bird. It can't be easy facing winter weather when you're metal. Especially when facing it after a nice heat wave.]

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[Well you are a bird that's almost six feet tall; it's not hard to look intimidating, really.]

Yes, please listen to your trainer. [Back up there plz birdy brosis.]

[Skarmy rolls her eyes (well as much as she can) and backs up a bit.]

I'm so sorry, she's usually not like this.

[His overall tenseness decreases, but his arms are still up; unconsciously guarding his face]

Maybe she's being protective of that scarf you gave her?

[That, or she doesn't like it. Steel types are an odd one to dress. It's hard to dazzle with simple cloth when your whole body is reflective.]

M-maybe?

[She looks up at Skarmy, but the Pokémon doesn't seem okay with that deduction. Honestly she's just showing up this kid who thinks he can give her funny looks.]

Maybe she wants food. Hmm... Is that it, Ms.Skarmory? I'm sorry, but if that's the case- you're mistaken, I don't have any with me.

[Yep he's totally oblivious here.]

[Skarmy gives him an, "I ain't buying your shit" look, but she doesn't seem to be actively trying to intimidate him anymore.]

I'm really sorry about all of this... she must be pretty scary.

Just a little bit. [If you ain't buying my shit, then it's a good thing I'm not a salesmen~ aha. ha.]

A-anyway, my name is Shiemi! It's nice to meet you.

My name is Ruby! It's nice to meet you too, and your friend? [Ahaha awkward transition] Skarmy, was it?

Mm-hmm! I usually like to pick names that I know "fit," but I didn't know Pokémon well enough to pick something different.

Is skarmory not native to your- [That's not right; she said "didn't know pokemon", that means-]

Ah! You must be one of the 'new' trainers then? [He's heard there were trainers like this, mostly in passing. Masaomi is that only exception to that rule.]

I am! I was really lucky to become one.

Because you met Skarmy in Luceti instead of your own world, right?

Mm, yes, but... back home I was able to summon a familiar. Here I can't do that, so Skarmy really helped...

[Fill the void, even if the big knifebird can't replace her tiny greenman.]

Like... summoning a creature through magic?

[Different world sorcery, this is.]

A little like that! I use my blood to summon him.

[Well that's... pleasant to think about. He looks a little frightened.]

Wh- isn't that painful?!

Only a little bit! I just have to prick my finger and smudge the blood on a seal.

[He nods. If pokemon can turn into light and then fit into capsule he can imagine a creature appearing from a seal from a drop of blood. It's not too much of a stretch of imagination right... right???]

Are familiars anything like Skarmy?

Sort of, and when the paper is ripped the familiar returns back to Gehenna. It's like calling Skarmy back to her Pokéball.

I see, I see. [He shifts his weight to his other foot, his hand cupped around his chin. This is quite a bit to process. After a bit, he sighs.]

Being a new trainer, I'd guess a pokemon would sound about as foreign to you as your seals were to me. Luceti is a strange place; I never would've thought the things that I've seen here would work outside of fiction otherwise.

For example: I've talked to a self-proclaimed superhero here. You only see those on T.V. where I come from.

Right! Don't you think it's amazing?

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