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konpeitoqueen) wrote2013-12-23 11:03 pm
konpeitoqueen) wrote2013-12-23 11:03 pm
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❀ 1st Konpeito ❀ [Video]
Someone better- better explain this to me! Before I-
[Someone's screaming into the receiver, mouth and face too close to identify them. However, the voice sounds young and feminine, and it's screeching.] I- I don't want to be here! I want to go HOME! WHERE AM I?!
[The video feed suddenly drops on the ground. For the next few minutes, you can hear sobbing in the background. And then the door opening. At one point she starts screaming and suddenly there's the cheery tune of a Christmas song starting, before the door slams roughly. After a while more and a bit of 'Mawile, mawile?', she finally comes back into view.]
...Ugh. If anyone makes fun of me, I'll rip your head off.
[There's a girl on the camera, wrapped up in so much towels, spare trainer sets and so on that she looks more like a ball of tossed clothes than anything else. Her Mawile tries to snuggle in with her, but she visibly pushes it away and pins its head against the floor. The Pokémon's back mouth snaps in shock, but she doesn't pay much mind.
Her eyes have rings of red around them- hell, her entire face is extraordinarily red. It seems that apart from the cold, she's also been crying.] I'm the Saionji Hiyoko. SHSL Classical Japanese Dancer. From the super-famous Saionji clan.
People keep telling me to leave this town and go beat some Gym Leaders or something, but who cares?! It's cold, this is stupid, and all I have for defense against all these monster-things is... another monster-thing. [Ayani the Mawile perks her head up.] It's not stinky or mean, but it's stupid and rock-hard like metal and just makes me colder! Plus, there's a weird red-nosed deer outside the door that wants me to 'ride it into Cherrygrove in the name of Christmas' or something. Isn't that all a Western tradition? Christmas is just a some event that gives you discounts in stores where I come from. Figures, scummy foreigners just love shoving their shit in everyone's face, even someplace like here... what even IS this place?
...Is there a chance... [She suddenly seems reluctant to say the next few words, but her face turns sour again- almost in realization- and in an instant just spurts it out.] Is this place yomi? It's cold and dead, that's all I can tell! All it's missing is the huge dirty river that separates us from the living realm. I want to give that stinky rotten Izanami a piece of my mind for allowing me to suffer like this! Where is she?! And- [Saionji grabs her Mawile, and both mouths start yapping-] What kind of Yomotsu is Ayani?! [If you're not familiar with Shinto lore, the girl on the video feed is currently spouting nonsense. And even if you are familiar with Shinto lore, her yelling and complaining is so jarring that you'd mistake it for nonsense anyway.]
[Someone's screaming into the receiver, mouth and face too close to identify them. However, the voice sounds young and feminine, and it's screeching.] I- I don't want to be here! I want to go HOME! WHERE AM I?!
[The video feed suddenly drops on the ground. For the next few minutes, you can hear sobbing in the background. And then the door opening. At one point she starts screaming and suddenly there's the cheery tune of a Christmas song starting, before the door slams roughly. After a while more and a bit of 'Mawile, mawile?', she finally comes back into view.]
...Ugh. If anyone makes fun of me, I'll rip your head off.
[There's a girl on the camera, wrapped up in so much towels, spare trainer sets and so on that she looks more like a ball of tossed clothes than anything else. Her Mawile tries to snuggle in with her, but she visibly pushes it away and pins its head against the floor. The Pokémon's back mouth snaps in shock, but she doesn't pay much mind.
Her eyes have rings of red around them- hell, her entire face is extraordinarily red. It seems that apart from the cold, she's also been crying.] I'm the Saionji Hiyoko. SHSL Classical Japanese Dancer. From the super-famous Saionji clan.
People keep telling me to leave this town and go beat some Gym Leaders or something, but who cares?! It's cold, this is stupid, and all I have for defense against all these monster-things is... another monster-thing. [Ayani the Mawile perks her head up.] It's not stinky or mean, but it's stupid and rock-hard like metal and just makes me colder! Plus, there's a weird red-nosed deer outside the door that wants me to 'ride it into Cherrygrove in the name of Christmas' or something. Isn't that all a Western tradition? Christmas is just a some event that gives you discounts in stores where I come from. Figures, scummy foreigners just love shoving their shit in everyone's face, even someplace like here... what even IS this place?
...Is there a chance... [She suddenly seems reluctant to say the next few words, but her face turns sour again- almost in realization- and in an instant just spurts it out.] Is this place yomi? It's cold and dead, that's all I can tell! All it's missing is the huge dirty river that separates us from the living realm. I want to give that stinky rotten Izanami a piece of my mind for allowing me to suffer like this! Where is she?! And- [Saionji grabs her Mawile, and both mouths start yapping-] What kind of Yomotsu is Ayani?! [If you're not familiar with Shinto lore, the girl on the video feed is currently spouting nonsense. And even if you are familiar with Shinto lore, her yelling and complaining is so jarring that you'd mistake it for nonsense anyway.]
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They slam straight into a tree, falling unceremoniously to the ground, with the horde of Stantlers and other Pokémon scattering in fear.]
...Ow... ow, ow, ow! [It was terribly wrong to assume one of Santa's Stantlers didn't need oxygen, or eyesight. As smart as she is, she practically never uses her brain when she's scared.
Suddenly, something yelps 'Exegg!' near her.]
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[...Yes, he's legitimately worried about a girl he just met.]
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Fight it! Fight it! [Saionji races up and kicks the Exeggcute, trying to get it away. It seems everything goes to Hell, sooner or later...]
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Saionji, Saionji, listen! Use your Pokémon to fight it! It probably knows Bite or something like that, right? Try ordering it to attack!
[Mondo turns from the camera to check something off-screen, then he moves to draw a Pokéball from his belt.]
Ishimaru and I are gonna head out to pick you up, okay?
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It hurts! My ears hurt, and I'm cold! [The Stantler seems out of commission, so now would be a great time to capture it, if Saionji was thinking straight. No other flying Stantlers were conveniently overhead, basically stranding her in the middle of the route. Ayani actually doesn't look too roughed up, probably fighting the thing to submission without much orders needed.]
switch to audio
That just leaves the problem of getting her to Cherrygrove in one piece. The Stantler doesn't look like it's going to be very helpful, so she'll have to proceed on foot.]
Saionji, it'll be okay! You're gonna have to keep walking toward the next town, alright? Once you get there you can rest! Ishimaru and I are coming to get you, we'll be there as soon as possible, okay?
[Mondo's no longer on video due to flying, but his voice still comes over loud and clear, with the occasional squawk from his Aerodactyl. Don't ask how that thing's carrying him.]
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...O-okay... I'll get there... [She shuffles past the Stantler noisily in the snow, and Ayani prods it in confusion. In a moment, Saionji suddenly rummages through her bag, and tosses a Pokéball at it.
She's too cold and dazed to realize the Pokéball's now empty, and just trudges forward, Mawile in tow.
...By God, she hates being at the bottom.]
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You'll be fine! This weather's shit for traveling in, but the routes aren't bad when the weather's fine. It's a shame you had to show up in the middle of winter, but at least you're here in time for the holidays!
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[Saionji tries to keep her tears to a minimum, though; it's cold enough as it is. Because the red-nosed Stantler has already flown a fair bit before the slam-into-a-tree thing, it's take just a few hours to get there.
...Yeah... just a few hours.]
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Hey, c'mon, cheer up! It'll be great; we're gonna have a party and there'll be lots of sweets there! Assuming they didn't eat all the fucking cookies...
[Not that it would be the end of the world if they did, he can always bake more!]
And we're gonna exchange gifts and everything! --Shit, I'll have to get you something once we get back!
[Look, he's trying...]
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Why do people cut down a tree and put it in their living room at this time of the year
This holiday is so fucking weird]
Sweets...? [She perks up a bit- wow, are these people seriously just going to pick her up from the middle of nowhere and throw me into a party? She can't help but feel... kind of suspicious but grateful in a way. Mostly suspicious.] And gifts?
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[Isn't it supposed to be family not friends? Oh well, whatever.]
You'll get settled in pretty quickly, I'm sure! And if you've got any questions, you can ask any of us! We just need to figure out where you're gonna stay, since there aren't very many girls in the house...
[...You might get stuck with Celes. Have fun with that.]
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...Why are you being so nice to me?
[Because- because until she was announced SHSL Buyo Dancer and thrown into a terrible island of despair and death whenever someone treats you nice they either need to or they're gearing up to ask for something. And... friends? So they were friends, now, when at most everyone's just either been an ally of her or not?
The last time she was friends with someone-]
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Why is he being so nice to her? Because she's new here and she was upset? Because she's one of Nanami's classmates and Nanami's really nice? Because she's from their school, even if she's not in the same year?
The answer he settles on is the easiest, and when he speaks he sounds like he's smiling.]
'Cause I don't see any reason to be mean to you. I know how fucking confusing showing up here can be, and believe me, I didn't get along with a lot of people right away. I guess what I'm saying is there's no reason for me to be mean to you, and you seem like a pretty nice kid. You've been good to me so far! 'Sides, you're one of us! You've been through the same shit we have and the last thing I'm gonna do is be mean to someone who's gone through hell.
[...Unless they're Togami or Celes.]
We're in this together now and we get along, so 'course I'm gonna be nice to you!
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It's so surreal, hearing this guy call her a 'pretty nice kid'. If they've met under different circumstances, there's a rather definite chance Saionji would've succeeded in getting him to hate her- but in the confusion and tears and trauma, for some godforsaken reason the forces of her own universe and this one somehow clicked in the neigh impossible chance that she doesn't feel doing anything of that sort to him again.
Huh.
It's like... Big Sis Koizumi and Big Bro Hinata, to an extent. Obviously, she didn't know him well enough to drop all suspicion that there's something he might be planning, but...]
...You're a solacer, huh. And that's... nice.
Thanks.
[A pause.] Well, we should play pranks and scare people at the party, too! It gets boring if people just lounge around and talk with no fuel for any action!
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[It's kind of a weird title to be given but he laughs anyway. Maybe he really has gone soft here, but he can't say he really minds.]
Whoa, hey, there's no need to scare anyone! Pranks though, I can get behind that!
[As long as they're not too bad. No throwing things at Leon or trying to give everyone pancakes (he's still not sure about that one by the way). But hey, pranks are always fun, and he hasn't gotten to pull any in quite some time.
...They're going to be a nightmare for the entire house, aren't they?]
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Her Mawile ends up drinking the majority of it.] Fiiiiinally! I'm here! [She took her own sweet time to reply, only doing so after getting a massage and getting rid of all the stupid stiff places in her body.]
So what kind of pranks can we do? Making fake chairs so people fall over... furoshiki bags that aren't done properly and came apart... stones, chicken eggs, spiders, ants- [She starts rattling off, listing more and more dangerous things as she does.]