This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
swarms
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"...you're pretty scary, lady." except by now, iker is starting to sound less unnerved. sitting in front of a murderous trainer without dying for a good while can do that to you. "so you got a name, scary lady?" he can't say that he ever paid that much attention to schoolyard gossip. 2tsunz
"i'm not sure if that's supposed to be comforting or not, but i guess i'll take it." he scratches his head. "you're not what they put on the recruitment brochures"
his electrike scratches the side of his own head with a hind leg. like ranger, like pokemon. 2tsunz
"If you stick to the recruitment brochures as a guideline for how to handle yourself out here, you're probably gonna die real fast. I'm not saying it's right or that I enjoy it, but it has to be done. They're trying to kill us. We gotta kill them first."
"i s'pose." is all that he really has to say to that, really. maybe he should be a little more concerned, but that's for him to find out at bacchus. he shrugs. "no need to defend yourself to me, thalia. i'm not here to pick a fight."
judging from what he'd seen earlier, it wouldn't be a particularly smart idea even if he wanted to.
"i'm here for the signs, really. kinda hard to find those in cities of glass and steel" 2tsunz
"This would be the part where I tell you where to find an experienced ranger," Thalia said slowly. "...but I don't think there actually are any that I know of. Weird."
"I think they were just never a popular choice," Thalia said. "Trainers got the battle-happy ones, researchers got the nerds, breeders got the weirdos who wanted to see Pokemon fuck. Rangers were kind of leftover."
that's what he kind of liked about journeying alone, actually. no adult to stand around and tell thalia that it's not really proper to tell a kid in a wheelchair that he's a leftover.
"...you can relax. i don't think that the union allows those sorts of people to become rangers." not that he would know, but one would hope that it was true.
i was about to ask if thalia had the authority to arrest people but she did just tear a hades agent apart with her bare hands so i'm not even sure if authority is an issue anymore.
"a heart sign." one would hope that thalia doesn't ask for elaboration or demonstration since i haven't decided what its precise effect is going to be yet. 2tsunz