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.
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the lure of a vaccinated mystery egg was tempting. it wasn't like raph needed one, per say, but it certainly would help along his research. and there was always the chance that it'd be a pokemon suitable for the team he was building, so here he was, drifting among the people with his absol at his heels, saying pleasantries that he normally wouldn't have as he brushed shoulders with the people that owned cities. this kind of thing, this sort of socialising was something that raph hated; yet the people that advised him in his research recommended that he gain sponsers while at this gala. preferably the rich ones.
to be honest, he was getting tired of meaningless compliments and words, so he weaved his way back out, elysia still beside him as he picked up a plate of cheese and grapes, sits down on a couch in a quiet area that people have mercifully overlooked, and offered his partner some. she surveyed them for a moment before pick-and-choosing.
Wasn’t the promise of a mystery egg the best lure ever? That, and the promise of a fun night. Evylin wanted the free egg, but she certainly didn’t want to do anything boring in order to get it.
Lucky her, the gala was full of potential fun. She hummed along with the songs, although she didn’t know any of them and ended up humming a hybrid tune of what she thought the song sounded like and what it actually sounded like. She spun through the crowds of people, not giving a care to how strange she looked doing so.
It didn’t help that she was carrying her umbrella with her, something which looked unbelievably tacky in comparison to everything else. Or that her Kabuto (aka her helmet) was sitting on her head, clinging for dear life.
When she saw the sad loner on the couch, Evylin glided her way over to him, and when she caught sight of the food her target momentarily changed. Close enough, Evylin pinched a couple of grapes off the man’s plate and ate them.
“Mmm yum~!” Evylin tucked her umbrella under her arm. And grinned at the plate holder. “Dance with me.” It wasn’t a question, and if there wasn’t a danger of spilling precious, inocent food on the floor Evylin wouldn’t have even asked – she would’ve just pulled him up and dragged him over to the dance floor.
a random girl walked up and stole grapes from his plate. raph raised an eyebrow at the thief, gave a quick glance at the odd umbrella, quickly took out his pokedex for a scan of the kabuto, before just... staring at the offer to dance.
"...what." it's not even a question, it's a statement. there's no shock in his voice, per say, but it's flat and just... what. "why."
raph needs to know at least reasons why before he dances with a random stranger with a pokemon as a hat, thank you very much.
Evylin giggled at the man’s reaction. The flatness sounded like it belonged to… a comedy skit? She picked another couple of grapes off his plate and popped them in her mouth. “Hmm?” Her eyebrows furrowed as she pretended to think but a smile was still on her lips.
“You said it wrong.” She stated that as though it were as simple as telling him that they were in Juno City. “You’re supposed to say ‘yes, I’d looove to’.” Evylin winked. “Dancing doesn’t need a why, dummy.”
On the bright side, at least it wasn’t Felizia who was picking at Raph’s food. Unlike the breeder, Evylin had enough courtesy to not steal the entire plate.
"....." raph... really has nothing to say to that. on one hand, he can dance with the girl and probably get rid of her faster, but on the other, elysia is looking at him disappointingly from where she's perched.
he's going to get hell from her later if he doesn't dance with the girl, now, so he stands up with a sigh and offers her a hand. "would you like a dance?"
Of course there was nothing to say to that – Evylin’s logic was flawless, in her head at least. She doesn’t even answer, she just beams and grabs his hand, a little too forcefully, and drags him out onto to dance floor.
Now, what Evylin had failed to mention was that her experience was very limited. Not only had she never ever learned how to dance, she had never ever thought she needed to. After all, dancing is just moving and doing whatever you want. Why people waste their time and money being taught that, she has never understood.
So instead of a more practiced and graceful dance like the other people on the floor, Evylin makes sure to hold both of Raph’s hands and starts spinning the both of them around. And around. And around.
The Kabuto gripped onto Evylin’s hair and held onto dear life. It didn’t want to leave this world yet.
if raph is being honest with himself, the dance is not a dance at all. rather, it feels like he's been tossed in a centrifugal with the highest setting on. they're very, very close to hitting other people - some are even scrambling out of the way, the pokemon that accompanied them here hissing and glaring at them - while raph tries to hang on for dear life.
"please - stop - really, no - oh, arceus-"
he tries his best to not throw up, or stumble. because falling down on a stone floor was not on his list of things to do today, thank you very much.
Raph’s pleas, like her own Pokemon’s, are ignored. Evylin just laughs (and it is a laugh bordering the maniacal range) as she continues to spin them around and around and around and around…
Wasn’t spinning around fun? Wasn’t the feeling of being dizzy absolutely brilliant? “Whee~”
Some higher power must’ve heard the pleas, and the wonderings of “What the hell are those two doing?”, because the song comes to an end, and when it does Evylin releases Raph…
Well, it’s not so much as a release as it is her flinging him away from her. Evylin’s laughing tones down to giggling as her head continues to spin around and around and around…
Whoops, it’s hard to stand. Evylin stumbles her way over to where Raph is, and when she reaches about halfway she shouts, all too loudly, “Wasn’t that fun?!”
The Kabuto slides off her head, defeated.
nette omg what monster have i created i'm sorry raph and kabuto.
raph doesn't believe in a higher power watching over him, but he is grateful for the fact that the spinning has stopped.
the fling away and the scramble afterwards, he is not. he's left coughing on the ground as he picks himself up, and starts to stand up. only to fall down in shock again when the woman shouts, clearly heard, and people start to move further away from them. raph doesn't blame them. "no! that wasn't! what the hell was that?!" he shouts back instead, standing up and trying not to fall down again. it's not working.
his absol chooses this time to return, first looking from her trainer, to the woman, to the kabuto. < i leave for five minutes, and chaos. really. what happened? > she asks the kabuto, leering.
The Kabuto has no idea how to answer the question asked of it because it too wants to know what happened. Ever since Evylin walked into this room it had been spin city. <I… I don’t know! I’m sorry!> The leering Absol makes nervous, and it hides behind Evylin’s leg.
Evylin, of course, doesn’t notice that, and neither does she appear to notice that her dance partner is quite upset with her. “Aww.” She tries to pout, but pouting doesn’t work when the corners of your mouth insist on curling up. She steps closer towards him and bends down to grab him by the wrists in an attempt to pull him up. “I thought I told you; that was fun.” She smiles at him, but it’s not a friendly one. In fact, it’s as if she’s laughing at him without moving her mouth or making a sound.
the absol continues glaring, but eventually moves away to carefully guide her trainer to a side couch, away from any other dancers they might knock over.
the researcher, himself, still scowls. "that wasn't fun, that was dangerous," he says, and turns away from her not-smile. sitting down, the room has stopped spinning, and he gives a grateful nod toward elysia. she just gives him an exasperated glance back.
a bitter question to the woman - "where did you learn to dance, anyway? no, scratch that - who told you that was proper dancing?" the last time he'd checked, dancing didn't mean they spun around like madmen and women.
Evylin laughs loudly at that as she follows the silly man and his Absol, her Kabuto hitching a ride by clawing to her calf. “Dangerous is fun, you dummy! And fun is dangerous.” She says this as sure as if she was saying ice was frozen water.
Then, from a hidden pocket Evylin pulls out a Pokedex and takes the opportunity to scan the Absol as she listened to the silly man’s questions. The more he spoke, the more convinced she was that he knew nothing.
“Are you serious? No one needs to be told what dancing is.” Evylin tucks her Pokedex back into her pocket and starts scanning with her eyes for some more finger food. “You move to the music and that’s it.” She giggles. “Don’t you know that?”
the statement and its converse does not make any sense. although raph does like a bit of adrenaline now and then, he doesn't go after it in a perfectly civilized environment, thank you very much.
the pokedex, he looks at with interest - apparently he isn't the only researcher in their company tonight. it's a refreshing feeling - there are far too many trainers in eos - although that it is a madwoman makes him faintly nervous.
"...i'm pretty sure that's not dancing," he grumbles.
Oh, wasn’t he a funny one? Evylin is still giggling at him and playfully hits him on the shoulder with her hand. “And I’m pretty sure you don’t know what dancing is.” Said the pot to the kettle.
The pot didn’t fail to notice the kettle eyeing her Pokedex, so pulls it back out of her pocket and holds it up for the kettle to see. “You have one too,” she states, rather obviously. For a second, her mouth opens and it’s almost as if she’s going to say more about the devices, or maybe even their shared job, but we will never know what was going to come out of her mouth this time – Evylin says nothing.
About that, anyway.
“I’m starving,” she says, more to a blank space than her dance partner. Then, eye back on him, she asks. “You want me to swipe you something too?”
nette if raph takes the opportunity to run i don't blame him. (it also means she can chase him down later *evil chuckling*).
raph shrugs. "all researchers have one," he says rather obviously. but the offer of food - and consequently the opportunity to get rid of her, he pounces on. "sure. something from the soup table'll be fine."
but as soon as the woman turns around, he's running away. fast. far from this place.
hopefully she won't find him later.
dizzy AND RAPH IS RUNNING AWAY FROM CRAZY EVYLIN NOW LOL XD /raph outtie?