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ba-bump. . .ba-bump. . . subtle hand rises to soothe over chest, which seemed to throb from the unwarranted, so genuinely kind compliments bestowed upon him by the other. a simple battle hosted between the two of them, blue went in as confident as always. and he was doing his best too, but when he saw how entranced they were by his strategy, he completely fumbled. made a wrong call and it went down there from then. he forces a grin on his face after several minutes, trying to seem as nonchalant as ever. 

"of course! i mean, this wasn't an official league battle, and y'looked so determined to beat me, i wanted to give you a chance to really show off your pokemon's skills. next time though, i'll go all out."

❛ this is so cool...! i really won against a famous champion..? this is so cool! ❜ they're bouncing in place, feathered tail behind them almost wagging in their delight. ❛ you totally went easy on me, right? there's no way i could've beat you if you didn't! your pokémon are so strong! ❜ @championoak even in loss your ego will be stoked.

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🤍🤍🤍🤍

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@poisnpnt asked: ◓ (Hi uwu!)

Send ◓ for my muse to give yours a Pokemon.

blue approaches hayato with a dusk ball clasped firmly within his palm. the ball is tossed up and down several times, and on the final drop, he catches it and holds the capsule out for the other to take. "this croagunk here belonged to a good friend of mine in kalos. he's unable to care for it anymore, and i thought you'd be a good fit to take it on as your partner. it doesn't have a name... not really, i've just been callin' it pouches since it's come to my care."

he shrugs his shoulders. "anyways, i'm sure you both'll get along. it's pretty affectionate when you get to know it, even though it's broody face would tell ya otherwise."

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@skullkxd / x

his eyes immediately lock onto the fast ball presented to him, surprise and intrigue filling his brown gaze. he listens to them as they explain where the mareep in question came from. admittedly, she certainly wasn't the type of pokemon he tended to raise, but he could sense something else. he could feel those tiny, beady eyes staring back at him through the capsule she was inclosed in... he could feel exactly what she was feeling, her desire to join him on his adventures.

and really... with passion like that, how could he possibly say no?

"yeah, i can take care of her. she'd get along well with my pidgeot. she can be the same way." blue remarks as he carefully takes the fast ball from their grasp, pointing the capsule a short distance away from him. "mareep, come on out!" the ball bursts open, a red beam shooting towards the ground, eventually shifting and revealing the electric sheep who glanced between both blue and ree alike.

"maarr?' she bleats, eventually locking her eyes on blue. "mareeep!"

"hi there, sweet gal. i heard a lot about you...my name is blue. i'd really like it if you came with me and my team. we'll do great things together." his tone is gentle, softened as he holds his fist out for the mareep.

after looking at it for a moment, she'd bleat happily and bump her snoot against his fist, causing him to laugh triumphantly. "good choice! you know... i think i have the perfect name for you." he carefully guides her into his arms, plucking her up. "i'm gonna call you aries. how does that feel?"

"marrr marrr mareep!" aries chirps, rubbing their cheeks together, causing blue to laugh from the sparks that flew as a result. 

"well, i guess that settles it. i think she likes me." he grins, turning back to ree. "thanks, ree. she's in good hands."

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"is that so?" despite spending time in alola as someone who worked in the battle tree, he still didn't know much about their customs and how their league differed from kanto's own. any sort of information he could garner was worth it and piqued his interests even more.

"see, that's different here in kanto. you've gotta battle each and every gym before you could even think of challenging the league! i blasted through mine when i was a lil younger than you are right now. our elite 4 was challenging, but that didn't stop me from becoming champion in my own right." blue recalls with a fond look on his face, obviously beaming as he reminisces on his very first adventure. it was so long ago, but the feelings he felt back then were still fresh in his mind.

"but hey! you didn't give up obviously, and look where that got ya, champ. that means something, doesn't it? you trusted in your pokemon, that's the best thing you could've done."

yeah. He says not to be nervous! Ree hears that! But …

It’s easier said than done. Especially with how they feel like a ragtag little runt who with the need to prove themself, all the time. The pressure is a lot! First impressions are important!!

“— uhm! Yeah. I am. Reese Lynch. Everybody calls me Ree though.

And — uhm, my trials weren’t that hard, but I think I’m a special exemp — exception ta that.”

they got thrown into the battle tree before starting their first trial, so they grew fast.

“oh! Uhm… the league and the trials ain’t connected though, they’re — separate. I competed in the league twice. I lost the first time, but it was close.”

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"kuma-kun?" the nickname echoes in his vocals, coming across as a question. blinking several times at her, he decides not to bother having her elaborate. of course it fit in her usual nicknaming scheme... with a hand resting on his hip, he hesitates at the idea of staying any longer, but his stomach answers for him, growling loudly.

"what's for lunch?"

"Hi Kuma-kun!" She grins, lifting the ball for a better look inside. "Thanks Green. He'll be great! I'll make us lunch, you want some?"

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green hesitates when he hears the question. why didn't he ask for her help? the usual rebuttal that would've graced his tongue is that he didn't need any sort of help, he could handle whatever came his way on his own... but it's been years at this point of them and red helping each other along the way of their journey, and he knew she wouldn't believe that. not that easily.

he frowns at her complaints and shakes his head, scratching behind his head with a lame shrug of his shoulders. "no, it was just me, the champion of the region and some trainers who lived there that took care of it. i didn't want to burden you. it went well, obviously. the world hasn't ended."

"Oh that's unfortunate." She hadn't heard about that, why didn't he call her? Blue frowns, considering. She hadn't been in Kalos sure, but she would have happily made her way there anyway. "Why didn't you call? I would have come to help."

"Did you call Red? I bet you did. You guys always go off and leave me behind."

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as if she couldn't catch him off guard even more, blue does it again. his frown deepens when he hears her high-pitched laughter, taking absolute glee in messing with him, which, of course, he was far from being happy about. 

"why would i want to do that?" green asks her, his tone drawled out, clearly exasperated by... whatever was going on. she could be so much sometimes. "you know what i'd prefer as payback? money. maybe then i'll consider forgiving you."

“ ohh,  i did do that,  you're totally right! ”     recalling that last time when green was still in his room,  blissfully asleep until she woke him up with a start, elicits a loud peal of laughter.   it's always funny messing with him.     “ c'mon,  lighten up!   you can break into my apartment too as payback  —  or you can try,  rather. ”

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i fear i've gone too deep into my stubbornness and nostalgia to call this annoying fellow green... especially since, game wise, he's CONSTANTLY shown in a blue, cool and watery color pallete to contrast red's red, warm and fiery one. this is just one of many ways their rivalry and their opposing viewpoints and personalities are shown outside of dialogue and i absolutely love it.

of course USUM is the one outlier to this by having him wear green shorts but.... we're turning a blind eye to that because im sure it's just a reference to the fact that he's called green in japan.

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👫 - for green!!!

green's the one blue goes to when she needs to be grounded; she loves all her friends but yellow is too empathetic and red's too easily riled on her behalf. green's the best at putting feelings aside and being logical so he's the one she goes to when she needs this

conversely, blue's the one green turns to when he needs to have fun. yellow still views him too much as a mentor and red just makes him mad lmao

for all he acts annoyed with her a lot of the time, green is very good at making it known he does care about blue without words. often in direct opposition of whatever he's saying as he does it

they've both learned to be very good at reading the other and picking out the truth behind their words and actions; green's good at acting like he doesn't care and blue's got years of performing to her audience under her belt. despite this blue knows when green actually does feel strongly about something, and he knows when she's lying about whether or not she's happy

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@dexheld

Guh. Reguri.

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I love every stage of them. I love them.

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👫 SCREAMS AND ROLLS AROUND... for blue...

send a 👫 and i’ll write four headcanons i have about our muse’s relationship!

i. this we established already: blue develops a crush first and n is oblivious to it and doesn’t develop his own crush until WAY after because he’s insanely dense but i think even when they’re just friends their relationship kinda … teeters somewhere in between romantic and platonic and it doesn’t really help that n gives off mixed signals. he’s very … touchy because he’s been touch starved his entire life so he’d be prone to wanting to hold hands and stuff of that nature. n is a very paranoid person for many reasons pertaining to his upbringing so he hardly ever sleeps, just the occasional power nap and the rest of the time he’s awake he runs on caffeinated beverages and etc. with blue though n would never hesitate to fall asleep near him and i don’t mean power naps, i mean straight up mini comas where he’s asleep for upwards of 12 hours at a time because he’d just feel that comfortable and safe around him.

ii. kinda silly but … ehe, n realizes he has a crush on blue because he gets insanely jealous of the time his espeon, mascarpone, gets to spend with blue and lupin. much like the rest of his pokémon, she’s allowed to roam free and go where she wishes as long as she’s back home by nightfall and once blue and n become friends she takes a liking to the other’s eeveelution and spends as much time as she can around the pair, which includes her enthusiastically telling n about the adventures she’d gone on that day with blue and his pokémon and n’s jealous ass is just, “aeugh, that should be me” and she catches on to that immediately. she would be all like, “oh … i see … you liiiiiike him huh :3c” and n would fight for his life denying it.

iii. they coparent spinach the smoliv for sure, since she’s already semi-attached to blue before he gives her to n as a gift. when blue’s crush on n would start being reciprocated n would come up with any excuse ever to take her over to him so he could watch her just so he could see blue. he’d call him, ‘her other dad’ and everything. you know how some teenage girls will walk around their entire campus just to catch a glimpse of their crush? yeah … n would be like that i fear.

iv. n likes to involve all of their pokémon in their convos because he feels it’s only fair that they speak their mind if they’re around when blue and him are engaged in conversation. usually either he speaks first or blue does and n lets one of their pokémon speak next and then he’ll translate it for blue so they can all participate. this is also the way he would confess btw, but not deliberately, it’s by accident. cannoli, being the zorua that she is, would defo fuck around and say something along the lines of, “lol when are you going to tell blue you like him” and n, without thinking, would translate it ( something like, “she asked me when am i going to tell you that i like you” ) because it’d be what he’d been doing for the past hour or so. it would take him a moment to realize what he’s just said but he’d 100% freak out after.

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@vancreux asked: WANDERING  STAR:  Sender  catches  receiver  staring. // silver

𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐓  𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐃  𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐄  𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒  .  .  . | accepting!

  silver was always something of an enigma to him. stoic and cold, an unwavering stone wall, with an attitude less to be desired for. blue could remember himself being the same way, when he was a child. his heart icy, hardened by the experiences he went through, only beginning to finally melt the longer he spent around the other dexholders. whether he wanted them to or not, their energy was... infectious, he supposed.

still, he knew nothing about the other man, nothing substantial of course. and considering the fact that he was close to green... well, he should at least try to figure him out. when the other had caught his eyes, their gazes finally locking, that was when he finally spoke up. "it's been awhile. judging by how you look now, it doesn't seem like things have been too rough for you."

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@dexheld asked: ◓ from pokespe and gameverse reds. :3

Send ◓ for my muse to give yours a Pokemon.

POKESPE

without another word spoken, the luxury ball is tossed over to red, fully expecting him to catch it with his instincts. "here. inside here is a flygon. i'm sure it'll be useful for you, if you don't make it weak with all your coddling, of course." he wasn't going to mention how he caught it and how, with it's jolly nature, he thought it would suit red's team. 

blue soon pivots on his heels to look away from the other male. "i'll check on your progress with it eventually."

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GAMEVERSE

this wasn't a big deal... so why was his heart pounding rapidly in his chest? he was being an idiot about this, it wasn't the first time he and red had exchanged pokemon before, or even traded between each other. and yet, with the whispers he heard from the natives of galar... trading this certain pokemon held a very strong, intimate message between trainers. and yet... part of him was sure that red wouldn't get it at all. blue groans at the thought.

"yo, red!" blue calls out to grab his attention, his grin stretched wide upon his lips, though it appeared slightly tense. "this is for you... i uh - well. i thought you'd like it." he mumbles, holding out the ultra ball to him. inside was an applin. "don't - you don't have to say anything. i already know. what you're thinking, i mean. we've been pals for a decade now, of course i'd know you."

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unprompted with hilda ( @pmesuru )

the young trainer been gone for more than hour that was strange but there she was holding a new pokémon Alola in their arms. ❝ Mister Oak, Mister Oak , Mister Oak ! ❞ Hilda shouted over and over running up to the adult until the brunette shoved the feline pokémon Litten in the adult face. ❝ I found my first Alola friend ! ❞ she shouted, ignore how their hair was a mess with leafs and berries, with dirt on the trainer clothes and skin along with Litten being covered with the same stuff as well.

blue had been preoccupied during the time that hilda was gone. having stepped outside of their vacation home, he was finally giving his pokemon some well deserved TLC. zephyr the pidgeot was off spreading her wings and enjoying the alolan air, execute the exeggutor was soaking in the sun's rays, pebbles the rockruff was chasing after rubix the cubone, and lupin the umbreon was laying curled up on the patio while blue ran a brush through his soft, dark fur.

"there we go... that feels better, doesn't it? i know you get fussy whenever you don't get your usual grooming." blue croons close to lupin's face, earning him a few low croons of content in response whilst his paws flex out in front of him.

he looks up when he hears his name being called, spotting hilda running over to him with a slight startled look at her sudden appearance. "hilda, there you are." at the same time, lupin rises to his paws, acknowledging the girl and her newest partner alike before he flicks his tail and silently leaves to head back inside through the doggy door.

"you got yourself a litten, huh?" he asks, rising to his feet and reaching out to rub over the top of its head, grinning at her. "it looks strong! where'd you get it from? judgin' by your look..." he looks her over. "i'mmm going out on a limb and guessing that you didn't go and visit kukui, huh?"

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❝ i think my thoughts are melting. ❞ w/ hilda via @pmesuru

⋆｡‧˚ʚ💋ɞ˚‧｡⋆ 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐭 | accepting!

gentle laughter bubbles from his lips, looking over at hilda from his spot at the table, having just finished setting it with breakfast that he made. it was a simple menu, being some pancakes made with sweetened berries, eggs, and sweet bread. juice or coffee being the optional beverage for them to enjoy. 

"someone had a long night." blue remarks, putting the final plate down on the surface of the table, gesturing for her to come closer. "don't tell me you were up on that phone again. gosh, i swear, kids these days do nothing but stay glued to it! come on, i just made some breakfast for you. maybe that'll help you wake up a bit more."