#lilycove tabitha

[spw-art]

canon divergent magmas!!!! ( Tabitha Jeong and Maxie Asher belong to @leavingautumn13, Courtney [REDACTED] belongs to @bastiodon8 )

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

🎉GREGNANT🎉

🎉ABORTION🎉

[lilycoving]

catdoglizardfrog

maybe even god

perchance you might be

anyone of those you see

as your self is obscured in fog

Cute poem. This assumption about myself is false, by the way.

[team-gaia-labs]

About Us

Welcome to Team Gaia Laboratories! I am your Laboratory Director, Dr. Colress G. Achroma. You may previously know me from my illustrious battling tournament streak in Unova. You may also know me from my work on Team Plasma. Ignore that.

We are the inventors and innovators behind the newly formed Team Gaia, whose base of operations is in the old Team Magma headquarters in Lilycove City. Don’t worry about it. We’ve given it a makeover, and our new color is green now!

Who We Are

We are an eclectic mix of innovators, entrepreneurs, and thinkers. A good many of us previously led double lives offered our time, talent, and treasure to other evil teams nonprofit initiatives such as the recently-dissolved Team Magma and the notorious pirate gang, Team Aqua, which was never registered as a nonprofit organization. There is also a cop with us.

Our Leadership

✨Dr.✨ Maximilian Matsubusa, PhD- Executive Director

Archie Aogiri, No PhD- Executive Director 2

Yours Truly- Director of Laboratories

Courtney Kagari- Public Relations, Social Media, and Recruitment Coordinator

Shelly Izumi- HR Specialist

Tabitha Homura- HR Specialist

Matt Ushio- Field Operations Administrator

Detective Looker- cop

Our Mission

We are the ✨mikado organ✨ of the Hoenn Region. We seek to bring our great beautiful planet Earth, our mother Gaia, to greater and even more atmospheric heights.

(Please remember there is a cop with us and we aren't terrorists anymore, we really know what we are doing and we are just a green energy company I swear)

For more information about us, our history, and our initiatives, click here.

[silkhy-john]

[Mt Chimney peak]

Archie: hey could you stop my boyfriend? It’s not safe to stand that close to an active volcano

May: oh I’m definitely gonna stop… wait, that’s why you’re stopping him?

Archie: *confused* oh so you wouldn’t ask someone to pull Brendan back if he was standing too close to the edge of a cliff?

Magma Grunt: *throws out Poochyena* FIGHT ME DAD!

May: *concerned* you know what, just… I’ll stop him.

***

[Pyre Peak]

Mt Pyre Duo: hey what are you doing?

Maxie: *taking red orb* oh just taking this. My husband is coming by later; please don’t give him the other one.

Mt Pyre Duo: we aren’t giving you that!

Maxie: oh? Then I’ll just *takes orb and leaves anyway*

***

[Pyre Peak]

Mt Pyre Duo: *doing their best to defend the orb* are you that other man’s husband?

Archie: *doing his best to snatch the orb* oh he called me his husband? :D

May: hey hey what’s going on here

Archie: *blushing* I’m about to get married

May: ????

Archie: *leaves in the confusion*

***

[Magma hideout]

Maxie: hello, child. You’re just in time to witness history

May: *watchibg Groudon awaken* hey is it true you proposed to Archie?

Maxie: *blushing* I did no such— *remembers that he slipped and called Archie ‘husband’* *blushes harder*

***

[Slateport City]

Archie: Will Maxie think I’m cool for stealing this submarine?

[Mossdeep City]

Maxie: Will Archie find it amazing that I took over this space centre?

Both: *sigh*

***

[Seafloor Cavern]

Archie: *awakening Kyogre* he may have done it first, but I’ll do it better!

May: hey, where is Kyogre going?

Archie: huh? Kyogre? KYOGRE!

Kyogre: *off to find Groudon*

***

[Route 128]

Archie: what’s going on? This isn’t what I wanted!

Maxie: I think… I think we fucked up.

Archie: *realises how serious it is cause Maxie never curses* how do we fix this?

Steven Stone: *flies in on Skarmory’s back* we need the orbs in Sootopolis City, now.

May: great. They just… left.

***

[Sootopolis City, Groudon and Kyogre fighting]

Archie: babe, this isn’t working!

Maxie: don’t ‘babe’ me, honey; focus!

May: hey, how can I help?

Steven: I think my husband might need your set of skills.

May: … you’re married?

Steven: *holds up left hand*

Archie, Maxie: *point at Steven’s left hand*

***

[Sootopolis City, crisis dealt with]

Archie: so… you called me ‘husband’

Maxie: *blushes* yeah

Archie: do you want me to be your husband?

Maxie: *blushes* yeah

Archie: good, cause I want to be yours

Maxie: *wraps his arms around Archie’s shoulders and kisses him*

May: finally

The People of Sootopolis: *confused cheering*

Steven: *wiping tears away* that was great

Wallace: that wasn’t such a bad double date

Steven: …double date?

Juan: *exiting gym* could you guys take this somewhere else?

***

[Lilycove Point]

Officiant:

Archie: I do!

Officiant: …sir, I haven’t even started.

Maxie: Archie, light of my life, water that quenches the flames of my love—

Archie: *bawling*

Brendan: *looking at May with tears in his eyes* Will your vows sound like this?

May: *trying not to cry* will yours?

Archie: *tosses bouquet*

Tabitha: *catches it* well then *turns to Matt and starts making out with him*

***

[Alola, honeymoon]

Maxie: hey, when did you realise you loved me?

Archie: when you told me nothing would stop you from achieving your goals. You?

Maxie: when you told me you’d be the only thing to stop me from achieving my goals.

THE END.

[hartelore-archive]

PVA Timeline (INCOMPLETE)

(Alternative PVA canon)

1010 Groudon and Kyogre awaken and clash, Rayquaza is called down to stop them.

1015 Courtney Arakawa emerges outside of Mt. Chimney.

1020 Courtney Arakawa cheats fate via Lucolu and wishes herself back home.

~

(Official PVA canon)

1987 February 28 - Yamaguchi Matsubusa is born.

1990 March 15 - Homura Tabitha is born. April 2 - Keoki Kawika Sekioka is born.

1993 July 20 - Arakawa Courtney is born.

1995 September 27 - Harte Ailani Sekioka is born.

2000 October 2 - Harte is attacked by a Sandygast, hospitalizing him. October 8 -Tabitha receives his first Pokemon, Poochyena.

2003 January 27 - Keahilani Haruki Sekioka is born.

2005 November ?? - Sekioka family travels to Unova for experimental Dreamworld analysis of Harte's night terrors. (DIVERGENCE: Harte catches his first Pokemon, Zubat. Retconned.)

2008 ?? - Tabitha begins college.

2011 ?? - Tabitha begins working with Devon. ?? - Tabitha meets Maximus Sol, born Yamaguchi Matsubusa, at the Mossdeep Space Center.

2012 ?? - Courtney meets Maxie and Tabitha.

2013 ?? - Team Magma is officially established. ?? - Harte receives his first Pokemon, Wooper. October 10 - Harte moves to Hoenn. He is given Sandygast as a parting gift.

2014 ?? - Claudia "Cinnabar" joins Team Magma. ?? - Harte catches Zubat, Numel.

2015 ?? - Harte joins Team Magma. ?? - Harte catches Trapinch. ?? - Courtney disappears.

2016 ?? - Keahilani Sekioka becomes the first champion of the Alolan Pokemon League. 2017 (Start of PVA timeline) ?? - Zuketi joins Team Magma. ?? - Beau "Bow" Vera joins Team Magma. ?? - Harte is promoted to Admin for infiltrating Team Aqua's base and retrieving the Red and Blue Orbs. ?? - A fight breaks out between Tabitha and Archie, leaving Tabitha with a nasty bite taken out of his shoulder. ?? - Connor joins Team Magma. December 21-26 - Christmas Party.

2018 January 3 - Maxie returns for the final time. January 6 - Fluffy evolves, Tabitha and Maxie become a couple. January 7 - Claudia Cinnabar debuts in PVA. January 10 - Harte and Tabitha take the day off and go shopping. This is not important it's just nice. January 12 - The orbs are returned? January 13 - Last known sighting of Maximus Sol. January 14 - Grunts Darcey and Mason are found dead. February 11 - Connor transforms in the Magma base. March 18 - Groudon is awakened. ~ Team Magma never disbands officially, but after some time, it's generally agreed on that the organization is gone.

~ 2020 The Lilycove Pokemon Conservatory is officially established, lead by Homura Tabitha.

2025 The worldwide Lapras repopulation project is put into effect.

2026 The Lilycove Pokemon Conservatory's logo is updated to its current design.

2030 Tabitha's hairline recedes?? I had this in my notes as important??

~

2038 August 31 - Harte falls through a wormhole. Tabitha follows.

2039 February 2 - Lilycoving officially begins in PVA. February 6 - Arakawa Courtney, aged 27, appears in central Lilycove. February 24 - Nonon manages to make contact with ST. March 25 - Courtney manages to make contact with Tabitha in ST directly. July 21 - Courtney contacts Tabitha again. July 23 - Courtney is now working with Keahilani Sekioka. August 1 - Lilycoving officially begins in ST. August 4 - Courtney contacts Tabitha again.

~

To be continued when Amino loads so that I can grab exact dates

[pyroclastic-lorekeepers]

If this is still open, can I request Medic/ or Lifeguard?

Huge fan BTW.

-DarkTrainerEmbargo-

17.  LIFEGUARD :  for one muse to rescue the other from drowning.

DRABBLE set POST-Pyroclasm.

Working on the Sky Pillar is not a job without its perils. It positively makes Magma's old headquarters look safe and OSHA approved, in Archie's opinion; another reason to be glad he's not working there every day. In between the rickety ladders, the partially collapsed floors, and the raging currents that surround every bit of the rocky outcropping, it's an accident waiting to happen. He's not surprised when it does; he's not even that surprised that it's Maxie, honestly. He's just glad that it happens while he's visiting, because there's no one better to navigate the tempestuous waters than him.

Jumping in is second nature to him, and his sharpedo Riptide is out before he even hits the surface. The water's force is far stronger than what he's accustomed to in Lilycove, but he trusts the shark to keep him safe. Finding Maxie is another matter. Even in broad daylight, light has a hard time penetrating more than a few feet, and the rush of water past his eyes makes it even harder to see. He's reliant on his sharpedo there too, urging him in the direction where Maxie had fallen and letting him know they're looking for a drowning person with a couple of precise taps on his fins.

It feels like it takes ages. Maxie's form doesn't come into focus until Rip is almost on top of them. Archie locks one arm around their waist and grips the sharpedo's fin with the other. Rip jets back to the surface, where Tabitha and Matt are waiting to help pull them out of the water.

Once they're both on the rocks, Archie immediately reaches for their wrist for a pulse. He can't find it and moves two fingers to under their jawline, yelling for Matt to get the defibrillator from the research vessel.

It ends up being a little hasty. Seconds later he feels the faint fluttering at their jugular, and Maxie coughs up a lungful of seawater. The bedraggled redhead reaches up with one hand to loosely grasp Archie's wrist. "I'm alright," they rasp. "No need for CPR. I'm--" they pause to cough again, expelling more salt-- "rather partial to not having my ribs broken today."

Archie huffs a sigh of relief, changing his position to help Maxie sit up. "Oh, you don't even know for sure I would've broken any ribs!" His lips quirk as he thumps them on the back. "We've got a first aid kit on the ship, after all. Barring that, Ray." "I think Ray might be worse than broken ribs." Their voice is hoarse, but they chuckle even though it makes them wince. "Straight electrocution is not what I'd consider favorable either." Archie laughs boisterously, feeling some of the tension he'd acquired starting to dissipate. "Aye, well, lucky you started coughing then, huh." "Indeed." Maxie reaches up to comb some of their wet hair out of their eyes. "What is this, the third time you've saved my life? I'm starting to feel like I rather owe you." "Yeah, you do," Archie says. "Which is why yer gonna stay on the boat for the rest of the day, rest up, and not fuss about it. Cause you owe me."

[hoennsgeologyboy]

Owen, we need to know, what was it like getting kidnapped by Archie

Bad. I mean I'm sure it comes as literally no surprise but it was one of the most miserable experiences of my life.

These two people in Team Magma uniforms came to pick me up from pre-k. I didn't think too much of it at the time, but they were the old uniforms, not the newly issued ones. While my dad usually picked me up in person, in casual attire, naturally, it was not unusual for Tabitha with an escort to occasionally pick me up if my dad was caught up in something unexpected.

Anyways, they picked me up, and things were just fine, we took the usual route right through Lilycove, onto the wailmer and out to sea. We passed the point at which the hideout was though, (Which I will not disclose for obvious reasons.) and that is when I started to catch on that something was wrong. I was very young at the time, naturally, so it hadn't occurred to me that something like this might happen, you know?

I wanted to know where we were going, and they didn't say anything, just sort of egged the wailmer on. Then I saw the boat and it all sort of clicked for me.

After that it's kind of fuzzy. I remember crying a lot, being on the boat and crying, Archie trying to talk to me while I cried, and eventually my dad picking me up. Tabitha held me at first, and I'm told that's when my dad actually slugged Archie right in the face! Broke his nose too according to legend.

After that, my dad held me, and that's when I finally stopped crying. I think I cried a lot as a small child, though I'm told it's normal for small children to cry a lot. I think this particular time was worthy of the tears. I was very scared, and to make matters worse, I had forgotten my Jirachi toy at school, so I felt rather alone in a hostile environment. My pre-k teacher was waiting there the next day with my Jirachi, so I suppose in the end things all turned out alright. Archie never tried something like that again, so he must have learned his lesson.

[zponds]

Moments and ideas in the “Scuffle of Legends” episode trio based on the manga

Now, I wanted to show this post so you all can get an idea on how many manga-based moments that are in the “Scuffle of Legends” episode trio for the new version of the advanced series. And this post is also for those who love the Pokemon manga; including Blazing Emerald AU (blazingemeraldau.tumblr.com). They love the manga and when they read AG 100 - Scuffle of legends (part 1) - “Droughts and Downpours”, AG 101 - Scuffle of legends (part 2) - “Groudon and Kyogre”, and AG 102 - Scuffle of legends (part 3) - “Battle of the Ancients”... they were very very amazed by how well-written and thought out these three episodes were; especially with how many manga-based moments there are in these three episodes. So i’m showing this post to show and go over every manga based moment in these tree episodes. 

1. Steven Stone wearing a snow-white champion cloak.

2. Droughts, fires, and extreme heat ravaging places such as Fallarbor, Fortree, and Lilycove (all in the northern parts of Hoenn).

3. Downpours, floods, and waterspouts ravaging places such as Littleroot, Slateport, and Dewford (all in the southern parts of Hoenn).

4. Wallace, Roxanne, and Brawly fighting Groudon and later Tabitha and Courtney.

5. Winona riding on the back of her Altaria.

6. Norman, Flannery, Wattson, and Winona fighting Kyogre and later Matt and Shelly. 

7. May being taken away by the Blue-Orb-possessed Archie (similar to Sapphire being taken away by Archie). 

8. The use of a Devon scope to decode an ancient stone slab that’s revealed to describe how to stop Groudon and Kyogre; awakening Regirock, Regice, and Registeel.

9. Steven Stone, Sidney, Phoebe, Glacia, and Drake being at the three ancient tombs scattered across Hoenn.

10. Steven Stone, Sidney, Phoede, Glacia, and Drake asking the now-awakened Regi trio for help. 

11. Regirock, Regice, and Registeel using Superpower to contain the ever increasing power from the brawl between Groudon and Kyogre. 

And so, that’s all the manga-based moments that are in the “Scuffle of Legends” episode trio. I hope you all enjoy going over this post. And now that I think about it, I’ll be making more posts going over other details and facts in the “Scuffle of Legends” episode trio, so stay tuned for that. ^^

(for Blazing Emerald AU: I’m so so sorry for everything I said about minors being shipped with adults. After thinking about what you said, I completely erased everything on that minors with adults thing out of my mind. And now, i’m completely devoid of all that nonsence. So please forgive me)

[sinnohqueen]

📘

Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.

AND SINCE IT'S YOU (I saw the one I sent lol)-

I've been CRAFTING this AU for years about RSE Shelly and Tabitha, where they, along with Archie and Maxie, escape from Sootopolis City before any authorities can catch them (during the Groudon vs Kyogre battle). Basically they get to about Lilycove City before Archie and Maxie are like, "Hey, I think we need to return these Orbs to Mt. Pyre, I feel terrible about everything." And Shelly is immediately like, "Look, that's on you, but I'm getting the hell out of here." Tabitha insists on going with Maxie, but Maxie is like "Nope go with the mean lady and get the hell out of here bye"

It's a lot of Commander shenanigans!!! They go all around the Pokemon world, just trying to find a home for themselves tbh. I want them to eventually settle in Unova (me and @mewtwoenthusiast have an idea of Tabitha's family being from and in Unova), but I have a lot of dumb stuff planned for in-between.

[magmagruntalayne]

Heart of the Sea

The Sharpedo's Den was like most bars on this side of the mountain; so dimly lit, full of alcoholics whose disease was born out of tragedy, and hazy with cigarette smoke. Very few of the patrons were talking, most of them too focused on their drinks or their thoughts to bother trying to make friends. Hell, nobody was interested in making friends anymore since it was just as likely that the bastard that was making you laugh tonight would be dead by Thursday. Maybe he'd drown, or his debts would finally catch up with him; of course, that's if he was lucky. Most just starved to death or became the victim of someone, or something, that was hungry enough to see if they liked the taste of human flesh. It was like the Arceus-damned Donner Party out here nowadays.

Team Aqua had certainly made sure of that.

When Alayne had first joined Team Magma she had thought that the team rivaling her own was fairly harmless. Just a bunch of trainer dropouts pretending to be pirates while using the thin excuse of trying to clean up the oceans and making it a safer place for all sea-dwelling pokemon. Harmless, disorganized, and annoying. The complete opposite of Team Magma, the cause she had sold her soul to, which was a well-oiled machine: ruthless, tactical, and organized to the point it was almost maddening at times. A team dedicated to cleaning up the environment so that people and pokemon could live in harmony without the clash over land that was happening more and more often as people began to spread into wild areas. On paper, it was actually rather surprising to learn that Aqua and Magma were not actually two branches of the same team but competitors. From what she gathered they were one team, at some point long before she took up her red cowl, but the rift came from infighting over resources. Money, after all, was just as much of a necessary resource to a cause as clean water is to a living creature. Either way, the teams split and when she was approached with the offer of bettering not only her own future but the future of pokemon, Alayne sided with Maxie and the rest of Team Magma.

That's why she was so good at her job. She had been clashing with the members of Team Aqua even before both leaders had gone off the deep end. It was hard remembering just where both teams had gone wrong because the changes had been very subtle at first. Hell, she couldn't even remember which team had started this suicidal plunge that would ruin the world forever. Her head always said it was Archie since he's the one who had ruined the world after all so he was obviously the most logical choice, but her gut always said it was Maxie. Not that it mattered much, somewhere along the line both men began the hunt for the legendary pokemon: Groudon and Kyorge. Creators of the land and sea respectively.

At the time she never actually believed that either team would find the legendaries. Yes, she had believed they existed but at the same time, part of her believed that they were either dead, or gone, or because they were literal gods that they would never be found, let alone be bent to the wills of mere men.

Arceus must have been laughing its ass off when she first laid eyes on Kyorge.

Somehow, despite the ragtag nature of Archie's group of merry-men they actually did it. They found and summoned Kyorge to the surface in an attempt to have the god of the ocean cleanse the water of all the toxins that man had dumped into it. They had won. It was a fucking shame that it would come at the cost of the whole world.

Now instead of the world being made up of about 70% water, the currently estimated percentage was closer to 80% water, because who could have foreseen that a drawback to summoning the god that created the fucking oceans would lead to the water level rising by way fucking more than the world could take.

The waves and wind had torn Pacifidlog to pieces, ripping the wooden structures off of the Corsola colony it was founded on and dashed everything against the other rocks and islands nearby. Dewport and Slateport were just swallowed by the tide, although Slateport's famous lighthouse can still be seen when the tide is low, apparently, Dewport wasn't as lucky. Nothing was left of the little seaside town, not any kind of infrastructure either above or below water. If it wasn't for the fact that it was still in the memories of any who had ever visited it could almost be said that the town never existed. Not that Alayne could speak from first-hand experience. Exploring ruins for the lost hadn't been part of her job when she was still apart of Magma. Instead, her job had been trying to protect those places that Kyorge hadn't finished sinking, places like Rustboro, Lilycove, and her hometown of Mauville. The last of which had basically lost its whole east side due to the water rising out of Route 118. It was in the wreckage of her old home that she had been approached for a second time by a man with a job opportunity- only this time it wasn't some misguided attempt to try to save the world.

The same job had led her to leave Magma and its attempts to save the world it just as easily could have destroyed, to sipping cheap whiskey in the Sharpedo's Den as she watched the blond at the bar order another round for him and the brunette at his side.

"Ya know, you don't have to do this, right?"

The only sign that Trey's voice had startled her was the slight ripple in her cup from the tiny jerk she had given and the way her eyes cut sharply away from the couple at the bar to her companion. They both knew that she'd gotten so wrapped up in her work and brooding that she'd forgotten he was there, but he wasn't the type to complain, at least not anymore. Before the end of the world, he would have given her so much shit for it. Teasing her relentlessly until she was forced to silence him either with a look, a drink, or a kiss. The last being his all-time favorite. Not that she blamed him since it had been her favorite way of shutting him up too. Not that she had kissed him since Kyorge had resurfaced. That had broken them like it had broken all things. It didn't help that Trey had been considered Aqua's golden boy before Archie destroyed the world.

"I know," She replies, speaking mostly into her glass to avoid meeting his too green eyes.  It had been a long time since she had been able to meet his gaze, even though he was trying desperately to meet hers now.

"Then don't. Nothing's stoppin' you from walkin' out right now. It'd be easier." He leans back in his chair, tucking his hands behind his head. He was trying so hard to sound nonchalant about the whole thing but Alayne wasn't stupid. She knew he was trying to talk her out of it. It was a neat trick that she always seemed to be able to do with Trey, most people had always told her that he had been hard to read. Always putting up a happy front that few people, if any besides her, could see past. He was deeply troubled under all the smiles and the party vibe he used to give off.

Right now, he was scared, which meant that her contact had been right, the couple at the bar were Team Aqua members- and Trey knew them.

"Easier would have been killing myself a long time ago." She shot back, a surprising amount of venom in her voice.

"Hey," He drops the nonchalant act and reaches across the table to grab her free hand, which had been resting on the tabletop, "Don't talk like that, Laney. Please."

Alayne wanted to fucking cry. She wanted to crawl across the tabletop, into his arms, and cry until there was nothing left to cry about. This is why they couldn't keep doing this. One little touch and she was back in the world before- before the world forgot what the sun looked like because the rainclouds had blocked it out. Back when she was happy for the first time in her life. Magma had given her a job, friends, Pokemon, and in its own way, it had given her Trey. Aqua had stolen all of that.  Faces flashed through her mind of all the people and pokemon that she had lost. Misaki and Kira to the first failed attempt to retake Sootopolis. Adrian, Anders, and Oz to the mudslides. Kanno, Abrus, and Blue to the plagues. Leo in the riots. Ever starved and Ethan killed himself soon after. Milo to the bandits. Maxie to an assassination. Courtney, Tabitha, Cole, Mary, Lori, Felix, Bryan, Sandy-

She physically recoils from Trey's touch, spilling some of her drink, but successfully ripping herself from the flood of memories that threaten to overtake her. She couldn't do this. This is why they had to stop. He reminded her too much of all the things she lost, and they both knew that he was in part to blame for the reason they were all gone. Yet, as much as she couldn't stand him touching her because it grounded her too much in her shitty reality, Trey was the one thing that kept her from actually killing herself. And she was pretty sure that keeping her alive was the only thing that kept Trey from being completely consumed by the guilt of being a part of the reason the world had gone to shit. It was as if keeping her alive was the one thing that could redeem him in the end. Two desperate souls that couldn't be together but couldn't be apart either. It was fucking pathetic but it got her through. So she'd take it.

"Laney? Are yo-"

"Don't touch me." Alayne couldn't look at him, instead focusing on a spot on the floor, ignoring the way her vision swam with unshed tears.

She could almost feel him withdrawal his hand from her personal space even though he never touched her. She could hear the squeak of his chair on the floor as he settles back into it. Alayne closes her eyes. She couldn't afford to do this. Not now. She still had a job to do. If she was going to fall apart she could do it later.

"…Laney, please don't do this," His voice was a strained whisper, like a ghost trying to communicate through the void. It made something twist in her chest painfully, "Not them. They don't… Kegan didn't have a damn thin' to do with anythin' that happened. Let ‘em go."

She sets her drink down on the table, it was the first time she set the glass down all night, asides from the two times she had made the bartender refill it. Alayne drops her head into a waiting hand, covering her eyes so she could discreetly wipe the tears away. She was glad that she had decided to forgo wearing any kind of eye make-up tonight; it was always a good idea on nights like this. Not that seeing a woman with smudge make-up was anything anyone paid attention too anymore; likely she was either a prostitute at the end of her shift or mourning another soul that was lost to the endless rain. Arceus, she was so fucking weak for him. "You know if someone else catches up to them, they won't be as kind. You may be condemning them to the same fate as Shelly."

"Yeah, but they at least get a chance if you let ‘em go."

Alayne was quiet for a long time. She hated this part of her job, especially on nights when Trey was with her. She already had to go through this moral dilemma every-fucking-time she caught up to an ex-Aqua member but Trey always added an extra ton of guilt whenever he decided to tag along. One would think that with her kill count these debates would fucking stop, but it felt like they were only getting worse. She could barely even justify to herself anymore that she was merciful compared to most other bounty hunters. Well, she was now. She was a lot more violent when she first started taking revenge on old Aqua members. Now the poisons she used were always fast acting and were so painless that sometimes her targets even smiled at her when their hearts finally stopped. Hell, the fact that she was going so soft was probably part of the reason Trey had decided to show up tonight. He saw who her targets were, and knew he could probably talk her out of this. Bastard.

"I fucking hate you,"

"It’d be easier if you actually did." He uses her own words against her. It was so sudden and out of character that it made Alayne lift her head out of her hand, and actually look at him for the first time that night. Trey was watching her with such sad eyes and a matching smile. Even though she knew she looked as rough as the rest of the patrons in this hole in the wall, he somehow managed to look exactly like he did before the end of days. Complete with that green t-shirt with the kecleon silhouette she bought for him on his last birthday. Looking as if he was unfazed by all the tauroshit around them- unless you were looking at his eyes. They were just as haunted as everyone else’s, only his seemed to corrupt every expression that crossed his face, even his smile. Arceus, what she wouldn't do to make him smile like they used to.

Alayne sighs wistfully and glances over her shoulder. The brunette was sitting alone at the bar. Looks like she had missed her chance. She had been planning on ambushing him in the bathroom, then catching the girl when she came looking for her friend. She stands, noting the way that Trey seemed to jerk like he was going to try to stop her until he noticed that she was already waving him off. She missed her chance, and she was pretty sure that if she killed these two Trey would make himself scarce for a while. She wasn't sure what either one of them would do with the silence. It had gotten so bad last time that they had stopped talking- she really had been close to killing herself before Trey appeared to literally talk her off the edge. She wasn't ready to chase him away again.

Grabbing her glass and her purse, the ex-Magma made her way over to the bar and leans the gap between the seat the blond had been sitting in and the brunette's spot as she waits for the bartender to notice her. She didn't miss the way that the girl angled herself away just slightly or that she was only drinking a soda instead of something a little more… alcoholic. The bartender appears in front of her, and instead of exchanging words, she fishes her wallet out of her bag and passes him her credit card. He nods, shuffling farther down the bar to close out her tab. She takes a sip of the last of her drink as she watches him head to the register. "You two need to get out of here."

The girl next to her startles, turning to actually face Alayne. She was adorable. All freckles, big brown eyes, and a pretty round face that probably lit up a room when she smiled. There was no doubt about it now that she could actually see the girl up close. It was, in fact, Kegan Roth, ex-Aqua grunt, and close friend to Trey. She hadn't been a hundred percent sure that this girl had been Kegan but she had just assumed the moment she laid eyes on Blake, that his companion had been the farm girl. It seemed that once again her instincts had been right on point.

"W-what?"

"You're being hunted. Or at least were, but people will figure out sooner or later that I missed my mark."

The blood drained from the girl's face and Alayne eyes her as Kegan reached for her jacket. She either had a weapon in there or was just going to bolt. Judging by the look of pure terror in her eyes, she was betting on the latter rather than the former. Funny, she had always thought Trey's old friends had more moral than this. Then again, she did have the poor girl cornered, and the gentleman who had probably kept her safe all this time wasn't around to protect her. Although he'd be back soon enough, and she'd rather be gone by that time. She glances up to the mirror behind the bar her subconscious telling her that she was being watched. Trey was still sitting at the table, staring at her, and when he sees her looking waves at her with that same tragic smile.

"Trey says hi, by the way."

This stops Kegan in her tracks. The country girl sits up straighter and twists to look around the bar. She had this look of excitement on her face that made everything in Alayne's chest twist painfully such a way that made her want to drop to her knees and sob. It had been so long since she had seen such pure hope like that. No wonder Trey wanted to protect her. She was so innocent and open. "Trey's here? But I thought he'd-"

"He did." Alayne cuts her off quickly, breaking her gaze from Trey's in the mirror. She closes her eyes and slams back the last of her drink. It burned as it when down, but it chased the taste of acid out of her mouth. The glass hits the counter with more force than she intended, and when she opens her eyes the bartender is standing in front of her with his hand outstretched. Waiting for her to take her card and receipt. Kegan had gone quiet and was bowing her head.

Alayne takes the paper and plastic, shoving it into her pocket. She nods at the bartender and turns her back on the two. "Good luck."

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see Blake coming back down the hallway from where the restrooms were. She could feel his eyes on her and even though he moved out of her line of sight, she had no doubt he was already back at Kegan's side- being filled in about the current situation and how their lives were spared mostly on a whim. This would most likely be the last time she would ever see the two. Even if she was instructed to keep them as a bounty Alayne doubted that she would ever chase after them again. Somehow it felt right. Maybe because in a previous life, she had been expecting to be on the run like they were. Although she always expected it to be because Maxie had figured out that she had fallen in love with Trey, and by some twist of fate he had fallen for her too-not because she was at fault for ending the world.

She passes by their table which was empty, minus Trey's untouched beer. Without thinking she reaches out and snags the bottle, bringing it to her lips. It was warm and the taste made her crinkle her nose in disgust but she still drank it. Part of her was expecting the bartender to try to stop her as she pushed open the door to head out into the rain, bottle still in hand, but he didn't. Just another example of how much of a shit people gave now that they realized that the world was on borrowed time. Pausing under the tin awning, Alayne carefully swings her purse around and with her free hand began the dig for her umbrella. Like all necessary things it somehow seemed to have ended up at the very bottom of her bag, regardless of the fact that she had just used it a few hours ago.

‘Thanks.'

The voice was so quiet that there should have been no way that she heard it over the sound of the rain beating on the metal overhead. Then again she guessed that was the upside of having voices in one's head. No matter how softly he spoke, Alayne could always hear him.

For a long time, she's silent, just rummaging through her bag. Finally, she unearths her prize, still damp from her walk to the bar. With the press of a button, the travel umbrella unfolds, snapping into shape with a click that was drowned out by the rain. Alayne shoulders the umbrella, before bringing the bottle back to her lips to finish it off. One day, she probably would be able to enjoy drinking beer but for now, it was just another reminder of the fact that Trey… wasn't actually here anymore. Once the bottle was empty, she set it gently on the edge of the steps before stepping out into the downpour.

"You're welcome."

[spw-art]

we figured out what he is

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

//Hiii Kars hiii :3 How do you write your characters interacting with each other without getting boreddd? Also how do you decide on arcs?

//Hi!! Hi!! Hi :) thank you for askinggg

So, the first question—I write a lot! When you’re just writing, you’re kind of your own roleplay partner, and you’re playing all the characters and the narration and the environment and, well, everything. I don’t have my characters interact with each other on rotomblr very often, actually, now that I think about it. Other than Harte and Keahilani, but they’re brothers, it’s very easy to write them when they’re just yelling at each other. Outside of rotomblr, I just like writing my characters being mundane. It’s not really boring to me to imagine one of my characters doing something like walking to work or putting on clothes or browsing Reddit in bed. Hi Harte. Perused of r/lies.

As for the second one, my only arc has been lilycoving. I decided on that one before I joined rotomblr in February. I was hospitalized and determined to have my characters get better if I was getting better! At least I think it was in February. The moment Tabitha fell last year was the moment he started working on going back home because maybe, just maybe, his fiancé would magically be there. I never really decided on it ending with him letting go or with he and Harte kind of flipping in terms of dynamics, but that’s just how it ended up happening. I only named it because it was all culminating in Tabitha returning home and I kind of wanted to have a little collection if I were to ever look for posts related to it. It also actually concluded offscreen! There is sooooo much character insight I won’t get into here but things definitely shifted. They definitely shifted. Sniles. Sneetly, even.

[lilycoving]

Call me Tab. I’m just here for cute Pokémon.

You can also find me over at @skitty-appreciator

Yes, I am in charge of the Lilycove Pokémon Conservatory. Let’s all be civil about that information, okay?

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Hi! Mod Kars here again with another guy of all time. Yes, this is the famed Harte’s roommate. This is FORMER TEAM MAGMA LEADER TABITHA.

Pelipper and Musharna mail and malice are off. Mystery gifts will be sent to the conservatory. Anon hate is encouraged, but he may delete it.

He’s not one to talk about his personal life and personal history. Take that as a challenge.

Mod and muse are both adults. Low/no stakes. Tab will not interact with sapient Pokémon. Follows from spw-foundation.

If you reblog an ask game, I’ll send an ask your way! Ask games have no time limit for Tab. Check the “meme” tag for ask games. :)

Do not send any asks about food.

[magmaredorb]

    Courtney, at least, is the one who comes to pick him up from Lilycove Corrections. He doesn’t feel like dealing with Tabitha’s shit today.

[team-magma-admin-tabitha-blog]

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