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indie+selective protagonist trainer hikari

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                  ❝ RESPECT YOUR elders and betters yada yada... ❞

     SHE TRIES to prolong the joke, but soon enough she’s flinching from Yuyuki’s flick, reeling backwards dramatically as she clutches her head, wounded.

                  ❝ OW ! WHY would you do that to meeeee ?❞

    SHE LOWERS her hand && pouts before heaving a sigh && laughing. Of course she’s slightly sore, but if she’s allowed to tease Hikari, then it’s only fair for the other to tease back. It’s childish, but then again the last time they saw each they were children.

                  ❝ YOU MEANIE. But the same goes for you too — when I moved to                         Kalos I didn’t think I’d ever return to Sinnoh, let alone see Twinleaf                         and you too. It’s great to see you and short temper again ! ❞

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   She huffs in amusement at the over-the-top reaction Nova gives. Oddly enough, playing around like this doesn’t really bother her. It’s refreshing in its own way.

   “You brought it upon yourself and there’s more where that came from.” Hikari holds up the same hand and makes false flicking motions as a halfhearted threat.

   “Thanks. Being mean is my specialty, you know.” She takes the comment about having a short temper in stride but of course she adds in a comment herself. “It’s nice to see that you’re just as much of a kid as before.” Though it’s presented as sarcasm she means it somewhat genuinely. If they had changed too much this might have been awkward. At least Hikari’s experiences travelling haven’t put her too much at a disadvantage in this case.

   “How come you’re visiting then? Vacation?”

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                      White continued to fumble with the ball as the stranger spoke; whether it was a Pokémon Centre or some kind of human emergency room she couldn’t tell, but either way whatever they were had gone and bound her hands in some sort of fabric, presumably to help with the frostbite. It took more than a little effort on her part to hit the release on the PokéBall, but once she did the sudden flurry of light was more than satisfying enough to get her to visibly lighten up a bit. Daze popped out and immediately hobbled over to pat at her face with his nubby little Foongus hands, paying no heed whatsoever to the strangers in the room with them. He was, after all, her body guard; it was his job to protect her, not theirs. Not people he didn’t even know. If he couldn’t save her himself then he’d at least make sure to try calming her down and making sure she was alright as best he could.

                     "Aaahhh… R-Right… Won’t do again… Honestly, I didn’t mean to do it in the first place: I’d just been so excited to see the lake I’d gone and slipped on some mud and fallen in. If you weren’t around I’d pro’ll be dead or something…”

                     … And then Daze would be stuck in his ball while she sunk to the bottom of the lake. Thinking on it that way she was more grateful for the stranger saving the Foongus’ life than she was her own.

                     "… I don’t have a place to stay, but that’s fine — I can get one. I’m from Unova!! I just wanted to see the lake myself instead of seeing it on some TV report… I’m really sorry about putting you through all this trouble though, honest!! I never meant for that to — but now that I think about it, you must’ve been here for forever if you waited for me to wake up n’all that and you’re still here, right?? I’m really sorry… You saved me, though. And Daze!! I can’t… Uh, thank you enough. I’m sorry, did I ever, uh, get your name??”

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   Hearing the sound of a pokeball opening catches Hikari’s attention and to her surprise it’s a pokemon she hadn’t seen before. It was quite small and resembled a mushroom.... A grass type maybe? Then she probably is foreign after all.

   “I know you didn’t. Nothing can be done about it now except to learn from it. Getting to close to water around here is dangerous. I usually keep at least a meter away.” When she was a kid it was a different story but since then she’s matured and learn to be more cautious. Of all the risky things to do, getting too close to a freezing body of water isn’t worth the price one would have to pay for it. Now White knows that too.

   Unova, huh? That confirms it. Hikari had seen footage of that region before. It’s heavily based around technology, construction and entertainment which made it a good place to shoot movies. A lot of the dramas she watched were set there. Not that she’d ever say that out loud.

   “... I wasn’t here that long.” A lie but it would be to embarrassing to agree. Daze... Is that the pokemon she’s with? “Don’t worry about it. Someone’s life is more important than the bit of effort it takes to save it.” It’s not like it was intentional, like she said before. Apologizing when she almost died seems pointless but it’s understandable in some ways, especially since they can be sort of cold when giving warnings or advice. Hikari shakes her head at the final question and moves to sit at the foot of the bed. Her legs are tired even after sitting for all of those hours. Maybe it’s the stress.

   “It’s Hikari Yukimura. Call me Yuki though. What’s yours?” Now might be as good a time as any to make a small offer. She wouldn’t let someone she wasn’t close to stay in her mother’s home in Twinleaf but there was a much more public and spacious place that she could think of. It’s really no skin off her nose, considering she wouldn’t have to pay or do anything due to her position. “You know... if you’re short on money I can find a place for you at the Battle Frontier temporarily.”

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                      A certain amount of time had passed. White had no way of knowing exactly how much time had gone by; sometime between getting plucked out of the wintery waters of Lake Acuity and getting frisked away to the borders of a snowbound city she’d up and fallen asleep, partially because the cold was lulling her eyes shut more and more by every passing second but mostly because she’d already been exhausted from trudging through the snow and hiking all day to get to the lake in the first place. All that really mattered was that by the time she’d opened her eyes again she was warm (albeit incredibly sore, to say nothing of the burning sensation surrounding her wrapped hands and feet) and dry and indoors someplace with dimmed lighting. There were Chansey hobbling by with metal trays — that caught her attention. Not seeing Audino as the Pokémon of choice for a Pokémon Centre was an exceptional novelty. There was one very important thing that she couldn’t overlook though, cute foreign Pokémon or not:

                                HER POKÉBALLS.

                      She hated Pokéballs. Loathed the damned things. As far as she was concerned they were accursed little tools used for the forced coercion and manipulation of Pokémon, and every time she handled one of them she had to mentally beg her Lord N for his forgiveness, for he surely would never approve of using one of them, but… But, she reminded herself as she fumbled with the balls laying on the tray beside her bed to release Dake, this time, this one time, they kept her friends safe. She owed them credit where credit was due. She owed the Togekiss beside her, too. It was… The puffy white hat she’d been wearing, right—?

                      And as if on cue some stranger came in barreling toward her bed. Wowsers.

                      “H-Hey!! Uh… You’re the one that, uh, h-helped me, right?? Was that you?? Back at the lake, I mean… Um… Well if it is, um — t-thank you. So much. Really. I—”

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   “Yeah, it was.” They nod. During all of that she probably didn’t get to see them properly. “You don’t have to thank me though. It was the right thing to do. You’re lucky there was a city nearby.” Hikari says that but she appreciates it all the same. It’s good to hear a proper couple of sentences from the stranger as opposed to the jumbled, weak words from before. If she hadn’t come in and heard that she’s sure that moment would have haunted her later. Having something to replace it with makes it worth it.

   After closing the door behind her, she stands by the bed and pets her pokemon to give something for her to focus on. Togekiss lets out a chirp and moves closer to the edge of the bed to press against her trainer’s body. White seemed pretty shaken up and rightfully so. Did anyone else know she was here? Did she come from overseas? It’s possible that during this event, Hikari may be her only outside visitor. If any of this girl’s friends or family knew about this they’d probably be freaking out.

   “You need to be careful. You’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again, right?” She looks up and stares for a solid few moments, studying the other’s features before going back to what she was doing. Should she try to engage further with this person? That was the part Hikari couldn’t decide. “Do you have a place to stay? They’ll probably let you sleep here overnight but depending on how you’re feeling it won’t be necessary.”

   At the very least she should make sure that there’s nothing more to be offered. Should it be the case that White is alone then it would be unfair to leave and abandon her decision to help before it was through. She’s had her own near-death experiences and doing it alone didn’t make anything better. No one deserves that. Well, except for some people ( not that she’ll name names ).

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                      In times like these some would say that it was a little ridiculous to be thankful for anything, but all White could think of was how eternally grateful she was. She was always a major clutz, and her clumsy buffoonery had landed her in plenty of trouble before, but this… She was so unbelievably happy… That Dake was, for once, bound within his PokéBall. As much as she loathed the whole capture system Dake seemed to loathe the chilly weather surrounding them even more, and when she’d returned him into his ball it’d been with a surly reluctance. Now all she could think about was the breath of grace that kept the little Foongus warm and dry within the round capsule ball and out of harm’s reach. The initial shock of the ice water had worn through her lightning-quick, so that by the time the Empoleon had reached her she was dazed and numbed with the cold. It soaked through her, but even then her clothing managed to freeze on her as soon as she was pulled out of the water, her long, thick hair weighted down and dripping with water.

                      Someone was talking. Something was carrying her, something almost equally cold but also not quite, something with what felt like metal bits — she couldn’t tell whether it was the chattering of her teeth or the sound of the wind blotting out whatever was being said, but either way, she could hardly hear a thing (and was it because her ears were burning? They hurt, they scorched against the open air surrounding them).

                      There was something soft and white. She would’ve mistaken it for snow if it weren’t also warm. Honestly, something small within White quietly wished that the warmth hadn’t come; with it returned a smidgen of her sense of touch, and with that came a ferocious burning in the tips of her fingers, as though they’d been licked by fire. Oh, frostbite.

                      “—s’f-f-fine. M’fine. F-Fank you for… F-Finding… C-Cold.”

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  “That’s good. Keep talking...” Togekiss picked out bits of ice from the stranger’s hair and rubbed the side’s of the stranger’s face with her own. “Deep breaths. We’re not far.”

  This would be Hikari’s-- and by extension, her teammates’-- first attempt at helping someone like this. The whole ‘tourists falling into the water’ thing was something more common on the news. She had her doubts as to what the proper procedure would be but she wouldn’t let her uncertainties show and cause the other any extra worries. The nurses will do most of the work anyhow.

  No time is wasted as they trudge over through the snow to their destination. Luckily Snowpoint isn’t very large and the red roof is easy to spot in the white landscape. Upon entering, Hikari makes a scene in order to get them attention as soon as possible. Her voice is loud and stern, startling those inside as they see White’s soaking and trembling form in the Empoleon’s arms. In all of the rush, they take the girl towards the back of the building on a stretcher, leaving Togekiss on her simply so they can get moving sooner.

  Contrasting to how fast-paced the situation panned out up until this point, Hikari proceeded to wait hours until she was allowed to check in on White. She spent the time drying her Empoleon and sitting in the waiting room silently. It wasn’t really their business but they still wanted to know if things were alright. Past the disconnection they forced in order to cope with high-stress scenarios like this they were scared.

  Once White was able to be changed into dry clothes and be situated on a guest bed with heavy blankets, entrance is finally granted to Hikari. Slowly, she steps into the room and her gaze first falls to Togekiss who is seated on the bed as well. Something about this makes them tense-- like they’re not welcome. Well, if the stranger doesn’t want her here she can lie and say she’s just here to pick up her pokemon.

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                      Lake Acuity had to be better than she’d expected. Back in Castelia she could recall plenty of snowy days spent with her parents sledding down shallow hills in Castelia Park, but no matter how pristinely kept the park was it was still a park bound within a concrete jungle. This lake… The air was so crisp and cold, and each breath she took felt like taking a gulp of little razorblades. In a good way, though. The stinging in her throat was almost comfortable, if that made any sense, and the scent of pine carried by the wind was exhilarating. It was… good. People complained about Sinnoh’s bitter northern cold all the time, but now that she was here, overlooking this pristine lake, it was… Nice. She liked this place.

                      Until she slipped on a match of mud and fell face-first into the lake, of course. The frigid water chilled White to the bone, and with the suddenness of it all and the shock of the ice water White could barely make heads or tails of where she was. It was all she could do to throw her mouth open as soon as her head broke through the lake’s surface.

                        “H-H-HELP! HELP—!!”

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   Upon hearing screams for help coming through the entrance to Lake Acuity, Hikari’s first assumption is ‘a tourist fell in again’. She veers off of her original path to Snowpoint and walks through the natural archway that kept the lake secluded from the rest of the area. The first thing she’s greeted with is a face bobbing above water in a panic. Well, someone definitely fell in. Time to find out if it’s a tourist.

   Jokes aside, Hikari knew that falling into one of the three Sinnoh lakes was very dangerous. Hypothermia is usually the biggest risk when it comes to cases like this. She quickly releases her Empoleon who understands what he has to do almost immediately and dives into the water, scooping up the victim in his flippers as he resurfaces with a shooting force and lands on the snowy ground. Of course, being the prideful pokemon he is, he makes sure to shake himself off a little afterwards. All the while, the stranger is held like a baby.

   Unfortunately, she didn’t have any blankets on her to use but she decides to also release her Togekiss who is quite soft and has strong healing properties. She flies towards White and perches on top of her like she would a nest of eggs and keeps watch. That will have to do for now until they can get to Snowpoint City’s Pokemon Center.

   “You have to be careful around water here. You could have died.” Hikari leads the way with Empoleon walking beside her-- holding the other two with seemingly no effort. She’s stern at first but eventually sighs. “How do you feel? Keep talking to me or you might pass out.”

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      SHE’D BEEN on her way back from the Lake Verity shore front when she’d heard her named called. Clothes still damp from her Lapras’ Surf across the water, her cheeks were flushed from the cold as she turned to look in the direction she thought she heard from. At first she just saw a small girl, though slowly but surely pieces clicked into place && she inhaled sharply, a surprised smile pulling at her lips.

                    ❝ YUYUKI ? ❞ 

      EVEN AFTER all these years, the name had stuck : caused by her childhood ( && occasionally still occuring ) stutter. Yuki had always turned into Yuyuki, despite Hikari’s attempts at correcting her && so it had stuck. Tying back her hair as she strode towards the other, she let her grin grow wide as she took her in. She really hadn’t grown much, had she ? Despite being two years older, Nova had always been the taller child, && that too had stuck. Slapping her hand onto Hikari’s shoulder in her enthusiasm, she laughed.

                    ❝ I NEVER realised you lived here ! I thought you were just another                            holiday kid like me ! God, you’re still T I N Y and everything… ❞

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   ‘Yuyuki’... Yep. That’s Nova alright.

   She looks up properly now and cracks a small smile, though it’s nothing compared to her friend’s grin. That quickly changes to a jokingly unhappy expression when her shoulder is hit with a small amount of force and laughter fills the air.

   “Tiny? You’re still on about that, huh? I’ll pull you down here with me if you’re not careful. Treat your elders with respect.” Hikari stares up at her indignantly. She’s teasing of course but she probably would actually do it. Damn her short person genes. “It’s been so long and this is what you have to say to me? I’m struck. I’m injured-------    but yeah. I live in the house back that way.”

   Hikari then reaches up to lightly flick Nova’s forehead to make up for the shoulder slap.

   “I didn’t think I’d see you again.”

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      ICY EXTERIOR melts && a grin cracks across her face as the other reveals her home town. Whilst it may not be Snowpoint, Twin Leaf had a certain… quaintness about it that had always drawn Nova in as a child in the few visits she && her father took there.

                 ❝ AWW, I love Twin Leaf - I haven’t been there in so long ! W e l l                       technically I haven’t been in Sinnoh for even longer, but that’s besides                       the point. ❞ 

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   “I know, mom. I'll be back by tonight.” A parting wave is given before Hikari closes the door to her mother’s house. Spending the past few days there has been nice. She does love her mother dearly but it’s also good to stretch her legs a bit and take a break from all of her worrying ( though she has every right to worry considering what has happened ). Normally Hikari is working constantly so it’s weird to have nothing to do.

   She walks quietly through the small town without much on her mind except how it’s been a little less cold that usual. The last thing she expected to see was a familiar face. Yet, there near the entrance to the town, was someone she’d nearly forgotten-- a memory that had been stored away somewhere from lack of use. It’s been years now since one little girl had made friends with Hikari over their holiday visits to Twinleaf. Maybe it’s just the similarities in features that make her remember a one off friendship and it’s possible that in fact, this person is not the one she’s thinking of but that doesn’t stop her from approaching anyway.

   “Nova?” It’s funny how the name still stuck. It’s most likely because not many kids lived in Twinleaf to begin with. Hikari keeps a bit of distance between them and looks towards the ground. If she’s wrong, she can always pass it off as though she’s talking about something else.

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40 DAY POKEMON CHALLENGE!

↳ DAY 05.     FIRST POKEMON GAME  -  DIAMOND!

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40 DAY POKEMON CHALLENGE!

↳ DAY 11.     FAVORITE GRASS TYPE  -  SHAYMIN!

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i don’t even like diamond and pearl but i freaking love dawn so much

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valley windworks!!

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👊 – She looked nervously from her pokemon to the other across the counter. Sure, it made her nervous to have to battle with pokemon she was not familiar with, but she was suppose to be expanding her horizons afterall. “Okay… But it is okay if Lucian stands on the sidelines? It would make it a little easier on me if that’s okay?”

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   “Of course. I’m sure that would be fine.” She nods and attempts to be reassuring. “The most important part is the battle aspect, they never said anything about having Pokemon on the sidelines.” It would be too cruel to deny that right. Who knows, maybe some day Maylene will feel comfortable enough to do this on her own but today isn’t that day. It’s only her first try.

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👊 – “So… I can’t use any of my own pokemon? I don’t know a lot about other types of pokemon though… Lucian and I are partners for a reason.”

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   “Sorry, Maylene, those are the rules.” Hikari shrugs and taps her chin. Even though she wants to offer a more lenient answer to one of the Gym Leaders she admires, there are regulations to follow. “The idea is to test the trainer’s ability to adapt and adjust. If that’s not in your range then this is a good place to practice, if you want. You shouldn’t be too discouraged, you are capable.”

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endings are new beginnings

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{ its 3am i should Not be awake............... goodnight }