Roark of the Rock

online|idle|offline

[kamichuuray-deactivated20121227]

[rollingrox-deactivated20121206]

In the Mines || Roark and Roxanne

Roxanne ventured around the famous Oreburgh Mine, although hardly impressed. Her mentors at the school had advised her to take a vacation in Sinnoh and specifically suggested these mines so she could toughen up her Pokémon. Unfortunately, she hadn’t come across any Pokémon aside from numerous fleeing Zubat so she and her Nosepass were on their own.

Or so she thought.

There, wearing a red builder’s hat with a built in flashlight and a gray mining suit was the man Roxanne recognized as Roark, Gym Leader of Oreburgh City. Of course she had heard of him plenty of times either from the television or even some of the challengers that come by to her gym back in Hoenn.

She was never good at striking up conversations with someone, so Roxanne initiated one in the only way she knew how. Politeness with a tinge of arrogance.

“Excuse me, would you have any idea why there aren’t any Pokémon worth training with around? My Nosepass and I have been walking around all night.”

[rockinroark-blog]

Roark, facing the wall as he crouched down to further examine a gem he had found, flinched as he heard a rather condescending voice from behind him. He sighed, slowly turning his head so that he can at least see who was there speaking to him about worthless training pokemon?

"Um, hello?" He spoke with a rather confused tone, "you're Roxanne right? Of the Hoenn region? Is there any reason why you're here, if you don't mind me asking." a slight pause. "Oh, excuse me, I should answer your previous question. Y'see this here mine is mainly meant for mining. We only have, what you would call weak pokemon, because this part of the underground was evacuated long before I got here anyway, and there were few left over pokemon who didn't mind us, so we made it a mining spot."

He cleared his throat, placing the small gem into his back pocket as he adjusted his helmet. Roark stood, brushing off the dirt and pebbles that he had caught while he faced the other gym leader in front of him.

"I really like your Nosepass there, I had one too until it evolved into Probopass. But wowie, it's a really strong looking pokemon, I bet you're proud!" He kindly smiled with his hands on his hips, glancing at the rock pokemon that Roxanne had brought.

[rockinroark-blog]

How often do you polish your 'jewels'?

I'm sorry I cannot handle these questions

but if you want me to answer this honestly with the euphemism implied...

Maybe a couple of times a...................... month or year maybe never

[rockinroark-blog]

Are you jealous of Steven's precious stones?

No, not really?

I mean they're nice an' all but....--

Wait are we still doing sexual sunday...........

[rockinroark-blog]

Has rock ever touched YOU in a sexual way?

P-Please stop

[rockinroark-blog]

have you ever touched a rock in a sexual way

NO

[contestchampion]

[rockinroark-blog]

men, women, rocks, or all three?

"Rocks!!--"

"Wait if you're talking about my gender preference I guess... I don't have one?" He paused momentarily to contemplate his reply, "Er, I've never actually been in a real relationship before and I don't seem to harbor any romantic feelings for most people.. But I mean uh well I dunno essentially both is fine with me as long as if I like them and they like me?"

[rockinroark-blog]

have you ever gotten down n dirty in a cave before? (;

"N...No? I mean I haven't even gotten past technically kissing although those were only on the cheek, so really hand holding.....

Gosh this is kind of embarrassing..."

[contestchampion]

[illucian-blog]

“…Good evening, Roark. I was hoping to find you out here… in the mines.”

An evident displeasure lined Lucian’s (rather effeminate) face, and he was moving carefully in the dry dirt of the mine, as if afraid to touch anything or kick up a cloud of dust that might settle on his pristinely pressed maroon suit pants.

He looked briefly at the fossils in Roark’s arms with evident distaste  before his cold eyes flickered back up to the man’s face itself. The change in Lucian’s expression was negligible.

“It has come to the League’s attention that you haven’t been putting in full hours at your Gym recently. Whatever… hobbies you are entertaining,” and he looked pointedly back to the fossils, “I’m sure they can wait until after work.”

[rockinroark-blog]

Roark blinked with a confused and worried look on his face. The look on Lucian's face didn't make him feel very safe at the moment... It actually made him want to run back into his mine again, leaving Lucian in the dust. But that was rude.

"Eh......." Roark looked astounded at the comment the other said, being so extremely blunt, "Really, is that so..? Well, I mean, the people in the museum has been pretty close to a really great find, so they asked me to help them out!" The young leader laughed nervously, hoping to explain himself even just a bit. "Plus, there haven't been many trainers coming to my gym in a while anyway, so I thought..." His voice trailed off.

"But if it bothered you guys to this extent I suppose I could spend more time in the gym." Roark sighed, his nervous and flustered expression planted on his face. "Also I apologize that you had to go out of your way to come down here just for this..."

[rockinroark-blog]

illucian started following you

As he inspected a fossil that he had found earlier today, Roark saw a figure standing before him. He looked up and happily smiled, "Ah, hello there! My name is Roark who are y--" The young gym leader had almost dropped the fossil he had been carrying upon seeing the ever so famous face of the master psychic trainer of Sinnoh.

[rockinroark-blog]

agastly replied to your post: Trick or Treat

Young man, don’t tell me what I can and can’t do! I am your elder and you need to respect that!

Oh uh, I'm sorry miss!

Ehe, I'll remember that... next time.

[defectiveantagonist-deactivated]

N smiles back at Roark and chuckles lightly, “I see… Well, that isn’t much of a surprise, this place is close by to Oreburgh anyway.” The man looks around uncertainly before looking back at Roark while a slight smile. “Ah, yes I am from there. It certainly is… and judging from your outfit, I suppose you would like it as well.” He could easily tell that Roark was more of a miner judging from his clothes and would probably be more of the type that liked mining.

[rockinroark-blog]

Roark cocked his head to the side with confusion. "What d'ya mean by that? I never heard of Unova being a sort of mining region. But I guess I should check it out sometime! I've heard of the Nacrene Museum and stuff but still." He pursed his lips, scratching the back of his head.

[rockinroark-blog]

Trick or Treat

Ah... sorry but aren't a bit too old to be... trick or treating?

[defectiveantagonist-deactivated]

“It’s nice to meet you too, Roark.” he shakes his hand firmly before dropping it back down to his side. “I’m not surprised… well, I’m from the Unova region. This is the Sinnoh region, if I remember correctly. Quite a distance away from Unova… are you from here, Roark?”

[rockinroark-blog]

Roark nods his head as a simple reply to N, "Yeah, this is the Sinnoh region alright! I'm from Oreburgh which is, of course, located in Sinnoh." He paused for a moment as if to think, "So judging by that statement I'll assume you're from Unova then? I hear it's really nice over there." He laughs slightly.

[defectiveantagonist-deactivated]

rockinroark started following you

“Hello there.” he offers the other a handshake and a small smile, “My name’s N, what might yours be?”

[rockinroark-blog]

"Ah.. Hello! My name is Roark." He slowly reaches out to shake the man's hand and kindly smiles back. "It's nice to meet you, er... N. Where are you from? I don't think I've seen you around before?"