Nothing but Smoke Screens and Mirriors

If you say I aim too high from down below, Well say it now cause when I'm gone, You'll be calling but I won't be at the phone.

[wherethemusetakesme]

REBLOG WITH YOUR MUN & MUSE HOGWARTS HOUSE

Mun : Hufflepuff Muse : Slytherin 

[proteamomegas]

[Text;] gotta kiss myself im so pretty

[Text] : Your mirror doesn’t deserve that kind of abuse.

[rogueinblue]

//I still have that thread where Blue and Silver play drunk mario kart dear lord...

[proteamomegas]

If doing what you did is what it takes to win, I come in second /gladly/. {Growing impatient, Silver takes risks the last few feet of his disent, boots sliding in a controlled, but fast, slide. Now that he’s closer to Blue he subtly looks for signs of stress or pain she might be suffering, ones that could be covered up by the adrenaline of the fall.

Her step is shaky, but there’s no limp to it, leaving Silver to sigh in relief.}

You’re you. Of course you want anything of quality that’s found. {Silver once again falls into step beside Blue, one hand raised to rest on one of Magenton’s cold metal bodies before returning the Pokemon to their capsule. 

Weavile issues a low noise before slinking out of the ring of light; planning to regain his night vision in the gloom to get a better feel of where their new path leads.}

[rogueinblue]

Shockingly, there was nothing of value the further down they went, the only treasure to speak of was an abandoned escape rope. Other than that the cave held no sign of human life. Every path was either gaping wide or crawl-space narrow, crudely cut in jagged lines by stoney bodies. Erosion had no way to make it down here, allowing ancient angles of cave wall to glint and tear like they were just cut.

Weavile seemed eerily at home here, dodging amongst the shadows like it was game. Occasionally they would lose him down a crawl-space, only to find him again five minutes further down the path. Eevee wasn’t so fortunate, and try as he did his youthful optimism faded to a steady walk, hardly straying from Blue’s side.

Rock bottom was always the coldest part of the cave, and in Unova it was no different.  Blue shuddered as her breath escaped in short, silvery puffs. The lowest cavern opened up like a dome, high pitched ceilings hung with icicles that Magneton’s flash could barely reach. The walls coated in a film of stubborn frost that made the slate walls glitter. The sound of boots and scratching paws echoed as they marched towards the reason for their journey, a huge ice rock situated in the middle of the cave.

“You ready?” Blue asked, dropping to one knee and fishing out a small hard candy from her backpack.

Eevee stared at the unwrapped candy in her palm, his brow furrowed and eyes narrowed in what could be seen as concentration, or maybe doubt. Did she pressure him too soon? Did he want to evolve at all? All hesitation was wiped away as Eevee swallowed the candy in her hand, and both Blue and him were obscured in a flash of light.

[proteamomegas]

Did you think that was perfume I was on earlier? 

{Silver’s tone is dry, but not unfriendly. Her concern isn’t for nothing. Caves are arduous to get through just for their sheer size or darkness. Adding Pokemon attacks to the mix every dozen yards – even if they’re easily scared back once they realize how outmatched they are – is just one more way to make a long and tiring journey longer and more exhausting.

By this point the cold was starting to chill deeper into the layers of Silver’s clothing that he expected. Their brisk pace has to slow so they can assure their footing step for step and it’s the slowness that’s causing it. Without the constant, fast movement his body wasn’t producing enough heat, leaving him lingering on the edges of shivering.

In a wink Blue suddenly isn’t in front of Silver anymore, and panic grips strong and sudden around his heart.}

Blue! {His knees crack painfully for how quickly he drops to kneel in front of the sharp incline that had been invisible before. Blue’s voice floats up to him, disembodied out of the lantern’s bright touch, filled more audibly with pride than pain.

Silver rubs his face hard with one glove, letting out a quiet, shaking sigh.} I’ll be making my way down with a little more grace, give me a moment.

{Groping at his belt Silver releases Magneton, urging him to light the slope’s treacherous surface for him so he can make his way to Blue as quickly as possible. Seeing that Blue was with both Weavile and Eevee settled the last of Silver’s nerves, leaving his mouth to set in concentration as he climbs down after her.}

[rogueinblue]

She saw Magneton flash white overhead. The stark light highlighted Silver’s decent down the slope, taking each rock and pebble with a measured step. “Very graceful, very fluid. But I think I have you beat on creativity points.” Blue smiled as she brushed the dirt from her calves, “So I win.”

Blue glanced around at the brightened surroundings. Well, they were certainly lower, but whether that was the correct direction she wasn’t sure. Caves weren’t exactly known for being linear. Getting to the bottom floor could require shifting back up a floor to find a new path, or just giving up and backtracking to the entrance . As she lifted her lantern all Blue could see was the way back, and a way forward.

Blue slowly stepped further into the cave, legs and lantern still a bit wobbly from the fall “If we find anything good in this cave I’m keeping it.”

[proteamomegas]

{Silence largely prevailed through the hike so far. Efforts went more to concentrating treacherous grounds than idle and enjoyable chatter, not that Silver minded. Physical exertion shared in the company of another towards a  common goal always has been satisfying, and to it with Blue has it all the more so. He needed to only turn his head to see her face, cast small smiles her way when one of them lost their footing.

Finally getting to stand at the mouth of the cave they’d soon be venturing into gave Silver a slight pause. His hesitation isn’t for entering the cave, which he does smoothly right after Blue, but because he’s used to traveling within them by wing, not by foot. 

As they go further in it’s hard to tell if Crobat or Noivern’s wingspans would be able to fit through the tunnels, but Silver thinks it possible when the sphere of light Blue’s lantern casts and barely brushes along the walls or ceiling.

It doesn’t take long for their footsteps to be joined by other sounds as well. Small, fast wing beats disturb the air just out of sight, and hyper-sonic cries out of their hearing range cause Weavile’s ears to flick constantly. For the time being the wild Pokemon hold themselves back, either intimidated or too good natured to bother with attacking.}

[rogueinblue]

“You put on some repel right? Because I don’t want to be ambushed by zubats.” Or any pokemon for that matter, she liked caves for quick escapes and not much more. They could make for a good rain shelter or a last-ditch camping spot, but being on high alert all the time was draining.

She could see the glint of wings skitting by the lantern. Occasionally a rumbling rock would remind Blue that it was very much alive and very likely to explode. Her breath curled in the lantern’s glow and floated up into the darkness. Ice had somehow creeped into the cavern, making it hard to walk--

Her next step didn’t hit ground, in a gasp of air her perspective flipped upside back and down, blurring and spinning as she felt rock after rock hit her head, neck, back, head, neck, back. She was still sliding once she landed on her butt, shaken and at the bottom of a rock slide. Once her vision righted, she groped her way over to her lantern, cracked but still glowing about six feet away.

“Hey Silver!” She called up the slope, “I think I found the way down!”

[proteamomegas]

Quite ready. {Feeling cold air claw at his clothing has Silver shivering in momentary discomfort as much as it has Weavile vibrating in excitement. This is the climate he was made to inhabit, toes set on wide feet with thick fur to walk on top of snow and stave off frost-bite. 

Closing the door behind him Silver takes a deep breath, accepting the stinging his his throat because it wasn’t going to be getting much warmer than this.} Lead the way.

[rogueinblue]

Sunshine tumbles through the bare tree branches. Snow lay around the ground in patches, mixed with dirt, crumpled leaves and frozen grasses desperate for warmer weather. Eevee didn’t seemed fazed by the cold, in fact he trotted ahead of her and Silver, occasionally kneading his paws in a patch of snow while waiting for the slow humans to catch up. Life must be great with a built in fur coat.

The gravel faded to dirt, then snow, then snowy rock. All semblance of a path faded once they hit the mountain’s incline. Weavile and eevee took to the mountain like kids on a playground, jumping from rock to rock with swift hops, digging their claws in the ice. Silver and Blue took to trudging up the rock scramble, grabbing each others‘ coat sleeves with each misstep.

The near-noon sun was high above them once they reached the cave. The maw of the mountain hung open with soft whistles of wind emanating from its throat. If it blows, it goes. An old cavers mantra that gave Blue some semblance of safety. The rocky bed crunched under her boots as her lantern clicked on. Brother? Check. Weavile? Check. Eevee? Check. Blue glanced back at Silver silhouette framed by sunlight, before descending further into the darkness.

[proteamomegas]

Hikers. {He can’t help but say the title with some disdain. Getting information from them meant listening to twenty minutes of boasting, easily, before getting information that is patchy or useless most of the time. However, Silver knows how Blue is with people, and how easily she loosens their tongues.

It’s enviable, actually, how easily she can get her way.}

If you get us lost you’re going to be buying dinner, too.

[rogueinblue]

“Yeeah yeah,” She chuckled, letting her bones sink into the matress. They had a long day ahead of them tomorrow, better enjoy it while she could.

***

Map, check. Escape rope, check. Pokegear--- charged pokegear, check. Eevee-- The little brown fur-ball darted up behind her, skittering around her heels and pawing at her boots. Check.

She blew hot breaths between her cupped hands, rubbing the brown fleece together to generate some form of heat. God she couldn’t wait to get back to Kanto. She had the perfect place for her winter coat, a cardboard box in the unreachable depths of her closet.

The wooden door sighed open behind her, letting out a gush of warm air and a little brother with his hand against the morning sun. “Ready to go?”

[proteamomegas]

I would have thought Weavile’s darkness was more prevailing than his ice. {At the comment Weavile turns a sticks his tongue out at Silver, his lapse in attention short enough that his reflexes allow him to dodge Eevee at the last moment. That, along with the mental picture of Eevee finally, happily, deciding on his life’s path makes Silver smile.}

I think a Glaceon will suit him well. {Silver adjusts the collar of his jacket so he can pluck at the scarf underneath. Normally the cold doesn’t bother him, but Johto was experiencing it’s first breathes of spring, and to be thrown back into winter-like temperatures wasn’t a particularly thrilling thing, ‘adventure’ or not.}

Are we heading out today, or waiting until tomorrow to find this frozen stone?

[rogueinblue]

“Tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be clear, and I figured we could spend the rest of the night relaxing.” She reached her arms up over her head until her muscles stretched just right, falling against the mattress with a satisfied sigh, bottle still in hand, but never managing to spill a drop.

“The plan is to hike up to Twist mountain sometime in the morning. Apparently the ice rock is located at the bottom-most cavern of the mountain. I got some tips and a crudely drawn map from some pretentious hiker, but that’s about it.” Funny how guys will tell you whatever you wanna hear if you bat your eyelashes enough.

“We get in, we get down there, pop a rare candy in eevee’s mouth and make it out by dinner. If I get us lost along the way you get to pick the restaurant.” Blue smiled at the back of Silver’s head “’Sound fair?”

[proteamomegas]

{Silver puts his hand out for the bottle in turn, smiling a little when Weavile allows himself to be tripped and pinned.} I have to admit that I’m surprised he went through the effort to have a positive impression.

{Who Weavile decides to take a shine to constantly surprises Silver. He doesn’t seem to have a type he’s drawn to, so Silver had been wary when he’d first been introduced to Eevee, worrying it’d be a repeat of Buneary. It had all been to the contrary; Weavile would show off in front of Eevee to gain admiration, and in turn favored the younger Pokemon’s company over most of Blue’s team, despite how long he’d known them.}

I wouldn’t have guessed that some evolutions were so arduously gained. To have to come to such a specific place…{He closes his eyes and shakes his head, wondering how nature has taken such a direct role in things like this.}

[rogueinblue]

“Makes sense to me, you can only find ice rocks up North or in absurdly cold places. You won’t find them in the wild any place lower than Mt. Silver.” Which was why Hoenn had been such a nice place to work, clear water, beautiful beaches, and not a drop of snow in sight. Kalos was next in her top ten, but after the Frost Cavern incident she had promised never to step foot into West Kalos, not even for eevee’s sake.

Which now that she thinks about it, the whole Kalos adventure is what lead to eevee in the first place. Maybe it was a sign? Or cruel fate just laughing its ass off.

She watched him pounce across the carpet, his back leg muscles clenching and streching with each jump. He could no longer fit in her hands anymore, twelve pounds heavier than when she first got him he felt like a cinder block in her lap whenever he wanted a nap. He still loved bouncy balls though, she hoped that was a trait he’d never lose.

“You should’ve seen him when he decided. I’d been showing him pictures of eeveelutions for months, you know? Until one day I showed him a video of glaceon doing ice beam,” she chuckled “It was the cutest thing! He put his paws up on the screen and started whining like a baby agian. It had to have reminded him of weavile”

[tunepfishing]

Maroon 5 Feat. Nicki Minaj - Sugar (Remix)

Maroon 5 and Nicki Minaj have teamed up for the remix that you didn’t know you needed in your life. As if I couldn’t love “Sugar” enough, Nicki Minaj jumped in to join Adam and the crew to add some extra sweetness. 

Get into the remix now! 

[minacoladas]

Oh my fuck

[rogueinblue]

It all started off with a few simple texts [Text]: Want to go on an adventure ;) [Text]: Sure.

A flight, a passport, and a few bus rides later Blue met her long lost brother outside a historic hotel in Unova. It was still cold up there, a nasty bought of cold fronts refused to let spring in, but that’s just what they needed. They sat on the champagne sheets of their room, passing hard cider to one another as eevee and wevile pounced around the carpet.

“He likes Weavile a lot, you know? I think that’s partly why he wants to be a glaceon.” Blue grinned, taking a healthy swig from her bottle

[everythingindierp-blog]

10 Underused Character Questions ~

[rogueinblue]

Introduction -

Name: Blue

Age: 20

Your favorite picture of your muse’s fc: tumblr will not let me picture the heckie

Questions -

What would be their twitter name? What sorts of tweets would they tweet?  Probably rougeinblue because I mean it's her tumblr name. She'd probably rant about shit going down at the lab while Oak isn't looking, that or dish out celebrity gossip. She'll also take photos of the grumpiest pokemon at the lab and tag Silver in them ; )

What’s their favorite genre of movies? Of music? Blue is a real classic movie fan. Anything with a big fan following she's probably seen, and can probably critique as well (she can also recall every movie an actor has ever been in it's scary.) She isn't really picky about music as long as it's upbeat, so her radio is usually dialed in on the top 20 station. However she does have a soft spot for classic rock that only Silver really knows about.

What’s on their top queue on Netflix? Absolute trash TV like real housewives of Johto or some shit.

What’s their favorite scent? Do they smell like that? Coffee. Like the black coffee she wakes up to in the morning is nice but spiced, cream filled coffee made with care is her absolute favorite. She wears a pretty Kalos perfume that smells like berries and white flowers, but you can always smell coffee on her breath.

Apple or Android? Apple, she's fashionable like that

Favorite Season? Least favorite season? She loves summer. Beach, warm weather, and hot guys in swim suits are definitely on her top ten list. Plus her summer nights range from chill to all night party. Winter's an absolute bitch for her because she hates the cold and the layers and the muted tones BLECH. The only saving grace is going Chirstmas shopping

Are they a bottom or top or versatile? Blue's a total dom I'm not gonna lie

Describe their morning routine. Do they wake up early or sleep in? Do they press the snooze button a bunch of times or do they immediately get up? From 6:00 to 6:30 it is a war between her and the snooze button. She mumbles, groans, and jams the snooze button to no end but she knows morning is inevitable. The rest of the house is woken up by the moaning and groaning so by the time she hops in the shower everyone's already up and has eaten. Twenty minutes later she's out of the bathroom, hair, make-up and outfit on point but already running late. The coffee machine is her best friend and the rest of breakfast usually consists of toast. She makes it out the door by 7:00 and is at the lab by 7:15 (late, but nobody really cares).

If they were to be compared to a canon character, who would that be? (Spirit animal) besides herself? Georgette from Oliver and Company.

Finish this sentence, muse: What would ___ do? What would professor oak do? More like "what would professor oak WANT?" because if she takes bad notes she has to do them over again lmao. I can also clearly see her saying "What would Silver do?" and then doing the opposite.

tag five people so they can get to know their muse too!

ehhhh proteamomegas 'cause I'm pretty sure everyone else already did this

[rogueinblue]

//To whom it may concern

I won't be rp-ing for a while.

This semester has been really rough on me. Between school and the responsibilities I've taken on every second of my day is booked solid. When the weekend comes around I tend to crash, and by Sunday I have to get back up and get back to work.

I want to keep up this blog. I want to talk to people and laugh and go on stupid adventures, but lately I've been feeling drained, and I don't want to put lackluster effort into what I do.

So long story short I'm taking a break for a while. I may find my muse again and pop in from time to time, but I won't be constantly active at least for another month or two.

I send my love to all the wonderful people I've had the pleasure to rp with, and hopefully I can join you all agian soon

[freshprinceofpalletown]

The kind that lets me think. -Green says, turning to face her, his usual smirk, not quite reaching his eyes. ( Yet. )- You could see more sunshine if you went with Red ‘stead of visiting me in case you didn’t know. -He murmurs and stuffs his hands inside his pockets like the thought of letting Blue see them tremor and shake, were both hard things to bear.-

If you did that maybe you’d be able to understand his stupidity more than me ‘cause I obviously don’t get him sometimes when I’m suppose to.

[rogueinblue]

I make it a point never to understand stupidity, but just let it happen. *Besides, it was more fun to see someone fuck up from their own mistakes than try to push them in the right direction. Although Blue never had that problem with Red. Sure he could be a bit naive and even a little dense (see ages 11- 20), but stupid-- would never describe Red.*

*She let herself fall onto Green's shoulder, hoping the physical contact would bring him back to reality.* So what'd he do this time? Stuff the house with too many pokemon? Eat his weight in curly fries and got sick? Don't tell me he threw up in his hat I just bought that for him.

[freshprinceofpalletown]

hc

when i think of reality in the pokemon world i think of it v much like ours like world tournaments are broadcasted on tv, but only if you pay to see it on paper view or buy tickets to go

( you can’t rly find those battles online, theyre copyrighted lmao )

trainers make the news, champions on magazines, coordinators on talkshows and it isnt just a world of trainers and trainers only bc there’s still actors and singers and models and everything else anyone can b. tv hosts and big ol gossip blogs and shit like that.

but what i like to envision most is tv shows in our world but portrayed in the pokemon world

like survivor for example seeing one of your favorite trainers on there trying to outlast, outwit and outplay that’d b hella fuckin rad and hella fuckin cool

and the amazing race same thing, but you’ll see the beauty of each region to region while seeing each team try and survive a leg. learn ancient facts, pokelore and folklore and see different cultures and all of those things

instead of so you think you can dance it’d b so you think you can battle and its not rly about dance all that much, but a place where coordinators go and have that outshining opportunity WHERE THEY PROVE THEIR SKILLS AND THEIR TALENTS ARE DIFFERENT THAN OTHERS

and cooking shows and just GOD OK i think about this kind of thing a lot

[freshprinceofpalletown]

How kind of you.

-Green breathes out, arms tossed over the spine of the bench and expression lined with words he can’t and will not say.-

Just stupid shit in general dealing with Red—which isn’t worth talkin’ about in the first place. Anyway—what brings you here? -He says, brow quirked and lips dipped in somewhat curiosity. Somewhat not.- The old man finally let you out of your cage, huh?

[rogueinblue]

Yeah, he plans on locking me up again soon so he's letting me see the sunshine for a couple days. *Warm air and green grass are some things she's gonna miss, but for now sitting here with Green is what she'll remember most.*

I saw Red a little while back, spent some quality time with my brother-- *his hair was all mussed up and his eyes were too far gone. If she got him to smile by the end of the day it'd be worth it.* What kind of girl would I be if I didn't see you?