#( eri. )

[taengoo]

🌟 + golden child pls hehe

🌟 - golcha.

funny, you should ask ... I actually own this lightstick 👀👀 i know there's people who don't like it, but come one, it looks so cool ! it's a freakn bowling pin ! and if you have enough friends who own one, you can bowl with them, lol.

send a 🌟 + (group name), and I’ll give an honest opinion on their respected lightstick.

[irewiind]

rebloggable but not repostable thank.

[madetrial]

Thoughts on + ortega // Eri ? 🥺

❝ Ortie is one of the most important people in my life, no arguments. He's an invaluable member of Team Star -- he's so smart, he's passionate, he perseveres no matter what. We'd be lost without him, truth be told. ❞ There was no more brilliant a mechanical mind than she knew of; without the Starmobiles, they'd be so much more vulnerable. So much more the scared kids they were when this whole thing started.

Still, her expression steels -- almost threatening in its protectiveness. ❝ But never think for one single second that he's important to me because of what he can do. That's never the case; if he told us today he never wanted to work on the Starmobiles again, that's his choice. He's like family to me, no matter what. You can't break bonds like ours. ❞

@shinestxr

[madetrial]

Giacomo’s managed to climb right up top that wall, settling next to Eri, and slumping against her. His fist bumps against her shoulder, and he groans, exhausted. “Y’know,” the DJ stretches his legs out, “gotta hand it to you Eri, I dunno what Team Star would be like without ya! Real glad you’re part of this crew. / @seginbeats

Eri grins, and waits until he's seated to playfully rest an extra water bottle on top of his head before practically shoving it into his hands. He looks exhausted and she certainly can't blame him; everyone's leaving at least a little red faced from the sun and comfortably worn out from the yelling, the cheering, holding signs and advocating for the cause. She's honestly ready for the best sleep of her life once everyone's gone.

❝ I could say the same about you. We all could. ❞ She flushes a little and it has nothing to do with the heat. By now she's used to the inherent kindness at the heart of Team Star -- the shelter of her best friends. But she's still not entirely comfortable with the attention, and it fills her with an equal measure of warmth and fluster. ❝ You did something amazing, y'know. And I don't think this is the end of it. ❞

The air is electric with hope. Good. It's about time Paldea had something good on the horizon instead of all the danger and sorrow.

❝ ... Team sleepover tonight ? If at least to make sure that Mela doesn't set something on fire to celebrate ? ❞

[madetrial]

Eri has never liked standing out -- not as a child, not as a student at the Academy, and only as a necessary evil with Team Star -- but she's been so grateful today for her height and Atty's work updating her clothing and Mela's help with her makeup. She's kept Annihilape at her side, and he's been instrumental in helping her break up and calm down any sign of rising tensions or small squabbles before they could get too out of hand.

She's always known that fighting is important, but that there are so many ways to go about it. Sometimes actions need to do the talking, of course, but there had been so many times today that simply redirecting someone's energy or getting them food and shade was all they needed. Now that the protest has devolved more into music and celebration, Eri slips away to climb up on one of Mesagoza's higher walls to watch the sunset.

Change is possible. Things seemed so hopeless for so long, like only in the midst of Team Star would they be safe. But look at everything that's happened -- Director Clavell working to understand the truth, the changes at school, her relationship with Carmen, all of her friends starting to branch out. She's so, so proud of Giacomo, she nearly wants to cry.

Instead, she tips her head back to the setting sun and hopes for a better future.

[madetrial]

❛ how is it you’re never scared? ❜ // for Eri ? / @shinestxr

❝ Oh, well. ❞ Eri tucks one knee up towards her chest and wraps an arm around it, the other supporting her weight behind her, hand in the soft grass. She has always loved Ortega's base -- the breeze off the sea is faintly crusted with salt and the ground and plant life here is soft. It's beautiful. She breathes in while she weighs her words; there are, perhaps, no other people on the planet that she can be honest with than her team, but, still --

-- The question hits a little harder than she'd expected it to. It calls to the places in her that are still a little hollowed out, that feel fragile in a way she hates. Being strong, a fixed point and the last one standing, has given her so much more confidence and control than she'd ever had. And with Ortega -- with any of them -- ever protective instinct comes to life. To shelter him and stand between him and the world and be absolutely unafraid.

❝ ... I am sometimes, ❞ she finally says. She can't look at him, but she can't lie to him. That's not what they do. ❝ When we first started this whole thing, I was so... I was afraid it wouldn't work. And when we were being defeated one by one -- ❞ It feels like talking about some doom-heralding storm, remembering the way she had heard of each of her best friends succumb to an outsider and she'd been too far away to protect them -- had fallen herself.

❝ But that's why I fight, you know? Even when I'm scared, I know people are counting on me. And that's what makes me strong. You make me strong, Ortie. You and everyone else. ❞

// memes ! & accepting.

[madetrial]

❝ Connor, wait ! ❞ Eri only needs a few strides to catch up with him, ducking down just a little out of pure instinct -- but she's excited, happy to see him, more confident with each day that passes even back in the academy's halls. Now she smiles gently as she keeps pace. ❝ Are you free today -- or soon ? Everyone at the base is getting a little antsy so I wanted to find something fun for them and, well -- I'm trying to organize an impromptu tournament for everyone. Another run through battle to determine top trainers, and honestly there's no one who can give them a better challenge. ❞

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