#...i'll stop now

[transmascwillbyers]

you know, if there's one good thing i got from thinking i was a lesbian, falling in love with my straight best friend, falling in love with my friend who was actually gay, realizing i was trans and that it could never work, then realizing i was bisexual, then falling in love with a man for the first time and finally unpacking all my internalized homophobia, it's that now i am finally capable of understanding the nine layers of gay hell that is Michael Wheeler's brain.

[rayveewrites]

Part one | Part two

Gladion jumped when Silvally nuzzled his shoulder, but he turned and smiled at his pokemon. It hummed, and Gladion noticed a second pokemon.

He blinked. A Yamask? Where had that come from? He knew for a fact they weren’t native to Alola, but this was definitely a Yamask, hugging its mask to its chest, tail curled around Silvally’s crest like a Horsea. Gladion reached towards it, but it shrank back, curling up on itself. Gladion could see it trembling.

The Aether Foundation was used to dealing with pokemon who were scared of people, but they weren’t really prepared for ghost-types. It was extremely rare to find a ghost-type in need; most beings didn’t tend to mess with them, and they were known to mostly keep to themselves.

All in all, Gladion felt woefully unprepared to deal with a skittish, terrified foreign ghost pokemon. Still, he would try to do what was best for it.

What was best for it was probably to ask for someone who was actually capable of caring for ghost-types to look after it.

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Hey there Acerola.

Silvally found an extremely timid, skittish, probably traumatized Yamask somewhere and we’re not really prepared to care for it. Do you think you could help out?

Thanks,

Gladion.

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Oh, the poor thing! I desperately want to help, but we’re currently swamped at the League. You could try asking Cleo Walker, though; she knows just as much about ghost-types as I do. I can send you her email if you need it.

~Acerola.

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Gladion sighed as he leaned back in his chair. Cleo Walker. Yes, he knew her. He’d been hoping Acerola had been available, though; Cleo was rather… intense.

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No, that’s fine, I already have her contact details. Sorry to bother you.

Thanks anyway,

Gladion.

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Hey Cleo.

How do you feel about taking care of a traumatized Yamask? I don’t know where Silvally found it, but we don’t really have anything set up for pure ghost-types, and Acerola thinks you’ll be good.

Gladion.

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It took a suspiciously short amount of time before Gladion got a text back. Despite sending her an email.

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A Yamask?

Yeah. I don’t know where it came from.

And you want to entrust them to me?

Acerola thinks you can be trusted.

Acerola thinks a lot of things. Some of them are even accurate

Can you look after it, or do I need to figure something else out?

Sure. I’ll pick them up after school

Oh, right. Should you be texting in class?

It’s lunch. Look out the window some time, vampire boy

See you this afternoon.

[rhys-ravenfeather]

Okay, listen.

LISTEN.

I’ve been hurt enough in my own, real life. By circumstances outside of my control, by the people around me (teachers, classmates, etc.), by my own relatives.

If I want to write stuff about bad guys being softer and trying to become better people, found families, and just soft, wholesome stuff in general THEN I GODDAMN WILL, AND NO FORCE ON HEAVEN OR EARTH WILL STOP ME.

I’ve been through enough hardship and pain in my life.

I need some soft wholesomeness, even if I have to write it myself.

[randomly-spicy-diamond]

It's 12:30AM, do you know where your vampire is?

(Because they're probably kinda hungry it being their lunchtime and all.)

[death2normalcy]

Woke up with a headache.

Going to bed with a headache.

i call that ...nothing, just bad luck really.

[claycoloured]

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Loving this post, Maja. Very deep.

Oh yes. As a puddle

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