#askpharos

[occasional-wott-bros]

Prompts from here

I chose who I chose for day 16 because not only are they good friends, but also I’ve seen them around since I first started and have been an inspiration and great creative buddies to spitball ideas with.

[asksavel]

"It... well. It just went quiet I guess... Kyurem has met them though--"

"I wouldn't call 'meet' a very good term for what happened, but sure."

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[quietmew]

Eon’s favorite forms are the ones they get from the people they care about! While they obviously like to transform when asked and it helps gain data on species, changing form to match their friends and family is something they like to do to feel closer to them! What better way to reunite with a friend after all this time!!!!! Hopefully Bell still likes to play, because Eon sure does!

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[the-weather-trio-clones]

[ @askpharos ] "You mention training a lot... Is that something you do every day?" Bell asked Cascade. "What are you training for so much for, anyways? Seems so tedious..."

Cascade: "Knowing what to expect on missions is easy enough, but being physically prepared for the worst? That's a whole other category."

"Sometimes missions are as easy as stealing pokeballs from a kid, but other times they can be dangerous, and we gotta know when to fight or flee. If we have to fight, we have to know how to fight."

"I try my best in combat, but for some reason I still struggle a lot. I think part of it has to do with the fact that I haven't evolved. I'm sure I'd be a lot stronger if I were a Pikachu, like Fievel, but I'm stuck like this, and I don't know if it'll change any time soon..."

"I don't only spend my days training, but on the days that I do, I just don't feel myself improving, and honestly being stuck with Fievel during it doesn't help the way they think it does. He just makes fun of me and goes on and on about how weak I am."

[leilani-and-kass]

[ @askpharos / Bell Pepper @ Leilani ] "You've told me your mother likes telling stories, right?" Bell tilted his head to the side. "And you mentioned a name... A-Akua, I think it was? He sounds really cool! Can you tell me more about him?"

"Actually, Akua isn't her real name. No one knows that because she was alive a really, really, really long time ago. Mother says the people of Alola back then called her "Akua" because her voice was said to come from the gods, and I guess it must have stuck with the rest of the Tribe."

"That's right! Akua was the first one of us, the founder of our Tribe!! I can tell you the story about her if you want. I'm not nearly as good at telling stories as Mother is, but I can try."

This story happened a really, really, really long time ago, like more sun cycles than I can count. Back in the days of the Four Primarina Tribes of Alola, there lived a Popplio among one of the tribes who was different and thought that she didn’t belong. Now, the Popplio was good and followed all the rules of her tribe, and there was nothing strange about the way she looked - I always thought she probably just looked like me except bigger and without the flower.

But this Popplio was different because of her singing. You know how our kind are amazing at singing, right? Well, this Popplio was better at singing than everyone else in her Tribe! Her voice was so beautiful that every time she sang, anything that heard her voice would come to listen!

She wanted fish Pokemon to eat? She sang a song, and fish Pokemon came to her.

She wanted help with her training? She sang a song, and strong Pokemon came to her.

She wanted friends to play with? She sang a song, and friendly Pokemon came to her.

It sounds nice, right? I mean, who wouldn’t want anyone to listen to their songs no matter what, right? But I guess sometimes, to some Pokemon, different can be kinda scary, huh? Because of her singing, all the other Popplio, Brionne, and Primarina in her tribe were scared of her. No one talked to her, no one played with her unless she did sing, no one even helped her when she really needed it. She was completely alone all the time.

And you wanna know the worst part? It was the things her tribe said about her.

“Look what she can do as a Popplio, what will happen when she grows up?” they whispered.

“Mother said we can’t play with you!”

“ Stay away from us, Monster Popplio!”

“She does not belong here!”

I know, it’s sad, isn’t it? The Primarina tribes were really mean back then.

And every night, the Popplio looked out at the sea, listening to the lonely waves and wondering if she belonged somewhere else. Finally, one night, she cried, "I’ve had enough! I'm gonna leave this island, because I do not belong here. I'll try living with one of the tribes on the other Alolan islands, maybe I belong with one of them."

So for many days and many nights, she swam to the next island, and the next, and the next, but on every island, she heard the same mean words her own tribe said to her when they heard her sing.

"Look what she can do as a Popplio!' they screamed. 'What will she do when she grows up?"

"Stay away from us, Monster Popplio!"

"She does not belong here!'"

By now, the Popplio was very sad. She'd swam through all of Alola and didn’t belong with any of the tribes? How could that be? “I don’t belong anywhere, do I?!” she cried.

So with tears in her eyes, the Popplio did what she did most nights. She looked out at the sea, listening to the lonely waves. But this time, she saw something she never noticed all those other nights.

I’ve been to Melemele Island and Akala Island, Ula’ula Island and Poni Island, too. But the ocean continues on and on and on - I can’t even see where it ends! There must be more places out there! Maybe if I follow the ocean until it ends, I’ll find where I belong!

Okay, here’s where the story gets much happier! The Popplio left Alola to see the whole world! She visited… hmmm, let me see if I can remember the names. There’s Kanto and Johto, Hoenn and... and His... Hiss-ui, I think that's what it is? 'You-nova' and Kalos and… and Galar, too! And many, many others! She made lots of friends in these new places, and some of them could even listen to her sing! She evolved into a Brionne and then a Primarina, and as she grew, so did her singing abilities.

And the Popplio - or, Primarina now, I guess - had lots of adventures! She fought all kinds of scary Pokemon and saved towns and villages all over the world, protected humans and weaker Pokemon, and even met Kyogre once! She was a hero back then! But those are all their own stories, and some of Kai’s favorites too, you know!

Finally, after a long, long time, the Primarina came back to the island she was born on. By then, stories of her adventures had come to Alola, and the tribe that was mean to her when she was a Popplio greeted her with open arms. Flippers? Anyway, they tried to say they were sorry and tell her she can live with them and all that kinds of stuff, but the Primarina just laughed and said, “Why would I want to spend my life on one island when I can have the entire ocean as my home? No, you can have your island, I think I will stay in the ocean, because that is where I belong.

So the Primarina spent the rest of her life traveling all over the world by ocean, making friends and having more adventures. She also had lots of children who could sing just like her who joined her on her adventures, and so did their children’s children! And their children’s children, until the Primarina died and became one with the ocean. And for the rest of her life, the Primarina was happy, because even though she was different from those of her kind, she had found where she did belong.

"Over the next, uhhhh... thousand, million, however many sun cycles it was, the Tribe got bigger and bigger, and everyone had the same singing abilities Akua had. All the way down to me and Mother and Kai and everybody else today!"

"So? What did you think?"

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[staben-til-varulven]

[ @amphartist ] Pharos @ Lucius: Wow, it's been a while since I've last seen another Ampharos! You look so stylish, too. Tell me, where do you come from?

"You're quite stunning yourself. I suppose you could also come from Kalos, no?" The Ampharos inquired, with a claw held under their own chin.

[ Featuring @askpharos ]

[ask-byul]

i mean, we get along alright, but honestly, i barely know a thing about him. i don’t even know his real name, i just call him bolt as a nickname. but yeah, we’ve known each other for a while now. met him around the time i evolved into a luxray. i was feeling really restless in a new form so i went out looking for somewhere to test some of my moves on when these storm clouds rolled in, and that’s when he showed up.

and i’m not lying, either! he just came out of nowhere, and we just stared at each other until i asked if he wanted to fight. ever since then he started appearing every time there was a thunderstorm, though he never answered any of my questions whenever i asked about him, so i just kinda stopped. but... i guess i’d consider myself closer to him than any of my teammates, really. hmph.

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[askingstickypaws]

Fanart Friday for @askpharos!! :D