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"Fish like to swim next to sharks."
I’m out of actions again so fuck it
Poor Edward/Baasha NSFW thoughts
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Been thinking about the reverse mmilk situation thevioletscout posted yesterday where Poor Edward successfully uses it on the player to make them fall in love with him. To be completely true to Baasha I was thinking she might escape the initial tea party (if Edward could do it at the docks then the pc should be able to as well) and before going to the roof, hunt down more Lethean Tea to wipe her memories. Unlike Edward, she has the LF crew to bring her back up to speed and that she actually trusts. But then I was like. That’s really not engaging with the premise. So maybe even beyond being cost prohibitively expensive (because she’s also a thief anyway) what if there just isn’t anymore to be found?
So from there the role reversal gets pretty one for one. But Baasha has one advantage on him in this scenario. She’s a silverer and Edward doesn’t realize that. Up until his deal with the Fingerkings I’m not sure he even knew what silverers are tbh. So in addition to the usual stuff happening on the roof Baasha has a side mission of sneaking off into parabola and into Edward’s dreams. From there she’s starting by putting him into twisted versions of their lunch at Dante’s. Each time she’s inviting him somewhere else to continue their “date” or flirting with him openly. After a few nights of that and him rejecting her she laughs at him and points out the fact that it’s just a dream! This isn’t the real her and he’s the one dreaming about her after all. Maybe he had some other motivation trying to make her fall in love with him. Yes she did say “trying.” If he was successful then where is she? Shouldn’t she have been compelled to come to him by now? Maybe even moon milk couldn’t make her love him. Let’s him wake up and chew on that. The next night she takes him on a walk through veilgarden doing nothing in particular. Just lets him lead with her on his arm while enjoying a quiet evening together. This hot and cold treatment continues for the entirety of her escapades on the roof. Not a single night since she’s been moon milked that he hasn’t dreamt of her. Once she gets back to London she ramps up her phycological torture dating strategy. She does her best to show no signs of moon milk affliction whenever they meet in person followed by dreams of her being especially affectionate. Finally topped off with a dream where she seems like she’s finally going to kiss him, she pulls him down to her face but just before she actually does, wakes him up. Followed by one night without her interfering in his dreams for the first time in months (This wasn’t her original plan she got nervous.) He’s cooked at that point. Which is good because the amount of time spent awake in his dreams while also still completing the important beats of LF means that Baasha had been running on like 4 hours of sleep most nights, the sleep deprivation was getting serious.
I think unfortunately this AU can only end with eventually giving the hybrid to Mr Fires. She ends up working with Edward after the events of LF, possibly even at the orphanage itself. Either way, she lets Edward make the first move finally and shyly reciprocates. 100% evil route here. She literally never tells him the truth about his dreams. She doesn’t even feel guilty about it. He literally made her fall in love with him, play stupid games win stupid prizes Eddie.
Ok so after I saw everyone posting about Pokemon teams for their FLPCs I got to thinking and over thinking. I want to add a disclaimer; I know none of these teams are competitive viable, I choose based on lore reasons only. I suspect this will get long so cut here
Baasha's team;
Yup, normal and not evil team vibes at all from her. I mean look! She's even got a Chansey!
Ok, real talk she got half her team on the surface and half once she got to London.
Mimikyu was her first Pokemon. She felt bad for it. How come nobody else saw how hard this little guy was trying to fit in and be what everyone wants??
Zoura was similar. They were taking the form of another smaller kid one winter and since it didn't speak (and by extension wasn't mean to her) Baasha eventually befriended and made them comfortable enough to reveal their real form. Evolved once they got to London.
Chansey she caught during her nursing training. There isn't much in the way of shared history compared to the rest of her Pokemon, she only really brings Chansey out when she needs her (or needs to look trustworthy).
Dustox was her first pickup upon getting to London. When she was still making her name she came across an abandoned shiny Cascoon. Its owner had initially been excited to get a shiny Beautifly. It evolved "wrong" and the original trainer abandoned it. Baasha didn't even mean to keep this one permanently but alas, she can't stop picking up strays.
When she first got her zub she picked up a Magicarp. She knows exactly what the payoff for loving and training an overlooked little fish will be and she's got big plans on the high zea. And yes, eventually it pays off, not until after LF and Evolution though.
Lastly we have Seviper. Its a fingerking. Don't ask how that works outside Parabola. Are all of them Pokemon? Is it just possessing a normal Pokemon? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ross' Team;
Most of his Pokemon are from the surface. No points for guessing the one that isn't.
Growlith was the family dog and once his family died, it evolved shortly after to help protect Ross.
Next he eventually befriended a wild Ponyta. After a lot of trial and error. Pokemon!AU Ross grows up a lot less lonely so I gave him some burn scars to compensate. The nerve ending on his hands are fucked and he's just lucky that his trigger finger didn't heal too badly. His handwriting is god awful in this AU though.
Cacturne and Krokodle were both caught to help him with his cowboy escapades and the team of 4 functioned a little like bandits for a while.
Lastly, while lying low he found and caught a Pikachu. Ross probably spent a while trying to think of some sort of play on words to use since he's a quickdraw and Pikachu is one of the fastest Pokemon and naturally his Pikachu would be the fastest one! He couldn't get it to work. Yet.
Day one of being in London he caught a Zubat in his apartment with the intent to release it somewhere else. She didn't want to leave. He acts like he's annoyed by her but like . . . Ross. She could only evolve with high friendship. You're so obvious.
I feel like Baasha would loooooove radio once it started being a thing. Like both for the serialized fiction and the music. But also I could see her having her own talk show at some point. She’s already charismatic but if she could hide her appearance (average but she’s got such a complex about it) she’d be so much less reserved. I could see her having like almost an alter ego at work. . .
I think as a Silverer and Fingerking aligned one at that Baasha should eventually get a cool snakey monster form in Parabola. She looooves her shiny scales she got after she shed her skin. They’re probably the first thing she thought was beautiful about herself. Baasha probably takes a more “attacking by manipulating the environment around you” approach to fighting in Parabola usually. But if you see that and expect disarming her to be the end of the fight like it would be in the waking world you are going to have another thing coming.
Also, I think her and Edward can have complementary snake forms because they can be power couple goals every now and then. Baasha’s snake form is bigger and scarier than Edward’s to be a flip of their human forms and also because Edward can get snake cuddles from his big scary wife, he’s earned it.