Ci sono ciliegie che attirano lo sguardo perché sono in basso, le prime che incontri, quelle più facili da cogliere.
Ma poi c'è quella che sceglie di restare più in alto, nascosta tra le foglie, quasi a proteggersi.
È la più dolce, ma ti costringe a salire fin lassù, a sporcarti le mani, a fare una fatica che non avevi previsto.
Non è arroganza la sua, è una forma di selezione naturale: sa di meritare qualcuno che abbia davvero la voglia, e la pazienza, di cercarla oltre la superficie.
E quando finalmente riesci a coglierla, capisci che l'apparenza era solo un invito.
Perché sotto quella buccia sottile, che sembra così fragile e facile da ferire, c'è un nocciolo duro, resistente, che non si scalfisce.
È lì che conserva tutta la sua vera essenza.
Non lasciarti ingannare dalla dolcezza immediata: la parte più vera, quella che resta quando tutto il resto svanisce, è proprio quella che pretende tempo per essere scoperta.
Ed io, le ciliegie di questo tipo, le adoro.
Le gusto, le assaporo, e sì... gli voglio un bene immenso.
ANYWAY. i wanted to redesign my fanregion's gym leaders and their ace fanpokemon so. here they are.
Bug Type Gym Leader Mary
Rock Type Gym Leader Angelo
Flying Type Gym Leader Roberta
Water Type Gym Leader Scilla
Psychic Type Gym Leader Capal
Steel & Fairy Type Gym Leaders Carla & Ciliegia
Dragon Type Gym Leader ( and former Champion ) Fey
Ice Type Gym Leader Skaia
Been cooking up some background characters for Celia n Co, I've got about 5 stands and two users mostly planned out.
Here's the most fleshed out one,
Ciliegia [Cherry], stand name: Bombscare [you can tell i will get attached to a character when i give them a selecter song, not to mention naming her after the song cherry bomb]
An unpredictable woman, who's willing to work for anyone and has few morals. While she appears hard and ruthless, she's trapped in the same race to survive as Celia n Co, but goes to great lengths to hide that. She's a mysterious figure to most, the person behind many bombings and bomb threats, all linked by a lack of traces of any known explosives and the voice calling in the bombs existence.
A member of Passione, driven to dig up old criminal ties and join to get the chance to avenge her younger siblings who died in the crossfire of a bomb targeting something else[this was during the turf war]. Unfortunately she soon learned that the attacker was a Passione member, and she couldn't kill him. After that she sunk into apathy, willingly killing others familys and politicians for money, uncaring about her revenge and morals.
Her stand, Bomb Scare, works by turning regular objects into bombs, She can only have a certain total area of objects/total planned explosive power as bombs at a time, and that total area/damage is increased by how much other people know about where her bomb is. For an assassination where she has placed a small but deadly bomb on someone, saying she's planted a bomb on him is enough, but for a massive explosion she would have to inform the local police of a bomb threat. If the object is successfully identified as the bomb, then it is "defused", however given the lack of actual explosives, its usually only fellow stand users who figure her stand power out who get to use this loophole, but sometimes random people manage
She should have been placed on the assassination team, but was placed on the information team instead, as works as their pet killer, as well as a good information gatherer in her own right.
Shes old acquaintances with Celia n Co, and is allies with Celia, although their relationship is complicated.
Io mi ricordo la prima ciliegia rotonda
e un'altra ne tirò rotonda e rossa
e un'altra ne tirò rotonda, rossa,
dolce e saporita, con un nocciolo duro
e un'altra ne tirò
e un'altra e un'altra...
I miei ricordi sono una collana rossa lunga lunga
che non finisce mai.
