Mei studies her calendar intently while carefully ripping away the previous month of November off the spiral. December seemingly came out of nowhere and made itself be known that winter is coming soon. The cold, strong breeze that blasted her rosy face every time she would open the door, or maybe the trees suddenly losing their leaves and leaving the grass covered in the different colored variations of reds, yellows, and greens scattered on the ground.
Mei really does is not a fan of such dreary weather.
“This season can be… such an inconvenience,” she murmured out as she completely swaddled herself in all her winter gear she could think off: mittens, scarf, wool socks, winter boots, long johns, small jacket, then her bubbly coat she places on top. People probably would see this are just a girl being too overly-cautious about getting a cold (which is another thing she wasn’t too keen on), but to her, it meant keeping the feeling of warmth around her.
Mei’s birthday is March 20th, marking the first day of spring. She was always so happy when she saw the flowers blooming from the fields outside her house as a child, or when the rain drizzled itself upon the petals and created a nice dewy look upon them. She always looked forward to that moment each year, despite already seeing the same for over twenty birthdays now.
But now, she has to bear with this… ‘winter’ for a couple of months, which always seems unendurable to her at times.
She slowly grabbed all her things and looked around the area to scan for anything else that she might need. “Hmm… I think I’m good to go, though... do I really have to leave the warmth of my house? I can live without food and hibernate like the bears!” Wow, doesn’t she have amazing ideas folks? After realizing the idea that she voiced out, she quietly walked to the door and opened it up so the frigid air wouldn’t give her too much trouble.
The first snow happened last night, so the ground was sheeted up with a frosty white blanket over a couple of inches deep. The marshmallow bundle was a bit fascinated with this, quickly locking her door to look around at what natured gifted the people of Aspertia. Even when she started her walk from her home to the store, she was still in a bit of awe looking at it. “Well, this isn’t as ba-,“ she started to say before a well-crafted snowball met with her face and temporarily blinded her surrounding briefly. Mei could not believe it: someone attacked her with a snowball: a defenseless bundled up marshmallow girl that going to the store. Well, when you put it that way, she would attack her too for being too prepared.
But, that was besides the point at this moment. Someone threw a snowball in her face and she wanted to throw one back at them, even if she doesn’t know how to make one. “Excuse me, snowball thrower!” She waddled over to the person she thought she saw throw it, pouting through the scarf that covered her mouth and lips. “Can you tell me how… and why you threw a snowball at me?”
The Champ is Home: Aspertia City’s Own Makes a Triumphant Return! The cover story for today’s paper says.
“Huh, they’re excited to see me Daiki. I wonder if my mom did this again, we were only gone a couple months,” Mei holds today’s newspaper close to her and her Serperior’s faces, reading the cover story as she sits down at a café in Floccesy Town, sitting on the outside deck while sipping her iced coffee. She knew something was telling her to keep her return a surprise from her mother, but she also realized how much her mother missed her and didn’t want to be kept in the dark.
Mei’s has been constantly traveling each region in order to get herself newer experiences and face different challenges. Yes, she may be the champion of Unova, but there are many more trials that she wants to face, which is why she decided to go to the Sinnoh and Kalos regions in order to fulfill her craving for battles. She valued meeting newer trainers and especially gaining strength with her bond between herself and Pokémon.
As she placed the paper down to the taste another sip of her coffee, her Serperior began to tense up slightly. He usually does that when another presence appears that he’s not usually familiar with. However, in this case, he was actually anticipating the person to approach the table, something Mei wasn’t expecting. She looks in the direction her partner was hissing at and tilted her head, pulling back from her drink and laughing. “Well, I never saw Daiki so excited to meet someone besides my mother and I. I didn’t know you’d be in Unova at all.”
