It's not denial if it's true love.

Hey, I'm Venus! ...I know what you're thinkin': this chick's just another grunt who ain't worth rememberin'. But actually, I'm the coolest grunt on the block! I work in the fungeon with Proton, who's basically the coolest guy ever... so you better be scared!

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Do you collect anything?

"Sure I do! I collect photos of Proton and knives like Proton and cooool habits also like Proton.” 8D

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✮

OOSea: Moral standard. Morals...? I mean we're talking about the girl who will do anything as long as it's cool and sees marriage as a minor inconvenience I really don't think she has much by way of morals funny enough. Maybe she has respect for authority. Actually that's probably very true--being as she cared about popularity and the "status quo" yeah I'm sure her respect for authority is about as close to morally sound as Venus gets. Despite how cute and un-dangerous she is she really couldn't care less about "right and wrong".

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✲ :Something or someone they down right hate

OOSea: Bitches thinkin they're married to her man I mean what? No but in all seriousness, given that the aforementioned isn't actually the case, let me try to come up with something...

Bitches getting in the way of Proton Team Rocket, probably. That's canon. Losing I think, but that's not to be confused with failure in general. She also really can't stand fish. The more you know.

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⋆ Detailed Headcanon Prompter! ⋆

⋆ : Minor personality flaw or quirk

✢ : Physical advantage

✣ : Physical disability/disadvantage

✦ : Fatal flaw

✧ : Mental or emotional strength

❋ : Belief they have

✩ : Belief they've questioned/struggled with

✪ : Critique they have about others

✫ : Pet peeve

✬ : Something minor they enjoy

✭ : An obscure interest

✮ : A moral standard

✯ : Way they could see themselves dying

✰ : Weird thing they want to try or have tried

★ : A socially unacceptable thought they've had

✱ : Someone or something who or that has played a part in a fantasy or daydream

✲ : Something or someone they down right hate

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TMI Tuesday

+ Shauna + Emma

[whiteinblackandred]

Evolving into an Audino ( Venus and Touko )

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Touko didn’t mind the other girl sitting so close to her, not knowing the meaning personal space when it came to her circle of friends from back home (and not to count all of the locker room shenanigans her and Bianca had indulged in together way back when), and merely blinked at what the other said. 

She blushed at the realization of her words and quickly shook her head. “No, no,” She tried to insist. “I’m not, uh…” Her voice trailed off as she quickly took a glance around them as to make sure no possible eavesdroppers were about to hear what she was about to say. "Okay, maybe there is someone that I like, but, he’s been my best friend forever so it would be totally awkward if he knew.”

She wasn’t completely sure why she was even admitting it to this girl—Venus, was it?—but she blushed a bit to herself at the confession. 

"Thanks for the offer, but, uh, y’know, I don’t think there’s any helping this. I mean, I doubt he’ll ever see me that way and I don’t know how I actually feel about relationships in general. Never thought about it before." She shrugged and bit her lip a little anxiously and let out a small laugh. "Oh well, hahaha." 

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Awww, she was blushing! That meant that what Venus had said was totally true. Not that she'd doubted it for a minute. After all these years, she knew a lovesick gaze when she saw one. As soon as the girl glanced around, Venus already knew the truth was coming out. Out of pure generosity, she helped the girl out by looking around herself, nodding to confirm that no one was paying any mind to the two grunts on the couch. Venus put her chin in her hands and watched the girl with a sweetly curious smile. She was certainly listening.

"Oh, that's okay." Venus sounded like she was about to wave the stranger off, but instead all she did was rock her legs so that her arms and eventually head rocked side to side behind them. "Some people think that friendship is the first step to a relationship and I totally agree! You definitely wanna date someone who's also gonna be your friend when you need it, that's what I think." Body still swaying, Venus closed her eyes and nodded seriously--as seriously as one could look while waving side to side anyway. 

But an eye peeped open when she caught the first signs of rejection. 'Thanks for the offer', huh? This girl didn't really get that Venus wasn't leaving without earning her brownie points for helping out a girl in need. "Hey, you're obviously curious." The other eye opened, and Venus came to a stand, extending her hand out for the girl to take. "No guy is impossible, so come on! Let's find a less public place so you can tell me about this guy of yours~"

Of course, Venus wasn't presenting this as an option, but to reinforce this point, she took the brunette's nearest hand and started sprinting towards the break room door. They wouldn't have to go far--just a nearby stairwell or maybe a quiet hallway. Once Venus had the dirty deets, she could figure out where to go from there.

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TMI Tuesday

+ Shauna + Emma

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"Yeah uh. Father's Day? Totally lame. Fathers suck. Especially mine. He was freaking terrible. Wouldn't even... let me... go shopping by myself. Ugh." 

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"Oi! You. V... enus." Yeah. That was her name. He had this. Shooting her his best smile, Proton pulled out a ring pop. Watermelon- because watermelon was the best flavor. "Would you marry me?" The Executive paused for what felt like a short eternity, before abruptly blurting, "Just kidding." He then proceeded to stick the ring pop into his mouth and turned to walk away like absolutely nothing was wrong. Thursdays were weird, after all.

"Oi... oi-me?"

She was Venus, yeah! She blinked, her mind just starting to process that holy cheese knuckles, Proton remembered her name! when she was distracted by the sudden appearance of a ring pop. Red. So it was either Strawberry, Cherry, or Watermellon--all good choices by her opinion but what was the point of th-

"Pr-wha..." But... he couldn't be asking her to marry him. She wasn't nearly on his level yet. All she'd done over the years was fumble and write paperwork and hey, not that that was nothing, but Venus wasn't dumb enough to believe that she looked anywhere near as cool as Proton did right now. She was still a work in progress.

And besides, it was too easy, like... weren't there supposed to be secret one-night-stands that turned into follow-up stands that turned into behind-the-back dates that came first? Geez this had to be like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity but it just felt so weird that "I, uh..."

But then... oh no.

Ju-ju-just... kidding?

Kidding as in a joke? At her expense? Proton wouldn't do that, right? Well... okay he would, but not to her, right? Surely she was at least a little important. He had to have noticed by now, cause why else would he come to her specifically...? 

Wait, shit. That only made her feel worse.

"Haha... ha..." He was already long gone, really. Which was great, because turning into a hot, sticky, bubblegum faced, and teary mess in front of him over a 'harmless prank' would have been the uncoolest thing he'd seen her do yet. 

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Serenade Proton with Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend.

"Ehehehehehehehehehehe."

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Serenade Blaise with a song of your choosing.

"Now just who the heck is that?"

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3 Cool 5 Me || Mercede & Venus

[madame-boss]

“Fungeon brat, ooh, I like it!” Mercede proclaimed, and brought her palm down hard on Venus’s hatted head to ruthlessly tussle her hair. “You sick little fucks are some of my favorites. I can be sure you’re always good for a thrill and let me tell ya, that’s not something to sniff at. Plenty of stupid kids’ve kept their jobs over the years simply ‘cause they’re entertaining enough. Or have a cute rear end, y’know. ‘Course you’d know all about good-looking ass working down in the fungeon, hmmm?”

She stepped back, nudging Venus as she gave her some space. Mercede needed a moment, anyway, to come up with a sufficient on-the-spot torture for this girl. Surely there was some dare, some asinine task she could put her up to for a laugh. Even if she had vowed to be better behaved around the top of the foodchain, the Grunts were still fair game for her shenanigans.

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Brat...? "I dunno about brat..." she mumbled under her breath. Even though the woman was loosening up, Venus only tensed, none too comfortable with having her hair totally messed up by some random lady in the hallway. Oh, well. For now she let it slide. Venus wasn't so slow that she couldn't figure out that a person not in her uniform was a person she probably shouldn't make angry again. Much less test out her fungeon skills on. With that said, Venus might not have paid half as much attention to what the old woman was saying had rear ends not come up. At which point she could immediately feel herself heating up, and Venus tried to resist that as best as possible. After all, blushing did no good for trying to look intimidating and cool. "Yeah, totally. We're... definitely home to the best butt in Team Rocket." And of course she wasn't lying. It was just weird to talk about out loud. And to a stranger no less.

Speaking of which, now that said stranger was further away, Venus took the chance to get a good look at her. Gosh, she sure looked familiar. She had to be a higher up, but... she'd never seen her boss her around before... Hm...

Wait...

"Oh, snap! I know you~! You're Madame Boss! I bumped into Madame Boss~!"

And boy, did she ever look excited about it. She had the kind of excitement one would expect from a person who'd run into a celebrity on accident. Except that was the key difference: she certainly hadn't done it on accident.

But Venus didn't seem to remember that little detail. Instead, she was bouncing around on her toes, hands clasped and bubbly. Totally uncool by even her own standards, if she were only paying any damn attention to herself.

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ToD Thursday

Venus makes her Debut~ and Shauna participates too~ Emma is just sick of alla you. XD

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3 Cool 5 Me || Mercede & Venus

[madame-boss]

Ah, a wiseass. This was what Mercede had hoped for. The more hot air a person was pumping out, the harder they’d hit the ground when they finally fell- and a bona-fide fall from hubris was exactly the kind distraction she wanted to find today.

"I’m afraid I don’t," she replied cooly, summoning Ninetales to her hand and still not bothering to turn and face her victim. "Is there a reason I should? Are you under the impression that you’re… important?”

There was a long, pregnant silence, perfectly staged and even accompanied with a little drop in room temperature. Mercede saw no reason not to pull out all the stops. This was the first bit of real fun she’d had in a while. Mew, not wanting to be left out of the game, stuck her face out of Mercede’s dark hair, but just long enough for a flicker of pink to appear before the Grunt’s eyes.

"Well then," Mercede continued, feeling as though she had set the mood enough. "I don’t suppose you’d be willing to back that claim up for me…" She spun around on her heels and stared directly at Venus, her eyes the exact violet shade of common poison. "…Would ya, girlie?"

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Important...? Well... 

Now Venus had to stop and think about it. Not the answer to the question, really, like... she knew the answer. She was just a grunt, right? Still totally at the bottom of the food chain. Not that important overall. But she was pretty important for a grunt. She was a fungeon member, and she deserved a little respect! The problem of that was she couldn't figure out a way to answer the question without saying 'no, but...' which was just signing herself up for embarrassment, really. 

Venus swallowed, thankful but still a little confused that this mystery lady still hadn't turned around. At least the fact that she wasn't looking gave her the chance to rub her arms. Consciously, she didn't even really notice when it got colder, but now she certainly noticed her desire to warm her arms. A flash of pink, and Venus could've sworn she saw the lady's hair move. It was just enough of a curiosity to make Venus lean in and forget she was being threatened and confused until--

She took a sharp gasp when there was suddenly a whole entire face a couple inches from her nose. Wow, there went her cool points already? She had to have lost a good twenty of them for jumping like that. Venus took a moment, un-widening her eyes, straightening up, backing away, and finding her composure. She still totally had this. She was totally cool.

"Course I am. Any member of the fungeon is an important one. That's just a fact." Venus crossed her arms and tilted her head just enough to side-eye the semi-familiar woman. Of course she should've been trying to remember who she was... but she was a bit too busy congratulating herself for totally nailing that delivery.

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3 Cool 5 Me || Mercede & Venus

[madame-boss]

Mercede straightened up, her hair settling at her hips. Had someone just elbowed her on purpose? It wasn’t anyone she knew; she would have sensed if it was. But then, what was some random kid doing hassling her? Even if her identity was not that widely known, her appearance was enough to keep most people from messing with her.

She turned her head slightly, curls shifting as the small pink occupant of her hair turned as well, and inspected her assailant. A Grunt? From the looks of it, this little one was either new, or had forgotten how things worked around here and was haplessly playing up the badass. Mercede smirked, turning back so the girl could not see her face. Hmm… What Madame Boss should Mercede play today, she thought to herself, spinning a mental roulette of characters.

Should she be stark raving mad today? Old, worldly and sympathetic? Cantankerously streetwise and sassy? Aristocratic and aloof? Ah, no, Mercede concluded as she heard the click-click-click of tiny kitsune paws on the linoleum. She was going to be scary Madame Boss today, and this was going to be a riot.

Without turning her head at all, she clicked her tongue, summoning a growl from the Ninetales now standing at the pinkette’s side. “…And who do you think you are?" Mercede asked softly, venomously, while oh-so-subtly dimming the hallway lights with a mental flick.

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Uh... did those lights just get darker? Venus looked up and around, her uncertainty clear as day, trying to figure that one out for herself. They couldn't have dimmed, right? That would just be totally unreasonable. Like, that kind of stuff only happened in movies and Venus was pretty sure that she was standing smack in the middle of real life.

Okay. So she dismissed that one. Her eyes landed back on the back of the lady's head, and now another question was starting to sink in. Didn't that voice sound familiar? Hmmm, she was starting to seem a little bit familiar... Venus was definitely getting the sense that she was supposed to know this lady... 

Tap. Tap. Tap~! Venus' finger rose and fell onto her bottom lip as she pondered this one, as well as what she was gonna say in return. This lady was speaking all dark and stuff like she was gonna be real scary. And, to be honest, the way everything was going right now, with the lights she wasn't sure about and the sneaking suspicion that Venus was supposed to know who she was, maybe the lady was doing a good job of being scary.

But she was a fungeon grunt! Fungeon grunts weren't supposed to be scared! So Venus straightened up, hands on her hips, and weight on one foot. Maybe the lady was just bluffing! She could totally call her on it, right? "Whaddo you mean 'who do you think you are'? Don't you know who I am?"

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3 Cool 5 Me || Open

There was a problem with joining a big giant group of cool kids: if everyone was cool, how did that leave room for you to stand out? 

Venus had hoped for a while now that her position in the fungeon would help her out with the whole standing out thing. After all, most of the grunts seemed to be at least a little nervous about her fungeon-title grunt buddies. But for some reason, no one really blinked twice when she walked through the hallways.

It wasn’t the pink hair, was it? Like, Venus knew that it was common and all, but she was pretty sure her face was different!

Oh, well. She had a plan to get herself back onto the grid, where she belonged. It involved her minimal set of fungeon keys (which mostly just got her in and out of the front door and the infirmary, shhhh), some cigarettes she didn’t actually like to smoke, and some carefully-placed blood on the brim of her hat and cheek. Damn, she was gonna scare someone today.

When she walked down the halls, Venus had one word on her mind: swagger. She let the cigarette hang out of her mouth, took big steps, and swung her arms with deliberateness, displaying that she totally knew where she was going and that said place was important. Neither of which were true.

Problem was… these halls were really empty looking. She couldn’t very well show off how much cooler she was than everyone if there was no everyone to show off to. Venus furrowed her brow and rounded a corner, hoping to spot someone along the way, and hey! What good luck! There was some poor sucker now!

She was gonna make sure to run into them for effect. They definitely needed to know she was way more important and way more cool. Just as planned, Venus’ shoulder bumped into the stranger, at which point she put her hands on her hips, leaned forward, and said in her most intimidating (read: high-pitched and slightly frustrated) voice: “Hey, whatchit uh… shitnerd!”

[whiteinblackandred]

Evolving into an Audino ( Venus and Touko )

She’d tried to not make it overly obvious, mostly because she hadn’t come to terms with it herself just how much a certain sweet talking brunette meant to her. He’d been there for her after she was nearly killed by a masked assailant and most recently had helped her and the baby Lapras make their escape from that dark cave where they’d chosen to go exploring.

There were a few people who were near and dear to her heart, even though she made new friends just as easily, and she’d realized recently that perhaps the person she felt the most for was Blair. But how did she feel close to him? As a friend? No, more than that. As a soul mate? That was too mushy.  As a boyfrien…no, still too mushy. And Touko didn’t do mushy, because that was too girly and she didn’t exactly pride herself on trying to be the most feminine trainer. She liked being strong and a free spirit.

Touko sighed to herself as she sat on the couch of the breakroom, elbows on her knees and hands on the sides of her face as she sat there in thought. 

She didn’t know why this was bugging her all of a sudden, because as it was right now romantic relationships should’ve been the last thing from her mind. 

Someone approached her from the side, a grunt that she hadn’t the pleasure of meeting before.  "Oh, uh, am I in your spot or something?"

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"Ahhhhh!" It was a good day to do nothing. Of course there were a lot of more productive things Venus could have spent her free time doing, like training her Pokémon, or practicing her torture skills, or working on her image, or doing Proton's paperwork, but for now Venus thought maybe the coolest thing she could do would be not to give a cripitty crap about any of that.

But where was she going to do her nothing? That seemed to be the question of the day. Her room was plain boring, outside was too ethical, and hanging around in the hallways was liable to get a person like her pulled aside by one of her bosses to do something like work. Venus wasn't having any of that, so for now she slipped into the break room and hoped she'd find someone to help her figure out what kind of nothing she wanted to do today.

She looked around, and she had to say, this looked like a pretty damn dull crowd. Everyone was being so bored and lazy. Which was... taking the whole "doing nothing" thing waaay more literally than Venus was up for. Honestly, she was about two and a half seconds from ollie-ing the fuck outta there, but a sigh caught her attention first. 

Venus tilted her head, blinking at the girl who was just starting to lose herself in thought. A smile curled up onto Venus' face. She recognized that expression, that position, the whole bit. Someone was thinking about a special someone! Ooooh, this was just too good!

Having found something too interesting to pass up, Venus tip-toe skipped her way over to the couch. The stranger looked up at her before Venus had a good chance to wave at her, but she did it anyway. It was always polite to greet people.

"My spot?" Venus pointed at herself, looking around to confirm that she was the only reasonable person she could have been speaking to. "Oh! Nonono. I don't have a seat. I'm not that picky." She waved dismissively, then taking a seat slightly too close to the girl to be a stranger. Not that she was quite invading her personal space... she just wasn't being shy about it. "I came over to meet you! I saw that look on your face and I thought, 'huh. Venus, I recognize that face! Somebody's in love! Gotta go help a girl in love.' Isn't that right?"