from the ice and snow

[tundratales]

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welcome to tundra tales! this is a daily/ask blog run by @occasionalpokeboys / jun_hyungs on twitter featuring bear the marshtomp and others originally from @dailymarshtomp. though not strictly plot-focused, there is still a story to tell for those curious enough to brave the arctic north.

this blog is lgbtqia+ friendly! the mod is trans and many of the characters have non-cis/non-het identities and/or orientations.

if you would like an ask from any of the characters featured on this blog, feel free to reply/reblog this post and specify that you would like one and/or from whom!

[ask-boreal]

[ask-boreal]

Marzipan: Hi nice to meet you I love your hat!! Do you like battling? It's so warm here and with THIS weather I bet everyone who trains here gets super strong

>BOREAL: THANK YOU!!!!!! Nice to meet you too!! Oh hmmm I can’t say I’m much of a battler! I don’t really like that kind of stuff. I’d rather just play or relax I guess! I’m not really the umm fighting type. But like not Fighting type like other Pokemon types I’m Electric last I checked but like umm I'm not.. co..nfrrrront.. ta.t

She paused

… I don’t remember the word HEH BUT hopefully you understand??? I can see why people would want to battle here though!!! The weather is always usually super nice but most others I meet are here just to rest!

[tundratales]

pride icons for the snow bug couple!

[ask-boreal]

< [ Continued from here ]

[ Boreal blinked and sat for a few seconds staring. Nothing seemed to be wrong... But you could tell there was something..? ]

>BOREAL: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OCEAN WITH ICEBERGS?????????????

[ She exploded with curiosity, her excited demeanor lighting up again ]

THAT has to be even farTHER north than where I live wow that sounds so COOL and COLD!! We had rivers but I guess we were inland and not by the ocean... I can’t imaging swimming in that how does your sibling do that and not turn into an ice cube???? are they actually an ice cube? I know I could never see it but underwater there sounds so awesome!! Oh where I’m from is also pines!! wow we are from really similar places that’s so neat!! We had auroras too, my parents always tried to wake me up for them but I guess I was a heavy sleeper hehehe though I did see it before a few times when I couldn’t sleep!!!!! It was so pretty but I guess it was so long ago it’s harder to remember hmmm

[ Boreal tried hard to remember, her demeanor shifted. ]

>BOREAL: Yeah… I do hope I can some time..! We were supposed to a little while ago but never made it up. My family always moved from time to time though so I guess it’d be kinda harder to find them… but I think I could!! But umm yeah..!! If you don’t mind.. it’d be nice to have some company I think..!

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[ @tundratales ]

[tundratales]

[continued from here]

we live by a big ocean, with lots of huge icebergs and gigantic pokemon making big splashes! my sibling tells me there's a lot of underwater caves with really pretty ice formations too, but i'm not used to swimming in freezing water like they are so i haven't seen them myself. our forests are mostly pine trees, which aren't great for climbing but they don't block out the sky which is prettiest at night, especially when there's an aurora!

ah, um, but, i hope you can go back home and see your family sometime. your home sounds just as nice as mine! if you want, i can stay until your friend comes back, if you'd like someone to talk to. i don't mind sitting in the rain at all!

@ask-boreal

[ask-boreal]

[ ... ]

>BOREAL: Oh..

[ She wiped her face ]

Hi... sorry I wasn’t really expecting someone with all the rain. But ummmm yeah…! It’s where my family is from. And where I grew up! It was umm... a northern point of a ..region. I love it a bunch!! This place is super nice too but I do miss the snow. my family.. And all the trees! well it was mostly snow but the forest was big too. Honestly feels kinda like here, open with a nearby forest... except like twenty million degrees colder! Is where you're from like that too???

[ She paused to think for a second ]

Oh sorry you asked me hmm. I wouldn’t say I uhh live…? Here. Or moved here! In the sense that I live here now forever… More just staying for a little. I’m waiting for a friend to visit before we head out again together! He and I travel a lot together, which is super fun!!! They should be back soon though!!

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a little present for lian

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merry, noel's s/o who also makes clothes

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noel, the ariados who made bear and lian's clothing for them

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prancer's signature hot chocolate

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soft... reminds me of something...

h-huh? reminds you of what??

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bear, look! a whale!

...weird whale...

[bear and the cast of tundra tales are now open for asks!]

[dailymarshtomp]

you are... familiar.

i hope i don't remind you of your past meals! ;;

[dailymarshtomp]

[the flaaffy growls low in its throat as bear picks their spear back up, but doesn't get any closer. perhaps not looking for a fight, it retreats back into the bushes, leaving bear and the leafeon alone.]

ahh... p-please don't eat me!

[bear hesitates.]

i... won't.

oh, thank you, thank you! i owe you my life! well, not that i'm offering myself up, but i owe you! uh... what should i call you?

...bear.

bear! okay, and you can call me snowpea. i'll, um, see you around, i guess?

mm-hmm...

[dailymarshtomp]

hunting the hunter

[dailymarshtomp]

on the hunt