TWO YEARS AGO, A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION GOING BY THE NAME TEAM IMUM WRECKED CHAOS ACROSS THE LAND, DAMAGING CITIES AND KILLING THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS. While Imum itself has long since been disbanded, however, the region remains broken: entire towns have been laid to waste and the Association struggles to find homes for those who were lucky enough to survive the attempted genocide. Reconstruction trudges on as usual... but with three factions - the Association, the corporations, and the people - each wishing to take the rebuilding of an entire region down opposite paths, how long will it be before Lyeant's last leg gives out permanently?
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James never fails to see the beauty of Irisia, a city he and his father once helped build. Its sprawling urban center lay between water and air; the capital of wealth and power. A place he likes to call home, however lonely and quiet it may be sometimes. It's barely noticable when he's kept busy. Signing papers, running from one meeting to another--it takes up much more of his time than he likes to admit. Nonetheless, James doesn't mind life being so fast all the time...but when there's a lull in his race against time, where seconds linger past their ticks on his watch, James can't help but suffocate under such idleness.
Under such circumstances, he tells himself to take a stroll.
Months and years of design should never go to waste. He breezes past the front door as quickly as he came in, leaving his suitcase on the spotless floor of his home. Leaving the estate takes only a couple minutes, and soon, he's at the park. Walkways lined with water, only protected by a fence.
He stops, leaning over the metal bar that seperated him from the water and the walkway; it would've been lovelier without the fences, but the city wouldn't be safe otherwise--that's what the Parallax believe in, after all. Safety. Security. These things sit above everything else; even Pokemon.
James Silph would normally hate to be so wistful, but he supposes that today's just an off day. He stares into the water's deep depths, catching bits and pieces of expensive, colorful coral and plant, all laid out meticulously to ensure that Irisia lived up to its name as the modern atlantis.
It's then that a bright red Magikarp appears from the water's depths, a sharp contrast to the pool of blue and white. James stares at it in a mixture of confusion and intrigue before it splashes, water flung everywhere--his face, his suit, his luxury watch.
"FUCK--" He says, just one of many expletives that had come out of his mouth at that moment.
your walls, hijack your brain, run through your veins.
She'll be here for a while.
So might as well call it home while she could right? It always amazed her how the city itself was designed to be similar to a paradise for humans - a metropolis one could easily categorize it as. She left her apartment early in the morning to take a scroll outside of the city walls either in Eirenhyre or in the wastelands that were left behind as a result of the recent war that tore the region itself apart into three distinctive factions. From what she picked up, each faction had it's own goals and it's own positive side, while also sporting a negative side. In her case, she chose the side of which could off her the most information and access to technology in the shortest time possible.
But recently, she's been able to gather enough information as it is. All that was left was the take a scroll around town and make a mental map of her surroundings and the layout of the city itself. It'd be weird to be flying around and about on Jiggly, especially when she was the one who was trying to conceal her identity at the moment. Last thing she would want are the other dex holders finding out about her little swap over, and it would be even more dreadful if they labelled her as a traitor for one reason or another. Still, it would also sadden her quite a bit if they really just didn't trust her as much as to think that she might have been brewing up some ploy in that pretty little head of hers.
The brunette made through the doors and into town, making quick strides down the clear and rich path separated by a fence from the water. As beautiful as Parallax had made it's own domain to be, she just couldn't agree with them valuing human safety over pokemon. As she was making her quick passing by down the path, she witnessed a man standing by the water go suddenly get attacked by a Magikarp of all pokemon.
By splash.
Perhaps the most harmless move to ever exist, she'd say that it was pretty effective against that man and his fancy everything. She snickered at his misfortune and, failing to retain her composure, she burst out laughing as she watched the scene unfold. It was amazing how people could react so differently under certain situations - she happened to find it entertaining to watch another person's misfortune. "Hah! Looks like splash is pretty effective after all!" The Kanto native giggled as she approached the man. A smug smile was plastered on her face, however she was civil enough to pull a piece of clothe from her bag to aid the poor, drenched man. "You alright there? You cussed preetty loudly.." Hah.. No. She wasn't going to stop bothering him. Looks like she found her time killer for the day, and perhaps in the best way possible. Even now, she was giggling at how foolish he looked in public, and in front of Blue.
Post by james silph on Jan 11, 2017 2:18:04 GMT -6
Water drenches James completely, from the top of his head to the genuine leather of his shoes. It made a big splash--Magikarp are not weak, despite what people claim. It's just useless. James groans, flips wet hair out of his eyes, and tries fruitlessly to shake the water out of his watch. Money down the drain, all because of one mistake.
He turns to a burst of laughter, glaring from underneath his bangs. "Apparently so..." He mutters, trying to salvage what was left of his pride. James Silph would leave under any other circumstances; he doesn't need anymore media attention than necessary, especially at such an embarrassment.
"Thank you," He says, taking the cloth and drying his head. Everything else on him is practically useless at this point. "I'm unscathed..." Her laughing only serves to worsen his mood, and he'd rather not stay for long.
James wipes the last of the water off his face and offers the towel back to the girl, unaware of the girl's status. For all he knew, she was just another ordinary girl.
"Yes yes, laugh all you want, but I need to leave."
∟ shit post, lmk if u need more to work with ;; ┐ Blue Mizu
Today had been a nice change of pace from the usual day free of jobs from Parallax for Kapueo. He had taken a job to go around taking pictures of James Sylph, the CEO of Silph CO, for a stalker fan of his. Sure for most people it was an odd job to take, but for Kapueo it really wasn't anything to write home about when compared to the list of odd-jobs he has done in the past.
He had taken the job actually couple of weeks ago, but only now had he found an actual chance to take real close pictures of the guy, as he had apparently found some free time on his schedule. A chance like that, which was not short of a miracle, was something that Kapueo was not going to let go to waste, and he hadn't. The odd-job extraordinaire had been dutifully following James around ever since he began his walk, making sure for the target not to notice him taking loads of pictures. To make blending in easier too, Kapueo had taken off his usual clothing and replaced them with a casual combination of a light green t-shirt and light blue jeans. He even had his hair pulled back and kept in a Ponytatail, which honestly was a refreshing change of hairdo for the guy.
When the walk had come to a halt, the man on a job had remained behind the a corner of a building, keeping his eyes still on his target, snapping a couple of pictures of a James leaning against the fence. Kapueo figured that his client would especially like something like that.
While snapping those pictures, something rather surprising happened. A Magikarp out of nowhere splashed water on the CEO, leaving him soaked, and the odd-job extraordinaire had just gotten multiple pictures of the very scenario, showing frame by frame as James was splashed with water.
Well wasn't that lucky for the Alolan native man. While those pictures may not sell to the stalker fan, maybe one of those garbage rumor tabloids would buy them.
Of course Kapueo at this point could have left or stayed to wait for James to continue his walk, now his destination most likely somewhere where the guy could've gotten a clothing set that wasn't completely soaked, but he didn't feel like it. He felt a bit like trying to benefit from this situation, and so the man began to fiddle with his cameras settings to copy the pictures from the device's internal memory card to the detachable memory card inside it.
While the process took a bit of time, Kapueo still kept an eye on James, and to his amusement a young woman appeared to go talk to the soaked man. She seemed to be pretty amused by what had happened to the CEO, and while the two had their exchange, with James showing obvious intent on ending it and the woman seeming to keep going at it. The sight was pretty amusing by itself.
The process of his camera finally finished, the odd-job extraordinaire took out the memory card inside the device and put it in the back pocket of his jeans. Giving the camera one more look, the man figured he should delete all the pictures beside the splashing picture and so he did, with the deleting process being rather quick, requiring only ten seconds. And with that done, Kapueo left his hiding spot behind the corner, pretty much asking for the duo of a random woman and a soaked James to notice him.
Walking up a bit closer rather nonchalantly, once at the distance of a couple of meters, Kapueo raised his camera and showed a big grin. "Say 'cheese', James!" He said enthusiastically and snapped yet another picture of the CEO.
your walls, hijack your brain, run through your veins.
This was still pretty sweet on it's own level.
Blue was fully aware of this man's status, the family he came from, and etc. She did her research, she has done her information gathering. However, her sources mainly indicated that he was an insightful, impressive, and promising young man who had lost his composure and a good measure of dignity to a Magikarp of all pokemon. Hah! It still took a bit to process that fact, but she was amused. Personally, she thought that he was going to be some stuck up, arrogant leader figure if he were the heir to the Silph company. Or.. Maybe he wasn't? Last she checked her sources, she would think so. Oh well. She was a pretty highly regarded figure as well, seeing that she was a colourful little 'friend' of our pokemon champion of Kanto.
Her bright, sapphire blue eyes were looking up to him with a curious gleam to them. A curious Blue was never a good Blue, although it's not like anyone could push her away so easily no matter how hard they wanted to. It was nice enough that he accepted her help, but the response that lacked just so much reaction was enough to irk her even if just by a bit. He took the towel, trying to save whatever was left of his pride. It was nearly pitiful to see him in that state, and even more so pity-worthy for he ran into Blue, and the area itself seemed to have the occasional person walking down. Irisia was, after all, a busy and industrialized city for the human benefit. Something that she couldn't quite agree with, but they certainly had their own assets.
Maybe she could learn something from this guy.
"Great." She smiled, awaiting him to finish up cleaning himself with that towel. Poor trainer had to withhold her unavoidable laughter just seeing how ridiculous he was really. While he was wiping his head, a small face made itself visible from the outside of the towel that went untouched. Said face only smiled as Blue was covering her lower face to muffle the giggles. The moment he extended his arm out, she mimicked his action and the baby-blue towel slowly began shaking. The 'towel' actually melted into a bunch of bright purple goop, a slime that crawled off of his arm and latched onto it's trainer's arm. "Ditty wants to thank you for cooling them off too." A grin crept up to her face, more sly than grateful if anything. He pretty much just wiped himself with a Ditto of all pokemon.. Wonder what he thought?
That's when she heard the soft clicking of a camera followed by the sounds of footsteps and a cheery voice of yet another passerby. Or.. 'passerby' as one may call them. He held up the camera to take a photo of the still drenched CEO, and everything was just so casual that Blue had to force herself to stop laughing by biting on the bottom of her lip. Dear lord, this day just gets more and more interesting.
