route_1065 | Anytime you feel alone put on your headpones

Who: Rise and you! [one locked prompt]
Where: Around Goldenrod
When June 1st
Summary: It's Rise's birthday. And with the Fourth Wall wackiness, she forgot to tell anyone. So here's a depressed Rise who now feels too awkward telling anyone.

Locked Prompt for Crocker

[Rise had found a bakery in the quieter part of Goldenrod. She was sitting at a table in the corner, surrounded by her Pokémon. Her Sylveon, Himiko, and her Umbreon, Chiisai, sat on either side of her, and a newly evolved Glaceon, Jin, laid beside Chiisai. Her ever present Meowstic, Nanako, was trying to cheer up her trainer by floating a burning candle and making it move in complicated patterns.

There was a very small smile on her face, though she still looked sad.]

Thanks, you guys.

Open prompt

[Rise's out and about town now, her usual smile very brittle. She'll nod to people she knows, but keeps walking, her Pokémon always at her side. If anyone pay attention, she's wearing a pair of black glasses, with small bands of color on the frames, a red Alice band, and a set of headphones around her neck. There's also a blue hat attached to a studded belt, buttons on the hat, and a random red rose attached to the band in her hair, and last, a black tie with barrettes attached. (Of course she's wearing clothes to match this look) These are not the usual things she wears, but items from her friends. She had wished for keepsakes from home, and they had been on her bed that morning.

At least something was going right today. Her thoughts are all over the place, so it'll be hard to get her attention.]

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[That's...really quite the ensemble, isn't it. And really quite the long look on the girl's face, too.

Kirigiri's walking around today with her neon-green shiny Espeon in tow, and for a minute it's really tempting to just sort of...keep her head down and keep on walking, blending into the figurative shadows as she so frequently does, but something about the whole little sequence sort of...nags at her, and before she can think better of it, she's walked over to investigate.]

...Kujikawa-san?

[Funny, how they'd talked once about Eevee and its various evolutions, and now here she is crossing paths with the girl while flanked by one. What chance.]

[She hasn't heard that voice since the first day she came here. They talked about Eevee's. And Chihiro-kun talked fondly about her.]

Kirigiri-san! I guess we finally get to meet.

[She forces a small smile. It was nice to meet people she's talked to before.]

Edited 2015-06-03 05:04 (UTC)

You've made it to Goldenrod.

[Thank you for that useful observation, SHSL Obvious.]

...Ah. And this is Yoshiki; despite his coloring, he is an Espeon.

I've been here for a month now? Just been really busy with work. Oh, and spending time with some friends!

[She nods and looks at Yoshiki.]

Is he a shiny? I've got one, too~

[Rise smiles at Jin, her shiny Glaceon, who shyly comes forward.]

This is Jin. Jin, meet Kirigiri-san and Yoshiki.

That's right. Someone bred him for me, years ago.

[She pauses, regarding the Glaceon with a slight nod.]

...It's good to keep busy, I suppose.

[Jin gets shy and hides behind Rise's legs.]

I got mine... from a friend who left a few weeks ago. He's a lot better now. Nanako says he's very happy.

[She lets out a soft sigh.]

My boss is way too rough on me. It's not my fault the commercial was interrupted by weird things happening!

Ah. A friend of yours left? I'm sorry to hear that.

[...]

What sort of weird things?

I was told this happens a lot.. it's sad to hear, but I'm glad she trusts me with her Pokémon.

[Did Kirigiri not notice?]

You know... people suddenly having powers, winding up in different places, people from other worlds showing up?

Ah. The events of this past weekend, you mean.

[Stay here long enough and even something like that stops being quite so weird.]

It wasn't anything too disruptive, I hope.