Home is Where the Freelancers Take Us

[secondplacing]

Who: North, York, Carolina, and their guests
Where: Goldenrod City, the Freelancer House
When: All throughout April, for all your freelancer-consult needs
Summary: Need to see the Freelancers in person at all during the month of April? Here's a log for it! and who knows maybe they'll have a cookout or something.
Rating: PG-13 at least bc these are adults who use adult language
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Tobias [Around April 15th or so]

[wing_attack]

[Well, he'd been invited over. It hadn't been too hard to find the house, but he's still a little nervous. He'd never quite gotten the hang of going over to a friend's place outside of the other Animorphs. He shifts a bit uncomfortably as he knocks on the door, bag slung over his shoulder. He doesn't want to bring out any of his Pokemon before he checks how tall the ceilings are, at least...]

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[The house seems to answer with a resounding amount of pokemon noise at the knock.]

Coming! Treble, get down from there- QT, stay away from those cords-

[The door opens to North wiping his hands off on his apron, and he gives Tobias a warm and welcoming smile.]

Hey, Tobias. Come on in, make yourself at home.

[the ceilings are high enough for their menagerie of bears to be out and about comfortably, given the way that North's Beartic is sprawled in front of the couch like a snoring bearskin rug.]

[wing_attack]

[Well, at least it's lively in there. He grins a bit and heads inside.]

Thanks. It's been a while since I've been over to someone else's place...

[He looks up at the Beartic and smiles slightly. Maybe he should have brought Nanook. Ah, well. He pulls two Pokeballs out and releases Rachel and Regal.]

You two be good, all right? We're guests.

[Rachel just rolls her eyes and goes to flop near the Beartic, and Regal chirps his agreement before wandering over to North and giving him a gentle, friendly headbutt. Hello!]

How's it been over here? Quiet?

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[It's always lively at fratlancer house.]

You're always welcome to come by whenever you need a change of pace.

[North's Pidgeot, Mission, gives a delighted coo and waddles over to introduce herself to Regal when the Braviary headbutts her trainer. North chuckles and scratches Regal gently underneath the feathers.]

Hey there, big guy. Missy, play nice.

[Indignant "pi-pijiii!"

Addie lifts his head and snuffles in Rachel's direction before rolling over onto his back with a groan to make room for her to flop next to him.]

As quiet as it can be, around here. How about you? Doing okay?

[wing_attack]

[Regal squawks a hello, and turns to Mission to chatter at her pleasantly. Hello, friend! He's happy to be here!]

I've been okay. Practicing some more for the circus. It's hard to keep thinking of new flight patterns sometimes... I feel like I've run through all of them. Other than that... I haven't been doing a whole lot. Mostly checking in on people. My roommate's been gone for a bit so I've had the apartment to myself.

[He's not sure if he likes the silence anymore. Quiet's one thing, but the absence of anyone else human makes everything seem a little too loud late at night.]

And training, of course. Nanook's running around and grabbing everything - he's the Cubchoo I hatched. I named him after a polar bear I met once.

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[Two 4'11" birds just happily chattering at each other. Mission fluffs her wings and preens the underside of her feathers, chirping. Hello friend! There aren't that many birb friends here.]

Are you alright with that? Having the apartment to yourself. If you ever need to talk to somebody, I know all three of us are usually up nights.

[He's worried but trying not to be smotheringly so. He's had another human presence with him literally since before he was born, so he can only imagine how bad it must be to go to sleep with no one there.]

Nanook is a good name for a polar bear. It's funny how much they act like real babies sometimes.

[wing_attack]

[There's lots of birb friends at home! She should really come see them practice sometimes, it's really fun!]

I'm all right. A lot of the time I end up curled up next to Regal on the floor. I've gotten used to beds, but... some blankets and a pillow are all I really need. For a while after I first got here I kept sleeping outside of town in my tent, even after I got to the towns. Mimi had to convince me to be with a travel group and not keep avoiding inns.

[He glances over at Regal and smiles slightly.]

Yeah. Some of them never quite grow out of it. Braviary are supposed to be fierce and all but he's kind of a giant dork. ... I guess that's fitting, though.

[usedlightscreen]

[She will have to ask her trainer! That does sound like fun!]

It sounds like your pokemon have your back. It had been a long time since I had slept in a proper bed and not a standard-sized bunk made for men six inches shorter than I was.

[he very tol.]

I know what you mean there. A lot of mine still have the same personality they hatched with. With the little ones it's one thing, but when you've got a pokemon the size of Addie who still thinks he's a lap bear...

[wing_attack]

Yeah, they've pretty much all been really good to me. Some of them, like Nacho, took a little bit of convincing, but... yeah.

[And it's not like he didn't specifically ask Riku to find him the most ill-mannered Hawlucha of the bunch...]

Rachel kept trying to flop on me for a while. Then she figured out that wasn't working, so she started picking me up.

[On the bed thing, though...]

When I first got stuck as a hawk, Jake would put some meat in the attic and pull out a drawer with blankets for me to sleep in. After a while I started sleeping in a tree and hunting my own stuff, so sleeping as a human took a while to get used to. The first few nights were super weird.