gracefall | 002 ✭ video | action for violet city

Question! [ Xiaoqiao is sitting next to an inflatable kiddie pool (it's wailmer shaped, with fins and everything, pink wailmer. she paid extra for the pink) while a few of her pokemon are training not too far from her. Shishi, her Lucario, darts on and off of the video as he dodges fire attacks.

...some of those Embers come pretty close to Xiaoqiao but she either doesn't notice or doesn't care. ]

So...is this normal? [ totally ignoring the kids behind her and instead fishes Xiao'yu out of the kiddie pool to show her to the camera. Xiaoqiao points at a few spots on the Feebas that seems to be...shining a bit? Xiao'yu is just very faintly glittering. it's so subtle it could just be water but she's been staring at it for days and knows it's not. ]

I thought she got something stuck on her or something, but it doesn't come off when I wash it.

[ ...how do you wash a fish? Xiao'yu seems to roll her eyes at the reminder of that particular event. ] Is she becoming discoloured? I hope she's not getting sick...but she still has plenty of energy.

[ she sighs, and she's about to put Xiao'yu back in the water just as a stray Ember attack is tumbling dangerously close. ]

You guys need to be more careful. [ oh, so she is aware of them. she could just step aside, instead she decides to flip the kiddie pool and at her two pokemon. Shishi is drenched, looks like Flaming Rabbit got out of the way though. ]

You should have dodged that! [ she spares a moment to turn off the gear (she remembered!) but it's back to training for everyone. except Xiao'yu, she can just lounge peacefully in the pool again once Xiaoqiao fills it up again. ]

Threaded | Flat

[Take 3. This time it's broad daylight, and if there's anything Xiaoqiao impressed upon him during their previous encounters it's this:

1. Speak up.
2. Don't sneak up on people.

Old habits die hard however. Although he's not stealthily watching from the shadows… he doesn't exactly announce his presence. He'd been meaning to approach like a normal person (!!) before… getting caught up in the sudden wave of water from the upturned pool. He's not soaked, just sporting some wet sandals.]

… Xiaoqiao.

I don't know if it's normal, but I've seen some Pokemon sparkle, before.

Usually they're the ones with weird colors, though.

[Yumi's Skarmory just finished off Christophe with an Air Slash during one of their daily training sessions. Despite being completely covered in black, Yumi didn't seem to have a problem standing in the sun as she supervised the training.]

Good job, Overwing!

[She recalled the fainted Scraggy into his ball as Overwing made over to her trainer. The bird seemed to have a content look on her face...until she saw Xiaoqiao flipping the pool over nearby.]

SQUAAAACKKK!!

[Xiaoqiao may or may not notice the panicking Skarmory and Yumi trying to calm the bird down.]

[So Yusuke hadn't necessarily gone out with the intention of finding Xiaoqiao - in fact, he and Puu are on yet another fruitless hunt for a decent burger joint when they happen to meander past a gaggle of five or six people hovering near the pathway leading to Route 32, murmuring nervously amongst themselves. That in of itself doesn't pique Yusuke's interest, but the giant firehorse galloping around certainly does, particularly when it launches a fireball in their direction big enough to have incinerated poor Puu, had the bird not ducked out of the way in time. Yusuke, of course, was walking close enough to his Pokemon to have also been put at risk of getting taken out, and this, predictably, is more than enough for whichever mystery idiot it is who owns the firehorse to incur his wrath. OH NO YOU DID NOT, MYSTERY IDIOT WITH THE FIREHORSE. He'll show you a thing or two about nearly lighting his ass on fire!

Fuming, Yusuke marches towards the crowd and shoulders his way past them, followed closely by Puu, who already seems rather chagrined. Why, why, why they can never go into public without Yusuke making a scene, he will never know. Of course, when Yusuke realizes that the Mystery Idiot is, in fact, Xiaoqiao, it stops him short, and his anger is rather abruptly defused and replaced by surprise. Why he's surprised to discover that it's Xiaoqiao who has the crazy wild Rapidash, he doesn't know - after all, it kind of figures that it would be, given the way she's trained the stupid thing - but he is all the same, and that much is made obvious by how he just kind of... stares at her before he actually says anything.]

Wh-- Xiaoqiao!

[Looking thoroughly exasperated, Yusuke walks up to her, glancing at the drenched Shishi as he's passing by. Euch. Hope he won't smell like wet dog later.]

Geez, what the hell are you doing? Your stupid horse almost killed me and Puu!

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