nostabbing | 006 | Violet City

[Who in their right mind would be up at the crack of dawn on this delightful Thursday in July, traipsing down to the Pokemon Center to make a Very Important Withdrawl™ from her PC? Well, possibly nobody in their right mind, but it certainly is Parker. Bright and early (or possibly really, really, really late, depending on when you consider "bedtime" to be a thing), she can be spotted heading out of the Violet City Pokemon Center with a fluffy red and blue egg in tow — and, impressively enough, followed along behind by just about every member of her roster, save for the evil ones and the horses (but she repeats herself).

Coincidentally, shortly thereafter she can also be spotted, still rather impressively — this time, atop some random south-facing shop's structurally sound purple awning: ]

Recording courtesy of GummyCam™

[Whether or not one also hears a bout of muffled yet vaguely melodious chanting that may or may not sound conspicuously like NAAAAAAAAAAAANTS INGONYAMA BAGITHI BABAAAAAAAA as this is occurring is, of course, entirely a matter of speculation.

JESUS CHRIST IT'S ~~A LION~~ AN ARCHEN GET IN THE CAR]

[OOC: As a note, Parker is far enough off-camera here to conceal the fact that her face is still somewhat messed up from her encounter with Blake; if you'd rather avoid your character having to see/deal with that, feel free to use text or voice instead of video or action! Just leave me a quick OOC note and I'll make sure she doesn't utilize video or bring it up in conversation. o/]

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[It takes a little bit for Parker to return the message — she's got to get down from the awning, after all, and her camera~~man~~ frog is on the ground. But she's grinning despite the fading bruise on one cheek and the healing cut on her chin, and cradling her Archen a little too protectively as she does so.]

She's not green! She came out funny colors, instead. I guess that means she's pretty special, huh?

Are they supposed to be green?

_{[Ralph doesn't know his pokeymans. She seems happy though so there must not be anything wrong with it. It takes him a moment but he notices that shiner. Alice is pretty active and he doesn't find the idea of her having bumps and scrapes hard to believe but that looked a looooot like something left behind by a fist.]}

Y'got a little somethin'. Right there.

Yeah! Her dad is green. So I was expecting her to come out green too.

[Her dad is also shiny but that's beside the point.]

Right where?

Right there.

_{[He points at the spot on his own face and squints suspiciously.]}

Oh.

[She pokes gingerly at her own face, mirroring his motion, and makes a displeased face accordingly. It still hurts a little (when poked, anyway), but the memory makes her scowl just as much.]

Some guy decked me last weekend.

WHAT.

_{[Like the flipping of a switch, Ralph puts his rageface on and it is ugly.]}

[ACK. Now that's an Eliot-face if she's ever seen one.]

I was minding my own business and he came up and started screaming at me. And then when I said I didn't know what he was talking about, he grabbed me and when I tried to get away, he started swinging.

[Also she about broke his fingers and kneed him in the junk, but you know.]

_{[Hhssfggh. Ghhh. Hhhhnngg. Ralph is having trouble processing his anger. He hasn't been this mad since he woke up from that weird three-day dream and found that his strength was gone again.]}

Where. Is he.

I don't know. I came back to Violet but they hauled him off somewhere else. Maybe to Goldenrod? The police came, anyway.

[Also she was a little busy being fussed over, wounded, and in the throes of HORSE TERROR, so.]

Well what--what's his name? What's he look like?

_{[GOLDENROD HUH? Ralph's going to be keeping his eyes peeled.]}

Are ya hurt bad?

[So Ralph, remember those sketching talents Parker exhibited for you once upon a time on a bench in Goldenrod City?

Guess what.

Suddenly they have a practical use — as she digs in her backpack for her sketchpad and in short order turns out a reasonably detailed pencil drawing of Blake's loveable mug.]

I've been hit worse.

[She's actually more angry than wounded, but yeah, it still stings when you poke it.]

He looks like this.

_{[Ralph screws his face up and studies every line like a well trained bloodhound. This is the part where, if Alice hadn't been such a good artist, innocent people would wind up with broken bones.]}

Don't you worry, Alice. I'm gonna wreck 'em.

[This is probably the part where an average person would say something like, "Ralph, don't, it's okay, don't go after him on some kind of vigilante crusade for revenge" — which is great, except that this is Parker, who grinned at watching Sterling get the shit kicked out of him for ten minutes running, and wanted Eliot to actually murder the psychic who dredged up unpleasant memories about her past.

She is all for this wrecking, man.]

If I remember his name I'll let you know.

_{[The wrecker nods, more to himself than to Alice. For the first time in a while he feels like he has a goal.]}

I'll let you know if I see 'em.

Are you still cleaning out sewers over there?

_{[Ralph's srs bzns face finally fades as he looks at the gloomy tunnels around him.]}

Yyyyeah.

Ew. How long until you're off community service?

_{[He shrugs.]}

Few more days. Then I get to breathe fresh air again.

That's not too bad. Maybe you can get out of town and come visit afterward. Or I can come back to visit you. I can fly there now.

I checked the map the other day. It should only take us about a week to get there. It'll be nice to have some trees to look at for a change.

Cool! I dunno how long I'll be here. Probably awhile, though.

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