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  1. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    "Huh, interesting. Wonder what it would be like to just... be able to talk to Hazel after years..." It was hard to picture what it would be like for that to happen. Sure, having been here made it easier to picture, but his idea of what his team was like back home was still kept separate. He...
  2. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    Gladion’s eyes lit in a way that suggested he would be smiling, had he a visible mouth. “We do make a good pair.” Only to be brought down again a sentence later. “I miss mine, too… I used to think of myself as someone who doesn’t need much company. I guess it’s not entirely untrue, but I think...
  3. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    “Hazel.” There was a new warmth to Gladion. “At the end of the day she’s still a Null, which as I’m increasingly aware isn’t exactly comfortable. But she takes it well. No medical issues yet, and very sweet personality. Nicer than I am, honestly. And happier, probably…” A listless sigh. “Miss...
  4. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    "Crimes..." Gladion said, a facetious wistfulness in his tone. "Honestly, seems like everyone here's committed them. Guess Betel's not a legal-moralist. And, really, I'd say you got the important beat, I wouldn't say being 'family' was what made the situation important to me. She's alright when...
  5. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    The difference between Gladion’s previous, forced laugh and this genuine one was clear. His voice didn’t have the weight of as much awkwardness. “Can’t really hide it, can I? Trechary of the soul… Alright, I’ll indulge you, but you gotta keep it away from the people who know mes, or some of them...
  6. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    Gladion returned his own equally-sheeting laugh in lieu of knowing how to hold an actual normal conversation. “This place is so strange I can’t help feel normal. Though I also have to make a hypocrite of myself being involved in genetic experiments does make you definitionally pretty abnormal...
  7. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    “Haven’t heard of that group, but those events sound roughly familiar. I think the one in my world gave them the slip, but I’m not sure given it wasn’t very public. I wonder if the name’s translating weird because the name sounds… ill-fitting of a group like that. Probably is, if I’m from Alola...
  8. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    Gladion laughed. “Nah, I get what you mean. One of the appeals this place held for me was a chance to leave all the baggage behind. Feels a lot more precarious now that other people here know ‘me.’ Would’ve been nice to talk about the bits of my life I’d be cool with if not for people putting...
  9. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    “Touché. Guess we won’t know…” Though the odds that, of every Starr out there, this one happens to be from the exact world as you must be slim-to-none. Unfortunately, it seemed his social skills were still catching up to the rest of his brain. (Was Jade feeling the way he did talking to Laura...
  10. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    “Yeah. Not really sure how to feel about it, seems like a lot of the Null projects see…” Gladion paused, trying and failing to find a phrasing that wouldn’t sound stupid. “Uhh, ‘Gladions’ crop up on the general vicinity. I guess what I’m getting at is…” Gladion closed his eyes. “If you’ve heard...
  11. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    “It was worth a shot…” As much as there was good tactical reason to look for Start, Gladion wasn’t so lacking in emotional skills as to mistake that for the only reason. “Guess being closer to the Escarpa kept her shielded from the town’s press cycle. Was probably better for her even if it makes...
  12. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    He’d kind of walked right into that one, and honestly Gladion felt a bit self-conscious about admitting how unrealistic his search was. “Found out Betel knew an older name for my species here and said one was around about a year ago, and given we’re supposed to be looking for information that’d...
  13. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives
    Threadmarks: Ch04: Other Selves and Rescues [Jade and Gladion]

    Gladion was back at the archives again, this time with a new idea— still a long shot, improbable if not impossible, but something he had to try anyway. At least it felt different from his aimless searches from before. He had a new term to look for: When before he’d only looked for Nulls or RKS...
  14. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    "Thanks for that." It wasn't as if he'd expected to find anything about Nulls directly here (not that it'd stopped him from checking) but anything that gave him a push in the right direction would be something. "Nice meeting you, too, my fellow mysterious stranger. Good luck with the crimes...
  15. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    Was something missing from that refutation? Gladion hadn't actually paid much attention to what he was rattling off, mostly focused on setting himself up for his end-line. Except maybe the legacy bit, that was probably a point where he was precisely guilty as charged. Not that he intended to...
  16. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    Gladion laughed at the first remark, and this time it was entirely authentic. A brighter sound than the previous ones. "Oh, I see, I'm making your job too easy for you, am I?" His first instinct was to try and smirk, but he couldn't so instead he acted on his second instinct, which was to wink...
  17. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    Hm. He was treading out onto thin ice now. He tried to think of a way to tell the truth while working around the heart of it, but he couldn't think of anything as elegant as before. He'd probably be edging towards lying this time. "Me? No. But most of their shadier work takes place in the...
  18. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    Gladion tried to nod, only to pinch himself again. “That checks out. Either the second half of that doesn’t happen where I’m from, or hasn’t happened yet there. I know some guy, though. Both of us had a parent working on the project. My dad wasn’t working on it anymore by the time everything...
  19. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    "Thanks..." Gladion half-laughed, again to cut awkwardness more than anything else. "You don't have to explain it. I... think I get it. Not an unfamiliar concept, except that..." He looked down at the Alolan Meowth in front of him, the one who knew about the Null project. His laugh was a bit...
  20. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Sand Veil Archives

    “Well, it’s got to be possible to make a Null here somehow. I just have to take that as a given. But even if it is something that only comes to pass in the future, the knowledge of the design can’t come from just anywhere. Even if Nova or I made some kind of grandchild-paradox-thing that allowed...
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