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  1. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    "Can't imagine you were a bad influence on him." Gladion didn't place any particular weight on the statement, like it was self-evident. He wasn't going out of his way to provide reassurance, he genuinely couldn't imagine it. If Leona was worried she could've been a bad influence, or not much of...
  2. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    Gladion tilted his head at Leona’s explanation, not quite sure where she was going with it. The thing with Rui sounded like a way bigger deal than Eevee genders to him, especially given it sounded like dating Rui played a part in Leona’s transition. But Leona didn’t think that, and she probably...
  3. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    Getting the idea of the gender binary over to Leona was the first time he'd ever seen translation take enough time to be visible. So when a dumb pun occurred to him the second she suggested the ‘prioritization thing,’ he had to try it: "The system was too busy giving me binary components to give...
  4. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    Gladion took one beat to guess at whether Leona's degree of confidence in his gayness should be measured in commonwealth dollars or a homeworld currency while counting himself lucky that sheet metal couldn't flush red, then another processing what she'd actually said. That was a lot to take in...
  5. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    A groan escaped Gladion's throat, which he exaggerated into a sarcastically over-the-top one to cover it. This was the second time recently and he'd barely met Leona, it really was that obvious. Though to be fair to himself, he had been trying to signal in that general direction. He'd needed her...
  6. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    Silence hung over them for a moment between Leona finishing speaking and Gladion deciding what to say. He saw a raw nerve bared for what felt to be his judgment, and he couldn't afford to come across as dismissive or punitive. "Well, I can't say I'd feel any differently if I were in your...
  7. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    Gladion visibly relaxed as Leona took well to talking to him. Plus, she took the conversation in a different direction than he was expecting, so it wasn’t really possible to feel like he was just fishing for information. The conversation left him with a sense of deja vu. Like he’d had it...
  8. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    Gladion pretty transparently perked up with pride at her remark about his trainer-ness, even if he didn’t interrupt her to comment. The purposelessness bit brought his mood back down to earth. “Tough situation. I’ll let you know if I find any toothpicks,” Gladion offered, resisting the urge to...
  9. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    Gladion though about that for a moment, an audible hmm rumbling from his throat. “No. I think if they asked him to, he’d fail. On purpose. Say what you will about him, I won’t say much to his defence, but I don’t think he’s the kind of guy to see this and decide to help them do it again. Just...
  10. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    "If anything, I didn't want to oversell you on this 'till I know what the plan is," Gladion half-mumbled and half-said. Her explanation got a smirk out of him. Enough for him to recover his composure. "I get that, for sure. I sit still too long and start to go stir crazy. When there's something...
  11. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    Gladion reminded himself that Powehi had been the one to send him here in order to ward off the feeling that even being here was, in some way, an invasion of his privacy. It felt increasingly likely that this was the event the two spirits had stopped speaking over. Even as Auriga called him a...
  12. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    Victini had disappeared with no divine dungeon or successor to speak of. That… leant itself to the assumption Powehi had gotten what he wanted. On the other hand, the metaphor Powehi had sent them here to understand was how a pointed stone, if flung with sufficient speed, could tear a canvas...
  13. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    Gladion staggered back as his vision was pulled into a place he’d never yet seen. A glimpse of Auranosa. Another place he’d have to find. And another place he’d have to reach. That part wasn’t negligible in a world without aircraft, even if he’d only have to make the trip there and not the trip...
  14. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    “If you two are self-aware, you’ve had this argument before. Right? Can you break from it for a moment?” He locked eyes with Auriga. “You, or rather the Auriga five thousand years from now, seem to be missing. You summoned one human a few years ago. Then another just one year ago. The first...
  15. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    “Oh!” So the apparition of Auriga was, somehow, completely self-aware. Even remembered how much time had passed. “So you know, that’s actually really…” And yet. And yet. She seemed to feel the same way. Had probably felt that way for all five thousand years… Did an echo emotionally suffer in...
  16. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    Gladion coughed and forced himself into the poison type. "I get wanting to help. I really do..." Even though this wasn't real anymore, his gut was telling him that the right thing to do was to try to do some kind of damage control. "But... This is not going well." Was there even a point in...
  17. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    Gladion reflexively tried to shake the water out of his coat, even if he was unlikely to be terribly successful for long. Powehi and Auriga were here as phantasms, it seemed. Arguing. Was this what had triggered that “silence lasting mortal generations” which had closed that possible line to...
  18. Shiny Phantump

    Ranger HQ Ranger Union HQ

    "Okay, so, uhh..." He'd loosely pictured a few ways this conversation might go on his way over, but now that he had to prune it down to one he was finding it hard to articulate exactly what he needed to communicate. He took a moment to steel his composure. "Alright, plan hasn't solidified yet...
  19. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    "W-What the fuck?" Thoughts fought for Gladion's attention, a gnashing maelstrom of anxieties and uncertainties that wanted to consume him. Powehi was yelling at Auriga? She was here? Did that make her Victini? By that logic, was Auriga a former human? What was that thing in the lake? Why was...
  20. Shiny Phantump

    Novelux Blackglass Caldera Mystery Dungeon

    Even without consciously thinking about it in that moment, Gladion was distantly aware that his father told him about how his ancestors used to worship the cosmos themselves. He’d always liked space in a scientific way, but that perspective made it was hard to wrap his head around the idea that...
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