determinator | ♕ FIFTH COMMAND | TEXT / ACTION [ILEX FOREST]

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♕ FIFTH COMMAND | TEXT / ACTION [ILEX FOREST]

[An anonymous text has been sent out to all of Johto. All replies will be anonymous as well ~~unless he screws up and anonfails which is highly likely~~.]

How do you deal with the loss of a close friend?

[For those of you in Ilex Forest, Archer is currently busy training his Pokémon. Or at least, that's what he'd like you to think he's doing. Every so often he'll check the Gear to see if there's a response to that anonymous text.]

[Today really isn't a good day. Archer definitely seems more distracted and agitated than usual, and he's been snapping at his Pokémon all day. Why? It's January 28th. Kimbley would have been twenty-eight today.]

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Pineco, I believe - clearly whomever came up with the naming scheme for things in Johto was running low on ideas that day.

[...wait wait what is this book, this is an interesting book, he'll just be looking at that over your shoulder, if you don't mind.]

That is a rather unfortunate name...

[Pineco, Pineco... Ah, here we go! Archer glances over the brief entry on it.]

It does have an evolution. Let's see here...

[He flips the page to look at the evolution and... stares.]

Kimblee... What... am I looking at?

[MY WHOLE BRAIN IS CRYING]

[...you are looking at sheer awesome, Archer, holy shit. It's a living landmine!]

Oh, that is excellent, isn't it.

[And from his tone, he's very pleased with this.]

Although honestly, the fact that it evolves at all pleases me; gives it a one-up on some of the others I've trained, at any rate.

You do seem to have had terrible luck with that.

[Here, you can borrow the book to look at your living landmine. It's just making Archer not want to live on this planet anymore anyway.]

[He'll just wait until you're engrossed in that before checking the Gear again! No new messages? That's unfortunate.]

[...actually, he will be rather engrossed in that before too long; there doesn't seem to be much, if anything, on the other capture he's made that he doesn't intend to tell Archer about anytime soon - that's unfortunate - but he might as well check on some of the things he has in the box...some of them are from Kanto, aren't they, so let's...

...

... ... ...]

...Archer, what do you know regarding Dorian and evolution?

[His tone is very calm, actually, when he asks that. That sort of calmness that implies he kind of wants to snap your arms off? Yeah. That sort of calm.]

Dorian and...?

[...Uh oh.]

I believe it evolves by a stone?

[Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. You're going to snap his arms off, aren't you. Okay, hang on, let's just find that stone and hand it over!]

Happy birthday.

[That's not sarcastic at all, actually. Since today is your birthday, right? It's Kimbley's birthday, so obviously it's yours too!]

[...uh.]

Happy...birthday...?

[Well, any desire he may have had to snap your arms off is completely gone in favor of sheer, unadulterated "wat." He's not an idiot - he'll take the stone, and if you think you're getting it back then he will snap your arms off, but what are you even talking about.]

But it's not...

[...and then suddenly, everything makes sense. Why that text hit the network now, why Archer has been so restless today...

...oh.]

...it would have been your friend's today, wouldn't it?

[What, you don't celebrate your birthday or something? Actually, that really wouldn't be surprising.]

[...No, apparently it's not your birthday? What...?]

Yes, he would have been twenty-eight.

[He pauses for a moment to reflect on that before shaking his head and quickly changing the topic.]

It's not your birthday today? When is your birthday, then?

[Kimblee shakes his head a bit; he's noticed the abrupt subject change, but he won't call Archer on it for now.]

No, it isn't - that's not until April.

[Okay, hang on, let him put his pinecone down and find his other Pokeballs - Dorian, where are you...there you are, all right.

Dorian promptly proceeds to start whining, but that's pretty much quelled once Kimblee uses that damn Fire Stone on him; through some sort of...magic or something that no one fully understands, the evolution starts quickly, and by the end of it...]

Well...I...

[...what the hell.]

Excellent - this is absolutely lovely!

[Dorian, bb, u classy

oh my god Kimblee approves so hard

no seriously Kimblee sit down you are going to hurt yourself]

April? That's...

[Strange, but you've already moved on. Evolutions are always strange. Still, Dorian evolves and is suddenly a much larger classyfox! Archer smirks.]

Well, I'm glad you're pleased.

[No, seriously. He's never seen Kimblee this excited before. It's kind of stupidly endearing.]

[NO BUT LOOK AT IT THO

d-dat class]

Oh, rather. It's really quite a nice evolution, to say nothing of th-

[...

... ... ...

...Dorian, are you seriously barking at him again

he is not picking you up]

Unfortunate that some things don't change to match, isn't it.

[...Oh wow. That's... really obnoxious.]

Very unfortunate.

[None of Archer's have changed after their evolutions either; it seems to be something that doesn't change regardless of the circumstances. Shame.]

I'm glad you're pleased. I wanted to hold off on giving you the stone until Dorian had learned some decent moves. Most of these don't learn any moves after they've been evolved by a stone.

[He didn't know that when he evolved Lucena, but she still learned some moves! Clearly she's just magical.]

And I'm sure that's the only reason you held off.

[That is just the driest comment on the planet, Archer; he knows you better than that.]

As it stands, however, he seemed to have stopped learning moves altogether recently, so it all works out, I suppose.

Oh of course.

[The smirking like a douchebag really isn't helping matters much.]

Clearly my timing is excellent.

Oh, clearly.

[Dorian, in the meantime, has decided that since he isn't getting any attention over here, he will just be wandering over to check out what the hell Mar...Mar...that dog of yours is doing. You are stalking down all the things over there, is there anything interesting...

Kimblee watches him for a moment before returning his attention to Archer.]

...odd that your friend and I should have been born on different dates entirely; I trust you've been holding up reasonably well, despite the date?

[Maróczy will look up when Dorian comes over. 'Sup classyfox, let's burn all the things!]

...Yes, I've been fine.

[If you think you're getting any sort of eye contact, you must be crazy.]

[...okay, wtf, the helldog's actually fun when it's not being annoying on the battlefield? Come on, man, let's go kill some of those huge butterflies or something!]

Good to know, I suppose. I wouldn't want to think you were lying to me again.

[Fuck yeah! And of course he's fun, he's not like his trainer, man.]

Of course not.

[Overly defensive? Overly defensive.]

[And for a moment Kimblee is quiet, apparently content to watch Dorian and Maróczy and...whatever it is they're doing (playing? setting fire to the entire forest? who knows, and more importantly, who cares?). His gaze is still focused in their direction when he speaks again; he's smirking a bit, though the expression isn't a particularly nice one.]

You're terrible at keeping things from me, you know.

[The silence isn't a good sign. He's too obvious about all of this, isn't he? Archer glances at Kimblee when he starts talking, and immediately looks away again.]

...It's not something I should bother you with.

[...given that he knows what the issue actually is, Kimblee honestly agrees that that much is true. As much as he would like to avoid playing therapist for Archer, he often ends up doing so anyway; if he's going to be blunt, he doesn't want to deal with Archer's issues.

At the same time, if they're going to prove to be a hindrance, he's just going to end up dealing with them eventually anyway, isn't he.]

This partnership is based on mutual benefit, isn't it?

Yes. That's why I don't see how this will help you any.

[The point

his head.]

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