{ voices }

The touch was not shocking in the slightest, but still subjectively surprising. Many found themselves far too intimidated to approach the imposing redhead -let alone lay a hand on him- and so Lysandre reserved a special kind of respect for those who dared to do so… regardless of their intentions. Turning around to face the boy, he relaxed considerably. {♚-}“ “Oh! My apologies.” He began politely. {♚-} “I was just discussing something with Mr.Stone. Why, do you know the young man in question? I did not mean to be so rude.” Here the Kalosian gave a bow, a curt inclination which only further emphasized his height. Pyroar’s tail curled inquisitively from side to side, watching both the boy and his Linoone carefully. Being trained far above normal standards, it was capable of acting on it’s own in a situation without the slightest order from it’s trainer. And for that, it needed to assess every interaction he conducted himself in with great care. …Both must have realized Lysandre’s words did not answer the question. There was little point to revealing unnecessary information. Not yet, at least.

Looking around nervously, Artemis leaned in closer, petting Zigzagoony, more out of habit than necessity. 

“No, no it’s okay! I’m probably well known here. Well, kinda, at least. Hoenn doesn’t really encourage stuff including me, but they don’t make an attempt to hide it. Unova’s more about encouraging Cly - it doesn’t help she was an idol too! She has a bunch of figures and dolls, you know.” He blinked, stepping away from him slightly, slightly confused by the gesture.

“I’m Artemis Haze the 12th, but people just call me Arty. I guess you were talking about me?” The most adorable grin lit up on his face, eyes glimmering. “People don’t talk about me much anymore. Apparently there’s a new host? Don’t know what their name is. Either started with an A or an N.” 

Cover expected the howling to come from a trainer’s mightyena, or a growlithe out late. At the worst, he thought, it’d be some side-effect of the combined timelines that he’d have to deal with before it started corrupting things.

He’s not sure he won’t need to anyway. From behind this tree, the being howling at the stars looks like a human girl. There’s something about the way she moves, though, something about her scent. She fizzles at the edge of his senses in a way no creature of this dimension should, and not in the same way the voices do.

The voices… He’s heard some of his sibs (Helix, of course, and Root, but also Armour and Skull for whatever reason) talk about a host from the randomised timeline. Wild as the forests of Johto, they said. Were they the one with the mysterious powers?

She doesn’t notice what ruckus she’s causing, but it should’ve been alright. Most people thought it was a stray Mightyena and left her alone; after all, her cries were identical to those of a Pokemon. Perhaps that was why Camilla approached her and attempted to “tame” her.

The crunch of a leaf becomes apparent, and so does the voice of a stranger. He looks like someone Jimmy talked about, but it must’ve been pure coincidence. She looks over her shoulder, her face blank, and returns to staring at the stars, saving her voice.

“Relax. It’s not like I’m going to interrogate you.” He spoke and it was true. Vivek had absolutely no interest in playing detective. Besides, he only had a few questions. No sooner had she mentioned the words ‘non kid friendly’, though, Vivek scoffed. “Do I really seem like that much of a pervert to you?” Granted, he was, but the bespectacled man liked to keep that part of him in the closet. After all, Vivek already happened to be unpopular enough as it is not like he noticed the secret fans coming over to the library on a frequent basis, mind you.

“Coop.” She tested the name out slowly. It was a simple name, but it stuck nicely. “Sure. I don’t mind. It’s a nice name! More popular than Cly; better to refer me with that name than my actual name.” She pressed her lips together, seemingly thinking. “Hey, can I call you Viv then? Or Vivi, maybe.” 

Upon hearing Cooper’s reply, Vivek simply nodded. “Welp, I do let him fight wild Pokemon on frequent occasions but I guess that wasn’t enough to satisfy him.” He shrugged, then sauntered closer towards her. For once, a small smile started to tug upwards at the corners of his lips as she mentioned checking out Shauntal’s books. “Yeah, let’s go before it closes.” No sooner had he stated this, however, chatter spread, a certain name was spoken and Cooper’s frantic glances became initiated. 

“So...I’m sure you want answers.” She murmured, not even making sure Vivek was sitting down. “I’m Cly Cooper. Champion from Unova, former idol. I’m sure you know why I gave ‘Cooper’ as my name and not Cly. It isn’t a well-given name, you know.” The brunette gave a raspy laugh before quieting down.

“You can ask me anything, you know.” Questions were usually asked when someone decided to spill her actual name. Yes, it was great fun. So fun. Can you sense the sarcasm? “I don’t mind. Just as long as it’s not anything relatively non kid friendly.” Man, she was really fooled it was going to be an okay day. Cly was going to go to the Pokemart to stock up and everything!

He’s distracted from that train of thought by Ao running off and calling him to follow. Considering Emmet’s longer stride, catching and keeping up with Ao is not difficult in the least. “Ah! I am hurrying. You’re the one running off, eheh.”

you were the sheep in wolf’s clothing

and she was the wolf in sheep’s clothing

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tried digitally painting!! took me about 4 hours ish? in tpp ur ship is either crack or canon tbh

“Um, I guess! But some people can get dizzy, and that’s not really fun, is it?” She hums to herself, thinking about the gym. “Tele-o-vision has taught me a lot about rollarcosters! They’re bright and they have those loopy-dee-loops that go-.” She made a curving motion, making a ‘whoosh’ sound. “We can go to the gym and then we can go and fly to Castelia!” Soon, the girl is scampering towards gym.

“now honey are you suuure it’s not just another phase again?”

pastel goth artemis because i just really really reeaallly like the color palette ok

i drew abe in the outfit i wore today because why not also abe would totally be a hipster. like it’s almost canon.