#asksavel

Linda stared at Dravol with an unreadable gaze for a moment as she processed the words of the smaller mon.

"Had it not been for that look you gave me, I probably wouldn't believe you." She finally responded with a sort of somberness in her tone.

She then gave a sharp exhale through her nose and her expression softened as she sat down.

"My home on fire, the blood on my hands and my face, everything? It'd certainly explain that look you gave me." The corner of her lip cracked into a slight smile. "Guess I can't talk around it then can I?" She jokes with a weak laugh.

"I'm not afraid of much. But what I did that day... My friends. My home. Well... you saw it right?" She asked with a forced smile. "I couldn't control myself. And mons I cared about died because of it. And the fact that I can't still hasn't changed." She admits as she sits crisscross in front of the dragat and leans in a bit.

"But before I get too into that, I'd like to know more about this incarnate thing. Specifically what you do with this power you have over fear. Is it something you use against other mons or something? Can you force them to experience it? Judging from the look of you, it must be a lot to carry." She assumes. Her smile softens. "You really have me curious given you were able to catch me off guard like that. That's not something many mons can do." She stated with a chuckle, reassuring the smaller dragon as she plants her elbow on her thigh and rests her chin on the back of her hand. "The name's Linda by the way."

Last year I told you things weren't well here, and things are looking a bit better now, though not without some significant personal loss that is still too painful to go into. But, for the good news - after 10 years of hard work, this specific ask blog of mine has been completed! I even turned it into a real book, thanks to the support of everyone in the community.

It's going to take some time to really recover from the last few years, but I'm hopeful that next year, I'll be able to greet you with better news.

Thanks for running this blog every year - it's always a delight to see you. I live in Australia, so Halloween isn't widely celebrated here, but it's becoming more popular as time goes by. My kids absolutely love Halloween, and my house gets hit by so many kids, which is always wonderful. My partner loves handing out sweets, and we all dress up as a family.

I look forward to your stories this year too!

At first Linda didn't believe what the smaller dragon was saying. But when the Azureon mentioned that she saw outrage, the mienshao felt something that she hasn't felt in a while.

She was shocked. If not for a just a moment.

Being caught off guard like this, now she has some questions.

The dragoness closes her eyes in a pensive look and raises a hand in front of her. "Okay back up a little bit." She started, now raising an eyebrow as she looked down at Dravol with suspicion. "What do you mean you have power over fear?" She asked, leaning forward a little. Briefly looking the smaller dragon up and down. "Is that something you're naturally able to do? Because I don't think I've seen your kind before."

The Beholders all got reincarnated into all different Pokemon scattered about the world. Not all of them became Watchers, but the ones who did all made their way to Sinnoh or Johto to the Sinjoh ruins to meet Gladius, who gave them the collar.

The ones in particular I have in mind is the angry Glaceon became a Pidgeot, and one of the Flareons became a Charizard. I actually was considering having a small scene where said Pidgeot was seen on Mt Silver, watching Dravol and Laivan interact, but I never got there sadly.

Over the years, the Watchers did follow Dravol along when she went to different regions, wherever they lived. They all talked to each other via Gladius and the new Beholder system. After about 50 or so years, the Watchers watch over Dravol dwindled because it became clear she had reformed.

By the time she was elderly, the Watchers were pretty much gone, having done their duty. ^^~

If Linda and Dravol were to every hit it off, when she'd inevitably meet Laivan. She'd have a have a lot of questions about the incarnate system.

Oh and I guess she'd also want to see how strong they are or something. She's sure she could convince Laivan to let her see eventually...

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I have 'what if' scenarios floating around in my head a lot. But rarely do I actually have the time to draw them out. But the idea of the 3 dragons just hanging out seemed really cute so I sat my ass down to actually get it started. (Which was like a week or so before Skins started to close out @asksavel.) And of course when the little lady actually became a full fledged dragon I had to draw a little bonus of Linda reacting to her new look.

Also an alt of the first image with a transparent background under the cut.

[…They do have a point. Now that you think about it, the players who chose to torment CODY weren't doing it to punish them for killing LEAF and RED. CODY was pretending to be an innocent party, and those players still chose to hurt them anyway. LEAF and RED must have realized that those players would have shown the same behavior towards them if they had been in CODY's place.]

A big congratulations to Skins for finishing their blog!

I'm so happy to have been here to see the end of @asksavel! The ending was just *mwah* perfect. Double congrats to Notra for getting her dragon harem. xD

+ Bonus silly doodle I threw together (this takes place the instant Mint found out).