lyra, joking: why don't you guys ever use emojis??? do you hate whimsy that much🥺🥺🥺🥺

gold, doesn't know how to open the emoji keyboard: I can. See -> :^)

kris, knows how to call people and nothing else: Why is my phone making sad faces at me.

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\\You guys REALLY want that LBR chapter don’t you?!//

This was the second time I found myself stuck in a bed wondering when I could get out and do things again.  The worst part was, I didn’t even know where most of my stuff went.  All I really had was what was in my bag, and that was just because Foulques, bless him, had the foresight to grab the thing for me.  Honestly, it was a bit embarrassing- you’d think by now I’d know to expect trouble from pretty much anywhere what with living on the road or in some form of peril for most of my life- and here I was, like a sodding idiot, forgetting to leave my bag with someone.  Or at the very least, with Chocobell. 

But yes, back to the current predicament.  I was in Camp Dragonhead with a bandage around my head and prohibited from doing anything that would take me outside the building.  Or anything that might go near my head.  Or really...okay, anything.  I tried to keep myself occupied with goldsmithing and reading and weaving, but see, there’s one problem- I need light to see that and at the present moment any form of light bright enough to let me do anything meaningful was also enough to give me a near splitting headache.  Lovely.  And I couldn’t just ask someone to stay here and entertain me all day, that’d be rude.  And kind of spoiled.  And more entitled than I would ever feel in my entire life.

So in not so many words, I was bored.  I couldn’t even while the time away sleeping since someone would come wake me up every few hours to check if I was still capable of being conscious.

If I ever see those swiving louts that did this to me, they will wish I died back there.

“Careful there, Mingxia.  I am starting to think you spend too much time with me.  While I would be concerned, this is far too amusing.” Foulques seemed to materialize out of the shadows- how in the seven hells does he manage to do that every single time?!  And on another note why does this still startle me?

“Pfft, glad you’re having fun.  Wouldn’t you say this is my right though?  Since it was my watermelon they were trying to crack open.  I do hope I didn’t get any lasting brain damage.”

“I doubt you have permanent damage to anything important.  The chirurgeons here have made certain of it,” he remarked.  “Your purple friend was very insistent- then again, I suppose having the ear and the heartstrings of the lord in chief here would be conducive to that.”

“What, are you jealous?” He made it so easy, honestly.

“Me?  Certainly not.  Lords and bureaucrats have never been to my taste.” Foulques scoffed.  

Raven came up- and by came up, I mean she charged in.  “Ming are you- oh good, you’re awake!  I’m going to kill whoever did this to you!”

“First off, one of them is quite dead, thanks to the Flame General.  The second thing- get in line, Serella and I get first dibs.” I pointed at the head wrapping.

“And behind me,” Foulques added.  “I was her getaway cart.”

“Agh, fine, just save some for me too, will you?” Raven pouted.

“Of course.  There’s more than enough of those blue-coated cravens to go around, you know?” I shrugged.  “Half an army’s worth at least.”

“...You two are starting to sound like each other.” Raven remarked.

We could only grin and laugh at that. 

Okay, so if my friends were all there, maybe convalescing wouldn’t be so bad.

@lunarosewood23 for the help

arceus: so. you're good with baby pokémon. right

lyra: oh yeah! i've been around them all my life! :)

arceus: great. *drops a newly-formed level 1 dialga/palkia/giratina in her lap* have fun! *fucks off forever*

lyra:

--several hours later--

kris & gold, two protagonists who already have legendaries of their own, staring: what, uh. whatcha got there

okay so when she becomes champion i think her first order of business is making friends with everybody in the elite four. and lance. this means that at every possible opportunity she's popping up behind bruno or will or karen or koga like a demon in the night to be like HELLOOOOO <3 CAN I HAVE YOUR NUMBER? and on more than one occasion it's led to screams being heard across the entirety of the indigo plateau because. Holy Shit

i also think she eventually starts wearing a cape like lance along with whatever her new champion outfit is because she loves a good swoosh of a cape. lance is in tears about it

she's a social butterfly and i know this in my heart and it serves her well jumping between being the new champion and also being a pokéathlon star. she keeps promoting her grandparents' daycare every time she's on the radio or TV until they have to call her like Hey Sweetie. We Love You. Please Stop With The Promotions We Are So Overfull

and on a similar note once kris becomes the leader of the battle tower she's constantly trying to get her to do collabs of every variety with her and kris is like yeah i'm not coming down from this tower. sorry. i live here now. they are polar opposites when it comes to being in the public eye to the point where the press aren't even allowed past the ground floor of the tower. if they want to see her they'll have to battle their way up same as everyone else. lyra thinks this is a bad business practice (but finds it funny all the same) so she's also constantly promoting the battle tower as well

lyra does take breaks though!!!! sometimes she goes to bother silver in the dragon's den and when gold disappeared for a. while. trying to get red to come down from mt. silver she ditched the entire plateau to go tackle him for disappearing in the first place once he finally calls her to say that he's alive

and of course when she caught sight of the awkward guy in red behind him and realized he was a strong trainer she instantly wanted to battle him. and when she realized he was the previous champion who defeated team rocket a couple years ago and then vanished she REALLY wanted to battle him because the champion seat was hers now (thank you very much) and she wasn't about to let him steal it out from under her

(she won. obviously. and then used red as bait to try and lure kris down from the battle tower to compete in the pokéathlon with her. it almost works until kris is like "Actually if he's so strong he can fight his way up to the top like everyone else too. No special privileges <3" and lyra's like FUCK I ALMOST HAD HER)

(red does in fact manage to get all the way to the top until he loses to kris as well because he's doomed to forever lose to the johto protagonists no matter the universe)

since getting blue's phone number is a hgss exclusive thing and you have to visit daisy multiple times to do it i like to think that she and daisy hit it off wonderfully. and lyra is the one who blue eventually calls to do his "wah wah i miss red you look just like him" spiel. which means that once she connects the dots and realizes red is The Guy Blue Was Sad About she grabs red by the arm and marches him to viridian city and bursts into the gym like HEY BLUE IS THIS THE GUY YOU WERE CALLING ABOUT

(gold is following behind the entire time. extremely amused about all of this but you would never be able to tell because of his resting bitch face)

and of course sticking with hgss-exclusive things: lyra is the one who experiences the celebi event (though i like to think she does it by herself instead of with gold because i think it's something more for her to experience. y'know)

because lyra wasn't the "main protagonist" (AKA the one silver was rivals with) in this universe (the "main protagonist" of the sharedverse is kris. they're all protagonists in their own right though) i don't think she'd know silver all too well outside of being That One Guy Kris Is Friends With (for some fucking reason) Who Hangs Out In The Dragon's Den And Also Stole A Pokémon (Or Two??? Kris Was Unclear) but after experiencing the celebi event i think she swings by the dragon's den a LOT more often and actually tries to make genuine friends with silver. no matter how prickly he is at first

eventually they have their hgss double battle against lance and clair together (though i'd imagine the dialogue being a bit different than it was in the actual game because the sharedverse is based off of gsc and not hgss and everyone knows how i feel about how hgss butchered every single character. but i digress) and that's when they really start to hit it off!! eventually silver starts challenging the indigo plateau a lot more because that's their version of hanging out. until she manages to drag him to her grandparents' daycare and make him play with the baby pokémon

(word of this gets back to kris and she finally leaves the battle tower just to come over and laugh at him for being swarmed by baby pokémon until silver finally tackles her and they start [play]fighting about it. and then lyra gets her azumarill to hit them both with a hydro pump and that stops them real quick)

lyra and gold compete in the pokéathlon together sometimes!!! and during lyra's first trip to mt. silver he comes with her and points out all the best spots. including where he first met red at the summit. they have a battle up there that ends in a tie and laugh about it for hours afterwards. and lyra admits that sometimes just hanging out on a mountain with a friend is just as fun as running around the indigo plateau

she eventually does catch celebi as well. she knows she has to be responsible and all especially now that she's champion but she does allow herself one (1) time travel prank. and it's glorious

lyra: i want to be able to help people and pokémon and becoming champion is the first step to doing that!

gold: idk man indigo plateau was just what came after the eighth gym....i'm going in order