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Cresselia92

Gym Leader
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Partners
  1. ho-oh
  2. sneasel-nyula
  3. rayquaza-cress
  4. celebi-shiny
Ever since the meeting, both Icetales and Petram have been suffering from different troubles.

Icetales has fallen prey of existential crisis, constantly debating about his role and influence in the team.

“Why am I even here if my own team does not trust me…?”

Petram, meanwhile, has been wondering what it means to be a Beacon of Hope.

“Hmm. Pity that there aren’t Beacons in this planet and Daddy is indisposed. Where can I find the info I need?”

Both foxes have been hanging out mostly with themselves, searching for answers that they can’t find, and have been mostly avoiding the rest of Team Spectrum save for emergency meetings.
 
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Namohysip

Dragon Enthusiast
Staff
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. charizard
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. sceptile
  6. marowak
  7. jirachi
  8. meganium
Raven flies to the moon.

This will have to be a scene.

Both foxes have been hanging out mostly with themselves, searching for answers that they can’t find, and have been mostly avoiding the rest of Team Spectrum save for emergency meetings.

Owen will often perform wellness checks; while it is difficult to hide things from him, Owen also does not press the issue.
 

Flyg0n

Flygon connoisseur
Pronouns
She/her
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. swampert
  3. ho-oh
  4. crobat
  5. orbeetle
  6. joltik
  7. salandit
  8. tyrantrum
  9. porygon
Koa has a ceiling fan installed in his room.

Echo invites Crobat over to hang out and ride the fan. He also asks Silver to come along if he's allowed, since he thinks getting out would be good for him and his team.

Ever since the meeting Koa avoids nearly everyone now and makes himself scarce during regular hours when the rest of the Team is out and about. He blames himself thoroughly for the discord that happened and often worries he is thoroughly disliked by everyone. He certainly hates himself.

He's equal parts distressed, equal parts angry. Despite this he still seeks out opportunities to continue to train and prepare for whatever is coming. He makes time to watch Brisa's colosseum matches though, and is absolutely thrilled by them.

Instead, he's decided to spend time with Echo and go around the village, trying to find signs of the other Soda substitutes. He uses Echo's excellent echolocation skills to try and do this.
 

Negrek

Abscission Ascendant
Staff
Nate seeks out Dunsparce and asks him about that time he turned big.

- Where and when did it happen?
- What was Dunsparce doing at the time?
- Is Dunsparce the only person he knows of who had that happen, or have there been multiple incidents?

Nate will also check out whether or not Dunsparce appears to be a flesh puppet piloted by an alien parasite... just in case.

--

Rocky visits Flesh! Since sub!Soda is in the holding cells, is somebody else helping Flesh out? Does he need anything?
 

Fusion

Oh knee on
Location
Here, silly
Pronouns
Him/His
Partners
  1. zoroark
Puddle, with Vix's Advice, brings sewing supplies with it when going to hang out with Leg. Needle, thread, a big ol' bag of cotton stuffing that may or may not have been cotton candy. How was Puddle supposed to know the difference?

Puddle, also, does its usual thing of checking in on the other familiars. Asking them how they feel about Joule now since... he's one of their dads.
 

Cresselia92

Gym Leader
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Partners
  1. ho-oh
  2. sneasel-nyula
  3. rayquaza-cress
  4. celebi-shiny
Puddle, also, does its usual thing of checking in on the other familiars. Asking them how they feel about Joule now since... he's one of their dads.

Petram believes that’s “Hella cool!” and shows off his comet-like tails and the pulsing star inside of his chest. Sure, having a trio of dragons as parents might be weird and all, but isn’t that sick?
 
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Namohysip

Dragon Enthusiast
Staff
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. charizard
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. sceptile
  6. marowak
  7. jirachi
  8. meganium
Nate seeks out Dunsparce and asks him about that time he turned big.

- Where and when did it happen?
- What was Dunsparce doing at the time?
- Is Dunsparce the only person he knows of who had that happen, or have there been multiple incidents?

Nate will also check out whether or not Dunsparce appears to be a flesh puppet piloted by an alien parasite... just in case.

Dunsparce doesn't remember the details, only that things had gone dark suddenly, and then the next thing he knew, he was rampaging around without thinking about it. When he returned to normal, he 'woke up' with the usual aches and pains of battle. He had just been on a morning stroll and didn't remember the time it happened. Further checking suggested, however, that it was many days after Sushi and Sashimi. Dunsparce is, additionally, perfectly alive and normal.

Rocky visits Flesh! Since sub!Soda is in the holding cells, is somebody else helping Flesh out? Does he need anything?

Soda had left very detailed nots about Flesh's wants and needs and how to care for him, and Flesh also had a translator that helped him speak. Taking care of him was thankfully not an ordeal of interpretation. He did, however, request a tree for some comfort food. Lately, Owen has been avoiding Flesh.

Puddle, also, does its usual thing of checking in on the other familiars. Asking them how they feel about Joule now since... he's one of their dads.

Cal doesn't like it. She prefers quiet dads that flinch when she makes fun of them. All Joule does is smile and laugh with it, boisterously, like he was supposed to enjoy it. That's no fun!
 

Dragonfree

Moderator
Staff
Location
Iceland
Pronouns
she/her/hers
Partners
  1. butterfree
  2. mightyena
  3. charizard
  4. scyther-mia
  5. vulpix
  6. slugma
  7. chinchou
Puddle, also, does its usual thing of checking in on the other familiars. Asking them how they feel about Joule now since... he's one of their dads.
Mia does not like Joule. He killed Dave and she does not want to merge with him and he is too bright and it's annoying. It does not mean anything very important that he is her biological father. The other her didn't even have biological parents because she was engineered from open-source genomic sequences. If she has some light energy from him that would be nice but Joule didn't even know he was creating them, so it doesn't mean anything about Joule that would make her like him more.
 

Ambyssin

Gotta go back. Back to the past.
Location
Residency hell
Pronouns
he/him
Partners
  1. silvally-dragon
  2. necrozma-ultra
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. dreepy
  6. mewtwo-ambyssin
Bahamut's shade has been walking throughout the city wearing signs that read "Have a nice day :)" while preaching about Eternatus' love.
 

Negrek

Abscission Ascendant
Staff
Nate visits Red and asks if he remembers his battle against beeg Dunsparce. Where did it happen? Did he think there was anything strange about the situation? Did he fight any other big pokémon?

He'll also bring treats for Red's pokémon and chat a bit about pokémon training and battling. Does Red have any tips?

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Rocky can't carry a tree all by himself, so he goes to Joule to ask for help. He'll ask what Flesh's favorite kind of tree is, and if Joule doesn't know, he'll ask if they can take one of the big pines from the forest. He bets they taste nice and refreshing.
 

unrepentantAuthor

A cat that writes stories.
Location
UK
Pronouns
they/she
Partners
  1. purrloin-salem
  2. sneasel-dusk
  3. luz-companion
  4. brisa-companion
  5. meowth-laura
  6. delphox-jesse
  7. mewtwo
  8. zeraora
Luz visits Flesh regularly just to keep him company. She introduces Brisa to him.

Brisa is having trouble feeling comfortable around some of the team after the battle at the Tree of Life and is taking out her frustrations in the Colosseum. The crowds still like her.
 

Disco

Ace Trainer
Pronouns
They/Them
Mellow seems very lost, but is busy tending to her gardens, trying to protect her gardens and equipment from Toast and Diyem, respectively, and working at the infirmary while providing Team Spectrum with the potions, elixirs and more that she's created. She also spends time with Zinc as much as time allows her.

Raven is orbiting Cibus at the moment, and staring at the moon to try and catch any sign of Soda. She also tries to get a better look at the blot of corruption, but she goes no closer than she was at the time of the attack. After Diyem's warning, she heads back to Cibus and lands somewhere on the Mystery Continent.
 
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Flyg0n

Flygon connoisseur
Pronouns
She/her
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. swampert
  3. ho-oh
  4. crobat
  5. orbeetle
  6. joltik
  7. salandit
  8. tyrantrum
  9. porygon
Koa spends his time avoiding everyone trying to hunt down the other Soda Subs.

-He researches in the library and with other members of God Squad and Poppin Arms to learn as much as he can about how substitute (apparently) works on other worlds; scents, sounds, appearance and anything and everything else.
-He also tries to researches whatever else can be gleaned about Unown. Both from the library and Pop. He tries to find out about potential strengths and weakness that aren't commonly known, as well as what other powers and uses they may have.
-He visits Chip, both to make sure the Porygon is doing okay after his ordeal, and to ask if there's any sort of device that could either detect a substitute or detect Soda/a Zoroark
-He goes out on his own with Echo to try to scout the area for any abnormalities that might be Soda, especially asking Echo to keep an eye on bars for anything that might not quite match up sound-wise. Perhaps something off about a voice or the shape of an object in his echolocation, if that makes a difference.
-He suggests that rest of Team Spectrum should keep an eye out as well.
 

Adamhuarts

Mew specialist
Partners
  1. mew-adam
  2. celebi-shiny
  3. roserade-adam
Cynthian visits the expedition society to retrieve Ivy and learn what happened.

She asks for a tour around the building and Jirachi's observatory especially. Cynthian also asks to take a look through the big telescope to see what she can find on the moon herself.

Cynthian also asks Jirachi if anything has changed on the moon for the past few days or so. Especially before and after Vix and the familiars took a trip to space.
 
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Namohysip

Dragon Enthusiast
Staff
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. charizard
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. sceptile
  6. marowak
  7. jirachi
  8. meganium
Bahamut's shade has been walking throughout the city wearing signs that read "Have a nice day :)" while preaching about Eternatus' love.

Rumors and stories have started to circulate about the Ultra Shade. They call him a wandering spirit.

Nate visits Red and asks if he remembers his battle against beeg Dunsparce. Where did it happen? Did he think there was anything strange about the situation? Did he fight any other big pokémon?

It happened near Paradise on the Mist Continent, and he'd apparently fought many. He didn't find it odd at the time, only that he was trying to save others. It seemed that the Psychic distortions of being controlled had overridden Red's perception of the situation as a whole, back then.

He'll also bring treats for Red's pokémon and chat a bit about pokémon training and battling. Does Red have any tips?

Red certainly had great and insightful battle tips. Unfortunately, Nate had trouble interpreting them because Red didn't ever say anything; he only demonstrated some of them with maneuvers with his team. Though, not having to speak commands to his Pokemon must have given him quite an advantage against opponents who would have otherwise had time to react...

-He researches in the library and with other members of God Squad and Poppin Arms to learn as much as he can about how substitute (apparently) works on other worlds; scents, sounds, appearance and anything and everything else.

Substitute can be used in a wide variety of ways, requiring varying skill levels. The simplest form is a very easy to recognize Substitute doll that, in the heat of battle, often draws the attention of attackers. They tend to be very eye-catching in a primal sort of way. The more powerful they become, the more they can resemble their hosts, and even be issued commands. At their strongest, they are basically weaker copies of the user, and are self-aware, with a fragment of their spirit inside. Substitutes, of any skill level, have a few key differences to their hosts. At the highest level, they can often replicate the scent, sound, and power of the host, but a careful check of the aura can reveal a 'hollow' look, as it is not their true body. If that, too, is disguised, they are nearly indistinguishable, with the exception of being unable to be healed, and an uncanny immunity to many ailments.

He visits Chip, both to make sure the Porygon is doing okay after his ordeal, and to ask if there's any sort of device that could either detect a substitute or detect Soda/a Zoroark

Chip is doing well, but is not confident in being able to detect a substitute, especially one as well-disguised as Soda. Even with his cooperation, there is not much hope in finding him, at least not to the same efficacy as the Mewtwo detector. Still, they will try.

She asks for a tour around the building and Jirachi's observatory especially. Cynthian also asks to take a look through the big telescope to see what she can find on the moon herself.

Cynthian also asks Jirachi if anything has changed on the moon for the past few days or so. Especially before and after Vix and the familiars took a trip to space.

News about the moon had spread fast, and Jirachi seemed too nervous to try to carefully observe the moon in that way again--the request, for now, was refused until worries can be quelled. What Jirachi knew about the moon prior to the blast was nothing particularly new.
 

Adamhuarts

Mew specialist
Partners
  1. mew-adam
  2. celebi-shiny
  3. roserade-adam
Seeing that she was already in Lively Town, Cynthian pays Nutmeg a visit and asks her what and how much she knows about the tree from her ancient history as Mew, how the tree came about, any forgotten and or otherwise overlooked characteristics or quirks it might have. She asks for anything that might assist Team Spectrum when they face off against Maple who's sealed in the tree.
 

Negrek

Abscission Ascendant
Staff
Sounds like it's time to visit Paradise! Nate will investigate the big pokémon situation with the residents there. When did the embiggenings start, and when did they end (unless they're ongoing)? Which pokémon got turned big, and where did the incidents happen? What were the pokémon doing when they got embiggened?

If there seems to be any pattern to where the incidents were happening, Nate will go looking for any evidence of something that might be behind the incidents--or evidence of a thing having been there before that's now gone.
 

Flyg0n

Flygon connoisseur
Pronouns
She/her
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. swampert
  3. ho-oh
  4. crobat
  5. orbeetle
  6. joltik
  7. salandit
  8. tyrantrum
  9. porygon
Echo brings Brisa some honey. He thinks she should look out for herself.

Koa has been running himself ragged trying to rectify things been trying to help efforts before fighting Maple as much as possible. He seeks out the mysterious Eternatus-Xerneas being. He wants to see how they're doing (and maybe he things they're both a little weird but kinda cool, a fusion of two powerful legendary beings I mean. That is neat.) and to ask them about the tree andother info.

-Do they remember how and when they died?
-How much do they know about actual Xerneas, as far as their memories and life?
-What broke them free from the control?
-How did they feel while under control vs now?
-If asked, would she be able to offer any meaningful support in fighting against Maple or does she feel she could get corrupted again?
-Do they know anything about that strange meteor?
 

Ambyssin

Gotta go back. Back to the past.
Location
Residency hell
Pronouns
he/him
Partners
  1. silvally-dragon
  2. necrozma-ultra
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. dreepy
  6. mewtwo-ambyssin
Bahamut’s shade manages to depart the safe because Bahamut was dragged to the colosseum where he proceeded to once again stall his opponent into giving up. The shade then runs off to... again, preach about Eternatus. It offers berries to anyone willing to listen.
 
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