ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Channah: Ah, I woulda been there a while by then... Uh, how's she doing, by the way? I mean, I know you've wanted to be on radio silence lately, but.

There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.

Artoria looks mareepish. "A lot of that is my fault I'm bad at communicating and dealing with feelings and I only realized this recently."

The pair of awkward gay sword dorks are saved from further communication being required immediately by the arrival of the sushi.

Artoria takes the opportunity to food, because really why would you ever pass up an opportunity to food.

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

 Tagg's Secret Base 

-To Channah, sitting on the couch-

Sol's fine. She knows what I've been up to, we've been better at communication since the Constantin incident, but we don't really talk J-Team business most of the time since she's not really part of the group anymore.

edited 24th Jan '18 9:26:48 PM by rmctagg09

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Channah: -sits carefully on one of the chairs- ...I don't know if I've ever heard what the 'Constantin incident' was, exactly.

There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.

-Corrin immediately hides her embarrassment of being so incredibly blind to Artoria's blatant signs of attraction by distracting herself with food.-

-Food is good. Sushi is especially good.-

-Wow look at those shark teeth. V pointy. She is a pointy person.-

Artoria eats in silence due to the awkwardness.

The awkward silence does not help the awkwardness.

But she's also too awkward to break the silence.

RIP in pieces.

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

 Tagg's Secret Base 

-Sighs-

Okay so, back in 2013 while I was helping to seal dream rifts and fighting giant mutated Hydreigons and Cipher and whatnot, Sol was busy doing PEFE stuff in Kalos and we weren't really talking at the time. Like, we hadn't fought or anything, we were just wrapped up in our own lives. While she was there she met this guy, Constantin Perilloux, tall, blond, seemed like a nice. Emphasis on "seemed".

Then fast forward to the following year when we were in Kalos, a bit after I met you the first time. Sol introduces me to Constantin, who takes an instant disliking to me because I'm 1) black and 2) in the way of him dating "his girl". He managed to overhear a conversation where I had a... moment of weakness with another friend of ours and nearly broke me in the Tower of Mastery.

We managed to recover from that, but Constantin remained a constant thorn in my side for the rest of my time in Kalos. Then he joined the Illusion Project and actually tried to kill me in Fiore and called me a "filthy negré" in the process. Kicking his ass was satisfying.

Turns out that Constantin also used to be part of those Skybreak fascist fanatics Team Flare, and created Neo-Flare from Illusion's ashes. I do wonder how Echo must feel about that since she kinda handed him the means to do so on a silver platter. Now he wants to kill me, Sol, and everyone we care about.

edited 24th Jan '18 9:47:30 PM by rmctagg09

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

-Corrin swallows-

Corrin: So, ahem, er, what... what brought that on? The whole... yeah.

-She knows exactly what the answer is already, she's just stumbling to try and not be awkwardly silent.-

-Great job.-

Channah: Right. You mentioned a white supremacist and I've heard his name of course, but - Ssso now he's an evil team leader too? Eh. Uh, that's crap. Did uh, that have anything to do with your girlfriend leaving the J-Team?

There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.

Artoria: "A Gothitelle gave me a cryptic warning and then dropped me outside the Iron safehouse, saying that would 'help'."

"I was confused, and then a Garchomp busted through a wall followed by you and Mason and I had a realization of what she meant."

"Which is mildly embarassing when everyone else can see for weeks what you can't."

edited 24th Jan '18 9:57:54 PM by Izshta

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Corrin: O-oh. I see.

-She rubs the back of her neck.-

Corrin: I had assumed a longer term realization... er, specifically the Clavis party, when we'd danced together.

 Tagg's Secret Base 

-To Channah-

Nah, Sol's just got her own life independent of all... this now.

-Lost in thought for second-

Both her and DS...

-Switches back to normal-

But yeah, Constantin's a nasty guy and I hope to never deal with someone like him again.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Artoria: "... In actually probably but a few days ago was when I stopped vehemently denying it..."

"Feelings are hard."

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Channah: ...Yeah. -listens to the rain outside for a bit- Er, uh. It's really nice of you to bring me here. This is like my first time in someone else's base.

There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.

Corrin: That's certainly true...

-She looks down at her food awkwardly-

Corrin: Gods, I wasn't anticipating this at all... I can't say I've entirely worked out my own feelings? I'm not used to this help me aaaaaaaaaaaaa.

 Tagg's Secret Base 

-To Channah, smiling-

You're welcome, glad you appreciate it.

Muddy: <You know when your sister comes back she'll-

Stop... >_>

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Artoria: "... Understandable. Arceus knows I needed plenty of time to figure out my own."

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

-Corrin nods. And manages a smile, in an effort to help ease the tension.-

Corrin: In the meantime, though, there's always those training sessions we've been talking about.

Channah: So. Yeah. Was there anything you wanna talk about?

edited 24th Jan '18 10:34:11 PM by Metanoia

There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.

Artoria: "Indeed, we should start those."

Mordred barges through the door with a piece of paper clutched in her hand like some mathematician who just made a major breakthrough "!"

"Is this a -"

Artoria: "No."

Mordred: "Don't believe you but for once I'm not here to tease you about your repressed attraction to Corrin. Or steal your food."

Artoria: "Not exactly repressed anymore... And something of a touchy topic especially in current company."

Mordred: "Look at this."

She unfurls a piece of paper.

On it is utter gibberish.

Artoria: "Mordred... this is gibberish."

Mordred: "I know! But: Remember that Kommo-o?"

Artoria: "I'd rather not..."

Mordred: "He gave it to me and told me to give it to you."

Artoria: "Um."

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

-Momentarily, Corrin gives Mordred a Look™️ upon mention of teasing Artoria, but the subject is quickly moved past, and the Look™️ changes to a lowercase-l look of intrigue, concern, and confusion.-

Corrin: Oh? May I see that?

 Tagg's Secret Base 

-To Channah-

Hmm. Well... would you like to visit a Mirage Spot sometime?

Muddy: -Head tilt in slight interest in the background-

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Artoria: "It can't hurt, at the very least." -She hands it over.-

It's definitely something. It says something.

What it says is complete gibberish, not even forming coherent words.

But it says something.

Artoria looks around. Curiously, the entire shop seems to have emptied.

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

-Corrin tilts her head.-

Corrin: Hmmm... might it be possible that this is written in some sort of code? There may be ways to translate it.

-She looks around in confusion at the general situation — the mystery message, the suddenly empty shop, et cetera.-

Channah: Um, sure. Anything's fine.

There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.