genessia | —even he has his hobbies

action; Garden Park
[Between her recently taking a job at the Cat's Eye and otherwise needing to keep an eye on Rascal the Zigzagoon, which though the option is there she refuses to have him confined to a ball, Celia's had surprisingly little time to actually do anything. The job doesn't demand too much of her time, so it's mostly due to Rascal, well, being a rascal; his name was originally a small joke the girl had made while trying to think of an actual name for him, but then the fuzzy terror had gone and more or less earned it by requiring more babysitting than even she did back home.

The irony isn't lost on her, as she'd been aware of her more-annoying quirks and habits—and largely unable (or perhaps just unwilling) to successfully kick them until—for a good stretch of time before she found herself here.

Rascal has gotten a bit better as time has moved on, and today, he seems to be behaving perfectly well, so Celia has decided to reward him with taking him out to the Garden Park. He seems to like it there, so much so that promised (but generally infrequent thus far) visits to the place have so far proven to be an effective way to get him to stop being so rascally so often. The only real downside is that when they do go, they come away from every visit with more small rocks for a collection that he seems to have taken up, and there's a decently-sized pile of them at the apartment now—not an excessive amount, but enough that it would likely be noticeable to visitors if she ever had any—because she's made no real attempt to stop him; it's preferable over him just straight up running off like he had a tendency to when she first got him.

So, today, any visitors to the park are likely to find the girl and her Pokémon, the former (literally) hovering along behind the latter, which bounds from place to place occasionally picking up rocks. Sometimes he runs back to Celia and gives her one that he found, which she places into a small bag that she's started carrying for this exact purpose. ...or he could just run up to anyone else instead, and give them one.

Like right now.

Hey, you.

Have a rock.]

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[Pokemon and Parks go together so well, Ted makes the trip at least once a week. There's Gengar in his shadow and Swoobat flitting above and about. Swoobat the flirt. Careful Rascal, she may steal your heart.

Meanwhile, Ted is so absorbed in something that he almost doesn't notice Rascal and his earthy gift.]

"Oh-oh! Haha, well aren't you generous?"

[He looked vaguely like a dog, so Ted supposed it wanted to play fetch.]

"All right, go get it!" [Pokemon are pretty fast so he pitches it pretty far away. Darn, if only he knew he was supposed to keep it. Come to think, that didn't quite look like a normal raccoon. Pokemon? The PokeBit would confirm the guess.]

"Ah, a Zigzagoon! Not giving your owner too much trouble, eh? Careful, you may belong to one, but if you've strayed too far, I have no qualms 'capturing' you and putting you in your rightful place."

[Rascal looks after the rock as it's thrown, then just turns back and gives Ted the most dejected look he can muster, with an accompanying little whine.

Celia's been following her Pokémon pretty closely, and it's at about this moment that she catches up.]

I think he wanted you t'keep that.

[Aww. Now he feels bad.]

"Oh, erm...sorry, Zigzagoon. I didn't know."

[It was at that moment Gengar materialized from out of his shadow. He loves dramatic entrances. He muttered something that only pokemon would understand.]

(So rocks are gifts now? I can do that. How about a really fast one right in the kisser?)

"Ah, and there's Gengar! Spooky fellow, but being a Normal type I doubt either of you will give the other much trouble."

[And it only now dawns on him that there was an actual person speaking to him. He's a little slow on the senses. He bolts up and turns around to meet the stormsprite.]

"Celia! Long time no see. Were you able to make it out of the dungeon we call the Commons?"

[In response to Gengar, Rascal backs up a bit, brushing up against Celia and looking a mite uncomfortable. The girl takes notice of this, so the ghost has her the slightest bit wary, too.]

I'd hope not.

An' I dunno if I'd call that place a dungeon, but yep, got outta there a little while back. I'm at the place across the road here now. It's pretty nice, though some o' the stuff in there took a little gettin' used to. [The building's elevator and the machines in the laundry room, for example.]

[Making people a little wary is Gengar's stock-in-trade. He crooks his purple fingers in a gesture of creepy friendship, then sticks out his very large, pink tongue for good measure.]

"How affectionate! Unfortunately you may have to turn down such a, aheh, kiss. His are very 'stunning'.

Good for you! Goodness knows that's no place for a lady. Or much of anyone else, really. You've found work, then? At a power plant, perhaps?"

[At...huh? Wait, she thinks she gets it; she's come to understand that electricity is used as a power source with many things here, and since she has at least some level of skill with lightning magic...

Images of being used as a living battery come to mind here, even if they're likely nowhere near how such a place would work.]

Yeah, but wha? No, no, I'm at the Cat's Eye now. [It's a nice place, she thinks.] It's a little bit of a trip from here, but I'm fine with that.

[There's a different apartment building practically next door to the café, but the one she's staying at is more-affordable and being right next to the park is a good thing for Rascal.]

"Aha, so you did wind up at a diner after all."

[Not the one he'd recommend, but so long as she's employed, he guesses it's fine. He's tries coaxing Zigzagoon from behind Celia.]

"Is he always so shy? Come on, Zigzagoon. Gengar doesn't bite. Can't learn that move, really."

(I know other ones. Can't wait to show 'em to ya.)

"Does he socialize much with other pokemon?"

He's great with people, but hasn't been around too many other Pokémon yet. We've seen a few, but none of 'em got this sorta reaction outta him.

[Rascal steps forward, slowly, not sure if Gengar is just teasing or what.]

"Aheh, well Gengar does like to leave very indelible first impressions. Why, one time he..."

[While Ted is talking, he won't notice Gengar try to prank poor rascal by looking deeep into his eyes with Hypnosis.]

[Though he's stopped trying to hide behind Celia, Rascal isn't making any eye contact now. The girl, mostly listening to Ted, doesn't take any notice of this yet.]

[Darn rat-pokemon, Gengar thought. Too dumb to be properly pranked! It's like Ted. Grr. But if he makes it too obvious he's putting the hypnotic moves on the little fuzzball, he'll get in trouble. Probably. Ooh, he knows! It's a sunny day out. That means shadows, his favorite plaything. All he has to do is phase through the ground and reappear in Rascal's; then he'll have all kinds of fun. An easy enough trick once Ted got his motormouth going.]

"He's very young, isn't he? Not much for pugilism, then? Aheh, you do seem like the delicate type who wouldn't much care for that kind of roughhousing."

—even he has his hobbies

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[Action] apologies for the delay, kinda busy this weekend

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