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exeggutorhead) wrote2012-03-02 11:33 pm
exeggutorhead) wrote2012-03-02 11:33 pm
33rd Transformation [video/action for Olivine]
[It's early morning when the feed opens on a Gym battle already in progress; and it's being filmed by something standing next to Envy's legs. He doesn't actually know this is being filmed. In the arena, there's a Skarmory engulfed in fire from a Flamethrower attack coming from Envy's Houndoom. It goes down in one hit, unsurprisingly. Looks like someone's finally taking on Jasmine.]
Lucky, get back over here!
[Have you ever seen a smugger Houndoom than the one that comes trotting back towards the camera-holder? The sunglasses Lucky wears just make it worse. But Envy…doesn't really sound too into the battle. It's odd, he usually sounds smugger when he's winning. But he just sounds bored, with almost an edge of frustration as he sends his Lucario out to face Jasmine's Magneton. The Magneton goes down easily enough after just a couple of attacks, but these attacks left Samus open to take no small amount of damage from Thunderbolt. There's not any attempt to toy with it or do anything interesting, just to hit it with super effective attacks until it went down. He's been battling like this for the past few weeks.]
[And then out comes the huge form of Jasmine's Steelix, leaving Samus looking very small and easily-crushed in comparison.] Aura Sphere.
[The attack does look impressive, with Samus' entire body glowing with blue energy before she fires a beam directly at the Steelix's face. The Steelix roars, shaking its head, and then charges, knocking Samus into the air and across the room with a Headbutt. …Not the OHKO Envy had been half-expecting. In fact, it doesn't seem to have done a whole lot at all. Samus pushes herself back up to her feet, and just barely manages to dodge another strike.] Come on, hit it again! Force palm!
[Yeah, that works even less well than the first attack. Except for how, in some stroke of luck, the Steelix winds up paralyzed. There's a pause before Envy gives his next command, as though he's realized something.]
Start screeching and don't get hit!
[If there's one thing Samus is good at, it's being fast enough to outmaneuver her opponents. The Steelix isn't able to keep up and actually hit her with anything, especially not while it's paralyzed and growing more and more disoriented from the Screech attacks Samus aims at it whenever she has an opening. By the time Envy calls out a command for her to use Close Combat, he's sounding much more invested and like his normal self. Which is to say, he sounds like he's wearing a smirk bigger than his face. This kind of strategy is much more his style.]
[Samus actually runs up the Steelix's back to deliver the powerful attack to its head, and this time it actually works. Down it goes, and the battle is over. Whatever camera-Pokemon was filming doesn't seem to be interested in continuing now that the battle is over, and clicks the feed off.]
[A short while later, Envy turns the video on himself, as he's standing outside the gym holding up his prize. He's actually looking fairly pleased now, in contrast to how he sounded before.]
And that's five of these things.
[He'll be hanging around outside the gym for a little while longer before heading back to the inn. He didn't actually tell anyone in his group that he was going, aside from a scrawled note saying he was at the gym and would be back. Even he recognizes that vanishing when nobody's awake right now would be bad. But early morning restlessness equals 'time to fight the gym right this second' apparently.]
[ooc: Badge is mod-approved!]
Lucky, get back over here!
[Have you ever seen a smugger Houndoom than the one that comes trotting back towards the camera-holder? The sunglasses Lucky wears just make it worse. But Envy…doesn't really sound too into the battle. It's odd, he usually sounds smugger when he's winning. But he just sounds bored, with almost an edge of frustration as he sends his Lucario out to face Jasmine's Magneton. The Magneton goes down easily enough after just a couple of attacks, but these attacks left Samus open to take no small amount of damage from Thunderbolt. There's not any attempt to toy with it or do anything interesting, just to hit it with super effective attacks until it went down. He's been battling like this for the past few weeks.]
[And then out comes the huge form of Jasmine's Steelix, leaving Samus looking very small and easily-crushed in comparison.] Aura Sphere.
[The attack does look impressive, with Samus' entire body glowing with blue energy before she fires a beam directly at the Steelix's face. The Steelix roars, shaking its head, and then charges, knocking Samus into the air and across the room with a Headbutt. …Not the OHKO Envy had been half-expecting. In fact, it doesn't seem to have done a whole lot at all. Samus pushes herself back up to her feet, and just barely manages to dodge another strike.] Come on, hit it again! Force palm!
[Yeah, that works even less well than the first attack. Except for how, in some stroke of luck, the Steelix winds up paralyzed. There's a pause before Envy gives his next command, as though he's realized something.]
Start screeching and don't get hit!
[If there's one thing Samus is good at, it's being fast enough to outmaneuver her opponents. The Steelix isn't able to keep up and actually hit her with anything, especially not while it's paralyzed and growing more and more disoriented from the Screech attacks Samus aims at it whenever she has an opening. By the time Envy calls out a command for her to use Close Combat, he's sounding much more invested and like his normal self. Which is to say, he sounds like he's wearing a smirk bigger than his face. This kind of strategy is much more his style.]
[Samus actually runs up the Steelix's back to deliver the powerful attack to its head, and this time it actually works. Down it goes, and the battle is over. Whatever camera-Pokemon was filming doesn't seem to be interested in continuing now that the battle is over, and clicks the feed off.]
[A short while later, Envy turns the video on himself, as he's standing outside the gym holding up his prize. He's actually looking fairly pleased now, in contrast to how he sounded before.]
And that's five of these things.
[He'll be hanging around outside the gym for a little while longer before heading back to the inn. He didn't actually tell anyone in his group that he was going, aside from a scrawled note saying he was at the gym and would be back. Even he recognizes that vanishing when nobody's awake right now would be bad. But early morning restlessness equals 'time to fight the gym right this second' apparently.]
[ooc: Badge is mod-approved!]
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[And Greed is clearly contagious. But there is definitely a note of 'ugh, that guy' when he says Greed's name.]
I'm probably lucky he doesn't try to wear ugly vests too.
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[ugh, that guy...]
This is the first I've heard that Greed was here, though I suppose it doesn't matter much now. Was he yours or ours?
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[Could've done without the soul-stealing cicadas or the lizards that turn into cocoons and then into dinosaurs, Johto. He shrugs; he doesn't mind answering the question. This Bradley hasn't been insufferable about anything yet.]
He vanished months before anyone else from Amestris showed up. [Which Envy actually doesn't sound entirely pleased about.] He was from my world, I'm sure of that. What's yours like, anyway?
[He's both mildly curious and, now that he thinks of it, he'd rather not be as caught by surprise as he was with some of the other homunculi that had appeared.]
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[pokemon are fucking weird, man.
also ugh, greed. greed really pisses him off. ...more than most things, anyway.]
...I see... well, I see no problem with talking about him, anyway. I only met the original version once, as he split off from the rest of us a long time before I was born. It was a fairly eventful meeting, though, as I was sent to drag him back to Father, who promptly melted him down for reabsorption.
Father eventually used a Xingese prince as a vessel to recreate him, which was a fairly poor idea given that after a short period of loyalty he ended up cooperating with his human host and doing basically the same thing he'd done before.
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The human was still alive for him to cooperate with?
[DOES NOT COMPUTE.]
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[But he's going to assume that Bradley is telling the truth because who would make something like that up. And it doesn't contradict what Lust has told him, either. He pauses for a second.]
Except for humans not knowing when to quit. And Greed being an idiot.
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[Although this isn't said with nearly as much derision as Bradley might be used to hearing from Envy. Not that this derision isn't still present, but...Envy's honestly not sure what he thinks of humans these days, not after running with a pair of them for more than a year and knowing several more, not after living like one. And even some of his closest non-human friends--still a foreign word in his mind--are so closely related to them. Hell, France is technically made up of them and he loves France. Humans have gotten complicated.]
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[made up of humans? well, he's practically dating a manga style homunculus anyway!
...but no, really. He's not going to draw too much attention to that. Humans, as much as they frustrate him, keep things interesting.]