[Day 153] I understood the meaning of love... [OPEN]

[hellpyre]

Who: Rin and YOU!
Open: Open
When: 153, afternoon
Where: The Gazebo
What: The past few days have been difficult, but Rin is in a surprisingly good mood today. Apparently that's enough to warrant randomly singing??
Format: Starting in action, but I'll folow
Warnings: Rin being Rin is a given by now.

[The past few days had been a whirlwind of emotion. Some good, some bad, but all of it actually fairly exhausting. In it, though, Rin had gotten out some much needed things that had been bottling up for some time, and in a stark contrast to the anger that had nearly destroyed the kitchen, she found herself in a surprisingly good mood this day.

Like. Really good mood.

Good enough to apparently sing. Which she didn't do very often at all. Sometimes she could be caught humming a song while working, but actually singing something?

Well, she did used to be in the church choir growing up, so it wasn't that far fetched of an idea. But it had been years since then, and her voice was a little out of practice.

Still, something about that good mood compelled her to make her way over to the gazebo where the piano was. She couldn't play (Yuki could, but even she had fallen out of practice with that in recent years, too) but she knew enough to strike a note and start from there. She wasn't singing to anyone in particular, and the song that came out of here surprisingly wasn't a church hymn.]

Kuon no shijima yagate sora ni
aoku aoku tokete nijinde
mahiru no tsuki no usui kage wa
sugu ni sugu ni mirai wo yobu...

[It didn't quite sound the same without some accompaniment, but she still got rather in to it. Enough that she probably wouldn't notice if some one stopped to listen...]

Comments

[ourlegends]

No problem! My singing voice isn't that great, so I have a lot of respect for those who can sing really well.

[ Like Jigglypuffs. Not that she'd ever stayed awake long enough to hear one complete a song.

.... this was awkward, though. She shifts a little where she's standing, before standing on her tippy toes and offering a hand over the top of the wall of the Gazebo. She's so tiny. ]

I'm Hilda, and this ...

[ She gestures with her head. ]

This is Zebstrika. I remember we went together to go get Pyth, but we haven't really ... talked, or anything.

[hellpyre]

Eh... I just spent a lotta time in the church choir when I was really little. It doesn't really mean much. I know people that can sing way better'n me.

[Smiling, she takes Hilda's hand over the wall of the gazebo.]

Rin. That's another... Pokemon, right? Like the big flamin' guy?

[ourlegends]

Still, you sing way better than I do.

[ She retracts her hand as soon as they shake, shaking her arm out a bit. It was mildly uncomfortable due to the gazebo ... she brightens at the mention of Pokemon, though, and nods. ]

Yeah! I have five of them with me. Technically six now, but ... one of them is still an egg and hasn't hatched yet.

[ Zorua's egg was safely at home, wrapped in a blanket. ]

... Would you like to meet the rest of my team?

[hellpyre]

[You can come in here, Hilda. There's nothing preventing you from it.]

Wow. You just... got some random creatures hangin' around you? That's cool. Kinda reminds me of tamers back home.

[Zoura eeeegg.]

... uh. Yeah. Sure.

[ourlegends]

[ Except the inevitable calling out of pokeymans. Hilda moves with Zebstrika out a little bit from the Gazebo and starts to let her pokemon out of their balls: Emboar came out first, then Unfezant, Lilil, and Frillish.

Frillish let out a happy squeak and rushed over to nuzzle Rin. He was obviously the youngest of the group and very excitable and friendly. Lilil tried to rush after him and keep him from just sticking his face into anyone else's face, but ended up not successful. She facepalmed.

Hilda laughed a bit, sheepishly. ]

Ah ... forgive Frillish, he's really friendly.

[ Emboar recognized Rin, and grinned, huffing mightily and holding a fist out toward her. ]

You already know Emboar and Zebstrika ... this is Unfezant, and this is Lilil. And again, Frillish is the one who tried to attach himself to your face just now. Everyone, this is Rin. Say hello to her!

[ Everyone let out a greeting of their own. Some loud, like Emboar, Frillish, and Lilil ... and some slightly more subdued, like Zebstrika and Unfezant. ]

[hellpyre]

Uwah--!

[Ohgod why is this thing nuzzling her WHAT IS IT-- okay she's not really freaking out that much, but she does sort of tense up for a second before giving Frilish an awkward pet.

When Emboar came out, she returned the offered brofist with a smile, waving to the others as they came out.]

Wow... they're like... demons but better!

[ourlegends]

They are pretty awesome, aren't they? They're some of my best friends. I'm really fortunate to have them here with me.

[ She beams, but then her face falls. ]

I ... did have one more with us, before I arrived here. He didn't make it with us, but you probably would have been really impressed by him.

[ Reshiram was definitely a sight to behold, even to those who didn't know the legend behind him and Zekrom. ]

[hellpyre]

Wow. That's really lucky, to have so many friends with you already!

[But oh... one of them not making it.

That's painfully familiar.]

... I'm sure wherever he is he's really happy you made it here okay.

[ourlegends]

I am pretty lucky, yeah. My boyfriend and his team are here, too.

[ She managed a smile despite how much she missed Reshiram. ]

I'm sure he is, too! Reshiram and Zekrom both would be happy to know that.

[hellpyre]

Oh, you have a boyfriend?

[She sounds a bit surprise but, really? Couples here weren't that uncommon.]

[ourlegends]

Ah ... yeah. He kind of sticks out, so you might've seen him around. Tall, green hair ...?

[ He's like way taller than she is and that's a little awkward. ]

[hellpyre]

... oh the guy who kinda looks like a giant walkin' bush?

[Rin]

[ourlegends]

That's ... one way to describe him, I guess?

[ Emboar thought this was hilarious and started laughing. ]

[hellpyre]

See, Emboar gets it!

[Sorry Hilda, your boyfriend does kind of have some crazy hair going on.]

[ourlegends]

[ She won't deny that! And Emboar doesn't really pass an opportunity to laugh at N. He's still a little bitter over that guy dating his precious trainer. Emboar's still got it kinda bad for her, whoops.

Hilda laughs, though. ]

H-He's definitely a little odd-looking, I'll admit that ...

[hellpyre]

[Wow Emboar. Wow.]

But hey, if you like him, I ain't gonna judge. He's obviously worth it. Ain't like my boyfriend doesn't have weird things about him. He looks like a big thug but he's really just a nice guy with a rough side to him.

Plus he used to dye his hair in a way that made him look like a chicken.

[ourlegends]

[ Yeah, he's pretty hopeless. He knows it wouldn't work anyway and he's still holding grudges. ]

So he's a thug who's actually a teddy bear?

[ Blink, smile. ]

I'm pretty sure most of my friends back home would be kind of skeptical if they knew N and I were together ... He used to be involved in a pretty nasty group.

[ If by 'involved,' we mean 'the leader of.' ]

[hellpyre]

[That's almost precious]

Yeah! Pretty much!

[She can't help but grin at that because really Bon kind of is a teddy bear beneath all that gruffness and yelling.]

... what kinda group?

[ourlegends]

[ It really kinda is ]

Ah ...

[ She's not sure if she should be talking about this, but it's all been said and done so ... ]

... N used to be the leader of a group known as Team Plasma. Their aim was to separate Trainers and Pokemon from each other, and they sometimes used some pretty extreme means to do that.

[ There's a lot more to it than just that, but ... yeah, sure, let's say that for now. ]

[hellpyre]

... oh. ... that's lame. He doesn't do that anymore, does he?

[ourlegends]

No, he doesn't. He realized what he was doing was wrong a while ago, and he kind of ... left for a while.

[ That whole thing still upset her, even though things have long since been patched up and it was all more or less fine now. Well, aside from worlds going explody, but she still hadn't found a way to tell N about their own world's status ... ]

[hellpyre]

Well, I guess if he realized that...

[She really couldn't say much to the leaving thing because no one in her life had really ever done anything like that.]

[ourlegends]

[ She nods. ]

A lot happened. I can't blame him for being confused or upset by any of it.

[ She takes a breath and lets it out. ]

Anyway ...

[ QUICK, think of something else to talk about! ]

What's your boyfriend like? You know, aside from the thug who's just a big teddy bear thing.

[ She would not have thought about that at all if she hadn't just been talking about her own boyfriend. Oh, Hilda. When did you start thinking about boys?

Oh yeah, right about the time that N kissed her. ]

[hellpyre]

Sometimes people do things like that 'cause they think they've got no other choice...

[Rin was like that, a little. Her anger and temper went unchecked for a long time and she thought that was just how it was always going to be. She didn't know why she was that way. It made for a lot of upset.]

Bon? Uhm... well. He's pretty smart. He was like the top of our cram school class back home. We didn't get along when we first met, but we became friends pretty fast after we stopped bitchin' at each other constantly.

[ourlegends]

[ It was ... a lot more than just that, but it's not really her place to talk about it much more than she already had, so. ]

That's kind of cute, actually ...

[ Meanwhile, the Pokemon had all started playing with each other. And Lilil was playing Mommy and stuff, trying to keep the youngins out of trouble. ]