Day 289 - Who's that pokémon?

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Who: Ibuki, her chatot pokémon "Lita-chan", and you!
Open: Open
When: 289
Where: Everywhere in the Bastion
What: Ibuki's playing around with her pokémon
Format: Action brackets, though I'm cool with changing
Warnings: Ibuki

[Ibuki can be found chasing after a a certain pokémon, who's just flapping around and getting into all sorts of places and things]

Lita-chaaaaaaaaaan! Come baaaaaaaaaack!

"Nope nope nope! No booty! No booty!"

[And yes, the two will be taking a grand tour of the entirety of the Bastion, including building interiors]

[... and despite it looking like Ibuki's trying to get her chatot to return to her, she's being helpful and opening doors to places that would otherwise be inaccessible to the pokémon]

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"No booty! Rob-chan!"

[Ibuki pauses at that... the utter lack of reaction to what she had said. That, combined with her other previous interactions with Rob, made her come to a horrifying realization.]

[At the same time, the epiphany tugged at something in the back of her mind... but she didn't even know what it was. Something related to her missing memories?]

[Regardless, given her broken brain to mouth filter, well-]

Amazing... Rob-chan, you're like... everything that made home totally suck for me combined into one person.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[That at least gets him to slightly move his head and look at her out of the corner of his eye, because she basically just said "Rob sucks." But back to the Pokémon.]

Hey, Lita? Can you say "Lok'tar ogar"? Lok'tar ogar!

[His volume goes up and his voice deepens dramatically as he says something that the amulets fail to translate, making it sound as impressive and worth of imitation as he can. What no he'd not trying to infect Lita with his nerdiness what are you talking about.]

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"Lok'tar! Pew pew!!"

[Unfortunately for Rob, what he's doing is really, intensely bothering Ibuki for more reasons than Rob could possibly imagine]

LITA-CHAN, PECK-

[She cuts herself short, though.. the calming effects of the Bastion's aura stopping her from actually telling her Pokémon to attack Rob. And why had she been about to do that, anyway? As much as she found herself immensely disliking Rob now, the fact that she had been about to actually outright have Lita-chan attack him made her sick to her stomach. That was really unlike her...]

[... wasn't it?]

[Lita-chan looks at Ibuki, wondering... peck? What? He hadn't been trained to attack anything, fortunately, and he really was too young to be engaging in fights...]

... Lita-chan, come on, come on to mama, okay?

[The bird Pokémon complies, flapping away from Rob to go over to Ibuki. Why was mama upset, the bird didn't understand. He gently lands on Ibuki's shoulder, nuzzling her with his beak]

Rob. [No -chan] Stay away from me and Lita-chan.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Rob grins at Lita and opens his mouth to say something more when Ibuki calls out. His head whips around to face her, shock and surprise evident on his face. He may pretend that he never heard of Pokémon before coming here, but he knows exactly what Ibuki just tried to do, and that knowledge slams through his mind like a wreaking ball. He may consider Ibuki relentlessly obnoxious, but this was absolutely not something he'd ever expected from her.

Some part of his mind dimly recognizes the lack of -chan, but that small victory is buried under the confusion of what just happened and why.]

Sure.

[The response is pretty much automatic, since most of his brain is trying to go back and analyze the events of this encounter to figure out what led to this.]

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[Ibuki is hard to make angry, really, much less hold a grudge. But all of these interactions with Rob lately just hit something deep inside of her, and something was crazily itching in the back of her mind now to boot...]

[Something that, quite frankly, scared her. She didn't know why, but there was the vague sense that... maybe it was something she doesn't want to let out...]

[If she could just get away from Rob, maybe the feeling would go away]

[... so, she'd spin on her heel and walk away to do just that. The Chatot was saying a few random words at her, wondering what was wrong... but Lita-chan would just have to wait until she was starting to feel herself again.]