#Espeon doesn't really want to participate

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The E-V gang decided to make GINGERBREAD VEES!!!

Some tried their best, and some didn't even try.

Happy holidays...

i guess.

[starchanged]

@fightingstargirl gave a Palentines gift: She knows they don't enjoy the holiday much, but it doesn't stop her from visiting them. Holding up a bunch of matching Eevelution keychains, she gave Penny the Eevee one. She had the Espeon one and held it up to show them. "I got the team a matching set."

Penny had many excuses for why they didn't like Valentines or Palentines or any other name the holiday was given. It was just a consumerist holiday that exploited people's love for each other, couples' were more annoying then ever on that day, you shouldn't use one special day a year to show people you care about them, they had one reason after another after another. But none of them were the real reason the holiday left a bad taste in their mouth. None of them came close to the truth.

The truth was the holiday was a reminder of previous 'friends'. If they could be called that. Friends who called themselves such but didn't really act as such. Friends who on this day always had gifts for one another, loving kind words to tell each other, who were excited to see the others. But when it came to Penny it was like they didn't exist. 'Sorry, we forgot.', 'We didn't think you'd want to participate.', 'Maybe next year, kay?', 'If you let us look at your homework we'll share.' It was the same year after year until finally a day for love was tainted with resentment.

They didn't expect anything on this holiday now. They kind of wanted the day to go by like it was any other day actually. Though they knew it wouldn't not with all the decorations around town and everyone celebrated. It was impossible for the day to be a 'normal' day. But maybe if they kept locked in their dorm all day they could ignore it or seethe it all away.

The only thing that pulls them out of bed and away from the Veevee pile that's formed around them is a knock at their door. They approached the door calling out to know who was there. Only opening it upon hearing Eri's voice call back. "Oh hey, Eri. I was just ummm..."

Before they can make an excuse for their abscence on the day Eri gives them something. A small key chain with an Eevee charm dangling off it. They look bewildered by the gift looking from their hand to the matching Espeon key chain in Eri's hand. When Eri explains how she got the rest of the team a matching set Penny feels tears well up in their eyes. They remember always watching from the outside as their former 'friends' got one another matching gifts. Reminders that they were all friends and that Penny wasn't.

Penny wasn't one for hugging either. Eri knew this too. Yet Penny can't help themselves as they reach forward wrapping their arms around Eri in a tight hug. Both to say thank you as well as to hide their wet eyes and reddening cheeks. "Thanks Eri. Happy Valentines. I... I know it's sappy to say. But you guys... You guys really are my greatest treasure."

[mishiami]

OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. first of all. soukoku being ghost type trainers is such a cool thought, second, the pumpkaboo and phantump headcanons upset me so much (/lh) i never see people actually take advantage of the TRAGEDY of ghost type pokemon

GETTING INTO THE DEPTHS OF THIS THOUGH

the phantump being chuuya's clone is SOOOOOOOO FOUL THAT'S SO PERFECT it's like he literally can't abandon it because not only was that a child but it was HIM. and he thinks it's the REAL ONE that's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRAGIC MY GOD

i love dazai seeming to attract all these pokemon that could so easily kill him but also pokemon that act so much like him, like mimikyu being his partner in the ADA?? i love that so much, i also love mimikyu with all my heart so that just generally makes me happy

i like to imagine in pokemon au's, people's pokemon having an affinity for their trainers/trainers' friends/trainers' friends pokemon ykwim, the idea of soukoku's pokemon just happening to have bonds with each other is a really cute image (something to combat the angst a bit lol) but also, it gives rise to the possibility of the pokemon missing each other when dazai defects ..

for his years underground dazai has to deal with his chandelure not only haunting his every movement and reminding him of the guilt he carries over oda's death but sometimes it'll spin or call for something or move around like it used to when it would play with oda's pokemon or with chuuya's phantump or even zoroark. a pokemon that is an omen of death and (in dazai's eyes) participated in causing oda's death but still, at the core of it all, is capable of attachment and misses the friends it used to have, even though they can't go back to them anymore (parallels or sumn yk)

there's also something to be said about mimikyu and dazai both being incredibly lonely and wanting long-lasting attachments that won't leave them and atsushi's pokemon happening to get along, something to be said about the hope it could bring either of them that maybe it's a sign they won't be so alone in the future

froslass is quite honestly such a perfect pokemon for kyouka i see what you mean there, i especially think with how her relationship is with kouyou that kouyou would've used her bond with froslass to dehumanise kyouka and "prove" to her that she is only capable of cruelty and will bring death and horrors to those around her, and i think kouyou would've so used froslass' whole existence against kyouka when she saw her attachment to atsushi, since froslass likes to target young men before freezing them to death or, in some cases, cursing them, saying that kyouka is bound to do the same to atsushi if she doesn't "return home to the port mafia"

in another contrast, i think it could also be a point of healing for atsushi and kyouka, both having ice type pokemon (chien-pao and froslass) who are inherently quite violent or were formed due to hatred but using their pokemon, their team and their abilities for good, not evil. froslass and chien-pao eventually warming up to each other (ha) until sometimes the pokemon will just nap together sometimes when tired, always nearby like they're protecting each other, proving to their trainers that healing is not impossible

(also, real quick, ranpo being a psychic-type trainer is super cool and i like that a lot)

i think poe, maybe, potentially, could have his pokemon partner be an umbreon. one, because the concept of him and ranpo both having eeveelutions is something kinda cute to me, and two, because i think it could be fitting giving all his time spent as a hermit

i imagine him having obtained an eevee sometime in his youth and probably planning on evolving it into an espeon, but the competition he lost against ranpo turned his whole life around and he got a bit... distracted, so he couldn't quite focus on that goal. of all his pokemon (whoever they may be), his eevee happened to be the quietest and the most thoughtful; the easiest to be around without being overwhelming, which i think would calm him in moments of distress. he built up a bond with the eevee, and i picture him in his seclusion being kind of averse to bright lights because... idk, just look at him, and i think for the aesthetic he would so keep the curtains open at night for the ambiance and the atmosphere, and eventually one night that moonlight exposure prompted his eevee to evolve into an umbreon, and he was enthralled. i also think, aesthetically, the yellow glow that umbreon has matches the look of poe's ability

i think a lot of poe's pokemon would be dark types, and there's also something to be said there about how all of his pokemon, by default, would be super effective against a majority of ranpo's, something he... probably would've planned, i imagine. (i also think it could be funny, poe seeing ranpo's snorlax and thinking it's an easy fight, but normal types are only good against fighting types, which he has none of, so he's kind of going against a tank, which he did not account for). even better if poe also has a ghost type or too, which normal types are resistant against, if you feel me

i do think a lot of other combo's and dynamics could be so cute in this au but idk how much more you want angst over fluff so i'll hold off on that for now PF YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS ARE SO COOL THO

has anyone pondered a bsd/pokemon crossover before? i wanna hear about what pokemon people think the ada would have or something. particularly dazai. i started wondering just for fun but now i'm actually stumped