#HERO OF RANSEI 🌸 main.

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@allthingsglittergold // starter call

Hiroko had her share of meetings with foreign champions and dignitaries abroad. Rarely, though, did any of them express meaningful interest in Ransei. Even rarer was that interest enough to bring them to her.

Equal parts encouraging and nerve-wracking. The more people who came to truly understand Ransei's way of life, the better their prospects. But if the visit went poorly...

Well, she didn't want to think about that.

"Champion Gold, it's wonderful to see again. I'm glad to see that you arrived safely. How was your trip?"

Hiroko had ventured out to Fontaine's port to meet their guest upon his arrival. Travel between the kingdoms without any direction was a recipe for disaster, and Motochika... well, she wasn't going to leave him with Fontaine's warlord for especially long. He tended to be... a lot.

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Not very well, apparently. "Any idea how it got broken? That should give you a better idea of how it stop it from happening again."

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"You may want to reinforce those. Speaking from experience."

"It's the Saffron Dojo! It's ALREADY reinforced!"​

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"I do not want to discuss the ghosts."

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    To be honest, the concept of pokéballs as a whole doesn’t exactly sit right with her. 

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"There are definitely ghosts around the castle, but they've never really bothered me or really even done anything besides... just sort of meander around, really. Maybe it's because I have a normal-type affinity? I wonder if Katsu has ever been bothered by them....."

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"Officer Kotone. A pleasure to make your acquaintance."

A polite smile masks the disdain she feels at the thought of allowing Interpol to interfere in Ransei. Their reputation out in the world was far from shining. But even beyond that, to have an utterly foreign power knocking on their door? Looking to exercise their own laws and powers within their borders? Good faith was the last thing Hiroko anticipated.

"Before we get down to business, please, have a seat. Can I offer you any tea? Something to eat? You must have had a long journey here."

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"Thank you for playing host to me. I know foreign powers coming in can be stressful, so I really appreciate being able to visit Ransei."

It took years before they could get an agent into the region. The regional embargo had only lifted some years prior and ever since the announcement Interpol had tirelessly worked to have an agent visit on behalf of the organization in order to coordinate with Ransei's leaders.

Who knew who might try to seek refuge in this land now that borders were open? Kotone was here to stamp out that possibility.

"My name is Kotone. I'll be your liaison officer from Interpol from now on!"

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Boops her eevee. Boops her eevee. Boops her eevee. Boops her—

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"Oh, sparring? May I join in?"

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⏳

For every “⏳” I receive, my muse will openly talk about a bit of their backstory.

"The strongest memory I have of my father is from the winter after Aurora was beseiged."

"It was a hard season. Most of our crop that year was ruined. We had to ration what little we had so our people wouldn't starve. Even my father and I went to bed hungry some nights.

"I couldn't sleep that night, so he sat up with me. Sang an old lullaby that I hadn't heard since I was a baby. It was after he thought I'd fallen asleep...

"He told me how sorry he was that I was born in Ransei. That even he, as a Warlord, couldn't give me a life free from the suffering of our homeland. He said that if he could, he would have raised me in Kanto, or Sinnoh, somewhere off in the mainland where I would never have to know the hardships of war. He said he knew I would grow into a great leader... someone who would find ways to make our kingdom even greater. But that in a more fair world, I would have had a choice in the matter.

"I think about that night often. I don't think it's ever really left me. I wasn't even his child by blood, but all the same... I hope he can see the Ransei I've created in his absence. I hope it can stay peaceful. I hope the work I'm doing will be enough. I hope he's proud of the child he raised."

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"It's politics. Their opinions do matter." If only it were as simple as that! If she could brush every ill word about Ransei off with a simple 'their opinion doesn't matter.'

"It matters when they're deciding whether or not to trade with us. It matters when doctors decide whether or not they want to stick their necks out to help us improve our medical care. I'm constantly fighting against the idea that we're some—some uncivilized, barbaric backwater of a country! Or the other side of the coin, some mythic promised land where nothing can possibly be wrong!

"I want my people to have good lives, and we can't do that all on our own. Not as easily. Not when the rest of the world is already so far ahead of us. It matters what they think."

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"Hiroko, I think you need to stop worrying so much about what other regions will think of you. Their opinions don't matter. You're doing great."

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Sips tea. Yeah, no, she's not participating in this one. The mainlanders don't need to know.

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"Should we put up more scarecrows?"

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"I know it's the easiest solution, but I really wish that people back home would stop calling me up every time they need to chase off a scyther eating their crops or such. It's really quite tedious at this point."

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"Yeah, more or less." Okay, well, it was more complicated than that. There was some demigod-appointing involved at some point in the process, but the rampage quelling and curse lifting did probably have to occur first. "Here's the real kicker: they all are something that 'dick bag' owned. They possess some ancient treasures that this king used to own. So basically, any logical way to start—already tried it."

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“You would think so, wouldn’t you?” She sighs. “No, not really. I mean, sort of, vaguely, but only one of them is actually one person. The rest are just sort of… a whole bunch of spirits, all bundled together. The only real connective thread between them is that they were all royally screwed over by the same guy, more or less.”

A thought crossed his mind to make a joke about Oda, but the freezing over in his skull at the thought soft reset anything smart he was going to say. 

“So are you looking to find them and quell some centuries long rage and finally put them to rest type deal? My first thought is to wave something around of whatever dick bag screwed them all over as bait, but that sounds like a dumb way to die, and you’re a little young for that.”

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@exnusquam

Arceus. Not her Arceus, but one belonging to another time, another place, another reality. Even without a link between them, Hiroko can practically sense the anguish. Perhaps that was thanks to her own Arceus' power? Nevertheless—she couldn't help the sense of obligation deep within her soul to reach out to this one.

"Honored creator," she bows. "Whatever it is you have suffered, I do not know—but I am deeply sorry for what you have lost."

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"Oh, but I won't give weapons to children, of course."

"Not without giving them proper training."