#If everyone but her is aware at that point of the fact that Cyrano has been in love with her all their lives

[longagoitwastuesday]

Goodness, they made Christian's ghost come mourn Cyrano when he died, rest his hand on Cyrano's shoulder and regard him with a sad fondness!!! And yes, it felt as if he came to mourn him, but also as if he had come to claim half his death! As if he had been indeed half alive, not entirely dead, as Roxane points out, until that very moment! One being dying twice, mourned twice!

[kourabiedes]

Carmine and Kieran Roleswap AU: Indigo Disk Edition

A while back I posted this thing, here's the rest of it! Long AU under the cut, there be turtles afoot. No pictures this time, sorry folks!

Right, so, the Indigo Disk.  Carmine is still the one who promotes you to Cyrano as an ideal exchange student, because she wants you to show yourself and be crushed.  She's changed dramatically in appearance, and the aggressive part of her personality is fully on display.  Kieran has been the one running around with Briar in various regions.  Carmine has taken over the Blueberry League and is running it with an iron fist.  She's also tweaked her team to be thoroughly savage.  Maybe Sinistcha in this universe has a third evolution, or her ace is a different Pokemon entirely.  Point is, she has basically laid a trap for you.  It's not a very good trap, since her whole goal is just to smack you down with witnesses, but it's a trap nonetheless.

So you go to Blueberry Academy, get initiated, then Kieran calls and is excited you're here!  But he's also worried about his little sister because she's acting fuckin weird and he hopes you can help... again, Kieran is kinda oblivious to emotional cues and probably doesn't entirely realize Carmine would happily disembowel you right now.  Drayton shows himself and invites you to the League Club Room.  The scheming bastard is hoping to use your presence to overthrow Carmine as Champion, as in canon.  He invites you to the cafeteria to meet with the rest of the E4 and Herself, to discuss you formally joining the BBL*.   Carmine doesn't notice you at first, since she's busy eyeballing Drayton hatefully, but the minute she's aware of your presence she laser locks on you.  She knows why you're here.  She doesn't even really register the E4 debating whether you should be allowed to join, until Drayton asks for her opinion.  She eyeballs him  --  she knows he's scheming, but he's also played exactly the card she wanted to come up.  Of course she wants you to join.  What could be better, in fact?  She can pull strings and let you start at the level that lets you challenge the 4.  The unusual nature of the situation will draw gossip.  The rest of the BBL* will be fascinated.  There will be eyes everywhere.

And when you make it to the top, she'll be waiting, ready to cut you down in front of the entire student body.

So you're in.

It's only when he walks in on half the E4 and his sister inducting you into the BBL* that Kieran realizes how bad the situation actually is.  He tries to reason with Carmine, only to be dismissed coldly.

For a while, everything proceeds exactly as she wants it to.  She knew you could defeat the E4.  She knew you would make it to her.  She knew you would be across the field from her, and she's worked so hard to be ready for you.

Then, you fight her down to the wire.  She pulls out all the stops.  You're down to one Pokemon apiece and she has her ace out and Terastallized and she knows she has you.

Your final Pokemon... is Ogerpon.  The monster.  The martyr.  In either case, a symbol of Kitakami, of home.

And for a moment, just a crucial, critical moment, Carmine no longer knows why she's doing this.

Ogerpon Terastallizes her mask, swings her cudgel, and Carmine's ace falls, vanishing into its Pokeball in a flash of light.  Ogerpon roars, and Carmine wants to scream, but she can't manage so much as a whimper.

Her trap sprang, and you turned it back to bite her instead.  Now it's her that's on her knees, while the student body turns its back.

Of the people who are still able to react, Drayton moves first, and he does so to get a little of his own back at her.  He leans down and taunts her, and now, she does scream.  You and Kieran both want to help her, but now everyone with a Problem with this event is gathering to air them and getting in your face.

Then the intercom goes off, and you and half the rest of those present are summoned to a classroom, and Briar's discussing a trip into Area Zero  --  your second at least!  --  and it could not be a worse time.  Carmine agrees immediately when Briar mentions Terapagos, and Kieran agrees when she does because he's not sure what she might do in this state, and you agree because among other things, Geeta is gazing at you from across the room and she knows you went down there once already and her expression says I will come down on you like Hell itself if you don't agree to help with this.  So you go.

Area Zero is as much a Lost World as ever and you descend, down, down, down to the Lab where you fought for your life not so long ago, and then further because of the weird disk Geeta gave you before you left.  You didn't think Area Zero could get weirder, but it does.  There are Pokemon down here doing things you have never seen before, and you can't help but wonder if this weird Terastal energy is messing you up too.  Meanwhile Carmine's got a strange closed expression you don't trust, though now she's starting to act a little more like the girl from Kitakami and not the BBL* Champion in this unfamiliar place.  Kieran is watching her, but he's as off balance as you are down here.  Briar is absolutely no help.

Then you're in the deepest spot, and there's a crystal that could be Terapagos, and Carmine comes to life.  Surely, if she has a legendary Pokemon of her own, she can finally take you down.  Briar eggs her on and Kieran tries to dissuade her.

They wake up the turtle.

The turtle takes a look around and its gaze locks on to you.

In canon, Kieran has the Ogerpon experience foremost in his mind when Terapagos almost chooses you.  Carmine doesn't have that, but she's no less quick to throw her Master Ball and capture it.  Letting it reach you would be another win for you, and she cannot have that, not now, not after all this!  The Master Ball does its job, and she picks it up with an expression torn between exultation and terror.

Briar then does exactly the wrong thing in a situation that was already bad and pushes her to use the damn turtle so she can study it.  She locks eyes with you.

But Terapagos, like many legendary Pokemon, has a mind of his own, and he clearly doesn't care for being woken up and stuffed into a ball.  He fights for her, but his power is minimal, and Ogerpon beats him easily.  Then Briar suggests Terastallizing, and Carmine floods the little fella with energy, and suddenly a young god is awake... and angry.

At that moment, everyone present learns what happens when someone tries to capture a legendary Pokemon who feels nothing for them.  The Master Ball shatters, and Terapagos strikes out at Carmine.  She recoils in terror and it could have ended there for her, except that you're there, and your partner 'raidon is faster than any crystal turtle.  She looks at you as if she's seeing you for the first time, and maybe, in a way, she kind of is.

If you had a nickel for every time a berserk legendary Pokemon had tried to kill you in Area Zero, you'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.  Now you have to fight the tiny, overwhelmed turtle, and Kieran's down to his Hydrapple, and Carmine has locked up in horror because now she realizes how much of this was her fault and also completely unnecessary.  But she finally snaps out of it and comes to your aid, and hot damn if you both don't kick the ass of a legendary turtle.

Then, on the way home, it takes Carmine the entire trip to work up the courage to ask you to start over again.  Maybe you could be friends this time, for real.

You tell her "fuck no" and skip off into the sunset holding hands with Kieran and Ogerpon.

Okay no please don't do that.  Maybe the thought crosses your mind though, because man she has put you through the wringer...

Oh yeah and like a month later Kieran does the mochi dance

*brazilian butt league