#but… i forgot to give him his bame

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Challenger’s Puzzle

Prompt: Puzzle

Au: Pokemon Au

Characters: Hatake Kakashi & Sai (yes i know i forgot to give him his name but it’s sai i promise)

Words: 1,495

@kakashiweek

3 minutes and 22 seconds. A new record.

Kakashi had never seen anyone weave their way through his gym maze and locate Chimecho in her chosen hiding spot in such a quick amount of time.

There was just one problem with it.

“Do it again,” he spoke firmly, barley looking up from his book as Jolteon lay across his legs happily napping.

“I’m sorry?”

“Do it again,” he repeated as he flipped to the next page. “And this time take out your pokemon.”

“Take out my pokemon?” Kakashi expects anger. Every trainer to date who had to be given those same instructions always yelled at him for suddenly adding a new requirement, even though there was a warning at the front of the gym stating that the challenge had to be completed with their aid of one of their pokemon. What he gets instead is Confusion.

Complete, genuine confusion.

Lowering his book he examined the kid standing in front of him. Tall, dark haired and so pale that Kakashi could swear he could disappear into snow without issue.

Not the usual hot headed trainer he found at his gym doors.

“There’s a sign at the front door,” waving his hand to the side, he watched as the kid narrowed his eyes. “Says the gym challenge is to be taken with one of your pokemon. It can be your first pokemon, or a pokemon you’ve bonded with more than any other. I don’t really care which Pokemon you choose but you need to choose one of them.”

“Why?”

Kakashi stared at the kid, weighing his next response in his kind. He could go the usual cold, aloof route but this didn’t seem like a question that was being asked out of malice or anger.

It was genuine. His challenge had somehow confused the kid and a proper explanation was required so that is what Kakashi would give him.

Snapping his book shut he set it off to the side and gave his full attention to the challenge for the first time since he’d walked through the gym doors.

“The challenge is to work with your Pokemon to find Chimecho,” hearing her name, Chimecho floated toward Kakashi and settled around his shoulders, he ribbon curling loosely around his neck. “You’re meant to let your Pokemon lead the way. To shoe you where to go and listen to anything they may try to tell you with movement or noise.”

not everyone was able to understand the assignment, but Kakashi didn’t need his challengers to get it perfect. An honest effort at teamwork was all he really wanted to see. As long as that effort was there the actual teamwork could be improved upon.

“But i-“

Kakashi held up a hand to silence the kid. “You found Chimecho,” he confirmed, a smile tugging at the edge of his lips when Chimecho rubbed herself against his cheek. “Without the aid of a Pokemon. You would have been told at the entrance that you needed to do the challenge with the aid of one of your pokemon, correct?”

“Yes.” The challenger answered without hesitation.

“Yet you chose to keep your Pokemon inside of its ball and do the challenge without it?”

“I didn’t need it help with the challenge.” there’s a confidence in his words that sets Kakashi on edge. A confidence that he has heard before, long ago when he was still a brand new trainer himself working on his gym challenge. Squinting, he could almost see Yamato standing in the kids place with wide bright eyes and a head full of terrible beliefs from his so called ‘guardian’.

Closing his book he used it to gently bonk Jolteon on the head and smiled when she glared up at him. “Sorry, I need to get up,” with a huff and a slight roll of her body, Jolteon plopped down onto the floor in front of Kakashi and splayed herself up with her belly exposed. “Ah, yes. Of course.”

Rather than getting to his feet as he had originally planned, Kakashi shoved himself up just enough so that he was sitting on the tips of his feet and placed a hand on Jolteon’s belly. “You may not have needed help,” he spoke, his eyes focusing on the challenger while he gave Jolteon her much desired belly rubs. “But the point of the challenge is to complete it with your Pokemon.”

His words were met with a blank stare. There was no argument, no anger, and not even a hint of annoyance. Just an expressionless face that stared at him as if waiting for further explanation.

“Let me guess,” he gave Jolteon one final pat on the stomach before finally standing to face his challenge. “Pokemon are a tool, not a friend?” hearing those words from someone else’s mouth was bad enough, but saying them himself made Kakashi want to wrech. They were vile, cruel words that he always hoped he’d never have to hear again but always found himself listening to at least once a year when the newest batch of Pokemon trainers found their way to his gym.

He wasn’t sure why, but his gym seemed to attract some of the worst trainers. They weren’t bad because they were weak, since it would be impossible for them to even challenge his gym is they were incapable of beating the seven other gyms ahead of him.

No, they were the worst because of their beliefs.

Pokemon were meant to be their friends. Their companions in their journey, helping them achieve their goals. Anyone who considered such lovely creatures as a ‘tool’ was scum in Kakashi’s mind.

“Fine,” he glanced down at Jolteon. “You can have a battle.”

Surprise crossed over the trainers face for a second before settling back into that same blank expression he’d worn since he first entered the battle area. “So, I don’t have to go back?”

Waving away the question, Kakashi turned his back to the kid and began making his way towards his side of the battle field. Every step he took Chimecho rang her bell, cheering him on in her own special way. “Someone like you isn’t going to learn anything if I just send you back out there and force you to take out a pokemon,” that was a lesson he’d learned the hard way. “You get three Pokemon.”

“So a Three Vs Three battle?” Kakashi couldn’t help but laugh at the question. “Is something funny.”

Stopping, he pointed down at Jolteon. “I’ll have one,” he clarified. “You will have three.”

“That… doesn’t seem like much of a challenge.”

Taking the final few steps toward his spot, Kakashi turned back towards the kid and smiled. A small, warm smile that he remembered offering to Yamato the first time they properly faced each other in battle. There had been a lot more on the line in the battle, as Yamato had decided to use the venasaur Kakashi gifted him to ‘prove’ that Pokemon were tools to be used, but it wasn’t any more important than this one.

“Every Pokemon is precious,” he explained as Jolteon took her place on the field. “A trainer who views their Pokemon as a tool can have the best strategies available to them, and they’ll still lose to a trainer who treats their Pokemon with the respect that they deserve.”

“Yet, here I stand,” the challenge argued even as he took his place and selected one of the Pokeballs noff of his belt. “I have all seven previous gym badges to prove that I have beaten every gym leader before you.” Kakashi laughed again, this time a bit brighter. It was a funny thought to him, a kid thinking that he had beaton Yamato and Gai when they were going all on a match. “What’s so funny?”

“You,” he answered, his smile only growing when the kid narrowed his eyes. “They were going easy on you.”

It was their job, after all. As Gym leaders they were meant to test new trainers, not beat them so badly that they never wanted to battle again. It was the one thing that everyone could agree made Kakashi a bad gym leader.

He had the skills of a gym leader and the patience required to teach new trainers who wanted to learn from him, but unlike the others Kakahsi didn’t hold back. He didn’t go all out, but he often didn’t need to. A new trainer with less than five years of experience was unlikely to present him with any real difficulties in battle.

Thankfully there were actually more than Eight gyms in the region, because otherwise the yearly league would be rather boring because of Kakashi’s refusal to go easy on new trainers.

“One vs three,” he repeated, holding up each of his hands with the respective number of fingers extended for emphasis. “You think you can handle that?”

“Easily,” his challenger confirmed before throwing his Pokeball out. “Smeargle, I choose you!”

[sapphosdickandballs]

BESTIE I'M SO SORRY I HAD YOUR ASKS QUEUED TO MIDNIGHT BUT I FORGOT THAT TUMBLR IS IN A DIFF TIME ZONE AND LOST THEM 😭😭😭

To try to reply to them:

Your theories are really interesting! I'm not going to spoil too much, but 1, 2 and 4 (Rowan gets nicer, Spark goes into a downwards spiral and there being a lot of flashbacks/flashforwards) are all, to some extent, right

3 is wrong, Dew won't get with either Mist or Rowan, as he is heteroromantic and demisexual (<-this should probably be enough for you to guess who he gets with lol)

As to the story questions:

As a reminder the questions were:

1 and 2. What does Foggy Glasses and Corroded Copper mean and represent?

3. How do you come up with names?

4. What's your favorite OC name?

1 and 2. Foggy Glasses and Corroded Copper comes from Mist and Spark! Mist's glasses tend to fog up a lot, both from him being nervous and from his magic creating fog near him - Spark on the other hand uses both electricity and metal, so copper was a natural fit lol; there's also some symbolic reasoning - Mist represses his emotions (makes a layer of fog between him and who he pretends to be) while Spark is rapidly deteriorating emotionally as the story progresses

3. It's actually standard Odukora Baming Convention lol (as dictated by my bestie Mykz), names are usually derived from natural phenomena, sounds, stars, stuff like that; I usually also try to give them some relation to the character's power or appearance, but that's just me lol (I also also have a knack for gemstone names but most of the gemstone chars haven't appeared at all)

4. From FGCC my favorite is either Rowan, Agate or Hue (<-this last mf has not appeared yet he should appear mote lmao), but from all my ocs it's def Natsuko (fun fact his name comes from a genderbent Doki Doki Literature Club mod and it's genuinely amazing go give it a look)

lmao it’s okay that’s pretty funny

I’m actually pretty proud of myself for getting the three other ones right, the dew one was a long shot anyway.

The name meaning is actually sickkkk that’s really cool

Oh gemstone names like agate right that’s a gemstone? I’m too lazy to google so that’s just a guess

Thank you 4 answering my asks lmao I figured you were just busy or sm. Tumblr can be a jackass honestly

Hoepfully it’s alright I post this if not tho jsust lemme know an I’ll take it down :3

[appxssionato]

💡🔪 (DIE REN)

SINDAY TOUCHES - NSFW EDITION

💡 – SLAP/PUNCH🔪 – STAB

              things weren’t going GREAT in S.A.S. whoever knew this PARTICULAR team, understood that TEAMWORK wasn’t exactly a word in their vocabulary. the four of the were pretty different, they barely got along. in fact, they were always arguing and being competitive between them. 

               things were starting to get DIFFICULT between tricky heart and spiky club, but nobody could bame the annoyance coming from the silver-haired as tricky heart was TRULY insufferable at times. not to mention that he mostly did it on PURPOSE, knowing that it would only make him mad. however, what it seemed to be an innocent competition, turned into something even worse. both of the DESPISING each other. ran had reasons, but ren? he was simply JEALOUS that spiky club was starting to get MORE attention than him. what if ran stole his position? what if he became the boss favorite? even camus and toki seemed DIFFERENT. or maybe it was simply his imagination, being PARANOID about the simple thought of being REPLACED.

              it wasn’t fair that SUDDENLY he started HATING someone. but he couldn’t say it was friendly competition anymore. he wanted to DESTROY him, to get rid of every single TRACE of his existing, so he could get all the POWER he wanted. interesting how the ginger only wanted ATTENTION. but could he help it? he lived for that, wasn’t he the one in charge of social situations? he was used to be the CENTER of attention, he was considered a PRODIGY. someone so intelligent that got praised by the boss, knowing everyone respected him. and now, this guy simple appeared and seemed to start STEALING everything he got. he couldn’t allow that. his SELFISH self would never let him to do so.

               and it was when everything started. persecutions, constant fights, sarcasm coing from the ginger’s mouth just to end up arguing with the other spy. in a matter of seconds, it became a THREAT. perhaps he was exaggerating, but everything started already. they were so much under each other skin, that the simple movement ran got, ren had to complain. and the arguing became physical as the time passed. nobody cared, of course. toki and camus were allways focused on their own things. they were competitive as well, and who knows if they thought the same as them. but for these two, they were never going to REST until one of them finally disappeared. it became a SILENT promise that they never told, but knew deep inside that it existed.

              however, both of them decided to go with it until the day finally came. what the ginger proclaimed as the FINAL battle, where one of the was going to vanish. “don’t take it personal, i just hate your entire existence.” he was able to say with such a playful expression, smirk as an ornament on his lips and a wink to give it that special touch that only TRICKY HEART could give. it almost felt like a JOKE, but was the PUNCH right to his face he one that reminded him thaat this was a SERIOUS situation. “did it have to be my face?” he sounded ANNOYED, and didn’t hesitate in giving the punch back. 

             fists and kicks were all over. they were testing who was going to FALL first. both of them were strong, though, so it was going to be hard weren’t they trained after all? but it didn’t stop ren to tremble on his knees as he felt the tiredness all over his body. not to mention he was feeling WEAK, his energy waas being wasted and who knows how many time has passed. but he had just ONE thing in mind, and was to defeat him, to destroy him, to----

               too many things inside his head. memories that he wondered when he FORGOT them. something that suddenly stopped him, when he thought he had the final punch. but it was all in his imagination as for a moment he felt again like a child. he didn’t know what was happening, but his eyes opened WIDE in awe, and his body felt strangely warm. ah. he wondered what just happened, or mostly HOW it happened. his back was now against the concrete and a KNIFE was deep inside his flesh. how and why. wasn’t that cheating? right, they didn’t set rules. but there was no time to think or regret it as he noticed the THICK red liquid running down his body. “i...” voice barely coming, being interfered by coughing combined with blood. raspy voice coming from his throat, raising his hand as if he was trying to ask for help. but it was too late.

                the dizziness was starting to get to him, and he realized... they were a TEAM for a reason. he should have known it, he should have understand it. he was WEAK. he was extremely weak that if he worked alone this could have happened with someone else. this wasn’t fair, he didn’t want to know this. he was internally screaming as he was unable to move or talk. it was too much to handle, and not only because he was at the verge of DEATH, but also because he found out that MAYBE he didn’t appreciated what he had. he was a BRAT, a spoiled kid that only wanted power and attention. and now, he LOST everything. how ironic, to die by the hands of a teammate.

                “well... played.” // @rockersoul​

[gokul2181]

Former England goalkeeper David James eyes coaching role in England | Football News

New Post has been published on https://jordarnews.in/former-england-goalkeeper-david-james-eyes-coaching-role-in-england-football-news/

Former England goalkeeper David James eyes coaching role in England | Football News

David James. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)

LONDON: Former Liverpool and England goalkeeper David James says lockdown has given him plenty of time to indulge in his passion for art and also plot a move into management. The 49-year-old, capped 53 times, cut his managerial teeth with Kerala Blasters in south India, but now believes it is time to look closer to home. James, whose father is Jamaican, is impressed by the Premier League‘s support of the Black Lives Matter movement and England forward Raheem Sterling‘s comments about under-representation in coaching roles amongst the BAME community, although as a lover of statistics, he admits the situation is complicated. “Solely looking at Raheem’s comments, I think someone has to be looking into opportunities that are available,” James told Reuters. “It’s not just saying there are 92 clubs and 92 jobs available, so there should be X amount of positions available for Black or Asian coaches. The question is how many qualified coaches from that community are there? “The British population, it’s something like 15 or 20 percent non-white. So, like for like in football, would you expect around 15 or 20 in coaching positions in football? “I’m not sure the data exists but how many qualified coaches are there to fill those roles? Out of those how many actually go for those positions? “I’m a Pro Licence holder and I’m now considering looking for jobs with regards to management in English football, whereas I haven’t in the past. I might be one of those statistics that hadn’t applied for something.” RIGHT PLAN James was a player/coach at Icelandic club IBV Vestmannaeyjar under former Portsmouth team mate Hermann Hreidarsson and obtained his UEFA A Licence during a spell on the coaching staff at Luton Town. He then managed Kerala Blasters in 2018. “I’ve been offered jobs in Asia but now I fancy putting myself forward for a job in England because my world has changed. COVID has given me time to think about things. “We need to formulate what the right plan is going forward. But in any industry you want the best people in the job, irrespective of background.” James, who made 572 Premier League appearances in spells with Liverpool, Aston Villa, West Ham United, Manchester City, and Portsmouth, says he is happy the momentum behind Black Lives Matter has continued in England. “The difficulty with the BLM issue is that there are a lot of voices, lots of people have different values as to what it means,” James said. “Changing is a process, it doesn’t get done in five minutes. What I like about the Premier League is they didn’t just stop after two weeks.” James is full of praise for Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp who has just delivered their first league title for 30 years. “He’s transformed the way the club is run. When I’ve been to Melwood (training ground) since he’s been there, everyone from the kitchen staff to the coaches and players… (are) on the same page. There’s a sense of equality I didn’t experience when I was there.” When not planning his return into football, James has used his artistic talents to create a pin design for #PinYourThanks an initiative allowing people across the UK to give thanks for the work of NHS and frontline staff during the pandemic. James’ pin design features an eyeball with the rainbow colours that have become synonymous with the times. “I’ve a couple of sisters working in the NHS, my mum was a nurse, my dad worked for the ambulance brigade so it’s really close to me. It’s a privilege to be asked to design something,” James said. “I have put a forgot-me-not in the middle of the pupil. Because it’s not just about COVID, it’s forever.”

Source link