#i hope the outfits are just as good as the ones in PLA haha

[mawguai]

It's been 3,000 years...

[leggerefiore]

Thought you might want to know this: Lucy is getting a grid on Pokemon Masters Day next month! TBH because she was your icon for the longest time I kinda visualize her when I need to put a face to your words. Hope that's not weird 😅

Also, it looks like we're getting the Unova Villain Arc in November! Colress will be appearing in Paulo's Interlude and if the trends follow there's a good chance that Hilbert at least will be getting a Sygna Suit. Hilda and N got alts very recently, so I doubt Dena is willing to double dip so soon...but do you think there's a chance that the twins might get alts? I know that they already have their costume versions this year, BUT they're also probably more popular than they've ever been right now. At the very least I expect one of them to head to the Trainer Lodge. Maybe both!

I really need to play masters again. I took a break because I just wasn't having fun lol. Bit sad I missed Deoxys with Steven.

Boosting Lucy just gives me extra ability to spam wrap + poisoned combo for maximum annoyance, so I'm looking forward to that.

I think... Honestly, if Hilbert gets a Sygna and its about Unova, it'll probably be Rosa or Nate, maybe even like Iris or Alder, getting alts first.

I do ponder if they do an alt for twins if it'll just be Ingo from PLA. Probably not, haha. I don't think they'll do them on part that they have to basically do them together, but they might have a replay (premium currency) for their butler outfits.

[arrowverse-next-gen]

Halloween (Q)

"I thought Halloween was supposed to be fun." Q flinched as Eliza carefully lined his face with fx paint.

It was like every other face paint that existed, but it was wetter and "easier to blend" She told him. But it was just face paint. He was doing this against his will. He was told to close his eyes and let her put him together. She picked out the clothes he was wearing, which was also something he had to be blind folded for. Luckily, he could still feel things on his skin despite not seeing the items, so he knew it was a long sleeve shirt and pants. That was fine. He was fine with that. He was less fine with being aggressively poked with a sponge every 4 seconds after a brush makes his face wet and cold.

"Oh, my god, are you finished?" He tried to open his eyes to look at Eliza but she patted the sponge around his eyebrows, forcing him to close his eyes again.

"Almost, stop moving." She warned.

He groaned, doing the exact opposite of stop moving. After a few more pats, and a few more layers of paint, some with a smaller brush, Eliza finally closed the paint palette, signaling, at least to Q, that she was finished. Still, he was hesitate to open his eyes so he slowly opened one at a time.

Eliza looked back at him, her head tilted to the side as she examined her work. He was afraid to look, glancing down at his outfit before anything else.

It was a striped shirt. Why was it just a striped shirt? Why was that something that needed to be hidden? He wears stripes all the time anyway. This isn't new.

"Are you ready?" She asked, ready to hold up the small pocket mirror in her hand.

Q shrugged, sitting up straight again. He had to be slouched and bent for 45 minutes so Eliza could have full range of his face. It was terrible....but he'd do it again because she's a second sister to him and he was a sucker.

She held up the mirror, and his face dropped to a disappointed, but not surprised, reaction. He wasn't disappointed as in he was hoping for something else. He was disappointed because he should have guessed it.

"You're a clown." She tried to hide the smile forming on her face, but it was growing too rapidly to stop. "Haha, clown." She said sarcastically before actually laughing.

"What the actual fuck?" Q took the small mirror and moved it around to look at himself. "You do this for a living? I would definitely quit your day job." He joked, giving the mirror back.

"You would have panicked if I put scab blood on you." She told him, closing the mirror and setting it next to all of her other make up tools on the desk in front of them. He nodded. She was right, he would have been a bit disgusted at whatever could have been happening when he was vulnerable and unaware of what scab blood even was.

"So, I'm a clown?" He stood up. "What do I do about that?"

She shrugged, looking up at him. "We're going to Horror Night. I got you shoes to go with your look. Scare Pennywise."

"Shoes?" He raised an eyebrow at her, she laughed again. "You got fucking shoes? You pla--" He looked over to the other side of the room where Ronnie was keeping the dogs distracted. "You let this happen?"

Ronnie shook his head. "No. You try stopping her."

"Fair enough. Where's the shoes?" He looked back at Eliza.

She pointed to the door that lead out of her office. "Living room, in a box by the couch."

He threw his hands up and walked out of the office, making his way to the living room. Might as well have the full look that his cousin had planned for him. If he didn't stop the make up, why stop the shoes? Unless they were uncomfortable. He's never worn clown shoes...they could fit great. Who knows. Clown shoes could be his new style.

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As he walked into the living room, he noticed the front door was open and his sister was in front of it. That was never good.

"Quinn?" He turned himself to start walking towards the door rather than the couch that was behind him now, not missing a single step or pausing.

Quinn turned around to look at him, let out a small laugh, then turned back towards whoever she was talking to.

"Can I at least tell a joke before you laugh at me?" He asked, walking up behind her to see what was going on. He was nosy. It was his job as the older brother.

"No." Quinn moved slightly to the left, making room for Q so he wasn't right on top of her. "You remember Ashton from the coffee shop, right?" She looked up at him.

Q felt himself freeze, but he quickly regained control of his nerves. "Yeah- Coffee run this early?" He looked at Quinn.

She shook her head, walking back into the apartment. "You forgot your jacket." She told him. He couldn't see her face, but he felt like he knew there was a knowing smile growing across it. "Ashton parked out front so she could deliver it to you."

She saw the car.

Q gave Ashton a friendly smile before turning to look at his sister. "You ever mind your business?" He asked, skipping to catch up to her as she was already halfway across the apartment.

"I was minding my business."

"You didn't tell me I had company." He turned back around after saying that, "Do you wanna come in? Dive right into crazy while it's here, right?"

Ashton, raised an eyebrow, unsure if he actually wanted her to walk inside or not. Also curious as to why he looked....like that. But she walked in nonetheless because Q had once again turned to look at his sister.

"You were getting your make up done." Quinn laughed, looking at him again. "You're the one who decided to act like a crazy person when you saw a woman. If it meant nothing and it was just a simple mistake, you wouldn't have gotten so defensive." She sat down on the couch that faces the door, closer to the window.

"Oh, so you're a doctor now?" He crossed his arms.

"Someone's gotta be." She shrugged.

"What's that make you? Pennywise the dancing clown?" Ashton finally spoke up, holding out Q's jacket.

"He's certainly tall enough." Quinn stated.

Q politely took the jacket from Ashton, then tossed it at his sister.

"What the fuck?" She laughed, shielding herself with a pillow.

"Yeah, actually, you like it?" He turned to Ashton. "It's my new career. I'm a clown now."

"Didn't plan on dating a clown."

"No one does, but then they get to know my brother and unfortunately..." Quinn stood back up. "It's too late to back out."

Q looked at her again, unsure if she had actually caught what was said or if she was too focused on being mean.

"Anyway, I'll let you two talk." She gave Q a look, confirming that she did hear what was said, but she's minding her business....for now. She gave them both a wave and then walked down the hall to join Eliza and Ronnie in the office.

"So..." Q started, looking towards the hall to make sure Quinn actually left. "That's my sister."

"I'm sorry-"

"No." He stopped her. "It's fine. She was gonna find out and it's easier this way."

"You didn't want a formal introduction where you can control absolutely everything?" Ashton raised an eyebrow.

He thought about it, then nodded. "Actually, yeah, that was the goal. But, we still have Christmas." He joked...hopefully joked. He wasn't actually laughing. He was afraid of Thanksgiving, let alone Christmas. If they made it that far, there would be no avoiding the vigilante thing.

He realized after brushing off the overthinking of spending holidays with this woman he was now attempting to date, he was trying to see how she felt about going home for the holidays. Sure, it was still early, but she had to be thinking about it. She said they go to Ivytown for the holidays, would they be crossing paths? It's not that far from Star City.

"Wait!" A voice came from down the hall, Eliza opened up the office door and skipped her way to Q and Ashton. She looked at Ashton for a second, caught off guard by the fact that Q was talking to the girl who owns the coffee shop downtown, then handed them a medium sized red ball.

"No-"

"It's your nose-"

"I'm not doing the nose-"

"You have to, it's a part of the costume-"

"I don't want to-"

"You're a clown-"

"I went to med school-"

"And you quit your job and now you're in debt for nothing." She held the ball in front of his face.

He sighed, taking it from her and placing it on his nose to complete the clown assembly.

Ashton held a serious expression for about 15 seconds before laughing.

Eliza looked between the two of them, knowing she should mind her business, but Quinn didn't say anything and now she was curious.

"Was I interrupting something?"

"Ash, this is my cousin Eliza. Eliza, this is Ashton." Q gestured between the two, leaning against the back of the couch a few feet away from them.

"No, 'my friend'?" Eliza looked at Q with a raised brow.

"I'm not his friend." Ashton told her, looking over at Q with a small smile before turning back to Eliza. "We're....figuring it out."

"Are you coming with us to Universal?" Eliza asked, crossing her arms and tilting her head. "Quinn's bringing her boyfriend from back home, I have my boyfriend, Q would love to not be a fifth wheel."

"You're asking my girlfriend out for me?" Q asked, looking at Eliza with a confused expression.

"Shush." She held her hand out in his direction, not turning to look at him. "If you don't have a costume, I have plenty of stuff you can borrow."

Ashton looked at Q, he shrugged. "I'm a clown."

She shook her head, unsure if she was supposed to respond to that or not.

"If you're busy, don't feel forced, he's already depressed about being a clown." Eliza gave Q a wink before skipping back down the hall. "If you need me, I'm back here." She said before disappearing into the office at the end of the hall again.

Q stood back up, taking the red nose off of his face. "Or, we could go see a movie." He suggested.

"Will you..."

"Be dressed as a clown? No, shit comes off as soon as they leave."

Ashton considered the offer, then nodded. "I'd be interested in a movie."

"Great, do you want me to pick you up or-"

"You're chasing me away?" She stepped closer to him.

"No?" He raised an eyebrow. "I just...don't want you to feel stuck for the 3 hours it's gonna take for them to get ready."

She took the red nose from his hand and placed it back on his face. "I'll manage." She gave him a wink.

Cool. Cool. Yeah, it's cool. It's fine. Quinn and Eliza would be getting ready, as long as no one mentioned anything about how they're getting Quinn's boyfriend here so quickly, and Ronnie doesn't hear that Ashton is related to Adam...it would be fine. Things could continue as planned which is....nothing bad ever happens....It might work.