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Normal-Type Gym Leader
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PLAYED BY Angel
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Post by Katie Weathers on Dec 10, 2017 17:58:08 GMT -8
A young woman was standing in a maid uniform, talking to a well-dressed couple. She was holding a fancy tray to her chest and just jabbering them, and although they had big smiles on their faces they kept exchanging glances...
"And I don't even know the first thing about running a Gym, honestly. It's all so sudden. They sent me a book and it's like really big and I still don't even know what it is all expected of me..."
Was... was she going to stop?
"I mean have you guys been to a Gym before? What do you guys expect from one? What should I wear?" She glanced down at herself, inspecting the soft colored uniform she was wearing.
"Katie, leave the poor guys alone." A fellow waitress with short hair and glasses came over looking a bit nervous and nudged Katie along. "Take their order over up, you silly goose! Your shift's almost up!"
Katie walked through the adorable dining area of the Katz Meow, which was a super cute cafe in Alterna that was quickly becoming popular. The service wore adorable uniforms and there were cute themed locally grown organic-tastic menu items and adorable cat Pokemon you could pet! She heard her fellow employee apologize, but heard the two say it was no bother and that she was friendly. She was totally friendly. Hilda was worrying over nothing. She always worried over nothing.
Katie was a regular around a lot of the places, often covering shifts for a lot of the local businesses. It was a thing. She needed things to do when school wasn't a thing. Someone had called off during the big lunch shift, which is where Katie found herself now.
Would she have time for this kinda stuff anymore?
How does someone run a gym!?
Maybe the next person would know...
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Pokémon League
Grass-Type Gym Leader
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PLAYED BY 🌸 SG 🌸
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Post by Kiran Chandra on Dec 14, 2017 18:04:06 GMT -8
The next person did know something, as it would turn out. Or, well, they kind of knew a little, but were probably still figuring most of that out themself.
Right now, though, they were in Alterna during Sinclair's stop to check out the local farmer's market. Knowing food shopping on an empty stomach was a bad idea, they had decided to swing by a cafe first to grab a quick bite. Wh-- did that sign say organic food and a Pokemon theme?? That sounded wonderful?
Mm.. though they supposed outdoor seating would be even nicer? But ah, it was a little cool for comfort today, and their bare toes would probably appreciate being indoors for a few minutes. Their tight black turtleneck and ankle length teal/black/gold patterned skirt were both warm enough, but they simply refused to wear shoes during an outdoor endeavor.
Wandering in, Kiran stood at the door waiting to be seated.
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Pokémon League
Normal-Type Gym Leader
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PLAYED BY Angel
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Post by Katie Weathers on Dec 15, 2017 1:44:29 GMT -8
"Oooh~, you're pretty~" She grinned and blushed a little bit, still not the best at keeping thoughts inside her noodle where they belonged at times. She kept her composure and put on her best "maid" personality, the hand with her tray spread out in the direction in a welcoming gesture, the other holding out her skirt a little to let her cute little petticoats poke out. "お帰りなさいませ、ご主人様!" 1Yeah. She totally nailed it. "Let me show you to your table!" She grinned, just a bit too proud of her accomplishment, giggling. Hilda across the room was totally giving her the stink eye over her glasses, pretty sure she had just been a nerdy weirdo again to a guest. A couple cute little Skitty would be immediately visible and energetic to also greet her guest, mewing sweetly. "Do you need any special accommodations, Master? A towel, mayhaps?" She couldn't keep a straight face and sounded as if she hadn't used the word "mayhaps" a single time in her life. She was cheerful and energetic for sure though. Once they found their cozy and scenic little sitting space, with cute lacy doilies and a lovely little arrangement on the table, Katie pulled out the chair and smiled. Everything was just so nice. It was dark enough inside to not be too blinding with cuteness and actually be relaxing, but with enough pastel to be soft. "Can I say your long hair just so purty. How hard is it to take care of? I'm your waitress, Katie Weathers! I'm the new Gym Leader of Alterna!" She beamed. "What do you think about that? What do you know, actually? About Gyms?" ... she pulled out her order notepad and looked a little too ready to take notes. Hilda shook her fist and ground her teeth for a moment from across the room, but stopped once she noticed a customer staring at her, apologizing and bowing her head. If they weren't so desperate for help... Stupid silly Katie. 1. Welcome home, Master
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Pokémon League
Grass-Type Gym Leader
PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY 🌸 SG 🌸
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Post by Kiran Chandra on Dec 15, 2017 4:50:20 GMT -8
The excitable girl's approach already had Kiran stiffening up a bit, but then-- you're pretty~! Their face reddened a bit at such a direct compliment, even if it was probably more embarrassment than flattery on their end.
They.. had no idea what she jabbered at them after that, but would hesitantly follow anyway. Enthusiastic wait staff seemed bearable to try such a cute cafe.. At the question if they needed anything, Kiran shook their head before actually stopping to think if they did want anything, but.. heh, oh well.
How hard is it to take care of? Oh, they didn't mind answering that. "It's--" I'm your waitress, Katie Weathers! ... Well okay then. Both hands sort of grabbed one lock of hair and fidgeted on it. Er-- wait, did she say Gym Leader?
It was.. tempting to just sort of ah... ignore the question and give her an order to get her to go away. But Kiran was.. kind of proud of this recent accomplishment, so... Softly, they mumbled, "I actually... uh. recently... became Sinclair's Grass Leader, myself..."
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Pokémon League
Normal-Type Gym Leader
PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Angel
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Post by Katie Weathers on Dec 15, 2017 23:21:55 GMT -8
"Say whaaaaa---"
Big smile. Really big smile. Too big. Oh yeah. This was it. She knew fate would shine on her today! Today was just a good day!
"OH! Your hair!!" Her eyes grow wide. Eye grow wide. Nudge nudge. It was green. Did they dye it? She should as--.. Katie. Focus. Focus. Foooocuuusss!!
What do your dye your hair if your gym is NORMAL?
Her smile didn't decrease in size as she nudged a lovely little menu in front of her new friend, an effect she didn't realize could be seen as almost a bit threatening. She was practically laughing.
All sorts of cute Pokemon themed drinks. Like the Princess Primarina Punch which was just this lovely shade of sea blue and the glass looked so cute. The cat themed stuff was cookies... oh the cookies looked so good. They were shaped like paws. Every page was like fruit dishes and salads that looked like you were eating a Lilligant but you totally weren't don't worry.
She seemed to ready to take her guest's order, and once she did she would practically squeal and say. "Wait one moment!" and hold up a single figure. One.
She would hustle off and hand her pad to Hilda, grinning. Although she somehow kept herself from shouting across the table if Kiran listened carefully she might hear, 'Yeah, I guess your shift 's just about up..'
And Katie would turn back around, and sit at the seat opposite her. "Guess whose joining youuuu~"
"You're new too. Oh my gawsh. Grass types are totally cute right? I mean. I mean. Gym's! Did you set yours up yet? What's it like? Have you got challengers? Where they nice?"
... surely she would stop that creepy grin eventually.
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Trainer
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PLAYED BY Daxton
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Post by Adrian Gideon on Dec 22, 2017 0:51:21 GMT -8
Adrian had been seated behind another gym leader, it seemed. Wonderful. Deadpanning at the level of energy bursting from the waitress behind him, he decided he may as well and turn around to contribute to the barrage of questions. ... Despite what all his friends in college told him not to do. Meh, they'd all live. Addy's seat and position took up quite a bit of the exit space, which, to be honest, he didn't mind.
Hm. Grass Type Gym Leader. Thought you seemed a touch familiar from what I've seen and heard." A smug grin took over his features as he leaned forward, putting an elbow on his knee and his chin into his hand. Normally someone would want to help someone out when they were being bombarded by questions. Today just wasn't one of Adrian's 'help out the innocent' days. With the recent events of his uncle and dad picking on him off and on while he was just trying to read a book, this seemed like a good way of taking it out. Passively. Like. Without getting noticed. No one knows what you're doing. Yup.
Of course, he hadn't ordered anything big, but it was apparently gonna take a while because it was one of those things where they had to pull some more out of the freezer cause somebody wasn't paying attention to what they had out. It was lovely when someone running a kitchen didn't pay attention to stock, same goes for the person managing those people. Things got busy, but in a lab with a heavy criminal case going on with a time restraint so huge that it seemed like even if you had a machine that could freeze time, you still wouldn't have enough time to crack everything. He didn't believe in excuses with time constraints and fatigue.
Then again, he was raised to do it right, no matter what. And if you don't feel like you can? Don't show your face to work, call in sick, get over it while you're off and go in the next day. Pull your weight. Oh well though, he wasn't running this place, and there was a reason he didn't work directly in retail of any kind. It never went well.
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Pokémon League
Grass-Type Gym Leader
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PLAYED BY 🌸 SG 🌸
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Post by Kiran Chandra on Dec 22, 2017 1:30:10 GMT -8
Wh-- What about their hair?? For a moment they thought she just realized she cut herself off before they could answer before, but as she immediately shoved the menu and giggled at them, Kiran had to wonder what her deal was. Did they have something in it? Was she like, super fascinated with how long it was, or what?
As she asked them to wait a moment, Kiran deflated. Well, she was certainly energetic, but they figured she was getting back to work now or somethi-- SHE WAS SITTING, WHY WAS SHE SITTING. Oh merciful Arceus no. No they could not deal with this all meal. Abort, abort, they weren't that hungry, they could find another--
As they shifted to flee, the man at the table nearby scooted closer and leaned in. That-- was awfully close and Kiran instinctively backed up a bit more. They'd... probably have to touch him to get back, and the girl's talking seemed slightly preferable even if this was basically hell.
...Though... if there was a saving grace, this guy... apparently kind of recognized them? Already? They hadn't been set up for long, but.. that... was kind of nice?? Damn this small ounce of ego. "...Y-...yeah..." they answered the man. And.. guessed they should answer Katie's questions. Uh... what they could remember. "My Gym's uh..... it's... set up in Sinclair's gardens." Their hands raised to gesture in their effort to convey a sectioned building, though that probably didn't convey clearly to anyone else. "There's uh... It's. Season themes." What else did she ask? Uh... "...Challengers yeah." Not he most specific but that worked.
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Pokémon League
Normal-Type Gym Leader
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PLAYED BY Angel
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Post by Katie Weathers on Dec 22, 2017 3:19:21 GMT -8
"Ooh! That sound's pretty!" She gushed, her mind filling with all sorts of pretty sounding ideas. "Grass Pokemon are like, so great. I'm jealous. They feel so warm, and not like... burning hot like Fire types. Although they are pretty great too, right? I have to see it! Will you show me sometime?" She giggled, still totally grinning. She was happy!? It wasn't creepy at all.
She gasped and held up a finger, in a total "eureka" pose because guess what, she came up with something great and she was totally going to say it. The excitement of it rushed to her legs and she almost got up from her seat again because of it! "Maybe I could do something seasonal too! Not like a copycat thing, but like... festive stuff!? Like Reindeer Games for the holidays and stuff! Rabbits in spring?! Does that sound cool? " She laughed a bit nervously but in an exaggerated fashion, putting on a show of embarrassment but not actually being all that embarrassed. She grinned and waved at the sudden third entry to this dynamic conversation, not minding him at all.
"Howdy!"
Although she was kinda sad that she didn't get noticed by him... I mean, she thought everyone in town would be talking about it by now, right? What was one day around here?!
The nervous coworker of Katie's, Hilda in her late twenties with dark straight hair and glasses and a soft blue colored uniform, would bring Katie a bubbling looking drink with a soft pink color, a Pecha Berry Bliss... and give Kiran probably the closest thing to an escape she was going to get. Her tone was respectful but nervous, as she tried her best to keep her composure. "I do hope she isn't bothering you, ma'am." Although they quickly didn't feel super confident in the choice of respectful title.
Katie put on a hurt show at the accusation, waiting for her new amazing haired friend to come to her defense. They were totally good friends now, right?
(Wasn't sure if you ordered or cared, to make a point of it for flow but if I didn't give you enough of a natural order time with Katie, you could order from Hilda. If you did, she brought you whatever drink you ordered too. She could have a drink or something for Adrian too, if he was getting one while waiting for his thing._
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Trainer
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PLAYED BY Daxton
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Post by Adrian Gideon on Dec 22, 2017 13:42:36 GMT -8
Success, the awkwardness of the situation was amplified as Adrian had blocked their only escape route. The smug smiled remained on his face, even as the lady had brought his cup of coffee to him he held the grin. The stuttered answers were hilarious, and he had to do hardly any of the questioning to make it awkward, as it seemed the other woman had taken up all the questioning once again.
Speaking of gyms he should... naw. He had some time to spare, no challengers, he did his training for the past couple of days, anymore and he'd run the poor bugs into a burn out. "A winter Sawsbuck theme?" He suggested quietly, seriously doubting the muttered words would be heard. Giving a nod when the waitress said it would be a little while longer on the rest of his order, he just went back to listening for now, potentially thinking of tinder he could throw into this fire to keep the little lady chattering.
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Pokémon League
Grass-Type Gym Leader
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PLAYED BY 🌸 SG 🌸
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Post by Kiran Chandra on Dec 27, 2017 22:43:59 GMT -8
...Jealous?? Uh.. Yeah Grass was obviously the best type, but what was Katie's deal? Had she wanted Grass only to find Kiran took it? Well, too damn bad; they'd poured too much of their life into gardening and learning plants to be shown up by some over-excitable little... whatever she was.
They frowned as Katie brought up a season theme of her own, even if she tried to say 'not a copycat'. And what's his face with the freaky hair only added to it. "I'm training up some Sawsbuck," they said firmly. So no stealing. "What... type even are you?" A festival theme sounded so random and weird for a gym. Wasn't it supposed to compliment the type?
"And--" Oh nope there was another waitress and their mouth was shut. ..They didn't care what she-- no? It was shut anyway? Okay. ...Ah but what she had to say actually was nice. "Kinda..." they muttered. "Can... can I get the... lemonade and the seasonal fruit? ....To go." There. They could endure this ridiculous charade until their food arrived in the interest of being polite to a fellow Gym Leader, but they could run once it did.
Once she had their order, they turned to the weird guy who'd joined their conversion. "Who were you again?"
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Pokémon League
Normal-Type Gym Leader
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PLAYED BY Angel
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Post by Katie Weathers on Dec 28, 2017 0:44:54 GMT -8
Although it far from turned into a frown, the exchange was enough to finally bring down Katie's bright little grin. Switching to just a soft smile, her mind stopped yapping and started racing. Kinda? She felt a small pang but shoved that down, and tried to figure out what it is she did wrong. Her mind never came to the conclusion that it had anything to do with her attitude. She had been friendly, courteous, and complimentary... right?
She worked hard to ignore Hilda's stares, the woman shouting at her in silence. "We would be happy to. Although Katie was just about to leave, correct?" She glared at Katie, and she gestured a little towards a sweet little Skitty that was nearby and seemed to light up at realizing it was getting attention. "Please do feel free to enjoy the Pokemon in silence, if you still want to."
She patted the pad and gave one last strong to Katie, who nodded to Hilda and brought her relief. Fine...
"Oh? My Type? It's Normal." Her tone was still very pleasant but had lost the pep she had displayed before. "I like to use them to help the kids learn about stuff like status conditions and other stuff. It feels more fair to them that way." She grinned and rubbed her back of her head a little...
"Um..." she rubbed her chin with her finger. "Sorry if I stepped on your toes a little. I guess it's not cool for Gyms to copy each other right?" It was what she had decided must have been the problem, it was the only thing she could think of. "I hope I can see all the great themes you come up with! Maybe we could share numbers and..."
Then she sighed a little. Although she could be pretty oblivious she did feel awkward about asking that right after being told she had totally kinda been bugging. I mean kind bugging wasn't all the way bugging but it still was a little lousy feeling. Just a little. But if she was being honest with herself it also just kinda stunk that she had to stop the "theme" train so fast. That Sawsbuck idea was really good... and they were Normal and Grass both, and they could have worked on it together. But no... she wouldn't. She shouldn't.
Fiinnee...
"And um... or like.. can I pay for you? Since your my senior and all.." There was something that was bugging her... did this guy know her? Did she know him?
Also how come she was the only one with boring hair?!
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Trainer
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PLAYED BY Daxton
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Post by Adrian Gideon on Dec 28, 2017 15:58:15 GMT -8
Adrian still didn't look at the others as much as someone exit blocking would do. He took a quiet drink and mulled the question from the grass type trainer over. They were obviously very defensive about ideas, which is understandable of course. Adrian didn't have too much of a gym challenge rather than the fact that his terrain could go one way or another for the trainers. And the trapdoors could be used by bugs to maneuver the field in an underground path. As far as challenges go? They just had to walk through a jungle dome.
After a moment of silence after everyone was done rattling, he simply turned to Kiran and offered a proper, not so loud but obviously struggling to conceal a laugh "Adrian Gideon." Taking another drink of his cup, he continued blocking the exit until kiran ordered something to go. Bugging this person anymore could turn against him in a bad way, so he moved a bit so Kiran could have a way out if the time come.
The hilarity of this situation was beginning to run dry anyways. He didn't contribute anymore to the conversation because, well, he had no idea on how to even speak up with someone that talked this much. Usually when he was giving a lecture or in his lab, he had the authority to shut chatter boxes up if they interrupted him, but that was it. So he stayed quiet and let them talk, obviously completely content with finishing the coffee in his cup.
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Pokémon League
Grass-Type Gym Leader
PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY 🌸 SG 🌸
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Post by Kiran Chandra on Dec 31, 2017 1:28:53 GMT -8
... Help the kids learn? Huh. .. That was... actually kind of cute? Like a sweet thought? The line about being 'more fair' in particular vaguely reminded them of some of Krissy's cuter moments. (Cuter as opposed to her regular amount of cute, that was, which was still quite high.) "I see," was all they'd mumble allowed.
...Hang on, the other guy's answer was vague as all fuck but that name actually did sound slightly familiar? Had they read it somewhere recently, maybe? Maybe... They thought on this while Katie went on. ..Wait, numbers? Uhhh they'd rather not, and also didn't feel like telling her they'd rather not so? Ya know focusing on the other dude sounded like a good excuse not to answer.
"Why do I know that...?" Er-- wait, Katie was offering to pay? Uh... That was awkward but they were kind of used to being dirt poor and still hadn't gotten much from this new job yet so-- "You.. can if you want? Th-though I'm... pretty new myself?" Oh shit wait was that it actually??
Eyes back to Adrian, they asked, "..Aren't you, too? Is..." They didn't even know what their hand gestures were supposed to mean right now. Sometimes they wondered if their body thought moving their hands would make their words magically clearer. "Is that where I uh? read your name??"
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Pokémon League
Normal-Type Gym Leader
PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Angel
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Post by Katie Weathers on Feb 6, 2018 20:00:36 GMT -8
The number thing was ignored, but it was pretty much what Katie was expecting now. She glanced over at Hilda and had to begrudgingly admit that her co-worker... or probably former co-worker at this rate, had been right about stuff. Katie had been allowed to kind of roam free a bit and do whatever since she was just "filling in" but...
Hilda had been looking for an excuse to tell the Boss Dude that Katie was bothering customers a bit.
Her eyes glanced around the soft environment around them, the pastel-colored pillows and sweet Pokemon mewing at the heels of people... the low but lovely sounding classical music playing nicely in the background... how quiet it seemed in this moment. She really was too loud for this environment, wasn't she? Her voice probably carried all throughout and made everyone look over.
She really had just been trying to help out... but maybe Hilda had been right all along. Maybe these people were just like this environment, and that's why they had come here...
She sighed and turned back around to glance back at Adrian because the question posed by the Gym Leader of Sinclair interested her too. Another one? How come he hadn't said so? Is that why he had nudged over? Was he being shy?
In her mind though, she felt a bit of a war going about in her stomach. She didn't want to be too much anymore, but she also didn't feel happy leaving things the way they were. She had tried to offer to pay... but maybe that was going about the wrong way. She had already apologized too...
"Oh?" She kept herself composed, and her tone was definitely at a lower octave than it had been up till now. "Another one? Was there some kinda Gym Leader convention in town?" She chuckled. "If I didn't know better, I would think you guys were throwing me a party." She flushed a bit, thinking that wasn't probably the coolest thing to say in that moment... but it was hard for Katie to stop being Katie.
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Post by Adrian Gideon on Feb 10, 2018 9:14:41 GMT -8
Adrian lifted his eyebrows and considered deeply in taking his leave. Something blinked into mind that he had to do, but he was asked a question. He should have seen it coming but, ya know. Shit has a way of stopping him as soon as he figures out what he wants to do. "Yes. I'm the Bug Type Gym Leaders new replacement."
Looking over to katie, he raised an eyebrow. "I share a gym in the same city as you. In fact, I'm the one that established the insectarium in front of it." He spoke almost matter of factly, but there was no real rude inflection behind it. He just seemed dumb founded that he shared a city with this one and she didn't know he was the other leader there.
Oh well, that's just the way the cookie crumbles. But his thoughts slowly drifted back to getting out of here, it was still boring, and he was pretty sure he could be doing something such as managing and checking on the pokemon that roamed around in the jungle dome of his gym.
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