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Post by Shaun Underwood on Dec 22, 2017 16:55:37 GMT -8
Having rolled into town about a day ago to hand off some fish more local to Pahalla, and maybe a few pearls he'd managed to Scavange with the help of his Sharpedo, Shaun decided he might stick around for just a little bit, maybe see if he could find any interesting Christmas presents before heading home for the date itself. Of course he had no actual plans for the day, but he'd probably drop off a present for his dad, his mom, his sis, a quick hello, a quick goodbye...he just did not wanna get some shit lecture during the holiday season of all times, but he could never forget them. Maybe sis would like a nice dress...he was sure he had enough money saved away for something like that right? For now he was just getting the lay of the city. He was docked up and paid for a few days worth so day one for him was just exploration, seeing where the ships where and making sure he had a good sense of the city. It was easy enough to explore with his personal method, skimming through the conveniant canals of the city, one hand tightly latched onto the self-made 'riding gear'. It was clearly some old metal bent and welded into a conveniant shape for him to hold onto, two foot holds and some handled bars around the dorsel fin. He'd give the sharpedo a light nudge as it darted through the canals happily enough, smirking down at the girl. "Not too tight?" The sharpedo shook it's head, forcing Shaun to hold on tighter as he was nearly shaken off, glaring down at the girl briefly as it continued along, oblivious to it's mistake. Shaun supposed it was his fault for being dumb enough to ask anyway... Pulling through a quiet market area, older men and women dressed in warm coats selling home made and self-grown goods, Shaun pulled up to the side of the canal, waving down someone running a fruit stand. "Hey lass! Mind tossin us an apple?" The woman gave Shaun a cautious look, making a 'gimme' gesture with her free hand as she held the apple in the other. Not wanting to dismount, Shaun carefully found a coin that over-paid for the apple as little as possible, tossing it across and holding his hand out, catching the apple and taking a nice juicy bite. "Keep the change ma'am!~" "Aye, thank you miss." "-Ter!" Shaun wasn't bitter enough about the topic to fully correct them, honestly the addition to her words could have been a random noise muffled by the crowds for all they understood. All Shaun cared about really was that he had a juicy apple now, grinning wide as he took another bite. Seraph Benoit
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Post by Seraph Benoit on Dec 27, 2017 23:29:19 GMT -8
Deeper into town, on the edge of a quieter part of one of the canals, Seraph was sitting with a Squirtle, gently rubbing its shell. "It's okay, Île," he told him. "Take your time. We'll get this." The Squirtle didn't seem so sure, but appreciated his trainer's reassurance.
Since Seraph's contest victory in Sinclair, he had become a lot more focused on pursuing his coordinator dream. It was a smaller contest all things considered, and he'd won by such a narrow margin. But he would have been thrilled to even come close to placing, so the confidence boost this brought--
was actually kind of diminished by the nature of his performance if he was being honest, heh. The more anxiety-prone part of him did worry that audiences were more impressed with the "brave" announcement his routine made than his actual skills, but even IF that were the case to some extent, he felt certain he wouldn't have won on that alone. ...Well, that, and mom kind of entirely handwaved over it to focus on "who knew you had such talent" so there was... that? Not exactly how he planned that reunion going but "too much" of a non-issue was preferable to her having a problem he guessed.
But at any rate! He was determined to practice more now, so he'd come to this city of water to help Île practice his precision maneuvers, but so far things were... a little shaky. By which he meant the Squirtle was kind of grossed out by the canal water and hesitant to get in at all but... Seraph could wait.
... O-oh geez was that a Sharpedo in the distance? Ugh he hoped it didn't splash them.
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Post by Shaun Underwood on Dec 28, 2017 11:10:45 GMT -8
Taking another light bite of his apple, Shaun steered Sharpie down the canals at a slower, casual pace, chewing on the juicy fruit as he went along when he caught the eye of someone up ahead giving him a weirdly...nervous? Bothered? One of those two looks. He supposed looking like a dock worker he wasn't too welcome this far into the city by some of the fancier folk of the ci-oh. Wait no. They weren't looking at him they were looking at his sharpedo. Okay fair enough, they looked like they were playing in the Canal with their squirtle, so without knowing Sharpie personally it was probably a bit worrisome to see such a fearsome pokemon swimming through the water.
With a big grin, he shouted across as Sharpie lifted a fin out of the water to wave. "He dosn't bite lad!~"
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Post by Seraph Benoit on Dec 29, 2017 22:08:46 GMT -8
Oh... Oh good they slowed down. And-- "Oh! Oh sorry no I-- I wasn't afraid he'd be vicious or anything. I just.." He looked down to his Squirtle and rubbed his shell. "Île here is just... a bit nervous about dirt and stuff, so I've been trying to convince him the canals are fine to swim in. I was worried you'd splash him and I'd have to calm him down, but it's all good~"
Come to think of it actually, he looked down to Île and nodded toward the trainer and Pokemon. "But hey, look! Her Sharpedo doesn't have a problem swimming here and nothing bad's happening, mm?" Île looked hesitantly between them and the water, considering it.
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Post by Shaun Underwood on Dec 30, 2017 8:11:22 GMT -8
Leaning over the handlebars of the makeshift harness for his Sharpedo, Shaun was lightly drumming his fingers against the far edge of the handlebar, as he was listening he couldn't help but think the lad before him seemed...familiar somehow? Just something about his face...or maybe the hair? That was some pretty memorable hair...it was on the tip of his tongue...
Oh shit. He was talking about him and his Sharpedo. Er...backtrack, something about dirty water? Oh, right, squeamish squirtle. He probably shouldn't mention that Sharpie was used to open waters, AND the ruins of Pahalla, so it probably wasn't the best judge of dirty and clean water. Yeah just, bite your tongue on that one Shaun. "Ah yeah, we don't come Caravella often but it's a pretty clean place. Don't think the nobles would settle for anything else in their city."
With a bit of cheeky emphasis when mentioning the nobles, Shaun let his eyes drift back to the boy...humming as he tried to restoke his memory. "You been in Pahalla much lad? Or...done any advertising? Feel like I've seen your..." he vaguely gestured above his own much flatter hair. "This, before."
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Post by Seraph Benoit on Dec 31, 2017 1:11:17 GMT -8
"Ah yeah? Yeah, true~" Actually the nobles had pretty equal reputations for wanting the finest everything for themselves and not giving one flying shit if things were sub-standard for the more common folks so he guessed it probably depended on whether this part of the canal registered to them as "theirs" or "the common folk's" but he wouldn't point that out to the Squirtle. "See boy? Nothing to worry about. Just a bit of brine but that'll wash off."
The Squirtle wasn't so sure, but moved forward and hesitantly toed the water a few times. While he did, Seraph's attention turned back to the Sharpedo rider. "Mm? Not a lot but I've been out there for work a decent bit. I'm a Ranger so I'm all over the region pretty often." Although given this was a 'you look familiar' thing, he added, "I'm also a coordinator. I've only done two contests so far, but I won a small one in Sinclair last month~"
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Post by Shaun Underwood on Dec 31, 2017 1:28:41 GMT -8
Pulling up a little closer with Sharpedo, Shaun eased one foot onto the solid path on Seraph's side of the Canal, making sure both Sharpie and the path itself were steady under his feet before finally pushing up and onto the path fully, the Sharpedo carefully swimming over towards the Squirtle, watching it slowly ease itself into the water with what she hoped would be an encouraging smile, starting small, and growing bigger and bigger as the Squirtle got deeper into the water. Shaun didn't have the heart to tell her that a Sharpedo doing that was likely less encouraging than she thought.
Flicking his eyes back to Seraph, though he didn't actually know his name yet, it became clear soon enough when he began to jog his memory. He ran into a few rangers, especially if he was a little slow getting to a shipwreck or anything, but what had peaked his interest was the contest, and he hit his forehead a little harder than expected with the base of his palm. "Ah fuck! Yeah! I saw a re-run of that performance on the news!It was like, a 20 second clips tops but you looked amazin'! Seraph right?"
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Post by Seraph Benoit on Jan 5, 2018 3:30:35 GMT -8
Oh? Oh so the new trainer and her Pokemon were joining them? Okay, hey there Sharpedo. Normally Île might be a bit unnerved, but she seemed well-trained to be used as a ride Pokemon and he could appreciate the encouragement Seraph tried to give with-- ........... um.. ........ UM??? Okay nope NOPE no nevermind the bigger that smile got the more it unnerved him and fuck this noise actually he was just gonna back up a few steps.
While that was playing out, Seraph's cheeks had tinted a bit at having someone recognize him. "Y-yeah??" he asked, regarding being on the news. "I mean. Yeah! Seraph Benoit~" Though... He had to wonder now... "I... was actually kind of nervous to watch any coverage afterward." But now he had someone to ask without actually having to see it himself and curiosity would get the better of him. Smiling sheepishly, and a bit nervously, he asked, "Was it like... normal coverage or was it..." Ugh. He didn't know a better term than 'inspiration porn' but was pretty sure that didn't quite fit and might not be something everyone understood. Or worse, it could've been negative... even if she seemed to have liked it heh. "Was it more about the performance or me I guess." That was better wording.
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Post by Shaun Underwood on Jan 5, 2018 6:00:24 GMT -8
Sharpie's smile continued to grow for about a second even as Squirtle began to climb out of the water, at which point she finally realized they were not in fact psyching themselves up to drop in and swam closer, whining and sinking into the water so only her big puppy eyes looked up at the squirtle.
Shaun glanced down to the Sharpedo, smirking just a little and crouching down for a second to rub her head fin, which only got even bigger puppy eyes to emerge even if it brought a roll of Shaun's own eyes, standing at his full height again with hands resting in his coat pockets, narrowing his eyes at the question about the coverage. "Er...god it was a while ago but..." Shit he'd had a hard enough time recalling their face..."I think it was just..." Shrug "Basic coverage? Showed some other contestants, but mainly you, what being the winner and all. Think they mentioned you being a ranger pretty briefly but it wasn't in depth coverage. Just sorta 'oh this happened'...that make sense?" He let out a faint chuckle and smirked. "Why? Something you don't want people knowing?~"
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Post by Seraph Benoit on Jan 5, 2018 16:41:17 GMT -8
Île squinted at Sharpie's little endeavor. Those... those eyes were actually pretty cute but... was she trying to apologize for being scary or lure him into a false sense of security? ...Eh, he did have a hard shell... and, actually? Placing his hands together, he summoned a very small ball of aura, just for a moment, before letting it fade. Just.. casually letting her know he had Aura Sphere, to tear through her dark typing, should she try anything. But afterward, he took a deep breath and moved back to the edge, trying to psyche himself up to deal with it.
Meanwhile, Seraph breathed out with relief, until that last question. "Er..." Well, he did want people to know; that was the point. But coming out to some random stranger was still-- ... Less intimidating than his family he guessed. And it wasn't like she couldn't go find it again online if she got curious. Hell if she had a phone she could do that in like he next 30 seconds so. "Ah.." He rubbed the back of his head. "The theme was transformation, yeah? So I sort of... used it to come out as a guy to my fam?" He let out a weak and slightly nervous laugh. "It was a pretty personal thing tailored to them and I didn't really think of the broader reactions until later. So I just.. don't want media treating that as a gimmick, you know?" Ugh please don't react negatively or start asking a lot of invasive questions...
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Post by Shaun Underwood on Jan 5, 2018 18:29:58 GMT -8
Sharpie watched the sparkly sphere generated between the squirtles hands. They could make sparklies! Oh please come into the water please please please! Getting more excited again as they came in, the moment the squirtle was truly in the water Sharpie quickly splashed their fins on either side in an excited flailing.
Shaun stepped away from the cannal a bit with a chuckle so his boots didn't get wet, still majorly focusing on Seraph of course, though as he went on, Shaun's expression dipped for a moment before his eyes widened, one hand running back through his hair. "Oh so you're...Ooooh..." It wasn't immediately obvious but...Seraph did have some feminine traits, so he clearly hadn't taken a chroma cookie...or the transformation wasn't too big if he had. Stepping back, Shaun rested both hands behind his head as he sort of just...swallowed the information, but offered just a light smirk as he continued. "Well...you won a contest, so certainly seems like it went better than when I did it."
Lowering his arms to a cross, his voice softened as he asked what, to him, was the only important question. "They take it well?"
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Post by Seraph Benoit on Jan 6, 2018 4:37:01 GMT -8
The Squirtle did eventually ease himself in, and as he plopped down, he immediately regretted it. Ugh, this was... kind of slimy. ...He guessed.. not too bad? Not as bad as he was expecting if he was honest. But it was enough to notice and bluuuhh... ... Admittedly, those happy fin flaps were actually kind of cute, and made him feel slightly better? Heh..
Seraph waited with baited breath through the first part of that reaction, but out of all the responses he had been anticipating, when I did it was not one of them. "Yeah??" he quickly blurted. His first thought would be wondering if she'd used one of those amazing new cookie things or had been on hormone treatment a while, but he quickly caught himself and dialed it back a few steps. There were still days he appreciated more feminine attire, and when he didn't bind or do his makeup no one would immediately read him as a guy either. So this person could go either way?
Before he could ask, though, they asked a question of their own. "..Ah. Uh.." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Haven't seen the extended fam since really so I'm not sure about them, aside from one cousin who new way before; he's been super supportive and stuff. I'd.. told my brother back in October, and I'm pretty sure he still doesn't 'get it' but he's done his best to respect it and is kind of my favorite person in the world so." A weak laugh escaped him briefly. "He was most important. But for the rest?"
A deep breath was exhaled slowly through mostly pursed lips. Hhhhhn, pfffhhhhhh... "Dad seems like he's adjusting but he's not too bad so far? Mom.. doesn't seem to care? Like that should be a good thing but it's like... feels dismissive I guess. Like, 'oh sure sweetie if that's what you want but now let's talk about your contest future.' Ih." He made a brief unpleasant face, then explained, "She was a big into contests back in the day and used to push my big sister to do it so I guess she sees me as her replacement protege now. Like I kind of always wanted to do this stuff with them but? ...I dunno." He frowned deeply then, crossing his arms. "Said big sister.... was also performing in the same contest, and didn't bother to come talk to me after, so... kind of at a point of saying fuck her, I guess."
Oh uh... That probably got way too detailed and bitter huh... Turning just a hair more sheepish, he wrapped up, "Ah.. sorry, didn't mean to dump by whole life story on you, heh. But so uh... what about you?"
As Seraph had taken to rambling a bit, his Squirtle was starting to swim small circles, vaguely adjusting a bit more to the viscosity of the canal water.
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Post by Shaun Underwood on Jan 6, 2018 6:54:27 GMT -8
Sharpie backed off a little as squirtle found their place in the water, showing less of a toothy grin and a more simplistic smile as they carefully swam alongside the other pokemon, encouraging it as best they could, maybe even booping it with their nose now and then before swimming away, trying to encourage it to play a game of tag and distract itself from the slimieness of the water.
Shaun meanwhile listened to Seraph intently, taking in everything. Cousin took it well, brother was respectful, dad...well Seraph wasn't actually too clear there, but somehow the fact the girls in the family didn't seem to give as much support or approval of him coming out seemed...he didn't wanna say 'fitting' but there was almost a theme there if it was a gender split thing. Maybe he came from a family that almost picked sides through gender, he'd seen a few, stick to the old roles of the boys going to work and the women in the family all being house wives, it wasn't always negative but gender was a clear divide in those situations.
"Well, 3 outta 5 ain't bad...'bout the same ratio as my family." He offered a light smirk, but his eyes showed that for him, this was a pretty tiring topic, even if he was glad to hear that, for the most part, Seraph hadn't faced too many big complications. "Your sister can go fuck herself though. Whether she was jealous you won or whatever, ya swallow your pride and talk to your family after a show that important..ah whadd'a I know tho? S'your family."
Looking briefly over himself, Shaun gave a light puff of air. As much as he felt comfortable in who he was, trying to put it in terms other people could understand...ugh. Somehow it always felt worse talking to other trans people about it, almost like...they actually had a 'right' to judge him unlike other people...rubbing his face in both hands, he came out with it as simply as he could. "I'm...a female who's a guy who likes looking like a girl...yeah I know that might sound weird but I've gotten enough lectures about it when I was trying to figure my shit out to begin with." It was a bit rude to assume Seraph would even be confused but...well Shaun was a little too used to it.
"Dad and Mom...neither of them get it, but I appreciate Mom's at least respectful enough to-..." He wanted to say something like...pretend to understand, or that she at least tried, but the words left him before he could stop them "Still talk to me..." And with a bitter as hell tone at that. "Sister...she gets it...or she'd just too young to realize why I like being called a guy. Refuse to let her call me brother though...feels weird. Like somethings crawling up the back of my neck...Like being her protective big sis ya know?" Seraph probably didn't, or maybe Shaun was just way too cynical about explaining this crap by now, crossing his arms again and looking off to the side. "Sorry...don't mean to confuse ya...I mean you think it's hard to describe, try being the one to figure it out in the first place."
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Post by Seraph Benoit on Jan 6, 2018 7:45:23 GMT -8
Thank you????? Yes? Yes Andie could go fuck off. How could she not even, like, come wave from across the room or anything? He hated to wish ill on anyone but he almost hoped he found out she had some medical emergency to run off like that. He knew this already but the affirmation was so nice out of someone else's mouth.
The only thing that confused Seraph in Shaun's explanation though was his initial wording. He'd wait to ask for clarification, though, not wanting to cut him off. And?? Holy shit he was glad he didn't? That 'still talk to me' had him wincing, but the sibling stuff? What was he apologizing for??
"No!" he insisted emphatically. "I mean you're fine! I mean--" His face went briefly redder as he flustered and then tried to force it back down. "My brother... finds this stuff hard enough to grasp already so I haven't said anything. Like I don't wanna add a bunch of extra 'rules' for him to remember and get frustrated if he forgets one or anything like that, but? Believe it or not--" because he kind of found it hard to believe this guy, too?-- "there's definitely some part of me that still sorta.. wants to be his sister. And to a lesser extent, maybe dad's 'baby girl'? But I'm fine being mom's son so??" He laughed slightly, confused at his own thought process even having had these feelings for a while.
"I mean I guess... sometimes I might.. question if I'm still maybe 10% girl, or something? Annnd you might sorta be the first person I've told that." He offered a brief, cheesy-but-nervous, 'now don't you feel special' sort of almost-grin. "But it's still... Now that I've gotten used to people seeing me as a guy I definitely prefer it, and I don't want people questioning that, so. ... Yeah, heh."
He ruffled the back of his hair, then remembered: "But oh yeah uh. You said.. 'female who's a guy who looks like a girl'? Like just checking I've got this right, you're.. a trans guy? Like, designated-female-at-birth, identifies as a guy?" He'd wait for some confirmation before adding, "So by 'looks like a girl', do you just mean right now or...?"
Meanwhile, Île was not appreciating Sharpie's attempts at tag, even if they were kind of cute. He flailed vaguely and fussed trying to get her to stop, even as a mild blush rose to his face.
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Post by Shaun Underwood on Jan 6, 2018 9:04:17 GMT -8
"Heh...feel pretty male myself. Like...0.1% girl in me tops." He smirked just faintly, not meaning to interupt but it seemed a quick way to just sorta drive home that there was, if any, VERY little exception to the rule for him, but he still offered his own empathetic smile as Seraph went on...he did wanna be more his Dad's son than daughter but..."Yeah. Yeah I getcha...I don't even know what it is I just...I'm her big sister. Even if I'm a guy I still wanna be the 'girl' she can come to with her problems, don't want her thinking she can't do that stuff just cause...Yeah. Yeah." He'd been over this enough times with someone or another for the words to feel stale in his mouth, rubbing his face, glad Seraph at least understood for the most part...
But then came the clarification...Shaun was hoping thats all this was but...this was usually the main issue with people.
"I...yeah. Yeah thats pretty much it. As for 'right now'...no. I'm always like this. Like..." He gave a long shrug that showed he wasn't even sure how to say it himself still. "A mate of mine once said I must not feel Dysphoria or some shit but..I still feel like this isn't 'me'. I'm a guy and i feel I maybe shoulda been born as one? But...girls bodies are amazing. Like just...!" He threw his hands up before vaguely gesturing all over himself. "I'm strong, curvy, I can pull off a midrift in the summer! I can do shit with my hair most guys get funny looks for! I can brag about my ass and turn more people on than I disgust!" Yes these were all very dumb reasons but it was rather hard for even him to quantify what made a girl's body just...BETTER. "I...I dunno..." He rapidly ran out of energy and let his hands drop. "It...dosn't make a fucking lick of sense some days, but I'm happy so...eh."
Sharpie got the hint that his nudges where unwanted, easing back away from the squirtle and just quietly watching them swim, giving them a small fin clap of applause under the water whenever they made progress in getting more comfortable in the water.
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