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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Apr 13, 2018 17:33:12 GMT -8
It was early in the morning, everyone was still getting in and setting up. Skye? He was here all night, that insomnia man. It'll keep you up all friggin' night for three days before your body decides enough is enough and randomly crashes right then and there. To pass the time, Skye ended up coming in with his skateboard and found an area with no people yet and decided to screw around abit. It was a nice spot too, there was a staircase with rails, lot of levels to grind off of, benches to jump over. Stuff that can used as an obstacle course. It had been wuite a while since the young man actually did some actual tricks, a lot had been going on for him and then suddenly this Festival happened. He'd been here with a few friends but they're all probably busy right now what with the contest going on so with that, it was probably a good time to come in on his own and maybe take more pictures. That's when he got distracted, how could he not want to kick flip off this rail man!? Skye made his way to the top of the stairs, giving him some running space he went down the walk way a bit. He made sure everything was clear, his left on the edge of the board with his weight on it to keep two of the four wheels suspended in midair. Once he was sure he everything was set, he released his weight off the board to let it hit the floor. He adjusted his left foot to place it onto the top of the board and then kicked off with his right and veering down the walkway and towards the opening where the stairs were located. He crouched down a bit to pick up speed and momentum, both feet were on the board and at a good speed. Skye waited until he was just inches from the railing to dip down and ollied up over the rail so the board was balance exactly down the middle to grind down the entire length of the rail. Before reaching the bottom of the rail he turn his body to the side to get the front of the board pointing down the rail so the landing was smooth. The board hit the ground and Skye crouched down lowly as she shot off towards the open area that the stairs lead to. He stood up and brought the board to a halt, he looked up from where he was. That wasn't too bad but he should've jumped earlier, otherwise he could've tipped over and majorly face planted. He saw a perch, a ledge or elevation going down the middle of another walkway that lead out of the open area. He pushed off and skated towards that area, he was 1/4 past the ledge when he jumped up and did a 180, landing the backend of the board on the surface of the ledge. He proceeded to nosgrind across the ledge slowing down midway to 180 again with the backend of the board now pointing towards frontwards and finishing off by jumping off the the edge of the elevation and landing nice and sweet. Skye was really in the zone now, it was good thing he picked this time to come in otherwise he'd have people watching him and getting in the way. He didn't mind of people watched but he was also afraid people getting hurt. It was always inevitable. Skateboard just naturally attract injuries, that's the deal for learning to use one. His scarred up body being a tstament to that. Still, he couldn't help but get the feeling that there were eyes on him, maybe it was just pokemon? He hoped at least. Nikolai Laska
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Apr 13, 2018 18:50:27 GMT -8
Nik wasn't normally up quite this early, let alone out and about. But they'd spent last night at Mia's, and they sort of felt awkward being around Vesta lately, so they wanted to be sure to be gone by the time she got home. They could have just teleported home, but after breakfast and all, they were pretty awake, so... With it being the first day of the Star Festival, they may as well go look around while they were up and out. Orion was at work already anyway, so there was hardly any rush to get home, huh?
It was a bit quiet and 'empty' for their taste, though, especially once they got surface-side and had the looming sky overhead. Liggs was certainly urban enough, and once the crowd picked up around the festival grounds it wouldn't be bad at all, but for now they decided to walk with Jasna and Song-- the Mienshao in her usual spot on their back, the Silvally at their side.
They were just nearing the edge of the festival grounds when some particular sounds caught their ear. Was that...? Approaching, hey confirmed it was. Someone was skateboarding, neat! The idea of actually doing something like that sounded downright terrifying to Nik, and even watching they got a small spike of anxiety every time the boarder was about to land only to follow with relief when everything went smoothly.
But in spite of those things, the visuals were... so much??? aesthetic??? They could not understand why this was so mesmerizing but a distinct feeling of aaaaaaaaaaaaaa! was definitely radiating in them as they watched-- so fixated on the movements involved in the tricks that they didn't even notice anything about the boarder's face at first.
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Apr 13, 2018 19:56:57 GMT -8
Skye just shook off the feeling, at this point if anyone was watching it was because they saw him skating. Skye pushed off once again heading back towards the stair case, the edges of the walk way also had elevations around the same height as the one he cleared. He moved in to get closer to the edge of the elevation, he jump forward and turns so the backend of the board is nose grinding on the surface of the elevation again this time he was facing the other way and was able to see who was starting at him the entire time. It sort of threw Skye off and he nearly lost his balance, he quickly ended the grind and landed back on the ground once again.
Who was that just now? He saw where they were, not that far off from where he was, they looked kind of cool. Skye was cautious about approaching people but if he didn't do it, how would he know if they'd like him or not? Well aside from the obvious 'whats with that weird mask get away from me you creep'? As he headed toward the person, the only thing inbeween Skye and the stranger was a large but empty pinic table.
Skye quickly gained momentum and speed as he headed for the table, Skye shifted so that his body was positioned at the frontmost of the board. He was just a few feet from the table when he dipped down and ollied into the air, the board underneath flipped underneath his feet for just a brief moment before he repositioned itself wheels down and both feet evenly spaced on the board for great landing. The board skidded to a stop aways away from the person with their pokemon. A mienshao and oh! A silvally, Skye remembered hearing about it during his 6 month tenure on Alola.
"Hey...didn't think anyone else would be here."
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Apr 23, 2018 1:02:35 GMT -8
Nik was happily enjoying watching more-- right up until the board started heading directly their way. "Ohshi--" Only then did they look up enough to see the creepy white mask as well, and their own face became significantly whiter as they stumbled back a few steps. They nearly fell, but reached out and caught themself against Song so as not to make Jasna fall.
But then the boarder came to a stop and just.. casually greeted them, instead of murdering them??? Well that was always a good start.
Ah, okay uh. Calming down now. The mask was probably something for the festival now that they thought about it, right? Yeah, okay way to be paranoid as usual lol. Fine, they were fine now, okay. "Ah, yeah I was up earlier than usual so I figured I'd get some fresh air." They smiled a bit cheesily as they added, "Get the baes some exercise." They briefly indicated both of their Pokemon.
As another thought occurred, though, they asked, "Hope I didn't intrude on anything that was supposed to be private?"
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Apr 24, 2018 6:01:31 GMT -8
Skye backed away realizing he might've startled the other, in fact he was quite used to this reaction. He waited quietly while the other gathered themself together, he listened to them go on about waking up early and getting some fresh air. Skye wouldn't know snythimg about waking up early, he'd been up for two nights straight and working on a third. Skye looked over to the pokemon in question, both were pretty cool looking. He shifts his weight to pick the board up and hold it into his hands. "I see, sorry about scaring you. Nah, this wasn't privy or anything. It's just way too early for festival goers to be here. Then again you and I are here..." Skye places his free hand on the nape of his neck. "I couldn't sleep and knew it'd be empty so I came here to practice." He paused for a moment. Perhaps he should properly introduce himself. "My name's Skylar by the way. Nice meeting you?" He still wasn't sure if the other was still receptive to him just yet but nonetheless he held out a hand for the other to grasp. There was no point in being rude, maluce was earned not given. Nikolai Laska
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Apr 29, 2018 19:18:56 GMT -8
Ahhh, good. They were glad they didn't particularly interrupt or embarrass the kid or anything. At the extended hand, Nik hesitated only about half a second, simply for 'touching a stranger' reasons more than anything else. But he seemed like a safe enough stranger, and Nik shook his hand firmly enough. "Nikolai. Or Nik, Niknak, Nikki, Nickelodeon. I'll answer to a lot heh." Nik nack patty whack give Granbull a bone.
"Anyway, don't sweat it. My sleep schedule can be pretty crazy, too. Though not as bad as my fiance's, thankfully." Readjusting their stance after reclaiming their hand, they asked, "You working on a performane or something for the festival or?"
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on May 1, 2018 4:11:58 GMT -8
It took a momen but after initial hesitation, the other person took his hand and shook it pretty firmly. They said their name, Nikolai...now why did that sound so familiar? He's heard this name somewhere before, at least he believed he did. Skye was glad that the other could not see his face. For the most obvious reasons of course but he was referring to the face journey he'd just gone through trying to recall that name. He interally shrugged, he couldn't put a name to that face but he knew he had not met this person before. "Nikolai, hmm are you famous or something?" He'd figure he'd ask at least maybe it would trigger where he heaed the name before, that was the idea anyways. He perked up hearing the other talk about not having a great sleep schedule either. Skye would have to take their word on that but a lot of time people say they have bad sleeping schedules and get like 5 to 6 hours anyways. Skye recalled being up for nearly a whole week. He felt like dying and had to take sleeping aids to finally crash. But luckily for them their fiance's was way worse, Skye raised a brow. Figuratively of course. "Oh, getting married? Congrats." Skylar found marriage to be interesting, he could never fathom the idea of two people loving one another that they'd want to be together for a long time, even forever sometimes. He'd never known love like that, he was almost envious. Love was a mutual exchange but he never believed it was forever. Skye tilted his head in a curious manner, a performer? How apt, he did look like some didn't he? He couldn't imagine performing for other people, he had very bad stage fright. He shook his head, his pigtails following his movements fluidly. "No, I'm not a performer. Just decided there was ample space to practice. Skateboarding is a hobby of mine." Nikolai Laska
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