is it a little ill advised to go alone when she has only lost battles so far? maybe. is that going to stop her from hopping onto a line by herself when they split, though? absolutely not. lucretia will throw hands with a pokemon herself if she must.
The fog is much less dense on this platform! But you can see that, similar to the Nimbasa Line, a train is already pulled up, with one car open for you to enter. There are a lot of pictures posted in this car!
The scenes depicted in the pictures include: - Emmet and Ingo on a large bed, tangled in colorful strings. - Da Vinci in a wedding dress on the beach at sunset, smiling at the camera. - Vicious and Ingo on a default motel bed (fully clothed, though Ingo's hands are on Vicious's thigh). - Saturn sitting in Ingo's lap on the floor of the Pool Hall, as they hug. - Lucretia confronting her Shadow, a younger Lucretia. - A generic shot of Lear, Gordie, and Piers. - Hilda looking upset as she watches a slideshow. - Ingo hugging Oriphi in tears, in the aerial elevator game. - Arthur in a pile of clothing from Doki Doki Bingo, picking out outfits. - Ritsuka cheering on a Pokemon battle between Ingo and Emmet.
[ah... most are unfamiliar, but she looks them over with a little sense of fondness, anyway. well-- the majority. some make her brow furrow slightly, instead, especially the ones with him and ori in the elevator game (she certainly remembers that one well) and the one with her own shadow.
that one's a little surprising to her, a little unexpected to find here; she lingers on it a moment more before deciding not to look at that one any further.]
The understanding lingers with you as you turn away:
She's a sensible, dependable woman, and you're glad she's a teammate of yours. You were surprised to hear she was facing such devastating tragedy and self-criticism, and felt inspired by her tenacity in the face of it—her encouragement of you to fight, too. You can sense a wall that she keeps up, that you can't overcome with your politeness. But it's her business if she keeps the wall, you think. You only hope it helps her more than it hurts her to have it up.
In the very beginning of your reunion you felt some fear, recognizing how much power he held over you. The vast expectations he had for you. The concept is hard to comprehend nowadays, even if a vague memory lingers. Does the sky hold power over the earth? It is a meaningless question to ask for two things that coexist closely enough to be one continuous whole. When the sky fills in all the gaps of the earth, is a vast expectation so unreasonable for either of you? Should you limit the definition of yourself, just out of fear? You can be considered separately. But why would you want to be?
[(is this how they felt? she never asked when she had a chance. none of them could fully understand, anyway.)
...she's told ingo here, though, that she'll do what she can to make sure he and his brother go home together, and things like this-- they solidify it. they should have what she wasn't able to give her crewmates, her own chosen family, and ingo should have his whole self. that's exactly what this is for.
so with that-- time to look forward, she thinks. she'd best be ready when this train finds its destination.]
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is it a little ill advised to go alone when she has only lost battles so far? maybe. is that going to stop her from hopping onto a line by herself when they split, though? absolutely not. lucretia will throw hands with a pokemon herself if she must.
time for sphinx line!]
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she steps inside, though, to inspect those pictures! what do we have in this car.]
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- Emmet and Ingo on a large bed, tangled in colorful strings.
- Da Vinci in a wedding dress on the beach at sunset, smiling at the camera.
- Vicious and Ingo on a default motel bed (fully clothed, though Ingo's hands are on Vicious's thigh).
- Saturn sitting in Ingo's lap on the floor of the Pool Hall, as they hug.
- Lucretia confronting her Shadow, a younger Lucretia.
- A generic shot of Lear, Gordie, and Piers.
- Hilda looking upset as she watches a slideshow.
- Ingo hugging Oriphi in tears, in the aerial elevator game.
- Arthur in a pile of clothing from Doki Doki Bingo, picking out outfits.
- Ritsuka cheering on a Pokemon battle between Ingo and Emmet.
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that one's a little surprising to her, a little unexpected to find here; she lingers on it a moment more before deciding not to look at that one any further.]
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She's a sensible, dependable woman, and you're glad she's a teammate of yours. You were surprised to hear she was facing such devastating tragedy and self-criticism, and felt inspired by her tenacity in the face of it—her encouragement of you to fight, too. You can sense a wall that she keeps up, that you can't overcome with your politeness. But it's her business if she keeps the wall, you think. You only hope it helps her more than it hurts her to have it up.
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[she says, quietly, as she exhales a little sigh.]
You might realize why, eventually.
[it's for the best, because if he knew her better-- well. she can't imagine it would go over well.
...but let's not think too hard on that. she goes back to the first one, of him and emmet.]
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...she's told ingo here, though, that she'll do what she can to make sure he and his brother go home together, and things like this-- they solidify it. they should have what she wasn't able to give her crewmates, her own chosen family, and ingo should have his whole self. that's exactly what this is for.
so with that-- time to look forward, she thinks. she'd best be ready when this train finds its destination.]
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