azummeversary party post ❄🎉

[divinedescendant]

[Everyone has their own affairs to attend to, of course, and aligning twenty people's schedules is a challenge on the best of days. It's hard to get the family that saved Sinnoh and the rest of the world with it all together—but an anniversary is a perfect excuse.

Emmeryn hosts; she's made quite a home for herself in Floaroma, and there's space to sleep over for anyone unprepared to nyoom back from whence they came right away. It's snowing out, lightly enough not to be any more than a mild inconvenience, since it sticks enough to play in. If the Pokémon left in Emmeryn's care aren't out in her yard doing just that, they're probably inside being babied, wrapped up in blankets and the scarves Emmeryn gets every time Camilla visits.

There's food and an almost aggressive amount of hot beverages, and it's a bit crowded inside but it's cozy. It's a day worth commemorating, but mostly it's just nice to be together.]




a li'l mingle post to celebrate the azumendgameversary!! this is just a soft fun party thing don't stress it

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[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[Sena arrives to the get-together relatively late, running in winded and out of breath. This isn't unusual - for someone so fast, he tends to be late a lot.

The unusual thing is that he's running out from something that is decidedly not the usual...means of transport. That thing looks like an Ultra Hole.

Also he's wearing something that looks like a cross between a football uniform and some kind of weird red dragonfly...beetle...thing. It's a weird-ass sentai-suit that vanishes the moment he runs out of the ultra hole, panting and holding his own contribution to the party.

They're souveneirs from Unova and Alola! It's mostly memorabilia from Melemele Island and a college somewhere in Nimbasa City - small things.]

Huff...sorry that I'm late, Emmeryn!

[divinedescendant]

[This is not the first time this has happened, and Emmeryn treats it just like she would if he'd walked into her yard on his own two feet instead—i.e., with fussing.]

Darling, you're going to freeze, running around like that. Let's get you inside. [Without asking, she's moving in with her arms open to take some of the abundance of gifts he's carrying from him, too.]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Aw, mooooooom...

[he's affectionately fussing back, still looking like a child despite getting close to his 20's. then again, Emmeryn can do that to anyone.

She manages to get a few of the gifts he's picked out - sweaters with a stylized Zebstrika logo on them, an assortment of bobbleheads, some leis. It's quite the odd collection.]

Has anyone else shown up yet?

[discutio]

[you want to talk about busy schedules? boy howdy. can't rebuild a kingdom (a planet, really) with days off and vacations. ignis scientia has not known a single day of rest since he was six years old and he was not about to start now.]

[then again, following a noodle incident some time ago with a god of death which Ignis was informed resembled a giant bird, there was a very indignant royal that would very much have liked his advisor to both rest and stop breathing down his neck. He'd rather emphatically accepted the invitation on Ignis' behalf, and that was how a large Altaria came to be taking an emphatic birdbath in a snowbank in quite the spectacle. The rest of his team would be around and about, except for the Absol at his side as usual.]

[He did, of course, have the decency to bring copious amounts of pastry, sweets, and vegetables. All of which he appeared to be taking out of thin goddamn air and setting on the table.]

[divinedescendant]

[Emmeryn sighs as she rearranges the plates and bowls of food she's supplied on the table to make room for Ignis's contributions, but it's good-natured.]

You did not have to bring anything, but I should have expected as much.

[discutio]

My apologies for taking up quite so much space. I simply would have felt wrong to arrive empty-handed, that's all.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[Sena pops up at Ignis's side, in his usual abrupt "when the fuck did you get here" fashion. He's a bit taller, and certainly much less anxious than the last time the man saw him in the other version of Alola.]

Oh, wow, these look great! Although, I shouldn't be surprised, if it's coming from you...

Joh-!

[oh no. vee is putting her paws on the table. when did she get there. Sena's gonna just...grab her real quick.] Vee, no!

[discutio]

[WHAT-]

Sena? [how in the HELL did you even]

It's nothing, really. I just put something together fairly quickly.

[divinedescendant]

[Emmeryn, who has never rested a day in her life and has no intention of starting now, runs about the house and the yard making sure everyone is situated, keeping snacks and drinks available in the kitchen, bringing hot beverages out to everyone outside. More often than not, Mila is with her, cradled in one arm or floating idly with one blobby hand clinging to the edge of her sweater. Everyone gets greeted at the door (and hugged, if you're a hug kind of person), and absolutely no amount of winter gear will free you from her tutting,] Love, you're going to catch cold if you're out there any longer; come in, come in. [The fussing, predictably, doesn't end there; just as quickly, it's,] Let me take your things. How would you like your tea—or would you prefer hot chocolate?

[She has presents, too—in another world, it would be time for the winter festival, and even if it weren't, she's happy to take everyone's company as an excuse. Once everyone's here and settled she flits about between all her guests with one immaculately-wrapped box at a time to be placed in its recipients hands, casually as anything. Emmeryn is better at presents than I am though so if we aren't gonna handwave the contents you're gonna have to help me come up with them!!!

Otherwise, though, she'll spend the party happily hostessing, and you'll find her all over the place, checking in on everyone and just pleased as punch that you're all here.

Alternatively, if you're outside, you might find Duma with his head stuck in a snowbank, somehow.]

[niceoppai]

Oh, thanks! You went all out for this, huh? Guess that's expected of you, you always work yourself way too hard caring for everyone.

[divinedescendant]

Well, it isn't very often we're all lucky enough to be together in one place! It was well worth the effort.

[niceoppai]

[You'll see Rolly first, rolling through the snow and making happy noises. Paces behind and shivering in enough layers of jackets that you'd think they were back in the ice caves instead of a perfectly reasonable temperature, Chelsea makes a face before picking up her Spheal and coming in from the cold.]

How do you guys live in the winter?

[She's just a wimp.]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

I find that running helps!

[sena, being good at running doesn't solve everything]

Hi, Chelsea!

[niceoppai]

Hey, Sena. You doing all right? I hear you're winning a lot of awards... if Emmeryn's house is an indication.

[redbellion]

[ Two back-to-back dinners in a row...goodness. Keith may be a little burnt out on socializing, but he misses his Sinnoh friends a lot. So of course he'll show up, and he's looking pretty fancy too. At least, fancier than he was when he wore his paladin armor upon arrival the first time.

He notably looks older, at least by a few years, and has a giant scar that goes across his right cheek. Seems like he's been through a lot since everyone saw him last. He has a plate of cookies with him that are decorated like Pokeballs and he sets them on the table. They look very nicely made -- did Keith really make these...?

As he sets them on the table, he'll give a small smile to the nearest person and greet them: ]

Long time no see.

[ His Luxray, Blue, is patiently standing at his side and lets out a little growl. ]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[Sena himself is stashing random boxes under the table - they don't seem to be wrapped, but surely they're for something...

Anyways, he pops out from underneath the table, expression brightening.]

Glad you could make it!

[seems like Keith isn't the only one that's done some growing - he still looks youthful, but there's no denying that Sena's definitely lost some of his babyface. He almost looks like a college student now...if you squint!]

[redbellion]

Hey, Sena.

[ He's definitely noticed. Look at how much the both of them have grown up...! ]

You, uh, need any help under there?

[divinedescendant]

[Emmeryn is coming over to replace the cookies he's just set down with a neatly wrapped present to put in his freed up hands instead, and not that she isn't already beaming, just to see him, but her eyes light up too when she looks at the cookies.]

Did you bring these? Oh, they're absolutely precious, Keith, how thoughtful! Thank you. I'm so glad you were able to make it.

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael, for his part, arrives precisely on time. When you're coming into a different timestream, there's absolutely no reason not to. A glowing blue portal just manifests in the yard, with a totally normal-looking door in it for some reason, and Michael and Jane Doe exit. After they're through, he uses a car remote to make the whole thing go away again.]

Hey, guys!

[Michael's looking well! Basically the same, since he doesn't age, but his suit seems particularly nice today. Very much unlike his time in Sinnoh, he doesn't seem affected by the cold at all. Jane Doe is still a Haunter, and looking well; do ghost Pokemon even change that much physically?]

I told Yveltal it could drop by if it wanted. That's cool, right?

[niceoppai]

That one's, uh... baconface, right? I know it's not one of the ones we met.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, that's it. It doesn't really hang out in my afterlife much anymore, things have sort of settled down there.

How have you been?

[divinedescendant]

[Man, portals opening up in Emmeryn's yard isn't even a rare occurrence anymore. This may or may not be the first time Michael's done this but it's just a regular fuckin thing with Sena. This is just her life these days!]

...The more the merrier, I suppose. [this might as well happen.] It's very good to see you, Michael. And you as well, Jane.

[eudaimonikos]

Emmeryn!

[Michael's going in for the hug! We're doing this!]

How are you? Where's everyone else? HEY! GUYS!

[From the impending storm of Michael's other Pokemon (who can't live in the afterlife like Jane due to that being fatal), he was definitely talking about them and not everyone else in general.]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[portal buddies, eyyyyy Sena cheerfully raises a hand when he's done putting away his presents.]

Uh...that's Bacon, right? [He remembers that picture you showed him...]

I guess there's plenty of room, at least.

[eudaimonikos]

That's right! It'll show if it shows, I guess.

[It didn't seem, at the time, that Yveltal was the most social of the legendary Pokemon - but then, most of the ones they've met weren't.]

How are you?