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//video; warning for mentions of death

{When the feed clicks on, it's not immediately obvious what's happening - indeed, the scene is almost preternaturally still. A little girl with black hair slowly tiptoes across the floor towards an armchair, head cocked to the side curiously. The camera moves to follow her, and in doing so, reveals the occupant of the armchair.}

Hello, Isis. {Nanao looks old, sitting still as a statue - the Fisher King, if you would, ensconced forever on her throne. The little girl - Isis - clambers up onto her lap, burying her head beneath Nanao's chin, and whines unhappily.}

You have not been yourself, mistress. {An unfamiliar voice, wispy and thin floats out of nowhere, at least until Kiyone, her first starter and Alakazam moves forward into the picture.} What ails you?

You have my memories, do you not? {Isis curls and shifts so she too can look at the powerful Psychic - her eyes, only just visible, are the same shade of purple as Nanao's own.} That is correct.

Then I would suggest you peruse them with today's date in mind, Kiyone. {Her voice is tinged with bitterness and pain, and her arms come to hold Isis close to her chest.}

{The Alakazam is quiet for a long time, sitting cross-legged in mid-air, running through a century and a half's worth of days dated June 18.}

....I am sorry that I did not make the connection straight away, mistress. I should have checked myself. {Nanao shakes her head, and moves to stand, startling Isis, who transforms back into a Zorua. Neither the human nor the Alakazam pay this any notice.}

It is not your fault - I am just being exceptionally maudlin over events that have happened a long, long time ago. {She crosses to the window, Zorua cradled close.} By all rights, I should have forgotten....

One does not forget death easily. Especially not one's own. {Kiyone's hand closes over the 'Gear quietly, shutting it off with a flick of his claw.}

//action; Goldenrod

{In the afternoon, one might see Nanao and her considerable amount of Pokemon gracing one of Goldenrod's larger parks - the Pokemon are playing, yes, but they seem to be keeping closer to Nanao than usual. That said, they certainly will allow you to talk to her, if you so choose.}

_{{OOC: Kiyone is actually speaking English here - yes, he is now able to freak people out without telepathy. Yay? EDIT: PLEASE GO AND READ THIS FAQ, it is very important and deals with talking Pokemon! Kiyone has had over a year of practice to learn how to do this properly.}}

Current Location: Goldenrod's Parks

//Video; unfiltered

{Nanao's seated at a table, two rather massive books open in front of her.}

I have been doing some research into what caused those... extreme weather conditions, and I believe I have found out what - or more accurately, who caused it. {She picks up a sheet of paper - three large dog-like creatures are shown running.}

This is an artist's impression of the three Legendary Beasts: Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. Each is said to hold mastery over an element, and I believe that Suicune's affinity for water, specifically, its rumoured ability to be able to cleanse the most polluted of water, is why the towns and cities of Johto and Kanto were filled with rubbish. Someone - and I suspect Team Rocket - did it to lure out Suicune. It worked. {The paper is lowered.} Again, this is only a rumour, but it is said that the three have an intrinsic link, a psychic connection of some kind, which would then explain why the other two Beasts awoke.

{She breathes in deeply, hands flattening against the table's surface.} I say the other two awoke, because Raikou decided to look in through one of the windows of my house during the storm. There have also been reports from Kanto that Cinnabar's volcano began erupting again, which can be linked to Entei. According to legend, each time Entei howls, a volcano erupts. I do not know why Team Rocket chose to antagonise such amazingly powerful creatures, but I have to say that it would be incredibly foolish for them to try it again.

{She lays a hand over the top of the slightly smaller book on the table, and addresses the feed again.} I have amassed quite a bit of information pertaining to those Beasts, and towards some of the other Legendaries, so if you have a question, I will do my best to answer.

//action, late afternoon (goldenrod)

{You might see a Blaziken walking through the streets with a Nanao on her back in the afternoon.}

{Follow her, and you'll see them trace a path down towards Route 34, but take a sharp right just before the route proper begins. Flood debris litters the path, including an upright piano lodged upside down in a tree, a hole punched through it.}

{She pauses for a moment to stare at one of her most treasured possession, before nudging Charmeuse on to regard the wreckage of her home. None of the windows have glass in them - indeed, most of the walls are actually missing, with just the rickety-looking studwork holding up the top floor, which sags out alarmingly. A few sad little tulips poke through the piles of junk and sand left by the retreating floodwaters.}

Goddamn it.

{So, how bout those hideous weather conditions? Pretty bad time to be at the beach, don't you think?}

{Isn't it a pity that Nanao's house is literally just next to the beach... And the feed shows her staring despondently at the waves lapping at the top of the hastily-erected sandbag wall in front of her porch. A baby Absol is curled on her lap, whimpering unhappily.}

I suppose that even I know when it is more prudent to retreat than to keep fighting.

{Wheeling back inside, it seems that most of the movable furniture has been taken upstairs, but the upright piano sits defiantly in the middle of a bare room. Too big to be taken upstairs, and too unwieldy to really be moved, there is little chance of it surviving the flood. The light flickers overhead.}

I would really appreciate a hand in leaving, given that I'm stuck in a wheelchair, and my lone Water-type is too young-- {A massive crash of lightning rattles the windows, and the light finally gives up the ghost and dies, leaving the room dark.} ...well.

Help would be wonderful, the sooner the better.

{OOC: She'll be replying to video tags ICly an hour later, but action tags would be absolutely fabulous c:}

//video
{Hello, Johto! Today you have a rather philosophical Nanao popping up on your 'Gears.}

I have a question for you, fellow inhabitants of Johto. What does Christmas mean to you?

//action
{Since it's a lovely sunny Sunday, Nanao is out and about and indulging in what looks to be retail therapy at most of the stores in Goldenrod. Interact Y/N?}

Current Location: Goldenrod

{When the feed clicks on, there's a Togepi peering curiously at the screen. She trills, and picks it up awkwardly, giving the network a lovely view of Nanao's bare feet and ankles, which grow steadily larger as the little egg Pokemon toddles unsteadily towards her.}

Love, Kanra - I wonder what that's all about... Oh, hello there. {And suddenly we're flying through the aiiiir~ but not really, as Nanao gently sets the Togepi next to her on the piano stool. The 'Gear gets unceremoniously dropped, and the view changes to one through the open back door, where a Houndour is making a concerted effort to try to attack a laughing Alakazam, who is simply avoiding every single attack with ease.}

Yes, yes, I missed you too, Miki. {The Togepi squeaks happily, and Nanao laughs a little - and outside the noises of battling cease for a moment, as the Houndour starts to glow.} Huh?

{The Houndour grows bigger and bigger... and bigger still, until it finally stops, and the Pokedex goes 'ding', announcing the fact that 'your Shuuhei has evolved into a Houndoom'. But Nanao ignores that, and accidentally leans against some of the keys of the piano as she turns around properly to see out the door.}

. . . My dog has turned into a horse. I can't believe it. {Her Houndoom looks to be just as surprised, as he looks himself over in a state of shock, before something seems to click inside his brain, and he turns to face the Alakazam, who is simply standing there.}

{And then the giant canine leaps for the fox-like psychic, and Kiyone can't move fast enough to get away. There's a few moments of slack-jawed silence from Nanao, before she mutters something along the lines of "I can't believe I'm going to do this." and a familiar sounding piano tune starts up.}

{This is a wacky chase scene accompanied by the Benny Hill theme on the piano, Johto. You're welcome.}

//action - Solas Fide Bungalow

( cut for prose )

//text - locked to ~~half of Johto~~ France, Ken Hidaka, Souji, Yosuke, Rise, Atsuro, Envy, Tulio, Marona, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Byakuya, Otacon, Miguel, Shelly de Killer, Crow, Kaito, Gaga, Professor Layton, England, Cruz, and Cooper

So. It seems I can walk again. {Yep. Short, sweet, and to the point.}

//video/action

{When the feed clicks on, a few final-sounding notes of piano music rise up into the air, and we have a lovely view of... the carpet?!}

It is a beautiful piano, but...

-You cannot afford it, right?- {Nanao laughs mournfully, and the picture moves from staring at the carpet to one that shows Goldenrod's small but well-stocked music store. The salesman is leaning on a beautiful grand piano, on whose keys Nanao's gloved fingers still rest.}

You have that right. Apart from the price, I'm pretty sure that it would take up most of the space in the room I intend to put it in. {Reverently, she runs her fingers over the top of it, and sighs.} I don't suppose you have an upright, do you?

-You're in luck. We've just received one from Kanto, actually. Would you like to try it out?- {She nods, and he gestures over, the camera following the movement to reveal... a humble-looking polished wood upright piano. Nanao's voice sounds from out of frame.}

May I? {The salesman must have nodded, because she makes a delighted noise, and wheels over, carefully negotiating her way through the close-stacked piles of sheet music and recorders. She lifts the lid, and looks over her shoulder one last time, before she sets her fingers to the keys and begins to play. Tentative at first, she exhales and starts to lose herself in the music. There's no known notes to guide her, no carefully annotated sheet music, just herself and the piano and her memories.}

{The sheer sound cascades from her fingers out into the store, filling it with melody and joy and melancholy all at once, and it seems to be over all too soon, and she's left leaning over the keys, the last remnants of the sound fading slowly into the air, and she smiles.}

I'll take it.

//text, private to Hitsugaya Toushirou

I know Hyourinmaru vanished when Hinamori-san vanished, but Shiryuu needs a better trainer than I - and she's much calmer than Golduck-san.

{ooc: Feel free to bump into Nanao if you're in and around Goldenrod! You might even see her trundling through the streets of Goldenrod with a piano hovering behind her. There's an Alakazam sitting on top of the piano, which may or may not explain things.}

//action a - streets of Goldenrod
{If you're out and about in the lovely sunshine-filled streets of Goldenrod today (and why wouldn't you be?), you'll probably hear before you see an argument between one wheelchair-bound Ise Nanao, and her Alakazam.}
No, Kiyone, the fabric shop is that way, and the paper shop is that way.
Ala! Kazam ka alakazam!
I think I trust Kanji-san's directions - he's been there before, and you haven't!
Al. A. Ka. Zam.
No, you're wrong! H-hey, put me down! I'll have Shuuhei bite your ankles again!
{Kiyone's apparently given up on using words to win this fight, and has simply started levitating her and her wheelchair, and is marching off in a random direction just to spite her. You can a) laugh, b) stare, c) jam it in (why would you though) or d) try to help.}

//action b - Goldenrod Pokemon Centre
{Doop doop, doing the check-up thing, and checking the PC and- Wait. What was that.}
No. No way. I don't-

No.

//video, action for housemates.
{When the feed clicks on, Nanao, while still seated in her wheelchair, looks a lot less happy than she should be. A rather confused Mareep is curled at her feet.}

It seems that Edward Elric and Hawkeye have gone home, since I have recieved their Pokemon. {She breathes out slowly.} However, this leaves me with a real problem. I have a few too many Pokemon, and after talking it over with them, I am prepared to give away some of them.

Hitsugaya-san, I have already sent you your Golduck, but if anyone else would like to discuss with me the Pokemon you would like, please reply to this video. {She nods, and the video cuts out.}

{OOC: Right! The Pokemon that are up for offer are: a level 49 Venusaur, a level 15 Lapras, and a level 17 Ralts (that wants to evolve into a Gardevoir, not a Gallade.). Casanova the Ditto will be handed over to Souji's Breeding Extravaganza if no one wants it. Also, the call for housemates is still open! Nanao's house is a charming bungalow with clear views out to the sea on the southern outskirts of Goldenrod. Rent is P200 a month, and they're pretty much allowed to stay for as long as they want provided they help with the household things every now and again.}

Current Location: Goldenrod

//video/action

( Cut for dialogue and wheelchairs. )

//mass text

If you are in the vicinity of Goldenrod, and have a few spare hours on hand, would you mind terribly if you came and gave me a hand in cleaning up my house? Many hands make light work, after all. Also: I'm looking for housemates. The repayments on the bungalow aren't bad, but I can't work at the moment, and I'd like the company.

{ooc: This is a call for housemates! Male or female doesn't matter, but they must be staying in Goldenrod for at least a month. Board is P200 a week, and since Nanao is stuck in a wheelchair, someone who can cook would be good. |D}

{I'll be putting up a header in the comments for action cleaning - threadjacking is encouraged! Thank you for your attention~}

Current Location: Solas Fide Bungalow

{This feed today is brought to you by Ghostly Balloons Inc, and showcases a lovely sunlight-filled room, with a daybed positioned near the open windows, where a faint breeze ruffles the curtains gently. As Drifloon-san is blown gently to the other side of the room, the figures lying on the bed comes into focus.}

It must be a wonderfully sunny day, hey, Shinrai? {It's none other than Nanao, who looks a heck of a lot better than she did last time she appeared on the network, although she's still wrapped in bandages, not least including her eyes, which are still covered, and her sling-clad left arm. Her right hand is resting on a strange stone, fingers smoothing over the slick surface.}

Riolu!

You said it, little one. {She laughs a little, and scritches gently behind his ears. For his part, Shinrai still has bandages around his middle, but he sounds happy.}

Souji-san sure is nice to let us stay here while we recover, isn't he? {Sigh} I do hate to be an imposition, but -

{Her sentence is cut off by the sudden arrival of a Ralts, glowing faintly white in the sunshine - but then it moves into the shade, and it's clear that this particular glow is that of ~evolutionnnn~ and boy, does Nanao sound surprised.}

Ikka?! What are you doing - are you evolving? {Shinrai levers himself upright, and the glow brightens, and Ikka's silhouette changes from that of a Ralts to something a fair sight taller.}

Kirrr! {He spins in place twice, before he minces over, and picks up the Dawn Stone, immediately triggering his second evolution. Nanao protests feebly, but she can but wait as the glow brightens to painful levels, and Ikka's body grows and shifts, until the glow fades again, and a Gallade stands next to the daybed.}

Wh-why? What made you do this? {Nanao sounds more confused than shocked.} I thought you wanted to wait -

Galla. Gallade. {He reaches over, and brushes a lock of hair away from her forehead, and Nanao's mouth forms an "o"}

O-oh. You want to protect me - {And the Drifloon drops the 'Gear, ending the transmission.}

{ooc: Nanao is laid up in the Breeding Centre, but is pretty much bedbound for the characters in residence there. She will however be responding to all 'Gear replies! ...after the Drifloon picks it up from behind the cupboard.}

Current Location: Yu & Yuudai's Breeding Centre

- not this again! For god's sake, I've only just started to get things back to normal - what. {Yes, this is a very annoyed-looking Nanao staring straight at the 'Gear's camera.}

What is it, Kiyone. {This is a tone that tolerates no idle fools.} Alaaa. Alakazam. Kazam.

...fine. {The camera jerks, and follows Nanao into her bedroom. There's a bed, a chest of drawers, and a low cabinet, but that's about it. Clothes are scattered all over her bed, and she shoves them rather haphazardly into her pack, leaving her carefully folded kimono until last.}

So it seems that I obviously have not been punished enough for my crimes, and I have to leave town. Again. {The Riolu that's sprawled on her pillow squeaks as she picks him up and carefully puts him in the sling across her chest, and she picks up the pack from the bed.}

As a direct collorary, it would be very much appreciated if someone could watch my house for the three weeks that I'll be gone for. {Moving back into the kitchen, we see a rather large Charmeleon packing tins of food into another bag. There's also now a dining table, and three mismatched chairs, on top of which more supplies are all laid out.}

{She gestures to Kiyone to cut the video, but one final sentence sneaks in before the feed ends.} I am just so sick and tired of this.

Good afternoon, Johto. {This, for once, appears to be an actual deliberate post from Nanao, which is new.} Or, I should rather say, people in and around the Goldenrod area.

Consider this an offer for afternoon tea, at my house. It has been quite some time since I have had a nice, quiet, normal chat with someone, and I'd appreciate the company.

Please reply to this if you are interested, as I'm not about to give out my address in an open post.

{She goes to turn the 'Gear off, when there's a loud 'Speeaaar!' in the background, and she brings it back up again.}

Oh, and Crow? Your Spearow misses you... dearly.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: Solas Fide Bungalow

( Cut for teal deers and (illegal) shenanigans )

//video, accidental.

{There's a jumble of sound and light, and the rather distinctive roar of the Kangaskhan Police.} Damnit, I didn't think they'd be here this fast!

{More dull thuds happen, and several shouted commands, before a huge billowing smoke cloud erupts from the upper right corner of the 'Gear, and slowly spreads across the screen.} Good boy, Renji! Let's go.

{The sound of the Kangaskhan Police soon fades, and then there's only the sound of running feet, and the feed times out to the view of a pair of trainer-clad feet, a tail tipped with flame, and the undulating frame of a Furret.}

//text, open.

I seem to be on the run from the law. How long before they stop looking for me?

{Nanao has rather obviously broken the law, and is running south to Ilex Forest to avoid the long paw of the Kangaskhan Police. Feel free to tag all over this - if they saw her running through Goldenrod, running towards Ilex, were at the Pokemon Centre etc. Also mod-approved!}

{It's early evening, and at Ise's house, they're eating dinner. On the floor, because Nanao has no furniture yet. On the plus side, from what can be seen of the house, it seems that renovations have finally been completed, as the walls have been repainted, and the bare wooden boards have been scoured clean. Nanao (who is dressed in her nurse's outfit) waves briefly at the camera, before going back to her soup.}

Hello, Johto. It's been a while, and, as you can see, I've finally finished overhauling the house. It was a long job, but I'm glad I finished before summer hit, if what you all told me about the seasons was accurate. {She gestures to something with the spoon, and the camera swivels around to find an egg in what looks to be a cradle with eyes, with a grumpy-looking Charmeleon sitting beside it, warming the egg with it's tail flame.}

And I have acquired yet another egg. Hopefully this will be the last one for a while, as I really need to start focusing on raising them all. You, ah, may have seen me wandering about, looking pregnant - that was because I was carrying this egg around. {She frowns, briefly, before going back to the soup.} Does anyone else have an egg from Easter that hasn't hatched yet? It's been nearly two weeks, and I'm a little concerned about the Pokemon inside.

I'm taking it in with me to work this evening, but I'm not - wait. {That may have been something like a crack. Everyone moves in, and the cradle transforms back into a Ditto, and it stares curiously at the egg. There's silence for a little while, but the egg has fallen silent again.} That's the fifth or sixth time that it's done that, and I don't know why.

{She reaches out a hand, and gently lays it on the egg, and the shell seems to crumble beneath her touch, and suddenly, in a wash of amniotic fluid, the tiny and far too still form of a Riolu appears.} No...

{The camera blurs, and for a few minutes, only garbled pictures and sound comes through - running feet, the calls of Pokemon, the sudden shift from light to dark to almost-strobing light, and the change in the BGM to the rather familiar tune of the Pokemon Center. When it stabilises, Nanao is slumped on a chair in the staff break room, head in hands.}

I should have known something was wrong - why am I even allowed to do this? He could be dead, and it would be fault..!

{The camera switches off, but not before it catches the sight of Casanova the Ditto transforming into something that looks distinctly human.}

{ooc: She's in the Goldenrod PKMN Center - feel free to run into her, because she really, really needs a hug now.}

//action A

( Early mornings by the beach at Sola Fide bungalow. )

//action B

( Working late nights at the Goldenrod Pokemon Centre )

//video, unfiltered

( In which eggs have hatched; and Nanao is the best mother. )

{{OOC: I may be on hiatus, but feel free to tag this post. I'll keep an eye on it, and tag every now and again.}}

Current Location: Goldenrod

Whitney. We meet at last. {There's some rustling, and then the 'Gear finally orients itself into a mostly upright position. We will be using Ivysaur-cam for this poarticular episode of Nanao's Life.}
( cut for battle and housekeys )

{{ooc: Badge and house acquisition were both mod-approved! AND YES, SHE DOES WANT HOUSEGUESTS}}

Current Location: Goldenrod Gym

//audio; unfiltered

Oh my dear Lord - Casanova, what did you do?! There are - oh, no. See? This is why I shouldn't have...

//video

{The feed clicks on to Nanao standing in her room in the Pokemon Centre. Surrounded by eggs. Eggs of every colour, shape and size.

... There's a rather guilty looking Ditto just in frame.}

As you can see, my newly acquired Ditto went to work more quickly than I expected. I have quite a number of eggs here, and I am willing to trade them for other pokemon eggs, or items of similar value.

Dear me, how did you even - Doesn't matter.

There are Abra, Skarmory, Lunatone, Poliwhirl, and Psyduck eggs - and I know the Abra eggs will have Thunderpunch when they hatch, if that is a help to you.

And you, Casanova, are never to do anything like that ever again!

{{OOC: EGGS, EGGS EVERYWHERE. Some have been claimed by the trading post, but feel free to ask! There are THREE Abra eggs, TWO Skarmory, TWO Lunatone, TWO Poliwhirl, and ONE Psyduck egg. PLEASE, SHE DOESN'T REALLY WANT ALL OF THESE.}}

If one were out and about in Goldenrod tonight, and looking for a bar, one might just wander into the Golden Charmander, conveniently located one block north of the Hotel and three blocks west of the Pokemon Centre. And one would see a woman with long black hair seated at the bar, nursing a glass of scotch.

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( Cut for art )

If one then decided to approach this woman, you might hear her talking to herself. "Congratulations, Ise. You've managed to survive four entire months in Johto, to this very day. Happy anniversary."

//text, to entire network

How long have you people been here?

Current Location: Golden Charmander

I, ah, seem to have two new additions to my team. {Nanao steps away from the camera to show an unruffled Golduck and an unhappy-looking Happiny.} The Golduck came from Hitsugaya-taichou, but I'm not quite sure who the Happiny's mother used to be.

{At the mention of 'mother', the little Happiny wibbles, and bursts into tears} Oh, no, little one, please don't cry - it'll be okay, I promise. Shh, shh, come on now... {She sits down and gathers the little 'Mon into her arms} So if anyone could tell me who her mother was, I'd be very grateful.

...Do you want me to sing for you? {She nods, and Nanao gently brushes away a tear, before drawing breath}

"I've heard it said/That people come into our live/For a reason..."

{And the feed times out to Nanao sitting on the sidewalk, Happiny cradled in her lap, singing 'For Good' to the little 'Mon. Feel free to interact etc}

"No, no, don't you dare do this, don't you dare!"