Alone in the City [open]

Drinking on a boat was such a horrible idea. It turned out Roxy wasn’t so good with ships. They swayed and moved along in the water and the motions made her feel sick as hell. Of course, she’d decided a few martinis would definitely cure her of this seasickness! In hindsight, that had been really stupid.

The nausea that came with drinking too much, when combined with the seasickness, had left her feeling like shit. As soon as she got off the boat she’d puked her guts out into the ocean. Ew.

But whatever, never mind those terrible decisions. Getting onto dry land that didn’t move had definitely helped her feel better, and the walk down Route 6 had sobered her up. By the time she was at Saffron City, she was pretty much functional! Really, it was a miracle she hadn’t been attacked by wild Pokémon on the way there. Perhaps the stench of booze had warned them off?

With a bit of luck, she’d be meeting up with Janey here sometime today, but until then it couldn’t hurt to take a look around, right? She was gonna scope out the Gym, maybe win a contest, lead an attack on the Batterwitch HQ… shit, where was Hermione running off too?

The Skitty was running over to join a lost-looking troll girl. Another new trainer, maybe? Roxy followed her over, glad she was no longer stumbling over her own feet. It wouldn’t do to terrify some poor girl by looking like the City Drunk.

“Hey!” Oh thank fuck, she hadn’t slurred her words, “younew to the skitty tooo?” Damn, she’d definitely fucked up that sentence. “City. S’what I meant. Though that totes is my nosey-ass Skitty. Meet Hermione.” She gave the troll a friendly grin, scooping her Pokémon into her arms.

Roxy was not completely sure if the girl was making fun of her at first, repeating her dumb mouth-typo back at her. But when she paid attention to the girl’s words, she started to notice something. Something REALLY COOL.

“Omg. Are you using CAT PUNS? That is the cutest-” she paused to hiccup, “-fuckin’ think ever. Ilu.” She made a heart symbol with her hands and thought about giving one of her trademark WONKS, before deciding that would look waaaaaay too cheesy.

“I’ve never actually been here, believe it or not. Even though I’m totes a Kantonian. What a joke, never going to the biggest city in the region, right? Mom’s always keepin’ me in the house, shit sucks. I’m from, like, Fuchsia City, be-te-dubs. Where the Safari Zone and all that is.” Roxy was pretty fond of her hometown, even if she did feel a little isolated at times.

She squealed as soon as the troll's Pokemon was introduced to her. “Woah, Pounce is a cutie. I’d love a Purrloin, they’re so sweet. I basically just want a whole team of kitties, hahaha! Hey Hermione, go make friendly.” She put her Pokemon in the ground and let it trot over to the other cat, sniffing it curiously.

“Nice to meetcha, Nepeta. Can I call ya Neps? And oh, I’m Roxy.” She extended a hand, slightly tipsy grin on her face.

“I don’t like cat puns so much as just… kitties in general! I’d probs be pretty shitty at puns, I trend to fuck some of the words up. Hehe, if I cut back on the booze I guess I could try puns, but like that’s ever gon’ happen. Still! It’s nice hearing yours, I’m totes impress- impurressed.” Oh yeah, she was good. Maybe she’d get into this pun thing. Get some sick wizard puns all up in her every day speech.

“Fight with yur own claws????? Hopy shit, catgirl. You sound pretty tough! I dunno what reason I’m undertaking this here sexy journey of self diclovery. I was thinking I’d do some of these contests… and maybe some gyms too. Mostly I just wanna get out and see the world, you know? Meet new people! I spent so LONG cooped up in Fuchia City.” She rolled her eyes, not particularly caring to think about how lousy and crappy it had been.

“So! You in Saffron for the CONTEST??? Me and Hermione are totally gonna enter and kick some ass. I figured I’d stay in the area up until the contest, maybe check out some of the nearby cities too, I guess. Fight some Pokemon on the routes, see the sights, ETC. What’re your plans?” Roxy knew in the back of her mind she was probably being a little overly friendly and possibly annoying this girl, but she couldn't help but feel a little excitable! After all, this was the first fellow-trainer she had met on her travels.