First thread!

[Gamzee Makara]

Gamzee: Concur

That sure was a complicated word, but you'd be amazed how much your vocabulary expands when you spend approximately half your time reading Karkat's rants. Regardless, it applies to the situation pretty well, because Gamzee most certainly agrees that locating the rest of his teammates would be the preferable course of action. He nods, grinning widely.

"Sounds like a motherfucking plan, sis," he chimes.

He then turns his head to scan the crowd with a startling amount of gusto. This is probably temporary, though. He's proven time and again that focusing on anything in particular for more than a few minutes is nigh impossible. For the moment, though, he seems like he may be happy. After all, his height gives him a better range of vision through the crowd. After a moment of looking around, though, he gets a slightly confused look on his face and, miraculously, manages to hold on to the thought of what he's doing.

"Where'd you, uh, motherfucking see them last?"

Oh my god, a sensible question. Miracles everywhere today. Gamzee was on a roll.

Buddy Rich: Be the nuisance

Meanwhile, Buddy Rich had decided to completely disregard his trainer in favour of socialising. Or rather, his personal pokemon idea of socialisation. Which consisted of floating around in zig-zaggy patterns and whizzing past people's heads at alarming speeds and proximities until he located another pokemon. Which actually didn't take him long at all. Soon, a certain Gastly would find themselves with company in the form of a shuppet making something of a snickering noise at the mischief to be had. Lick attacks on the humans? Classic.

[OldDamara]

For a while now, Feferi had just been standing in the same spot, staring at the horizon. Just thinking about all of the upcoming possibilities made her head feel light and made her stomach tickle. All of the relationships that she was to eventually forge! All of the people she was to meet! All of the places she was to see! It made her toes tap, her eyes glaze over in deep thought. She knew for a fact that this was going to be the best adventure ever, but when she snapped out of it she sort of realized why you should actually live in the moment.

Everyone had moved! And now everyone had grouped up! Gosh, where had her friends gone?
She looked around and spotted them, but the idea of walking back up to them after she had embarrassingly zoned out like that was really unappealing. They would probably think that she was some sort of weird, dysfunctional girl who couldn't tell her gills from her toes! What an awful scenario!
She trudged off to the side, despondent. She shouldn't have thought about what she was about to do when she could build up to that in the now! How was she supposed to make friends if she kept just thinking about having them instead of actually taking the time to forge the relationship?

She grumbled to herself and put her fingers to the Pokeball in her bag. It comforted her, knowing that no matter how stupid she looked, she would have a creature who looked up to her.
They could always have a whale of a time (and the second she thought that she wanted to groan because really, that was a shitty pun even for her standards! It wasn't even a pun, just an awful nautical reference stuck where it didn't belong!)!

She glanced around for a group to join -- one where people weren't too invested in the other people, one where she could squeeze in and hope to forget her embarrassing space-out.

Oh, those two gills girls looked nice!

Feferi shuffled over to a jade-blooded girl and her human friend (or companion, or enemy, or awkward acquaintance -- Feferi had no idea). "Hi! What are you gills up to?

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Oh god wait.
She mentally went back over her sentence. Had she honestly said "gills?" Really? She had thought it when she had seen them, but she was pretty sure that she had abandoned all hope of actually using it.
Shoot, now she looked like a downright fool! A reel blobfish!

Oh god, were these puns even voluntary anemonemore? [/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]

[ellie [ex-everything]]

Cute together.
Kanaya honestly wasn't the type to go around exclaiming how "cute" something was without regard to the person wearing the in question item, and much less cared for the aesthetics of a pokemon, of all things. It was a purely Trollian (human?) adjective. The term "cute" inspired an intense desire for moiralliegence, cuddling, and feelings jams -- not a simple Growlithe with her own meddling Pokemon firmly affixed on its head.
Charming, though? Ah, most definitely.

The troll smiled at her human companion, using her fingers to cover her mouth as she said, "I concur -- they certainly do seem to like each other, would you not say? That is, for the moment. I must admit that I'm not quite sure how long Muli will deign to put this up. She's a rather impossible creature if I may be blunt. Charming in her own ways, but thoroughly infuriating.

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Usually she might have allowed her cheer to fall when it came to such statements, or maybe she would have faltered and allowed herself to calm down a little, but where was the rush? Oh, sure, Vriska had just stalked off and she was almost-abandoned to her own devices in a world that regularly killed children such as herself, but what was the simple point of worrying or dwelling too much on it when she was faced with a friend?
A... friend in the same situation, by the looks of things. And there was a definite wisdom in that old quote, oh, what was it. Something in numbers. Details, details, trivial details. She had the gist, didn't she? But no, erm. What was it, really? Comfort in numbers, letters in numbers, friendship, honesty, morality, wisdom--
Ah! Right. Safety. There she went.
Safety in numbers.

Sensibly speaking, they both could use some company, couldn't they? And Jade was reasonably friendly and likely very stupid-- erm, sorry. No, she wasn't going to be rude in this inner monologue here, she was sure that Jade had an intelligence level that was simply just incapable of proper transaction through the instant messaging form. It was difficult, after all, to appear educated through simple text that one was prone to fall asleep through a good majority of the time.
Erm.
But yes, intelligent. There were different forms of intelligence, weren't there? Or at least that's what Rose claimed. There were, erm.
How many was it. Eight? Seven? No, nine. Nine. Definitely nine.
And she was bound to possess a disproportionate amount of knowledge in at least one of those areas that Kanaya could honestly not be bothered to try to wrack her memory to remember (spatial-kinesthetic? no, that didn't make sense, ughh, stop this at once!).
With any luck. That she didn't believe in, by the way.
She wasn't that delusional, thanks.

Muli pressed her face into Jade's Growlithe's fur in complete contentment, and Kanaya leapt at the chance.
"Well seeing as our Pokemon clearly enjoy each other's company and also I notice that we are both in the state of being alone in this place, would you like to team up, as it were? Two is greater than one, and I do promise to be a useful teammate if that's what this comes down to. Muli might not be the most exceptional of offensive allies but I must at least make an attempt to console you that I am not much the same.[/color]"
She smiled a little, fingers still covering her mouth in embarrassment from this expression of a plea, or friendship, or whatever it was by this point.

Kanaya was just about to extend her hand in the human expression of "sealing a deal" (so to speak) when she noticed someone else approaching. Someone else decidingly alone and probably longing for some kind of company.
Oh, hello Feferi.
Hmm, since when did she not have her moirail trailing behind her uselessly, or any other number of benefactors? Not to sound rude or anything, she quite liked the girl, herself. How could one fail to be charmed by such an open personality, especially in one so esteemed?
It was a nice change of pace, to be perfectly blunt.

Oh.
Gills.
Oh.
Really, Feferi.
Were we really using the word "gills" as to mean "girls" I mean this didn't strike you as being in the slightest bit oh she didn't know a tad overkill?
No?
Well there was truly no accounting for taste in the typical pun user, she supposed.
But then again, it didn't really bother her if she was totally honest. Everyone had their little ticks, things that made them work. If she was to go off on a tangent about every little thing that annoyed her about her friends or, worse, the things she probably did that made others dislike her, she would be standing there with a dumbfounded expression for the rest of the day.

"Oh same as usual seeing as I am in possession of a land-based windchute vascular system and am in clear lack of those slits one may call a gill, Feferi. How are yours faring? Breathing -- or whatever it is you may call it I'm not sure on the particulars excuse me if that sounded rude I didn't exactly intend it to but I'm noticing that it might have -- well lately?[/color]"
Her smile widened, and there was a little choke of a private-sounding laugh.
That had been a good one.

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[Jade Harley]

Jade shrugged slightly. "Oh I'm sure the two of them will get along just fine, Bec is pretty cool with everything," she laughed slightly, "he has played around with some Pokemon a lot bigger than him before on Cinnabar and they all got along just fine!" Of course she failed to mention that Becquerel's playing can be borderline battling, usually during the occasional bursts of energy that he would get. He could sometimes be such an overexcited pup, dashing around like a bullet. But he knows when to keep his head, or at least Jade thinks he knows. It can be really hard to tell what he is thinking sometimes. But, right now he was clearly relaxed, enjoying the attention from the other soft and fluffy Pokemon.

"Oh, sure we could totally team up!" Jade said, clapping her hands together happily. "And don't worry we haven't really battled at all but Bec is super fast and strong!" Bec normally would have barked a comment but he was very content at the moment and didn't want to startle Muli.

Jade turned to Feferi after the greeting and waved. "Oh, hey! We were just talking about joining up and traveling together!" She tried not to laugh to hard at Kanaya's response though, she thought that Kanaya actually took the pun literally and she didn't want to seem rude by laughing, but a couple of snickers still snuck by.

[turntablegod]

Dave looked at John as he struck a pose, then raised his eyebrows and looked down at Casey, who didn't do the same. He nodded his head and turned to look at Dirk, and- Where did he go? Dirk? Oh well. Can't keep track of everyone.
He looked around for his pokemon, picking up Seppukrow from the ground. He petted his bird, cradling the thing in one arm while it looked around. The pokemon looked at Casey and squawked at her, flapping it's wings. Dave frowned and wrapped an arm around the bird's wings to stop it from flying off.
"man this thing is a handful. jesus whats even wrong with Seppukrow calm down stupid. whats your deal all of a sudden calm your shit down stupid bird"
Seppukrow squawked again and pecked Dave, who pulled out the bird's pokeball and returned it
"stupid bird..."

[Equius Zahhak]

((Okay I feel like this is the most perfect visual response to this situation i.imgur.com/zDCgH.jpg ))
Anyway

Equius is paralyzed! Equius is unable to move!
That was disgutsing. Absolutely disgusting. Now shivering from the paralyzing effects of Gastly saliva, Equius clenched his fists, trying hard not to impulsively punch the small ghost type into nonexistance.
"W-what... in the name o-of..."
This was so gross. It was unbecoming of someone of such high social status to be stuck in such a compromising situation and he could feel himself getting heated with rage as he considered who this nuisance might belong to. Is it Gamzee? It seems like something he would do, going around licking people without their consent. Disgusting. But Gamzee's Pokemon was flying out in the open, a little Shuppet.
He looked around and considered all of the options (as quickly as one could in this situation).
Of course, he should have known.
The lowest of the lowb100ds. The rustiest of reds. Of course it was her.
How dare she allow her unsavory taste in Pokemon out from it's confinement and then permit it to just go about assaulting people with no consequences? That girl. He had many conflicting opinions of her. All of which he considered while mindlessly staring directly at her.

[Nepeta Leijon]

As Aradia had moved ahead to go mingle with other trainers, Sollux simply decided to stay behind. He didn’t really know many people here. Besides, the people he did in fact know were probably busy chatting away with someone else. Karkat was probably still angry at him; of course it didn’t really bug Sollux, seeing him agitated had enough amusement to it. It was sort of annoying as well, but more so amusing than anything.
As Sollux glanced around at those chatting, he felt something upon his shoulder. He glanced to find his Weedle. He couldn’t help but wonder how the thing got on his shoulder so suddenly, last thing he noticed about it was it was on the ground. He shoved it off his shoulder onto the ground. Like he wanted everyone to realize he had such a weak Pokemon yet.
He simply decided that hey, if he stood where he was, no one would really notice him. That was, until the time came and the conversing was done and he could begin to go on his journey and get a better Pokemon to replace his current one.
So there Sollux Captor stood, standing by himself around a group of people as they conversed with a Weedle know wrapped around his ankle, much to his aggravation.