Turn Round Boi Let Me Hit That ;) [ Dave ]

[OLDROXY]

"You see, Hermione??? DO YOU SEE?" Roxy was standing outside of the Crockercorp (formerly Silph. Co) building, sternly lecturing her Skitty on the upcoming dangers. "This place used to be noble, ok. They made Pokeballs and shit! Which they kinda still do actually, but I am sensing a DARKER PURPOSE in all this. Why would the batterwitch want control of Silph, if not for some fuckin' dark deeds? Answer me THAT."

Hermione mewed at her uncertainly, and Roxy nodded in approval. "Damn STRAIGHT." It was important that Hermione understood who the enemy was, just in case she should ever fall into the wrong hands! Not that that was likely to happen. But still, like, half the reason she was on this Pokemon journey was to take down the batterwitch! That, and meet a bunch of cool people.

She was just about to launch into part three of her preparation speech, when she caught sight of a figure approaching. Potentially hot guy alert!! Shit, be cool. Wait- was that...?

"Yo, Dirk! Keep your head down," She leaned towards him and whispered dramatically, "we are probably being watched."

[OldDave]

On the way back from a trip to the mart, Dave was warily glancing at his Torchic, who'd been playing up a little today. "Dude, if you wander off like that again, I will seriously bust your fucking ass in training," he warned, not impressed. Sauron had a habit of doing what he wanted sometimes, despite being a very loyal Pokemon.

Dave had observed the change in the Silph Co. as it happened, with it being on his usual route when it came to being in Saffron City - not that he'd been many other places yet. Today, he noticed a girl standing next to her Skitty and staring up at the newly branded Crockercorp building. Hands in his pockets, he observed her from a distance, before glancing back at Sauron as they approached. "Be fuckin' cool man, or I swear..." he warned once more, definitely not about to look stupid in front of a girl.

Only receiving a chirp in response, the girl started talking at him before he even got that close, and Dave raised an eyebrow at her words. "Dirk?" he questioned, confused that his cousin's name had come up, "You know my cousin?" It took a moment's pause before he caught up with the rest of her words too - "Woah, what the fuck. Who's watching us again?"

[OLDROXY]

Roxy blinked at Dave in confusion. Wait, this wasn't Dirk? It was his cousin? They looked so similar! The only things missing were the ridiculous shades and ridiculous hair.

"Omigosh!!" she squealed, yanking him towards her by the arm, "you must be DAVE. I've heard all about you! Fuck you're adorbs." Well, she'd heard he existed. For Dirk that was actually a pretty sizable chunk of information. "Yeah, we know each other! We're practically a BFFL deal (le siiiiiiigh!). Trust Dirk to have never told his OWN FUCKIN' COUSIN about his number one ladyfriend." Well, and Jane.

"But never mind that. This here is the LAIR OF THE BATTERWITCH. Who knows what insidious listening devices she has planted out here." Roxy seemed to have forgotten she was loudly talking outside the building moments ago.

[OldDave]

Now they were closer, Dave narrowed his eyes a little, examining Roxy and realised that she was awfully similar to Rose. He didn't get a second to mention it though, as he was being tugged into the other by his arm. He froze a little, a little surprised by the sudden contact, before loosening up and letting out a dry laugh, with a wry smile.

"Dirk talks about me?" he asked, that being the main thing he'd taken from her words. Of course, he'd also noted her compliment down mentally too, because his ego really appreciated that shit. "We don't talk a shit ton," he offered in explanation, "Are you related to Rose?"

He listened to Roxy ramble a little, catching onto the fact that she sounded a little bit intoxicated, and then shrugged lightly. "Maybe they're just jealous of our epic fuckton of beastly shit that we do," he suggested with a little shrug - not that it was true in the slightest. Yet.

[OLDROXY]

"Rosie?" she gasped, "that's MY cousin! You're not her secret boyfriend, right???" She doubted it, but it was always good to check! It'd be just her luck if this was yet another OFF LIMITZ Strider. Assuming he wasn't gay. Maybe massive gayness ran in the family? Oh nooooo.

She waved her hand dismissively. "He does sometimes! Though I didn't realise you were part o' Rose's gang. Beeteedubs, I know her friend John, too? He's a fine comrade-in-arms against the BATTERWITCH." Oh shit, she'd completely forgotten about the fact they were standing in front of the building. Oops.

"They almost deginitely are jealous!! I think they might send agents after us, so watch yer back, kay?" Roxy hiccuped, and it suddenly occurred to her that she might be sounding a little crazy. Shit.

[OldDave]

Dave let out a little huff that resembled a huh, and glanced down momentarily as he thought. "Shit loads of cousins all over the show huh," he voiced, before frowning a little at her 'secret boyfriend' mention. "Why the fuck would I be her secret boyfriend?" Dave asked, the concept perplexing, "For starters, if she was my girlfriend she wouldn't be able to shut up about how I rock her fucking world, and also ladies can't tie this shit storm of awesome down."

Sauron chirped at that, always seeming to have input when Dave was inflating his own ego. He shot the Pokemon a look through his shades, before directing his attention back to Roxy. "John's my best bro," he replied with a small nod, feeling a little weird that Roxy knew all this stuff about him and he didn't about her. Dave didn't retain a huge amount of information if he wasn't hugely interested though, so for now he'd assume that he knew things - after all, this Batterwitch thing was somehow familiar.

"Watching it," he said with another nod, glancing up at the tall building for a few long seconds, "We should probably clear away from the Crockershit building if we want to avoid being listened to," he offered, waving his hand the way he was going. "I don't even know your goddamn name, shit."

[OLDROXY]

She gave an exaggerated shrug. "Well ig our parents hav siblings and they have kids too its not that surprising for there to be a bunch of cousins! Though it's kinda weird everyone hangs out, probably FATES. Anyway, I dunno, you could be! Rosie is fulla secrets, just thought I'd double check, yknow? Though if you're THAT awesome I gotta wonder why she hasn't been throwing a shit ton 'a lassos at you. For tying down."

She took a sip of a martini, seemingly conjured from nowhere, and nodded in what she hoped was a sage manner. This kid sure was cocky! Not unlike a CERTAIN OTHER STRIDER. She mentally prayed this one wasn't a big gay homo. But yeah, they should probably move away from the den of evil.

"Oh, my name's Roxy. Roxy Lalonde, but you probs guessed that. Rose's beautiful and totes talented cousin! And uh, the kitty's Herfioneh." She wish she'd given her Pokemon a name that wasn't so damn difficult to say when drunk.

[OldDave]

"Well, yeah," Dave replied, nodding at his Pokemon to follow them as they began to walk away from the large building they stood before, "If you believe in fate. Sounds like a load of stale bullshit to me, but whatever floats your boat." Thinking as he watched his feet hit the floor, Dave wondered; was a hotter, drunker version of Rose really a good thing? He wasn't sure yet.

He couldn't help but smile a little at Rox's almost challenge at his ego, and he looked at her through his shades with a smug smile; "Like some shoddy lassos could keep me down," he answered, pleased with himself, "I'm a maverick - you'll never know what's coming next with me." Dave made a mental note of Roxy's name, figuring it couldn't be too hard to remember considering rose wasn't too different, and watched her pokemon as they walked. "Hefioneh?" Dave imitated, figuring that was a slur with the way it came out, "Well, this dude is Sauron."

[OLDROXY]

"Hefi- Hermiog- Hermione," Roxy attempted to correct, "Fuckin' smartass Striders. You'd have trouble sayin' it if you were this drunk too, okay?" She doubted the kid would even be able to stand if he'd drank this much? Not everyone could be as hardcore as her. Drinking was not just for fun, she was slowly building up her tolerance levels. Sort of like a form of training. Drunken training. Yeah okay, this was a prime load of bullshit. 

"Sauron, tho. Pretty serious name for such a lil cutie! Torchics are cute as hell, I wougn't mind one. PLUS! It it one of yur CLASSIC starters, like in the games!" Roxy was sort of amused by Dave's choice of name. Who was he even trying to kid? 

"Sooooooo," she continued as they turned a corner, heading in the direction of the mart. "What is a maverdick like you doing in Saffron City? Sorry, *maverick." 

[OldDave]

Dave smirked a little, the corner of his mouth quirking up in the slightest at Roxy's drunken behaviour. She was pretty cute, so there was another plus to the whole choice babe thing. "Probably not, though I usually stick to the AJ," he admitted, watching her as they walked, "Takes some skill to be that drunk."

His face went a little more serious as he looked back to Sauron, and shook his head; "Sauron's a serious dude," he replied, giving the undeniably cute Pokemon a nod, "He's not cute. He's tough."

Deciding to ignore the slur when he wasn't sure whether he should laugh or be offended (he was too chill for those reactions anyway), Dave shrugged lightly; "I live here, just about to kickstart the whole Pokejourney shit thing," he replied, "Gotta go catch something really."