Happy birthday, Mayday 🎉

[ateamrocket]

[I. Pippi post #1 (August 14th)]
MAYDAY (UN: proper-rocket) posted:
I think I’ve heard people who leave here and come back say it’s like no time passed at all back home.

So is there any point to tracking time here?
Does it matter?

Sorry for the lowkey existential crisis.
Just got a lot on my mind.

[II. Turnbloom City]
[August 14th. So it’s come again. Mayday sits outside in Turnbloom City, staring at the sky. She kind of already regrets posting that message but oh well. She’s not doing anything in particular, just loitering in her Rocket uniform as per usual. I figured I’d include this in case you wanted to accost her in person, lol.]

[III. Pippi post #2 (Later in the month)]
MAYDAY (UN: proper-rocket) posted:
Come by Grand Theater Hall in one hour if you want to watch an ass kicking

[There's a selfie attached, a young woman in a casual, punk-ish outfit with pinkish red hair sticking out her tongue and posing with an altogether unfamiliar looking Pokémon in front of Grand Theater Hall in Turnbloom. She’s holding up an entry slip for a Normal Rank contest.]

[IV. Wildcard]
[Want to do something else? Hit me up. I'm open for whatever and happy to brainstorm if you want to hit me up via PM or on plurk carrieface! Feel free to use prose instead of brackets - I’ll match you!]

Comments

[ateamrocket]

…Don’t have many important people back home. [She looks down at her hands folded in her lap, almost embarrassed to admit it.] Aside from mum, it’s mostly just acquaintances and coworkers I like more than others. I do miss them, though.

……Hell, it’s stupid but I even miss the annoying ones sometimes.

[You probably couldn’t get her to confess that fact to anyone else without torture, and even then, it wouldn’t come easy. She’d rather eat glass than give James or Fred an inch, because lord knows they’d take a mile. ]

The weather here is way different than Topaz. I don’t mind all the sun but I do miss the cooler temperatures sometimes, with those cloudy grey skies and the near constant drizzle.

And I miss flying. And driving! God I miss driving. Cruising down the motorway with the windows down and the music blasting! Weenis loved that too.

[Speaking of…]

I miss seeing all the familiar pokemon. Familiar to me, anyway. I’m sure you all wouldn’t recognize a single one. …Heh. I’m the odd one out around here in a lot of ways.

[It was isolating, being the only one from a land no one had heard of. It was difficult, being a criminal in a place where everyone was treated kindly. It was strange, suddenly having nothing but free time when your whole life had been about doing work.]

… I miss being a part of something.

[buson]

I get it... you look at things differently once you lose 'em...

[It's not forever. She'll be back home someday, most likely... but it's the uncertainty of when that makes it so difficult.

That's fair, monsoon season is still really abrupt and dramatic, not like a drizzling day at all. You don't go out and about in that kind of rain.

He frowned, relating more to that last confession than he'd like to admit. He hesitantly put a hand on her shoulder to briefly pat it... he can't exactly hug a female friend to comfort her, even if it might be more acceptable where Mayday's from, so, this was as far as he'd go!]

I get it... working on the ship's given me some'a that, we all gotta work together to get things done, all in unison, like one body... maybe somethin' like that'll help fill up the gap for you too?

You know, I used to fly too! Me an' my partner did... even though you can't go too far, you can still fly in Ultern! It's just different 'cause they're all seaplanes... no runways here. And y'can drive! Maybe you could take up classes, just so you could ride somethin' without havin' to own it...?

[Buson is not suggesting grand theft auto.]