2-leaf clover ❃ video/action

[fourleafcleaver]

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[Heeeeere's Clover! She's standing at the entrance of Goldenrod, beaming wide and holding the Gear at arm's length in front of her with her free hand. There's a tiny Gible tucked under her other arm, gnawing idly on a rock, and a Munna buried in one of her bushy pigtails.]

Finally! I was going stir crazy in Violet City, but stomping around outside wasn't any better. And look who hatched just in time to see the big city! [The whole frame jostles as Clover hefts her Gible up in her arm. The Pokémon squeaks, clinging to the rock, and fidgets in an attempt to get a little closer to the camera.] Introducing Princess Pearl Chompathia the Great! Isn't she the cutest...teeth...dinosaur...shark thing you've ever seen?! Thanks a whole bunch, Anna!

[Apparently unimpressed by this grand title, Princess doesn't respond until Clover tries shifting her again and poor Princess drops her chew toy stone. Distressed barking is heard off-screen, Princess starts to whine, the Munna makes noises that sound like complaints, and Clover sighs.]

Anyway— [She'll deal with this momentarily; she's just gonna yell over all of the sad Pokémon noises happening for now.] —I've spent waaay too much time hiking around in the woods by myself lately, and since Goldenrod seems like the place to be, I wanna know what all the best places to hang out are! So lemme know, okay? And—ugh, one sec—all right, you two, calm— [Aaaand the video's off. Give her a minute or two.]


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[The problem with keeping half your Pokémon out at once is if one of them gets into trouble, all of them do. It takes Clover no time at all to figure that one out after the video's been shut off—and that's the story behind the tiny pink-haired girl darting up and down the street in pursuit of one Pokémon or another: Princess is fluctuating between wailing over her lost chew toy and chasing around Lady the Snubbull (her new favorite game!), Lady barks and whines and runs circles around Clover in an attempt to escape the horrifying teeth monster, Daisy the Munna keeps rolling out of Clover's pigtail as she runs about and going back to her spot whenever Clover stops to fret over her where she hovers in the air—and so on, and so on.

Surrounded by the same purplish glow that engulfs Daisy every time she tumbles and catches herself, the rock Princess had been chewing on hovers a few feet above Clover's head. Everyone who isn't a trouble-making Munna is too busy running circles around each other to notice where the lost chew toy has gone.

Clover bends down to scoop Lady up in her arms, hears Daisy squeak as she tumbles, puts Lady back down to snatch Daisy before she gets the chance to fall, Lady sprints away with Princess in toddling pursuit—] Lady! Get back here! Oh my god—

[Someone please help her pull herself together.]


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[Eventually Clover manages to get everybody to stop losing their minds, so she goes on a short, well-deserved shopping trip and takes a seat on a park bench to people-watch, eat her snacks, and...blow bubbles.

Yep. Somewhere in the department store she found something to unite her collection of weird animals, and it is a bottle of bubble soap and a wand. Lady and a grand total of three Munna bounce about the area in front of her, chasing after and headbutting and nosing and (in Lady's case, anyway) occasionally running in fear of the clusters of bubbles Clover blows in their direction.

There are, of course, plenty of bubbles to go around, being missed and carried off by the wind, if any other easily-distractable creatures (or people; bubbles are pretty rad, after all) are in the area.]

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[fourleafcleaver]

[It...it sure is.

Lady reacts before Clover does, barking as loud as she can at the floating pillowcase and, when the noise fails to immediately send this frightening new foe fleeing in terror, scurrying back to Clover and leaping up in her lap. Clover just manages to set aside the bubbles without spilling them everywhere.]

...Umm... [Holding a shivering Snubbull in her arms, Clover takes a few tentative steps over to the approaching pillowcase to get a better look at it. Honestly, a Pokémon that's literally just a pillowcase wouldn't be the weirdest thing she's seen here yet.]

[crouching_sin]

[There's a pause, and then a 'shu shu?' from inside the pillowcase, though it's... a little muffled. Where did the bubbles go?]

[... An Arbok comes slithering down the street, followed by Naoya. A massive snake tends to get people out of the way, but the pair stops when they spot Clover and... the pillowcase.]

There you are.

[The pillowcase makes a sad noise. Nooooo. She wanted to have fun!]

[fourleafcleaver]

[The massive snake is the new weirdest thing Clover's seen here, and it takes her a minute to stop gawking at it before she can acknowledge the person in front of her. Lady's whining snaps her out of it.]

Oh—uh, is...this yours?

[crouching_sin]

Yes. Come here, Poppet.

[The pillowcase makes a sad noise again, and slowly floats over to him. He pulls the pillowcase off, revealing a Shuppet, and then puts it back on her.]

... I don't know why she likes pillowcases so much, before you ask.

[fourleafcleaver]

...Wasn't gonna. [Squuuiiiiinttsss... The Shuppet is no less weird than the floating pillowcase. Clover is slowly learning to adjust.] She seemed more interested in the bubbles, actually.

[crouching_sin]

I don't think she's seen something like it before. She's still very young.

[The Arbok next to him wags his tail. Hello!]

[fourleafcleaver]

[She's...not sure how to deal with the giant snake greeting her? She's going to deal with it by not dealing with it at all.]

Yeah? I've got a baby to deal with myself here, actually... [She crouches down, places Lady on the ground (she immediately scurries behind Clover's legs), and scoops Princess into her arms.] Tah-dah! Princess Pearl Chompathia the Great! Just hatched out of her egg earlier today.

[crouching_sin]

Interesting.

[He leans a little closer and... ah. Yes.]

She looks fierce. You might want to be careful with those teeth of hers.

[... But she's kind of adorable.]

[fourleafcleaver]

Oh, yeah, definitely. As soon as she hatched she just wanted to chew on everything and the only thing I could find that she couldn't just rip apart was a rock. [In the meantime, Princess strains forward in Clover's arms. Yes, hello, new friend, please also pay attention to her!] So that's her chew toy, instead of the stuff in my backpack she didn't ruin.

[crouching_sin]

[Naoya carefully reaches forward to give her a gentle pat on the head. There, there?]

I see. Well, at least rocks are easy to find and don't cost anything, so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a steady supply on your travels.

[Yurlungur hisses a friendly greeting. Cha, chabok! Hello, friend! ]

[fourleafcleaver]

[Headpats! Princess grins, all teeth, and squeals, drowning out whatever it was Clover was about to say. When Clover tries again, Princess interrupts with another cheerful noise and flails about in her arms. She makes a squeaky attempt at imitating the Arbok's noise and Clover realizes as she tightens her grip around her Gible that oh, she wants to play.]

Find a playmate your own size, Princess, c'mon. ...It's tame, right? [The giant snake probably wouldn't be out in public otherwise, but it's a giant snake; she's gotta check.]

[crouching_sin]

Yes, he is.

[He reaches over and scratches Princess behind one of her jet... things.]

Yurlungur is very gentle most of the time. Unless he's in a battle, he's really very sweet.

[fourleafcleaver]

Mind if I let her loose, then? [Because as thrilled as Princess is to receive scritches, the big purple snake is right there and she wants to play, gosh darn it, so the fussing and fidgeting continues.]

[crouching_sin]

That's fine with me.

[Play? Play! Yurlungur wags his tail again.]

[fourleafcleaver]

[With a grin, Clover stoops down and places Princess on the ground. Princess scurries over to her new best friend in the world (she's decided already), snapping her jaws in between gibberish burbling noises. Look what she can do!]

Thanks. I think it'll be good to get her socialized while she's super young still. [With her hands free, she takes her bottle of bubbles again and blows another batch. Lady does not move from her spot behind Clover, but her three Munna all bumble over each other to start playing again in the area in front of her.]

My name's Clover, by the way!

[crouching_sin]

My name's Naoya.

[Yurlungur hisses encouragingly to her. That's really good! He snaps his jaws. Look, he can do it too! Though most of his teeth aren't as big as hers are.]

[fourleafcleaver]

Nice to meet you!

[Iiiiinteresting! Princess's teeth are the biggest teeth of any she's seen so far in her short life, but having her teeth be bigger than a creature so much bigger than her constitutes mad bragging rights. She grins as wide as she can, making proud gestures at her mouth. Show off.]

...Hey, how do you even get a snake that big, anyway?

[crouching_sin]

[Be sure to take good care of your teeth, Princess! Yurlungur nods approvingly.]

Hm? Oh. I caught him when he was an Ekans, and not nearly this big. He was small enough to drape around my shoulders, actually. But when he evolved, he just... naturally grew to this size.