{{ A/N: The following quote was submitted to this blog literally actually years ago and was promptly incorporated into the blog’s canon, but it took this long for me to write out the response well enough to consider it worthy of posting! This takes place approximately 3 years after the official founding of the breeding center. }}
Well.
Does that washing machine seem to have a face? Sure looks like it does. That’s pretty… not normal. In fact, a lot of appliances you pass by seem to have faces and be acting rather. Oddly, let’s say. What’s up with that?
If you happened to inspect your Bag, it would look like someone snuck a cherish ball in there! It’s used, but most definitely empty. If you tried to call back whatever belonged in there, you would find the explanation for your mischevious electronics— you’ve been gifted with a ROTOM! Like many other Ghost types, this one enjoys playing pranks, but most of them are quite harmless. It just likes surprising people by possessing their appliances and doing unexpected things.
Congrats on your Rotom!
The oven’s timer was beeping when there were still five minutes left, and the poffins were quite obviously NOT yet cooked to perfection.
But the moment Jess noticed these strange things consciously enough to inspect them: static glowed and burst upwards to form the plasmic body of a Rotom.
Xir gasp was immediate and xir smile erupted under wide eyes. A ghost?! And a Sinnoh native at that!
Oh Arceus, the elation!
“Hello, hello, you wonderful surprise, you!"
Jess texted xir best friend immediately.
SONIA. SONIA, LOOK! 8DDD
[Here xe sent a picture of the little guy.]
This one found me somehow…~
HA! I knew I was fated to have a Rotom, but nooo, you didn’t believe me~
The gloating was playful of course. It referenced something that had happened years ago, when Jess and Sonia explored The Old Chateau, one of Sinnoh’s most haunted features with the eerie absence of human presence and prolific presence of ghostly Pokemon alike: Jess was as intrigued by rumors of the haunting as ever.
Mistress had found a Rotom, they’d battled it, and Jess and Sonia threw their Pokeballs at the same time. There was a rather impassioned debate; Jess specialized in ghosts, after all, but Sonia specialized in electric types! In the end, Sonia had pleaded her way into ownership of the spark-bearing poltergeist, and though it had been with Jess’s explicit blessing, today xe still took no small pleasure in finally having one to call xir own.
And perhaps there was some satisfaction in petty revenge. Sonia would never let Jess live down the moment xe was wrong about a ghost. Jess claimed Rotom was primarily classified as a ghost. Sonia later discovered that electric is not, in fact, Rotom’s secondary type.
Ahhh, but now there was a Rotom right here, right in xir hands!
Mistress groaned a note of dread. That first Rotom had been too much to handle when she was energetic as itself! But now she was older, and she had much more particular taste in her play and pranks. And with all the chaos already present in the breeding center…
The Rotom buzzed happily, quite proud of itself for causing these reactions. It only had to show up, and already the residents were lavishing it in attention!
“How do you think we’ll–GHHHK!”
Jess’s extended hand was zapped with a flicker of bright energy, and Jess jumped slightly.
“Hey, that hurt!” Xe was suppressing a giggle though; the Rotom zipped about in the air, away and then back, like canine Pokemon did to initiate a game of chase.
Xe figured the zap was a show of play. Xe was particularly patient with these things; you’d have to be to play with fifteen other ghosts in the breeding center!
But already, xe could see this guy was so energetic…
Before Sonia could send a single reply, Jess added another text:
I could sure use your help with handling him. @.@ He’s peppy. Any advice?
Jess mused to the new ghost, “I’ll have to figure out what to do about these zaps of yours. Shadow ball? Been there. I’ve even been Shadow Sneak’d by a friend’s Gengar! But I’m not used to electric energy--“
The Rotom had clearly lost interest because it buzzed right off, rebounding off the cupboard where it had come a little too close to a cleanse tag but then zigzagged down the hall.
Jess let the laugh out that time. “Okay, not one for lectures. Got it.” Xe watched, smiling, as a Misdreavus at the end (Sheera, Jess thought) bleated a startled note, but after the Rotom danced in the air a bit, she started chasing it.
For a moment Jess wondered if xe should step in. Sheera had a temper at times, and if the Rotom played too rough...
Ah, but it was only throwing out little showers of sparks, and Sheera was delighted when she started play-Astonishing the newcomer and it whirred out a little yelp.
What a strange sound! Jess had missed most of the fight with the first Rotom they'd encountered, but from what xe'd seen, it hadn't sounded like THAT! That must be a happy sound, xe decided. Because while it backed away at her first yelp, it came right back for more.
And xe also decided, while xe wouldn't object to Sonia's expertise... xe also wouldn't mind simply letting Sheera wear it out.
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