Friday Meme Light: Cause It's A Bittersweet Victory (Ten Years Later Thread)

[thewunderkind]

The clock continues to turn on the ship.

The last years have been of turbulence, surprises and great fights, but eventually, five years ago, the Ohm were defeated and slowly, peace was restored to the entire multiverse. The crisis was averted! Congratulations!

...However rebuilding universes takes time. Energy. Power. It still might be years off before you'll get to go home, and Stacy is truly saddened about that. Call it catch 22 if you will, but at least the life on the ship is a lot more peaceful now. The farms have grown, and now there's enough in-house grown food to feed everyone who doesn't feel like eating slop or eating slop in the sensoriums every day. That's a small comfort, right? Oh sure, there's still the surprise or two on it, but now there's slowly more places to stop, and Stacy has been a lot more lenient about people getting their shots...

As they sometimes say, life will find a way to flourish, anywhere it can. My, there's a lot more bellies around the ship than before...

And maybe. One day. Far off future. You'll get to go home. But that's not now.

Ten years is a lot of time for people to grow, personalities to change and emotions to emerge. How have your characters turned out of it?

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[shallturnto.livejournal.com]

Eventually Stacy had released Ash's entire roster of Pokemon to him, even ones he had formally released, such as Butterfree. With that came female Pokemon, with female Pokemon came breeding pairs, and with breeding pairs came eggs. The first of which Ash was helping to care for now.

"Cassie! Charizard and Charla's egg! It's getting ready to hatch!"

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie smiled at Ash's cry, quickly rushing towards the area where the Pokemon egg was being kept.

"Really?" Her eyes sparkled excitedly as she skidded to a stop in front of Ash. She'd never seen a Pokemon hatch before and she'd been looking forward to the experience. Cassie couldn't wait to meet the baby Charizard. "Do you, Charizard, and Charla have a name picked out for the baby?"

[shallturnto.livejournal.com]

It was a enclosure of rock on the land of Professor Oak's lab, While a wild pair of Charizard would probably be firing flamethrowers in order to drive the two humans off, the two tamed ones graciously allowed them inside.

"Nah. I've never really given any of my team names, and Pokemon don't really have names like we do. Every Pokemon I've been able to understand," Which was quite a few now thanks to his aura ability letting him communicate with Pokemon, "kinda just calls themselves by what kind of Pokemon they are. Charla got hers from her trainer."

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie nodded as she followed Ash inside slowly, not wanting to risk startling the two Charizards. "That makes sense." She paused a moment and glanced at Ash. "And they're okay with us being here?" During the years, she'd grown more comfortable around the pokemon, but her ability to understand them was still often quite shaky, relying mostly on body language and the tone in their vocalizations. Right now, she couldn't get a reading off the two Charizards, but anyone who worked with animals knew how sensitive breeding pairs could be when their young were close to being born. She didn't want to risk having anything go wrong.

[shallturnto.livejournal.com]

"If they weren't, it'd be too late to ask that question." Ash answered truthfully.

"Relax. it's fine. They asked me to be here, and I told them you'd probably wanna see it."

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie smiled happily. "Thank you. I've been looking forward to this."

She walked over to the two Charizards, still moving cautiously so as not to startle the two large pokemon, so that she could thank them as well. "Thank you, Charizard and Charla. I'm honored to be here for such a big moment."

Looking back at Ash, she asked, "Is there anything that we need to do or do we just wait now?"

(OOC: I'm so sorry for the wait. If you don't want to take this further, we can let it drop, but I don't mind playing this out further if you want to do so.)