Same Old People, Wrong Destination

Today you get a message from the Malnosso. They’ve found a way to send you home. You’ll remember Luceti, but it’s a one way trip. You’ve said your tearful goodbyes and prepared yourself for the inevitable return home. One moment you’re in Luceti, the next you’re not.

But nobody ever said the Malnosso ever got everything right. Sure, you’re not in Luceti anymore. Yes, you’ve lost your wings and barcode. But this isn’t your world. It’s some other world and now that you’re cut off from the Malnosso, you have no hope of ever getting back home. Which means that wherever you’ve ended up, you’ll be spending the rest of your life there.

On the up-side, you’re not the only one stuck here. Someone else from Luceti, also alien to this world, is stuck with you. With the common bond of being strangers to this brave new world, it’s inevitable you’ll stick together. But for how long?

Considerations

1. You can go to any other world you want! It just can’t be one either of your characters are from. You can make up something like a fantasy world, something from a sci fi, or something just like the modern world. Or you can pick a canon neither of your characters belong to.
2. Ideally they should both be from different canons altogether. But this isn’t required!
3. There’s supposed to be no way back. Even genius characters ought to find it impossible. But does that mean all hope has to be lost? For those who have been gone from Luceti a long time, it might be fun if they were given a chance to go back to Luceti and be trapped again.
4. For an optional extra level of complexity, give consideration to your character’s appearance or to their abilities. Will they stand out in this new world? Will they have to hide what they can do? Or will they even be able to use their powers if the source of their powers is gone?

Prompts

1. Day One - You’ve both just arrived on this world and by chance, you run into each other. Two heads are better than one. Now you just have to figure out what to do next.

2. One Week Later - You’ve been in this world a week. Things are starting to sink in. So is the idea of being stuck here. It’s time to start thinking about the long term.

3. One Month Later - Now that you’ve both been here awhile, you’ve learned the ins and outs of your new home. You’re making a living and getting by, but you still think of home.

4. Six Months Later - It may not be home, but you’ve learned to be comfortable. By now, your relationship with your fellow Lucetian has certainly evolved as well.

5. One Year Later - It’s been long enough that you sometimes wonder if you ever did live in a place like Luceti. So what’s life for you like in this whole new world?

6. Other - Don’t be limited by the above. This could be two weeks later or twenty years later! Of course, you can always time skip once you’ve established what you want to do at one time period.

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[Masaomi, for his part, knows where that question was going to go. Asking if they'll see Gold and Silver there. And merciful everything, he hopes not. Sure, maybe if they've been displaced from Luceti and into this world, but he doubts it. He's come across a handful of pokedexes in their time in Hoenn, and he knows in their world, they've significantly more rare, significantly more important. Though the 'dexes that him and Ikki have are dated by that world's standards... in this world, they're a cut ahead of even the latest models. So if they were here, it would not be their world, but some close parallel. A mockery. And Silver, in particular, would be miserable. And if he ran into a version of them from this world... Well, then he frankly doesn't even know what he would do.

So, to hide his discomfort with that slip up there, he focuses on the contest comment, while going to make sure her seat belt is buckled, now that his is. The plane they're on isn't small, but it sure isn't the jumbo jet liners from Earth, with all their clear safety precautions and hot stewardesses in miniskirts. Best just make sure she's okay.]

Contests, huh... You know, I'm not sure. [He'd heard about them too. In their six months here they had, amazingly, not actually gone to one, but there was a lot of need to get their bearings, a lot of need to get used to the terrain an the world, a lot of need to save money, and indeed... a lot of need to make goals to distance themselves from reality.

Or at least, that had been how Masaomi had seen it. He too, had caught pokemon. In addition to the skitty (Lavender) and zangoose (Twain) he caught close to the onset, he captured a mawile he'd named Ruri three months ago. Ruri'd become fast friends with Linda, and behind the mouse in question, had rapidly become one of his head battlers. She was not as fierce as Linda (ironic, given how unnerving that mouth was even to him), but she was resolute and strong. And finally, the most recent addition to his lineup, who now rested in his lap... was Taro. He'd only caught Taro about a week before this, having found the little guy digging through their rations one day. He was a frightful little animal, but being offcolor and therefore, he assumed, rarer, he couldn't help but want to at least see what came of him. So he just threw a pokeball at him and he went right in.]

[ Her seat belt was already buckled, but Ikki puts up with the fussing without comment, simply holding still while it happens. ]

We should see! Maybe they won't have an age limit like gym battles and stuff. [ Ikki can fully roll with her chosen other topic. Maybe she could go and see a contest, or something. At least when it came to saving money Ikki was pretty useful; she didn't often ask for anything extra, if at all, and she'd grown up in a temple. Outside of never eating meat, she wasn't too picky about what they did in general.

Soren was too big to be out in the plane, unfortunately - Yeshi wasn't, though, so the psychic bird pokemon was nestled in Ikki's lap, dozing. ] Taro, you'd do great in one of those, I bet - you're so pretty!

Yeah, that would be nice... [With a little chuckle. He doubts it, but he doesn't express that. If anything, he bets Hoenn is less civilized than Johto. It certainly feels like a frontier to him. Not even rural, it feel wild in many of the places they've been. Like it's a place where humans don't belong, but they've tried to carve out an existence anyway.

As for Taro, he squirms a bit in Masaomi's lap and pulls his tail up to cover his eyes, embarrassed about being called pretty. S-seriously, is he really that... pretty...] And wouldn't he just?! I have to say, with exception perhaps to Lavender [he is Obligated to say this, the skitty is obsessed with her own beauty and gets passive aggressive to a scary extent when it's questioned. In the last few months it's become a Rule to praise her, at least with Masaomi and his pokemon, even including Linda] Taro might be the prettiest of our bunch.

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