Gladion Catch-All + Feywild weirdness

[silvallyant]

WHO: Gladion & anyone (open)
WHERE: around the porter cities. Specifically Maurtia Falls & Heropa. But open to anywhere.
WHEN: during the month of may (who needs time, really?)
WHAT: catch-all, feywild event shenanigans as well
WARNINGS: alcohol mention (no drunkenness, but will update as needed).


May has come and Gladion can be found around any of the cities doing various things.

Between May 4th - May 8th, Gladion will be reverted back to a child for this (around age ten), while retaining all of his memories and thank Arceus his pokemon will be unaffected by this age down. However, he himself will be thoroughly unamused by all of this happening. He may start a fight, he may not, it depends on who you are and what you do or say to him. He shouldn’t be too much of a threat to anyone.

Between May 9th - May 14th, Gladion will be aged up to an adult (roughly around 25 or so) looking like an attractive man who semi resembles his mother in appearance with longer hair, only with a bit more of an attitude and not as much of those nasty little things she did. His attitude is a bit more mature and he’s less likely to start a fight with someone, although he still will get confrontational depending on who exactly it is depending on who he’s gotten to know.

With May 15th onwards, Gladion will revert back to normal in both size and correct age. He’ll be both confused and mildly irritated due to the age jumping, especially with having become older and seeing that he’s taking a bit after his mother in appearances.

Specific prompts in their own top levels, but any are free to create their own TL, especially for the event or even after! Feel free to contact me over on plurk (TsundereShadow) or discord (TsundereShadow#6350) if there’s something in particular you wanna ask or plot out, otherwise just have at it.

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[gusumouthcannon]

At the moment, Jingyi's brain is made of distractions (ooh, Umbreon!) and rock music, and he is perhaps...less than careful. His center of balance did not change, but with so much less mass he has more oomph using the same about of spiritual energy. Which ends up meaning that when he tries to do his braking maneuver, he nearly kickflips himself off his sword backward.

He does not fall off his sword; instead, he pinballs through the crowd, bounces from someone's hip, and whallops into Null for a hard landing. His sword goes...somewhere. Flying a ways without him.

For Jingyi's part, though, he just flops backward off of Null onto the grass to stare up at the sky.

"That might have been a mistake," he tells Gladion in between pants.

[silvallyant]

The direction Jingyi is hurtling closer makes Gladion wince as he knows that even with the stop Null can provide, it'll still cause a loud, and possibly painful, thump against the large pokemon. Luckily, he sees that Null's helmet was fortunately missed as a landing pad, which would have hurt quite a lot.

Umbreon, seeing the direction the sword flew of in, darts over to get it before any of the obnoxious fans could dare to pick it up; growling very threateningly at anyone who was brave (or stupid) enough to still make the attempt. Sword in mouth, awkwardly, Umbreon brings it back and sets it gently down next to its owner.

Gladion however, is failing at suppressing his laughter and nodding his head. "You think? But you cleared everyone off, so... uhh.. th-thanks."

[gusumouthcannon]

"Ah, good," Jingyi says, still staring skyward. He just needs to be on the ground a little. Null was, perhaps, a better landing than straight into the ground but. Wheeze. "Ah, I think I am a little lighter like this or that might have been much worse."

He peels himself up off the grass into a sitting position and blinks at Gladion for a moment, dazed. He then thanks Umbreon politely for his sword and Null for the landing. Carefully sheathing his sword, he grins at Gladion's laughter and says, "What did they want with you this time? And why are you little? How old are you?"

Of course, he asks this as if he is not himself shrunken and followed by music.

[silvallyant]

"Null's sturdy enough to take a beating even..." He pauses for a moment, before realising completely that Jingyi in fact is not the size he should be. "...even if you were your actual size."

He shakes his head with a small huff, staring upwards before plopping himself down into a sitting position as he answers. "They've been hounding me ever since they found out Lillie, my sister if you don't remember, arrived at the same time and that we're related. This time they were pestering me about being like this and then asking what Lillie would think about it!" His words have some anger bite to them, but leave just as quickly.

Null sits in the grass and Gladion leans back, as Umbreon shifts to be within petting distance of both of them. "Dunno why, but it was probably some crazy magic, and it looks like I'm ten from my height and looks. Why are you small?"

[gusumouthcannon]

"They need to leave you alone, especially if you're ten," Jingyi complains, though he does add a friendly, "Sorry, Null," and holds out his hand for...sniffs? Pets?? He really does not understand these creatures. They are, as far as he can tell, kinds of spiritual beasts. Both intelligent and powerful. "Even if Null, if you"--he tells Null directly--"can handle a hard landing, it is not something I want to make a habit of."

His grin lights up a moment later, though. "And I am small because of crazy magic too! I have to admit, it makes flying very fun."

[silvallyant]

"I KNOW! But they don't and that's the problem!" He huffs again in a very annoyed manner.

Null, meanwhile, to the apology given makes a grunt that could be taken as a 'no problem' response and leans forward a little bit to allow any pets. This is Gladion's friend and there's no harm other than being thunked into which is forgiveable enough. Null appreciates that this human doesn't wish to do it repetitively.

"Did it change your age too, or just make you this small?"

[gusumouthcannon]

Yessss, pets! Jingyi provides said pets, fascinated. He has not gotten a chance to see some of Gladion's creatures very often, and they are always interesting.

"Ah, not my age, just being tiny," he offers. "Has anything else happened to you this week besides young? Because that sounds very inconvenient. Though maybe not as inconvenient as me get very tiny."

He holds his hands out in front of him, about a foot apart. "I sometimes end up only this big, and then it is very difficult to sneak into the kitchen for snacks at night."