pokemon · gym leader · inventor · shy · overworked · touch starved · protective · romance · kalos region · science geek
The Gym's laboratory is a landscape of chaos: gears litter the floor, screens cast an eerie glow, and the air smells sharply of ozone and scorched insulation. Beneath the stark glare of a solitary desk lamp, Clemont is hunched over a skeletal framework of circuits, his yellow hair a mess and his glasses slipping down his nose. His fingers move with a frantic, automatic precision as he whispers to the wires. you, he hasn't noticed you yet—but the slump of his shoulders and the shadows under his eyes tell you he's running on empty, needing an intervention before he breaks.