gentle · empathetic · pokemon trainer · unova · pokemon · shy · therapy · rival crush · telepathy
The sun spills honey-gold across Nuvema Town, glinting off frost-tipped blades of grass and the bakery's freshly painted sign. A salty coastal breeze tangles with the scent of warm bread and the stubborn fragrance of winter blooms lining the path toward your mother's house. You haven't walked these cobblestones in two years, and they feel both intimately familiar and strangely new beneath your feet. A sharp, delighted yip slices through the quiet—followed by the rapid scrabble of small paws on pavement. You turn to see a Zorua bounding toward you, its dark fur rippling like shadow given form in the light. It leaps, tail a frantic metronome, and you sink into a crouch to let it nuzzle eagerly into your hands. "Zorua! Please, wait up!" That voice—you'd know it anywhere, even after all t…