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[OOC] A Tale of Two Ryners II
So Camp!Ryner hit the big one year mark today!! In celebration of that, I’m going to essay, because I always essay at the year mark. And since it’s been a while, have one about Route!Ryner too. …Okay, it’s more of an overview this time of what’s been happening because this is sparked more by time than a specific incident, but.
Warning: unmarked canon spoilers ahead.
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cfud
Canon point: sequel, volume 4, after the dream sequence described at the beginning of chapter 3 but before he wakes up from that
Time in game: one year \o/
So last time I talked about Camp!Ryner, he was still recovering from that whole axe-crazy thing back in June. While he certainly hasn’t forgotten that it happened, he’s for the most part put it behind him. It’s given him some confidence that, should Camp pull something again, 1) someone will be able to stop him, and 2) he won’t be able to do any lasting damage because death isn’t permanent. However, that still doesn’t make him happy about it, because 1) it is still a bad thing, and 2) it’s kind of unnerving, knowing that Camp could do that again without warning.
But enough about that.
For the most part, since then life has been life for Ryner. Wake up in the morning despite his protests “noooooo I want to sleep some more~”, deal with Camp when it decides to be Camp and try not to give it the reaction it probably wants, keep researching to appease Sion, keep poking Sion to try and get more information out of him, keep looking for possible leads for some way to fix things back home… you know, stuff like that. He got deaged in August to before the contract was made, and people found out his original name – a pain, but nothing too horrible came of it, so as long as people don’t bring it up, he’s more than willing to keep that filed away under ‘stuff to deal with LATER after the problems with Sion are actually fixed.’
October saw a week that he doesn’t remember much of, because he was consciousness-swapped with the Demon for that time! He has a vague impression of everyone he ran into, and a couple of small details about a few of them (Accelerator was in his angel form, Setsuna was Alexiel in body but not mind, Roxie was dressed different from the first time they’d met, Sion was incredibly Not Happy about this turn of events in fact he remembers a couple of specific quotes from Sion’s, mostly parts of his whole ‘you and Ryner aren’t the same’ rant, as well as “You don’t think he’ll remember this?” “I don’t think so. […] Maybe parts, though.” because I find it funny, etc.), but nothing really useful, which. He finds annoying! Context clues tell him this was important stuff, if only he could remember it.
(Fun fact, by the way: the pamphlets at the end of September? They were me attempting to troll by pretending to foreshadow that Alpha was going to be coming out during October. Never had any intention of more ~explosions~ at that time in the first place.)
Of course, then Sion consciousness-swapped with the Hero and actually gave him some useful information!!! even if for every question answered three more popped up, but. And while it definitely gave him some useful information, and also some added motivation to do as much research here as possible (his logic being that if this is somehow some kind of thousands-of-reincarnations thing, there’s got to be something that hasn’t been tried yet if he looks through resources from other worlds, and maybe that’s the way to save Sion), there was something about the whole experience that just felt… “wrong” isn’t the word, nor is “terrifying”, but… He definitely prefers the Sion he knows, and not just because he doesn’t constantly assume he knows stuff he doesn’t.
Winter brought with it a new therapy animal in the form of Stripe, the white Netherland Dwarf bunny with natural tiger-ish stripes (but he was painted orange that day). Trivia: I did tiger!bunnies because my sister likes tigers and it was her birthday, though I’m glad that I was able to provide opportunities for the Tiger and Bunny cast to play with! (Also trivia: I didn’t go in with intentions for Ryner to get a pet from it, but Momiji convinced him.) It also brought movement to grassier fields, as well as…
Tiir Rumibul.
Yes, I should talk about him. ^^
Ryner likes Tiir! He considers him a friend and an ally, despite, you know, the whole cannibalism thing. It’s not that he approves of that, he definitely does not approve of the whole murders people without remorse thing, but when you grow up in an environment where this kind of thing is commonplace, well, it’s not like he doesn’t have blood on his own hands. Tiir genuinely cares for the people with magic eyes, and he’s been hurt. A lot. Stupid Gastark. Much as he’d love it if Tiir would come to realize that not all regular people are like Gastark… well, he can’t say he blames him, either.
Tiir’s appearance, however, has also been incredibly frustrating for Ryner, because of Sion. Sion, the guy who tries to be civil to everyone, hates Tiir so much that he doesn’t even try to hide it. When Sion hates someone that much, there’s something wrong. And on the one hand, Ryner has more or less figured out where Sion is coming from, here. When he left with Tiir, instead of making things easier for Sion like he intended, he ended up hurting Sion instead. A lot, in fact possibly to an extent that he will never fully understand. And so for Sion to take that out on Tiir is kind of a reaction he can sort of see he guesses. However, that doesn’t make it right or useful, and you’d think that you’d want to increase your allies in a bothersome camp that can turn you into a frog or send you on a murderous rampage with just a single whim, rather than have to contend with Camp and other enemies.
At least they’ve sort of agreed to a truce for now though…
So as for the State of the Ryner? He’s hanging on. It’s possible things could potentially go unstable for him, but he’s hanging on. He’s learned a lot, this past year, about the situation back on the Menoris continent, but he’s also got a lot more questions than he came in with. He’s made some good friends, he’s made some acquaintances, he’s managed to avoid making memorable enemies(except possibly in CFUW but that’s not Camp canon), he has a therapy bunny to help him where two-legged companions might not be able to. Camp continues to be Camp, even if it’s rolling grassy hills instead of a swamp, so he’ll just deal with what comes as it comes. Camp isn’t somewhere he’d like to stay forever, and one large reason why he’s functional is because he tries not to think too hard about what’s happening to the rest of his friends back home (ex. Toale, Kiefer, Ferris…) because worrying about things he can’t do anything about anyway is too much work, but if it’ll help him fix things with Sion, he can deal with its crap for a while. Sure, Sion has started to be a bit possessive recently, but that’s better than trying to push him away, right? …Right?
…Of course, Sion is also currently a plushie because things, and has been for two weeks at this point, which is just around the time Ryner is going to start to really worry about this… but oh well, c’est la vie.
Future plans: …well, there’s nothing I have set in stone, but someday (albeit in the FAR distant future) I think it would be amazing to find a way to have him fully awaken in Camp’s setting… Not sure how that would work though :|a
@route_29
Canon point: episode 23, after the fireworks display is complete and just as the rain is starting, but before Sion comes to pick him up
Time in game: Two years, three months!
Last time I talked about Route, I discussed ~motivation~ and how Ryner is actually starting to have some. On that front, things have been rather steady these past few months. He’s spent a lot of time researching the Legendary Pokémon, and much as he publicly complains about how much Sion drags him around everywhere (and those complaints are 100% his true opinion), well, he can’t deny that he’s gotten a lot of opportunity to look into things because of it. There are still too many holes that he hasn’t filled in, which frustrate him because shouldn’t someone have looked into basic stuff like this already he was able to access more information on Hero Relics faster from prison for crying all night… but, well, believe it or not, he’s been working hard on it. He can be scholarly when the topic interests him!
Of course, he doesn’t talk about it much publicly except in general terms if even those, because he doesn’t really want to draw attention to himself and Sion. His general strategy is still to make himself out to be harmless and too lazy to be useful, because that way fewer people will bother him. Though, well, Cobra is fun to tease, so he might toe the line over there sometimes.
There are really two major things of note on this side of things. First is the illness that swept through Johto and gave folks mutations and temporary powers. Level 4 Lightning, yeah!!! I didn’t quite get to play with the lightning powers themselves as much as I would have liked to, but the mutations and mental effects were fun. For me, anyway; Ryner just found them bothersome, but then that’s how he rolls.
Ryner likes it in Johto. He honestly does. The things that make him a danger to everyone around him are sealed, so he can actually do something constructive instead of destroying everything he touches and causing harm to everyone he gets close to. If he was given the choice to stay in Johto forever, he would honestly have a very difficult time saying no. That said, however, he is still a magic nerd at heart, and he does miss being able to cast spells and analyze magic and do all of that, even as he doesn’t miss the danger inherent in his ability to do so. He teaches Rose all sorts of TMs and sort of lives vicariously through her, much as he’d never admit this aloud and probably hasn’t really consciously realized it, and honestly next time he’s in Goldenrod he might start buying a few to teach some of his others for similar reasons (the main reason he doesn’t do it more often is because they’re expensive), but it’s not really the same, you know?
So to suddenly have lightning powers, even if they were only for a few days, and even if they were pretty much driving him emotionally unstable (though Sion being an idiot wasn’t helping), and even if they were tied to his emotions in a way that the less calm he was the more lightning would come out, and even if he wasn’t having an easy time controlling it… That much, he at least kind of enjoyed. Lightning is kind of his thing, back in Rolandor at least it will be for a few more hours canon-time THANKS SION. He knows a wide variety of magic, but Izuchi is his. He has spent more time hacking that spell than any other, he knows it inside and out, he can control every minute detail of it, he loves that spell okay. (This is why the first TM he ever taught Rose was Thunderbolt.) So to be able to wield lightning again, even for a brief time… It felt good. He honestly liked that part of it, even if he doesn’t approve of what other people did with the power they received seriously Team Rocket you can just go off somewhere else and stop blowing up gyms please.
He didn’t like the mutations, though. Or the mental effects. Emotional instability is not fun, nor is a constant impulse to keep all dirt off of his person (because electric is weak to ground you see). And I sort of went for a Zekrom-Raikou hybrid for the theme of his mutations (because his canon and the Unovan dragons, man… I saw it before the second gym), hence the black stripes and the shock of blond and, most importantly, the red eyes. They were the last to go and went around New Years, and Ryner would have preferred them gone way sooner than they were. To him, red eyes are his Alpha Stigma. A constant reminder that his is a cursed existence, and that the other shoe will drop eventually, and that every day it doesn’t will just make it worse when it eventually does.
The other major thing to talk about is Marian Lied. (Lied, in this context, rhymes with Reed. Guess why I picked that as her family name.) Grew up in Azalea Town, went to cooking school in Striaton City, came back for vacation, accidentally ran afoul of a swarm of Beedrill, tripped and fell down Slowpoke Well, died near-instantly when she landed on a rock the wrong way and her neck snapped, was reincarnated as a Yamask, and spent 48 hours with her mask firmly pressed on Ryner’s face and possessing his body.
…Yeah, Ryner doesn’t think that positively of masks at this point. (I mean, I think I’ve heard of a sidestory where there’s another mask incident that isn’t quite like this but is also bad even if I’m not sure entirely what happened there, but… yeah, this just solidifies it.)
For the record, he was conscious almost the whole time. For the most part, when his body was asleep his consciousness was asleep as well (save for Ryner used Sleep Talk), and it wasn’t really until Sion showed up at Marian’s place that Ryner’s consciousness actually woke up enough from being knocked out cold (due to his airway being initially blocked) to realize what was happening to him, but aside from that, he was aware. However, there’s a difference between “conscious” and “able to do anything about it”. And when it’s a physical object bound to his person that’s causing the problem, there’s not much he can do for himself. Sure, he can try to fight to a temporary stalemate, because his will save is huge. (Seriously, if I had to quantify D&D-style stats for him, he and Sion would probably more or less tie for the highest will save. Ryner can fight off Alpha’s influence, okay. No one fights off the Alpha Stigma’s influence, but he can do it against the real deal.) But it’s incredibly draining, and he can only drive a temporary stalemate. And so all he could do was sit and watch as his body was driven around and doing all sorts of embarrassing things and crushing on his best friend (and of course with the way Sion was acting anyone could assume he was actively encouraging it), and it’s definitely not something he’d like to repeat. At all.
Marian also left behind some of her memories and some emotional residue – of the latter, mostly stuff to put wispy enforcements and twists into feelings already there. The memories he can mostly file away without consequence, but the emotions are another story. It’s kind of like, her fear of bugs doesn’t carry over at all because Ryner likes bugs, but the realization that she cooked lunch for his sake was amplified, this is the last meal she ever cooked, sudden wash of sad feelings. And let’s not get started on how his friendship with Sion meshes with her crush on him when he doesn’t stomp on wandering thoughts that get tangled. It’ll get better as there’s less and less to directly associate, and I’ve only barely gotten to play with it, and already he’s getting the hang of it anyway, but that doesn’t mean it won’t still happen if he spaces out too much. Which annoys him, because it’s embarrassing and bothersome to have your emotions toyed with by a third party who isn’t even in there anymore, dammit.
(And yet he still took Marian into his party when she asked to come with and said she has nowhere else to go.)
Aside from that, Ryner’s life in Johto has been pretty stable, and that’s pretty much his status right now. Researching legends, taking care of his menagerie, getting dragged her and there by Sion, teasing Cobra and pointing out how bothersome his plans are, stuff like that. What friends he makes keep leaving (Chi :<), but that’s just the great circle of how things work, and he mostly numbs himself to it at this point. And, well, it’s worth it to get up in the morning if it means Rose is happy (and doesn’t decide to smack him all over the room).
(Granted, this stability could be shattered any time if something were to happen to Sion because he’s kind of worked himself into some codependence issues there too, buuuuuuut…)
Future plans: Semi-annual egg post, coming in mid-March! I’m open to requests – any species on his roster is available for eggs at this point except for Togepi, though egg moves will depend on parents. I also have a few ideas for posts, though they’ll be spread out, and someday I want Marian to encounter her parents, but I’m not sure how that’ll work. Outside of that, he’ll just be doing stuff with Sion, really.
In summary, they're both pretending to be stable but that doesn't make them healthy, but that's okay because therapy animals.
And now I’ll open this up to a Question Meme, because I want to. About either Ryner, or even Caramel/Kurow at Decollage if you want to ask about him.
Warning: unmarked canon spoilers ahead.
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cfudCanon point: sequel, volume 4, after the dream sequence described at the beginning of chapter 3 but before he wakes up from that
Time in game: one year \o/
So last time I talked about Camp!Ryner, he was still recovering from that whole axe-crazy thing back in June. While he certainly hasn’t forgotten that it happened, he’s for the most part put it behind him. It’s given him some confidence that, should Camp pull something again, 1) someone will be able to stop him, and 2) he won’t be able to do any lasting damage because death isn’t permanent. However, that still doesn’t make him happy about it, because 1) it is still a bad thing, and 2) it’s kind of unnerving, knowing that Camp could do that again without warning.
But enough about that.
For the most part, since then life has been life for Ryner. Wake up in the morning despite his protests “noooooo I want to sleep some more~”, deal with Camp when it decides to be Camp and try not to give it the reaction it probably wants, keep researching to appease Sion, keep poking Sion to try and get more information out of him, keep looking for possible leads for some way to fix things back home… you know, stuff like that. He got deaged in August to before the contract was made, and people found out his original name – a pain, but nothing too horrible came of it, so as long as people don’t bring it up, he’s more than willing to keep that filed away under ‘stuff to deal with LATER after the problems with Sion are actually fixed.’
October saw a week that he doesn’t remember much of, because he was consciousness-swapped with the Demon for that time! He has a vague impression of everyone he ran into, and a couple of small details about a few of them (Accelerator was in his angel form, Setsuna was Alexiel in body but not mind, Roxie was dressed different from the first time they’d met, Sion was incredibly Not Happy about this turn of events in fact he remembers a couple of specific quotes from Sion’s, mostly parts of his whole ‘you and Ryner aren’t the same’ rant, as well as “You don’t think he’ll remember this?” “I don’t think so. […] Maybe parts, though.” because I find it funny, etc.), but nothing really useful, which. He finds annoying! Context clues tell him this was important stuff, if only he could remember it.
(Fun fact, by the way: the pamphlets at the end of September? They were me attempting to troll by pretending to foreshadow that Alpha was going to be coming out during October. Never had any intention of more ~explosions~ at that time in the first place.)
Of course, then Sion consciousness-swapped with the Hero and actually gave him some useful information!!! even if for every question answered three more popped up, but. And while it definitely gave him some useful information, and also some added motivation to do as much research here as possible (his logic being that if this is somehow some kind of thousands-of-reincarnations thing, there’s got to be something that hasn’t been tried yet if he looks through resources from other worlds, and maybe that’s the way to save Sion), there was something about the whole experience that just felt… “wrong” isn’t the word, nor is “terrifying”, but… He definitely prefers the Sion he knows, and not just because he doesn’t constantly assume he knows stuff he doesn’t.
Winter brought with it a new therapy animal in the form of Stripe, the white Netherland Dwarf bunny with natural tiger-ish stripes (but he was painted orange that day). Trivia: I did tiger!bunnies because my sister likes tigers and it was her birthday, though I’m glad that I was able to provide opportunities for the Tiger and Bunny cast to play with! (Also trivia: I didn’t go in with intentions for Ryner to get a pet from it, but Momiji convinced him.) It also brought movement to grassier fields, as well as…
Tiir Rumibul.
Yes, I should talk about him. ^^
Ryner likes Tiir! He considers him a friend and an ally, despite, you know, the whole cannibalism thing. It’s not that he approves of that, he definitely does not approve of the whole murders people without remorse thing, but when you grow up in an environment where this kind of thing is commonplace, well, it’s not like he doesn’t have blood on his own hands. Tiir genuinely cares for the people with magic eyes, and he’s been hurt. A lot. Stupid Gastark. Much as he’d love it if Tiir would come to realize that not all regular people are like Gastark… well, he can’t say he blames him, either.
Tiir’s appearance, however, has also been incredibly frustrating for Ryner, because of Sion. Sion, the guy who tries to be civil to everyone, hates Tiir so much that he doesn’t even try to hide it. When Sion hates someone that much, there’s something wrong. And on the one hand, Ryner has more or less figured out where Sion is coming from, here. When he left with Tiir, instead of making things easier for Sion like he intended, he ended up hurting Sion instead. A lot, in fact possibly to an extent that he will never fully understand. And so for Sion to take that out on Tiir is kind of a reaction he can sort of see he guesses. However, that doesn’t make it right or useful, and you’d think that you’d want to increase your allies in a bothersome camp that can turn you into a frog or send you on a murderous rampage with just a single whim, rather than have to contend with Camp and other enemies.
At least they’ve sort of agreed to a truce for now though…
So as for the State of the Ryner? He’s hanging on. It’s possible things could potentially go unstable for him, but he’s hanging on. He’s learned a lot, this past year, about the situation back on the Menoris continent, but he’s also got a lot more questions than he came in with. He’s made some good friends, he’s made some acquaintances, he’s managed to avoid making memorable enemies
…Of course, Sion is also currently a plushie because things, and has been for two weeks at this point, which is just around the time Ryner is going to start to really worry about this… but oh well, c’est la vie.
Future plans: …well, there’s nothing I have set in stone, but someday (albeit in the FAR distant future) I think it would be amazing to find a way to have him fully awaken in Camp’s setting… Not sure how that would work though :|a
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route_29Canon point: episode 23, after the fireworks display is complete and just as the rain is starting, but before Sion comes to pick him up
Time in game: Two years, three months!
Last time I talked about Route, I discussed ~motivation~ and how Ryner is actually starting to have some. On that front, things have been rather steady these past few months. He’s spent a lot of time researching the Legendary Pokémon, and much as he publicly complains about how much Sion drags him around everywhere (and those complaints are 100% his true opinion), well, he can’t deny that he’s gotten a lot of opportunity to look into things because of it. There are still too many holes that he hasn’t filled in, which frustrate him because shouldn’t someone have looked into basic stuff like this already he was able to access more information on Hero Relics faster from prison for crying all night… but, well, believe it or not, he’s been working hard on it. He can be scholarly when the topic interests him!
Of course, he doesn’t talk about it much publicly except in general terms if even those, because he doesn’t really want to draw attention to himself and Sion. His general strategy is still to make himself out to be harmless and too lazy to be useful, because that way fewer people will bother him. Though, well, Cobra is fun to tease, so he might toe the line over there sometimes.
There are really two major things of note on this side of things. First is the illness that swept through Johto and gave folks mutations and temporary powers. Level 4 Lightning, yeah!!! I didn’t quite get to play with the lightning powers themselves as much as I would have liked to, but the mutations and mental effects were fun. For me, anyway; Ryner just found them bothersome, but then that’s how he rolls.
Ryner likes it in Johto. He honestly does. The things that make him a danger to everyone around him are sealed, so he can actually do something constructive instead of destroying everything he touches and causing harm to everyone he gets close to. If he was given the choice to stay in Johto forever, he would honestly have a very difficult time saying no. That said, however, he is still a magic nerd at heart, and he does miss being able to cast spells and analyze magic and do all of that, even as he doesn’t miss the danger inherent in his ability to do so. He teaches Rose all sorts of TMs and sort of lives vicariously through her, much as he’d never admit this aloud and probably hasn’t really consciously realized it, and honestly next time he’s in Goldenrod he might start buying a few to teach some of his others for similar reasons (the main reason he doesn’t do it more often is because they’re expensive), but it’s not really the same, you know?
So to suddenly have lightning powers, even if they were only for a few days, and even if they were pretty much driving him emotionally unstable (though Sion being an idiot wasn’t helping), and even if they were tied to his emotions in a way that the less calm he was the more lightning would come out, and even if he wasn’t having an easy time controlling it… That much, he at least kind of enjoyed. Lightning is kind of his thing, back in Roland
He didn’t like the mutations, though. Or the mental effects. Emotional instability is not fun, nor is a constant impulse to keep all dirt off of his person (because electric is weak to ground you see). And I sort of went for a Zekrom-Raikou hybrid for the theme of his mutations (because his canon and the Unovan dragons, man… I saw it before the second gym), hence the black stripes and the shock of blond and, most importantly, the red eyes. They were the last to go and went around New Years, and Ryner would have preferred them gone way sooner than they were. To him, red eyes are his Alpha Stigma. A constant reminder that his is a cursed existence, and that the other shoe will drop eventually, and that every day it doesn’t will just make it worse when it eventually does.
The other major thing to talk about is Marian Lied. (Lied, in this context, rhymes with Reed. Guess why I picked that as her family name.) Grew up in Azalea Town, went to cooking school in Striaton City, came back for vacation, accidentally ran afoul of a swarm of Beedrill, tripped and fell down Slowpoke Well, died near-instantly when she landed on a rock the wrong way and her neck snapped, was reincarnated as a Yamask, and spent 48 hours with her mask firmly pressed on Ryner’s face and possessing his body.
…Yeah, Ryner doesn’t think that positively of masks at this point. (I mean, I think I’ve heard of a sidestory where there’s another mask incident that isn’t quite like this but is also bad even if I’m not sure entirely what happened there, but… yeah, this just solidifies it.)
For the record, he was conscious almost the whole time. For the most part, when his body was asleep his consciousness was asleep as well (save for Ryner used Sleep Talk), and it wasn’t really until Sion showed up at Marian’s place that Ryner’s consciousness actually woke up enough from being knocked out cold (due to his airway being initially blocked) to realize what was happening to him, but aside from that, he was aware. However, there’s a difference between “conscious” and “able to do anything about it”. And when it’s a physical object bound to his person that’s causing the problem, there’s not much he can do for himself. Sure, he can try to fight to a temporary stalemate, because his will save is huge. (Seriously, if I had to quantify D&D-style stats for him, he and Sion would probably more or less tie for the highest will save. Ryner can fight off Alpha’s influence, okay. No one fights off the Alpha Stigma’s influence, but he can do it against the real deal.) But it’s incredibly draining, and he can only drive a temporary stalemate. And so all he could do was sit and watch as his body was driven around and doing all sorts of embarrassing things and crushing on his best friend (and of course with the way Sion was acting anyone could assume he was actively encouraging it), and it’s definitely not something he’d like to repeat. At all.
Marian also left behind some of her memories and some emotional residue – of the latter, mostly stuff to put wispy enforcements and twists into feelings already there. The memories he can mostly file away without consequence, but the emotions are another story. It’s kind of like, her fear of bugs doesn’t carry over at all because Ryner likes bugs, but the realization that she cooked lunch for his sake was amplified, this is the last meal she ever cooked, sudden wash of sad feelings. And let’s not get started on how his friendship with Sion meshes with her crush on him when he doesn’t stomp on wandering thoughts that get tangled. It’ll get better as there’s less and less to directly associate, and I’ve only barely gotten to play with it, and already he’s getting the hang of it anyway, but that doesn’t mean it won’t still happen if he spaces out too much. Which annoys him, because it’s embarrassing and bothersome to have your emotions toyed with by a third party who isn’t even in there anymore, dammit.
(And yet he still took Marian into his party when she asked to come with and said she has nowhere else to go.)
Aside from that, Ryner’s life in Johto has been pretty stable, and that’s pretty much his status right now. Researching legends, taking care of his menagerie, getting dragged her and there by Sion, teasing Cobra and pointing out how bothersome his plans are, stuff like that. What friends he makes keep leaving (Chi :<), but that’s just the great circle of how things work, and he mostly numbs himself to it at this point. And, well, it’s worth it to get up in the morning if it means Rose is happy (and doesn’t decide to smack him all over the room).
(Granted, this stability could be shattered any time if something were to happen to Sion because he’s kind of worked himself into some codependence issues there too, buuuuuuut…)
Future plans: Semi-annual egg post, coming in mid-March! I’m open to requests – any species on his roster is available for eggs at this point except for Togepi, though egg moves will depend on parents. I also have a few ideas for posts, though they’ll be spread out, and someday I want Marian to encounter her parents, but I’m not sure how that’ll work. Outside of that, he’ll just be doing stuff with Sion, really.
In summary, they're both pretending to be stable but that doesn't make them healthy, but that's okay because therapy animals.
And now I’ll open this up to a Question Meme, because I want to. About either Ryner, or even Caramel/Kurow at Decollage if you want to ask about him.