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Melanie
The Sweetheart Lain
Owner: Monologue
Age: 7 years, 6 months, 3 weeks
Born: September 5th, 2016
Adopted: 7 years, 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Adopted: September 5th, 2016
Statistics
- Level: 1
- Strength: 12
- Defense: 10
- Speed: 10
- Health: 10
- HP: 10/10
- Intelligence: 5
- Books Read: 3
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Professional Centropolis Crosswalk Helper
The soil in Melanie's cliffside neighborhood is poor and rocky, but Florges is more than ambitious enough for them both. The cottage has a beautiful cobbled patio, lined with bare trellises. They could grow morning glories or jasmine, nasturtiums or honeysuckle. They could work their way down from there: lavender and heather, marigolds and petunias, poppies and lilies. The choices are endless. Florges will make it so.
The mulch-maker from the Lilycove Department Store catalogue works double-time. Aggron tills the earth slowly, stretching out healing muscles, and Melanie buries her hands deep into the thick layer of topsoil that they spread on afterwards. It stains her fingers, the dirt streaking across her skin, until she looks a little like Aggron now.
What a relief, she thinks, pressing dusty fingerprints into Aggron's tough hide. His armor is battered and broken and glued together with harsh new growth, but look—now she can paint happier designs over them with her dirty fingers: bold flowers and fat bumblebees and a wavy sun.
Melanie starts her garden with a catalogue and a dream, tiny and frail like the seedlings she buries tenderly into the earth. Every drop of water that she pours down upon them is a promise towards better days.
There are steel pins and plates in both of Melanie’s legs, one more so than the other, and they make her stiff if she's not mindful of the time. What a struggle it had been those first few days after she'd finally graduated from the walker, to swallow her pride and look past her mulishness whenever she'd started to flag and had to reach for a support. But Melanie loves comfort above all else—loves to stretch in the sun and sit in the shade—and so now there's always a cane near to hand in her garden.
Tender points of green have started to poke out of the soil when they start planning to lay out a path to the gate. A neighborhood kid drops by to stare at Aggron as he paces the walk, great head lowered as he prepares the designated stretch.
The child is no more than seven, excitable and vibrant. He looks at Aggron with big eyes shining with awe. To him, the scars are a mark of honor; a promise of greatness. "One day," he boasts, tiny chest puffed up and with bravado the likes that only a child could sport, "I'm going to stand at the very top, too."
Melanie stutters to a stop. It is only the soothing pulses of psychic energy and sweet scent of Aromatherapy wafting from Florges' blossoms that keeps her in her garden.
"You have to be careful," she thinks she says.
"Don't worry! I'll have my partner with me!"
Melanie smooths a hand over Aggron's sun-kissed armor, smoothed down and polished to a shine. "Yes," she agrees softly, "but it wouldn't hurt to put safety first. You have to look behind you every once in a while as you're climbing."
Because here is the truth of the matter: Melanie has never stood at the very top of anything. Instead, she'd been at the bottom, crushed under rock, impossible weights on her leg and side. Her partner had been glowing white. Florges' Pokeball had been just out of reach. And all around her had been screaming.
Story Part 3 here
Sprites from Bulbapedia
Pokemon (c) Gamefreak
Pet Treasure
Spherical Self-Contained Capture and Storage Unit
Basic Walking Cane
Tension Bandage (Leg)
Extra Strength Pain Pills
Regular Strength Pain Pills
Ziaran Pill Box
Ray of Hope
Garden Dirt
Horticulturists Tools
Gardening Trowel
Gardening Mini-Hoe
Gardening Cultivator
Bulb Planter
Handheld Bulb Shovel
Garden Tools Guide
Beginner Garden Guide
The Big Book of Little Gardens
Candle Bath Token
Matcha Powder
Winter Care Cup
Deco Grey
Murder She Ate
Bow-E Panacea Floral Tea
Lovely Painted Vase
Porcelain Lace Teapot
Porcelain Lace Teacup
Box of Pastries
Orange Honey Blossom Madeleines
Seashell Wind Chime
Red Garden Bridge
Activity Planner
Nature Walk Brochure
Summer Meteor Showers
Fancy Garden Ticket
Grand Invitation
Chibi Brush
Beauty Plain Ribbon
Vanity Bingo Ribbon
Mimi Moe Shia Lip Shine
Delish Naive Purse
Classy Black Dress
Lililace Gilded Masque Partially Transparent Skirt
Vanity Sailor Skirt
Professor New Foxy Shirt
Vanity Cinnamon Top
Blob Kitty Fangirl Knit Top
Ash and Charcoal Knitted Sweater
Cozy Knitted Tan Cardigan
Blue Striped Knitted Coat
Bleached Rabbit Fur Cuff
Elegant Ballroom Ash Fur Shawl
Elegant Ballroom Coal Fur Shawl
Pastel Button Scarf
Riverside Straw Hat
Likes Fashion Statement Tee
Vanity Brine Shoes