[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

Oh dear, Nathan is worrying about Ventus' behavior, and Ventus is concerned about his. This sounds like a positive feedback loop of stress going on, and I want it to be broken before the two have an heart attack!

Wish granted, then!

In the worst manner possible, mate! Remember, Ventus has severe abandonment issues from his family leaving him in the various awful ways that they did, so Nathan running away from him hit that particular button HARD. Now we have an empath that is simultaneous beyond pissed AND extremely depressed, with enough control over his emotional state to function right now.

I wanted an end to the feedback loop of stress, but I would rather go back to it compared to this outcome!

Don't forget Nathan's under a lot of emotional stress right now too.  He attempts to keep a cool head as best as he can, but his emotions often get the better of him when he's not battling or enjoying his favorite pastimes.

His life and his pokemons' lives had been threatened that day.  His friends have run afoul of the law.  He's likely made an enemy of that Pinsir trainer, and maybe even of whatever organization these Scimitars are a part of.  He's seen a lot of serious wounds he wasn't expecting to run in to this early on in the journey.  Members of the party have just up and disappeared on us (though Larry showed up again at some point and gave him a Potion, so...).  He keeps seeing glimpses of what he thinks is an absol that seems to have been tailing him for at least a year.  This trip has been wearing him down a lot, and it's all been building up way faster than the positives.  

He's trying to defuse the situation before it gets way too bad for him.  If he breaks down, it's not going to be pretty.  We've seen one extreme of that already with the conversation about how he met Ralts and his dad's disappearance.

Ventus's rather...strong reactions are really unnerving Nathan since that phone call.  He didn't think anyone of somewhat reputable standing would be capable of even implying such things, and yet here we are.  He's removing himself from the situation before he does something he'll most certainly regret later.