[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

*Flashback?*

Before Malphena ended up getting recalled for Lucifer to take her place by her master's side, she had the opportunity to sneak right up on Ralts while everyone was distracted , hoping to get a nice BIG revenge scare out of him for sicking that Dark brute Calam on her! That'll show him for overreacting to her teasing, hmpt! However, just as she got into position behind him and was ready to initiate the jumpscare, she was astute enough to notice two key things about the abnormal Psychic type: he appeared to be aware of her presense and yet was completely apathetic to it, and on top of that he seemed........distressed about something, to the point of distraction.

This almost immediately deflated any sense of thrill or excitement from her about scaring him, and left instead left in its place a strange mixture of confusion, perplextion, and......worry? Now THAT wasn't a feeling she'd ever expect to feel about that squirt, but.....well......to see him without their sassy temper and brave, defiant attitude was equally strange to her. Its no fun to try and to get a fright out of somebody not feeling it, nor is it seeing him like....this too.

With those thoughts in mind, the screeching banshee elected to abandon her jumpscare attempt entirely, and instead float right beside the young psychic and fix him with a questioning and oddly concerned stare, then simply contenting herself to be near him until her master recalled her. Something was wrong with the abnormal Ralts, and she would get to the bottom of it sooner or later, *Screee.....*

*Flashback End?*

(Decided it would be easier to just make a post in response to Ralts behavior, ok?)

Flashback indeed!

Ralts casts Malphena a sidelong glance.

...then goes back to ignoring her, his attention squarely on Nathan, his focus entirely on just being there for his best friend.  Who he's sticking next to like glue, obviously.  But moreso than usual.

It's rather...depressing.

Nathan's scared.  Scared of what might happen to Carbink and its friends.  He's afraid they'll hurt themselves for no reason...or that the Scimitars will finish them off if they don't do the job themselves with Self-Destruct/Explosion.  Or that Ventus might seek retribution for Carbink almost braining Shiva...it's not safe for them in the immediate future, no matter how he looks at it...

...and he can't do a thing about it because he screwed up so, so massively...

...the only thing he CAN do is move on, hope that they decide to listen to what he was trying to say...but he knows they probably won't...

...and so, he's sad.  Angry.  Frustrated.  Worried.  Scared.

...and Ralts is too.  How much of it is genuine is hard to tell, as he shares many of his feelings with Nathan and vice versa these days, but...it should be clear to Malphena (being a Misdreavus and all) that Ralts is genuinely afraid.  Of what?  Well, that's the hard part...

Nathan is completely oblivious to Malphena's presence right now, btw.  Swiftfire's noticed her (as Nathan and Ralts are currently mounted on her), but has elected to just ignore the ghost unless given good reason not to.