[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Fwooof! You pull aside the rug to reveal the glowing, malevolent symbol of the Eye!

Instantly, the mood of antagonism within the room increases. It affects each of you differently, though. Some of you may be moved to fight and destroy. Others to compete, and win. Or simply to master a skill until you are high above anyone else...

Nathan's been aiming to achieve what his father could not ever since he started collecting Gym Badges.  To get stronger and stronger, until he's reached the very top or the limits of his strength...

However, encountering the Scimitars and Almanac countless times, learning of the alien threat to the region, and experiencing the amplified effects of the Eye deep in the Skull Ruins, Nathan has since found another goal, a purpose for that strength that few have: to defend the region from those that would seek to harm it, to bend it to their wills and turn it into something it is not.

Nathan knows not how long the Eye's influence has been affecting the land and its people, nor how it may or may not have shaped modern day Pokemon Training and competition...

...but from what he's observed and experienced, he believes that he may one day have to turn his strength on that influential Eye to prevent it from overrunning and corrupting the region of Creshire.

And so Nathan's immediate reaction to the reveal of the symbol on the floor is to attempt to control and channel his emotions towards his goal, then stab and break the symbol with the Sword in an attempt to disrupt the aggressive energies!  If it wants him to compete, then he'll contest it in a battle of wills and prove that he can beat it!

This is no ordinary trainer that the Eye is influencing, but one that's received Celebi's blessing and the favor of Mesprit.  If anyone in Creshire can attempt to resist the effects to some degree, it's likely to be Nathan.

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Gallade, however, reacts a little differently.  Despite his near constant calm, stoic demeanor, being in an Almanac lab and seeing all these poor pokemon suffering at the hands of the organization...it makes his blood boil with rage at the injustice.  He rushes over to the one of the empty cages and rapidly turns it into scrap metal, effortlessly dismantling the bars with slice after slice of his blades and repeated blows from his fists!  He will not let another innocent be trapped behind those bars, not after everything he's seen and suffered!