The defining feature

The defining feature

Flannery went quiet at that and I finally opened my eye to look at her "So what else you want to talk about? Maybe my new eye , that ones popular these days?" I asked casually. Flannery herself was in a bikini in the hotspring that had flame patterns on it and covered what it needed to but little else. At least above the water where I could see anyways as I wasn't going to use my x-ray just to get a complete take of the outfit. There was no point in it when her expression told me that I'd likely get a good view of what is under it in the next few days I was here in Lavaridge.-

She was red up to her ears and I don't think it was from the water with how nervous she looked. "Let me guess you want to thank me for what I did in the Magma base right?" I asked after a moment since she didn't say anything. She looked startled "How'd you know!?" she exclaimed. I chuckled "You are acting like a girl who wants to confess to her crush but can't work up the nerve."-

" If you were going to offer yourself to me in some sort of bid to not feel guilty you may as well forget it. I don't do that sort of thing for that reason." I said and she practically turned as red as her hair. "I-I wanted to ... before." she mumbled embarrassed. I raised an eyebrow at that "Oh? In that case you are more than welcome to help yourself but I am curious why you'd be interested in that sort of thing?" I said curious. Despite her regularly wearing fairly revealing clothes in the form of a bikini top rather than a shirt she never struck me as the type all that interested in sex.-

Too naïve and inexperienced for it so learning she was interested in doing it with me was out of my expectations. Infatuation I could understand a bit since I was built like a Greek god and pretty powerful even beyond that. While I could get normal women wanting to sleep with me for my looks or fame Flannery had both of those herself and could get pretty much any guy she wanted including models. Hell she was actually MORE famous and powerful than I was at the moment as a gym leader.-

"Ha! No not at all. Expectations aren't responsibility or some static thing to conform to , they are only hopes and dreams of what one wants to be. A subjective yearning for reality to fit their perceptions and beliefs. Listen to what those are and if you find that they fit you well then simply allow yourself to live up to them. But remember that in the end reality can only fit so many shapes at once and you too are equally limited to only what you can do. You can't make everyone happy so at the very least you should make yourself happy no?" I said with smirk.-

Oh I am very much aware that what I was saying was downright anarchist in nature but that was just how I saw the world. The opinions of others were noted but my own always took priority in my mind. Why should I conform to the rest of the world when it will bring me only misery? Instead I will force the world to witness me as I am and bow or i'll break it's knees to get the same result.-

Flannery looked lost as she thought about what I said and while she was lost in thought I left the hotspring. Afterwards I took my team outside Lavaridge to get some practice with type energy done. The way I accomplished this was by having whatever pokemon used that type of energy create a thin and weak layer of it that I interacted with my aura to try and grasp. For the moment I was working with Gaia to grasp rock and ground type energies as those were amongst the most common elements around me at any given moment. Flying type energy would be a close third given that it was basically just wind energy.-

This wasn't an easy process despite what one would think however as I not only needed to be VERY familiar with the way the energy felt but then I had to translate my own energy into the same thing. Whats worse was that after I succeeded in doing so I had to remember how I did it later if I wanted to do it again. Keep in mind that the conversion was different for each typing and as a result I had seventeen different conversions I had to memorize.