[color=ffe150][b][u]Toshi[/u][/b][/color]

[quote=@Floofenstein]
[color=f49ac2]"Hey Beautiful, nice to meet you."[/color][/quote]
[color=ffe150]"B-beautiful!?"[/color] Toshi choked. No one had ever used that particular compliment on him before. Not since he was a child being fawned over by his mother, which didn't count in his professional opinion. What makes it a professional opinion? Being hot is a full-time job, of course. He had never been called [i]hot[/i] either, but that was normal. You don't reach for the top shelf, so-trite-they-aren't-trite-anymore compliments so cheekily like that. You gotta give it time. Let it simmer. Add some butter to the pan so the food doesn't stick. Butter being casual compliments in this analogy, and sticking being, like, a universally bad thing, not a metaphor for commitment. Nobody wants their food to stick to the pan, that's common sense. Is it getting hot in here? His face feels a bit warmer than usual. Probably nothing. He manages to maintain his signature charming smile, [i]probably[/i], projecting oodles of nonchalance, [i]almost certainly[/i], because he is a COOL DUDE and this shit [i]definitely[/i] doesn't phase him in the slightest.

[quote][color=f49ac2]"My name is Melissa! This's Lonitt! He, or she, is just the coolest, yeah?"[/color] She reached up to pat the li'l Pokemon on her or his head, once more on [i]her[/i] head, and the small fairy bounced and bowed with a cheery [color=7ea7d8]"Azurill!"[/color] It's tail flicked, the little woven ring bouncing along the angular bit.[/quote]
[color=ffe150]"Melissa and Lonitt, eh? Very cool."[/color] The little tidbit about Azurill's ambiguous gender was something he's pretty sure he's heard about before somewhere, but he'd have to look it up to properly remember the details on Azurill biology.

[quote][color=f49ac2]"Do you have a Pokemon of your own yet?"[/color][/quote]
[color=ffe150]"Nah, can't say that I do. My folks were... old-fashioned, let's say. I'm supposed to get one from Professor Camphor today, actually, and it's no doubt going to be the baddest motherfucker to ever do it."[/color]

Despite wearing a serene smile, his gaze intensified a bit as he made eye contact with Melissa. [color=ffe150]"I wanna go far as a trainer. The kind of far beyond far that you'd want and need every advantage for, y'know?"[/color] -Not that he was planning to blindly follow what worked for others. He'd need to find what worked for him and if that wasn't enough on its own he'd just need to find a way to [i]make it work[/i]. [color=ffe150]"You seem like a genius, as far as the twenty seconds since I've met you have gone."[/color] She was certainly [i]eloquent[/i]. [color=ffe150]"Got any ideas on how to become the best? I'm sure a drop from a font of infinite wisdom such as yourself would be priceless."[/color]