[Galar]: The Wilds

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Doppel leaned idly against a large tree near the lake. Each branch was lined with beautiful blossoms that scattered petals on the clear water below. Doppel sighed, holding a device in her hand as it beeped every now and then before completely stopping. She was meant to be recording signatures of Galar particles, but she had no clue how to work the device. After all, her specialty was reconnaissance. Why didn't they just send an actual scientist? Doppel glanced up at the scenery then tilted her head up at the blue skies.

"Not a single den in sight," Doppel said. "And it's SO HOT" Despite standing in the shade, Doppel was covered in sweat. An occasional breeze was her only respite. The summer heat was truly unforgiving. She grabbed ditto and wrapped its malleable body around her head, creating a makeshift sunhat. Her ditto squirmed a little in discomfort before accepting its fate. After taking a few more recordings, Doppel wedged the device in her back pocket and decided to have a little fun. As expected, her idea of fun was taking on a disguise and messing with people. With a flip of her flowing locks, Doppel transformed into a female camper with short brown hair, green overalls, and a yellow backpack. She snapped her finger and Ditto transformed once again; this time, taking the form of a wild Fletchling perched above them. 

With Fletchling on her shoulder, the Camper grinned and walked aimlessly around the Wild Area, hoping to cause a little trouble.

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R O S A L I N D A

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Rosalinda hopped off of the train amidst a crowd of people and made her way out of the station toward the hum of the crowd that only grew louder the closer she came to the Wild Area. As she walked down from the station she saw the area come into view with people all over the place - some were barbecuing, some were setting up tents and others were splashing around in the nearby lake as the sound of music drifted through the air from a group's boombox. The whole scene put a smile on the model's face and invited her to come closer.

She navigated her way through the crowds, sharing greetings with various strangers before finding a nice cool area of shade underneath a tree facing the lake. She adjusted the brim of her hat and fixed the veil of her sundress to give her legs room to breathe. Once situated she opened her tote bag, revealing a sleeping mushroom-like Pokémon. The Shroomish yawned and looked to its trainer dazedly before slowly walking out of the bag and a few feet in front to the edge of the shade. It plopped down in the sun to soak up its rays and promptly went back to sleep. "Oh Ares... you do enjoy your naps!" she chuckled.

The model pushed her sunglasses up the bridge of her nose and flipped open her latest copy of Dazzling Gleam Weekly to read the exposition on Altariana Grande.

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The feminine young looking teen sighed contently as he laid on his back in the grassy fields of the wild area. His sigh was happily mimicked by an applin that was laying against him. A pachirisu wearing a white scarf stood ontop of her trainer frowning as she scanned the area around her. She didn't really trust any of these people running around her trainer. Glancing to one of the pokeballs on her trainer's belt she'd roll her eyes remembering Ruby wanted nothing to do with so many people. Meanwhile, a large alolan ninetales was seated next to the boy and other pokemon calmly scanning the wild area and people around them. Glancing back to her trainer she gave a small smile. It was nice to see the young boy in such a relaxed state. Noticing the Pachirisu eyeing the pokeballs the fox would shake her head to signal to let everyone get some more rest. Chasing down Okori before had been rather tiring for everyone. So this would definitely be some well deserved rest, though she did wish she knew where in the world her trainers sibling had run off to.

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While Marcus was waving at the Camper he could feel a shadow fall over him and Cynder. If that alone got his attention he'd quickly find the masculine looking twin was currently knelt down beside him just staring at him intensely. Meanwhile what had caused the shadow would be the large primeape behind them. Though the primeape wore an extremely happy expression unlike most primeape. It didn't even have an anger vein on it to be seen. It definitely seemed friendlier than it's trainer. Speaking of that where the hell did these two even come from ?! Dew was kneeling down beside Marcus completely casually as if she'd been there for moment. The usual dull and blank expression on her face. In reality she'd actually had lost track of Eclipse and needed help to find the Umbreon. She had seen the Camper, but didn't like her scent or face. She'd seen the woman in the sundress, but didn't like how she looked like some fancy high class lady. In the end she decided to mess with Marcus. He smelled like the outdoors and looked like it too, plus he seemed pretty friendly, so she could live with that. Her blank stare continued for a moment before finally speaking up in the usual monotone voice.

"Have you seen an Umbreon ? Tinier than average. Acts like a puppy half the time. Oh yeah, she's got purple eyes."

As the emotionless ..kid? explained what they were looking for the primeape behind them would start doing gestures. Placing it's paw low to the ground for height and placing it's paws over it's eyes at Dew's description of the eyes. She was doing her best to help out with how scary she knew Dew could look to strangers.