Plushie Overload [Open]

One of the skills that you learn as an idol is changing your clothes very quickly. And making yourself still look presentable! While it was mainly used in concerts and whatnot, Vernon was able to happily use this skill to immediately dive into the convention after the busking shift was over (at least for now, he would have to go back later). Usually, a hoodie would be a better option, but guess what he forgot to pack one Vernon why are you like this, but his manager did have a spare of fake glasses that he could use, as if that was going to help, right? But he would make it work! Fans be damned (he hoped he wasn't going to get swarmed by a pack of figurative piranhas).

While he was definitely interested in everything that was going on in UNOVRCon, he made a beeline to the Pokemon Center, which he knew wasn't available in most of the country and this one was just a temporary one. He desperately wanted a Cinderace plushie, because it would be nice to have something remind him of Kimchi when he was feeling down. Maybe a Zapdos plushie as well? That would be funny. Something like collecting little physical memorabilia of what he had experienced in the game so far. Of course, when he got to the Pokemon Center proper, he couldn't help but immediately run to the Pokemon Sitting Cuties collection, all beautifully lined up in long, long shelves. Ah, to be a participant rather than the one on stage! To be a shopper instead of an entertainer!

All the Pokemon merch!!

He was in heaven.

Just as he was admiring an adorable sitting Oshawott, he noticed that there was another customer who might've been too eager to take a bunch of plushies home. She looked younger than him, and for a moment that made him hesitate (according to recent statistics, their biggest demographic was tweens and teenagers--) but she really did look like she was carrying too many, and since no one approached her, he decided to step up.

❝Woah, careful there. Need help carrying?❞ he wondered if she was going to buy all of them, and decided that since she might look like she was going to keel over, he was already reaching for some of the plushies on the top part of her pile.

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It looked like even after taking a few of the plushies off her pile, the weight of them all was too much for the kid to bear. Vernon wasn't able to stop her from falling backward, and he heard a thud when she fell -- oof, that sounded like it hurt! ❝...you okay there?❞

When she asked for help, he decided that was permission for yep, please get these plushies off of me, else I may suffocate under weighted cuteness. There were certainly all types of Pokemon here, from starters to legendaries to some slightly more obscure ones, and much of the Pokemon Sitting Cutie collection managed to make its way into the pile as well. He then glanced at the price tag -- wait, could this girl even afford all of this? Were her parents filthy rich? ❝Honestly, I also wouldn't know how to bring these back home if I bought them all.❞ he said with a small laugh. This kid was pretty silly, but if he had no self-restraint, he probably would've done the same thing.

❝I am! Not sure which ones I'm going to buy though. I can't go ham like you since my room isn't that big.❞ he also shared it with his fellow group members, so he couldn't exactly drown them in a sea of Pokemon plushies. ❝I'm definitely looking for a Cinderace plushie though. Maybe Zapdos?❞ he paused for a moment, ❝Any chance you were in the Thunderfall Raid not too long ago? I thought that, y'know, it'd be a nice souvenir or something.❞

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