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Yggy Br00ks • Pikachu Fan Round 2 Posts: 407 Trainer Class: Player Name: Kenneth Garfield OOC Username: M00K Arena Points: 68	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Yggy Br00ks on Aug 30, 2023 13:19:49 GMT 9 #s://cdn~discordapp~com/attachments/1028264618818289684/1146083722840506368/kenny~png Kenny hurtled up the escalator two steps at a time, throwing a cheerful "Sorry!" to someone he'd accidentally jostled. "Haha! I win!" he called from the top, waving down at the blonde girl (clearly his younger sister) glaring at him from further down the steps. She'd gotten stuck behind someone in a full-size Pikachu mascot suit. "No fair," she said when she got to the top, aiming a punch at his stomach. "You got a head start." He fended her off with some fake karate moves, grinning. "Hiyaaaah! Hey, we should follow that Pikachu. I bet it's headed to where all the cosplay stuff is!" "Ew, who wants to see a bunch of weebs in cosplay? I'd rather go to the Pokemon Center." "We're not weebs, we're gamers, it's different. And there's probably other stuff too. Look, it's called the Artist's Corner!" Kenny pointed above their heads to the banner labeling the area. It was decorated with Hydance hexagons and colorful, chibi versions of the UNOVR Guild Leaders. Kenny pointed at the one with the beard. "Hey, look! That one's Chadwick, he's my guild leader!" "You're in a guild?" Summer asked as they filtered in through the door to where all the artist's booths were set up. "Oh wow! There's a lot!" The booths were packed. Con attendees streamed through the aisles between them, stopping to chat with the artists and admire the works hanging over their heads. There was everything - spray paint, digital art, even fan-created manga. Kenny stopped to admire one. "Oh hey, it's based on Noonlight!" The artist had really leaned into their own artistic depiction of the Briar Beast- swirls of black ink decorated the pages, standing out as wrong and unnatural. "It looks awesome! You did a really good job!" "Kenny, your phone's going off." "Huh? Is it Mom?" "No, it's the app. It says one of your friends is nearby. orioncayge ?" "NO WAAAY!" Kenny's shout turned some heads as the high schooler grabbed for the phone, hardly able to take his eyes off the screen. "He's like, one of my best friends! Oh my god, we have to find him." What would Orion be like in real life? Would he be cool? What if he was like, an old guy? Would that be weird? No way, Orion is too cool to be old, Kenny told himself firmly, pushing his way back towards the center aisle. But as it turned out, it wasn't as easy to find Orion as he'd hoped. The cosplay floor was filled with bandana-wearing copycats punching Porygon plushies. "I'm getting tired," Summer sighed impatiently after Kenny beat a confused retreat from the third lookalike, rubbing the back of his head. "Can we go look for the Painter stamp kiosk already? There's like, a million of this Orion guy." "Hey, this one looks just like him!" Kenny said, ignoring her. The sixteen-year-old grinned at the man, sticking his hands in his pockets. "But you forgot Orion's bandana! Even I've never seen his forehead. It's like, one of those hidden secrets of the game." "What is this game? I thought it was supposed to be Pokemon." "It is! Right, Orion? I mean, mister? Sorry." Kenny addressed the cosplayer, then did a double-take. "Oh man, I'm getting confused. You seriously got his face perfectly."
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orioncayge • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 770 Trainer Class: Arena Points: 20	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by orioncayge on Aug 31, 2023 16:48:31 GMT 9 "The fuck is an Orion?" The current Caygeplayer raised an eyebrow as some kid came up to him. "I'm going full Cayge mode here man!" Orion, who happened to be coincidentally nearby paused as he heard his name over the subtle clamor of people gushing over their various Professor Ashe posters or dudes making weird comments about their bunya fanart. Truth be told he'd spent the last few minutes following a trail of pestered imposters, all muttering about some weird dude asking around about Orion. Most of the regular playerbase knew him by his username, so for someone to be walking up to them and using his real name it probably meant he knew them. A quick glance at his app revealed that to be one Yggy, and he was pretty certain he could see her off in the distance. At least he was fairly certain that was her by the look of it. A tad young, but he'd already gathered they were somewhere south of eighteen just by how they'd acted in game. "Yo" He managed to call out as Yggy was confronting a Bandannaless Caygematch. "That you Yggy?" He would jog up to the trio of people, as the other Cayge locked eyes with him and his plethora of Bandannas and knew he was in the true presence of the one and only. Orion would give the dude a fist bump and turn his attention to the young woman ruffling her hair. "You're a little shorter than in the game, you know that right chica?" Turning his gaze back to his contemporary who was stealin his fit, he would pull an extra bandanna out and toss it to him. "Wrap the noggin dude, you gotta have the sickest Bandanna drip at all times."

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Yggy Br00ks • Pikachu Fan Round 2 Posts: 407 Trainer Class: Player Name: Kenneth Garfield OOC Username: M00K Arena Points: 68	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Yggy Br00ks on Aug 31, 2023 23:04:12 GMT 9 #s://cdn~discordapp~com/attachments/1028264618818289684/1146083722840506368/kenny~png Kenny's head shot up at the greeting. Another Cayge Match was approaching, but this one felt different. More purposeful. "Summer, that's him! The real one! It's gotta be!" "Are you sure? He looks just like all the other ones." The girl sounded doubtful. "I guess he must use his real face in-game! Wow, that's super brave," Kenny said as the real orioncayge approached. "Woooo!" He accepted the fist bump, grinning. "Hey Orion!" "Ow, hey!" Summer scrunched up her face and batted at the stranger as he ruffled her hair. "Kenny, tell your friend to cut it out!" Kenny was so excited that it took a second for what the man had said to sink in. You're shorter than in the game. Huh? Was he really? And why was he talking to Summer? Then it hit him and he burst out laughing. "Hahaha! Orion, that's my little sister! Look, I'm the real me." He struck a goofy pose with both thumbs up. It wasn't any kind of reference to the game or signal-- just Kenny's brand of signature corniness. "It's so cool to finally meet you!" "You play as a girl?" Summer asked, trying to fix her mussed hair. "Why?" "Aww... it's kind of a long story," Kenny said, looking uncomfortable for the first time. "I'll tell you later. Man, I'm so excited to see Orion in person!" he burst out again. "You're so lucky! Nobody's cosplaying as me. I guess I gotta work on my baseball pitch." He grinned sheepishly, then fired off a barrage of questions. "Did you just get here? Are you here tomorrow, too? Have you been anywhere else? Do you have extra bandanas?"

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orioncayge • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 770 Trainer Class: Arena Points: 20	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by orioncayge on Sept 2, 2023 3:40:41 GMT 9 It took a moment for what had just transpired to sink in for the fighter as his eyes danced from the young woman to the young man, the gears working in his head for a moment. Once everything had clicked, Orion's hand darted from menacing Kenny's sister to ruffling his hair in response to the rapid fire of questions. "My B Homie, I saw a girl who looked like well..."you" and I just sort of assumed, and you know what they say about assuming." Once his homie was properly greeted he would turn to his homies younger sister and give her a warm smile. "My bad to you too chica, name's Orion Cayge, me and your brother are homies in game!" Turning his gaze back to Kenny he would let the barrage of questions hang in the air for a moment while he formulated an answer for him. "So apparently I'm like a bit of a meme on the UNOVR subreddit for some of my antics during world events so I seem to have a bit of a following. As for how long I've been here, I got in pretty early, drove in from my hometown in Vegas and I have a room at one of the nearby hotels. I'll be here for the duration of the con and maybe an extra day or two depending on shenanigans. As for where I've been well...I've been to the Arcade and the Dream Kingdom Lounge, been hunting down the stickers to try and make sure I get those space jorts." Noticeably he didn't verbally answer the Bandanna question, instead he just reached into one of his pockets and fished out a bright yellow Bandanna that matched his own and offered it to his buddy. "Speaking of Bandannas, I ran into Bee already! As well as Blue, have you run into anyone else from the game yet?"
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Yggy Br00ks • Pikachu Fan Round 2 Posts: 407 Trainer Class: Player Name: Kenneth Garfield OOC Username: M00K Arena Points: 68	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Yggy Br00ks on Oct 13, 2023 0:29:16 GMT 9 #s://cdn~discordapp~com/attachments/1028264618818289684/1146083722840506368/kenny~png Kenny grinned, sticking out his hand for a Super Adult Handshake. "Haha, it's cool, don't worry! My real name's Kenny. I'm actually from Vancouver, up in Canada! I've never been to America before. Is Las Vegas close? Oh man, Mom would kill us if we went gambling." He definitely, definitely didn't want Orion to feel embarrassed or anything. If anything, Kenny was the one feeling doofy about the whole situation. Of course Orion would assume he was a girl, Yggy was a girl. Now. She hadn't always been. Anyway, Summer seemed to have relaxed, and she gave Orion a little wave. "Oh, totally! I've heard a lot about you." She rolled her eyes, sending Kenny a mischievous look. "Kenny's always talking about you. Like when you were in a raid together, or went fishing, or played baseball and hatched a baby whale or whatever." The boy let out a yelp of protest. "That was Big Bee, not Orion! Orion's the one who helped me get my shoe back!" "Oh yeah, that too." The teen's eyes lit up when Orion handed him the bandana. "Nope! Just you so far!" Kenny tied the yellow strip of cloth over his head immediately. It covered his eyebrows. "Oh my god, yes! How do I look?!" He pulled up his phone to see himself in the front-view camera, grinning madly. "This is so awesome. We should take a selfie!" "Photobomb! Haha!" "...Oh my god, you don't have to photobomb, you should be in it too. C'mon, all of us together!" After attempting to snap some cheesy selfies, Kenny looked around for the Painter Stamp kiosk. "Oh right! I totally forgot about the jorts. I already got the aerosol ones, haha, but I totally want that canvas bag and the pop vinyl. Let's find it! I already got the Dreamer one at the hotel. Oh wait, you said you were staying at a hotel too, right? We're at the Mariott, how about you?" "Stamp," Summer reminded him, tugging at his arm and pointing at the kiosk. It was interspersed among all the other artist booths, somewhere between a display of japanese-style Pokemon ink paintings and a digital art booth. "Then food? Have you eaten breakfast, um... Orion?" Her tone faltered a little. orioncayge

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orioncayge • Bandana Guy Round 2 Posts: 770 Trainer Class: Arena Points: 20	Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by orioncayge on Oct 13, 2023 2:26:21 GMT 9 The more and more Kenny spoke, the wider and wider Orion's smile grew until he was positively beaming as he stooped to take the selfies with the siblings. Kenny had an infectious energy about him, something pure, an honest unrelenting dorkyness that shone bright unfettered by any self doubt. It was the type of real that you couldn't teach someone how to be, it was raw, instinctual even. He could tell it wasn't an act even due to the sheer exasperation that seemed to hang on his sister's words, the type of exhaustion that didn't come from a day or two of handling something like this, but the type of tired that came after years working the same thankless job. "I feel like your mom would kill me if I took yall gambling." Orion quipped as he inspected the photos, discretely pulling Kenny's bandanna back a bit so it wasn't choking up on his eyebrows and making him look like a dork. "And honestly? I'm honored to be told stories about, especially if I'm in the same pantheon as Big motherfucking Bee." He would pause, turning to Kenny. "Did you know he's actually Bryan Nautilus? You know, like the Hydance dude? I ran into him at the Arcade cuz I accidentally made a scene beating on some porypunks for fans." He would motion to the signature branding his banana colored bandanna. Following along as Summer, who at this point hadn't been introduced properly but he'd heard her name being uttered as he approached, ushered them over to the stamp kiosk ready to get this whole stamp thing over with. With a flourish he whipped out his phone and scanned the QR code with the app, rubbing his chin. "As for breakfast I had a Brotien bar and a monster, and I'm staying at the Marriott too, or I think it's the Marriott. That's the one affiliated with the con yeah? Sick pool, continental breakfast at a time no reasonable human being is going to be awake?" He paused, remembering the ultimate gentlemen's guide that he'd gotten from his uncle once upon a time. "Though I heard there were food trucks in the plaza if you're hungry Summer, I'm down to see what sorts of stuff they have on deck."

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