[When the feed clicked on, it was showing an image of Liquid sitting on what appeared to be the edge of a building.  It was evening, and the sun was in just the right place so that the sky behind him was lit with red and orange, and made his hair blaze like a golden halo around his head.]

[It was all very dramatic and it probably wasn't coincidental ( Read more... )

 [After the disaster that was the Shedinja fiasco, Liquid and Otacon had made it to Ecruteak.  And Liquid found that he was unfortunately utterly broke after spending most of his money getting back on the engineer's good side in Goldenrod.  Wining and dining a nerd was surprisingly expensive, even if the aforementioned nerd was a lightweight and a ( Read more... )

[When Liquid tossed the Pokegear onto the bed next to the egg he'd mysteriously gotten for Christmas, it turned on and started the feed.  The egg had been wrapped up to keep it warm, and now it was making little cracking noises and was rocking slightly where it lay; Liquid had already hatched one Pokemon by now, so he wasn't too concerned.  The ( Read more... )

[No one here in the Pokemon world had ever seen Liquid like this.]

[There was something different in the way he walked, the tenseness in his shoulders, the fists balled at his sides.  His face was cold with fury and hate; he moved with sharp snaps of his limbs.  He was, quite literally, a ticking time-bomb, and he was headed out of Goldenrod and ( Read more... )

[When Liquid was sane again, he found himself in the middle of a forest without the slightest indication of how he'd gotten there.  The walls of the prison came had simply burned off like fog, leaving him confused and disoriented and exhausted beyond belief.]

...?

[Had he never left at all?  Was that why he was covered in mud when he'd been in the ( Read more... )

There was something wrong with this fog.

Liquid was taking a walk through Azalea, gathering his thoughts and keeping himself busy while he and Otacon were in town.  He didn't like fog to begin with-- it wrecked hell on his visibility and got him cold and clammy.  It was already afternoon and the sun hadn't burned it off yet, something that annoyed ( Read more... )