John
*Raice slowly walked into the observatory. It was night time and he was fixing to do a little bit of experimenting with how Delista would react to the night. She was after all a dark and fairy type, they often have a relation to moonlight. He sent out the roserade who looked up at the sky with a smile. She dashed quicker than normal onto raice's backpack, causing him to stare on in shock* "Fascinating. You move faster in moonlight."
William
Bede had been in the observatory before Raice walked in, previously just looking up at the stars with his Mawile and Sylveon. Hatterene lingered a bit off to the side, mostly keeping watch, so whenever she startles at the enterance of Raice and Delista, Bede startles as well. He swirls around to stare at the 'intruders' in a mixture of surprise and frustration- he had been enjoying himself up here, away from annoyances, and now someone's barging in? He should have accounted for the fact that this is a public space.
John
*Raice had not known someone else was here. Delista looked over to bede's direction and made direct eye contact, their magenta eyes locking onto and glaring at bede's own. Raice looked where Delista was looking and flinched a little. He kinda didn't think about anyone else being here. Maybe he should leave? He picked up his notepad but Delista merely bonked him on his head and shook her head. Guess she didn't want to go.*
William
He stared at the... Odd roserade. Something felt innately off about it- he wasn't sure what, yet, but it was bothering him. It was clearly bothering Hatterene and Mawile, too. They both seemed to be nervously investigating from afar. Sylveon didn't seem to care much at all, but she was the exception in this case, rather than the norm. Bede himself starts changing the focus of his gaze from the roserade to the stranger repeatedly, trying to work out what felt *Wrong.*
John
*The roserade quickly dashed over to bede, avoiding Raice who attempted to catch her. Delista stopped in front of bede and looked at him and his pokemon with a glare. It dashed back to Raice, who struggled to keep balance.* "Ok moonlight m-makes you h-hyper. Noted" *Delista, kept looking over at the pokemon, was something wrong? Raice gave her a worried look, hoping she was alright. Did the moonlight also increase her sense of danger? Or was she playing? Or just generally cautious? Who knows?*
William
After the brief closer look, Bede was almost convinced the roserade wasn't actually a roserade- It didn't look like the classified shiny, and it seemed to be setting his Pokémon off so much... He turned his attention to the apparent trainer of this oddity. "What are they?" He asks bluntly, trying to hide how baffled he was.
John
"H-Huh? Oh Delista? She's a new r-regional variant of a-a roserade we discovered recently. I-I'm not supposed to b-battle trainers with h-her though, we don't know what she's capable of." *He looked back at Delista, who was busy playing with the flap of Raice's backpack. He looked back at bede and his pokemon, noticing the concern and caution on their face. Now, this was indeed an expected reaction to seeing a pokemon look different like this, but it was like the Galarian zigzagoons or the alolan meowths. Although, she's mostly undocumented.*
William
"...She's making Hatterene and Mawile uncomfortable." Bede mutters, watching the 'regional variant' closely. The 'vibe' of this Pokémon felt familiar - oh, what was it? Bede was trying to put a pin in the feeling as he watched the Pokémon play with Raice's bag. He couldn't place it yet, but it was definitely setting Hatterene and Mawile off...
John
*Raice looked over at hatterene and mawile. Yeah they looked upset. Delista noticed it too. Instead of backing off she hopped off of the bag and began to slowly dance closer to the group. Its dance was mesmerizing, and its fans left a trail of sparkles as she moved her arms. This behavior was not that of a regular roserade, that's for sure.*
William
Bede took a small step back. Regular roserades were known for being poisonous- He didn't want to get poisoned by this one, in case it was the same typing. Mawile edged closer, cautious but curious. Hatterene remained at a distance, glaring at Delista. The only Pokémon who seemed perfectly at ease was Sylveon, who was perched safely on Bede's shoulders, far from harm's way.
John
*Delista danced up to mawile, taking its hands and spinning it around in a dance. It let go, leaving its sparkles floating around the steel/fairy type. Delista then looked at hatterene, staring it directly in the eyes as she continued her dance with passion.* "Interesting.."
William
Mawile seems mildly mesmerized, and a lot less scared. Hatterene, on the other hand, seems a mixture between aggressive and cautious- Bede frowned, and it suddenly hit him what the energy reminded him of. It reminded him of the Glimwood Tangle. That made... So much more sense. "...Are they a fairy type?" He guessed slowly. He would be embarrassed if he was wrong, but... Now that he figured it out, Delista really did remind him of the mischevious Pokémon of his home town and the surrounding forest.
John
*Raice watched delista's dance in awe, it was stunning. He definitely has to let professor pine know. He looked up at bede, hearing his question and nodding* "Y-yeah. Fairy and dark type" *Delista approached hatterene despite seeing their obviously hostile exterior. She sent a small puff of air at the large fairy pokemon before dancing off, ignoring any aggression towards it.* "I-I have to warn you though... I-I've seen her get aggressive at her dance being interrupted"
William
"Mnh. That might be why Hatterene is on edge." He muses. "Fairy is effective against Dark, but Dark is effective against Psychic, and she's duel type Psychic-Fairy." He makes a clicking noise towards Hatterene and she comes to his call, not-so-subtly using him as a shield. Bede himself seems surprisingly calm, if not a bit confused, as he warches the Delista dance.
John
*Delista looks to bede and blows a puff of air at him, doing her best to focus his attention on her. She was quite the attention seeker. She glared as she performed her dance under the moonlight, executing twirls and dramatic poses excellently. In an attempt to captivate her audience more, she used a combination of hurricane, moonblast, and dark pulse (albeit in weaker forms) to create a dazzling array of pink, black, and purple particles. Raice had started recording and was excited to catch this on camera. His research is going along great.*
William
Bede did feel excited that there was a new fairy type. There was a surprisingly small amount of classified fairy types in the world, so every new discovery was exciting. He kept up with science forums and the like- both for fairy types and psychic types, the latter just out of habit. It was clear the roserade was incredibly focused on this dance- he wasn't all that familiar with roserades due to their typing, but he was definitely interested in... Delista. He watches intently, attention definitely grabbed for the entirety of the dance.