5th Bloom; [video]

[journalname]

[Asgore's in some different surroundings today, surrounded by flowers.]

Howdy, everybody! This is just to announce that the Goldenrod Flower Shop is having a Valentine's Day sale! Our red roses are thirty percent off, and everything else is twenty percent off. [He smiles, adjusting a bouquet of pink lilies.] I'm happy to help come up with a good flower arrangement if anyone would like - there are many great gifts to give besides roses.

We can also do deliveries, within a reasonable distance. The flowers don't take well to much travel.

Comments

[journalname]

[Well, that's sort of his literal job now. Which is awesome and a lot more fun than being a king, if he's being completely honest.]

Yes, we have some of those! Can you come by, or would you like some delivered to you?

[rosehecate]

I can try to visit today. Junior and I aren't too far from Goldenrod City. Where exactly is the store?

[journalname]

It is right next to the Gym! You should be able to find that easily, it seems like the Gyms are very important to everyone.

[rosehecate]

Oh yes! I have heard of the Gyms. I'm not really interested in those, but I think I can find it, and then the store.

[Flowers are much more interesting than her little friends fighting.]

[journalname]

The Leader, Whitney, is a very nice girl, but I have never spent much time there. Only one of my Pokemon really enjoys battling. There are a lot of signs showing the way, though - it is somewhere most visitors go sooner or later.

[Honestly a really great location for a store tbh]

[rosehecate]

So then the flower shop must do an awful lot of business!

[journalname]

We do! There are always people coming in to buy a victory bouquet for their friends...and Whitney enjoys flowers as well. Especially after a loss...

[so really someone getting a gym badge is awesome for them? Asgore actually feels sorry for Whitney - she seems young, and even though losing occasionally is part of a gym leader's job, it can't be very fun.]

[rosehecate]

That sounds like a very sweet gift for either occasion. You must know an awful lot about flowers, to work at a flower shop.

[journalname]

I have always enjoyed gardening. I spent many years living underground back home, so it is nice to have such a variety of plants again.

[rosehecate]

Oh? But why did you live underground?

[journalname]

My people and I had become trapped there. But we are all free now!

[rosehecate]

Oh.

[There's a long pause, as Anthy's face fades to something a bit less like automatic cheer and more...contemplation.]

...I had been trapped, too - but not underground. So, I understand that it can be very difficult.

[journalname]

I am sorry to hear that.

[He does seem genuinely sorry.]

Yes, it was...very difficult. We did what we could to build new lives there, but people should not have to live in such conditions.

[rosehecate]

No, they should not. No matter who they are.

[It's taken her a very long time to learn that, too.]

...I am very glad you don't have to live like that anymore, though.

[journalname]

Thank you. We have been building new settlements on the Surface - it is the first time most monsters have seen it.

[rosehecate]

Oh? Are they finding it difficult to live with humans, or is it coming easily?

[journalname]

It has been far easier than I thought it would. There was a great war between our kinds once, but that was millennia ago now. They have...changed in some ways.

[Or perhaps they've just forgotten about monsters so thoroughly that they are no longer afraid.]

And, of course, we have Frisk as our ambassador! They are here in Goldenrod as well.

[rosehecate]

Oh my. That's very lucky, to have an ambassador. I just have myself.

[journalname]

Oh.

[He's not quite sure what to make of that?]

Well, I'm sure you do a marvelous job! [He likes her already, see?]

[rosehecate]

[She can tell he means it honestly, so he'll get a genuinely kind smile out of her in return.] Thank you. I'll do my very best.