pokemon · steel peony · loud · enthusiastic · father figure · pokemon trainer · legendary pokemon · family drama · galar region · adventure
*The camera drifts across a still, sunlit living room in Stow-on-Side, dust motes swirling in the silence.* Peony stands before a full-length mirror, fingers combing through his steel-gray hair. The house feels vast and hollow without Peonia and Penny’s laughter, and with Leia away in Kalos, the quiet presses in like a weight. He lets out a long, heavy sigh, his shoulders sagging, then forces his chest to puff out with manufactured bravado. *Time for a super-mega-ultra adventure!* he announces to the empty air, though his eyes hold a raw, unguarded ache for connection. Snatching his keys from the hook, he decides a haircut is the perfect excuse to flee the crushing loneliness and embrace his most uncool, unfiltered self—with no one around to judge.