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SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY I'M A BIG TIME BOMB

Alexis was born to Freya and Charles Adgate in Canalava City. Her father was a ship captain, such that he was always sailing off to some foreign coast or other; he was a strange, foreign entity, beloved in childhood thanks to her mother's slightly aggrandizing stories, but also regarded warily and, as Alexis grew up, eventually with distaste. Freya was a baker, and ran a small business not too far from the docks, which Alexis enjoyed for the times she got to help her mother in the kitchen, but resented for how there were constantly strangers downstairs, effectively inside the family home.
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Always a little anti-social and sensitive of a person, Alexis formed a shell of steel and hauteur that earned her the title of 'Princess' in highschool (a title one is ill-advised to call her by to this day), whereby her peers would mockingly prostrate to her as she passed. She scarcely had a friend through to her thirteenth year, when her mother bought her a Vulpix egg as a birthday present. The animal hatched as a girl; Alexis promptly named her 'Lady', defiantly absorbing even further the demeanor others held her in disdain for.
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Which was not to say that she did not love the animal. The girl and her pet fox were inseparable. Training Pokemon became a dream for the young woman, who began to skip on aiding her mother in the kitchen, spurning the plan of employment there in favor of frolicking in parks with her sole companion. Subsequently, she even grew apart from her mother, and even further from her father, withdrawing completely into the shell she had, with only space enough for one other. When Charles docked at Canalava for the first time in weeks during Alexis's sixteenth year, Freya found her daughter missing. It was only a few days prior to her seventeenth birthday, which her father would, unfortunately, 'be unable' to see.
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This was the last straw. When Alexis returned that night, Freya insulted her daughter's behaviour, her ingratitude, her lack of love for her family, even going so far as to furiously toss a pot plant towards Lady, who dodged only narrowly. "If you love that stupid thing more than you love your family, then just go! Just leave!"
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Perhaps, in saying so, the mother did not quite expect her daughter to calmly answer:
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"Okay."