the_plateau | -1 Ringleader

Well, this is it, folks! With that last log up and doing well, it's time for Joker to take his final bow out of Johto. He's been here since 2013, had a blast the whole few years, but all shows come to an end sooner or later!

Fortunately, when I first talked to the mods about this, they very generously allowed me to let Joker's troupe of Pokemon continue to run Eve's Garden Circus, which is officially under the new management of.... a Mime Jr. and a Zoroark. It's fine, Pokemon have long since infiltrated our society anyway. But no, really- please feel free to use the Eve's Garden Circus for all sorts of things, and have fun with it! While I've given it and its workers over to the mods to use for any and all plot things they might want to do in the future, that doesn't mean everyone else here can't drop by for a nice afternoon! Nothing would make me or the muse happier.

That's everything I have to say for people in general! As for Joker's CR.... The things he's left behind for them are in the comments to this post.

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Dear Envy,

It looks like the time has finally come for me to step off the stage! As I'm writing this, I can't be sure when this has happened, but I can say that I thought I would disappear a lot sooner. We both know the time for people in this place doesn't last long. Still, what a time it's been! This is not what I thought would be awaiting for me after death, and I can't complain a single bit about it.

With that said, I can't rightfully say what will be awaiting for me beyond Johto if all the priests I've ever listened to have turned out to be wrong. Honestly, when I last was in England, my good arm had been sliced off and I'd been left to die in a burning building. While it could be called a warm welcome back, I rather suspect it wouldn't do much good for me, and thus who knows what will happen now? For all we know, with worlds clearly beyond those of the ones we knew, I may continue this existence of bounding from place to place far away from my own England. If I am honest, it is not a fate I would mind much. I have not cared for my homeland since I was young. All that I truly miss are the faces of my family, most who I have not seen in many years now. I hurt with longing to see them again, and would gladly lose my arm again if I were to get the chance.

Yet while the separation from my family has pained me greatly, it's been lessened by the presence of you and your own. I want to let you know that it has meant the world to me that I've been able to work alongside you, and live these past few years with you as I have. If you and yours had been alive in my England, I have no doubt that me and mine would have been at your side inevitably. It is a thing I can imagine very easily inside my head. Perhaps you can say the same on your end, and perhaps our lives would have been very different if one or the other had been true. Regardless, things that have tormented me no longer sting as much thanks to you.

Regardless of anything else, knowing full well we are nearly twins in many things, you are a good person in my eyes. If there's anything I hope, besides being reunited with my sibling, it is to see you again in circumstances as kind as what we've experienced.

Wishing you happiness and giving apologies for not being able to attend your inevitable engagement to Heather,

Joker

P.S. Why shouldn't you take a Pokemon to the bathroom? Because it might take a Pikachu!

Along with the letter, Envy will receive a mask of a Zoroark, done in a sort of archaic style, and a makeup kit with all the colors and sparkles of the rainbow. One of the lipsticks glows in the dark.