Shaymin Café is an ask blog that centers around several Shaymin who run a small café.
Please be patient when waiting on responses. As I work two jobs, my free time is limited and while I will do my best to respond, I can’t guarantee it’ll be anytime soon.
You can find references for the characters and the dishes they typically serve on the Menu and Cast pages. All event appearances are listed on the character’s respective cast pages and on the Event Refs page.
This blog is a side blog run by @noblejanobii so all follows and most asks will come from that account.
And huge thanks to @kuixotic for the amazing icon, @jazzy-art-time for the adorable header image, and @daybreak-mun for the lovely background image. <3
Recently, I learned of the tragic loss to our community. Though Bader and I only ever spoke once, their presence was a constant in the community in the last few years.
Growing up, this time of year is filled with the celebrations of the lives of those we have lost, creating ofrendas and memorials to reminiscence in the memories they have left us with. And with a loss so profound, I think it is only right we do the same here.
As a result, after some discussion with @kuixotic, I have decided to put together our own ofrenda dedicated to @blueespeon and the memories they have left us with.
If you would like to submit a photo, a marigold, or a candle of your own to be included on this ofrenda, please submit it to my inbox here. I will include it on the display, to be released on the actual day of Dia de los Muertos.
While you are welcome to draw something new for the photos, I would also encourage you to look back at past interactions you had with Bader and submit a favorite panel from those asks. This is a collection of memories, after all.
Should you be unable to draw, please do still send in an ask to request to be included. Below are a sample candle and marigold that will be included for each person who isn’t able to submit their own unique piece to the ofrenda.
Due to some unexpected expenses on the horizon, I’ll be formally reopening commissions soon, but in the meantime, if you want to toss a little cash my way, you can adopt this guy for $10 from my Ko-Fi!
As Anna returns from Magi Retreat, she almost immediately went to her boutique, but still locked at her storage to refresh her memory on what to do with this huge price. As she leaves it.
And there some visitors already. Mostly concerned.
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She was quite caught up with those unusual Pokémon - a mysterious hybrid, an unusual Gallade with a robotic arm, and a Shaymin.
I-I guess, you didn’t understand-
As she tries to somehow justify the high price on this, someone is unexpectedly appears outside.
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Is this…a giant Pokémon? Hopefully she is not causing chaos in this city, otherwise it would be disaster. Anna deep breathes, however, it doesn’t helping her that lot and she’s still nervous towards those Pokémon.
W-WHAT THE HECK??? THAT’S SO MANY OF YOU AT THE SAME TIME… A-alright I’m going to lower the price…
She uses her marker and crossing out the price. It’s now cost 1,500 instead of almost 70K.
Hope you’re all alright with this price, everyone…
Don’t be so hard on yourself, girl.
I know you since I started my job as a shop clerk… I know you have a potential to become the best fashionista in the Pokéworld. But those recent high prices makes you greedy and losing your reputation, heck, even I tried to resign from it… But I’m glad you decided to go with the price drop.
Th-thank you Melica… I honestly don’t know why and how I’ve become greedy in the first place… This time I’ll pay you double for your job, ‘cause…you have a family to care…
Oh, t-thank y-you…!? I, to be honest, would wait longer for it…
Melica gets confused. They didn’t expect to be paid that early.
Anna is now facing towards the visitors.
A-apologies for the drama… As a compensation, I’m givin’ everyone a 150 PokéDollar coupon.
Anna gives coupons to everyone. Even to Pikavee, tho she doesn’t have a giant one, so she gave a regular one, and hopes it’s fine enough.
(ShayminCafe) Shaythulu sniffed the air as it caught Loki's lavender aroma. Saying something to Cherry that could only be heard as a cacophony of warbling whispers, the two set their attention on Loki and quickly made their way over to the taur. "Hail, fellow Shaymin," Cherry called out. "Your dress looks quite lovely on you. Your lavender aroma is quite potent. Does it cause flowers to bloom around you wherever you venture or is it simply a nice smell to compliment your looks?"
Loki had just been finishing up her conversation with Bella when the pair of Shaymin had arrived and a voice had called out to her. She knelt her legs to get to a more accessible speaking height with the red-and-grey one who had greeted her. She waved a hand to the pair of smaller-grass types, wanting to make sure they both felt welcome approaching her.
“Hello yourselves, fellow Shaymins!” she replied, humming warmly at Shaythulu and Cherry. “Thank you; this sweet Meowscarada was just saying the exact same thing about my dress. Seems I’ll have to let Shania know this was a hit at the event, after all… I’m Loki, by the way. Who are you two, if I might ask?” Her tail flickered thoughtfully at the second portion of Cherry’s statement as she rose to her feet.
“Oh, this old scent? Yeah, centuries of sleeping under a dogwood tree surrounded by lavender blooms will definitely bake the scent into your fur, I’d supposed. And no, the scent itself doesn’t really do anything superpowered. It’s just good for making me smell as nicely as I look, mostly. But I can make the former happen… with a little Aromatherapy move.” The hybrid’s eyes closed and she held her hands up to her chest, her Gracidea flower beginning to glow brightly. Her lavender aromas became even more powerful than usual, pervading the air in a good thirty-foot radius around her own body. Any flowers already alive in the area would bloom and grow slightly, though nothing new would grow, at least… not until the taur began stepping side to side, and multiple lavender buds sprouted with each lift of any of her four paws, immediately blossoming and opening as if they’d been growing for several months. She plucked one as the scents returned to a more normal potency, gently offering to place one behind both Shaymins’ ears as a reminder of their meeting.
“You’re quite unlike any Shaymin I’ve ever met,” she trilled, her long leaf-like tail swaying happily, “but that just means our species is much more diverse and flourishing than I could have hoped. It’s been wonderful meeting you both, and if you’d like to talk more, I’d be happy to walk with you to one of the vendors and we can talk over a beverage! I’d really love to know more about what makes you both as unique and curious as you are!”
Cherry and Shaythulu gratefully let Loki place the lavender buds behind their ears, the lovely scent wafting over them.
“I am Cherry, and this is my partner, Shaythulu.”
Shaythulu bowed its head and gave a wide grin. It opened its mouth, speaking words of a largely incomprehensible tongue, only to finish its sentence with a clear, “-meet you.”
“She says it’s a pleasure to meet you,” Cherry translated. “It’s rare to meet other Shaymin, especially those not of our home world. You’d likely feel right at home among our kind there.”
Shaythulu gestured towards one of the vendors with its antlers. “Cherry!”
“Oh, yes, of course.” Cherry smiled at Loki. “Let’s continue this conversation over a drink, like you suggested. We’d be happy to answer any questions you may have.”
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