Phoebe always, without fail, makes a huge deal of Mother’s Day with herself. She spends it with her grandmother, since the woman more or less raised her in her mother’s absence, and she gets really into it. As much as the two don’t always get along, she continually makes the effort that specific day to remind her grandmother just how much she really does love and appreciate her.

However, the day isn’t just about her grandmother. Ever since her mother’s death, on Mother’s Day Phoebe will go out and sit by her mom’s grave. She does it alone, and every year she has the idea in her head that this year will be the year, it’ll be the year her mom’s spirit will come around and she’ll actually get to communicate with her again in some way. It never happens, and all in all she simply winds up disappointing herself.

It’s a really bittersweet holiday for her.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via fitzgeraldquotes) —

Maybe not much, but she starts speaking extremely fast, her accent comes out, and if she isn’t careful, she’ll just break off into Pidgin and no one will be able to understand a single thing she says.

It’s really embarassing for her when that happens, but luckily it isn’t often. She is extremely over-excitable, though usually she has more self-control than to let herself go off on tangents like that.

This, this, this. If she ever sees anyone in need of help or just generally in a bad way, it really pains her not to step up and help them. She will if at all possible.

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I’m pretty excited about FP simply because I finally get an excuse to dress Phoebe up in stuff she wouldn’t typically wear.

(Source: ebsays)

When she wants to concentrate, think, or simply have some time to herself, Phoebe goes to a number of places: either home or the beach there, depending, Meteor Falls, or one of Hoenn’s numerous caverns. Places like that are her favorite when she just wants time to herself—she can’t go to Mt. Pyre because her grandparents and Vangie are there, and it’s hard to be alone when you’re surrounded by others (even if many of them are dead).

She likes the caves in particular, and when she stays at Ever Grande often goes out to Victory Road. They’re dark and damp and cool, quiet for the most part, and if you stay out of sight not a lot of trainers are bound to bother you. Extrovert though she may be, she really enjoys being alone in places like that sometimes.