6th Bloom; [video]

[journalname]

[The feed opens on a view of a Pokemon egg, just starting to shake and shed tiny flakes of its shell.]

Look! It is hatching! It has taken a while - I had started to wonder if I should worry.

[Bits of eggshell continue falling off. There's a flash of a dark eye, and then the little Skiddo bashes its way out of the egg with several precise kicks and headbutts, stumbling out into the world. Asgore moves to steady it with a hand, but it leans away, apparently determined to stand on its own. Its fur is a creamy white, and it has golden horns, pinkish hooves, and pale green leaves around its neck. Yeah, it's from the post-prom eggs.]

Hello, little one! It is nice to meet you!

Do! [The baby Skiddo cries and headbutts Asgore in the leg.]

Ha ha! My, what well-developed horns! And I believe that is not the ordinary coloration for a Skiddo either. Why does that happen with all the mysteriously-appearing eggs?

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[badluckbabe]

Well...now that you mention it...

[She turns the camera to a stark white Litten with bright orange stripes]

Mine doesn't look anything like the one in the pictures I've seen. Not that I'm complaining.

[journalname]

My, how striking.

From what I have seen, it appears all the eggs we received recently are hatching this way.

[badluckbabe]

Huh...so I guess Poke Santa Claus or whoever dropped these eggs off wanted us all to have something different then usual.

I'd feel less special but look at her! She's adorable!

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[better2do]

[Asriel's own egg had hatched a couple of days ago - Leafy the Sewaddle was curled up in his lap as he responded, though his expression is...mixed. He's happy to see his Dad's egg hatch, and interested in the colors, and he knows that Frisk already has a Skiddo and it could never replace him...but it's a little weird when your Dad has a Skiddo. All Asriel can think about is his own lack of horns.]

Maybe...it's 'cause they're special and mysterious?

[journalname]

[Ah, yeah, it's a little weird for everyone. It's a bit like a reverse of...well, of him adopting human children.]

I suppose that could be! Maybe whatever left them here likes to make their gifts unique.

[better2do]

[He wishes he got the chance to grow up and have horns. Sigh...]

Yeah! And nothin's more unique than different colors. But I think all the Pokemon are unique no matter what color they are.

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[shieldless]

...You know not why either, Ser?

[ Even if he doesn't know Asgore, he seems one to respect from this knight. But really, Haurchefant respected pretty much everybody. As he speaks, he lazily shifts the camera to point at the pink-furred Mareep who's currently being annoyed by a Goomy and Kingdra, after a bit of a spar. ]

I thought it a little strange for Estinien to be his shade - but perhaps whomever left these eggs knows much on how to breed them in splendid shades.

[journalname]

Perhaps so. They certainly know how to sneak eggs into our things!

[shieldless]

At least they seem not malicious, whomever this mysterious benefactor is. Perhaps they are one of us?

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[charcoalfeather]

Oh! You have a different colored pokemon too!

[Rakka's egg had hatched several days ago, and the blue Houndour puppy was currently sleeping in her lap. Apart from sneezing flames a couple times, he's been pretty good!]

I don't know why, but... I get the feeling that they're special like this.

[journalname]

It seems all the eggs that appeared after the Prom have hatched this way. It is funny that they are the same in that way, but not the same species.

[charcoalfeather]

Then they must be special pokemon!

Maybe they're special Elite Four pokemon?

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[gainedlove]

[Frisk's new Scraggy is jumping up to get a look at the feed when Frisk responds, and Buddy (now a Gogoat) peers over their shoulder with interest.]

An' they're all sparkly, too! Maybe they're extra-magic or somethin'?

[journalname]

Possibly! I guess we will have to see if she enjoys fighting.

[She sure seems to enjoy headbutting. And, uh, staring?]

[gainedlove]

[Both very good things to be interested in!]

Yeah! Baby didn't really wanna, but maybe Lil' Pal will? An', um, if he does then they can practice t'gether!

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[innocent_royal]

That is incredible... And it's so cute, as well...

[She blinks, pondering about what was said.]

...You said that is not a normal coloration for it?

[journalname]

No, Skiddo are ordinarily brown. But I have only seen them in pictures before.

[innocent_royal]

A cute mystery...
What do you suppose caused the change in coloration?

[islandshore]

It's been going on for a few years, honestly. Shinies are... pretty rare, so I can't blame you for the surprise.

[He folds his arms, looking over his shoulder. In the background, a keen observer might spot a shiny Aegislash and Charziard hovering around a newly-hatched shiny Froakie.]

Honestly, I don't think anyone's figured out why, and functionally, there's not much of a difference between them and their regular-colored counterparts. Maybe it's some genetic thing? Like a less harmful albinism. Heck if I know.

Point being, it's cool as heck.

[journalname]

It is cool. [He says as someone who obviously doesn't use the word too naturally.] I am glad they do not seem to suffer any ill effects from it. Monsters - my species - do not have things like albinism, but I have heard of it in humans.

[islandshore]

Heh, I'd say you guys are pretty lucky, but I've never dealt with it myself, so that's probably not my place.

[Heh. Sure, it sounds real sucky, but how can he judge a condition he's never lived through?]

Honestly, the worst I've dealt with was low self-esteem with Cinder. She's always been pretty self-conscious about her color.

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[in4apounding]

Oh, how cute!

[Baby grass goat, this is not a drill.]

And- the eggs that show up like this do seem to hatch into differently-colored Pokemon quite a lot, don't they? Mine hasn't hatched yet, but the LAST egg I got like this did the same.

It happens with regular eggs too- my Vaporeon's differently colored than usual, and that egg I just got from a breeder.

[journalname]

Oh? That is the first I have heard of that. Was one of their parents also a "shiny"?

[keep_surviving]

All of them? So, this happens alot and they all come out weird colours?

[Diana's own newly hatched Grass type sits on her shoulder, calm and collected.]

[journalname]

This is the first time I have experienced it, but others say it has happened several times before.