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victory_road2017-08-15 12:26 am
schachmeister) wrote in victory_road2017-08-15 12:26 am
Entry tags:
- armin arlert (attack on titan),
- bertolt hoover (attack on titan),
- jane crocker (homestuck),
- jean kirschtein (attack on titan),
- jinx (teen titans),
- joker (kuroshitsuji),
- newt scamander (harry potter),
- penny polendina (rwby),
- rakka (haibane renmei),
- riku (kingdom hearts),
- sasha braus (attack on titan),
- sion astal (legendary heroes),
- stanford pines (gravity falls),
- takashi "shiro" shirogane (voltron)
Video; Suicune no swiping
[The video switches onto very shaky, jerky footage of the inside of a tent, and then a tentflap being pushed aside with very indistinct muttering in the background.
Outside, the early light of dawn is grey in a persistent drizzle. The gear (still not completely steady) looks out over a reasonably neat camp. Smokey the Ursaring would be pleased. Their old XO would only assign twenty laps. All in all, a very normal scene.
Apart from the legendary pokemon standing in the middle of camp like it does this sort of thing every day. That is a little not normal.
Have you ever seen Suicune? Have you ever seen Suicune steal a tea kettle? You have now.
The large blue legendary pokemon lowers its muzzle to nose at the kettle, before clamping its sharp teeth around it and lifting it up.]
Ah! No! No, no.
[It drops the kettle again, staring straight into the gear. For a moment everything seems to go still, even the sound of the rain drizzling down coming to a stop. It's a moment that seems to stretch, perilously thin and then suddenly it snaps, like a bubble bursting, and Suicune bends down to clamp its teeth around the tea kettle again and then it is off with a great leap, the rain suddenly coming down again with a roar.]
Outside, the early light of dawn is grey in a persistent drizzle. The gear (still not completely steady) looks out over a reasonably neat camp. Smokey the Ursaring would be pleased. Their old XO would only assign twenty laps. All in all, a very normal scene.
Apart from the legendary pokemon standing in the middle of camp like it does this sort of thing every day. That is a little not normal.
Have you ever seen Suicune? Have you ever seen Suicune steal a tea kettle? You have now.
The large blue legendary pokemon lowers its muzzle to nose at the kettle, before clamping its sharp teeth around it and lifting it up.]
Ah! No! No, no.
[It drops the kettle again, staring straight into the gear. For a moment everything seems to go still, even the sound of the rain drizzling down coming to a stop. It's a moment that seems to stretch, perilously thin and then suddenly it snaps, like a bubble bursting, and Suicune bends down to clamp its teeth around the tea kettle again and then it is off with a great leap, the rain suddenly coming down again with a roar.]
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[And here, one had nicked Armin's tea kettle.]
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[It's a kettle, you ingrate.]
It suddenly decided it needed tea?
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[It is a possibility. Okay, maybe not the most likely possibility, but a possibility nonetheless.]
It doesn't seem like they interact much with humans. Maybe it was just curious about the kettle in general.
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[So skeptical. But humoring the kid, regardless. Because what else are you going to do when a legendary monster steals a tea kettle.]
It could be. Raccoons and bears steal garbage all the time...
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[Yes. That is the true legendary power. Being able to put a kettle on without thumbs.]
I've heard certain types of birds will steal objects they find shiny or bright. That might play a role as well.
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[Controls the rain. Hey, weirder things have happened.]
Any idea why they're suddenly turning up a lot more?
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[Or, well, that is what his voltorb's picture book claims. It might not be the most scientific source.]
No clue. I've asked a few people who've been here for a very long time, and they've never seen anything like this. Legendaries have been active before, but that was usually when Team Rocket was involved and there has been no sign of them this time.
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[Which would be just their luck right?]
What about the other team we ran into? Skull?
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[Or, at least, two of them are. Suicune might just be trolling around.]
I suppose it is possible but... they didn't give me the feeling they were a very big threat the last time we fought them.
[Lets be real here, for half of them tying their shoes laces right was probably a big battle.]
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[And Armin has a point about the skulls. But, then again, even a small threat can stumble into a Big Way to screw things up.]
I don't know if counting them out is right to do just yet. They could have done something by accident.
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Of course... [Armin makes a soft and thoughtful noise, rolling thoughts around in his head.] It is possible that what is happening is natural. We know so little about these legendary pokemon. Perhaps what they are doing right now has nothing to do with us humans. For all we know, this might simply be their equivalent of fighting over territory.
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Legendary pokemon getting into battles with each other?
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I've tried reading up on them, but most books available are, well...
[Allow him to duck back into the tent and dig through his backpack, digging out a book that is bright and colourful and very much meant for young children children.]
It's this sort of stuff. It is hard to say if anything in this is dependable. And even if it is, most of the information in it is very basic.
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I see your point.
I'm guessing there's no ... digital database we can access? [Like the internet.]
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[Armin has been learning a lot about technology since coming here, but there are still pretty significant blind spots in his knowledge. Part of that is because there is just so much he is interested in --the physical world and pokemon most of all-- that it had been knocked to a lower priority. And part of it is just... well, he's got a lot of technology to catch up on.]
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Like a whole library, but not made of books. Something you could access on the 'Gear or a computer, probably. It's made of more information than you could find in a library, too.
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[Apart from the pokemon information he gets from the gear (not even realising that is the sort of database Shiro is talking about to some degree) most of the new things Armin has learned here are from books or people. That is what he had been used to back home, and so that is what he had defaulted to. He had never even thought about accessing information on a computer or anything.]
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[He's tapping thoughtfully on the 'gear.]
I'm still in Goldenrod. Let me have a look here, and see if there's anything like that.
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