victory_road | 14th Recipe [Video, Route 34]

[It's out near the start of Route 34, Goldenrod's signature skyscrapers easy to pick out in the background, where Jane's face appears in the cold, cloudy morning. She's got a scarf wrapped up around her neck and chin, her winter coat is on, her cheeks are pink, and you'd expect her to look delighted, the picture of an excited young lady ready to meet the holidays dead on - but instead she looks a little bewildered.]

Um...so, about a month ago...exactly a month, actually? An egg I received hatched into a Zorua, and his name is Hughie, and he's a troublesome little scamp but a lovely dear, really. He means well. But, um, I've looked up things on his species, and they're supposed to be able to transform into things, right? And he's done so as other Pokemon, but lately we've been trying to perfect his human transformation - I thought it might be interesting for him to learn.

[And it'd also get him into more trouble, but hey, this is a potential extra set of hands Jane could have around, and he'd seemed so pleased with the prospect...]

But...um. Do Zorua always...like to look like their trainers?

[It's then that Jane shifts the 'gear to show...a little boy? He looks so much like her, down to the curl of his black hair, but it's definitely a little boy, smiling silently as Dinah looks him over and then points behind him. Blinking, he turns...and there's a fluffy Zorua tail sticking out from the seat of his pants.]

I mean - I'm flattered? But I'm either going to be asked if he's my little brother or if he's my son...does anyone else have anyone in Hughie's species who transforms into a person? Maybe he needs some more ideas...

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...I feel like I've got to test this out now. There's two breeds of Vulpix now, right? Fire and Ice? I...should maybe...see if I can not be a Mom to them.

What if that doesn't work, though? Are you ready to be a mother of four, always busy raising them?

I'm raising a bunch of other Pokemon all the time - usually trying to give them all a turn at a day with me. It wouldn't be that different from what I do now.

Ah, but being a parent comes with its own expectations, you know. Driving them to baseball practice, helping them with their schoolwork...

[The hypocrisy might or might not be physically painful right now.]

Unless there's a Pokemon school I've not been made aware of, homework and extra curriculars don't seem to come up very often.

Would it really surprise you if there was one out there, considering... well, everything else about this world?

...Not really, actually. But then why aren't those of us who are still underage being herded into them?

...Beyond whatever's programmed in our Pokégears and whatever reputation we gain as trainers and breeders, I'm not sure how much of a legal identity we have around here. That might bar kids from going to regular schools.

That's a good point. I'm not really advocating for a school to get started up - I am a teenager who can teach herself plenty - but it's just one of those odd kinds of things, isn't it?

The longer you think about those 'odd kinds of things', the more you realize this whole society should not be so stable.

...Or you could consider it from the other way, couldn't you? Perhaps because this society is how it is, that's what makes it stable.

[Because what part of reality is stable right]

Possibly. Too bad it couldn't be replicated in most worlds out there.

That would require Pokemon, I think. And I don't know how readily they'd adapt to some worlds out there.

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Not that well. They'd take one look at mine and run back here screaming.

[Or crying.]

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