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[pikapikajankenpo]

I just checked the kids levels today and to my surprise, all that casual leveling has paid off! Pikachu's now 100 and I'm really excited for her.

So I'm going to probably get her something cute, any suggestions?

[She taps her chin thoughtfully for a moment, before adding,]

Oh yeah, and if anyone wants to come over, I'll be in Goldenrod today.

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[pikapikajankenpo]

That's true, we'll try them on.

Yeah, they're a type of story. A genre actually, like fantasy and romance yes.

[queen_stabbity]

[Well that makes a bit more sense. She couldn't understand how adventuring, fighting and stuff like that was just a boy's thing. Genres are weird.]

From where? I like good adventure stories.

[pikapikajankenpo]

It's a genre defined by my homeland, Japan. We've got a lot of genres, between shounen, seinen, shojo, and others. Seinen is more adult in nature, aimed at a older audience, and Shojo is a sort of fluffy aimed at for young women series.

[queen_stabbity]

I've never heard of Japan.

[Which is possibly a funny thing to say, considering that she has a very Irish accent so she should be from Earth.]

Is Seinen the sort of adult in nature that parents don't want you reading because there are Things that people do in there that they don't want to explain to their kids or because the writing is more mature?

[pikapikajankenpo]

[Yeah that accent is pretty Irish.]

It depends, like the writing tends to be more mature in nature, but it can edge into stuff that you don't want kids to read or watch.

[queen_stabbity]

[You'd have a hard time finding any accent more Irish than that.]

Hah! At least kids probably won't understand what's going on or if they do find it kinda icky.

[She certainly did, at least when she was little.]

[pikapikajankenpo]

[Definitely totally Irish. She'll mention it later.]

Probably not, no. Some shows like to masquerade as light and colorful stuff, and then it viciously tears out your heart with feelings.

[queen_stabbity]

[It's a fascinating answer!]

I love those sorts of shows. They're the best. Which do you like?

[pikapikajankenpo]

I'm a fan of Sunman vs Fighter X, a live action movie. It seems light and colorful and then it gets deep into their back history.

[queen_stabbity]

What's it about?

I like Rosaline and the McCallum TV show... for more than personal reasons... they actually managed to make what is essentially a bosom heaving romance novel into something that has stakes beyond will she get the guy and a really interesting story.

[pikapikajankenpo]

Fighter X is an older hero who rescued Sunman when he was a child, and it affected Sunman's sense of justice, so that when Fighter X was framed for a incident, Sunman comes to his rescue and they reconnect as long lost father and son.

[queen_stabbity]

Does it have a happy ending?

[pikapikajankenpo]

Yeah it does, although Fighter X had to leave to continue his work as a Space Police Officer. And Sunman returned to Earth in order to protect it.

[queen_stabbity]

[She nods seriously.]

Protecting is very important, even if you have to do things you don't want to or leave people behind.

[pikapikajankenpo]

Yeah, I can get behind that. It's something I've learned as well.

[queen_stabbity]

It's what me and my family does back home.

We've been protecting Eire before Eire was Eire.

[pikapikajankenpo]

Eire? Is that from Ireland?

[queen_stabbity]

Um... no. It's the same place...sort of. My world, where I'm from, we call it Eire.

[Which is right and proper. Ireland is just wrong...]

I'd never heard of Ireland before coming here.

[pikapikajankenpo]

Ah, okay. My world is pretty normal as far as geography goes. There's a lot of worlds connected to it though.

Ten years of being a superhero, you learn some things.

[queen_stabbity]

Mine is too. The names of places seem to be different.

Your world is connected to the Cosmic Web?

Heh. Mum won't let me go on the really dangerous missions solo just yet but I've been training since I was four.

What's your knack?

[pikapikajankenpo]

Dunno if I call it a Cosmic Web, but it's a world of fairy worlds and the human world.

The way I was told about it, a object called the Prism Flower keeps our worlds connected with the countless other kingdoms. And for years now, the residents of said Kingdoms have gone through strife and hardship, some of them even wiped out like the Palamir Kingdom before it was rebuilt.

I'm a superhero who uses lightning. They call us Precure.

[queen_stabbity]

[She brightened considerably. It's too bad Adrian wasn't around, he would love to question her about this prism flower thing. Most people considered the Cosmic Web a fairy tale but she believed him when he said it was a real thing.]

It's a... pathway... a connection between various worlds. Kind of like the ones between the human world and fairy. There's a story that says that my family came from some other destroyed world before coming to earth.

Precure... that's a cool sounding name. My knack is talking to animals and finding things.

[pikapikajankenpo]

That sounds like a fairy world to me. Most fairy worlds are under a strife of some sort, and then the Precure appear and defeat it. You could be your local variant of Precure.

Yeah, it's short for Pretty Cure. A group of magical superheroes who boast speed and agility higher than anyone else on the planet.

[queen_stabbity]

So you go rescuing people in other worlds?

Not very many people believe in the Cosmic Web except for the tin hat people and some really rare ritual mages... who could probably be classified as tin hat people.

Actually, the reason why we're protectors is kinda ... sad. My ancestor screwed up really badly and created an EVIL forest that ate people's souls. Part of the punishment for that was to protect the entry to fairy that we came from and make sure the evil forest didn't come through.

[A bit more complicated than that but...]

Pretty Cure? Why is that your name?

And use lightning?

[pikapikajankenpo]

Actually the villains tend to come to US. But there's been times we've gone to the fairy worlds to help them out.

Ah, yeah, most people don't know anything about the fairy worlds. Precure are usually secret, save for a few instances.

Oh I see, that must be hard.

[She smiled a little more though.]

Actually my superhero name is Cure Peace. Pretty Cure or Precure are ancient legends in my world, and have been part of the world for years.

My element is lightning, while my friends are beams, ice, wind and fire.