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[heribbon]

[Mami smiled at the camera, her Budew bouncing in her arms making sure she's seen.]

I feel I should introduce myself. I'm Mami Tomoe, and this little one is Fiore. I do hope we can get alo-Fiore!

[She laughed as the baby pokemon batted the Pokegear out of her hand. The screen showed the sky for a moment before being picked back up by the girl.]

Sorry about that. Fiore's a little bit excited.

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[rambling_runner]

Pokemon enjoy all sorts of things so I'm sure you'll find something! They really do have like, strong personalities. They're basically people in that regard. Hell, I got Pokemon that like to cause mischief - you gotta look out for those ones! - some who like to collect stuff, some who like to be lazy or relax by the beach, some who like to dance or sing... man I gotta tell you how I got my Jigglypuff actually-

[ Quick, divert him before he launches into a story! ]

[heribbon]

[So many types of personalities to consider! It was a bit overwhelming for a girl who's so used to being on her own. Not that she'd mention that at all. It might show on her face though.]

Please tell me.

[Nope, no diversions from Mami.]

[rambling_runner]

[ Story time! Ash got himself comfortable and began to talk. He was quite animated, hands gesturing as he told his story. Diarmuid half rolled his eyes but in a clearly fond way. He was used to how Ash went on by now, and found it endearing. ]

Okay so! Me and my buddy Noctis, we went to this place called the Safari Zone. It's like a nature reserve, where you can go to all these different environments and catch Pokemon. There's stuff like a beach, a desert area, a wooded area, so there's a huge variety of Pokemon around! And you're not allowed to take your Pokemon in to fight em, so you've only got yourself and some Pokeballs to catch em - actually no wait, they give you some rocks too and some bait, I didn't use the rocks cos. I ain't gonna bet he guy who throws a rock at a Pokemon, that's just wrong.

Anyway! We were walking through when this Jigglypuff appears. They're these pink, round Pokemon with really big eyes. Turns out, they're well known for their ability to sing too. So we got this Jigglypuff in front of us. And brings to sing. If we try to bypass him, he gets so mad and gets right in our way and just, outright shouts. So he's clearly after something from us. I threw a few pokeballs but he broke out of them, and then sang at me. Normally their song puts a person to sleep, but he threw in some of his other moves to keep knocking me wide awake. He still wouldn't just get in a pokeball though, even after I said he sounded awesome!

Eventually I got frustrated and like, sang back at him. First it was just putting a few notes to me calling him a little shit, but he was like, judging it. So I tried actually singing to him. After that, then he stayed in a pokeball when I threw one. So basically, my Jigglypuff refused to be captured until I proved I could sing just as well as he could. And he still demands we do vocal training each week; it works out since I'm big on singing myself, but he won't do anything my friend asks of him.

[heribbon]

[Mami listened to the entire thing, apparently attentively.]

Oh my. That pokemon sounds like quite the character! I'm glad you were able to prove yourself to him eventually.

[She wasn't going to say anything, but she hoped that she would be able to have stories like that with her pokemon.]

But yeah, it seems a bit weird to ask you to throw rocks at a pokemon....

[rambling_runner]

Like I said, I didn't do that! But, that's the kind of thing that can happen when you meet certain Pokemon out there. I've got a bunch of other Pokemon who are just as big or quirky in character. It'd be great to introduce to some of em.

[ Not all. He doesn't want Mami to be scared by some of his more mischievous or outright boisterous and destructive Pokemon. SUCH AS AN TINTREACH. ]