victory_road | True Pokemon Facts #2 the Murkrow

Hello! And welcome to True Pokemon Facts video number two. Today we're going to be looking at the Murkrow.

[The video flicks on, focusing on Princess She Who Devours the Darkness In People's Souls, who looks very dignified while wearing a sparking pink ribbon.]

The name Murkrow sounds like a smushing of the words 'murder' and 'crow' - which is the name of a group of crows and... well... crows. Murkrows most resemble the earth crow species known as a carrion crow. Personally, I think that 'murder' is a terrible name for a flock of crows and think that a story of crows would be nicer. None of the crows that I know have ever committed murder.

But, no one ever asks me about these things.

[She humphs a bit.]

A flock of Murkrows, on the other hand, is called a 'shiny'.

This has to with their fascination with shiny things, of course and they will do absolutely anything for a shiny object.

[A coin goes flinging out like a shot puck and Pickles goes flying out and catches it easily in her beak.]

They also like balloons, coffee and shoelaces.

Some people claim that Murkrows are harbingers of ill fortune but they're damn dirty liars who should [she says something rude in Irish that involves a goat and a rusty shovel] and you should tell them so.

[A serious nod.]

That's a rumor created by people who are clearly upset that their shiny things were stolen by murkrows. But if they didn't want the things taken then they should have kept a better handle on the things. So really it's all their fault.

[Another nod.]

Murkrows are capable of learning to speak human -

[Princess She Who Devours the Darkness In People's Souls croaks out on cue]

Hello Poopy head!

Though it's hard to get them to stop saying things once they've learned it and they will teach it to their children and they will teach it to their children until you end up with an entire shiny of Murkrows saying the same thing over and over again and then laugh at you when you ask them to stop.

Hello Poopy head!!

Yes. Yes. I know.

Hello Poopy head!!!

No. Really. You can stop now!

[Off screen a second Murkrow calls out.]

Hello Poopy head!!

You taught it to the others, didn't you, Pickles?

[A third one joins in the cry. Then a fourth. Meanwhile Pickles looks smug.]

Welp. I walked into that one. Trever'll be proud of me, I guess. Though I don't think the people around here will be happy. Oh well.

That has been today's True Pokemon Facts about the Murkrow. Stay tune next month for our next video!

Hello poopy head!!!

Yes. Yes.

[And the video shuts off.]

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You know, not a single thing in this video was false.

Truly, this series is aptly named.

_{[This is said incredibly dryly, but miraculously not sarcastically at all, and over a background chorus of Poopbutt Poopbutt Poopbutt Poopbutt from her own Murkrow who is hopping back and forth on her shoulder.]

[It is actually one of the tamer things that Wren has absorbed into her vocabulary.]}

[Princess She Who Devours the Darkness in People's Souls tilts her head at the other Murkrow with a rather thoughtful manner. Unfortunately for Ceilidh, she's currently on her shoulder and so she can't see such look. Ceilidh manages to keep a straight face at the other bird.]

I do try for accuracy.

[Morrigan knows that's what happened with the birds back home though she didn't teach them that particular phrase.]

Poopbutt!

[She turns her head to look at her smug bird after that exclamation.]

Really?

At least it's not... that vulgar.

_{[Wren once taught someone's sweet little Cleffa to squeak the word 'motherfucker' and frankly Heather is not sure she will ever be able to top that. The high point in her life has been reached and clearly it's all downhill from there.]}

And it's... kinda funny?

I've been trying to teach her some good Gaelic curses but she's not learned them yet.

[Clearly that needs to be worked on.]

It's fucking hilarious. The ones at home know to say it whenever visitors come out the back kitchen door. Appppppaaaaaareeeently they said it to the king and some diplomats when they came to visit before I was born. The diplomats were quite put out.

[The last three words are said in a very haughty proper British Accent.]

Thank god there's no kings or diplomats in this place or between us, our Pokemon would probably start an international incident.

Unless you count the Elite Four I guess.

But I helped save those guys from Team Rocket, I think that puts me out of the danger zone for 'What if my bird says 'fuck' in front of the most important people in two regions'.

You're not supposed to curse in front of royalty?

[She says that somewhat innocently. The queen of Eire is quite foul mouthed. Ceilidh learned some very good curses from her! Admittedly, she's also Ceilidh's aunt and her family isn't very good at being proper.]

Who are the Elite Four?

Wouldn't know, I've never met any, but pop culture would have me believe that not knowing which fork to use for salad will get you excommunicated from the country or something.

_{[She was born in rural Maine and never even visited a different state, okay.]}

The Elite Four are like the top dogs of this region, they're the ones who like run the Pokemon League and stuff. Super important.

Never met them either except for last summer and they were KINDA not in the mood to talk to anybody.

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