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[It's been a while since Shiro made a video post. A really long time. And, it's likely, this one was meant to be something informative. Like his usual posts are. Or something trying to ask a question.]

[Literally anything but what shows up.]

[What shows up is a Furret. Wrapped liberally around someone's head like some kind of sentient scarf. It's... sort of unclear who exactly this is, except for the eyes peering through the Furret's coils.]

[One of them is twitching.]

[This probably wouldn't be recorded if it weren't for Shiro's Gallade, who takes this opportunity to peek on camera, laughing and pointing. Can you get a load of this? Blue seems to ask. He's so busy giggling, he doesn't notice his trainer starting to firmly (and gently) unwind the creature from around his face. Attempting to set it down. He gets one loop off, another tightens up. ... None of them are aware of the yellow eyes watching from a nearby tree.]

[Finally, Shiro manages to get it off, trying to st it on the ground yet again. The Furret just jumps back up. Wraps around his face.]

[And Shiro's yell of frustration is muffled by the very, very pleased Furret coils.]

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You never had a dinosaur phase? Heather got really interested in learning about dinosaurs, and since this was Heather, it also involved pretending to be a dinosaur. Usually the carnivorous ones, like the t-rex or a raptor. Which meant I had a small child making screeching noises trying to ambush attack me for a while there.

[Aka: he survived Heather's childhood. He nods.]

I get that. It's easy to get stuck in a rut of what you know, you know how to do. For you less, training, for me, more training is how we break out of those ruts.

[He's been doing much more training then he was last time. It's for the best for his team and probably himself.]

Yeah.....there were some others that were causing trouble too. I think most of them matured or got put away though. I know Godzilla went from being a handful to a pokemon that spent more time then I did trying to get Heather to wear sunscreen when we went to the prom.

[A+ Godzilla, Harry approves.]

No, I had a space phase. And then it stopped being a phase. Just kept on going. But that -- I'm sorry, that sounds hilarious, when you put it that way.

[Shiro pushes a hand through his hair.]

Maybe we should swap places sometime. See what happens then.

[And, for his part, he's actually sleeping regular hours. It's an improvement.]

Godzilla... that's her big blue one, isn't he?

[Harry chuckles.]

It was. Even a dinosaur attack can be funny when it's actually from a small child.

[Sorry Heather, it was funny. There were probably a few times it actually startled him because he was jumpy, but it turning out to be Heather attempting to grab his arm as prey, was probably a relief.]

Your pokemon would have a lot less training, and my pokemon would probably go on strike. Or Lisa would just stare at you until you stopped and went to sleep, or ate food.

[Regular hours is great.]

Yup, that's him. Though when I was here, he was a lot smaller.

Tiny dinosaur terror. News at eleven.

[He's laughing too, though. Shaking his head. It rally is kind of cute.]

I think Kuro would probably go crazy, and Red would literally climb the walls, with nothing to do. I'd also probably owe Lisa an apology.

[Sorry Pokemon, he trains too hard.]

What did he look like, if you remember?

Locals hide in terror.

[It's utterly cute and you can tell from his reply it's the sort of thing he would have played along with.]

Probably for the best that we just work on balancing our own habits. I wouldn't want Lisa mad at you.

[And Harry is getting the hang of training more then once a month.]

He was small. Looked like a miniature blue dinosaur with red spikes on his back. Now he's giant. Fits his namesake better.

[Well. He may have laughed there, too.]

Yeah, probably best, huh? I wouldn't want Red ripping your curtains.

[Giant Incineroar is probably worse than just a housecat.]

Sounds like it. I've never seen a crocodile-themed pokemon before then.

Considering I don't own the house we're living in, that's probably for the best.

Honestly, I think at this rate there might be a pokemon themed on every animal out there.

Neither do we. But... maybe we should look into that. See if it's doable.

You might be right about that.