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[kscience]

[The video starts off jitter-y, like whoever is holding the Pokegear is shaking. The camera is pointed at some out-of-focus trees, and Newt's excited voice can be heard, midway through a sentence- he started talking before the video actually started.]

-been a while, I know, I've been really focusing on getting some stuff in order and training my Pokemon, and it's fucking paid off big-time, alright-

[The camera turns to Newt's face- the angle is unflattering, but he looks the happiest he's been since he arrived to the Pokemon world.]

Ok. You guys ready for this?



[He moves the Pokegear around to face away from him again, and starts mimicking a drumroll sound effect. The video slowly pans over to the right...

There's a very blurry, toothy maw taking up the entire screen. The camera zooms out a little bit and re-focuses, revealing a very proud Eelektrik who wiggles happily for the camera.]

That's right, baby! Yamarashi's a big girl now! She's not quite ready to evolve a second time yet, but that's fine with me. Look at those fangs, man! She's definitely more like a lamprey than an eel- I dunno who named these guys, but they kinda fucked up there. Like, look at this!

[Yamarashi's mouth works obligingly, sucking in air as her mouth gapes. If you've never seen a lamprey's mouth before, the visual might be a little disturbing, but Newt seems to think it's the most wonderful thing in the world.]

Ok. But that's not all, my dudes. Like I said, we've been doing a lot of training.

[Now, the camera pans to the left, revealing a somewhat sparkly Unfezeant female and a beautiful female Meowstic. The Meowstic, Negora, meows a greeting as the Unfezeant, Dolly, fluffs up her feathers proudly.]

That's right- three of my girls are evolved, now! And everyone's been trained up pretty well- Hammerjaw should be evolving within the next couple weeks, if he wants- and Slattern, should, too, but he's being a bit of a pill.

[Newt turns the camera to face him, again.]

Also! To keep this evolution train going- Powder Puff and Raythe're both getting ready to evolve, but they're both trade evolutions. Anyone willing to help me with that? I've got the items for them already.

Comments

[rimeblaze]

Apparently someone that decided to flip their Pokemon for the fun of it. Maybe they were playing a game with it at the time.

The elemental stones at least make some sense, what with the elemental typings that Pokemon have.

The rest of it...I'm not sure I'll ever make sense of it. Pokemon are nothing like the animals we have back home; there's nothing that evolves and grows like they do? Even when you take quirks into consideration it's still taken years for significant growth and development of them. Pokemon don't seem to follow any natural logic like that.

[kscience]

yeah thats my favorite game, fucking "spin the animal upside down in the air" its so frustrating like i feel like tearing my hair out sometimes over how much sense some of this stuff DOESN'T make like. if u think ur getting frustrated and confused by it, im a goddamn biologist and i cant make heads or tails of half of this stuff

[rimeblaze]

With as weird as this world is, I'm sure someone enjoys it.

I can imagine it's even worse for you then. People keep trying to explain things to me and it makes my head spin. As a biologist I'm sure you want to rewrite everything to make actual sense.

[kscience]

its literally the worst but its also so fascinating to have so much stuff that just goes against everything ive learned about science and have to basically relearn everything to figure out the laws of this world's nature its not like its the first time thats happened to me too so i'll adjust its just like. wild

[rimeblaze]

That's the most frustrating part. Relearning everything.

You've been to other worlds before?

[kscience]

the answer 2 that depends on a lot of factors like "what counts as being in another world? do you have to physically be there or can your mind crossing over with an inter-dimensional hivemind count" and im not awake enough to discuss the existential questions posed by that soooo yesssssss? question mark?

[rimeblaze]

...You could have just said yes but it's complicated.