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[sleepallthewayhome]

[Apparently one of her pokemon is filming this because the camera is a bit further away then usual. You can see Newt sitting by a bed, and also off to the side there is an Eevee sitting on the floor. He is also holding onto a dolls head. It's for moral support.

Newt meanwhile looks at the camera.]

I have a question. If you're af...if you don't really like a certain type of pokemon that much. But you still want to get all the gym badges. Do you think it would be easier to get the gym themed for them over with first? Or should you wait and maybe you won't be so afraid of them in the future?

Oh and does anyone knows what this is?

[She holds up a Spell Tag]

Vasquez brought it back after Halloween but I'm not sure what to do with it.

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[sleepallthewayhome]

Well it's mostly some of the bug types. But just the ones that look like the monsters from home.

Or ones that jump on your face. I read about one of those. I think it's a ground type.

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[sleepallthewayhome]

You'd do that?

[You are the best.]

Maybe later. I think I'm going to wait and get more and get my team stronger before I fight those gyms.

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[sleepallthewayhome]

It is. There's a lot of really nice people here.

[She's glad they can't die on her.]

Telling the truth is important. .....but sometimes I tell people I'm fine when I'm not so they'll go away.

[sleepallthewayhome]

[She nods.]

I'm going to wait for the gyms and I've talked to a few people about maybe meeting some scary pokemon that people I know have.

I think if I tried it too fast ....it would go bad.

[bent_the_world]

Like which ones? I don't really know what the monsters from your home look like...

...that jump on your face?

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[fuelthefire]

Yeah! Whenever you need me. I'm really good at squishing bugs, and also setting them on fire!

[sociallychallenged]

I personally don't think so. One looks like a silk ball and the other kind of like a...

Shoehorn. [He repeats.] That's the best description I can think up for the thing. And I don't even know if you know what one of those are.

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[shiro2hero]

There really are. We got lucky like this.

[In a lot of ways.]

Hey, I agree. But... I do the same thing. I just don't want people to worry too much.

[sleepallthewayhome]

Yeah there's one that does that. I read about it. It's a...

Just a second, I wrote the name down.

[Give her a moment to dig out a very doodled in notebook.]

A Gligar.

Oh and the ones I've found that look like the monsters are.

Surskit, Spinarak, Wimpod, Golisopod, Scyther.

There's more but those are the ones I've written down so far. Oh and anything that looks like an egg. Or small with long legs that look like they could jump on your face. And some big ones too. I think the Golisopod looks the most like the big ones.

[sleepallthewayhome]

Oh...wait, I think I've fought those. They look like moons. They're not too bad, even if it is scary that there's something inside them and that reminds me of-

[She pauses because she's looking something up.]

Oh. I don't think I'd like the first one. ....the monsters at home if they caught you and didn't kill you right away, they'd use....really gross stuff to wrap you up like a cocoon so the thing in the egg can get you.

[She may have experienced that first hand.]

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[sleepallthewayhome]

[That makes her smile.]

Thank you. That's really nice of you.

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[sleepallthewayhome]

But won't they just worry more if they find out you're not telling them the truth?

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[yu_hoo]

Uh... Five, I think. How about you?

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[sleepallthewayhome]

Five years?

I've been here since January so...11 months.

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[shiro2hero]

Yeah. Sometimes, they do.

[Again, telling her the truth is probably best.]

But that's why I'm working on it.

[bent_the_world]

Oh hey, I have a Surskit. And she's really friendly....

I think that's the only one I have that fits into the right category, but maybe you could meet her through the 'gear sometime?

[sociallychallenged]

So they really did act a lot like wasps and spiders then, huh?

Well, those turn out to ones that look like... um. I can't remember if it's the moth looking one or the butterfly looking one. [He manages to surpress a softly breathed 'shit' as it escapes his memory, and his screen jostles because now he has to look it up.]

Yeah it's a butterfly. Metapod turns into a butterfly, too.

[sleepallthewayhome]

They didn't fly or sting people....um, unless you count them stabbing people with their tails when they were big. Or the second mouth in their mouths.

....I don't really know much about wasps or spiders though.

[Her lessons were kinda random.]

Butterfly's are nice. I like those. Do they always come from cocoons?

[sleepallthewayhome]

Maybe....

She doesn't jump at peoples faces does she?

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[sleepallthewayhome]

[She nods.]

When I first met the marines, I didn't want to talk to any of them at all, even the ones who were worried about me because I knew they were all going to die and it wasn't worth getting to know them. And what they thought didn't matter.

It's easier to talk to people here. Because I know they won't die. So I don't mind telling them the truth or getting to know them.

[It's a lot easier when your mindset is still, is everyone not dead? Okay we're good.]

[sociallychallenged]

[Holy shit, kid.] That sounds way too many mouths to me. [Pretty simple assessment of a nightmare description.]

Yeah, they do. Always. Because they have to grow from a fat little caterpillar to a big winged bug, and the only place to do that is in a blanket they make themselves.

[sleepallthewayhome]

Yeah. They were really bad. I hope I never have to see one again.

[Even if the pokemon here remind her of them sometimes....they're not them. It's hard to remember since it's been almost a year and that's like forever when you're seven.]

Oh. So they go to sleep as a weird bug and then they wake up a butterfly?

[sociallychallenged]

I wouldn't want to either. [Statements of the obvious for 900, Alex. Still, though, he doesn't want her to live the rest of her life in fear because of it. Even shoving being a dad to the side, he's seen a lot of trauma in his career.]

For normal butterflies, yeah. They just make a cacoon to bundle up and rest. They have to eat a whole lot of plants and grass before going in there. For Pokemon style ones, it looks like they gotta go through a really plain cacoon evolution that can't do all that much.

[sleepallthewayhome]

[It's something to work on to be sure.]

That sounds, less scary then I thought. I hope the ones here don't feel trapped though when they're a cocoon.

[sociallychallenged]

It's probably really frustrating. They're used to having little legs to run away with, and then they're just a thing with eyes and all they can do is be tough enough for other Pokemon to kick around. They gotta wait until they get good wings to fly with.