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[ he's not into showing his face off. once he verifies there's a public network and an audio option, he begins to opt for that. but then he looks at all the videos of people and their pokemon, and decides o a different option.

the video opens on the sandy beaches of cherrygrove. his rockruff, bandit, is in the surf, chasing what looks like a stick. he brings it back to jack, who pets his head and then throws it again. his location will also ping as cherrygrove. ]

The name's Jack.

[ his voice is distinctly older, and very rough. it sounds like he may have damaged his throat at some point in his life. his hand, when he throws the stick or pets bandit, is gloved. ]

I've been looking around this place and it looks like the consensus is that people can't go home on their own. I'm not here to ask how to get home, since it seems like that's been covered pretty well.

I wanna talk to those of you that have gone home, or know people that did. And... for those that don't, how you're dealing with not being able to.

[ he ends the video on that note, throwing the stick again for bandit. ]

( cherrygrove )

[ for those actually in his vicinity, they can likely hear jack make the post. other than that, he's spending some time on the beach, playing with bandit and getting his energy out. he's just as open to a battle if you two have similarly leveled pokemon.

or maybe bandit, with all his energy, comes running up to your pokemon and headbutts them. at which point jack follows. ]

Bandit. Come back here.

[ the wagging of his tail doesn't amuse jack. ]

Sorry about him.

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I've been... It's happened to me twice now, but I don't remember the first time. The most recent time I was sent back and I woke up after a week or so had passed here, but for me it was closer to two months. I didn't ask for it though.

_{[And now there's no real point in trying to go back, but hey! He's content with his life here for the most part.]}

Someone else said it already, but my home is pretty crappy. Given the choice I'd stay here.

[ armin had mentioned that to him, that times were different. that you could go home for a year and have been asleep for a day or a week here. nothing that makes sense, nothing that explains getting scars and keeping them.

it's times like these he misses the smarter people in his life. sure, jack is no idiot - but he's not a genius. people like angela, dr. winston and his protege, they were the experts on this. ]

You wouldn't happen to be one of the kids from the place with the Titans, would you?

[ lotta kids from crappy homes. jack makes an educated guess this time. ]

Because I get not wanting to go home to a crappy place, but I definitely get it from what I know of that place.

_{[He doesn't know how the scars work either, and it's something Bertolt has thought about since he came back. Sometimes when he's reading or zoning out, he ends up playing around with the faded scar that runs across the tip of his ear. He doesn't know why he still has it let alone how, but there it was.

At least it's not a terrible one to have.]}

Among... other things, yeah.

_{[But he's not a kid!! Everyone keeps calling him one, and he doesn't get it!]}

But it wasn't all that bad, all things considered.

_{[He still has family - or he believes he does - back in that world, but there's no point in trying to go back to a place where he's not quite able to enjoy what few good things there were.]}

[ all of you titan-world people are under forty. you're kids to jack. he at least doesn't mean it patronizingly, although it probably comes off that way regardless. ]

It doesn't sound like it was a particularly good place though. That's my opinion though, and I'm not in the habit of telling people their homes suck.

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