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[starry_forehead]

[Hey it's the not so social mystery twin and...um. Well he looks ....really sad.]

Hey, it's Dipper. I know Mabel has a lot of friends here so I thought I should make a post. ...If you don't know already. Mabel's...Mabel's gone.

Again.

....I've got one of her pokemon with me and I tried for like hours to get her on the gear so I think she's really gone.

[There's a Minior floating around Dipper, next to his normal Phantump.]

I don't really know anything more then that. I really wish this place-....

-anyway, If you need me, I'm probably going to be ...I don't know I'll think of something. Maybe I wrote off going off by myself to explore, too quickly....

Um...yeah. That's all.

[And he'll shut the gear off. Feel free to reply, he's just....not good at this.]

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[fuelthefire]

....Sunshine's gone?

[WTF is going on, is it something in the water? Why are so many people disappearing all of a sudden?]

That's super butts, little dude.

[starry_forehead]

Yeah.

Yeah it really is.

[Dipper is starting to wonder the same thing.]

She came back once but ...I don't really want to get my hopes up.

[fuelthefire]

Mnng. I know the feeling.

[Boy, does he ever. Two of his best girls have come and gone two times each, now. 8(]

You're her brother, right?

[starry_forehead]

Yeah. She's my twin.

[fuelthefire]

Twins?

[That pings his interest, actually. He doesn't know any twins (that he knows of). Except now he does.]

Who's older?

[It's not a well thought-out question, just like most of the ones he asks. If it winds up being a touchy subject, he'll back off and change the subject.]

[starry_forehead]

She is. By like five minutes. She never lets me forget it though.

[It sometimes is, but he misses her so it's more amused then really annoyed when he says that.]

[fuelthefire]

A lot can happen in five minutes!

I did an arms race across the Highlands once in two minutes!

[Yo, Krieg, that's probably not the best way to make the kid feel better about the miniscule age difference between him and his missing sister...]

[starry_forehead]

Yeah but you're like a grown up. We were babies.

[No, it's distracting him. This is good.]

Babies can't do that much. Especially when they're newborns.

[fuelthefire]

I guess. I never met any babies.

[That he knows of, anyway. So he'll take Dipper's word for it.]

Just baby monsters.

[And honestly, in his experience even newly-hatched 'mons are pretty self-sufficient.]

[starry_forehead]

Well human babies usually just cry and sleep. Like really simple being alive things.

So I still don't think it counts that much.

[How many times has this argument been made? Many times and probably more in the future.]

It's not like the pokemon here. They're pretty good once they hatch.

[fuelthefire]

I think they eat and poop, too.

[And with that, we have exhausted Krieg's repository of knowledge re: babies.]

I'm glad monster babies are tougher. I don't have to worry about breaking them.

[Oh yeah, he also knows human babies are f r a g i l e as heck. Now that knowledge well has run dry.]

[starry_forehead]

That's pretty much it.

[Basic functions.]

Oh right, I know. Can you imagine how few people would have many pokemon from eggs if they were all as helpless as human babies when they hatched?

[fuelthefire]

Pfff! I wouldn't have any!

[...Honestly, he'd probably do just fine, but he's not actually aware of this.]

...I'd just have the ones my friends left.

[Also not true, he only has four egg babies. But it feels like more.]

[starry_forehead]

Me either. It would just be wild pokemon who are grown up already.

That would be way too much responsibility.

[Dipper has quite a few egg babies by now. One of them treats him like her kid. He will now take this a lot better.]