[Track 1]: Route 29 || video

[colorpalatable]

--Oh, hey, it records!

[There's a pale, black-haired young woman on the network today, inspecting her new 'Gear. She has a little Noibat chilling in her mass of hair like an adorable bat-shaped barrette. She studies the Pokegear seriously for a moment or two before noticing something else:]

Oh snap, and it broadcasts! Sweet!

Hey! Barkeep guy! You were right, that Mom lady was really weird! She gave me a lot of snacks, though, so that's cool.

But, uh, I kind of. Already ate them all? Look, I got carried away, okay? Does anyone know if there's anything else to eat on, what is it, Route 29? Besides the berries, I mean. My girl here - [she gestures to her new Noibat pal] - really digs them buuuuuut I still think they seem kinda suspect. For me to eat, that is. Thanks, peeps!

[Marceline: Out!]

Comments

[colorpalatable]

Yeah, she is pretty cute, isn't she? She must take after me.

[...Yup.]

Nice to meet you, Botan! I guess the main things I want to know right now are, where are the good places to eat and, do you know where I can get a new bass? There's gotta be some music shops somewhere, right?

[styxiedust]

Yep, absolutely.

[She's just agreeing with it like nbd???]

Ooh so, when you make it to Cherrygrove they have a spa there, they make some wonderful spa-boiled eggs and yes I know that sounds strange but it's great. And they have some lovely sweet buns with red bean jam. Further up in Violet they've got a sandwich shop that specializes in the Slaking Sub--oh, then there's my shop in Goldenrod, I serve sweets there! But I try to have a little bit of everything.

As for music shops, you should find at least one in Violet, it's one of the bigger towns since it has a Gym. Not only that, they have the Kimono Girls performing in the theater, you can't dance without music, right?

[colorpalatable]

...Should I be taking notes? I feel like I should be taking notes.

[The wording could be interpreted as sarcastic, but she's being sincere.]

I drifted around a bit this past...weekend? I'm not sure how long ago that was, but I'll be real, I'm pretty psyched to stick around and check all this out.

[styxiedust]

Sorry! I babble. [She wants to say "when she gets excited" but really? She babbles a lot, Botan's a talker, she talks, she enjoys talking.]

That happens, yes, besides visitors we always revert back to our "real" selves too--although the recollection is always fuzzy afterward. I'm glad you got to stay on as a resident, a lot of people usually come in slightly miffed afterwards.

["Miffed." More like...distressed.]

[colorpalatable]

Hey, no worries! If I forget something I'll just ask again.

Yeaaaaah, I gotta say it's going to take a while to get used to being human again. I haven't walked this much in. Like. Ever.

[styxiedust]

Oh you weren't human before either, huh? That also seems very common--or...used to be human, then mostly not, now human again? This isn't a slighted fairy's curse sort of thing and you were furniture before, is it?

[Apparently, vampire hallmarks entirely miss her.]

[colorpalatable]

That second thing you said. Not the chair thing. I'm a vampire.

Or, well, I was. Made, not born, so, you know, human childhood and all that.

What are you when you're not human?

[styxiedust]

Grim reaper, sort of, I'm--I was a spirit that guides the deceased to the afterlife.

[She's more casual about that then...she would have been a couple of years ago. Marceline is surprisingly nice and not a hellish abomination for being a vampire--but then the concept of a vampire isn't exactly the same where she's from.]

[colorpalatable]

...Dang, that sounds depressing.

[A pause]

So this place can even pull non-physical entities here, huh? That's pretty wild.

[styxiedust]

The way I see it, though yes death is depressing, I'm making sure they have a friendly face guiding them so they don't get lost.

[She shrugs, her own feelings on it are very much tucked away in a little box. Death can't be reversed except in some special cases, so why dwell on it?]

What's more depressing is all the paperwork. And yes, you'll probably run into some that didn't have physical bodies before or were...not human in a different way.

[Like, robots.]

[colorpalatable]

Aww, hey, I like that. And you do have a very friendly face, so I bet that works out well.

[She's just going to ignore that remark about paperwork because yeah, that sounds super depressing, and there are other, not depressing things to talk about.]

That doesn't sound like a huge deal at all. Most of my friends back home aren't human.

...Actually, none of them are except for one.

There aren't really a lot of humans back home. It's really just Finn.

[styxiedust]

Ahaha--oh gosh, that sounds like my group, it was demons, me, one half demon, and about four humans actively involved. I don't know how we managed without strangling each other sometimes.

[Well. Saving the world took slight priority over in-fighting, but let's not go down that route.]

[colorpalatable]

Huh, that's cool. I haven't ever met any demons I really wanted to be friends with. They mostly stay in the Nightosphere where I'm from, and most of them are kinda jerks.

[Like her dad. :|]

How does a grim reaper get to be friends with humans, though? I'm curious now. That's usually like, two totally different worlds. And planes. The planes seem like they'd be super tricky.

[styxiedust]

Oh, the ones from my world can be too, but they're getting better at it--heck, they're actively interacting with humans now on a friendly level. I don't know if the humans really get that they're truly demons and not just cute cosplayers for some, but they're happy and I'm not going to judge.

[Nightosphere is an adorable name for something that's likely not that adorable.]

[And she actually just--bursts out laughing at that, because wow she hasn't gotten to talk about how she met Yusuke in a long time and it--]

We're really not supposed to, normal people can't even see me, but my stupid dumb idiot best friend had to go and accidentally die when he wasn't supposed to saving a kid's life--by the way, the kid would have been fine so it's not like we were just letting him die as well--and it just...ended up that way! Then suddenly we started getting a posse and were out to save the realms from chaos. While that's scary as heck it's still better than paperwork.