Uh hey. It looks like I'm gonna be here for a while, so does anyone know where I can get my hands on a van? I'm gonna need somewhere to live once the weather gets better. I can't just crash on people's couches forever.
Red, can you maybe...give a bit of space... [The swords hover, and slowly move away as Carly gently pats the scabbards.] Like I said most of them just sort of replaced the animals here but...some of them are...
[There is a look to Red, and then to the pumpkin.] ...Different?
Oh right! So this goes back... more than twenty years ago, actually. I'd played a concert out in Beach City and the only person who actually showed up was Rose. I gave her a free CD and I went to get her a band tee shirt, only she kinda disappeared while my back was turned, but I talked to an owl and hopped a fence and I found her again.
We were supposed to hit Empire City as the next stop on the tour, but I had a fight with my manager and kicked him out of my van and then I turned right around and drove back to Beach City so I could be with her.
We were! We even had a kid together, Steven. He's really great. Takes after Rose in a lot of ways, me in a couple others... honestly, he's got the best parts of both of us.
[Greg's so proud of him.]
Rose... didn't end up getting to see him back home.
[That... might be said a little bit more quietly and wistfully.]
Steven? [Excuse her while she squints for jussssst a second....
...Nahhhhhh that can't be who she's thinking of. Her thoughts are cut pretty short when Greg adds that last bit though, and a bit of a pained wince comes over her.] O...oh...
[.... She wishes her first thought wasn't 'why not me too', when it came to hearing that after someone had a reunion.] Ohhhhh...that just makes this even more amazing then..! I'm so happy for you both..!!
[She's honest about that at least- how could she not be??]
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Huh. Is that what Rose's animal friends are, then? Pokemon?
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Red, can you maybe...give a bit of space... [The swords hover, and slowly move away as Carly gently pats the scabbards.] Like I said most of them just sort of replaced the animals here but...some of them are...
[There is a look to Red, and then to the pumpkin.] ...Different?
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Is that what Halley is too? Uh, she's my floating rock buddy.
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[(She's definitely a 'she' in Greg's mind.)]
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So how do you know Rose anyway? ...Other than knowing each other before, I mean.
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We were supposed to hit Empire City as the next stop on the tour, but I had a fight with my manager and kicked him out of my van and then I turned right around and drove back to Beach City so I could be with her.
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A STORY OF LOVE,
SNAP DECISIONS,
THE GOOD STUFF,] Hehhhhhh....ohhh!! That's... That's so romantic!?
So you guys were together?! OHHH~!
[She's 100% jumped that conclusion but honestly can anyone blame her?]
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[Greg's so proud of him.]
Rose... didn't end up getting to see him back home.
[That... might be said a little bit more quietly and wistfully.]
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...Nahhhhhh that can't be who she's thinking of. Her thoughts are cut pretty short when Greg adds that last bit though, and a bit of a pained wince comes over her.] O...oh...
[.... She wishes her first thought wasn't 'why not me too', when it came to hearing that after someone had a reunion.] Ohhhhh...that just makes this even more amazing then..! I'm so happy for you both..!!
[She's honest about that at least- how could she not be??]
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But yeah, Steven's such a great kid. He's already sixteen and he finally got his growth spurt, so he's getting a lot taller now too.
[You know, after being about the same height from eight to fourteen.]
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[OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH shit maybe it is the same-] Oh my goodness!!
Is he in Johto still, where is he then? ...Gosh it's a good thing the network system here has such good range huh...
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Do you know how to get the camera on for these things then? [she asks, waving her pokegear a bit.] Obviously you figured out the chat...
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...Was she not great with technology before?
[Carly....]
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That's gotta be really advanced if it's more magic seeming....here I thought teleporters were up there...
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Why arms and legs..!?
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[Carly opens her mouth. Closes her mouth.
....]
...boy they really are aliens huh....
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The legs used to be Rose's. They're Steven's now.
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[She's imagining Steven wearing some kind of rose quartz skirt, and can't help bit think 'that's Definitely not it'.]
Well, I guess if he likes 'm..?
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