[VIDEO] 'What's in a Name?'

[seacub]

[The boy on camera seems about the age most Kanto-Johto trainers would set out at under 'normal' circumstance. The way he has a Dratini coiled around his shoulders, among the others (specifically there is a very particular luxio aggressively grooming the boy's hat- it's a miracle the back hasn't just frayed off)...says otherwise.

Not to mention the Cubs hat. That said. Grimacing aside-] --ut it out, okay? I'm trying to focus on the camer-

...Ah, it's running...

Uhh. ...Hi? I've never done this kind of call before, and...definitely not to a lot of people at once, but it looks like it's the best way to meet others like me here? Or I guess just...others who were brought here?

I guess if I'm going to 'break the ice', I have to ask a simple question right? ...How does everyone pick names for pokemon then? I uh...I never had pets at home! ...I didn't really think I ever would...but suddenly I have loads of them, and they all need names...

[It's maybe a bit obvious that he doesn't know what to say through this.]

Comments

[seacub]

Woah! Really? [Hey that's kinda cool!]

So you wrote songs about space? Do you have CDs here? [that sounds really cool...]

[cometkin]

I did! And-- I don't have any of my CDs here, but I was thinking maybe I'd rerecord some of my songs, sort of like a greatest hits collection, and release it here. All the old classics like 'Like a Comet' and 'Let Me Drive My Van Into Your Heart' and 'What Can I Do (For You.)'

Maybe do a cover of Kerry Moonbeam's 'Mr Universe?' That's the song I got my name from.

[seacub]

I've never heard of any of those, but it'd be neat to hear them if you do record all of that!

...You got your name from a song?

[cometkin]

Yeah! It's what first clued me into how the world was so much bigger than the real limited life my parents wanted to force on me.

[seacub]

[he's lost, you've lost him]

Huh...

I guess that's a good reason to take a new name then? It's good that you were able to do what you wanted, at least...

[he has no idea what to say to this,]

[cometkin]

It really was! It took me a couple years, but I was finally able to leave their house and never look back.

[seacub]

[The tragedy here is that Emporio has no idea just how far into 'greg that's too much baggage for kids!' this is going.

Mostly because it's always been too much baggage that he's listening to. So instead he just nods, albeit with a bit of clear confusion.] And...now you're here too?

[cometkin]

Yeah! And my wife, Rose! She's Mrs Universe.

[It's so nice that she's really his wife now, after all these years.]

[seacub]

Oh!

[Hey that's happy. He can latch onto...that-] Congratulations then? That's really lucky from what I'm hearing...

[cometkin]

I was so lucky to find Rose was here when I got here, yeah. I thought I'd never see her again!

[seacub]

Are you just going to travel with her here then?

[cometkin]

Yeah! For as long as I can!