3rd Recipe [Cherrygrove City, Video]

[cyan_maid]

[Today's video from Jane starts with a shot of the water and a faint, violin-like accompaniment to the background music. It's clear it's at the small, beach-y area of Cherrygrove, judging by the surroundings, but that's only noticeable for a moment before a Goldeen floats into the shot, happily swimming as an Audino tries to follow alongside in the shallows, a bit wobbly in the water. The shot retracts, showing a Kricketune using its arm-blades to make the delicate violin sounds, stopping with a flourish for his audience - a small, sparkling Fennekin with soot-grey fur. It gives a Fen! of approval before it turns, noticing Jane's filming and hurrying over (in its haste, it kicks up sand in the Kricketune's face, and the poor bug proceeds to fret and fuss over his mustache).]

Hoo hoo! Hello, August! [The feed shifts, focusing on Jane where she sits, a boater perched expertly on her head. The top of the Fennekin's head can be seen as it curls up in her lap.] And hello everyone! I thought a little bit of a scene-setter would be nice to start with today, considering I have a question for you all.

[She clears her throat expertly.] I've been wondering about what sort of places all the people here come from. What are they like? For humans, do you come from Earth? What is your Earth like? If not, what is your home planet like? How similar or different was it to this place? For folks who weren't human before coming here - and I am aware that is a thing that happens - what were your homes like? If they don't translate well to human conventions, you can talk about it broadly or go into detail, whichever you prefer. I've been a staunch skeptic for most of my life, but I do earnestly want to learn, and in return, I'd be glad to field some questions about my home! I can't say it's particularly interesting, but it's only fair to share, right?

Comments

[cyan_maid]

Oh, goodness! I'm glad you got to see snow for yourself then, it's some wonderful stuff! Especially when it cancels school for at least a day. [A pause.] And...I assume Christmas Town is...not a holiday-themed amusement park, if you go around travelling to different worlds.

[She's going to assume "gummi ship" is just a weird name and not something made from literal gummi materials because that'd just be silly.]

[heartdive]

I think only hurricanes or bad tropical storms ever canceled school for us.

[ but you know... he hasn't been to school since he was 14 so... that's been a long time ago. ]

Christmas Town is where Santa and his workshop are located. You can get to there from a tree that helps you travel between Halloween Town and Christmas Town. There are probably other holiday towns in that world, but I never been to them.

[cyan_maid]

Oh golly, we don't get a lot of those at home! They're more common on the east coast, not the west.

[Hahahah well she's only got about a year on him at most so it's fine]

...Come again about...Santa?

[heartdive]

West coast? East coast?

[ say what? he wants to know this before he talks about Santa okok? ]

[cyan_maid]

[...Okay fiiine.]

I live in the United States. It's a fairly big country, spanning a large chunk of the North American continent. I live out near the West Coast, but the further east you go, the older the towns are, until you hit the East Coast - that's where people settled first.

[heartdive]

Huh!

[ don't mind him. Sora's trying to picture a country spanning an entire continent. pretty impressive really. ]

Guessing that the East Coast doesn't get the warm water from the ocean?

[cyan_maid]

[That's nothing, he should see Canada. Or Australia, that's literally its own continent.]

I think the water is warmer down south. Florida can be fairly swampy and tropical, depending n where you go, but I've never been there myself to say for sure.