text | private fail | 5/29

[shiro2hero]

hypothetically


How many days without sleep is ... approaching dangerous levels? Factor in substituting Espresso.

Asking for a friend

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audio;

[schachmeister]

Then let us worry about you too.

[In fact, Armin is going to straight-up, immediately launch into that so Shiro cannot wriggle away.]

What have you been trying to do about your insomnia? I thought you always let Haunter put you to sleep.

audio;

[shiro2hero]

[Ughhhh...]

Haunter's been battling a lot since we've started traveling. I was trying to let it have a break.

Or two.

[And Haunter had been so heartbroken over the loss of its wife when Jean disappeared... it still hasn't entirely recovered.]

Re: audio;

[schachmeister]

[Don't you uggghhh at him, young man.]

Did you discuss that with Haunter?

I know you wanted it to have a break, and you have good intentions, but it might be worrying a lot about you too.

audio;

[shiro2hero]

Not lately...

[He could lie and say yes. But - that would be lying. Even if he was good at that kind of thing, he couldn't do that to Armin.]

I figured, if it needed to, it'd break out of its ball.

Like Blue and Kuro do.

[For drastically different reasons.]

audio;

[schachmeister]

Haunter is not that sort of pokemon, though.

[It is certainly a lot more polite than Blue. But then, what pokemon isn't?]

You should discuss it with Haunter. If you really think it agrees with how you are handling things, then that shouldn't be a problem. It would be a very short talk.

[There is no good reason to avoid talking to it. Unless you'd, say, know deep down inside that Haunter would have a problem with what you are doing. Hmmmmmmmm.]

audio;

[shiro2hero]

Neither is Kuro, unless he has to be. He... broke out a few times that one October.

[You remember, Armin. The Nightmare Forest. None of Shiro's pokemon wanted to stay in their balls after that one.]

... Yeah. All right. We'll talk.

[Eventually.]

audio;

[schachmeister]

Today.

[Very steely voiced.]

Promise me, Shiro. Promise me you will discuss this with Haunter today.

audio;

[shiro2hero]

[Yes, mother.]

Fine. I will try.

audio;

[schachmeister]

Just try?

audio;

[shiro2hero]

Yes, Armin. I promise you I will try.

audio;

[schachmeister]

All right.

[He doesn't sound entirely convinced, but honestly, Shiro hasn't had the best track record at taking care of himself.]