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victory_road2020-06-06 10:07 pm
cyan_maid) wrote in victory_road2020-06-06 10:07 pm
35th Recipe [Video, Goldenrod City]
You know...I've been wondering something lately. About the Gym Challenge stuff.
[Jane looks like she's about ready to go to bed, honestly - glasses off, pajamas on (though you have to wonder what bacon is actually made of in the Pokemon world), and 'gear angled so you can sort of tell she's kind of lounging in bed, light still on.]
It's more of just an idle sort of thing...thinking about what I'd like to do, here. While I'm here. It could very well turn out I'm here for a long while yet, or I could be gone tomorrow. No matter the case, I want to work towards something, and for the longest time it was just...you assume to yourself, ah, I'll get the badges and challenge the Elite Four. After that, they'll let you open up your own gym, but...what if we did all that, proved ourselves, and did something different?
[She pauses to yawn, covering her mouth.] I mean...originally I definitely wanted to do something like that, but...it feels like defeating the Elite Four is more a test of your own strength, and the strength of your Pokemon - and the strength you have together. In theory, couldn't you do whatever you wished, within reason, once you proved that strength? I guess...I'm just wondering about other options. If we have them.
[Another pause. Jane turns a bit on her side.] Oh, I'm rambling, aren't I? Sorry. I guess I just thought...if I proved myself to be strong, couldn't I go on and do work I've always thought was admirable and exciting? There couldn't be much to hold me back from that, would there? Don't get me wrong, I'd keep working at Pokemon Centers because...that's good work, it's helpful and I've learned so much. But...[She turns back, a bit of steel and fire in her eyes. The good kind, the kind that rings true of determination.] What's to stop me from, say, becoming a detective?
[Huh. That's...that's a thing.]
...I guess I wanted to put that into the world and see how it sounded. I'm still thinking on it. And even if I do go that way, I've still got a lot of badges left to earn, so...maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.
[Jane looks like she's about ready to go to bed, honestly - glasses off, pajamas on (though you have to wonder what bacon is actually made of in the Pokemon world), and 'gear angled so you can sort of tell she's kind of lounging in bed, light still on.]
It's more of just an idle sort of thing...thinking about what I'd like to do, here. While I'm here. It could very well turn out I'm here for a long while yet, or I could be gone tomorrow. No matter the case, I want to work towards something, and for the longest time it was just...you assume to yourself, ah, I'll get the badges and challenge the Elite Four. After that, they'll let you open up your own gym, but...what if we did all that, proved ourselves, and did something different?
[She pauses to yawn, covering her mouth.] I mean...originally I definitely wanted to do something like that, but...it feels like defeating the Elite Four is more a test of your own strength, and the strength of your Pokemon - and the strength you have together. In theory, couldn't you do whatever you wished, within reason, once you proved that strength? I guess...I'm just wondering about other options. If we have them.
[Another pause. Jane turns a bit on her side.] Oh, I'm rambling, aren't I? Sorry. I guess I just thought...if I proved myself to be strong, couldn't I go on and do work I've always thought was admirable and exciting? There couldn't be much to hold me back from that, would there? Don't get me wrong, I'd keep working at Pokemon Centers because...that's good work, it's helpful and I've learned so much. But...[She turns back, a bit of steel and fire in her eyes. The good kind, the kind that rings true of determination.] What's to stop me from, say, becoming a detective?
[Huh. That's...that's a thing.]
...I guess I wanted to put that into the world and see how it sounded. I'm still thinking on it. And even if I do go that way, I've still got a lot of badges left to earn, so...maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.
Video
But for Jane, I'm making an effort to show I'm sincere. And despite the blatant falsehood of the assumption, it's generally accepted that showing your face is somehow more 'honest' than restricting yourself to plain text.]
Funny you should say that--I just picked the gauntlet back up myself. These are good questions, though. And you should be asking them.
[Video]
Is that so? Can't say I'm too surprised by that.
[All iterations of Dirk like to Do Thing.]
There is a non-insignificant chance I may continue to think on it some more, and hammer out the details.
[Video]
Or we could make it a competition, if that's your thing now.
[It's a bit weird... offering help directly like this. Like things are... like she's, or like I'm, normal. And in the same breath, I have to admit I still don't know Jack about her.
The odds that I'll regret it are a lot higher than I'm comfortable with. Why the fuck did I say that. I'll give her one... no, two seconds, then take it back--]
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A competition you say]
I've got six badges - five from Johto, one from Kanto. I've been slacking, honestly, it's a real shame. But I think I can manage to pick up the pace on my own, don't you worry.
[Already making plans in her head to haul the camping gear out]
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I still don't have a solid plan for getting to Cinnabar. More the fool me, but I'd been banking on the Sevii drop-off point being the last goddamn island I set foot on.
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[We are drafting out the goddamn game plan, it's gonna happen.
Eventually.]
I mean, I think there's a way from Pallet Town, but beyond that I'm not sure.
I made you wait so long for so little I'm so sorry
[Heh. Some 'things' never change.]
no worries, your tags are always worth the wait
[Ponyta Ebooks is definitely a thing so I can in fact use this meme from 2012]
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It's been a few months since anything really exciting happened. Think I should cross my fingers? You know, for luck.
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If you want. I certainly won't twist your arm to make you.
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(And we'll leave arm-twisting on the table for this one, just in case.)
Which one is the norm here? It's my understanding that the advent of those wormholes preceded my arrival, but I haven't actually gotten an answer about whether to expect more in the way of that or if it's mostly just... this. Narrative doldrums where nothing monumental takes place. An endless parade of festivals and curry cookoffs, that kind of thing.
I'm asking you specifically, so please tell me you understand what I'm getting at here.
[Please tell me this isn't another game like ours. That it's not months of endless nothing and endless subquests that advance nothing. Please. I ask for so fucking little. I don't even know if I have the power to do it myself here. I don't think I do.]
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...It is mostly like this, yes.
[For you it's boring. For Jane, it's the normal kind of life she never realized she craved so badly until it had been taken from her.]
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Well, at least you were honest. Thanks for that.
I mean it.
Knowing what to expect is something, at least. Nothing I can do about it either way, and I'm nothing if not an expert at this waiting thing by now.
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Holding back, being purposefully imprecise, or simply deflecting are all strategies that would have achieved roughly the same result here.
As for what you'd get out of it, I have some guesses. We aren't always on the same page, or even holding the same book. I do what I can, but I'm not so deluded as to think that's nearly enough.
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[Not only are they holding different books, they are on completely different ends of the metaphorical library.]
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You're trying to live here.
It's not a bad thing; I built you that dollhouse for a reason. But we have a fundamentally different approach to pretty much everything, and that's just the way it is.
[If this was the real Jane Crocker, that would be a different story. She'd want a bigger slice of the Poké-pie, for starters. But this is what I have to work with. I don't like it, but I don't hate her for it the way I did.
It's more complicated now than I wanted.]
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It's either try to live here or sit and mope around about things I can't change. And I'm sure you understand the idea that moping stinks.
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Now that would be downright out of character.
[I almost keep going. I almost say it.
'Speaking of moping,' I would have continued, using this as a segue to remind her about John.
But I don't.
Not this time.]
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Well, if it were a constant thing, then it would be, I suppose. But it's not like you haven't seen me being an outright Debbie Downer in the past. I will admit to it.
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You're a smart, proactive young lady, possessed of an indominable will and a good head on her shoulders. Good-looking, too.
You couldn't keep moping even if you wanted to. And why the fuck would you want to?
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