Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, local cryptid (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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victory_road2021-05-31 08:12 am
nastyboy) wrote in victory_road2021-05-31 08:12 am
006 - Video
[The feed opens up not on Dimitri's face, but simply his knee, because sometimes you forget how you should frame your video. But there's certainly his voice.]
So, I have been informed that certain behavior from my Rattata and Raticate is odd. I had not noticed, so I was hoping to seek a secondary opinion.
[The video shifts, revealing that Dimitri is sitting on the edge of an inn bed, and focuses on where Gremlin the Rattata is happily cuddled up in a small nest of pillows. He has another Pokegear in front of him, which his little rat hands are happily slapping away on. It sounds like some sort of video game.]
[Nothing seems out of sorts for a moment, which allows Dimitri to take the time to get a nice close up on where his little Rattata is located. It doesn't seem like whatever he's talking about will happen... But Dimitri knows his Pokemon. He knows how Gremlin gets.]
[And then it happens.]
[Gremlin's eyes start to bulge out of his dang head.]
[And they bulge rhythmically too, a constant twitch and spasm that keeps his tiny Rattata eyes in motion. With how close Dimitri has gotten his Gear's camera, it's possible to hear a soft chewing sound as well, and Gremlin's teeth peek out from between his lips a bit.]
[Despite how absolutely weird it looks, Gremlin... doesn't seem to be much affected himself. His little hands just keep slapping away on the other Pokegear, completely absorbed in his game.]
[Dimitri's voice, soft and careful, breaks through.]
Oh - Sooter is doing it now as well. Please hold on-
[The video becomes a little blurry as Dimitri gets up onto his feet off of the bed. Soon, the camera focuses on a small pile of Raticate. One of the Raticate, who has a normal amount of rat fluff and some tiny bandaids on his little rat hands, is laying down on the floor, and is surrounded by three other Rats.]
[Two are fellow Raticates - one of them the well known Hob with her many blue bows all along her slick coat, and the other being Knocker, whose long tail has some scarring. They are both busy picking through and nibbling the fur along Sooter's shoulders and the back of his neck, taking care of his grooming.]
[The last would be a very tiny Alolan Rattata, perched on top of her larger cousin's head as she sniffs and works through the fur on his head, inbetween his large ears.]
[And Sooter is, indeed, also bulging out his eyes as he lays there for some affection.]
[Dimitri keeps the video focused on the little rat pile for a moment, just letting people.... take this all in.]
Do anyone else's Paliens do this...?
So, I have been informed that certain behavior from my Rattata and Raticate is odd. I had not noticed, so I was hoping to seek a secondary opinion.
[The video shifts, revealing that Dimitri is sitting on the edge of an inn bed, and focuses on where Gremlin the Rattata is happily cuddled up in a small nest of pillows. He has another Pokegear in front of him, which his little rat hands are happily slapping away on. It sounds like some sort of video game.]
[Nothing seems out of sorts for a moment, which allows Dimitri to take the time to get a nice close up on where his little Rattata is located. It doesn't seem like whatever he's talking about will happen... But Dimitri knows his Pokemon. He knows how Gremlin gets.]
[And then it happens.]
[Gremlin's eyes start to bulge out of his dang head.]
[And they bulge rhythmically too, a constant twitch and spasm that keeps his tiny Rattata eyes in motion. With how close Dimitri has gotten his Gear's camera, it's possible to hear a soft chewing sound as well, and Gremlin's teeth peek out from between his lips a bit.]
[Despite how absolutely weird it looks, Gremlin... doesn't seem to be much affected himself. His little hands just keep slapping away on the other Pokegear, completely absorbed in his game.]
[Dimitri's voice, soft and careful, breaks through.]
Oh - Sooter is doing it now as well. Please hold on-
[The video becomes a little blurry as Dimitri gets up onto his feet off of the bed. Soon, the camera focuses on a small pile of Raticate. One of the Raticate, who has a normal amount of rat fluff and some tiny bandaids on his little rat hands, is laying down on the floor, and is surrounded by three other Rats.]
[Two are fellow Raticates - one of them the well known Hob with her many blue bows all along her slick coat, and the other being Knocker, whose long tail has some scarring. They are both busy picking through and nibbling the fur along Sooter's shoulders and the back of his neck, taking care of his grooming.]
[The last would be a very tiny Alolan Rattata, perched on top of her larger cousin's head as she sniffs and works through the fur on his head, inbetween his large ears.]
[And Sooter is, indeed, also bulging out his eyes as he lays there for some affection.]
[Dimitri keeps the video focused on the little rat pile for a moment, just letting people.... take this all in.]
Do anyone else's Paliens do this...?
[Video]
[Boggling seems to be a rare occurrence for anything not a rat, but he imagines there have to be other things.]
[Video]
[Video]
I do worry, however, that some may try to act tough, and hold their pain in when they don't need to... Humans often do the very same, after all.
[Video]
[Video]
[Another couple of scritches, now along Sooter's muzzle.]
One gains a bit of wisdom after living here for so long, don't they? I am glad I have you to rely on for such things, Jane.
[Video]
[She still has people she knows she can look to for advice - even if she isn't super close with the people who've been here nigh on a decade, they're still here, still rocks in this weird little community of misfit pieces.]
At least that kind of inevitability is welcome.
[Video]
[Another little rat ear scritch.]
And rats can boggle. That is another something to enjoy.
[Video]
And rats can indeed boggle.