[Video]

[heir_conditioned]

[Alright he's figured out how to do video at least. After being ousted from a home that he is pretty sure it got implied he lived in by someone named 'Mom' who certainly isn't his mother or look anything like him. The two toned hair being the one indicator. The fact that he remembers his mother and that this is not his mother is another good indicator.

Or maybe this is the culmination of how many times he's been knocked around. Maybe this is a fever dream.]

Good afternoon everyone.

A local man said he wanted to fight me and then presented a small rat. I think his implication was he wanted me to fight his pet. I don't condone animal abuse so I won't be doing that. However, any time I step near to pass by, he insists I should be battling "him". Each time it's the rat. Does anyone have a number or a contact for a humane society? I don't think I'm comfortable leaving it in his care.

Thank you.

[It takes one or two times of tapping at the screen before he shuts it off, but he gets there.]

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[apshot]

CHECKING UP ON YOU!

[heir_conditioned]

That's good to hear, too. I take your confidence in my abilities highly. I won't let you down.

Was there anything else? I'm going to start holding up my end of things if not.

[apshot]

[ MUFFLED OFF CAMERA SCREAMING ]

[feathersfly]

Teacup, huh? That's an unusual pokémon, but I can't say I haven't seen weirder since I've been here. Glad you won, though!

But yeah, it just seems to be a fact of life here. As long as the pokémon themselves are okay with it - and they're plenty intelligent enough to communicate what they're not okay with - then I figure it can't really be a bad thing. And a lot of them are wild-caught, so it's not like they've been trained into being okay with it - it really seems to be something they're universally on board with.

Midoriya...that's Deku, right? Sorry, I mostly know you guys by your hero names. But yeah, I more meant that this place just doesn't work the way our world does, considering all the big differences. Pokémon being the biggest one, obviously. All animals in this world - and 'animal' can be a loose term, like with your teacup - are apparently pokémon. Considering how different pokémon are from the animals we're used to, if there's any animal abuse going on in this world, it's not going to take the same forms it would take in ours.

It's not just the pokémon, though. They've got technology here that we don't have back home, for instance. Their society's built around integrating pokémon and their symbiotic relationships with humans into everyday life, which means their whole civilization has a totally different thrust than ours. And, of course...there's no quirks here. People don't have them, and those of us who do have them have lost them. Temporarily, at least.

[fortuna_tenax]

Maybe consider the gym challenge. It's something to do while you're traveling- pro-level pokemon battles against experts in a specific type. Beat all 16 across Kanto and Johto and you can even challenge the Elite Four.

[heir_conditioned]

[This sounds pretty interesting and the conversation has been extremely enlightening.]

Where is the first one?

[fortuna_tenax]

The first one in Johto- the region I'm assuming you're in, if you didn't take the ferry in New Bark Town, is in Violet City- it's just after Cherrygrove, and it shouldn't be more than a couple day's travel. Violet's gym is Flying Type.

( she'd put it off more than she truly wanted to because early on she wound up with an abundance of grass or bug types... and yes she trained them well, but she had no desire to do that to them. jasper wound up being the exception, if only because he was also electric type. )

For what it's worth, there isn't any mandatory order to do them in, but the cities are pretty linear for the most part.

[necrodentia]

[ Really, the creativity of Rainer's names for her Pokemon is hit or miss. She doesn't have any sort of theme she's following, just kind of going with the flow of whatever comes to mind. Which works out well for some... Not as well for others, especially when she names a Pokemon based on what it looks like when she catches it, and then it evolves and looks completely different. But it's okay, she still loves her Haunter named Magic 8-Ball. ]

Oh, well... I've got Patches the Pachirisu here, [ the squirrel sits up a little straighter, chittering quietly as its name is called ] and Conrat the Raticate, [ time for the large rat to make a face that might be a smile? It's hard to tell with how menacing he looks just in general. ]

Dusky my Dusclops is behind the camera, and my Rotom, Buzz, is powering my chair right now. The rest of the gang is in storage at the moment.

[demonpuppy]

Oh.




You're still dumb.