voice;

[machismost]

[ Kirishima is just kind of tired after the fight in the Lost Temple so he's not showing up on video. He's got just one question. ]

So does anyone know why there's a Villain organization rallying behind a bleeding lemon?

Or does anyone know about any sort of um... what's that word.... emojism? It means 'meaning'. I mean the emojism for lemons as far as where I'm from is just "sour" but does it mean something different where you're from?

Comments

[zukeini]

I don't know.

That would be a rather confusing mess of symbolism.

[rollstoseduce]

It's a symbol, Kirishima. [Here comes the professor voice. He doesn't get to use it much outside Oxenfurt.] Just a representation of the real object - it's often not accurate, it's only meant to present a concept. What if it is indeed blood instead? Can you think of any living creature capable of bleeding such defined lines?

[epitaffio]

But why would anyone choose a lemon as their symbol???

[instrumentally]

I do not know if there is such a season. But I suspect that a thief would take any opportunity that presented itself, regardless of the weather.

Re: voice;

[questioneverything]

Uuhhh... Hmm... [pause] Not... not really. Then again, I don't know all the symbols here that various groups use. [Heck, there were probably still some back home she didn't know about.]

[talkyourwayout]

That's good to hear. I do wish we knew more about these guys, though... It's frustrating to not have information.

[machismost]

[ He's been away from school proper for a year now, but Kirishima respects Professor Voice. ]

... No. Though the idea of something bleeding in defined lines is almost kinda awesome...

But going by what you say, that could still mean it's just a lemon with, I dunno, action marks?

...

Do you have pictures with action marks?

[machismost]

Why would anyone choose to come kidnap a baby Pokemon? A whole lot of this doesn't make any sense to me!

[machismost]

For sure! Rockets are bad enough. Did you get into the temple at all?

[machismost]

Yeah it seems like you're giving way more meaning to a group who just wanted to kidnap a baby but... I don't know. Could they think a baby is a gateway?

Sorry. I don't mean like you're excusing them.

It sounds like you don't know what happened recently. We opened up a hidden temple that was protecting a Pokemon egg and a group came in to steal it. They were wearing the symbol I said.

[machismost]

Why do they do eyes tho?

For sure it is lemons now bc no matter what it means it's kinda dumb if it's lemons. You put lemons in tea and bird butt right?

[machismost]

First impression. What do you think it looks like and means?

[machismost]

That's ok! [ A huff of a laugh. ] I don't know either - that's why I asked! I'm really glad a lot of people wanna offer an opinion.

So far people are telling me they think it's an eye or lemons mean freshness. I wish fresh Lemon Gang wouldn't try to steal baby Pokemon, y'know? That's the worst way to add exciting stuff to the summer.

Were you there?

[talkyourwayout]

Yeah, I took a couple trips in, but after a point it felt like the treasure I was finding wasn't worth the creepiness of the place.

[chirpier]

[ yachi felt the moment her soul left her body reading that. ]

Child abduction is a serious offense.
I’m sorry I had no idea
I just got here
And I was just answering the question
If I knew the context I wouldn’t have made it sound so
Excited?
I’m sorry 🙇‍♀️

[rollstoseduce]

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if "bleeding in defined lines" turns out to be something Pokémon can do. [So, awesome indeed. He sounds confused when he talks again.] I'm afraid I can't answer that because I don't know what "action marks" are.

[epitaffio]

But it's not just any baby Pokémon, right?
It's a legendary one.
Not that I'm saying that makes it right, but it's a reason

[machismost]

Okay, so action marks are like...

If somebody were gonna make a picture, it's a 2D drawing right? But they wanna show a shiny thing or blood coming out of their picture. They'd make some lines to show it. If you can only communicate in pictures you need to signal things are happening. That's action lines!

[ At this point, he's going to scour his collection. Surely mangakas exist in this universe to screenshot Jaskier shaky speech bubbles and movement lines. ]

[machismost]

Hey no problem! You didn't know!

Thank you for letting me know! You not knowing anything about what was happening is pretty valuable for an opinion! Maybe it's something we haven't thought of before!

I don't want you to feel like this is all happening all the time either here. It isn't!

[chirpier]

I wouldn’t want to imagine child abduction happening at all!

Is the Pokémon okay? Was anyone else abducted? Should I keep my eyes open?

[fortuna_tenax]

a couple reasons. eyes in symbolism and art and stuff are associated with wisdom, knowledge, secrecy and mystery. they can mean both good and evil depending on intent and what else is being conveyed. some cults want to make it clear that they are all-seeing/all-knowing both to be taken as smart and to be taken as threats- you can't run, can't hide anything from them, because they already know.

and thats a good tactic honestly. undermine them and the threat they pose, and they can't do as much.

wait

bird butt?

[questioneverything]

At the temple? Yes. I was helping put the pieces together as they were recovered. It was certainly an exciting moment, if not necessarily in a good way. But we were able to stop them. Manaphy was quite grateful.

[And, honestly, Romelle was pretty proud of herself for standing up to the attempted thievery.]

[rollstoseduce]

Oh! Like in the comic thingies, correct? [He's learned what comics are, read a few. But he isn't used to the jargon yet! He's learned something today. Besides, you know, the possibility of bleeding lemons.] I understand where you're coming from now, but do those lines belong on symbols? Would this imply the lemon is moving? Or being thrown?

[Kame Lemon Ha???]

[machismost]

I don't blame you. One of my friends found this really creepy doll and we all thought we might be cursed. What kind of treasure did you end up getting?

[machismost]

The baby is safe! A LOT of good and strong people turned up to defend the temple with their Pokemon and we ended up scaring those villains away.

Usually the worst you have to worry about in this place is wild Pokemon and trainers wanting to battle you on the routes. But it would be wrong of me not to warn you to look out for people wearing all black with a red "R" on their clothes. They're called Team Rocket and they like to steal. Including Pokemon!