So you want to be a Pokemon Master?

[championbound]

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: November 25 - 27
Summary: GET YOUR BUTTS IN HERE AND HAVE A GOOD TIME
Rating: BUT PLEASE PUT APPROPRIATE WARNINGS IF ANYTHING COMES UP
Log:

Everything's ordinary, and then, all of a sudden, it isn't. Oops~! Enjoy all the weird new Pokemon roaming about, and have a good time! Any and all are welcome to join in the glitch-ridden festivities!

Comments

[gorira]

I sure hope so. It feels weird to walk around and not have her with me. Almost like I'm missing a fucking limb.

[ Maybe that's exaggerating, but... ]

...I'm not giving you my approval for your sake, though! It's just...well, he's like a dad to Angel. ...Not just "like," actually, he is a dad to her. And it'd be weird if her step-dad couldn't talk to her when he wanted to, is all.

Plus, if things go well enough for both of us, you're basically gonna be like my fucking in-law, whether I like it or not--

[seventhprogenitor]

I can marry you two, if you find her here.

[... NO COMMENT ON HIS MARRIAGE STATUS WITH ISAAC.]

[gorira]

I...think I might be more comfortable with a priest? I'm a traditional kind of girl at heart, you understand...

[seventhprogenitor]

You don't think I've lived this long without having some kind of certification across the years, do you~? But I'm sure I could find someone here if you're certain.

[gorira]

It's not that I don't trust you with it. It's just...I dunno. I can't help but feel like with you at the helm, it's almost like the ceremony is going to be cursed.

[seventhprogenitor]

[wow]

That is incredibly rude, Chitoge. You've hurt every feeling I possess. It would be my honor to marry the two young women I had such... important moments with.

[killing them and all. one more indirectly than the other.]

[gorira]

Well, that shouldn't be too much of an issue, since you apparently possess none.

[seventhprogenitor]

[............] Touché, darling dear. Touché. I am in possession of a handful of feelings and you have hurt all of them.

[gorira]

At least this way you know they're there. I'm keeping them stimulated so you keep feeling them. If anything, you should be thanking me.

[seventhprogenitor]

Then allow me to treat you to something to eat, Chitoge~. I'll charm a free meal from the management and I'll tell you all of the fun people I've met during my lengthened stay.

[gorira]

You don't have to do that on my account, unless you've happened to find a particularly nice-looking ramen stand. ...But I won't lie, I'm certainly curious to hear stories, since Decim obviously wouldn't tell me jack shit...

[ She loves the guy, but, fuck. A blabbermouth, he is not. ]

[seventhprogenitor]

[Amen to that. Love their death god, but boy if he isn't just... not what he needs to be.]

Part of their arbiter deal, most likely. Ginti seemed a little eager to be rid of this round's memories before the next arrivals.

[WONDER WHY. AND HE STILL MANAGED TO GET STUCK WITH TWO OF THE OLDER PEOPLE FORM THE GROUP, WHICH MEANS HE STILL RETAINED THOSE MEMORIES...]

The first pair weren't that interesting, but Ginti informed us that that was the usual. What makes them interesting, of course, is the kinds of game they end up playing~. How far you can push them until they finally find their resolution one way or the other, what sort of choice they make...

[A sigh.]

Truly, humanity in particular is something worth adoring.

[gorira]

So what kind of a game was it? Is it worth me asking? Was it just...pitting two people against each other in some kind of sport and hoping for the best?

[seventhprogenitor]

Bingo~! Aligula and I have... interesting jobs as assistants -- we usually simply keep him company and watch over his judgments, but we're sometimes responsible for reading out the usual instructions and insisting they push a button that randomly selects a game to play. I've seen an interesting variety of them, from bar games to things like Twister.

[Ferid makes a vague gesture with his hand, an action that doesn't add anything to the conversation really. It's just there.]

We may have gotten off lucky with what we had to do, in all honesty. Murder certainly is horrible... but Ginti is an absolute sadist when he's able to be the moderator! There's this little device he uses to rig the games a little and force more extreme pressure on the players.

[He pauses, a thoughtful look on his face as his moving hand rests on his cheek now.]

... I don't think he uses it as much now as he did before us, though. Decim did mention that we changed him for the better. He became more patient, though with a group like ours you'd have to learn that lesson. Wouldn't you agree?

[gorira]

He literally rigs the game that decides whether or not you get another shot at living.

Jesus Christ, we literally used up all of the rest of our lifetimes's worth of good luck convincing him to spare us, didn't we.

[ Between that and the fact that they're all here now, there's gotta be some kind of equivalent exchange going on here, when the fuck is the other shoe gonna drop-- ]

[seventhprogenitor]

[WHEN THEY ALL INEVITABLY DIE AGAIN.]

Ginti's a very stubborn man, yes, and his moral compass is as lacking as my own~. But the fact that he let us talk in the first place is proof of our effect on him. [A chuckle.] It certainly seemed to please Miss Nona despite the vast amount of reincarnations he sent off too.

[gorira]

Something tells me that when we get judged again, he's gonna try and pull out all the stops...I-I'm gonna have to make sure to be on my best behavior.

[seventhprogenitor]

Thank-ful-ly~! There's a very high chance that we won't be getting him again. There's a great number of arbiters at work, but none of them are as charming as Decim and Ginti. They're all very... [A pause.] They remind me a little of my kind, actually -- there isn't anything that interests them besides judgments, and that's simply because it's their job. Vampires don't care for anything but blood. So they're rather boring to talk to, admittedly, not that it stops me from trying.

[gorira]

Oh, that's...actually kind of disappointing? I was sort of looking forward to getting to see Decim again. He seemed like he meant so well...

[ She might've even offered to give him a hand, if she wasn't so eager to get into the reincarnation game. Wouldn't want to keep Angel or Sis waiting, after all, but... ]

That does sound really boring! I mean, even if it means I'm a little luckier for it, that just seems dull...

[seventhprogenitor]

[Decim is a treasure and he and Ferid have been on several dates to connect emotional connotations with a better vocabulary.]

The... more experienced arbiters, their employers and whatnot, are a little more like the two we know. If it's similar to the effect that we had on Ginti and Decim's assistant had on him, then I think that any of the arbiters can become more humanish the more they accept and interact with their patrons. It's just unusual for judges to have assistants.

[or so he understands. ginti having two is interesting.]

I don't know for certain if that's the case, of course, but my hunches are rarely wrong.

[gorira]

So kind of like what you're saying happened to you? It sounds almost like you're taking a blank slate and working with it...I guess I can see, like, why they're supposed to be blank slates, but, that also seems pretty lame for the purposes of, like, conversation and shit? Like, come on, if you're a bartender, you should at least be able to hold a discussion over drinks or something...

[seventhprogenitor]

[........]

Yes, it's exactly what happened with me, in a way.

[Ferid would make for a good arbiter if he wasn't... exactly as he is.]

Arbiters aren't supposed to have interactions with their patrons outside of the game itself, for more objective judgement, but I absolutely agree with you~! There's nothing wrong with some conversation! In lieu of that, Aligula and I volunteer our services and talk to them, though Ginti doesn't really like it~.

[there is a Way to hold judgments and it does not include asking after love stories]