☆71☆ [Video] - hella backdated to November 11

[tearsofademon]

[This evening's video feed is brought to you from the lounge area of Fuchsia City's quiet, yet life-filled, Pokemon Center. A Clefairy with a rose clip on her ear holds up a Soul Badge to the recording with a "Clef clefair~" of triumph before turning around to fuss with something. After a few seconds, she presents a scarf to the camera, where sixteen badges are pinned, lined up in four neat rows.

Johto's set and the Earth Badge look a lot less polished and shiny than the rest of the Kanto set, but hey, that's what happens when getting a certain mage off his butt is a process that takes six years.

The Clefairy just smiles at the camera cutely, because look what we finally accomplished! Ryner's voice, from behind (holding) the 'gear, is a bit more tired, though.]

So. Are we done now?

Comments

[Video]

[callbacks]

Yo, congrats. Nice scarf, too.

[#priorities]

Does that mean you're gonna do the thing where you can have your own Gym afterwards? 'Cause I mean, that sounded slightly not completely uninteresting.

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

[Rose preens. She picked this scarf out herself, too. Out of the mess that Ryner got a few years back, when it was practical to get one for each member of the team.]

...Ahh, right, that's a thing, isn't it.

Guess that depends on what Sion wants to do.

[Video]

[callbacks]

Girlfriend?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

[there's a small choking sound for a second, while the Clefairy tilts her head curiously]

First of all, no. And second, he's a guy. What the hell is it with people jumping to that assumption all the time?

[to be fair, Ryner, you two do live together, and he does have long, very pretty hair...]

[Video]

[callbacks]

[Dave nods equanimously.]

I got you. So, boyfriend?

[Dave.]

Or just close.

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

What part of "first of all no"...?

[the Clefairy is giggling at her dear partner now because he's getting flustered and that's always fun]

We're best friends, for better or worse, but it's definitely not like that.

[Video]

[callbacks]

Wouldn't judge if it were, but okay, I get that, too.

[He wouldn't want to go do something that took him too far away from John, either.]

They're your badges, though, man, so shouldn't it be whatever you want to do?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Eh, they're really Rose's when you get down to it. She's the one who was into all of this, and who did all the work. I'm just the person she dragged around as her trainer.

[Video]

[callbacks]

[Rose. Heh.]

Well, what does Rose want to do then? Hey, Rose, looks like you get to call the shots.

Video

[dreamsofahero]

*this is totally not a hint of a genuine grin you see leaking through the otherwise smug expression, nope*

Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?

Video

[tearsofademon]

[He sees that. He's not gonna comment, but he sees that.

Ryner's actually turning the camera around for you.]

I wouldn't know about that. You'd have to ask them, they're the ones who did the hard part.

Re: Video

[dreamsofahero]

And yet, I somehow doubt they'd have managed to do it without you.

Video

[tearsofademon]

Eh, I'm just the guy who got them in the door.

["Fairy~" And yet Rose is popping on over to hug his arm, so clearly she thinks he was important to the whole thing.]

Re: Video

[dreamsofahero]

And raised them, and trained them, taught them how to and directed them in battle...

Video

[tearsofademon]

I only helped. They mostly did it themselves.

Re: Video

[dreamsofahero]

...

... Say, Rose.

Video

[tearsofademon]

["Clef?" Rose looks up, with a pretty good idea of what you might mean, but she wants to be sure.]

[video]

[charcoalfeather]

[That's.

A lot of badges.]

Wooow...!

[video]

[tearsofademon]

[The Clefairy looks happy that you're impressed :D]

We've been at this a while.

[video]

[charcoalfeather]

[She is. Is it that obvious that she's a greenhorn? Maybe.]

Um, I can see that. [Rakka...]

Nothing a little cleaning can't do to make them all shine like that.

[video]

[tearsofademon]

Ahh... ahaha, yeah, I guess that does make it pretty obvious, huh...

["Clef!" Rose plans to clean them all to make them shine later, no worries :)]

[video]

[charcoalfeather]

Yeah... [Not that's there's anything wrong with that, she thinks!

and thank you, Rose :D]

So... how long did that take? All of the badges, I mean.

[video]

[tearsofademon]

...Ahh, well, I mean. I got here a little over six years ago, and I think we got the first one about a year in, so... depends how you count it, I guess.

[video]

[charcoalfeather]

Six years?

[...ahem.]

That's pretty long, huh.

[video]

[tearsofademon]

Yeah. There are only a few people left who've been here longer than me, I'm pretty sure...