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[usedstockpile]

So. I. Talked with the professor in this town. The Johto one. He took a look at His Uselessness.

[Gil's seated at a table in a lab, and behind him in an aquarium is the enormous shiny Magikarp in question.]

Turns out, he has a bit of pica. Meaning he likes to eat rocks. Specific rocks. Everstones, to be precise. A lot of Everstones. Before I caught him he'd eaten so many that they make up a significant percentage of his scales' mineral composition.

[That would explain the weird 'jewels' studding the River King's dorsal fins.]

The only way he'll ever evolve is if he doesn't eat any more everstones and someone manages to remove the ones in his gut, but good luck with that. He'll get new scales in......

A decade.
[Gil's eyes are glazed, and the despair is rather evident. He turns that frown upside down though, and tries to put on that golden cheery smile]

So, anyone want a shiny Magikarp? ♥

Comments

[radfield]

Pretty impressive catch.

[ Chris half-wishes he could've seen it in person, since that's some Hardcore Sega Bass Fishing trophy right there, but he isn't about to double back through the snow from Cherrygrove just to scan it with his Gear. ]

That said, why not let 'em go if you find that it's only weighing you down?

[ Can't help but make that pun though, judging from the size of it. That, and if it's ultimately useless to another trainer's team then why.. hawk it in a way. ]

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[tearsofademon]

[...but why wouldn't you want a Magikarp they're like Ryner's favorite species

yes even excluding Gyarados from the equation

he likes the useless fish okay]

You don't want him because he's pretty much never gonna evolve, I guess?

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[journalname]

You are giving him away because he will not evolve?

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[placide]

[ Coming from someone with six Magikarp, she can all too well understand this "child" and his frustration. ]

That is an odd title for a Pokemon. [ Really... how would he like it if someone referred to him in an embarrassing manner? ] Though I suspect that within ten years, he'll come to love it and the trainer who bestowed it upon him.

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[sneezelikeakitten]

Have you tried weaning him off of the rocks? Or replacing it with some other rock? I know some animals eat rocks for digestion, but that just sounds excessive.

[Pica can be treated, but how do you do that with a fish?]

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[paladinlost]

...Sone of us have been in this world for over six years. Waiting ten years might be a possibility for you, if you are extremely lucky.

[Or extremely unlucky.]

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[charcoalfeather]

Is... is he okay?

[The Pokemon, if that was unclear.]

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[pipers_son]

....I have ta say, I don't think I've ever met a fish with that kind of expensive taste before.