.001 Δ [Video/Action for Cherrygrove]
Sep. 25th, 2015 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ratherbelocky[The feed flips on to show a man holding a brush in one hand and a young Shinx in his lap. Both of them appear to have been freshly bathed, with the damp Shinx swaddled in one of Cherrygrove Inn's warm, fluffy towels. When all of her wriggling and protesting comes to naught, she just lies there in her towel burrito and seethes. York, on the other hand, has found that shops in this world do, apparently, sell hair product for humans, and he couldn't be happier. He's fixed his hair for the first time in days. Life is wonderful.
Not that vanity's necessarily the reason he hasn't introduced himself to the PokéConnect community at large yet. It's just. You know. Coincidence.]
Good morning, people. And Pokémon, too, of course, can't forget you guys. For those of you I haven't spoken to yet, I'm York, I'm one of your more recent unwitting transplants to sunny Johto. Or, well, partially cloudy Johto, anyway. How about that weather, huh?
[The temperature has dropped literally twenty degrees in the five days since he got here, oh my god, why. Being caught out on the road in yesterday's rainstorm sucked. Now he's warm and dry and comfortable in a clean shirt a couple sizes too big for him (and he's not exactly a small man). Really, what could be better than being alive here and now?
He rubs the Shinx's fur drier, unwraps her, and then holds her still before she can escape so he can brush the tangles out. She mewls fussily, but his hands are steady, and eventually she relaxes--if mutinously--into the attention. He chuckles a little.]
But okay, I'm not actually here to make small talk. I got a question for you folks.
[He turns the PokéGear with the back of his brush to show another Pokémon, an Elgyem, bundled up in a blanket on the bed, fast asleep.]
Can someone tell me more about Psychic Pokémon? [He goes back to brushing.] I get that they read minds--Delta Two there communicates with me all the time--but she doesn't use words so it's hard to get more...complicated ideas across, sometimes. I was wondering, can you train them to talk? Or do other things? These guys are obviously a lot more intelligent than the animals back on my Earth, so I guess you could say I'm curious about what they can do.
[The Shinx's eyes are half-closed now as York brushes away. Someone's a sleepy baby.]
'Preciate your time. Over and out.
((Action also available for Cherrygrove, where he can be found at the inn or browsing the PokéMart stock.))
Not that vanity's necessarily the reason he hasn't introduced himself to the PokéConnect community at large yet. It's just. You know. Coincidence.]
Good morning, people. And Pokémon, too, of course, can't forget you guys. For those of you I haven't spoken to yet, I'm York, I'm one of your more recent unwitting transplants to sunny Johto. Or, well, partially cloudy Johto, anyway. How about that weather, huh?
[The temperature has dropped literally twenty degrees in the five days since he got here, oh my god, why. Being caught out on the road in yesterday's rainstorm sucked. Now he's warm and dry and comfortable in a clean shirt a couple sizes too big for him (and he's not exactly a small man). Really, what could be better than being alive here and now?
He rubs the Shinx's fur drier, unwraps her, and then holds her still before she can escape so he can brush the tangles out. She mewls fussily, but his hands are steady, and eventually she relaxes--if mutinously--into the attention. He chuckles a little.]
But okay, I'm not actually here to make small talk. I got a question for you folks.
[He turns the PokéGear with the back of his brush to show another Pokémon, an Elgyem, bundled up in a blanket on the bed, fast asleep.]
Can someone tell me more about Psychic Pokémon? [He goes back to brushing.] I get that they read minds--Delta Two there communicates with me all the time--but she doesn't use words so it's hard to get more...complicated ideas across, sometimes. I was wondering, can you train them to talk? Or do other things? These guys are obviously a lot more intelligent than the animals back on my Earth, so I guess you could say I'm curious about what they can do.
[The Shinx's eyes are half-closed now as York brushes away. Someone's a sleepy baby.]
'Preciate your time. Over and out.
((Action also available for Cherrygrove, where he can be found at the inn or browsing the PokéMart stock.))
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Date: 2015-09-26 01:30 am (UTC)[He returns to petting Empress. As fussy as she is, she at least likes the attention.]
Anyway, Earth is where I'm from. Originally, at least. Been a while since I last got to visit.
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Date: 2015-09-26 01:35 am (UTC)[Which is a shame. The world needs more Swablu's.]
I don't think I've ever been to Earth. Been to a lot of other worlds, but none with that name.
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Date: 2015-09-26 03:52 am (UTC)[Also, he still hasn't told Carolina he's been registered as a Breeder and not a Trainer. Because he knows. He knows she's going to tease him. Carolina's sense of humor is a beautiful, wonderful, terrible thing, and he likes it best when it's pointed at other people and away from him.]
Oh yeah? You do a lot of rock-hopping?
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Date: 2015-09-26 04:04 am (UTC)[Please forgive him. Roxas is naive when it comes to things like what the act of breeding actually is. He just knows that eggs show up.]
Rock-hopping? No, we always used dark portals to go from world to world.
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Date: 2015-09-26 02:27 pm (UTC)Dark...portals.
[Right.]
Gotta say, that's a new one for me. Spaceships are pretty much the way to go where I'm from.
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Date: 2015-09-26 08:39 pm (UTC)Spaceships? That's so cool... But doesn't that take a long time?
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Date: 2015-09-26 09:36 pm (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2015-09-27 02:02 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2015-09-27 02:33 am (UTC)...Usually.
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Date: 2015-09-27 02:50 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2015-09-27 04:58 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2015-09-27 05:06 am (UTC)I know.
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Date: 2015-09-27 12:54 pm (UTC)...Well, nobody's perfect, either. Even the military scientists who design those things. Error...'S just one of those things that make us human.
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Date: 2015-09-27 04:29 pm (UTC)I wasn't human till I got here. But I know I've made a lot of mistakes. That's normal, right? Even animals make mistakes.
[Belle nudges her trainers leg. No being sad. Roxas looks down and smiles at her.]
As long as you don't repeat them, everything works out.
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Date: 2015-09-27 06:03 pm (UTC)[Oh man, is this like the bird kid again?]
Huh, okay. That explains a couple things. So this place just makes people human?
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Date: 2015-09-27 06:10 pm (UTC)[Is this why people won't tell him some things? That's rude.]
Yeah. It made my friend Naminé human, just like me. Tobias, too.[Wait, was he supposed to not mention Tobias?]
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Date: 2015-09-27 07:36 pm (UTC)Right, Tobias. I talked to him, he seems like a good kid. He a friend of yours, too?
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Date: 2015-09-27 07:47 pm (UTC)[He's not that small.]
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Date: 2015-09-27 08:07 pm (UTC)What about Naminé? I don't think I've met her yet.
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Date: 2015-09-27 08:18 pm (UTC)We're from the same world. She's just like me. We're... twins.
[It's easier to say that then explain the whole Nobodies from the same heart thing.]
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Date: 2015-09-27 08:25 pm (UTC)[York nods as if he has any idea what he's talking about.]
My good friend, he's a twin, too.
[Empress, bored, climbs out of York's arms to drape herself along his shoulders and watch Vivi and Belle from her new, higher vantage point. York steadies her gently with one hand.]
You get along with her? Your sister, I mean.
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Date: 2015-09-27 08:29 pm (UTC)[Like Belle cares about vantage points. Being down on the ground makes it easier to protect her trainer and little mouse friend.]
Yeah. She's in Kanto right now with some friends. I'd... go be with her, but I want to see all of Johto. So I'm hoping she comes here so I can see her again.
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Date: 2015-09-29 12:30 pm (UTC)Yeah. I know the feeling.
[York's voice is gentler, a bit.]
Sometimes, when you wait, things have a way of coming back to you when you least expect them.
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Date: 2015-09-29 01:34 pm (UTC)Roxas doesn't really know how to respond to that. What he wanted was his friends from home. And they weren't real in the first place.]
... do you need help picking anything out for you or your Pokémon?
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Date: 2015-09-29 01:47 pm (UTC)A girl told me I could teach my Pokémon how to read. I'm looking for a good kids' book to surprise my starter with when she wakes up from her nap.
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