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Okay, so does albinism happen to run in particular Pokémon species? I thought it might've been a newborn thing, but it's been a while and normal fur hasn't grown in yet for him at all.

[A young, energetic Sneasel clambers his way up the back of York's chair. He's kind of excessively pink.

Someone's got his first shiny is what's happening here.

The Sneasel waves at the camera, then slips back down in an undignified tumble before running off again to play with York's Rotom. York watches him go before shaking his head.]

I ask 'cause I know that can cause eye problems, but he hasn't complained about it and Delta Two hasn't picked up any bad news from him. But he's a Dark type and a baby, so I dunno how much she'd be able to get from him, anyway. Do I need to get him glasses? Keep him out of the sun?

--Also, anyone celebrating Hanukkah this year, hope you had a good one. York out.

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From:

irenicly

Some things, sure, but even most Pokemon have pun names.

A ghost called Gastly, a wasp with... drills called Beedrill. It's strange.

From:

ratherbelocky

You got a point there, man. Though you don't want to know how long it took me to figure out the joke behind Elgyem.

From:

irenicly

...There's a pun behind that one?

[SOMEONE'S A LITTLE SLOW ON THE UPTAKE SOMETIMES]

From:

ratherbelocky

[York laughs a little into his words.]

Yeah, like an ancient one.

[He spreads his hands in a shrug.]

Back in the twentieth century when aliens were only a crackpot conspiracy theory, folks used to call them "little green men," 'cause that's what people thought extraterrestrial life was gonna look like. So, L.G.M. It's kinda cute.

From:

irenicly

.....Oh.

[To be fair, this is the picture he's always head in his head when it comes to what aliens look like.]

In Japan, they've always been drawn as looking like octopi.

From:

ratherbelocky

Some of 'em do. Sorta. If you use your imagination. They've got the tentacle part down, anyway.

From:

irenicly

You've been around aliens before?

[He's both not human and has been here for a year. Aliens just interest him, thankfully.

He doesn't sound like he disbelieves this at all.]

From:

ratherbelocky

I don't know any personally, if that's what you're asking, man.

But yeah, I'm familiar. Humanity'd been at war with a few of them for twenty-five, thirty-something years or so by my time.

From:

irenicly

....Wow.

[Holy crap, that's a long war.]

That's... an incredibly long war.

From:

ratherbelocky

It probably goes with the scope of the thing. Whole planets got wiped out, you know?

From:

irenicly

How terrible.

I've always hated fighting. That's why I like being here.

From:

ratherbelocky

Not much for the battling aspect, huh? What do you do instead?

From:

irenicly

I'm better about Pokemon battles than I used to be.

[Most of his team is level 100, actually.... but he's also been here for a long time and his team is tiny.]

I'm supposed to be a Breeder, but mostly I just make sure my Pokemon are happy.

From:

ratherbelocky

Oh! Yeah, me too--the breeding thing, I mean. I kinda like the battling, but, well. Military background.

From:

irenicly

Battling isn't so bad, since the Pokemon enjoy it.

One of these I'll get along to actually trying to breed Pokemon. I'm not sure how it works, exactly. From what I've heard you sort of turn around day and suddenly there are eggs there.

[It's magic apparently??]

From:

ratherbelocky

Yeah, that's basically how it goes. Leave 'em in a room while you go to work and you'll come back to a clutch or two. Is that the word? Clutch of eggs?