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[ratherbelocky]

Goooood evening, residents of Johto. It's a lovely, drizzly January day, and I've got a question you folks might be able to answer for me. Consider it an informal poll.

[York looks comfortable and cozy as he lounges around his house, still wearing his ugly Christmas sweater.]

Now, I understand that this place just isn't equipped to support a Grifball League, but there's got to be more to life than just hockey and baseball. Are there Pokémon Olympics or something I should tune into? And, hey, what kind of sports did you guys have back in your worlds? Were they fun? Would you recreate 'em here if you could?

[He rubs his chin for a moment, then adds:]

If anyone around Goldenrod's interested in forming some kind of low-key community sports team--y'know, something for people, not Pokémon--let me know. I might be able to help us get something set up before baseball season starts.

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[bent_the_world]

I don't know exactly what the Olympics are, but some friends and I are trying to get some Pokemon sporting competitions going! Since...there don't seem to be any.

Back home we had pro-bending! I played professionally for a while. It's awesome! But I'm not sure how to recreate it here. There's no bending here...

Uh, controlling elements. It's a thing where I come from.

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[doitrockapella]

A regionwide Olympics — now there's a winning idea. So much of Johto and Kanto revolves around the athletic merits of Pokemon; it'd be nice to see some celebration of their trainers' accomplishments more often, too.

[Carmen, you just want to steal the damn Olympics. Be real.]

My Porygon2 tells me you're a close friend of his. York York York, is it? What a pleasure.

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[veggie_vamp]

My boyfriend plays Casketball, and I've been on the Skultimate Roller Maze team! I event went to the championship!

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[grapeeater]

There's dance teams where I'm from - or there used to be, at least. They got pretty competitive.

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[ojamameansfamily]

Where I'm from we had Duel Monsters. A REAL sport, not like driftball or whatever the hell that is.

[It's totally a sport because shut up.]

This place is so backwater no one's even heard of it, so YEAH I'm gonna recreate it if I can.

[He just needs to build up some real funds first. And get a printing press. ...Duel Disks might be a little beyond his ability, but he'll burn that bridge when he gets to it.]

[ratherbelocky]

[Controlling elements? Okay, hold on, he'll try to puzzle that out on his own for a minute while he explains Korra a thing.]

The Olympics are an international sports event held back on my Earth. Every four years, participating countries send a huge team in to compete in a whole bunch of different sports: team sports, gymnastics, martial arts, all kinds of different races. The hosting city changes every time and it's a huge deal. People train their whole lives for it.

[He scratches his temple, then laughs and admits:]

Okay, I still don't get exactly what you mean by pro-bending or controlling elements. Something like what Pokémon do?

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[ratherbelocky]

Oh, hey, you're Zack's trainer! Yeah, I love that little guy. You must be

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You know, I don't think he ever let your name slip. Looks like you've got me at a conversational disadvantage.

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[ratherbelocky]

Casketball I can sort of figure out, but what's..."Skultimate Roller Maze?" It sounds awesome, whatever it is.

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[ratherbelocky]

Like. Ballroom dancing?

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[ratherbelocky]

Oh-kay, I'll bite. What's Duel Monsters, and how's it any different from what we do with our Pokémon?

[Oh god York what can of worms are you opening.]

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[doitrockapella]

No need to hold that against your impression of Zack's manners; we've had a few discussions about giving out personal information on the network. Safety first.

But that's fine; I like making my own introductions almost as much as I like having my reputation precede me. I'm Carmen Sandiego.

[Enjoy that, York; feel free to fourth-wall the shit out of her if you see fit.]

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[grapeeater]

No, though I know how to do that too. More like modern pop music sort of dancing.

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[wing_attack]

Basketball, baseball, football - uh, American football, not soccer, though we had that too - volleyball... you get th epicture. I know Andalites have something called 'driftball' which Ax explained to me once and I think it sounds like basketball but in low-gravity? I know Hork-Bajir don't really have sports, and I doubt Yeerks do either and I don't think I'd want to know about them if they did.

And the the Skrit Na pretty much just make a sport out of kidnapping humans and other species and flying around with them or putting them into zoos.

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[ratherbelocky]

[If York were a certain other meme-loving fuck, he might have a different answer. An answer in the form of knowing an entire theme song by heart.

As it is, York just pauses for a moment before he replies.]

Like the city?

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[ratherbelocky]

Ohh, okay. That probably means different things between where and when the two of us are from, but still. Pretty important stuff, I'd say. You any good?

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[ratherbelocky]

[Okay, he probably could have made comments on low-grav basketball and what a bad and thus amazing idea that's been in his experience, but the last thing gets him right in a sore spot.]

There a lot of 'em, these Skrit Na? They get away with that often?

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[grapeeater]

My team was pretty good, yeah. Though we rose to the top for reasons other than dancing skill... still, we were good.

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[ratherbelocky]

Dude, are you really going to say something like that and then not elaborate? Come on.

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[wing_attack]

Uh... I don't know. You - well I don't know how it is in your world, but a lot of those stories from my world about being abducted by aliens in big fat disc-shaped UFOs? Skrit Na.

From what I hear they're pretty scattered, though.

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[doitrockapella]

You'd be surprised how often I get that.

Though I must say, it's a pleasant surprise of my own, coming across someone familiar with the great state of California.

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[grapeeater]

It ended up being more about fighting skill than dancing skill at the end.

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[ratherbelocky]

Mmmgh. How it is in my world is less that type of encounter and more of the ongoing open intergalactic war variety.

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[ratherbelocky]

Ah, gotcha. It always does, doesn't it?

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[ratherbelocky]

Hey, I'm a guy literally named after the Empire State. I bet I wouldn't be surprised at all.

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[wing_attack]

Yeah... the intergalactic war thing was barely averted in my world. It uh... it sucks.

[... Anyway, sports.]

I bet we could make a sport out of balancing on Flying Pokemon... but that might be kind of... dangerous.