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[pendantry]

[There's so much to do in one day around Luceti, if you only put your mind to it. Take two enterprising, bored souls, give them a fight scenario and the arena in which to implement it, and enough free time, and bam! Instant entertainment. Two souls engaged in an epic battle to the finish with their strangely elemental animal companions. A champion-strength trainer and a laid-back but motivated beginner. Imagine the spectacle!

So it's much more fun when a very large and colorful bird - with four wings! - comes half-flying, half-drifting down into the middle of your crazy pokémon training, right boys?]


[Voiced, later on]

Hey! What are you-

["You" doesn't acknowledge the protest, choosing to make his announcement instead.]

Hey, hey, hey Luuuuceti! We've got a charming young lady here, and she's got a problem! You see, some dastardly fiend has stolen her clothes, so whoever did that---

[A solid strike sound, when the other guy punches Masaomi in the face.]

Has anyone ever told you about a little thing called manners?

It's all in good fuuuuun, senpai!!!

[The journal changes hands again, to arguably safer hands this time as Silver snatches it away.]

...Give it back.

[[ooc: Raven, Masaomi, and Special!Silver are causing a commotion. Expect threadjacking. Welcome it. Embrace it.]]

Comments

[tsuntrader]

Pokémon.

[pendantry]

What does that mean?

[Someone is getting frustrated.]

[tsuntrader]

They're... [...] They're every creature in my world, I guess. Everything that isn't human. Sneasel's one of them, and so is Linda.

[...Pointing back at those birds.] We don't have birds like those. We have Pidgey and Spearow. They aren't all birds or animals, though. They're also stuff like magnets, plants, ghosts, rocks...

[pendantry]

[Plants and rocks, okay. She knows plant and rock-ish monsters for sure. Some other time they can cover "magnets."

Because as much as she hates when this happens, the word 'ghosts' has her looking over her shoulder almost instantly.]

They aren't here are they?

[tsuntrader]

[Is she... Scared of ghosts?...]

Only ours are here. [He looks over at Sneasel, then back at Raven.] Every Pokémon trainer here has three of their Pokémon. Other than that, there are four that were hatched from eggs and given to people here.

[pendantry]

[YES.]

...So that mon- [He doesn't like monster. ...Why does she care, again?] That, is a "pokémon"?

[tsuntrader]

You got it.

[pendantry]

[It's obvious the thing understands human speech. They were having a fight and everything. Raven stops and looks at it, before sort of crouching down. Not the best thing to do in this getup but.]

Do you talk?

[tsuntrader]

[Shaking his head. Nope, talking's a thing he can't do.]

[pendantry]

[Do you shake hands here she's holding one out.]

[tsuntrader]

[Yes, yes he does. Don't let the giant clawhand fool you, he is perfectly capable of a completely safe handshake.]

[pendantry]

[Silver if you watch carefully you'll see the shades of Raven's smile.]

Do you have a name?

[tsuntrader]

[Silver already told you my name, dude. He can nod, at least... Or, well, half nod. Kinda. He's okay with just being Sneasel.]

[pendantry]

[Well. The handshake will have to do. Raven stands back up again and her face hardens as though surprised at itself for being soft.]

Where are we going?

[tsuntrader]

To get your clothes. [Wasn't that obvious?]

[pendantry]

Hm.

[That's some rousing agreement from her. Hello Silver, meet Raven's usual demeanor.]

[tsuntrader]

[She is suddenly in some new foreign place and had to spill some very private details to a complete stranger.

...He can let the linefacing pass.]

[pendantry]

[The default state of Raven's attitude is so much harsher than linefacing, this is almost a relief.

On this topic even she can't stay quiet forever though.]

Why do you think that way? ...About monsters.

[tsuntrader]

...I dunno. The word just doesn't sit right with me. It has too many negative connotations. [Says the guy from a world where everything's called a pocket monster. Pokémon is totally different, okay.]

[pendantry]

Some monsters think that way about "human" after what they've done.

[tsuntrader]

...You're from one of those worlds with a bunch of different species that can all be jerks to each other, aren't you?

[pendantry]

Not everyone is that way.

[Yes. That's a yes. Though there are shining examples of tolerance, too, they're not usually very loud about it. The humans and the monster races and the others...fight. A lot. And get obstinate.]

They hate for nothing.

[tsuntrader]

It's stupid. [So stupid. So why is it such a recurring theme?]

[pendantry]

Yeah.

[It's nice to have a human agree right from the start.

She'll go quiet again, looking around at all the buildings. It seems like just another town - one busier than Sharance, but still. Is it really another "world"?]

[tsuntrader]

[And that is about all he'll say until they get to the clothes store. Look, he's even holding the door open! Her clothes should be around here somewhere.]