Feather 12 [Video]

[usedfeatherdance]

[ Not that January 1st was actually Joshua's birthday instead of just being a handy date to roll up his age one more year, but Joshua couldn't help the feeling that somehow Johto had hatched his shiny new egg into a... well, shiny new male fox, of all things, this day on purpose.

It probably could only have been more on the mark if the thing had been some combination of grey, blue, and/or purple. ]

Since this isn't exactly the first time it seems everyone spontaneously obtained an egg all at once, I'm going to ask a different question. Do we have any idea what determines which Pokemon we each receive?

[ And if anyone happens to be in Cianwood, Joshua can be found towards the outskirts of the city, sitting sideways on an Absol, Espeon on shoulder and a newly hatched golden Vulpix on his lap, all four of them watching as a Luxray happily bounds about on the sand and knocks out any Pokemon it scares up with its antics. ]

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[Voice]

[usedfeatherdance]

Teaching them to battle on their own. Grunts. Replacing the attack names with other words. There were quite a few different techniques on display at the tournament a couple months ago.

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[usedfeatherdance]

In that case, wouldn't you expect a breeder to have discovered it already?

[usedfeatherdance]

Misery can be taken as a challenge and overcome to produce someone happier than before.

[licentious]

Yes, but how many people actually take that opportunity? After all, isn't wallowing in self pity without taking chances for improvement fun? [ The latter part is sarcasm but it should effectively get her point across. No one seems willing to make that leap. ]

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[darkenedgales]

... Geoglyphs. In Nazca desert in Peru. Picturing various animals and shit.

Nasty things.

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[usedfeatherdance]

I take it they're more than simple pictures.

[usedfeatherdance]

[ Well, when it's "make that leap or die"... alright, most people die. But a few of them make it, and those are the only ones Josh deals with anyway. ]

One certainly wonders, given how often it happens. I never saw ordeals as things to be crushed by, but maybe I just have a bit too much pride, hee hee. What's life without a bit of a struggle?

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[darkenedgales]

... Something like that, yeah.

[Gods, to be precise, but that's not exactly Crow's favorite topic.]

Sorry for the brief delay! I just had my wisdom teeth extracted!

[licentious]

Life without a struggle? A dream, but, unbeknownst to them until they actually achieve that, it's an unsatisfying nightmare. But, who knows, maybe they're too entitled to see that you have to work for what you earn.

[ This CR is starting to turn very very lovely. ] Your resilience is commendable. Most people probably would give up if they were in your shoes, judging by your past implications about how you dealt with your ordeals.

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[enjoymyatelier]

There are many things about this place that I would have expected someone to have discovered already. Even the natives seem baffled by it, though I'm not sure how surprising that really is.

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[usedfeatherdance]

Then what?

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[usedfeatherdance]

The natives can't be trusted for much, hee hee. But I believe every world has its own set of rules it follows, even if we can't understand what they are. The more you investigate, the more you get an idea of what those rules are.

It's alright! I was busy for the weekend anyway.

[usedfeatherdance]

If I'd given up, I likely wouldn't be here now, hee hee. And compared to my situation back home, even the wilderness here isn't so bad with a Pokemon or two. It was a nice vacation, but I was having more fun back home.

I take it your situation is similar?

[licentious]

I haven't been idle like this since birth. [ And even then she was kinda already 250 years old. ] This place is more annoying than anything else, considering how I have work to do the moment I get back home. This intermission couldn't have come at a worse time. [ Hundreds of years worth of planning are now about to come to fruition and this is the result?! ]

[usedfeatherdance]

Were you caught up in the middle of something important?

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[syochan]

Oh! Um -- I just kind of have a thing for them then, you could say, haha...

[licentious]

Yes, I was. It was a culmination of my entire life, almost. And now I'm here, in the idle Johto landscape with little to do to stave off boredom. [ Her life!!! Isn't it tragic!!! ): ]

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[darkenedgales]

[Yeah, no. It's not something he likes talking about, even with his close friends, much less complete strangers. Which is why he surely has a mindblowingly perfect, completely believable response to that question--]

... Really nasty pictures?

[Like that.

Couldn't be more obvious if he tried, could he?]

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[enjoymyatelier]

That's certainly true, yes. They're rather off-kilter to begin with and fairly... unreliable. Nevertheless, this place at least has a consistent internal logic, even if it doesn't seem particularly logical by any reasonable standards.

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[usedfeatherdance]

... [ Giggle. ]

Is that the type you go for?

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[usedfeatherdance]

[ ... Not really ]

Don't want to let me in on it?

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[usedfeatherdance]

Unreliable, how?

[usedfeatherdance]

[ Too bad so sad! ]

There's plenty to do here. The problem is how pointless or useless it all tends to feel. What's the use in this world which isn't our own, hmm?

[licentious]

I'd rather not put effort into something into most things here. The creation, sale and distribution of pokémon being one off the top of my mind. [ which is ironic because she helps ship things for team rocket. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

You're a breeder, then?