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. ]

Comments

[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?

[licentious]

Not a very successful one. [ Despite being walking male aphrodisiac. Her name is Lust after all. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

It seems like the sort of thing that starts difficult and gets easier as time goes on. Of course, that does require the effort of getting there.

[licentious]

Well, it's not so much my pokémon not breeding. It's more that I have nothing to actually breed. Either they're in different groups that would not allow for breeding to happen, or they're the same sex and, obviously, cannot reproduce.

[usedfeatherdance]

Can't you solve that by catching more?

[ Says the trainer with four things in the same group, only one of which is female. And she's monogamous. ]

[licentious]

I could, but I don't see any reason to. I think Johto is a bit too reliant on eggs.

[ And she's not a charity, nor does she want to aid these types of people. Or people in general, but you know how that is. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

Possibly. But considering how difficult it seems to be to find some of these creatures in the wild, I can't say I'm entirely surprised. It's just how this world expects you to make most of your money.

[licentious]

I understand if they're rare to find, but, to me, that inspires travel and a little hard work.

What I do not get are the masses buying things like Caterpie eggs.

[usedfeatherdance]

... Do they? That's... an interesting choice. I suppose some people collect insect specimens...

[licentious]

Better than my assumption. I just supposed some people are foolish and loose with money.

[usedfeatherdance]

Oh, that too. But it takes all types. Surely there are some of them purchasing deliberately...

[licentious]

I can only wish. But I still don't see a point in that when, if you really wanted a caterpie, you could just walk outside and find one within two hundred steps.

[usedfeatherdance]

You might be in the middle of the ocean. Or a desert. ... Are there deserts here? I'm sure there's other environments inhospitable to most insects.

[licentious]

You can travel easily. Even the local volcano mountain, or the cold cold Ice Path wouldn't have much in the way for obtaining a bug. But, what can I actually say, people will usually pay for anything even if time isn't normally a particular significance in this world.

[usedfeatherdance]

Perhaps some people are just that lazy. Never underestimate the power of humans to be surprising, after all. For better or for worse.

[licentious]

Oh, they're surprising in some ways. [ The ways she states this easily comes off as condescending. They're surprisingly dumb to her, except it stopped being surprising decades ago. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

You don't have much faith in humanity, do you?

[licentious]

I guess one can say I'm cynical. [ Did it take you this long to notice Joshua? She is not humanity's biggest fan. Or proponent. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

Bad experiences?

[licentious]

No, no bad experiences in particular. [ What? She's not like some vampire who is the Last Of Her Kind. ] Just multiple demonstrations. [ She might as well come off as a disgruntled person who Never Got Over Highschool. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

Poor demonstrations? Hee hee.

[licentious]

No. I wouldn't say poor. That implies they were trying. More like demonstrations that just proved how hopeless the human mind can be. [ Trying to still sound like a Disgruntled Person Who Never Got Over High School. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

Hmm... like what?

[licentious]

Just general hopelessness. They try so hard to accomplish things, and proclaim how nice and above it all they are when they're impulsive, foolish monsters. It's been this way ever since I was a little teenaged girl. [ That teenaged girl technically never existed but still... ]