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[namesaquestion]

[He's been mostly avoiding people this month save for times when he couldn't, but even then. Antisocial is a Thing, as is coming to terms with not being able to go home (and probably needing to actually help rather than sulking), dealing with pokemon needing to heal the old fashioned way - which sucks, if you ask him-, and.... the baby seedot in his arms.

He looks rather annoyed to even be asking, but - he has no choice.] Katharine has pokemon. The girl who gave me this had some kind of pokemon, and [Here, Silver makes a face.] He's got a team.

...Who else here has pokemon and is willing to battle to make this thing stronger? My pokemon are too powerful for it.

[A beat, then] Same goes for the rest of my team. If I have to be stuck here, I'm not going to stop training. They've fallen behind.

[Of course this is the first thing on his mind. At least he's not insulting anyone? Yet.]

Comments

[Audio]

[freedom_engineer]

Many of the people here were gifted with Pokemon, it seems.

Emma would probably be up for playing with your kid, certainly.

[Audio]

[namesaquestion]

There was a girl giving them away. [To good trainers, but semantics.]

Emma? ... you... nicknamed it? [Legendaries, you one of those kinds?]

[freedom_engineer]

Ah, you've met Hilda then.

She's a Porygon, yes. Eecee Emma. I thought it fit her rather well.

[namesaquestion]

Yea, if that was her name.

[You can't see it, but he's linefacing so hard.] Porygon? that'd be good training for Seedot. Should grow some if it wins.

[...Silver, your EXP Mechanics are so 1999/2000.]

[break_the_ice]

You sound disappointed... Are you all right?

[namesaquestion]

More like annoyed I had to wait this long for some of them to heal.

[Given the last battle he had was kinda. curbstomp brutal.] I don't like falling behind.

[break_the_ice]

How badly hurt were they...? I can show you how to treat some injuries, if you need.

[namesaquestion]

[he's only admitting this because Roomie. and night avoidance isn't possible.] ... No broken bones, but ... Battles get rough.

[Video]

[gianthobo]

[There's not a human who responds, but a Pokemon. Floette huffs at the camera, waggling a tiny hand at Silver.]

Flo floette!

['Stop being so rude!']

[Video]

[namesaquestion]

[THIS FACE.]

The hell?

[Video]

[gianthobo]

Flo flo flo!

['You're doing it again!']

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[namesaquestion]

I don't speak pokemon. Where's your Master? Ugh. Who lets a pokemon near the phone. Honestly...

[meanwhile the mun is laughing too hard, help.]

[Video]

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko has the camera pointed the right way this time, so her face is in the shot. She looks displeased, and it's not just her default lineface.

There's also a small dragon face peering up from the bottom of the screen. She is not, in fact, a pokemon.]

Do they want to be training that hard?

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[namesaquestion]

[A few blinks, a slight stare because what the hell - that burn. Uh. Whatever. It's rude to stare, and he's not going to be called out on it.] If it's not, they remain weak, and nothing wants to remain weak.

[He nods at the dragon.] What.... what kind of pokemon is that?

[Video]

[daughterofursa]

[Of all the rude things going on with this guy... good to know he stops short of calling out a disfiguring scar??]

Kizuna isn't a pokemon. She's a dragon. [Kizuna chirps because she knows she's being introduced, basically. Hello tiny screen person.]

And strength isn't always about fighting.

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[daredtodream]

Battle? To become stronger?

[ Signless makes a bit of a face before glancing over to something off camera. ]

Is that something that is normal in your world?

[ Violence was normal for trolls as well, however he still was not fond of it. ]

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[namesaquestion]

Of course. How else do pokemon get tougher if not by being made to battle?

Don't tell me you're another who takes issue with that.

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[daredtodream]

[ There's a small frown on that grey face, red eyes narrowing slightly. ]

Well if it is forced violence then yes, I do take issue with it. No one should be forced to fight if they don't want to.

[ He turns to look off screen again, words are said but they are muffled and soon an Absol is peeking from the edge of the video. She is still young, obviously, but she seems curious and fairly smart. ]

Violence only hurts those it touches, for obvious reasons. It is something that while sometimes needed should be resorted to only in dire straights.

[ACTION]

[heritrix]

[Man, it's lucky Rin just happened to be in the neighborhood of "wherever this thread is", or she might have missed this opportunity. By necessity, she checks her phone and the network regularly, but she's not very good at it. But battle, huh...]

They grow if you do that, right? [Assuming she got a brief explanation of how the evolutionary process works, anyways. But 'sup, Silver. Just an eavesdropper over here, to the far off left. Or two, rather. One 17-year-old girl in a very short skirt, and the Ralts trailing after her.] I'll take you up on that.

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[namesaquestion]

[He's... not sure skirts should be that short, but. Ok. Anyway. Have a blink, and then he's setting the seedot down and nudging forward with his foot.] Yea.

You know what attacks your pokemon'll have?

[heritrix]

[Rin glances at her pokemon, and he glances back. Koo, her Ralts, looks a little nervous but he nods with determination all the same.]

I do. [Not that he has many, baby pokemon and all.] But this will be our first battle, so I'm not familiar with the process. Are there rules, like in a spar?

[He made this sound like a formal thing, with the way he called it training. As someone who practices martial arts, that makes her think it must have some structure.]

[not really here]

[ourlegends]

[ Mistakes were clearly made with giving this guy a Pokemon and now she's just looking at the post with the biggest frown on her face.

Oh and she might have to reign in her boys.

What a mess. ]

[not really here]

[namesaquestion]

[SORRY HILDA.

I mean

he gets better.

ish.]

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[dreamchasing]

I have two, but ...

[ She looks back at her vulpix and her cottonee. ]

... I'm not all that sure that they want to fight, and I feel like making them do that would be irresponsible on my part.

[ She smiles, sheepish. ]

Granted, I really don't know a lot about them!

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[namesaquestion]

Pokemon like to fight because it makes them stronger. If you want to be a trainer, you have to have them fight.

[-there's a lot of other things someone can do with pokemon, but Silver really doesn't think much of those professions.]