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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.]

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[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.]

[freedom_engineer]

Huh... You do know they're just kids, right?

[namesaquestion]

Tch. You have to make a pokemon fight to toughen it as it grows. Weak ones won't protect you.

[freedom_engineer]

Ah... you should probably speak to...

... Hmm, no, you probably SHOULDN'T speak to N if you're talking that way...

[namesaquestion]

What, he a bleeding heart like Lance?

[AND NOW HE'S CURIOUS.]

[freedom_engineer]

He was raised with Pokemon. He can talk to them.

He takes a dim view of trainers.

And he's not the sort to be apologetic about it.

[not here]

[unwrittenformula]

[Jiiiiiiiiiiii]

[namesaquestion]

Don't be a moron. You can't talk to pokemon. [....Silver, your roommate has a Talking Machine Gun.] Tch, who cares what a bleeding heart like him thinks? You want to make your porygon stronger, you have to make her fight.

Not like they'll actually hurt each other. Baby pokemon are nowhere near as stong as fully evolved ones.

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[unwrittenformula]

You know nothing.

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[namesaquestion]

Oh? Is that so?

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[unwrittenformula]

It is.

[Don't start this man. Don't do it.]

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[namesaquestion]

Hmph.

I assume you're N, then?

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[unwrittenformula]

You're making a lot of assumptions.

But yes, you're correct on that at least.

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[namesaquestion]

Tch. It's logical to assume if you talk about a person over a network, and then someone unknown speaks up over the same network in a response to something I said about them, then that is the person. Sometimes it's not, but it often is.

My name's Silver. I'm the man who'll become the greatest trainer ever.

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[unwrittenformula]

That does nothing to account for all the assumptions you've been making about Pokemon.

You will do no such thing if you continue to treat your friends this way.

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[namesaquestion]

Assumptions? Friends? You really are a fool of a bleeding heart.

[freedom_engineer]

I can say as a matter of pubic record that you're wrong. Emma lives in my arm, I talk to her all the time.

Also, did I say he was a bleeding heart?

Don't misunderstand me. He was well-positioned to make war on humanity for the sake of Pokèmon. He's not someone you want to provoke.

As for battling, I'm not ignorant of the practice. I know that they enjoy sparring with each other. But making them fight is another matter entirely. It fosters aggression, and causes quite a bit of stress in them.

[namesaquestion]

Uh... she makes your arm work? [Because... uh. He might feel like a bit of a jackarse if that's the case.]

What kind of moron are you? It's implied. [The duh goes unsaid.]

Why would it stress them out? It only stresses those not used to it. [RIGHT? RIGHT.] Sparring, battling. It's the same thing.

[freedom_engineer]

No, she sleeps in my arm. And you're calling me the moron?

... Kid, I don't even know where to begin with the flaws you've got in your thinking.

[namesaquestion]

[You can hear the groan in his voice. Fucking people not knowing jackshit about the pokemon they own. Arceus in the Hall. Oh well. INFO DUMP TIME (with what he knows anyway.)] Porygon are used to work in cyberspace with computers and stuff. If you have one in your arm, it's a logical assumption.

[He... doesn't actually know if this is true, but IT COULD BE OK???]

[Scoffs.] What flaws?

[freedom_engineer]

The computer in my arm is more powerful than every system, on any sub light speed capable world, combined. It runs quite well without her, she simply rests in it when she's not in the real world. She and I talk while she's in there. It facilitates the communication quite well.

As for the flaw... putting your life in the hands of something you can't recognize the stress you're putting on it. Combat is inherently stressful. If not carefully tended to, combatants do not get stronger. They get more volatile.

I wanna shake Silver, even if he has IMO semi-valid points.

[namesaquestion]

Uh. Sure, whatever you say. [Dismissive scoff-ish sound, because honestly? He doesn't know that much about what a porygon actually is, and he's not about to admit it.]

It's not like they fight all the time, and pokemon aren't like humans; human stresses don't effect them the same way. They need to fight to get stronger. Moron.

[freedom_engineer]

No. They have different stresses, which you seem quite content to ignore.

You're not convincing anyone you're a good trainer or an adult, you know.