tapestodiane | 011 [audio]

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I've been thinking about the significance of our first pokémon. I find it hard to believe the species given to us are random.

[A brief pause. He's been bothered by this ever since his arrival, actually.]

The initial reaction on meeting your first is important, whether it was fear, familiarity, anger, amusement, or the more unlikely indifference. Then there is of course the more pressing question: why were we given these particular ones?

I'd appreciate your thoughts.

[He's investigating again. Action for anyone in Azalea - he'll most likely be hanging around the pokémon center, working there and all.]

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Yes, a Hoothoot. I was given the warning about a week and a half prior to my arrival.

_{[He takes another well-needed sip of that coffee and leans back a little, making a humming sound.]}

My Electrike isn't either. Perhaps we should think of them as exotic species.

The timing is somewhat alarming, I admit.

Perhaps we should. But not knowing how they evolve and when they learn their attacks makes it harder to train them.

It could also make it all the more rewarding.

I know, but... What if one of them is like an Eevee, with multiple evolutions? I would not want to accidentally push them toward a form they would not feel comfortable with.

Pokémon are very intelligent creatures, Cecil. I'm confident they would let you know if they were uncomfortable somehow, as long as you make it clear that they are allowed to express it.

All of them are more than happy to express their feelings, but... How would they know an evolution does not suit them before it happens?

I don't think anyone can. We're all going through evolutions in life. We can only adapt to the changes in ourselves and our surroundings to the best of our ability.

...It would be nice if there was a little less change, sometimes.

Ain't that the truth.

No sudden disappearances, no world-breaking events, no perverted Ditto that fathers eggs off my Pokémon...

Things were better for you back home?

Not at all, but I had a group of twenty with me and we had an inkling of what we could do. I have lesser problems here, but I have no access to my usual ressources or powers, and thus my ability to act is limited.

_{[Cooper can relate. The purpose he had back home is, well ... Johto makes him unable to act on it.]}

I know what you mean. I had no powers to speak of but I still feel more exposed here, despite the typically friendly nature of this world.

This world has already proven that it is not as it seems, after what happened in October.

Or November.

_{[Those lost three days still trouble him.]}

The dream I had back then... seems rather more gentle then what had happened a month earlier.

I believe they're memories, not dreams.

I didn't fare too bad on either of these occasions, fortunately.

...I find it hard to believe that the self-replicating sandwiches could be a memory.

_{[Give him a second, because that does sound a bit farfetched.]}

A lot of strange things went on during those three days.

There was also a thief that could steal everything except my shoes.

Really?

_{[He ... just might have to re-evaluate his theory a little.]}

Apparently, no one in his world had invented a technique to steal shoes.

[And that wasn't even the strangest thing he remembered.]

_{[Giving Cecil a bit of an incredulous look here, but moves on.]}

I have vivid memories of several big birds and a forest. I guess that would be more believable as a real event.

That does sound more typical of this world. Were you near Ilex Forest at the time?

Not at the time, but I believe that's where I was during the missing days.

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