the_pilgrim | Video/Action for New Bark

Current Mood: distressed

Video/Action for New Bark

Um, h-hello? This thing’s a smart phone, right? I, uh...~~still use a flip phone...~~ I mean, I lost mine, and this one’s totally different! Haha, yeah...

Um, anyway, I’m kinda...supposed to be in the hospital right now. Greg and I were supposed to stay the night for observation. B-But I just woke up in some crazy lady’s house! She said she was my mom, and she clearly wasn’t my mom, and then she threw me out the door! Now this cotton bird thing won’t leave me alone! It keeps trying to wipe my face too-! [He stops to bat a cotton wing away.] THERE’S NOTHING ON MY FACE!

[He takes a few deep breaths.]
L-Look, I just....I just had a really rough time and all, and I really just...wanna go home or at least back to the hospital? This thing says it’s broadcasting to a network...can anyone even hear me? Seriously, this is the weirdest phone...

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Now.

Start over.

No more being a grouchy blockhead.

This is Johto, it's a region in a world where creatures called Pokemon exist. We're given these Pokemon as companions when we arrive, even if we don't come here voluntarily. That Swablu is going to be your partner and protector from other Pokemon as you travel through Johto. People do whatever they want with the whole Pokemon thing, even if we're told we're supposed to train and catch them, battling and stuff like that. You're given stuff to look at to give you the basic information about Pokemon, so I won't rattle on about that and get to the nitty gritty--yes, we're stuck, we can't leave. Sometimes we're sent back to our own worlds and nothing will have changed since we left. It's okay, this world is pretty safe, and if you had people back at home to worry about, it's okay too, they'll be fine--or they might end up here with you eventually.

[Grumblegrumble.]

I have to make her fight other animals? That's cruel!

Hmm...

[She never saw it as forcing the Pokemon to battle, they seemed to want to fight just as much in their nature. It was a good bonding experience, as well, to grow strong together.

But it's entirely possible that this boy (bad impressions aside) came from a world where fighting isn't usual.]

That's for her and you to decide. Like I said, not everyone decides to do the training thing, sometimes they just raise Pokemon and keep them like companions too. Nobody's...nobody's forcing anybody to do anything.

I mean, is there even a point to having them fight?

Not if you're very against competition or don't plan on traveling. You'd need for your Pokemon to be...strong to protect you against wild ones if you're traveling. No matter what your policy is, wild Pokemon attack humans.

Attack?! Like, maiming and killing and eating???

S-stop yelling!

[Is this what she was like in the beginning??]

No, you don't die here, and Pokemon don't eat you! The ones you meet on beginning routes are actually smaller than the one you have right now. It's just...you can get hurt, and that's what your Pokemon protect you from.

Ah- okay..?

Your Pokemon can't really talk to you, either, but trainers still kinda...I don't know how to describe it, understand them? Anyway, I'm sure once you become friends with your Swablu, you'll have more of an idea of what to do.

...Hmmm, it helps to travel with someone, too, early on.