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[fatalissimo]

So do you guys ever still think about how bizarre this place is, or do you pretty much just get used to it after a while? It's weird as hell, the stuff you just start accepting after a while – you don't even think about how most of us came from a place where cats don't hatch out of eggs.

(...I say "most" because some jerk out there's going to pop up and prove me wrong, you just watch. Even if you also hatch your damn cats, I'm pretty sure there's something here that's out of the ordinary.)

I don't know if there's much point to this, but there's not much point to anything that goes on around here, anyway. I don't know, even if this place is better than whatever's going on back home, sometimes you miss being useful, too. Another thing to get used to, I guess.

...No, really, I am getting sick of the kittens-from-eggs thing. I'm going to have more cats than I do Swablus at this rate.

Comments

[fatalissimo]

If I come across one, I'll throw it at you. ...Presumably not literally, because that'd probably suck.

[loveisanopendoor]

If I manage to find any other ridiculous Pokemon, I'll throw them at you, too. Do you have the one that's a bug that's also a music conductor? I feel like that one would be up your alley

[dangerousidol]

You're Japanese? Should I call you Jakuzure-san?

[fatalissimo]

...You know, I actually don't. And that really needs to be fixed.

[fatalissimo]

Sure am, and god, it's good to not have to explain that to someone for once.

[dangerousidol]

Yeah, I noticed that not a lot of the people here are Japanese. I have met a really nice American girl named Maka, though. She knew about honorifics, but she said it was okay not to use them with her.

[fatalissimo]

Yeah, there are a bunch of Americans, a lot of British people for some reason, and then people from places with names so far removed from reality that you just kind of smile and nod. And then the ones that are from Japan are usually from Tokyo - which I can't complain about, I am too - but after a while it starts getting kinda surreal.

[loveisanopendoor]

If I see it around when I go back to the National Park I'll get it for you! It's kinda cute, though, it looks like its got a little mustache...

[fatalissimo]

...That actually sounds really cute if you don't consider the fact that it's probably bigger than bugs have any godforsaken right to be.

[loveisanopendoor]

It's a little big for a bug, yeah, but I don't mind that if they're not, like, y'know, bugs. Some bugs are cute but others are just, ick...

[fatalissimo]

God, can you just imagine cockroaches that size? Not like this world's magical cockroaches because I'm sure they exist somewhere, but real-world cockroaches. Ew.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

I am just worried that my family will descend into chaos without me there to lead it. My brother left me the family title, and I worry there might be deaths over who would get it next.

[chickshades]

its even weirder what kinds of pokemon can breed together.

[dangerousidol]

I've met a British guy. He asked me why I wasn't engaged yet. Are they all like that?

I'm from a little town called Inaba. I did stay in Tokyo when I was an idol. So when I was told that a lot of people stop traveling when they get to Goldenrod, it made a lot of sense. This city does kind of remind me of Tokyo.

[fatalissimo]

Nah, you'll be fine. This place puts you back right where you came from whenever you leave.

Trust me, if it didn't then I'm pretty sure just about every world everyone's ever come from here would have gone right to crap in some way.

[fatalissimo]

...The kittens in question are happening because my horse really likes my cat.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

How do you know?

[chickshades]

right?? i mean how the hell does that make any sense?? i never got that about pokemon.

[fatalissimo]

Doesn't it just? It's one of the few familiar things here. The place I'm from is called Honnō City; it's on a manmade island in Tokyo Bay. Most people are from worlds close enough to know what Tokyo is but have no damn idea about where I'm actually from.

...Also ew. Was he saying it like he was hitting on you?

[fatalissimo]

I've been here for a while, and I've talked to someone from where I'm from that definitely remembered me being somewhere and doing something that I'm supposed to do within the next month or so.

She would've noticed if I wasn't there.

[loveisanopendoor]

Or mosquitoes? I don't even wanna think about it...

[fatalissimo]

You'd think the breeding would at least pretend to make sense? Just a little?

Honestly, what bugs me about it is that everyone here is just okay with it.

[fatalissimo]

...God, they'd make human raisins out of people.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

So someone from my world might come, or already be here?

[fatalissimo]

Yeah, maybe.

You looking for someone specific? I don't know everyone, but I've been here for a while.