Nah, I ain't noble. noble would be like...stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Or going all out and robbing people who use their money to fuck up people's lives. I just got some standards.
And back home things were different. Money around here is so easy to get. it ain't like that where I'm from.
[ Also there was that other thing you did a couple of months ago. Something about a fancy party. ]
Heh, yeah. I got real lucky at that Rocket Prom thing. My Pokemon weren't that strong back then cos I'd only just gotten here, and everyone seemed to be trying to snatch Danny - he's a Lucario, I started off with him - so I ended up just going after anything that went for him.
Pretty sure stealing Pokemon should count as kidnapping them really, given how smart they are. Wait, were you around for that shit? What kinda Pokemon did you start with?
Yeah I was there. I had my Absol with me but he's not really a party pokemon so I let him chill. Once the trouble started going down though we bolted. I was still really new too so my pokemon wouldn't have stood a chance.
[ That. Was not a good lie, given he had been there. He remembered nobody had been able ot leave until the Rockets had bolted; there were so many kids who'd been unable to get out. ]
Stay low to the ground, move behind furniture. The usual stuff you do when you're trying to avoid being an easy target.
Once I was away from the main fighting I hid behind some overturned tables. If anyone got too close I figured I could blind them with the table cloth and beat them with a punch bowl till someone could help me out.
[See Ash? She didn't leave the party she just hid like a skinny pink haired damsel in distress. Nothing suspicious about that.]
Now that my Mon are stronger and I've got some badges under my belt? I kinda hope those jerks do make another move so I can prove I'm not afraid of them.
Personally I'd prefer if they just fucked off forever. But idk....people end up in shitty situations and turn to crime to survive. It's real sad it happens here, given how good this place first seems when you get in. Or some people are just dicks. One person told me to just give up and stop fighting. So I socke dher in the stomach and stepped on her.
[ And then got attacked by a bird. But he still had Danny, so fuck that person. ]
I mean yeah, as best I could. Self preservation, live to fight another day. All that good stuff.
[She almost laughs it's so sad to hear him describe the situation like that. She's also a little irritated. He's lucky he's charming in a stupid way.]
There's always going to be people who want to survive and thrive by being smarter then others. It's just a matter of if they take advantage of the less skilled people in an obvious way, or in a subtle way.
And it's up to the rest of us to keep them in check.
[ Something about her choice of words still seems off. ]
There's being 'smarter' than others, and there's kidnapping sentient creatures to abuse. I've got four Pokemon that were used by Team Rocket. And that shit isn't smart. It's just cruel.
I'll happily repay any Rocket the shit they've done to my Pokemon.
[ Fionn and Broichan, captured and stuffed into too small cages. Ceannfort, used as a living battery endlessly. And of course, Scuabtuinne...literally carved up. ]
[She was aware that not all members of Team Rocket cherished their pokemon as much as she did, but the lines between keeping pokemon enslaved and capturing them in pokeballs was blurry.]
Can't blame you for that. It's one thing to hurt people but animals are another story.
[Even if some of these pokemon were smarter and more powerful then the people trying to control them]
Yeah. Like you said, we gotta be ready for the next time they pull shit like that again. It's why I've been training my mons so much. Anyone trying to grab Danny will have a real hard time of it now.
You know I never thought of myself as a pet owner. I loved the horses and animals at the circus when I was little but I never got a cat or anything back home because I figured it wouldn't be fair to the cat since I was so busy.
Yet here I am not more attached to these pokemon then just about any human I know.
Yeah...I just didn't have the space or money for a pet back home. I liked animals plenty, it just wasn't possible.
And these guys are like...way more than the animals I knew or could have as a pet. They got so much personality and they really understand when you talk to them. It's great.
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Date: 2017-08-12 09:28 pm (UTC)Is that the sort of guy you were back home?
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Date: 2017-08-16 12:44 am (UTC)And back home things were different. Money around here is so easy to get. it ain't like that where I'm from.
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Date: 2017-08-17 05:55 am (UTC)Frankly I never saw the appeal.
[Jinx you were literally a bully picking on others who didn't have powers.]
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Date: 2017-08-17 03:08 pm (UTC)Heh, yeah. I got real lucky at that Rocket Prom thing. My Pokemon weren't that strong back then cos I'd only just gotten here, and everyone seemed to be trying to snatch Danny - he's a Lucario, I started off with him - so I ended up just going after anything that went for him.
Pretty sure stealing Pokemon should count as kidnapping them really, given how smart they are. Wait, were you around for that shit? What kinda Pokemon did you start with?
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Date: 2017-08-17 06:19 pm (UTC)[Says the Lying liar who lies.]
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Date: 2017-08-17 06:33 pm (UTC)How?
[ That. Was not a good lie, given he had been there. He remembered nobody had been able ot leave until the Rockets had bolted; there were so many kids who'd been unable to get out. ]
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Date: 2017-08-17 10:13 pm (UTC)Once I was away from the main fighting I hid behind some overturned tables. If anyone got too close I figured I could blind them with the table cloth and beat them with a punch bowl till someone could help me out.
[See Ash? She didn't leave the party she just hid like a skinny pink haired damsel in distress. Nothing suspicious about that.]
Now that my Mon are stronger and I've got some badges under my belt? I kinda hope those jerks do make another move so I can prove I'm not afraid of them.
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Date: 2017-08-17 10:53 pm (UTC)Personally I'd prefer if they just fucked off forever. But idk....people end up in shitty situations and turn to crime to survive. It's real sad it happens here, given how good this place first seems when you get in. Or some people are just dicks. One person told me to just give up and stop fighting. So I socke dher in the stomach and stepped on her.
[ And then got attacked by a bird. But he still had Danny, so fuck that person. ]
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Date: 2017-08-21 11:52 am (UTC)[She almost laughs it's so sad to hear him describe the situation like that. She's also a little irritated. He's lucky he's charming in a stupid way.]
There's always going to be people who want to survive and thrive by being smarter then others. It's just a matter of if they take advantage of the less skilled people in an obvious way, or in a subtle way.
And it's up to the rest of us to keep them in check.
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Date: 2017-08-21 12:01 pm (UTC)There's being 'smarter' than others, and there's kidnapping sentient creatures to abuse. I've got four Pokemon that were used by Team Rocket. And that shit isn't smart. It's just cruel.
I'll happily repay any Rocket the shit they've done to my Pokemon.
[ Fionn and Broichan, captured and stuffed into too small cages. Ceannfort, used as a living battery endlessly. And of course, Scuabtuinne...literally carved up. ]
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Date: 2017-08-21 12:20 pm (UTC)[She was aware that not all members of Team Rocket cherished their pokemon as much as she did, but the lines between keeping pokemon enslaved and capturing them in pokeballs was blurry.]
Can't blame you for that. It's one thing to hurt people but animals are another story.
[Even if some of these pokemon were smarter and more powerful then the people trying to control them]
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Date: 2017-08-21 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-21 12:53 pm (UTC)You know I never thought of myself as a pet owner. I loved the horses and animals at the circus when I was little but I never got a cat or anything back home because I figured it wouldn't be fair to the cat since I was so busy.
Yet here I am not more attached to these pokemon then just about any human I know.
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Date: 2017-08-21 02:11 pm (UTC)And these guys are like...way more than the animals I knew or could have as a pet. They got so much personality and they really understand when you talk to them. It's great.