[Video]

[grapeeater]

[The camerawork in this video is... actually fairly professional, because it's being held in place by a Psychic Pokemon who will levitate whatever he pleases. It's outside the department store in Goldenrod, and Micchy is wearing a coat that... doesn't quite go with his shoes but you know what, he's trying.]

[But the focus is less on the coat and more on the Mareep that Micchy is... doing his best to wrestle into a sweater. It's not exactly cut for something with four legs but he's doing his damndest to get it into the thing.]

Come on, it'll keep you warm!

Maaa!

Don't give me that, your wool is going to get wet and then you'll be really unhappy and the static will get everywhere.

Maaa maareep!

Come on, please?

Reep!

[A laugh of Kaa kaadabraaa! can be heard behind the camera, and Micchy looks up to see Yoshiro filming them, his eyes wide.]

H-hey! Turn that off now!

[He reaches for the Pokegear and snatches it out of the Psychic-type's clutches, turning the video off.]

Comments

[Video]

[grapeeater]

[Um.]

It's an electric sheep. I didn't think there was much to see...

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

[One can practically feel the judgment Twilight's throwing his way now.]

Assumptions like that are pretty much never going to help you. You have an encyclopedia about your Pokemon literally at your fingertips. Use it.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

[The tone makes his eyes narrow for a moment, but he bites back his initial response. She's right, and the fight seems to drain out of his expression before he just nods.]

... You're right. I... should have.

[One second, and... oh.]

Um. Huh. I thought - never mind, it's a male Mareep.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

[Somehow Twilight manages to keep from saying "I told you so".]

Well, that's useful information right away. I hope he wasn't too upset at you calling him a girl... though he might be too young to care.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

Maybe.

[He tries tugging the sweater off again, but it... seems a little stuck.]

Maybe I should wait until you dry off to try that... and have a ground type nearby.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

In the meantime, I'd suggest doing as much research as you can on the species. Knowledge is your best tool when adding a new member to your team.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

That's true. I don't add Pokemon all that often.

[He offers the Mareep a careful pat on his head. ... Friends?]

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

I'll leave you to get better acquainted with your new friend then. When I next talk to you, I expect you to be an expert on the subject of Mareep, got it?

[Judging by her grin, she's kidding... mostly.]

[Video]

[grapeeater]

[Um.]

I suppose. Though judging from the Pokedex, it should evolve soon. So maybe I'll get back to you on its next evolution.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

Maybe I should have said Mareep's evolution line. Well, either way, no knowledge is ever wasted.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

I guess not. It's not the sort of topic I would have studied at home, but here we don't have much of a choice but to learn a lot about creatures like this.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

Just think of it as an application of biology.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

I guess so. I studied more business than biology at home.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

You had to have had at least a few biology classes, though. Any decent school would have a well-rounded curriculum.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

Yes, but I never really like it very much.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

Oh.

[She'll just try to put herself in the mindset of someone who didn't enjoy a class... nope. Can't do it.]

That's going to be a handicap here, though I suppose you've already figured that out.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

I know enough to get by. Just because I didn't like it didn't mean that I did poorly in it, at least.

[That would just not be tolerated at all.]

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

Well, true. Though in my experience nothing handicaps mastery of a subject like a lack of interest in it.

Then again, I'm guessing it wasn't quite as relevant to your life back then.

[Of course she could think of a dozen reasons why biology is an important subject to everyone, but that's really not the point right now.]

[Video]

[grapeeater]

Not exactly, no. It... became more relevant later, but I'm not sure how helpful it would have been.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

There's an old saying that no knowledge is ever wasted. You might be surprised how useful even tiny scraps of what seem to be trivia could turn out to be.

[Video]

[grapeeater]

True, but against the things I was fighting at home, my biology classes weren't that useful. Here... maybe a little more, given that some Pokemon are at least close to some animals I know...

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

I didn't know you were a fighter back home. Soldier? Knight?

[Video]

[grapeeater]

Mm. Armored Rider is what we were called. It wasn't exactly something I was trained for.

[Video]

[friendyousohard]

Well it's amazing you managed at all then. Armor and riding are both skills that need quite a bit of practice to master in my experience.

... Though as I'm often reminded, in this world someone like me would probably be considered the ridden.

[And this is why she has no Rapidashes.]

[Video]

[grapeeater]

Ah, well, it wasn't much riding of actual things. We did have motorcycles but the name came from the nickname 'Beat Riders' which is what the various dance groups were collectively called.

[Wait um.]

What?