grapeeater | [Video]

[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.]

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From:

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.

From:

grapeeater

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

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

From:

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.]

From:

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.

From:

friendyousohard

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

From:

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.

From:

friendyousohard

Just think of it as an application of biology.

From:

grapeeater

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

From:

friendyousohard

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

From:

grapeeater

Yes, but I never really like it very much.

From:

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.

From:

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.]

From:

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.]

From:

grapeeater

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

From:

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.

From:

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...

From:

friendyousohard

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

From:

grapeeater

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

From:

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.]

From:

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?

From:

friendyousohard

Ah, yes, I don't think you're one of the ones I've mentioned this to. You're aware that those of us who were inhuman back on our own worlds are changed to human form while here so as to fit in better, right?

Well, back home, I was a unicorn.