usedgalacticpunt | Bout 010 (Video/Action): Badges upon badges. (backdated to Tue. 6/14)

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: Olivine Pokemon Center

Entry tags:

Bout 010 (Video/Action): Badges upon badges. (backdated to Tue. 6/14)

[The video opens in medias res, with a casual conversation going on in the Olivine Pokémon Center. It's not quite loud enough to hear any of the words, though. After a second or two, Chie orients the video on herself.]

Oh, hey, has anybody else noticed how the gym leaders are a little... weird? Me and my friends all challenged Jasmine today, so we could get the Surf TM and cross Route... 42, I think it was? And Jasmine gave us all the same lines from beginning to end. She was all like, "Properly tempered steel won't be made rusty by things like this!" And "You are a better trainer than me, in both skill and kindness." Like she was reading off a script or something!

But anyway, we all made it! I got Ecruteak's badge too, when we stopped there on Friday, so I'm up to four! [Chie shows off two badges to the camera.]

For anybody who's following our quest to rescue Souji-kun, we're leaving first thing tomorrow morning on the way back to Ecruteak. And from there, it's through Mahogany and on to the Ice Path! Just hold on, Souji-kun, we won't make you wait too much longer!

[OOC: You may have already won the chance to be tagged by others in Chie's traveling group! This is a limited-time offer, so comment today! ~~Or any time, really.~~]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

But it's not liking--

I wonder what makes liking and disliking something so different.

... Besides the obvious?

Either way, you hold a strong opinion on the object.

The emotion's entirely different, though.

But the underlying force is the same. Repulsion, attraction - aren't they the same push-pull?

Aren't you making it sound too scientific here?

Mm, maybe I should use water as an example, then. Upstream, downstream.

... They both flow.

One way or the other. But in the end, it's all just water, isn't it?

And liking and disliking are just opinions?

Neither of which really change what the object actually is.

... [ sloooowly raising her hands to rub at her temples. ]

[just chuckling~] Far too much water under the bridge?

Sometimes, I feel really stupid around you.

Should I even ask?

No, it's really exactly like I said.

[he shuffles his feet here, pushing pebbles aside] Mm, you shouldn't.

[ with anyone else, she'd nudge, move closer-- Fuji takes both persistence and distance, she's realized, and Rise is still learning how to go about it. ]

You're smarter. [ and she admits this readily. ] Or at least, you think ten steps ahead in a different direction. You're a little like Naoto.

It has its advantages. [a bit wryly] There's nothing quite like the joy of outwitting oneself.

Yeah, it sounds like a ball.

Both green and fuzzy.

This isn't tenn--

[ Rise breaks off abruptly, letting out a groan. ] That's right, I haven't practiced swings today--!

[and he laughs, a little incredulous.]

Better not let Yukimura hear that; but then again, knowing him, he probably already knows.

I had a Gym to beat, there's still daylight--

[ and she's already reaching for her bag, instinctively now. ]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]

[action]