[ There's an interested way he tilts his head, the wyvern beside him lifting its head each time to his head that makes him bumble in his attempt to find its back. Always a head rub first, then down the spine. ]
Wind? What are you going to do with it?
[ His first thought is laundry. ... he'll keep that to himself. ]
[Rei does much the same with her own friend, focusing on the area behind the aural cavity, just like she might scratch Luna behind the ears. The beastie snorts a happy sigh and nuzzles her belly with it's snout.]
Mostly I've been moving it around. I want to learn to make shields or something with it, or push things back. Weave it into my martial arts, something like that.
That's a great idea! You could put it into kicks and send people flying! [ Because of course he's going to think cool things like that. ] Charizard makes blades out of the air with his wings. He swipes them [ is Red showing by a chop with his hand? yes he is ] like this, and they go flying at his opponents!
Oh, well, if you only want to learn to make shields with it, it's okay. [ He thought his idea suited her 'push things back' idea, but he spreads his hands up, a kind of 'no big deal' motion before he lets the wyvern at his side have his hand, the other content with dozing off. ]
What do you call a martial arts that involves a staff? Karate's popular where I'm from.
Most martial arts teach the very basics of staff fighting. For me it's Aikido, though. We don't do much punching or kicking, mostly throwing and defensive fighting.
[Rubbing her own wyvern's neck, the underside getting extra scratches, she bends down and kisses her on the top of the head.]
It's something I learned to defend myself as a young girl.
[ Real affectionate, huh. Was he ever going to see a month when they weren't together? But the treatment of the young wyvern doesn't distract Red from what Rei says, his gaze coming back to her. ]
Did you ever have to use it? [ Because that's the most important question, right. ]
[ He can certainly agree with that, humming, though it does make him think and continue following that sound. ]
What kind of world did you say you come from again? You said people think crows turn into monsters... do you have electricity? Computers? [ A beat, and then he explains: ] It's hard to keep track. Most people I meet here, Verens is the most advanced city they've seen!
I come from a world more advanced than this. Yes, with electricity and computers. But I never said people think crows become monsters. Just that they're symbolic of unpleasant things. People can be afraid of them.
[She shakes her head.]
It's a nice world, and I think it's beyond what most people here have.
[ There's a small 'oh' at the correction. That's how his mind decided to remember that, apparently. ]
My world is the same. It's more peaceful than other worlds too -- it can be dangerous with some of the criminals we've had, and if you leave the towns and cities for whatever reason unprepared, but I've never had to fight before I became a trainer. And most trainers battle for fun.
I thought the worst you had to deal with were spirits! [ Really, Rei's life sounds like...a thing. He doesn't quite know how to picture it. ]
Well, you're not wrong there. Spirits are the worst thing I've had to deal with.
[Rei's life is complicated, Red. Very, very complicated.]
Most people aren't really all that bad. Just...you know how people can be, if you're talking about criminals. Sometimes they're greedy, sometimes they're scared, but people are just people.
[ People are just people, huh-- he could think a few things with that, but Rei's question prompts him away from any of that. ]
Oh-- pokémon. It's like how it is here. Some creatures leave you alone, but others will attack you, especially if you wander close to their nests. Some just like to pick fights too!
[ The wyverns surrounding him have fallen asleep. Probably not a good thing when they haven't been cleaned up, but oh well. They're happy. ]
All the routes between cities and towns are filled with pokémon. You have to be careful for people too -- the criminal types or the ones looking to rough you up. [ Which makes him pause a moment. ] I met people like that nearer to the cities on the road... so maybe those types are more common in the cities. The town I grew up in is tiny and out of the way.
Huh. That's really different from my world. But...we don't have creatures like that. Animals are generally pretty tame. Nature in general is pretty tame near the cities.
[Still patting the wyvern, fingers running along it's sleeping scales...Rei hums a bit, thinking a moment.]
It's funny, really. My world isn't quite as wild as a lot of those here. It's like where I live, we used to have wolves and bears and other scary things like spirits. But mankind pushed back, drove it all away, and they stay distant. They're still there, but our space is divided, I guess. The wild places, and the human spaces.
On the island, you have the large open fields where some creatures graze, but they're not that packed. You can usually travel the area around Verens without any trouble. The towns closer to the mountains have the most trouble because that's where the stronger creatures live, and sometimes something brings them out. The forest near Verens has some stronger creatures they label monsters, but they live deeper in.
In my world it's similar, but not really. We're...closer. [ He even brings his hands in, like a ball. ] I walked to the second city near my town in five days, and the roads and woods were packed with pokémon. But most of the pokémon I bumped into along the way are like the animals people know here: rats, giga bugs, pigeons...
[ His brows furrow for a moment. ]
... I don't know what some of them can be as animals. Anyway, [ since it's not that important, ] the creatures you'd compare to wolves or bears are in the parts of the wild most people wouldn't need to go through. You're not going to get attacked every five seconds. Just if you're unlucky, and get spotted by a group of feisty rattatas.
I guess we're at a more advanced state of a place like this, but with a better understanding of the creatures we live with, and better methods of dealing with them... Because we want them to be a part of our lives. Not to be divided.
... a world like that-- to me, it's sad to think about.
[Rei smiles sadly, listening to him talk. His world is just so, so different and it's almost like night and day.]
Red-kun, I think what's different is Pokemon aren't the same as animals, not fundamentally. There are a few kinds of animals that can live with humans peacefully, but many more are killers, or carry diseases, that kind of thing. And your world has the technology to I guess, tame them. Things like those capsules you have don't exist in my world.
There's plenty of room to go out, explore and be with nature, but wolves and bears and things are aggressive. There are all sorts of other animals out there that aren't aggressive but just don't want to live with humans.
And more than that, Pokemon have powers and abilities that animals don't have. Your Jolteon, for example, or any of the fire-breathing Pokemon, or things like Bianca-chan's lantern Pokmeon? Those are all things that would live in my world's myths and legends. Pokemon are more like spirits, in a lot of ways. They're more supernatural than anything in my world that isn't...well...me.
[ That makes him pause, as for a while, he's not so sure where she's coming from by telling him this. There's mixed feelings, and while for a moment he looks at her, he looks away to think of how to put the words he wants to say into something that makes sense. ]
I don't think it's fair for either of us to make assumptions on each other's worlds by what we think we know. I know animals aren't the same as pokémon by the ones I've seen here, and I'm talking about what I've experienced here by what I've said.
I just mean for me and the world I come from, and thinking about a world where species are separated like that, human and non-human... it isn't normal for someone like me, so of course it's sad to think about, even with the reasons behind it.
You're right. It wouldn't be normal or natural. I guess that's one of those differences that really sets us apart. Your world...just sounds a little alien to me. Not in a bad way. I think that it sounds a lot nicer in many ways. Certainly more peaceful.
[palm running along the Wyvern's back, nails scritching the scales, she sighs.]
I'm just glad to have a chance for peace, here. It's eye opening.
[ It's the first thing he mind goes to--and then the thought of a war she's never had reason to previously mention, but it's troublesome spirits that she has. He reminds himself of a boy he knows as well, with his own trouble with beings that can't be seen by most.
[Rei smiles sadly and looks down at her new friend, then up at the boy. There's a lot...well...there's a lot she could say. It's all a matter of trust. And this isn't really the place for sharing that sort of story.]
Something like that.
[Her head dips, breaking eye contact.]
It's a story for another time. There's a lot to it, and a lot that I have to keep a secret. And right now the children are sleeping. [She indicates the wyvern pups that have seemingly just nodded off in the midst of their conversation.] We should let them rest.
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Wind? What are you going to do with it?
[ His first thought is laundry. ... he'll keep that to himself. ]
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Mostly I've been moving it around. I want to learn to make shields or something with it, or push things back. Weave it into my martial arts, something like that.
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That's a great idea! You could put it into kicks and send people flying! [ Because of course he's going to think cool things like that. ] Charizard makes blades out of the air with his wings. He swipes them [ is Red showing by a chop with his hand? yes he is ] like this, and they go flying at his opponents!
I can show you it sometime!
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[She trails off, smiling. she can humor him there.]
Charizard makes blades of air though? That would also be useful. I'd love to see it later, it might help me figure out how to do the same.
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What do you call a martial arts that involves a staff? Karate's popular where I'm from.
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[Rubbing her own wyvern's neck, the underside getting extra scratches, she bends down and kisses her on the top of the head.]
It's something I learned to defend myself as a young girl.
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Did you ever have to use it? [ Because that's the most important question, right. ]
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Some. I've fought bad people at home, before. More than once. I don't like it, but sometimes you just have to fight.
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What kind of world did you say you come from again? You said people think crows turn into monsters... do you have electricity? Computers? [ A beat, and then he explains: ] It's hard to keep track. Most people I meet here, Verens is the most advanced city they've seen!
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[She shakes her head.]
It's a nice world, and I think it's beyond what most people here have.
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My world is the same. It's more peaceful than other worlds too -- it can be dangerous with some of the criminals we've had, and if you leave the towns and cities for whatever reason unprepared, but I've never had to fight before I became a trainer. And most trainers battle for fun.
I thought the worst you had to deal with were spirits! [ Really, Rei's life sounds like...a thing. He doesn't quite know how to picture it. ]
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[Rei's life is complicated, Red. Very, very complicated.]
Most people aren't really all that bad. Just...you know how people can be, if you're talking about criminals. Sometimes they're greedy, sometimes they're scared, but people are just people.
Why's it dangerous outside of towns and cities?
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Oh-- pokémon. It's like how it is here. Some creatures leave you alone, but others will attack you, especially if you wander close to their nests. Some just like to pick fights too!
[ The wyverns surrounding him have fallen asleep. Probably not a good thing when they haven't been cleaned up, but oh well. They're happy. ]
All the routes between cities and towns are filled with pokémon. You have to be careful for people too -- the criminal types or the ones looking to rough you up. [ Which makes him pause a moment. ] I met people like that nearer to the cities on the road... so maybe those types are more common in the cities. The town I grew up in is tiny and out of the way.
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[Still patting the wyvern, fingers running along it's sleeping scales...Rei hums a bit, thinking a moment.]
It's funny, really. My world isn't quite as wild as a lot of those here. It's like where I live, we used to have wolves and bears and other scary things like spirits. But mankind pushed back, drove it all away, and they stay distant. They're still there, but our space is divided, I guess. The wild places, and the human spaces.
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[ Hmmm. ]
On the island, you have the large open fields where some creatures graze, but they're not that packed. You can usually travel the area around Verens without any trouble. The towns closer to the mountains have the most trouble because that's where the stronger creatures live, and sometimes something brings them out. The forest near Verens has some stronger creatures they label monsters, but they live deeper in.
In my world it's similar, but not really. We're...closer. [ He even brings his hands in, like a ball. ] I walked to the second city near my town in five days, and the roads and woods were packed with pokémon. But most of the pokémon I bumped into along the way are like the animals people know here: rats, giga bugs, pigeons...
[ His brows furrow for a moment. ]
... I don't know what some of them can be as animals. Anyway, [ since it's not that important, ] the creatures you'd compare to wolves or bears are in the parts of the wild most people wouldn't need to go through. You're not going to get attacked every five seconds. Just if you're unlucky, and get spotted by a group of feisty rattatas.
I guess we're at a more advanced state of a place like this, but with a better understanding of the creatures we live with, and better methods of dealing with them... Because we want them to be a part of our lives. Not to be divided.
... a world like that-- to me, it's sad to think about.
[ It was sad the way it was here, really. ]
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Red-kun, I think what's different is Pokemon aren't the same as animals, not fundamentally. There are a few kinds of animals that can live with humans peacefully, but many more are killers, or carry diseases, that kind of thing. And your world has the technology to I guess, tame them. Things like those capsules you have don't exist in my world.
There's plenty of room to go out, explore and be with nature, but wolves and bears and things are aggressive. There are all sorts of other animals out there that aren't aggressive but just don't want to live with humans.
And more than that, Pokemon have powers and abilities that animals don't have. Your Jolteon, for example, or any of the fire-breathing Pokemon, or things like Bianca-chan's lantern Pokmeon? Those are all things that would live in my world's myths and legends. Pokemon are more like spirits, in a lot of ways. They're more supernatural than anything in my world that isn't...well...me.
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I don't think it's fair for either of us to make assumptions on each other's worlds by what we think we know. I know animals aren't the same as pokémon by the ones I've seen here, and I'm talking about what I've experienced here by what I've said.
I just mean for me and the world I come from, and thinking about a world where species are separated like that, human and non-human... it isn't normal for someone like me, so of course it's sad to think about, even with the reasons behind it.
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[palm running along the Wyvern's back, nails scritching the scales, she sighs.]
I'm just glad to have a chance for peace, here. It's eye opening.
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[ It's the first thing he mind goes to--and then the thought of a war she's never had reason to previously mention, but it's troublesome spirits that she has. He reminds himself of a boy he knows as well, with his own trouble with beings that can't be seen by most.
And how lacking they are here, in this world. ]
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Something like that.
[Her head dips, breaking eye contact.]
It's a story for another time. There's a lot to it, and a lot that I have to keep a secret. And right now the children are sleeping. [She indicates the wyvern pups that have seemingly just nodded off in the midst of their conversation.] We should let them rest.