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Oh! I don't see very many of those around, actually. If you do try breeding, I would suggest breeding some Horsea eggs. You'll likely get a lot of people wanting to have one.

I'm gonna try it eventually because that's what I'm supposed to do here.

[...Do people...generally just...ignore that here or...]

Well...you don't have to if you don't want to. Breeders do get certain benefits that normal trainers don't, such as being able to breed more eggs than normal or use certain HMs without badges. But I don't think anyone would force you, should you decide you didn't want to do it anymore.

[There's a good-sized pause at that.]

But that's what I'm supposed to do.

[He doesn't sound annoyed, per se, just...you can practically hear the ????, basically.]

Why the hell would I just decide not to?

[Chihiro hesitates for a moment himself before answering.]

...I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why you wouldn't. Not everyone's going to be good at it, or even...enjoy it, really, no matter what they were assigned to be when they got here. And if you don't enjoy what you do, at least a little...I just don't think you should continue with it.

[Especially not something like breeding, since so many...actual little baby things' lives are involved, here.]

...Whether you enjoy it or not doesn't really matter. If you were tasked to do something, you do it and you try not to screw it up. That's not hard.

[Again, while he's sounding pretty unyielding, he doesn't sound angry or anything - at least, not moreso than he usually does.]

[That's...hm.]

Well...I suppose that's true, if you want to think about it that way. We don't really know who decides what we do here, though...only that you can't really predict what you'll be until you get here.

I have a friend who was a trainer when he first arrived, then went home...and when he came back, he was a breeder instead.

Yeah, but it's like that for pretty much everything in life. You don't decide who you're gonna be when you're born, you just sort of are and you have to work with what you've got, right? Parents, gender, nationality, social station, all that. People don't really control a lot about their lives.

I don't get why this is any different, I guess.

[...wait a minute weren't we just talking about breeding.]

Mm...I suppose. You are right about that, Ginti-san. I guess it all depends on what you do with what you have, like you said.

[Yes?]

Right. So I don't get why it matters who picks our classification or our job or whatever it is you want to call it, or why they think we should have it. It's what we're here to do so we might as well do it.

People should pursue other interests too if they want to though, don't you think?

Why?

[And that's out there before he can stop it, and there's the sort of awkward hesitation that implies that he's got no damn idea what to do now that it is.]

...Forget it.

[Why?....why not?

He doesn't say that, though, deciding instead to just let that drop. After a short pause, he starts talking again.]

You have Horsea, Espurr, and Meowth now. Those are the only Pokemon you own so far?

[LET'S TALK BREEDING SOME MORE or something.]

[GOOD IDEA good idea that is a very good idea yes]

...Corsola and Staryu. Those are the other two I've got right now. I've also got an egg from some girl.

[Okay, so, water types. That's one breeding group he's getting pretty filled...]

An egg? What species is it?

...I don't know, it's like a ball made entirely out of whale.

[.........what.]

...A Wailmer?

...Yeah, that. There are like fifty thousand of these things, I don't know what they're all called.

[NAILED...IT...???]

[....close enough??]

Ah...it's a water type. Quite a few of your Pokemon sound like they should be compatible with one another. I know Espurr and Meowth are, if nothing else.

[Assuming they're not, like. All girls.]

...I'd hope the whale's a water-type. We have problems if it's not.

I've got a lot of girls, but I'll worry about that once I work out what I want to do; right now I'm just working with what I'm used to.

That's a good idea. There's nothing saying you have to start right away, after all.

Yeah.

So do you specialize in anything? Type-wise, I guess, though some people just have a lot of one thing. I'm in Cherrygrove City, a bunch of people come here for vacation or something, and there's this one woman here - I've never seen so many cats that look like poodles in my life, it was kinda weird.

Mmm...I have quite a few normal types, but not because I specialize in them or anything. I just happened to get them. I try to get as many different types as I can so I can breed more things. I've been focusing on dragon-types, lately, but it was bug-types before.

Huh.

I obviously haven't raised too much yet myself, but I've seen a bunch while I've been here. My...person that I'm with babysits them a lot.

Dragon-types...they're incredibly powerful Pokemon. But they grow very slowly. It may take a month or more to hatch one from an egg, and they usually evolve much later than other types.

Are they a breeder too?

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