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[codeforhope]

Hello... you've reached Chihiro Fujisaki. I apologize for missing you, but, um... please leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

[Beep!]

Comments

[nullorvoid]

[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.

[codeforhope]

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

[nullorvoid]

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.

[codeforhope]

[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.]

[nullorvoid]

[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.

[codeforhope]

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

An egg? What species is it?

[nullorvoid]

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

[codeforhope]

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

...A Wailmer?

[nullorvoid]

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

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

[codeforhope]

[....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.]

[nullorvoid]

...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.

[codeforhope]

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

[nullorvoid]

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.

[codeforhope]

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.

[nullorvoid]

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.

[codeforhope]

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?

[nullorvoid]

Maybe? I haven't asked her.

[...GINTI YOU'VE BEEN AROUND HER FOR LIKE TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT]

[codeforhope]

If she raises dragons specifically, it sounds like she may be...unless she just specializes in them.

[nullorvoid]

...She likes to insist she is one, so I think she just likes them.

[codeforhope]

[......he would say something, but...he's pretty good friends with Gundam at this point, so...]

I...I see. There are plenty of them here, at least...

[nullorvoid]

...Plenty of dragons, or plenty of people saying they're dragons?

[codeforhope]

Plenty of dragons! She's probably the first person I've heard of that's said they were a dragon, but...a lot of people apparently used to be a lot of things other than human before they came here, so it's not too surprising.

[nullorvoid]

...Yeah, I've heard that, too.

What other stuff have you heard about? That people have claimed to be.

[codeforhope]

There used to be someone here who said she had these...companions of sorts, back in her world. I think she called them Digimon? ...and I think there's someone here who actually is one, normally. They're kindof like Pokemon, I think.

Then there was someone on the Network recently saying they were a...gem, or something, but I didn't speak with them.

[nullorvoid]

...Okay.

[No one going on about the afterlife, then; granted, if any of the people in that tower were smart, they wouldn't.]

It's all pretty weird, yeah?