six (video) ♊ it's the pokémon christmas bash!

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[Sollux has been wandering around all by his lonesome since the Cinnabar incident, letting Karkat and Vanitas have their... alone time without a third wheel intruding. He's sure they were very grateful, but didn't actually get around to telling them he was leaving, so he couldn't be sure. He's been doing his own wanderings all over the place, contemplating maybe getting Badges or something... and never actually getting any Badges. Good job, Sollux. But now it's time to actually kick his ass back into gear; the Pokémon are getting antsy from all this wanderlust. He can feel it by the way Fefero slams him over the head with a cannon. That's a bored cannon.]

[There's a really quick video post up on the Network now; it looks like he's sitting on a beach, Axolotl the Absol on his lap as usual. Resting in Olivine does have its perks.]

Anyone in Johto know a place to go for the holidays? Preferably in a town with a Gym? [And yet he hasn't left the city yet.] I feel like integrating myself with the locals and getting my ass out of this chair at the same time.

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I always figured it's just convenience. Goldenrod is... the first big city you're supposed to get in if you follow the path, right?

[Sollux sequence-broke on his first few days, and went from New Bark...]

[...to Goldenrod.]

[timelymaid]

That's great! How long will it take you to get here? Oh, we should do things together! Did I tell you I figured out what the equivalent of Troll Indiana Jones is in Pokemon?? [ Because you care about that, right, Sollux?

But more importantly: ]

"Burned Tower" and "Bell Tower"!! Do you mind if I tag along to Ecruteak? They're both on my list!! I've only seen Alph and Sprout Tower so far!

[viiru2alert]

Really? Huh. People make a more of a fuss about it over here, I guess.

That or all of your beloved carols are exaggerating.

[brokenmemories]

That's probably the case.

Nobody in Japan really gives a shit, to be honest.

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[trailweblaze]

_{[But Miguel loves the Christmas lights!]}

If that's too much for you then I'd suggest Violet. _[beat] Or Azalea.

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[Attached: this audio file.]

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Go right ahead! Better the two of us go and see those towers, anyway, right?

[This trip just got a billion times more interesting, and it shows in his voice. It's nowhere near as bored and deadpan now, and might be lisping a bit more than normal, because OMEGEE.]

Are Alph and Sprout Tower in the same city too? Because I will turn this journey around if they are.

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Japan? That's a country on Earth, right?

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[Sollux doesn't like lights of any kind unless they're red and blue lights. And sometimes those get kind of awkward too. 8( ]

I never said it was too much for me. But then, my eyes have seen lights that no eye should ever have to see.

[brokenmemories]

Yeah.

You're not from Earth?

[viiru2alert]

Nope. Grey-skinned orange-horned alien boy from the planet Alternia.

Most of what I know about Earth, I learned from the Internet.

[timelymaid]

[ She's actually used to the lisp from...a long time ago, so Aradia doesn't even really note it. Besides, she's excited, too! Ruins ruins ruins towers ruins! She feels about them the way Sollux does about the number two. ]

Yes, they're just outside of Violet! You really should see Alph, because those ruins are just so - interesting! There's an entire language based off of pokemon there. It's strange - I can't decide if the written language of this world came from them or if they somehow came from it.

Oh, and I should have fly-capable and surf-capable pokebeasts by the time Christmas is done, if that helps at all.

[papshooshing]

Don't you think you're one witty motherfucker.

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I don't think so. I know so.

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Well, I'm going to leave that for you to find out. [Sollux folds his arms and gazes pointedly off to the side. He has other, more important things to do, like beat young children at animal-fighting matches. ...He looks back when she mentions Fly and Surf, however.]

Mmm? How're you getting those?

[timelymaid]

Eggbert already can, and I've got a Lapras egg that should be hatching soon. John and Jade are letting me use their HMs.

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And the badges?

[timelymaid]

I'm a breeder, so I don't need those to use them.

[ PERKS. ]

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...Breeders can do that?

[Wow.]

Well, I'm a Trainer, and the reason I'm going to Ecruteak in the first place is to get Surf. I already beat Janine so I can use it. Then to Cianwood, to get Fly, and back to Violet to be able to use it. [Yeah, he broke sequence straight past Falkner.]

[timelymaid]

Yes, apparently! And John and Jade have all the HMs, so I didn't even need to get those. But since almost everyone is a trainer, it won't really matter. I mean, I think the only other breeders are Roxy and Rose? That's probably why you didn't hear about it.

[ Since this is pre her leaving. ]

[papshooshing]

Pride cometh, Sollux....

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KK and Vanitas are breeders... I think. Don't remember what it said on the Center files but they carried around a shitton of Eggs. ...Then again, both of them have been here for ages so it doesn't really matter, one way or another.

I'm doing it myself, though. Good experience.

[timelymaid]

Really? I thought they were trainers...Actually, I'm pretty certain Vanitas is, from the one time we talked. [ But breeder doesn't seem to equal eggs, exactly. ] I think people can change it, anyway, although I'm perfectly happy with what I got!

You want to be the very best? [ Like no one ever was - okay, her human pals - read: Jake - may have explained the theme song references.

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Pride doth be taking its sweet time on that count, then.

[usedshooshpap]

Just means you'll land on your ass harder.