viiru2alert | eight (text) ♊ it's the battle frontier!

Hi boys and girls, it's Sollux again.

A while ago I threw up a post about some shit with battling and armbands, you know the one. Been mentioning a lot of shit about official rules and procedures for joining, what the fuck ever, and here they are.

~* RULES OF THE POKÉMON FIGHT CLUB *~

1. You do not talk about Pokémon Fight Club.

2. You do NOT talk about Pokémon Fight Club.

3. Everything outlined in this post (though not necessarily the comments under it) still applies.

4. As an optional thing, I've set up an email address you can contact if you want to be listed as an official 'member'. There are some nice benefits to this, including knowing what to do if someone tries to pull a fast one on you in a battle, so look below.

5. As an obvious extension of rule 4, don't try to pull anything, fucker. This should be a given especially considering how saccharine this place seems in general, but knowing some of the creeps who roam the seedier parts of the Johto-Kanto area... not so sure.

6. Don't wait for us to schedule your events for you. It's perfectly fine to throw up a message saying "Hey anyone want to have a PFC tournament in the Saffron Dojo this saturday?" or whatever. That's not to say we won't be doing it ourselves too, but don't be shy.

7. There are badges and armbands involved in this. You should be able to find them at some shops, but in case you can't, there's a pretty cheap website that sells those kinds of trinkets here: (blackthorntradingco.net). Alternatively, there are some people around who would be willing to do customs for you, maybe even free. Just ask around.

LIST OF IN-CITY BATTLING LOCATIONS.

Any battling ring approved by the Pokémon League -- the ones near your local Pokémon Center, for example.
In Kanto, Riku has offered up the facilities of his Training Center for use. Just ask him if you happen to run in with someone around Celadon.

PFC EMAIL.

There's an address I've created for this; it's (admin@pfc.pkgr). Now, there are a lot of uses for this email, so let's go through 'em slow.

1. membership. There is no mandatory sign-up for this, and there never will be any. However, in the event that we ever get any contests up and running here (most battles won with documentation or whatever), you will need to be signed up to participate in them, so if you like winning free stuff for being good at Pokémon, do it anyway.
1a. If you want to enter any contest involving a Pokémon battle, send us documentation. Have one of your Pokémon take a Gear video of the battle. If we can't confirm that this battle happened, it's not going to be counted.

2. questions or complaints. This is a weird fucking thing, I know, so all PFC questions can be redirected here. It's an email shared by several people, so you won't always get my darling responses. As mentioned above, this email can also be used to file complaints about anyone who's tried to abuse the system in any way, like pretending they have a lower-level team than they do or mugging you of your Pokémon or something. (Though in the latter case you might want to take it to the police first.) Give us all the information you have about them, including a tape of the battle, if you took one. Which you should have.

3. messages. Every so often, this thing may post to the PokéGear network with announcements or some other thing. Responses can come from admin or anyone else running this freakshow.

This post will also function as an FAQ of sorts, wherein questions we get via the email address will be put up as either rules or actual questions. These rules are subject to change at any time. Blah blah blah.

Thanks for your time.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Sollux, I'm always going to be glad to be friends with you, no matter what else we are or aren't!

[ Let's get that out of the way first. ]

That doesn't mean that's all you are. Although I have to admit I'm still not clear on what, exactly, you want here.

I don't know!

[And it's true. He doesn't. Feelings are hard and he's still not sure what his are doing. Red? Red. Definitely red. He couldn't be black for Aradia if he tried. But past that, um...]

Don't get yourself all worked up! [ Calm thyself. Aradia's still half-amused, but. ]

Look, that isn't a question you need an answer to immediately, you know? At least, I don't think so. There's always time.

[ no this is not the time for puns that don't make sense here, stop. And yes, she's sliding into being serious. ] What don't you know about? Let's start there.

[Easy for you to say.]

[Sollux grumbles, he grumbles a lot, mostly relating to how it's not that easy to fix something like this. Talking it out? Yeah, okay. But eventually he squirms back into a sitting position, legs folded and back facing Aradia on the couch.]

Ain't it obvious?

[ Sollux you are such a child. She is rolling her eyes at your back, but instead of making you turn around, she'll just shift in her spot, leaning her back against yours. ]

Kind of a little, but not entirely. All I'm getting from this is that you sort of want to be in a quadrant, but I can't tell which one. And stop grumbling!! This is important.

[In response, he shrugs and grumbles more.]

I don't wanna fuckin' talk about this.

You don't want to talk about anything, so that doesn't count. Come on. This is me! You can tell me anything.

[ SIGH. she said no grumbling! ]

[As if he cares. Half of Sollux's communication with the outside world is done through grumbling.]

I know it's you, that's why I can't tell you! [He bristles, but then dies down again.]

...This is fuckin' stupid.

A little bit, but I wasn't going to complain.

...Are you at least clear on the part where I'm sorry for upsetting you and you're being silly?

Yeah.

Y'shouldn't be upset.

Just me being a fuck-up, nothing to see here. [He waves a hand dismissively.]

You aren't a fuck-up, Sollux. You're allowed to be upset about things without that being the reason, you know?

And...I don't know, when you figure it out, I'll be around to listen?

I'm allowed to be, but that doesn't mean I am.

...Now you're just being contrary for the sake of being contrary, you know.

I am not!

[Sollux, you sound like a little kid.]

[ EYEROLL. ]

Have you eaten anything today?

Yes!

[No.]

And what did you eat?

[ She's turning around so she can verify how truthful she thinks you're being, Sollux.

Apparently if they can't talk about the elephant in the room they're going to talk about her ongoing campaign to have you eat things that are food. Regularly. ]

A bagel or something, I dunno! Why are you so intensely interested in my dietary habits?

Because you're apparently not going to talk about this!

And considering you're sulking, I'm not sure how interested you are in taking care of yourself. You could stand to eat more, you know.

Yeah, I know, thanks!

[His head snaps over, and-- yeah. That's. That's a snarl. He's snarling. Okey-doke.]

[And just as fast as it came, it disappears, because all Aradia will see is the back of his head.]

Not like you haven't told me a million and one times already.

...I just worry about you.

[ That's not a snarl or anything like it; just a quiet statement. ]

Well, don't!

[His shoulders heave, unintentional emphasis.]

That's the last thing I need right now.

[ This is escalating quickly. ]

I didn't - Sollux, why does that upset you? You know I care about you. That's why I worry about you.

[It sure is.]

[Sollux wraps his arms around him. He really doesn't want to be doing this right now.]

Yeah. I know.

Just... leave me be for a while, okay? I'm a stupid grub and I don't know what my minds are fucking doing, so just go before something nasty happens.

[That, and his kokoro is hurting in places he didn't even know it had. So there's that.]

Sollux... [ There are so many things she wants to say about that, but. If he's outright asking her to leave, and she just seems to be making things worse?

The first time she's ever regretted spending her entire youth on games and archaeology. No idea how to fix this. ] ...If that's what you want. I'll talk to you later. Just...take care?

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