nostabbing | 004 | Goldenrod City

[It's late afternoon, it's eighty-six degrees and sunny, and here on a Goldenrod City park bench sits Parker with her hair pulled back in a ratty braid that dangles forgotten over one shoulder. She's basically commandeered the whole bench at this point, even though she's only occupying one small end of it; the rest remains wholly unusuable because it's covered in all manner of stuff, from Pokemon plushies to coin purses to potted plants to other odds and ends you might find at the prize counter of an arcade (and yes, there's a red-and-white Pokeball tucked away in there, too).

But despite the heaps of stuff (and the Poochyena in a fedora standing guard over it nearby, and the Vulpix with the diamond necklace for a collar sifting through it with interest), Parker doesn't seem particularly happy as she hangs out on the bench, silent but for the sound of the pencil scratching idly over the sketchpad propped against her knees. One word for her demeanor here might be "indifferent"; another few that could probably also fit would be "apathetic", "detached", "listless", or even just plain "bored".

Page by page, she's filling the sketchpad with drawings that, to all appearances, she couldn't care less about. Which might be more accurate a description than one might expect, really; this time, appearances aren't deceiving.

But eventually she sets the sketchpad aside, screws up her face for a ninety-second impromptu theater of Frustration: The Facial Expressions, and then reaches for her Gear to posit a burning question to the network: ]

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Hey, so.

How do you know when you like stuff?

[...What? IT'S A SERIOUS QUESTION. ಠ_ಠ ]

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Their moms must like that, huh.

Those that have stayed, yes.

There's one particular mother who wants her children released in the wild though.

Why does she want that? Will they be okay? Doesn't she want them?

She's an Illumise, and her species and the Volbeat species are very romantic Pokémon. She wants her children to find mates, and they cant do that if I keep them permanently.

[Oh. Okay, that's completely different, then. Crisis averted.]

I wonder if I should do that with the one I got today. I didn't mean to win him; they just kind of gave him to me and shoved me out.

Why would they do that?

[Ummmmm.]

Because I said I didn't want the psychic one.

[...Vehemently.]

[... wut]

I'll need a little more context.

Have you ever been to the Game Corner place in Goldenrod City? If you win enough coins, they give you a Pokemon as a prize.

I wasn't trying to win one. I just played the games and won a lot. And then I had a bunch of coins, so when I got to the counter they said I won a Pokemon, and they gave me one of those psychic fox ones. Abra. And I didn't want it, so I told them to take it back and give me my coins back, but they just gave me a different one instead.

[Oh, hmph that place B( It's a complete rip-off and he's not a gambling man anyway, despite wanting a particular Pokémon from there.]

Which one were you looking for?

I didn't want any of them! I was just playing the games and winning a lot.

I have one of these guys already, anyway. You know those little pink and blue dinosaur birds, Porygon? He's one of those.

[Internal screaming. Oh my Etro how does she end up with the one he wants ;A;]

Are you sure you don't want one? They're rare.

Really? Somebody left one in my PC like two months ago, and now I just got this other one.

[More like how does she end up with two of the one he wants, really.]

Porygons are only found in the Game Corners.

Well, now they're found in my computer, I guess.

...If you can't get them in the wild, though, then maybe I shouldn't let this one go. He might not know how to survive on his own or anything.

[Her computer must be magical.]

Or if having two will be too much, I can raise him instead.

[Smooth, Hope. Smooth.]

[Hey, sometimes being direct works.]

Really? You want him?

Yes.

Are you gonna take good care of him?

Yes I will.

...It might be a her. I didn't ask.

Okay. But you better let me know how he or she's doing. All the time. And you better take good care of him or her or I'm gonna come and take him back. Got it?

Of course.

You may even call me if you want to check up on him. Just not at awkward times of the day.

What's an awkward time of the day?

1AM to 10AM

...Okay.

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