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006 | Violet City | Video / Action;

[Who in their right mind would be up at the crack of dawn on this delightful Thursday in July, traipsing down to the Pokemon Center to make a Very Important Withdrawl™ from her PC? Well, possibly nobody in their right mind, but it certainly is Parker. Bright and early (or possibly really, really, really late, depending on when you consider "bedtime" to be a thing), she can be spotted heading out of the Violet City Pokemon Center with a fluffy red and blue egg in tow — and, impressively enough, followed along behind by just about every member of her roster, save for the evil ones and the horses (but she repeats herself).

Coincidentally, shortly thereafter she can also be spotted, still rather impressively — this time, atop some random south-facing shop's structurally sound purple awning: ]

Recording courtesy of GummyCam™

[Whether or not one also hears a bout of muffled yet vaguely melodious chanting that may or may not sound conspicuously like NAAAAAAAAAAAANTS INGONYAMA BAGITHI BABAAAAAAAA as this is occurring is, of course, entirely a matter of speculation.

JESUS CHRIST IT'S ~~A LION~~ AN ARCHEN GET IN THE CAR]

[OOC: As a note, Parker is far enough off-camera here to conceal the fact that her face is still somewhat messed up from her encounter with Blake; if you'd rather avoid your character having to see/deal with that, feel free to use text or voice instead of video or action! Just leave me a quick OOC note and I'll make sure she doesn't utilize video or bring it up in conversation. o/]

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[That's probably a rhetorical "the fuck was he thinking", but you know, Parker's doing so good at this social interaction thing that she might as well just go three for three.]

I don't know, he was crazy. I was minding my own business and he just came up and started screaming at me. He didn't start swinging until I tried to get away.

Tch, can't believe some bastard would take a swing at you. Who was he?

[Not that he's intending to go after the guy or anything! ...But if he does see the guy, he won't hesitate to give him a piece of his mind. And possibly beat him up.]

I think they said he was a cop. Not one of the local police guys or anything, but a cop before he got here, I mean.

[He'd certainly acted like one, and in the commotion there'd been discussion of departments and procedures, that kind of thing.]

A cop!? Oh of fucking course he was!

[Mondo hates cops. Obviously. He's never gotten along with authority figures, but cops are always the worst.]

Shit, I'm sorry he attacked you like that. That's fucking wrong.

[Mondo's brand of fury is slightly different from what she's used to — Eliot tends to have that sort of cool, self-possessed wrath that ultimately manifests in snarling Wolverine-like asskicking. This shouty variety is less familiar, but he's no less of a hitter in her mental perception for it.]

Yeah. He needed a scapegoat, I guess. That's what he was yelling about — accusing me of something I didn't do.

[It's times like these that he completely forgets what he promised Ishimaru concerning violence. If that guy was here, he would rearrange his face.]

That's fucking shitty! Couldn't he have picked a fight with another man or something!? You don't fucking hit women!!

[She almost says "Why not?", except that then she thinks better of it and instead decid—

Wait, who are we kidding, this is Parker.]

Why not?

[...Well that certainly gets him to shut up. For a moment at least.]

You just... you don't! 'Specially not if you're a guy! Most women can't fight back!

[...HE REALLY DOESN'T MEAN TO BE OFFENSIVE, HONEST.]

[Well, yes, that's probably true. There are in fact a lot of women out there, and indeed many of them are women who can't fight back. But there's probably a lot of guys out there who can't fight back, either (like Hardison, for example), so there's a moment here where the implicit social ramifications don't quite...click. One plus one has equaled two, but she's not entirely sure why it is we're doing math in the first place.

...

So, rather calmly and with a perfectly impassive face, she puts up her dukes and waits.]

[...

. . .

................]

I ain't fighting you. I don't hit women.

[W h a t are you doing Parker why this]

[...]

So you'd let me beat you up right now just because I'm a girl?

[SHE IS ATTEMPTING TO NAVIGATE A COMPLICATED SOCIAL INTERACTION, OKAY.]

[That'll get a laugh!]

You really think you could lay a scratch on me? Look, I'm the Super High School Level Gang Leader, I know my way around a fight. I've been in more than I can count. I'm not gonna hurt a woman, but if you insist on trying to fight me, I won't take it lying down. I'm pretty good at defending myself, if I do say so.

[He folds his arms up behind his head, still looking quite relaxed despite the topic of conversation.]

But there's no way you're serious, right?

[Well, in fairness, she doesn't precisely look serious, no — not in the way a professional hitter would look serious in a moment like this, anyway. If anything, she looks largely impassive, dead eyes unblinking and her fists still up.

...later, she will argue that he practically invited her to do it.

For the moment, she silently reviews the MMA lessons Eliot instilled in her once upon a time, and proceeds to impassively slam a hard, fast punch at his face.]

[Really, Parker?? Mondo brings an arm up to block that punch, but judging from the way he winces after it connects, he clearly wasn't expecting it to hurt that badly.]

Shit, you really can hit!

[He shifts into a defensive stance immediately, without thinking about it.]

You've made your point, alright? You can fight; I get it. You sure you wanna do this?

[...]

What?

[Wait, something is not adding up here.

> Openly invite her to take punch
> Receive punch
> ...NOW SUDDENLY AFFRONTED AT RECEIPT OF PUNCH???

...what.

What.]

No! I'm not a hitter.

[What is happening.]

[Stupidity is ensuing. You'll find this happens a lot when Mondo is involved.]

Then you've made your point! Still think you didn't have to go that far, but whatever, you've proven yourself, alright?

Don't invite people to punch you if you don't want to get punched.

[THIS SHOULD BE OBVIOUS, SIR.]

I didn't think you'd take me up on it!

[Seriously, what kind of girl goes around hitting guys anyway??]

Why? 'Cause I'm a girl?

Yeah.

[The epitome of tact and social grace right here.]

Most girls don't go around hitting guys, 'specially not ones like me.

[You know, totally intimidating gang leaders!!]

[A brief moment passes, and then abruptly Parker breaks into a smothered half-snort, half laugh that is basically a "...PFFFFFFFFFTNAHAHAHA"; her hands come down and she's laughing like he just told the funniest joke in the world.

...

Does it show why she's friends with Ishimaru yet.]

What the fuck's so funny?

[WOW YOU BETTER NOT BE MAKING FUN OF HIS TOTALLY INTIMIDATING APPEARANCE!!]

You're kidding, right?

[She's just laughing at your joke, bro. NO REALLY IT WAS HILARIOUS THO.]

Why the fuck would I be kidding about something like this!?

[OMG NOT EVEN ISHIMARU MAKES FUN OF HIM HDU]

[...Oh.

...He wasn't kidding.

Well, now she's just kind of frowning at him a little. "Super High School Level Gang Leader" had sounded like a hyperbolic attempt at mock self-aggrandizing, but apparently he was...serious?

...

Granted, if it hadn't been for Archie picking her up, she probably would've been running with a gang at about his age, too. Still boosting cars. Maybe getting left behind and chucked back into the foster care system again when she had the bad fortune to get ditched and caught.

...

So maybe he's a gang leader, but he doesn't act like a thug. Not the killing type. Hardened hitters don't care if you're a girl or not; they'll break your arm, cut your throat, take a shot — it's all the same to them.

She wonders if he's scared.]

I don't know. 'Super High School Level Gang Leader'?

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