nostabbing | 006 | Violet City

[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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She's a rock fossil! ...bird. She's called an Archen, and I didn't think of a name yet.

[Though this makes her look rather critically at her Archen with renewed interest.]

She kind of looks like Toucan Sam, doesn't she?

[...but...oh. The face thing. Um.]

Uh-uh. A guy punched me.

[ Honey shrugs. While he's familiar with Disney films, he's less familiar with commoner foods - especially the ones that aren't even Japanese or widely sold there. Though he does know what a toucan is... ]

I'm not sure about the character, but she does look a bit like a toucan bird! It's strange how many of these creatures look like animals and insects in the real world...at least, I would say it is, but I think I remember something about the creator being very into nature?

[ Details. But yes, the face thing. That's enough to snap him to entirely focused, which admittedly has the potential to be jarring, since it involves dropping the smile and narrowing his eyes. ]

Punched you...? Not in a training accident. What happened? Why did he punch you?

[ THERE HAD BEST BE AN EXPLANATION HERE. ]

[...Honey-senpai used SCARY FACE.

It's pretty damn scary.]

I don't know. He just came up and started screaming at me — last weekend, when I was visiting the National Park? I was minding my own business and he came up and grabbed me, and when I tried to get away he punched me.

[That is, in fact, what happened, albeit possibly with a few of the extra bits left out.]

[ Now she has the smallest of ideas why there's a collective interest in never waking him up early or letting anything happen to his rabbit at the host club. Or taking away his sweets. ]

What?

[ That was not an explanation exactly. ] Why? Who would do something like that???

[ also more importantly WHO WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO SOMEONE HE CLASSES UNDER "BUNNY FRIEND". does he need to bite someone's arm. ]

[Holy shit, it's like that thing Eliot does with his eyes except on the face of a little kid.

...This must be what Eliot looked like as a little kid.

Holy shit.]

He said I took some little girl's hair ribbon, but I didn't. It's mine.

[Also, luckily, SHE HAS A SKETCH which she proceeds to get out and show him.]

It was this guy.

[ While Parker has that little revelation...

Mitsukuni narrows his eyes at the sketch. ...Ah, he knows this person. ]

Carter Blake. He's a policeman, no?

[ And also absolutely abhorred the "-chan", and thus became one of two people who managed to escape it. The other was Robin. ]

Yeah, he was a policeman. I heard him saying something about that while I was in the tree.

So you got away up a tree?

[ That's good, at least... ]

Ah, Alice-chan, do you know how to break holds on you?

[ She said "trying to get away" and got up a tree, but he should probably double check. ]

A guy I know taught me about MMA fights.

[...Or, well, he taught Parker, at least — is that something Alice is supposed to know, too? Um. Well, too late now.]

Some stuff about them, I mean. ...Fighting moves.

[...]

For self-defense.

Ah...good! In that case, I won't offer to teach you more - or, well, I will, but it's not as immediately important.

MMA fights are pretty neat, though.

[ Although he's still not happy about this, he's at least willing to mention that. ]

I can learn more.

[She liked the stuff Eliot taught her, at least. It was nice and practical and useful. And head-busting.]

I'm not a hitter, though.

Ooh...? Well, I don't think you need to be a hitter to learn that sort of thing. And it's the smart thing to do, if people are going to attack you randomly...

And if that's the case, as long as we're in the same area I'll give you pointers, okay?

Okay! I mean...yeah, I just, you know. That's not really what I...do, is. Hitting people. I just take care of myself.

I don't really hit people either~! [ The cheery tone is coming back, a bit. ]

That is...I defend myself and others, and I practice and train, but I don't think it's something I do for for the sake of it, if that's what you mean.

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