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[crouching_sin]

[Normally Naoya wouldn't bother with a post like this, but he's at his wit's end. He's done his best to try to solve it himself, but it's not working... so it's a rather frazzled-looking Naoya who appears on the screen, barely holding on to a very frightened-looking Ralts.]

[The Ralts in question is making tiny squeaking noises and looks like she wants to cry and hide rather than be anywhere in the area. Any Pokémon watching can probably hear her squeaking 'he is a bad and scary man'.]

Most of my Pokémon are rather well behaved. This one, however... doesn't seem to want to be anywhere near me. I haven't done anything to scare her. She just hatched a few days ago.

Has anyone else had problems with a Ralts that... doesn't seem to like them?

[He just... turns the video off. He'll put her back in her Pokeball now because... he doesn't know what else to do.]

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[scratchitti]

Emphatic...

[So maybe not that she saw something that scared her as an echo of something Naoya feels]

...well, if there something that's scaring YOU?

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[crouching_sin]

[... Excuse him for a moment while he tries to stop laughing hysterically at the idea.]

Hah! There's... there's nothing that can scare me anymore... heh. It was a good guess! But an unlikely one, I'm afraid.

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[captainash]

Let me guess: they usually involve burnt offerings and virgin sacrifices?

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[crouching_sin]

I don't think most of them would turn it down, but it's not required, no.

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[captainash]

...Sounds like standards have dropped over the last few millenia.

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[crouching_sin]

It's less that and more that the energy that those provide has always been the real catalyst for it. Find alternative sources and you can summon them just fine.

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[captainash]

Would a fully functional reactor or power plant count as an alternative source?

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[crackpotcrocker]

That's just a plain silly question. She understands Ralts. And she had mine and hers go on 'play date' which kind of helped...

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[crouching_sin]

... Hm. We'll see. If I speak to her, I'll ask.

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[crouching_sin]

... Not that sort of energy. Emotional energy is what's needed.

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[pinnedbangs]

You wouldn't do that to a sweet girl like her. Good luck from here on out!

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[captainash]

Damn. I guess that would have been too easy, if expensive.

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[crouching_sin]

I don't want to, no. ... But thanks.

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[crouching_sin]

There's also the fact that I think most demons wouldn't know what a power plant was if you put them in front of one.

[babel_hacker]

[Atsuro, like he said, eventually returns with a Gardevoir following behind him. She gives Naoya a look, before turning her attention to Alice.]

Okay, Andromeda, can you calm her down?

[She nods and floats over to Naoya, holding out her hands for Alice.]

[crouching_sin]

[He hands Alice over carefully, watching them. Alice sniffles and curls up in her arms. He's scary!]

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[captainash]

...It's not like they had power plants back in their times, unless everything I've learned about history is a lie.

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[crouching_sin]

They didn't. Your history books are safe in that respect.

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[captainash]

And only in that respect, but I'll take it. It's not as if that particular bit of information is relevant, in my world.

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[crouching_sin]

It's important to remember that history is written by the victors. So of course the history books are wrong in many ways.

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[captainash]

Sometimes, they don't even need to be victors to write things down incorrectly. Being assholes with an agenda suffices.

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[crouching_sin]

Pretty much. Honestly, I don't know why that surprises people anymore. History doesn't change, but the telling of it does.

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[armoredsoul]

[Ah...so it's like that, then.]

...my trainer is the same way, sometimes. Something happened to him a long time ago, and he still has not healed from that. How has he been treating you?

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[crouching_sin]

... He's... I guess he's been nice... but he's still scary!

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[captainash]

...And even when the telling is the same, the interpretation can be different.