crouching_sin | [Video]/[Action for Goldenrod]

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[Video]/[Action for Goldenrod]

[The video opens on a young boy, maybe twelve or so, digging in the dirt in a park in Goldenrod. He's got on loose pants but no shirt, and his skin is tanned. He's also got messy brown hair, like he's never heard of a hairbrush.]

[He hasn't, they weren't invented yet.]

[He seems intent on what he's doing, other than muttering slightly.]

The ground here is strange... where are my tools? Mother... Father... Abel...

[The camera turns, revealing a very concerned-looking Gardevoir.]

He's been like this all morning. I... I'm fairly sure this is my trainer, but he looks very different. He doesn't recognize me, and it was hard enough to convince him I wasn't a 'demon' and that he should wear pants.

Can... can anyone help me? I'm not sure how to handle this on my own...

[[ooc; Anyone who wants to encounter them, they're in a park in Goldenrod!]]

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[Oh boy, it's a kid. This conversation is obviously going to be extremely helpful for poor Alice.]

Hi. You're pretty. Like, like a pretty dressie kind of Wart.

[EXTREMELY...HELPFUL...god.]

How come he didn't wanna wear pants?

Wart is a Gallade, isn't he? I... suppose that makes sense. And he kept saying the material was 'too smooth' but some of the others helped hold him down until he put them on.

That is you, isn't it, Dave? Is something wrong?

Uh-huh. It's me.

[He has to think about the question for a moment. Obviously something is wrong, he doesn't have to be a genius to figure out his memories don't match his size, but more telling have been everyone's reactions to him.]

I think there's a weird thing everywhere. I'm not asposed to be small, and everyone's yelling a lot. And Penny doesn't remmber me.

Oh. Oh, that would explain i -

[She pauses. The things she's picked up from her trainer...]

I think... he has gone back a very far way indeed.

[Dave please be following her logic.]

[He doesn't get it for a minute, but then he does.]

That's Naoya?

[Oh boy.]

...Uh-oh.

Yes. 'Uh oh'. I don't know what to do, Dave.

... He doesn't want any of us near him. I don't know how to even make sure that he'll be all right...

Ummm.

[Dave is really not equipped to handle this right now. He's working on a four-year-old's processing power, for fuck's sake, and his memories are there but they're a little jumbled as a result.]

Do, do you have money? For getting food. He's gonna get hungry and I dunno if they i-ivvetted money back then.

Money... I think it's on his trainer card? It should be somewhere in here... I should get one of the others to help me, my fingers aren't as nimble as human fingers...

Are you all right, Dave? You're not hurt, are you?

I fell out of a tree but Wart caughted me. And then I got Burger Slowking. But now nobody's lets me go outside by myself to play.

... They might be afraid you'll get hurt, especially if you fell out of a tree before...

I fallen off lots higher places.

That doesn't mean you should, Dave.

...Why? I won't get hurt.

If you fall out of a tree, you will probably get hurt.

[Her nerves are frazzled right now, Dave. Don't even try.]

I won't get hurt a lot. I won't cry.

[Because that's the issue here.]

Edited 2016-05-14 03:47 (UTC)

Dave Strider I will find you and wrap you entirely in foam if that is what it takes.

[Hell hath no fury like a Pokemom scorned, apparently.]

[Dave just kind of squeaks and hunches into himself, hands over his mouth.]

O-okay, I won't. N...no more trees, I promise.

[Was that too much? That was probably too much.]

... I'm sorry, Dave. That was a bit... much. Things are just stressful right now.

[The apology just shifts him from agitation to puzzlement, like he can't make sense of it. Or like no one's ever apologized to him before. After a beat, he shakes his head. It's cool. They've got bigger problems.]

Is it 'cause Naoya's small?

Yes. And I don't know what to do with him.

[Naoya chooses that moment to look up at the creature and the strange device and then start wandering away from them.]

Where is he - Naoya? Naoya, come back here - please listen to me!

[She carries the Pokegear with her as she follows him.]

[Maybe if he helps her, it'll make up for jumping out of trees.]

Naoya! Dude!

[...Though...wait.

...]

Cain?

[The boy looks up at the sound of his name.]

Cain?

[He heads over towards her, eyeing her warily.]

Who are you?

... I'm... I'm a friend.

[Help, Dave. She is not equipped for this.]

That's Alice. She's not a demon, she's like...more like an angel. Your guardian angel. I'nt she pretty?

Where is that voice coming from?

[Alice shows him the Pokegear and he gets up close to it, peering at it curiously.]

Be careful. It's a... um... a magical device.

Ah... angels are so very strange...

Yeah, there's lots of weird shit here. Hey, I'm Dave. I'm human, though.