52nd moon [video]

[paladinlost]

[Background: Saffron City's Pokémon Center, lobby, that nice spot with the comfy benches. Foreground: Avenger is propped against Rosie, who is snuggling up to Esuna, who is spread out halfway on Edges, who is curled up against Minerva, who is sprawled over Kayne's tail. All are sleeping.]

Truly. You'd think a good battle would have left them energized. I think the lack of talented opponents made them lazy.

[But Cecil sounds more fond of them than anything, the silly man.]

That's another badge earned, and four possible paths to follow. It's nicer than having to follow a predetermined route, I must admit.

[Even if he'll spend the next few days wondering where to go.]

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[skirtchases]

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Are you okay, Cecil?

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[paladinlost]

...It's something of an unpleasant memory.

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[skirtchases]

Well I won't press it if you don't want to talk about it. But I'm not going to lie, I am a little curious why it's a bad memory.

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[paladinlost]

The whole afternoon... so many bags... even underclothes... on Christmas...

[He might need a reboot, now.]

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[skirtchases]

Ah, I think...I might've accidentally started something. I'm sorry.

[Oops.]

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[paladinlost]

...It's fine. It's been over a year, after all.

[Yet it still gets that reaction...]

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[skirtchases]

I don't know how 'fine' it is if you still react like that...

[It's even more shocking since it's been a year.]

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[paladinlost]

It was merely... unexpected, at the time. I simply offered to cheer her up, and suddenly my whole day was taken over so boldly...

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[skirtchases]

I hate to say it, but it happens. You want to cheer a girl up and then suddenly bam! You're off doing a million things for her.

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[paladinlost]

That's never a problem with Rosa, or any of the other women I know.

[It's not a problem because he does it willingly.]

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[skirtchases]

Either they don't do it as much or you don't mind it as much. Who knows.

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[paladinlost]

Whitney does it to everyone she can reach. You'd think she'd have matured after all this time.

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[skirtchases]

Not everyone gets more mature, believe me.

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[paladinlost]

...Yet all teenagers should start looking older at some point, at least...

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[skirtchases]

...I guess so. What, is she older than she looks or something?

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[paladinlost]

I don't think so, and yet...

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[skirtchases]

...And yet?

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[paladinlost]

The Azalea Gym leader is even younger than she is, and he's not aged at all over the last year either. That's two people in this world who show no signs of growing older.

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[skirtchases]

That's weird. Just another thing to wonder about this world, huh?

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[paladinlost]

One out of many. What sort of world has inhabitants that do not age?

[Yours, Cecil, according to the character designs.]

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[skirtchases]

[Haha.]

A really...weird world.

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[paladinlost]

Yet it's almost fitting, considering the rest of it.