55th moon [video]

[paladinlost]

[Today, Cecil is filming a small group of Pidgeys pecking at the ground and hunting for worms. It's a rather peaceful image, really.]

Route 25 is as far north as Kanto goes, it seems. Yet the same Pidgeys and Bellsprouts that can be found between New Bark and Violet live here. I wonder what makes certain species so widespread, while others can only rarely be found even in their natural habitats?

[Two of the Pidgeys start arguing over a particularly juicy bug. He looks at the scene for a few seconds, before he starts to put the Pokégear away with a few parting words.]

...Eleven out of sixteen. I think I'll aim for Celadon next.

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[Video]

[foolishwren]

You must have some super tame and well-behaved animals, then.

_{[Yeeeeaah, Heather's used to monsters being something... special.]}

[Video]

[paladinlost]

We do have a few misbehaving chocobos.

[Cecil's used to monsters called 'Flan Princesses' and 'Mom Bomb'. It changes one's perception of the term a little.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Chocobo... she feels like she's heard that term somewhere before... Ah. That's right. Sora had named one of his Pokemon that.]}

Some kinda bird, right?

_{[Heather, on the other hand, was used to far more twisted creatures. If Silent Hill had been populated by Flan Princesses, maybe it would have been a more pleasant place.]}

[Video]

[paladinlost]

That's right. They look somewhat like Doduos, but yellow and without the second head.

[...Until the inevitable Berserk status, at least. Then again, the music that comes with it would still be less creepy than her usual fare.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Yeah, when the boss music you're used to sounds like the result of someone being let loose in a room full of metal pipes to bang on, pretty much anything with actual instrumentation is fairly soothing.]}

Doduos, huh?

_{[She'd never actually seen one, but she'd been informed of the existence of Dodrios somewhat recently, and could form a fairly accurate mental picture just based on the name.]}

So big yellow ostriches, basically.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

[Even the lovechild of creepy circus music and demonic possessed dolls?]

That's quite likely.

[Ostriches, what are those.]

They exist in quite a few worlds, I believe.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Someone needs to teach Heather to stop using comparisons to animals that might not exist in other worlds.]}

Yeah. Or like... variations thereof.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

[Or she could just make them up. It's not as if they'd know.]

Yet I've never heard anyone mention Pokémon variations in their world.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

I've heard a few people say it's from a video game. ... Y'know. A work of fiction.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

Most said that they were seeing this particular world; a young man even mentioned Saffron City directly. Would that truly count as variations?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Well, I've met people here who are from FAIRY TALES that I was told when I was a kid.

Something tells me that this place being recognizable as a story for some people from other worlds isn't too out of the ordinary.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

I've been recognized before, but I've never seen anyone I'd read about. Yet many arrive knowing about Pokémon... Some worlds might be better known than others, such as this one. I wonder why.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Universe's a big place, I guess.

_{[If it could be called a 'uni'-verse.]}

[Video]

[paladinlost]

And somehow, people from all its corners still find themselves here. Whatever brought us here must be quite powerful.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

... Yeah.

And an asshole.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

Only if it's sentient enough to have motives. Then again, if it were some sort of powerful Pokémon...

[Video]

[foolishwren]

It's sentient enough to have a strong sense of irony.

That means it's sentient enough to have a motive.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...And therefore sentient enough to regret it, if we offer strong enough arguments.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

You say that like you think it would CARE what we think.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

Perhaps it would, if our arguments left bruises and cuts.

[...Cecil, not all games have a final boss.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

As gung-ho as I usually am about kicking something's ass until it stops jerking me around, I'm pretty sure going up to whatever's doing this with a shotgun and expecting it to listen isn't an option.

<sub>[Sure, she'd killed God once. But God hadn't been pulling people from dimensions far and wide into a world completely populated with people, animals, and plant life.]

[It had been... different.]</sub>

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...What if the Pokémon themselves decide to fight this? Not merely the ones we train, but all the wild ones in Johto and Kanto, too?

[If this world cares about anything, it's its Pokémon, after all.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

In case you haven't noticed, the wild ones ALREADY try to fight us.

That's why we have to train our OWN, remember?

[Video]

[paladinlost]

I mean for them to fight for us, not against. Surely this situation must also hold disadvantages for them.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Okay, now I'm lost.

Why on earth would a bunch of wild animals try to fight their own world? For a bunch of humans who aren't even from around here?

What disadvantage do they possibly have? It's not like they were yanked from THEIR world!