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75th moon [video]

[Johto, Kanto, today you get an overhead view of a mass of white hair.

Well, no, that's not quite right. You get an overhead view of a mass of white hair that has been previously vomited on by a Skittles factory. Seriously, there are enough beads in there to cover decently an exotic dancer, with colors that clash so much they could blind design students. The worst part? Two Gardevoirs can partially be seen, working on the beads, and they're still adding more.]

How does it look? The girls refuse to let me see the results until they're completely done.

[Break it to him gently, everyone.]

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... I... it's...

_{[It's like something chewed up an entire 100-piece set of Crayola crayons and then slathered it all over his hair.]}

... It'll be really attractive to all the colorblind singles out there...

[That's... Um. That's. After a few seconds of hesitation, a very human hand enters the feed, grabs some hair, and moves back out.]

...Forest green and acid yellow next to each other?

[A man has his priorities.]

On the bright side, you're probably a walking wild Pokemon deterrent.

_{[If that hair isn't a perfect demonstration of 'these bright colors probably mean I'm poisonous so don't eat me', Heather doesn't know what is.]}

Along with a trained Pokémon deterrent. Most of my team has learned better from my color-matching lessons; this'll drive them to tears.

[The girls just go 'hmph' at that and grab his hair back. Nope, not stopping.]

You must have the patience of a saint.

_{[Heather can only dimly contemplate what it must be like to have the ability to sit still despite the knowledge of what they're doing to his hair, but she admires it all the same.]}

...It's nice to see them happily spend time together, giggling over shared secrets. That must be worth a few hours of orange and pink.

[It's been a long time since he had the chance to spend with his own child like that, after all.]

_{[... Well, when he puts it THAT way...]}

... Heh. I guess you wouldn't be a very good trainer if you didn't let your Pokemon have fun every once in awhile, huh?

It's not as if they're particularly demanding. If it was Avenger asking to play with my hair, I'd worry much more.

[If it was Avenger he'd probably set the beads on fire as a precaution.]

Yeah?

What kind of Pokemon is Avenger?

A Banette. A Banette from three Septembers ago.

[That should explain it all.]

... From thr--

_{[She pauses, mentally calculating, and the implications hit her.]}

... You mean from the FOG?

I never claimed to be thinking clearly when I caught him.

[And yet he caught him, and he still has him.]

Well yeah, but... you kept him?!

His very presence was a great source of motivation for Rosie, even before he mellowed out.

[By giving her something to beat up, mostly.]

Besides, he accidentally did me a favor at the time. The least I could do was try and not set him on fire.

Fair enough, but... still.

If I'd caught a ghost from that whole clusterfuck, I'd have ditched it quicker than you can say 'Who ya gonna call'!

I was tempted to do so a few times, believe me. But we get along much better now, barring a few pranks and regular instances of poor judgement.

Wellp.

I guess it'd be in bad taste to say 'It's your funeral', huh?

It'd be unnecessary. If he wished to kill me, he'd have done so years ago.

[...That expression, he might not be familiar with it.]

You never know... ghost types aren't exactly trustworthy.

_{[Heather is a Class A skeptic.]}

I feed him, let him sleep on one of the guest room beds and buy him TMs regularly. If there's any way to keep myself safer, I'd like to know it.

I dunno, if I had a man-eating tiger, I'd be even scareder if all that was keepin' it happy was the fact that I was letting it sleep in the house and throwin' it a baby every now and then.

... That's an exaggeration, but.

The situation could be much better, I admit. But if the worst comes to pass, I have a few very sturdy frying pans.

... Well, I guess you can't go wrong with those.

Swords would work much better, but there's a very alarming lack of them here. Then again, Queen Sheila of Fabul was able to repel part of an attack on her kingdom with nothing but her cooking implements...

Well, I think I speak for a LOT of people when I say I miss the hell out of my weapons, but still... if you're resourceful, anything can be a weapon.

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