85th moon [video]

[paladinlost]

[Cecil sits at a table, smiling pleasantly while holding a cup of coffee. His team is nowhere to be seen.]

Have you ever regretted teaching an attack to a Pokémon?

[For a few seconds, the feed suddenly shakes wildly, before stopping just as quickly. Outwardly, Cecil does not react to this incident.]

...Any attack.

Comments

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[paladinlost]

If it's mutual, it can hardly be helped, unless they both change.

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Believe me, I really hope Arius does. It's a pain, having to keep him away from the water types...

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...Should I ask what he does to them?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

He seriously tries to kill them. Nothing short of putting him back in his ball will stop him.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

......He what? And you still let him out?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Am I supposed to just trap him in the PC forever?

[Video]

[paladinlost]

If it keeps everyone else safe...

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Even if he's an asshole, that'd be kind of unfair to him...

[Video]

[paladinlost]

Is it not unfair to everyone else to have to deal with him?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Ahh, well, that's kind of why I try to minimize it...

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...You minimize it by how much?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

I never let him out with any other water types, and I always ask the others if they're okay with it first.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

Do they ever say yes to that question?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Some of the stronger ones can handle him when he acts up. And Ellie and Elfy pretty much love everybody, anyway.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...They must be extremely tolerant of others' pecularities, to still like him.

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Ahh, Elfy's definitely like that. With Ellie, though, sometimes I'm not sure if it's more that or that she just wants to force everyone to be her friend no matter what.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...That also sounds like a very strong personality. Overly strong, even.

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

No kidding.

[He attracts them, somehow.]

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...Do you have any calm, relatively mellow Pokémon? At all?

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

A few. Glen's pretty relaxed. Same with Kaile and Yohki. And the Gyarados, even if Fyn had a scare when she first evolved.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...It's usually a bad sign when a Gyarados is one of the most mellow members of a team.

[Says the man with two mellow Gyarados.]

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

Eh, I'm more relieved that the one that Ferris named after me ended up inheriting my better qualities than anything, there.

[that is, his love of sleep]

[Video]

[paladinlost]

...Perhaps that was her reasoning for the name in the first place.

[Video]

[tearsofademon]

I'm pretty sure she meant it as a comment on my incompetence, actually.

[Video]

[paladinlost]

Because she obtained him as a Magikarp? She must have known he'd grow much stronger with time.