paladinlost | 93rd moon [video]

[The view: the ceiling of the most enpensive restaurant in Celadon. The background noise: dozens of customers enjoying their meals, and Cecil tapping his fingers on a wooden table.]

When I first awoke in New Bark Town, four years ago, I was... unwell. This whole world's very existence confused me, and so did my presence in it. The relatively weak and harmless-looking monsters were also a shock. Had it not been for Rosie's sweetness, I surely would have attempted to fight her. You could say that day was very unpleasant, though still far from the worse I've had.

[The background noise: a liquid hitting glass. The view: a quick flash of a wine bottle in a corner.]

And yet... when I finally managed to use the Pokégear, I was contacted by friends I'd not seen in seventeen years. Friends I'd not remembered in seventeen years, and that I would not have expected to ever see again even if I'd kept those memories. I also met kind people, good people, who made my first few weeks here much easier than they would otherwise have been. All have been gone for years, now, but I still find myself thinking of them fondly. Therefore... you could say that day was a good day, too.

[The action, unseen and barely heard: Cecil making a silent toast to all those people, and downing that glass before setting it back on the table.]

...Well! Now that I've shared my first day experience, it's only fitting that you do the same. Surely you all have interesting stories to share.

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No, but when you're traveling in really cold weather when the season's changing it's pretty hard to find anything good to think about.

Wait, three times?

That's true. Winter arrivals are the most unlucky by far. The three friends we waited for were all lucky enough to follow me at the end of summer or the beginning of autumn, though two of them did not stay long enough to see the first snows.

Ouch! That's harsh...but I had all my friends show up at different points over the past year or so. Now it's just me and two of my friends -and they're together.

Kinda feel like the third wheel at times around 'em.

...Ah. I'm sorry you found yourself in such a position. But I've no doubt they'd never consider you a third wheel, not even for a single moment. Surely they enjoy every second of your presence.

I know they don't, and it's great spending time with them here training our 'Mons. But even a top athlete like me can see how happy they are, and I don't usually do sappy stuff but sometimes I wonder, you know?

...Have you considered finding a non-sappy top athlete to match you? It might lessen the feeling, if you find the right person.

I've considered it, but...finding the right person's only one step. The other's them accepting me as I really am, you know?

Surely anyone you'd consider worthy would accept you easily. And if not, it's their great loss, not yours.

Ha, thanks!

(Not what she meant but she'll take it.) How many Pokémon have you caught since showing up?

I have fifty-four Pokémon in total, but from only forty-three lines, and I personally caught sixteen of them. The others were eggs, gifts or... inheritances.

[...Which sounds somewhat sad, now that he's saying it out loud.]

(It's a good thing that the sadness Rainbow noticed was pushed back by his revealing of how many Pokémon he had.)

No way! Fifty-four Pokémon?! I've only got around 45 or so, but still -sweet! Most of mine were inherited too, but still...

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It's not that impressive; others have long reached the box limit, after all. ...There again, there was once a time when we could not hold more than twenty. Compared to that, fifty-four is indeed quite a large number.

[Ahhh, the old Johto memories only a handful of people still have.]

...Really? Only twenty Pokémon?! Awesome! I passed that limit so long ago, I don't even remember when I hit twenty.

(Maybe Twilight could explain it a little more.)

Obtaining that many Pokémon has become much easier, too. I remember a time with no Breeding Center, and with far fewer species available. The routes and caves looked much more bare, and certain types were nearly impossible to find.

No Breeding Center? Pokémon nearly impossible to find? Sounds like it was a lot of hard work back then!

It was quite the challenge, especially if your starter had a disadvantage against Falkner. There were no opportunities to remedy that situation before you reached Violet itself, which meant that most trainers stayed there for months.

Heh, months huh? I know that feeling. I think I stayed in Goldenrod for a few weeks and that felt like forever to me! Grass types were mostly the ones with a huge disadvantage against Falkner's Flying types, right?

Grass-types, Bug-types, Ground-types, Ghost-types with no moves that could damage Normal-types... Not everyone was lucky enough to received a Pichu or a Smoochum upon waking up.

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