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[blueser]

"Hello... Whatever... Don't worry about me. I'm doing peachy over here! I was just looking for something to do! Wanna battle me again?"

[telepathy | Pidgeot-mail]

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Re: Voice back!

[boundbynaught]

Well... something like that? It's some kind of connection. She insisted that she has a bigger form too, but that the smaller forms are still her, Aiada. The puffballs found me, though. The other day they just pounced on me and...

They, uh, gave me a hug. And ran off. So I chased them, trying to figure out what they were.

That was the first time I'd ever seen her. Why Aiada, specifically?

Re: Voice back!

[blueser]

So it's... like a Po-- a creature with multiple formes? I've heard of things like that, but I've never seen it...

[Blue makes a face to himself that sends an unintended accompanying sensation along of awkwardness and a small bit of withdrawal; these Arehtei sure were strange, from all descriptions he'd heard...]

Hmh... well, because she's supposed to be.. "my" Arehtei, I guess. Whatever it is that means.

I guess she must not be that intimidating, if your story's anything to go by.

[blueser]

[Blue turns to roll his eyes at Archie, picking up a stray rock and skipping it towards the water.] Obviously. Doesn't mean that it doesn't sound like a pain in the Feebas... It's not the training part of it I'm concerned with. That, I have no doubts we'll figure out quick.

[Doesn't he? ...A bond with your Pokémon... He still doubted himself very much, when it came to that. He'd tried, he'd been trying so hard the last few years... But how would he know whether he'd actually accomplished anything in that?]

[He doesn't voice any of this of course, just staring out into the lake blankly, watching the Water-types.] ...Gyarados and Pidgeot can do it, huh. [His gaze slides from Gyarados to Pidgeot, soaring over the lake on the hunt for fish. Which of those two... Both had positives and negatives towards being able to achieve a so-called "perfect bond", he thought.]

Re: Voice back!

[boundbynaught]

Oh! Weird, because I was thinking about how few people there are like me attached to her as well - she told me there's only a dozen or so of us. There's so few in fact that she thinks of us as family. She probably knows who you are already, if I had to guess.

I wonder if she'll appear as the puffball for you too.

[broceanic]

[ah...

he frowns.] Then... it's the bond?

[blueser]

[Archie only gets a cold, flat look turned his direction, and the wind that suddenly blows past with it is downright arctic.]

No.

[And that's all he's going to say on the matter, apparently. He fall silent, brows knit into a pinch as he turns his attention back to the Pokémon in silence.]

[broceanic]

Okay.

[he won't press further-- that emotional effect says everything. he doesn't want to leave it all hanging at the same time, either!]

Hah...! Did you know there are some Alolan form Pokémon here? They have entirely different types!

Re: Voice back!

[blueser]

You're serious...? [Blue hadn't considered, even after talking to Archie about how involved in Otherworlder's lives the Arehtei were, that Aiada might be actively seeking him. That they might already know who he was already was a little surprising and made him a bit nervous, but when he considered it more carefully it wasn't all that surprising, for a supposed legendary.]

[Blue considers this, and the wait is an awkward, stretched out moment.]

...Did she say anything when you met her about how we can find her, if we want to? Or, um... Do you know where she can normally be found?

[blueser]

Actually, I did know. [Blue straightens up, matter-of-factly.] My Uncle Samson is the leading researcher of Alolan formes of Kantonian Pokémon, you know. You don't gotta lecture me.

[Even if he was very surprised to actually meet one himself...]

That round-faced Persian, right? I've met her.

[broceanic]

Yeah!

[he doesn't mind the snootyness. he prefers it over how blue was before.]

She's cute, ain't she?

[blueser]

[Blue purses his lips, like he's deciding how to lie to save face the right way, and then shrugs his shoulders.]

She looks strong. I wanted to battle her.... Too bad that trainer of hers is an annoying, good for nothing old fart.

[He glances to Archie.] Worse than you, even.

[broceanic]

[he barks a laugh at that.]

Aye, Nanu sure is somethin', ain't he? What'd he do, complain about kids today to ya?

[blueser]

[Sourly, Blue takes a moment to recall.]

Something like that.

[But his glance slides over to Archie, and he wonders if he should even broach the subject with a criminal.] ...Who was it that arrested you, when you got whupped? Stone? And the rest of your team?

[broceanic]

[given that he knows nanu's own interpol past now, archie figures that's likely where this is going. he won't jump the sharpedo for once in his life, though.]

When May took out Kyogre, Steven Stone and Wallace were present, but May decided she wanted me to have another chance, and seeing as she was the one that saved everyone Steven went with what she decided.

[his expression darkens.]

Before you say it, I don't understand why the law wasn't fully involved either. I want to clean up my own mess, so I'm taking the chance I was given that I don't deserve.

[blueser]

[As Archie predicted, Blue baulks at this information, but... 'May'? He'd mentioned that name before.] What kinda authority did this May lady have to make that kinda decision, huh? ...I thought Interpol wasn't subject to any one League's rules...

[He puffs a little and looks away again.] Whatever, that's got nothin' to do with... So you're saying you never had dealings with 'em before? Is that right?

[broceanic]

She was the one that took out Kyogre and ceased its rampage. She went onto be Champion of the region.

[he shrugs.]

No, not yet. It's highly likely I will in the future. When I arrived here, the whole mess had only happened a week or so ago.

[blueser]

Oh. [Blue says with the kind of sullen tone that says 'of course'.]

[For a second after that, Blue just sort of half-nods... and then his head whips to look at Archie with confusion.]

A week ago!? I heard about it... it was right around the time I was heading for Pokémon League! What are you talking about?

[broceanic]

Time isnt... entirely linear when you take this weird place into account. I don't think about it that much.

[blueser]

This isn't... [Blue cringes, which might just be him trying not to think about it too hard as well, and failing. His mind goes to the legends of creation, the Lords of Space and Time, and the 3 guardians of emotion connected to them...... Emotions, huh.....]

...This isn't all the doing of the Original One, is it? These Arehtei... they're not created by Arceus, too?

[broceanic]

[he shakes his head.]

No. I don't think so. I've been reading a lot and nothing familiar is mentioned in any texts.

[blueser]

Hmmoh. [Blue sinks into his huddle against his knees again, lips in a light frown.]

[He'd been doing plenty of reading too, but it was more directly about the fauna around here. While he was curious, researching the Arehtei and the myths surrounding them had been something he felt, for some reason, reluctant to touch.]

[Figures the guy who'd raised an ancient legendary before would be looking into it again, though. He doesn't say it.]

So what you're telling me is you... For you, it's still 3 years ago. [He gives Archie a sort of strange look, then away again.]

Well, I haven't heard of anything else dumb happening in Hoenn since then, if that makes you feel any better. [Sinnoh, Johto. But not Hoenn.]

Re: Voice back!

[boundbynaught]

Yeah, I'm serious. ... I'm actually really terrible at making jokes, honestly.

But I think it's pretty easy to find them if you actually want to. At least, that's the impression I've gotten from everyone else over the years. I just never wanted to before recently. I was tailing one of her puffballs and she thought it was weird that I didn't just ask to talk to her.

Re: Voice back!

[blueser]

Oh, I didn’t— does he think I really took it as a joke...?

It’s hard to believe that they’re so... um, casual about it. It’s not at all like I expected them to be.

[Suddenly struck by an idea, Blue hums.] Do you think that we could contact them with these crystals? If I tried to concentrate and think of her, maybe...

Re: Voice back!

[boundbynaught]

[ Welp just gonna ignore that first part then. He doesn't do people that well sometimes. A lot of times. ]

Maybe it's just Aiada? I've gotten a pretty different impression of the others, like Thras or... Piphron, I think.

Well, I've never trIed that myself... Maybe? Considering we can contact everybody else with these things...

[broceanic]

I think so?

[he frowns, glancing over at blue. that's... certainly not what he expected to hear. or for blue to... even tell him.

archie tries to hide his smile.] It does, a bit. Thanks. Guess future me doesn't have any more screw ups up his sleeve.