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sunpendant) wrote2013-01-25 03:03 pm
sunpendant) wrote2013-01-25 03:03 pm
Four | Video/Action for Goldenrod
[Action]
[Originally, Raven planned her trip to Goldenrod to take longer. It started out that way. She wanted to take in the sights, so to speak, now that winter wasn’t trying to kill her and there might be more monsters about. Then that announcement came over the gear and things changed. Anyone along the Sudowoodo Area would have seen her storming toward Goldenrod at a pace that took effort to maintain, feeling under the weather as she is. A worried Swablu chirps atop her head for most of the way.
And now she’s here. The big city. She was supposed to tell Ondorus when she was coming, but she’s too wrapped up in finding…something. Information? The person who would do terrible things like that? Oh, she’d love the second one.
She succeeds in neither, managing only to wind up hopelessly lost on the streets that circle the department store. It’s a tall building and a nice landmark…unless you have no idea where to go from there. He wasn’t kidding when he said it was like nothing he’d ever seen before, was he?]
[Video]
How do I get to the “breeding center” from here? [Raven’s face and the top of the tower are in camera view. She looks irritated and pale and tired.]
[Originally, Raven planned her trip to Goldenrod to take longer. It started out that way. She wanted to take in the sights, so to speak, now that winter wasn’t trying to kill her and there might be more monsters about. Then that announcement came over the gear and things changed. Anyone along the Sudowoodo Area would have seen her storming toward Goldenrod at a pace that took effort to maintain, feeling under the weather as she is. A worried Swablu chirps atop her head for most of the way.
And now she’s here. The big city. She was supposed to tell Ondorus when she was coming, but she’s too wrapped up in finding…something. Information? The person who would do terrible things like that? Oh, she’d love the second one.
She succeeds in neither, managing only to wind up hopelessly lost on the streets that circle the department store. It’s a tall building and a nice landmark…unless you have no idea where to go from there. He wasn’t kidding when he said it was like nothing he’d ever seen before, was he?]
[Video]
How do I get to the “breeding center” from here? [Raven’s face and the top of the tower are in camera view. She looks irritated and pale and tired.]
[action]
...Not all monsters are good. [They're walking, so she can't shift her feet like she ordinarily might. She looks away instead.] You have them, too. Why are those people so different?
[They should all come out and play as long as they don't make too much of a mess, right, look at these tiny wings, it'd be hard to clean a huge area very fast...]
[action]
We're all guilty parties in it. I doubt most people even think of it that way. But even if you do think of it, still this world demands that you accept Pokemon as...commodities. Devices in the lives of humans. That's the price of being part of society here.
[This is the first time he's ever spoken so frankly about it. His voice is conspiratorially low, and his eyes hidden behind his glasses.]
Not that it excuses anything, but I'm no stranger to that kind of dissonance. [How many decades had he spent keeping quiet for Kuruna's peace of mind?] But...in my defense, I have never once acted as a "master" over the Pokemon that this world would say I owned.
[action]
[This was a wave of staggering understanding that knocked her over in the middle of a blizzard. It's not what she usually thinks; often, she never knew what to think about the lines between monster and human, just that they were her personal curse. That there was a line between Raven and Others.]
Monsters aren't things. [You know that already.]
[action]
I know. [Oh, does he ever know. His "team"? They're his cousins, his children, his respected aunt. He's only known them for a year or less, but so what if their relationships have been short? Relationships always are, once you know what "long" really is.] And that's why it's hard to find resolve, because when it's a choice between leaving evil free to harm people wildly or - placing the people you personally know and care for in the line of fire - [he stops talking abruptly for a few seconds here.]
...it's an sick and broken world that gladly hands decisions like that to just anyone. [What happens when you make the wrong choice?]
[action]
[Just a hint of bitterness in that statement. Things have been better lately.]
...Sorry.
[action]
It's all right. I've been thinking these things for a while now.
[Ondorus isn't entirely familiar with dwarf culture - he can safely assume that Zaid is an exception and not the rule, right? - but he realizes that he's glad that it was Raven, and not one of the humans that hold deep biases, who appeared in Johto first.
...what a coward he is.]
[action]
She'll think about it.
Too many words were never her strong suit, though, and she's feeling quite tired by now, so the rest of the walk to the boarding house passes in silence on her end.]