Our hearts, covered in patches and stitches, are in a state of instability.

[generalflirt]

Who: Masaomi (and Linda), Shikamaru (and a deer), and much later Silver (with some pokemon?)
What: A hike through the mountains
When: The 10th onwards (ending...17thish?)
Where: The... Mountains. Including a fertile valley.
Summary: Masaomi is really depressed and really needs to get away. So he goes to hunt down Shikamaru (and later makes good on a bet)
Rating: Vegas

[To say Masaomi Kida was in pain would be the understatement of the century. It wasn't just what happened the day before. It wasn't just the trip home which he now remembered. It wasn't just the sweetness of the lie which made it hurt. It wasn't anything else to do with the AU experiment either. It was all of those things and more - his own weakness, his own pain, his own frustration with the person he was now. And frankly, he couldn't take it anymore. As he promised the Error Katara on the 9th, he was gone by the tenth, marching out of the village by mid-day in his ninja flack vest and carrying a decent sized backpack of food with him. ...

It seemed like a better idea then. He got the mountains's base by the end of the day, made camp a ways up, and then began his hike in the morning. He kept this up (with isolated meditation attempts and "training Linda" attempts until about the morning on the 12th, at which point, well. He concluded he was lost.

...It was then that he ran into an enormous deer. I will let Pi decide if that is threaded or we just cut to the chase]

Comments

[tsuntrader]

I've gotta hear this.

[generalflirt]

[Okay, rocking on his shoulders... thinking... 5-7-5.]

Silver carries him
Up the mountains winding path
That righteous vassal

[tsuntrader]

Don't call me a vassal.

[generalflirt]

No that's me.

[...Oh right. He laughs, much harder than is probably needed, before correcting]

"Masaomi" - that's how the kanji in my name is read, "righteous vassal."

[tsuntrader]

[...Oh. Alright, that makes more sense.



...Wait-] Who names their kid righteous vassal?

[generalflirt]

Maaah, who names their kid "Mikado Ryuugamine?" If you read that name out in full it comes out to read something like "Dragon's Peak Emperor."

[tsuntrader]

[...] That sounds pretty cool.

[generalflirt]

Maybe. But in a normal day and age? It's ostentatious-- I've known a few people to question if it's his real name.

[tsuntrader]

...People are stupid.

[generalflirt]

...Okay, ignoring that, pokemon.

[tsuntrader]

What? It's true. It's just a name.

[generalflirt]

Yeah, and it sounds made up.

[tsuntrader]

It sounds like his parents wanted to give him a cool name.

[generalflirt]

Well, I suppose there's no helping "Dragon's Peak" - that's just the family name.

[tsuntrader]

[...It's conversations like these that make him really appreciate that his name's just Silver and nothing more.]

[generalflirt]

...So what other moves do you recommend?

[tsuntrader]

I told you four to focus on and try to learn, didn't I? [Fake Out, Quick Attack, Bite, Iron Tail, Thunderpunch- more than four, but the point is there.] Don't try to bite off more than you can chew.

...I'm not exactly a Pichu expert, either. Red, Gold, and Yellow could probably help you out with moves more than I could.

[generalflirt]

...I don't trust Yellow-chan to give me any worthwhile advice.

[THERE HE SAID IT]

[tsuntrader]

[...Okay, okay, he has a point.] Gold and Senior Red. Especially Senior Red.

[generalflirt]

...Maybe if I ask more pointed questions, Red-kun will be more helpful.

[Right??]

[tsuntrader]

[Nod.] Maybe. He hasn't been here for very long. I doubt he completely gets what it means to live in a world without Pokémon. [...Even Silver still has a hard time coming to terms with it.]

[generalflirt]

Yeah, it takes all of you guys a long time, I'm finding.

[tsuntrader]

Of course it does. Just about everything in our world somehow involves Pokémon.

[generalflirt]

Yeah and just about everything in mine involves corruption.

[Lamely]

[tsuntrader]

...Sounds fun. [If Masaomi wants to head down that line of conversation, he'll oblige. But he doubts he does, and Silver's not sure he likes the sound of corruption as a conversation topic all that much.]