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miniworth[ Forward-Dated to the evening of September 15, Thursday, nearing twilight ]
[ The video turns on, and Miles looks concerned. It's just about nearing sunset in Goldenrod right now, the streetlights and store signs flickering to life, and the sky a deep red-orange overhead. He's alone. There is no sign of Ken Amada, but there is no comment on that. He just looks concerned. ]
Has anybody seen a Mareep wandering around Goldenrod? An acquaintance of mine recently departed from Johto and left me it's Pokémon Ball with Nurse Joy, but it was empty.
[ He's walking as he speaks, but he doesn't seem to notice the yellowish blob of something fluffy approaching him from behind. The camera catches the Mareep in question (and it's a very mean-looking Mareep, mind you) sneaking up to his new trainer, but Miles is not even looking at the screen. ]
... If you see him, please tell me and don't go near him. I don't think it's sa--
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee--
[ The video ends here. ]
[ Twenty minutes later. ]
[ It takes a while for the noise to fade from the screen. When the feed clears up, Miles is sitting up on a bed in the Pokémon Center with an Espeon (an Espeon! The Eevee had evolved just a few minutes ago!) on his lap. His hair is singed and there are bandages--definitely not a pretty sight. He sounds very, very tired as he speaks again. ]
... I found him.
[ ooc: it is late in the evening, tags might take awhile ;; ]
[ The video turns on, and Miles looks concerned. It's just about nearing sunset in Goldenrod right now, the streetlights and store signs flickering to life, and the sky a deep red-orange overhead. He's alone. There is no sign of Ken Amada, but there is no comment on that. He just looks concerned. ]
Has anybody seen a Mareep wandering around Goldenrod? An acquaintance of mine recently departed from Johto and left me it's Pokémon Ball with Nurse Joy, but it was empty.
[ He's walking as he speaks, but he doesn't seem to notice the yellowish blob of something fluffy approaching him from behind. The camera catches the Mareep in question (and it's a very mean-looking Mareep, mind you) sneaking up to his new trainer, but Miles is not even looking at the screen. ]
... If you see him, please tell me and don't go near him. I don't think it's sa--
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee--
[ Twenty minutes later. ]
[ It takes a while for the noise to fade from the screen. When the feed clears up, Miles is sitting up on a bed in the Pokémon Center with an Espeon (an Espeon! The Eevee had evolved just a few minutes ago!) on his lap. His hair is singed and there are bandages--definitely not a pretty sight. He sounds very, very tired as he speaks again. ]
... I found him.
[ ooc: it is late in the evening, tags might take awhile ;; ]
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 02:52 am (UTC)I'd get rid of that thing ASAP, if I were you.
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Date: 2011-09-23 02:56 am (UTC)I'm not the first one to get attacked by him, Heather. I can't possibly hand him off to someone or let him loose.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:13 am (UTC)[And someone who wasn't TWELVE.]
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:16 am (UTC)I've thought about that.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:26 am (UTC)I mean, this is a world where people are raised from birth in a society centered around these things.
There's gotta be SOMEBODY out there who knows how to deal with them when they've got a sadistic personality disorder.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:29 am (UTC)I've also been living for more than nine months without parent, home, or education with just another boy my age. I think I can take care of myself.
[ He is going to try to convince Heather that he will be fine o9 ]
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:32 am (UTC)[And then, with a sort of smirk...]
Stop trying to make me sound unreasonable for not wanting a friend of mine exposed to something that's likely to fry him on a whim.
Because seriously, it sounds like you're trying to convince me not to be a decent friend.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:34 am (UTC)I want to keep the Pokémon, though. It's rough but it belonged to someone I knew.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:43 am (UTC)Then you'd better find someone who can help you learn how to control that thing. Right away. As soon as you're not stuck in bed anymore.
Got it?
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:46 am (UTC)I know.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:47 am (UTC)[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:52 am (UTC)I'm not going to make promises I don't know if I mean to keep.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 04:56 am (UTC)You're not convincing me you can take care of yourself, just for the record.
[Seriously, Miles. She's just trying to make sure she doesn't ever have to see you looking like the mess in that icon.]
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 05:12 am (UTC)[ He actually doesn't mean ill will towards Heather. He's just on edge, bristly and touchy. His sister is gone and Ken is away, and Shinjiro Aragaki is gone. Dead even in his own world and not existing anywhere anymore. It reminds him of the fact that nobody in his life stays with him, and it hurts more than he expected.
He's also tired, which makes things so much worse. ]
I'll find someone.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 05:44 am (UTC)[But she doesn't, either. She's just. You know. Not a fan of people she cares about getting hurt, especially if it's avoidable.]
Anyway, that's all I wanted to hear.
... You know I just worry because I care, right?
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-23 10:35 pm (UTC)He can easily act pleasant and calm to Clover. Or to anyone else. They come and go, exchange some words, and he doesn't really worry if they care or not. He's upset and tired and he can say so, and that builds up a conversation.
But it's different with Heather. He feels himself scowling because he doesn't want her to worry (though it's nice that she cares). He doesn't want to make her worry, doesn't want her to express her worry. Because he cares, and he worries that she, like all the people he met when he first arrived in Johto, and all the people he knows back home, would go away. Disappear or leave, and he hates how that upsets him even more. ]
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-26 12:00 am (UTC)Just think on it. 'Kay?
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-26 12:06 am (UTC)[Video]
Date: 2011-09-26 05:30 am (UTC)Take care, all right?
[BOOP. End feed.]