generalflirt | Appointments Post ( II )

Here ya go! [ Alas, her hunt for the vending machines will wait for another day. She hands over Chien's unchanged pokedex and pokeball, eyeing Linda's yellow ball curiously. ] Chien never really used them all that much around me.

[ Soren lands next to the bench on Ikki's side rather than Masaomi's, and she digs out the last thing she brought, offering a dried apple piece to Soren, and then taking one for herself. She offers the bag to Masaomi after that. In addition to apples there are raisins and some dried pear slices. Yum. ]

Mmmhm. Well, for starters, this pokeball comes in two sizes. [It's presumably in golf ball size now, so he picks it up, squeezes it, and it expands to the size of a baseball. He squeezes it again after a small delay, making it drop down back to a golf ball]

[ ...okay she's not sure why it needs to be able to do that but cool man. ]

...Why?

Basically, in this form [The golf ball size] It's easier to carry around. You can fit it in a pocket or even on a key chain if you get creative. But this. [And he squeezes to baseball size. He then stands and aims at the center podium in the room and... pitches it like a baseball]

Makes it easier to throw accurately!

[And once it touches down over thee it pops open. this would be whee it releases a pokemon if one's in there. Because none is it just re-closes]

I'm not supposed to throw things. [ SHE'S NOT COMPLAINING, she's just still not really entirely clear why they're throwing things. ]

Ummmm Soren can go in it somehow, right? ...Wouldn't it hurt him to throw him like that? [ Soren himself is trilling at Ikki, but she does not speak Soren fluently, so she just looks at Masaomi expectantly after glancing over at Soren. ]

[Masaomi smirks a bit, and then looks down at Ikki before waving to the ball]

Soren can answer that for you, Ikki-chan. You should try to figure out what he's saying while I go get the ball.

[This is an important test. He smiles as he jogs off to get the ball. It won't take all that long at all, but it involves two people who might end up Partners to bond.

After all, Soren chose Chien. Now it seems he's chosen Ikki in the same fashion]

[ why is her life made up of tests. 8|

Still, she's never complained about training before, so she pulls her legs up onto the bench to sit cross-legged and shifts the curious-expectant gaze to Soren. ] Sooooooo does it hurt to be thrown in a ball?

[ There's the typically excited trilling that is usually followed by Chien's less-excited voice. Since he's not there, Ikki...listens. It still sounds like trilling, but she's spent enough time around Soren to notice the tone and how he's holding himself. Wing-pointing and all.

She eyes him thoughtfully for a moment before hazarding a guess. ] No, annnnnnnnd you're laughing. That's what you do when you think Chien is doing something silly.

[ She smothers a giggle, because she can see that scene, with the scowl on one side and the slight tilt of Soren's head on the other. Except she keeps accidentally talking like Chien's just gone out to lunch without them inexplicably, and the laugh trails off. She giggles again when Soren flaps wind right in her face to get her attention, though. ] Nonono I was just thinking! I don't get why people go in balls. We don't put people in balls at home. ...Actually how do you fit in there that's so weird is it magic or like machines or what?

[Masaomi... is actually going slower than he could when getting Soren's ball. He's deliberately sort of taking longer than he needs to to ensure they have time for a good chat in there. To represent this, I give you one more tag]

[ Soren does not actually know the deep and mystical answers to Ikki's ball questions, and she hasn't actually stopped coming up with further questions about this practice, and probably will never stop wondering about it. Ikki's that cute little hyper girl he'd been happy to see again - one day she'd just stopped showing up for lunch, and then a while later she'd been back, like nothing happened - and her expressions are animated enough that it's clear she's half-distracted.

She's also started talking fast enough that anyone but Jinora might be hard pressed to tell what she's actually on about, an obvious sign of nerves.

Ikki's treated to another playful blast of "airbending". She shuts up, sputtering, and then laughs and pushes back, like she did the first time she'd met them back in the fountain. Oh! So he's an airbender, too!

She drops her hands back to her lap after a second, though. ] So he's really, really gone, huh?

[ She'd kind of half hoped Masaomi would magically say Chien wasn't, although Soren obviously knew otherwise and she couldn't contact him at all.

This time Ikki translates the sad tone to Soren's reply without missing a beat; they're both missing the same person, after all. ] ...Mm, well, I have two beds, you know. Do you sleep in a bed? I guess maybe Uncle Sokka could make the top bed into a nest. Uncle Sokka can make anything! ...You've never met him, actually, but you'll get to when we go back home, 'cause you'll have to meet everyone - there's Uncle Sokka and Aunt Toph and Uncle Roku, and then grandpa and Katara - and you met Momo but there's also Appa and Hawky and Petunia! We've got a really, really big family.

[ Talking to her hands is less than productive, but Soren's at her knee and bumping into her, and Ikki does look up. There's another onslaught of chirping she thinks she might catch the meaning of - amused, comforting, and he'd definitely come to find her and hadn't left since. So it's probably, maybe okay to assume what she's assuming. For once in her life she's actually quiet and just grins back. ]

Thought so... [Masaomi mutters that to himself as he comes back, Soren's ball in hand. And now he holds it out. He taps the button's edges to recall Soren. In a red flash of light, he'll turn into a beam and come back in the ball.

...Unless he resists, of course. He's your NPC. But he's doing this to prove a point once he's back in front of him and Ikki, and hoping the bird will follow his lead]

Hmmm? [ Ikki glances up to see Masaomi tap the ball. Aaaaaaand there goes Soren, who knows what they're trying to show to Ikki.

She's more than a little startled, but isn't actively worried; she trusts Masaomi, even when she's confused by the things he talks about. ] Hey! [ Not a complaint, just pointing at the spot where Soren isn't and the ball, and surprised amazement. Yep, that was pretty cool. ]

[He winks, and then tosses the ball at her, to catch it]

Not everyone uses these - like I said, Chien didn't, so Soren might not be all that used to them - but these are a pretty important tool for a trainer. Right now, you're holding Soren in your hands.

[ Ikki catches it easily enough; she's got good reflexes, and doesn't have to resort to airbending trickery.

She cradles the pokeball gently and eyes Masaomi, working it out aloud. ]

So the reason to throw him is to let him out?

To determine where to let him out. You can let him out at any time using the button, but if you throw it, you can determine where he comes out of the ball, because he'll come out right where the ball opens. In a fight or something, sometimes the ability to so easily relocate someone is very important.

[He says this in Lecture Mode]

[ Lecture Mode works well with Ikki, and she nods, although the way people always assume she's going to be in fights in Luceti is sort of weird.

Testing it out, she presses the button. There's the same light from before, and Soren looking pleased with himself, and Ikki eyes the pokeball again, fascinated. ]

But it only works on Pokemon?

It only works on one pokemon. Each ball's unique, and once it houses one pokemon in it, it can't take another one in it. So that ball is Soren's, and Linda's ball is Linda's.

[A beat]

But if Soren here is holding anything, say in his talons, that can go in with him.

...What if he's holding a pokeball? [ this is clearly an important line of questioning ]

Dunno, maybe? He can't be holding his ball either way. And without consulting my comrades, who actually know more than me, I wouldn't want to try that with Linda's.

Your comrades are the people from the same world as Soren and Linda, right? [ obviously she's not putting her grandmother or Shikamaru into this equation. ]

Two of them do, anyway. They were the ones I meant - Gold and Silver... but it would be more accurate to say the same world as these two's ancestors. They were born in this world.

He gave me lemonade! [ She points at Masaomi when she says it, more of an ah-ha! moment than anything else. ] Ah, I knew Linda was born here, but I didn't know that 'bout Soren. Chien never said. But he knows Luceti really well, so that makes sense!

There were four babies born in Luceti - Linda here, Soren who was the only boy, Kyle, and Skarmy. These four babies were inherited by four trainers... but then Soren lost his.

[Masaomi crouches down now. He doesn't dare touch Soren, in case the bird he knows has some amount of pride holds anything against him for being Linda's partner. But he does try to look him in the eye to confirm something]

But then Soren lost his original one. She went home... and he sought out someone new. He found Chien, and they then became partners. And now Chien is gone too...

[Ikki may or may not know where he's driving, but he hopes Soren understands. He tries to ask Soren with just his eyes if he's right. He knows the bird probably is too raw from the loss of his trainer to pick immediately, but a Pokemon Chooses His Partner. And given he's experienced the loss once before, it might be easier for Soren to understand how a Pokemon will grow stronger with a trainer. ...He wonders, now, if Ikki is who he has Chosen]

Edited 2012-10-06 03:13 (UTC)

[ Masaomi isn't talking about Chien. Ikki doesn't really get what he's talking about; she does notice he's addressing Soren more than he is her, and she's watching with a confused, concerned sort of expression. She's spent very little time talking to anyone from Soren's world - or the world his parents came from - and she doesn't totally understand the Pokemon and human partner connection. She'd always assumed Chien and Soren were best friends, although a lot of what Masaomi had told her before sort of shifted that into best friends who battle together because of romance(?) and passion(?????). It hadn't had anything to do with how she treated either of them.

Soren is a lot less confused than the little girl sitting behind him, though. He seems to be considering Masaomi more than the question he's not asking, but then he hops backwards just once, pressed up against one of Ikki's knees where it comes off the bench. There's a decidedly defensive look to his stance, which Ikki doesn't notice, just reaching down absently and hugging Soren because he'd lost someone else, too, and she's sad for him.

Her voice is fairly firm, and she answers what she thought she heard rather than whatever is actually going on. ] I said they could come to me if they needed. It was a promise!

[ Soren chirps, looking at Masaomi rather than the seven year old child clinging to him, because Ikki's definitely not in this loop. ]

[...Ah, Soren, so that's your choice. Maaomi nods, solemnly, at the bird. He then crouches down to face Ikki more directly. He's not trying to freak her out or anything, but what comes next is gravely important. It's not something super serious, per se, but it is something that she ought to understand]

Ikki-chan, Soren came to you for a reason, I'm now certain. And I'm sure he has something to ask of you - something deeply instinctual to him, a question ["will you be my Partner?"] that he knew he might one day ask of a human since the moment he was born. However... like me, you're not from the world of his ancestors. Like me, you don't instinctually understand the question he's asking. I learned it by trial and error, but as humans are creatures of words, I'd like to try to explain it to you with words first. Would you like to hear me out?

[ Ikki blinks at Masaomi for a second, but nods. ] Of course!

[ She came to him for help with what they were supposed to be doing, and this sounds like the part where he does that. Although he's already been helping since he got there, and she's still got the pokeball in her lap, and she never knew it was as important as it is. ]

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october 4th; idc if you do things with my npc i trust you /soaring music /yep

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