generalflirt | Appointments Post ( II )

That's a lot!

[ Oh cool look at that little bar go. You can make it, buddy! ]

Mmhmm! It is. [He now looks down at Soren...]

Say, Ikki, are you going to be willing to hang with me for the next hour and a half doing a lot of the basic training I went through when I first became Linda's Partner? We won't get it all in the first day, of course, but I think it would be good to start now.

[ Soren had been bored of all this pokedex talk and more of Ikki's dried fruit stash is gone. You saw nothing. 8|a Well no you saw stuff she definitely left it open for whoever to eat some.

Ikki nods, finally looking away from the mystery screen. ] Yep, sure! I already did airbending with grandpa and jitte stuff with Smoker. My only other thing is [ ...lunch with Chien. 8|a WELP. ] ...well I don't have anything else for today 'til dinner at home. And I wrote to Katara and grandpa to say where I am an' who I'm with.

Technically, this training is dangerous enough that I think I should call Katara before I, of all people, put you though it.

[He says this... so. So. Sheepishly]

Edited 2012-10-06 05:50 (UTC)

'Kay. [ SHE LOOKS PRETTY UNCONCERNED. Pokemon attacks are, as near as she can tell, special bending things. Her bending form emphasizes avoiding being hit by bending things, or minimizing the damage. ] I'm pretty good at dodging things, if that helps. An' deflecting.

Ikki, I am positive that if we fought you would give me a run for my money, but I also know that if I were to take you into a sim room where you have to fight pokemon without telling you grandmother, she would rip out my heart and feed it to me.

[He even laughs, darkly, at that as he scoots back from the girl and goes to pull out his journal to call Katara]

I don't think she'd feed it to you! [ She's just. laughing. It's probably easier to be entertained here when she's never actually been the target of Katara's protective anger, but rather one of the beneficiaries.

She settles in to fiddle with the pokedex, though, doing the obvious from Masaomi's mini-lecture and pointing it at Soren to see what happens.

Soren has seen what happens before, but obligingly stands still. ]

[With the Sync completed, it now displays the full Data on Soren. all his moves, all the data there, basically. What the moves do. Etc.

And now he goes to call Katara on Voice]

A...haha, Katara, are you there?

[It takes a few minutes, but she sees this.]

Masaomi? Is everything all right?

Oh no, things are good... great, even! [...This is his first time talking to her since their memories returned ~~probably~~ now he thinks of it.] I'm actually just with Ikki [who he's dropped the -chan from] at the Dome. Did you get her note?

[Katara nods]

Yes, I did - I'm glad she got in contact with you.

Ye....ah, but do you realize what Soren going to her after Chien-kun went home means, Katara?

[...you're asking it like that, huh.]

I'm going to be feeding something else?

[Ha, ha, it's a joke, let's move on.]

Is she Soren's new trainer?

Good, you do know! Yes, that's exactly the case. I was just explaining to her what it means and I've been showing her how to work the pokedex and pokeball... but next I was going to introduce her to the basics of battling as Silver showed them to me.

[A beat]

...I figured I should offer for you to be around to see that if you wanted.

[To be honest, he doesn't sound hesitant except for that last part. He sounds excited. Excited to such a grand level that Ikki (the family of Katara) is now his protege in a world he now knows. Even if it's not his own, he's taken it as his own in the last almost-year. He can be someone's mentor]

[An airbender training a Pokemon. This... can't go well.

Let's backtrack a minute before she agrees to anything.]

Masaomi... tell me... how becoming a trainer works, exactly?

Ah... well. To be put simply, the Partner chooses you and you choose if you accept that or not. [In the Pokemon world there's also catching, but in this world and therefore his understanding of it, there's very clearly a "pokemon chooses the trainer" vibe] Or do you mean the committed actions?

No, I mean-- [THIS IS NOW A STANDARD FILTER] -- I know that being a trainer means training a Pokemon to grow stronger and to fight. But airbenders embrace a very distinct philosophy about violence. And Ikki's only seven. If training Soren is too much for her, will Soren get hurt if she can't? Or will he be able to find another trainer?

[A very, very distinct part of of him wants to tell Katara she's underestimating Ikki, but he saw how wonderfully that backfired last time. So he inhales and exhales before he now takes a few more steps away from Ikki. Still within eye sight but hopefully exiting where Ikki can hear him]

In theory, he could find another trainer, yes. In theory, her age and inexperience could result in him being hurt, as well, which is why at least when she's starting out and they're forming their bond - because trust me that's harder than it sounds - I'll be with them every step of the way and I'd like to invite you to be as well.

[Hm.] As for the philosophy of airbenders... I don't think I've ever explained to you why pokemon fight, have I? For pokemon, fighting - battle, that is - is a contest of skill and strength, power and honor. It's born out of a need to become stronger and to achieve the highest level they can reach in personal potential. And frankly, I think that Ikki's compatible with that much, and given she agreed to be his trainer, I think she does too.

[That said, he does seen her concerns. They played out on Ikki's face and also play out in Katara's tone here.]

[Yup. Even your implication goes swimmingly.]

I'm not talking about her age and inexperience, I'm talking about her exposure to violence and to something that she cares about being constantly engaged in fighting. I know that there are benefits as well, and in the end I'm going to support whatever decision she chooses to make, but what I wanted to know was if there was an out for her without hurting anyone in case she wanted to take it.

And I'm on my way.

No matter how you slice it, Soren will always be a warrior, it's in his soul. But yeah, if she ends up unable or unwilling to do, Gold and I can find another trainer for him, I'm sure. Sorry for missing the point.

[Jeez, the whole "not hurting people (emotionally)" is so not intuitive. He sighs and starts to walk back over to Ikki]

Edited 2012-10-06 07:39 (UTC)

[ During that conversation Ikki and Soren progressed from reading the moves to Soren showing off his moves after Ikki reads an entry.

Who knew that the advanced airbending thing was called Air Slash? Ikki did not. The More You Know. Unbothered by the wind this demonstration has kicked up, Ikki taps the next word on the list, fairly confident in this "hit the screen gently until things happen on it" thing they have going on.

Focus Energy says it focuses your energy. Cool?

She glances up from this exciting description as Masaomi comes back. She'd noticed him leaving, but hadn't gone to attempt eavesdropping. ] Sifu, lookit, I can get to the screens 'bout specific ones now. Kinda.

[ button mashing is more luck than skill okay ]

[Sifu.

Sifu.

The word is distantly familiar from Things Aang Says and his time as the Prince of Omashu. Enough that it basically could mean senpai, or even sensei. His eyes widen considerably as she shuts his journal and internalizes that she just called him her mentor. Holy shit. He nods and corrects himself to walk the rest of the distance over to get next to her]

[Holy shit. Okay, smiling, he motions for her to hand him the pokedex. When she does, he holds it in a sort of "both of them are holding it" way.]

Okay, so this is an old school thing. See, you use this [The direction arrow thumb bad. He scrolls through the moves with it] to move around the screen. Then you use this button [the equivalent of the start button] to confirm something... uh, basically to click on it. And then this one [The equivalent of the select button ~~BECAUSE THIS MODEL DOESN'T HAVE A AND B??~~] to go back, see? And when you click on moves. [He clicks on Focus Energy again. And then he scrolls down. There's some more notes/data on it - observations Professors like Oak might have made about the move's limitations and the irl version of PP and other stuff like that] You can get some more information by going down. Not every move has more info, of course, but a lot of them do. You can also add you own notes...

[And he clicks down on the thumb pad until they get to an "ADD NOTE" thing on the screen. He then pushes the start button, and it pulls up the same "thumb pad click and select" typing screen she used earlier for her name ~~it'snot touchpad at all I was forgetting my bad~~ ...But then he shows her something neat.

He flips the dex on its side and shows her a little release switch on the left side near the bottom, and when he does that, a small keyboard slides out of the bottom of the dex. He then types the example sentence "HELLO IKKI" (right there on the notes for Focus Energy, jeez) and smiles at her]

[ The reaction to her terminology sails over Ikki's head completely. She's instead watching with avid interest as Masaomi makes the pokedex do things, keeping quiet as he talks, trying to commit it to memory (narrowly stopping herself from asking what a new school thing would be, but). None of the buttons seem to have special names, at least.

A lot of this seems to be about adding her own notes, and Ikki had sort of been wondering if the whole hunt-and-select thing was how she was supposed to do that - which she wouldn't complain about, exactly, but for anything other than her own four-letter name it might take a while.

Masaomi is rewarded with a gasp when the keyboard slides out, and Ikki reaches over to tug his hand away from the keyboard, examining it. That's so cool. ] It has all the letters!

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