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011 [VIDEO/ACTION FOR AZALEA]

[It is hot as hell today, so Kayneth has taken it upon himself to relocate himself to his room in the local inn rather than in front of the gym. There's a pile of eggs and a nice, fancy-looking list of species and prices slightly out of focus-he'll get to that eventually, but first...! He'll hold up the Hive Badge, although he doesn't look particularly excited to be holding it.]

Apparently, it's customary to show off your badge when you've beaten a Gym Leader... but honestly, I don't think that win was even worth bragging about. The way Bugsy commanded his Pinsir was a complete joke and a terrible way to open the battle. I expected my strategy to be effective, but... I'm quite certain he actually forgot his Pokemon knew Faint Attack until several minutes in, so it was completely useless against Ghost Pokemon for several minutes. There was some challenge to it after that, but I'm quite certain that's because I was using reserve members of my team to make it a challenge.

Then again, I suppose that's only to be expected of a world where no one actually knows why Pokeballs, possibly the most important piece of technology in this world, actually works. You would think I'd be able to get a decent explanation on the workings of Pokeballs, but even the experts who make them are simply working on the fact that a particular set of components just happens to work. Ah, and I believe you would also think that people would bother committing the first individual to happen upon this technology to collective memory... but it seems as though that person has been lost to history, so there aren't even any notes to go on from them.

[He sighs in frustration. Could the people in this world be any more incompetent...]

Then again, I suppose that may as well be like asking who the first person was to discover fire, for all we know. Well, I suppose it's better to focus on the things that aren't ludicrously frustrating, so-

[and now he'll shift the focus to the eggs and the price list!]

Miss Megido asked me to breed two Archen for her and a friend, and, given that it's been over a year since I've been assigned as a breeder and I've been too busy attempting to fine-tune my team to experiment with it beforehand, I decided that now would be as good a time to begin experimenting as any. So, I have a decent variety of Pokemon eggs for what I presume to be reasonable prices... though, if you're willing to provide me some feedback on the Pokemon after they hatch, I'll be perfectly willing to lower them further. I've also trained all of the species included fairly extensively, so if you're unfamiliar with any of them I'll be perfectly willing to give you a good idea of what to expect from them.

[OOC: Badge and info on Pokeballs approved by the mods! Also, there are still plenty of eggs up for grabs-no Archen, Snivy, Cyndaquil, or Petilil slots are still open, unfortunately, but everything else is!]

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[Don't mind him if he just stops by here, eh?]

Can't really offer to take any of the babies off your hands this time around I think, I'm starting to get a pretty decent number, but the pokeballs...

I have absolutely no clue how they work either, but the fact that they bring my pokemon into a kind of suspended animation kind of creeps me out a bit, I'm not even able to tell you how much.

I know a couple of my pokemon refuse to get in them at all if they can avoid it, but they won't tell me why, even the one who can so it really makes me what they see when they're in there, and if their minds are active even if their body is frozen.

That's a shame, though I certainly understand-I'm in a rather similar position myself. I don't suppose anyone you know would want one...?

I... haven't actually had that problem. My Pokemon certainly prefer to be outside their Pokeballs, but I've always assumed it's less that they feel imprisoned and more that they'd rather not be cooped up somewhere all day.

[He hesitated, giving the pile another look over... then shook his head. Everyone he knew was pretty gung ho about collecting certain types from what he'd seen and these didn't fit the bill.]

Sorry man, no go on the people I know thing. The only one who'd jump on it has waaay too many.

[There, that topic was entirely out of the way. On to more important topics.]

You're pretty lucky though.

Then again, given that they don't really... move or grow or anything inside a pokeball?

I mean, have you ever put an egg in storage? It won't hatch.

Edited 2013-07-21 03:08 (UTC)

That's a shame... well, I'm sure I'll find enough buyers, even if I end up having to sell to the natives.

Would the opposite really be preferable, though? Hatching into some sort of computer system doesn't seem like a terribly pleasant prospect to me, and even though death isn't really a concern here, placing an injured Pokemon into suspended animation for a while can prevent it from getting worse until it gets treatment.

I agree that it has its upsides, it's just... their minds. I want to know if those sleep too, because if they don't, isn't that sort of like a form of torture in some ways?

It just... bugs me.

I've been told that's the case, and I've never really been given any reason to believe otherwise. Honestly, given how much this place tries to shove befriending your Pokemon down your throat, I really doubt the system would be allowed to continue if it was actively detrimental to most Pokemon's mental health.

Then why fight it? There are pokemon who do, and they're not exactly a small number. There's been some research done on the evolution of some pokemon too, who only evolve on friendship contentedness... so why would that drop or go slower if their pokemon were kept in the balls more often if they weren't aware?

Are all human fears rational? I think you're putting too much stock into what is effectively a phobia. Plenty of people have fears associated with things that realistically pose very little harm to them and can even be beneficial-think of spiders, for instance. Though there are some that are extremely dangerous, the vast majority are harmless and prey on common pests like flies and disease-carrying mosquitoes... yet they themselves are considered pests simply because people are afraid of them, and this occurs even in areas where there are basically no dangerous ones.

Furthermore, there's an easy explanation for why some Pokemon seem happier when they're left out of their balls-most Pokemon are going to want to be a part of the action rather than simply being transported from Point A to Point B. I mean, really now... would you rather experience a journey, or would you rather find yourself suddenly transported to another location? Granted, I'm sure it depends on personality-I'd certainly prefer the latter, and I've actually noticed that my Nidorina prefers that-outside of battle she's fairly lazy, so she complains if I don't leave her in her ball after we begin traveling.

[He looked thoughtful, not really inclined to argue just for the sake of argument, and the guy did have some good points. On the other hand.]

I can see it, but I'm going to point out that people usually started with those phobias of spiders because of the few that were dangerous, right? So what's so say that at some point the pokeballs didn't have something wrong with them, and there's that subconscious awareness of it in there triggering the reaction for some?

That's... actually a fairly likely possibility, given that, well, like I said, nobody actually seems to understand how they work. It's possible that they went through several iterations that did have some sort of harmful aspect to them before landing on a formula that didn't seem to cause any physical or mental discomfort to Pokemon.

And it's possible some of those mentally damaging ones are out there, or pokeballs malfunction and we don't know, right? SO it might be a completely sound fear.

I would hope that it's easy enough to detect those, at least. Pokemon are intelligent enough to be able to articulate that sort of thing, so it probably wouldn't remain a problem for long.

Maybe... I know there are pokemon out there that act up and have anger issues that just get brushed off by their trainers.

Well, obviously the onus is on the trainer to actually care enough to rectify the problem and there still might be some communication issues... and honestly, it can be a bit hard to tell if a Pokemon just has a difficult personality or is actually having some sort of issue. However, if you have a sufficiently strong, well-mannered Psychic Pokemon you can really always just ask them.

But that's the problem right? Too many people just... don't care. It's pretty sad if you think about it.

Well, there's nothing that can really be done about it. You can't just make someone care, after all.

Yeah... I know.

[He shook his head sharply, then brightened.]

Doesn't mean you shouldn't try though, right?

If it helps you sleep better at night, I suppose.

I know I can't change everything or everyone, but if I didn't at least try to make something better... I wouldn't be me.

Well, nobody's stopping you from trying.

Exactly! [He flashed him a grin.] I guess I just get to keep being stupidly optimistic.

Well, at least you're nothing if not self-aware.

Someone's got to be. No one else will do it for me.

I somehow doubt that.

[He paused, eying him.] Doubt that I'm on my own for it or that someone needs to do it?

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