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[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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Yeah, that's me. I only know of one other person here who got an Archen egg, so it's interesting to see if all three of them behave similarly. It seems like the Archeops who's with me is the only one who's this aggressive, so I guess it must just be her personality.

[Of course, come the event Apollo might start thinking that his is the normal one after seeing how all of the other fossil Pokémon act...]

I didn't hear about the other person, either. It must have been a fairly popular choice for whatever force decided to give out eggs.

But... well, yes. Even when it seems like a species of Pokemon should have a very specific personality type, they tend to be far more varied than you'd think when you look at the individuals.

[He nods slightly.]

All animals have their own personalities, just like humans. Pokémon personalities seem to be a lot more varied among each kind of Pokémon than the personalities of other animals are. It makes them all interesting to talk to.

Well, Pokemon are a bit closer to human intelligence than the average animal, so it stands to reason that their personalities would have more facets than one may initially expect.

Though... do you have mostly Psychic-types, then?

I have one with me, but it doesn't talk a lot. I can talk to animals without needing a Psychic-type Pokémon to help though. I've been told that it's called "telepathy".

Ah, really now... I've heard of people who have the ability to communicate with Pokemon unimpeded, but I wasn't aware that extended to telepathy as well. You were able to use telepathy to communicate with animals before arriving here as well, weren't you? At least, that seems to be what you were implying beforehand.

Yeah, I could. I could talk to plants, too, but I haven't been able to do that since I came here. Except a while ago when everyone kept ending up in different places for a few days.

...

I can understand being able to communicate with animals, but plants...?

Why wouldn't I be able to? They're alive just like animals. Most of them can't say too much, but older plants like trees have stories to tell.

They're...

[okay so maybe dryads are involved or plants work differently in his world, it's only slightly more ridiculous than a world where the dominant intelligent species is a horse]

Not exactly what anyone would consider conscious where I'm from.

[The mun's guess is that it's some kind of psychometry and Apollo is confusing the auras of the plants with the plants having intelligence, but that's just headcanon. The concept is just thrown at the viewer and then never mentioned again, so I have to try and justify this mess somehow.]

They don't have the same kind of consciousness as animals, but they know what goes on near them. Their stories are a bunch of ideas and feelings and pictures all clumped together and you have to put them all in order to see what's happening. Animals think more like humans do.

[Don't worry man I play from Nasuverse. I completely know how you feel.]

I... see. Well, I suppose you would understand it better than I would, though it at least makes sense that they would be different from animals in that regard. Though... images? How do they even see...?

[At least Nasuverse offers explanations. Not always good or logical explanations, but it at least makes some effort.]

I'm not sure if "images" is the best word, but I don't know a better one. They don't have eyes to see, but they're aware of what's going on a short distance away.

[Okay yeah that's true. But headcanoning in between convoluted Nasu bullshit is certainly a thing.]

Ah, that makes more sense. That's... certainly different, though I can't say I don't find it interesting.

[It is indeed.]

It is interesting. [He smiles.] The old sequoia tree back home always has interesting stories if you go to it when you're troubled. The other trees aren't anywhere near as old as that one, but they have good stories too.

...I'm sure. If nothing else, they've been around long enough...

[...but he's still trying to figure out how all this even works.]

How do you feel about Grass Pokemon, then? I admit, they're not exactly equivalent, but are they similar in any way?

The Grass Pokémon who I've talked to have all been like animals, not plants.

I assumed that would be the case, but it didn't hurt to ask, given that some of them seem more like mobile plants and others seem more like animals with some plant features in terms of their anatomy.

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