Fourth Day - Video/Action/Text

[thebelsareinert]

Is it me, or are these bugs starting to get tired? They don't seem as angry as they were on the first day of all this.

[As if to prove his point, Hiro's Larvitar - which was having trouble taking out the things en masse a few days prior - now attacks a pair at once and takes them out no problem.]

They're still mad, but I think it's getting close to an end. I've actually been able to try catching a few of them now. Lucky me, this nose thing found me earlier and decided to team up with me. Pretty cool of it actually.

[Hiro shifts the camera to his newest team member, the stray Nosepass that he discovered after its master, Don Paolo, vanished mysteriously from Johto. The Nosepass goes to take out some more bugs, and Hiro turns back to the screen.]

By the way... Anyone else read what the thing says about Paras? Hold on a second--

[After hitting some buttons, during the gd video, some text scrolls over the screen. Thank you being BFFs with a super hacker.]

Paras has parasitic mushrooms growing on its back called tochukaso. They grow large by drawing nutrients from this Bug Pokémon host. They are highly valued as a medicine for extending life.

It is doused with mushroom spores when it is born. As its body grows, mushrooms sprout from its back.

Pretty cool, huh? [... and sort of cruel and demented. feel free to call him on that.] Couldn't help myself to a few more of them after reading that.

Filtered to Naoya

Do you see anything you like? I saved my last ball for you.

Filtered to Squalo

I'm in Violet now. When will it be possible to get that Torchic egg?

[Hitting the hay! Will tag back any waiting tags upon waking up and returning from class such o/]

Comments

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

... Huh.

[just a small pause as she takes one final bite of her dumpling. and this time she'll actually swallow before she speaks.]

Is that how you do things?

[video] 1/2

[thebelsareinert]

[a pause] If I have to. Most demons aren't really as nice as these things, so in comparison, even these nasty bugs seem pretty harmless to me.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

To tell you the truth, this whole thing probably felt more normal than anything else here has so far.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

[that last part kyoko can understand, because fighting these things... is a lot like the stuff she did back home. Though she would never say that to anyone else. it was weird to think she was... used to that stuff.

oh, wait, she's spacing out. time to focus on hiro.]

. . . What about demons?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

...?

Did I not say anything last time?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

There's no way I'd forget about something like that.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

I know that feeling.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

So you didn't say anything.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Well... You know what a demon is, right?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

Who doesn't?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Ever seen one? Fought one? Fought with one?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

I don't think so.

[she pauses. she's not really supposed to say this kind of stuff, but what does it matter in this case. the things here are weird, too.]

But I've seen things that come close enough, I guess.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

... [he nods, then starts telling her about how they invaded Tokyo and such.]

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

[she's going to sit through the story, as stone faced as possible--and when hiro finishes, that expression stays.]

. . . You seem fine, though. [with stuff like that going on, she'd expect someone to be all kinds of hurt or crazy. maybe he's just resilient.]

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

... A lot happens.

[He looks off into the distance - he didn't touch on God, the government, or the angels yet, but he'll get to them in a moment.]

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah.

It's not like that's a small problem.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

[nods]

I haven't even told you the half of it yet. It gets better.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing not literally, huh?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Definitely not.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

So, are you just leaving it at half the story?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Nah, there's more. So...

[And here comes the bits about the government, the microwave and the chips of death, and then... the angels and God. ... And then he's done.]

[video] 1/2

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

[and kyoko listens patiently, taking in the things about the field, the government plots--

--but her face quickly changes when he gets to the things about God.]

That's. . .

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

-- Is that some kind of sick joke?

There's no way that's real!

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

What kind of person would joke about this?

Of course it's real!

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

[and she pauses, staring at him. she could believe the other things--she had seen weirder. it was hard, but it was possible.

but the things about God... she had a concrete belief about that beforehand. and that was something that was hard to change.]

I wouldn't know. [she stops.] You know... that could be fake.