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if theres a way to fix six point seven billion people dying from an unstoppable barrage of space rock i dont know about it

[crouching_sin]

Uh...

[There is some time before he responds.]

Short of serious supernatural intervention, unless your Earth is more technologically capable than mine there's very little that can be done, people being what they are and prone to ignoring the truth.

... For what it's worth, I'm sorry.

[You got a Genuine Feeling from him. Mark this in the record books.]

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[A beat.]

i mean

it is what it is i guess
it already happened a long time ago

[crouching_sin]

[There's another long pause as he tries to decide just how open or parental he should be with Dave. It's... tricky, partly because of all of his everything, and partly because he knows damn well what teenagers are like.]

Dave. It's okay to not be over things. I'm still sorting through things that happened sixty, six hundred, or two thousand years ago.

So if you ever want to talk about your feelings, even if you think they're stupid, believe me - I've heard stupider. And I've been and had enough teenagers to know that feelings can be a pain in the ass to sort through.

No obligation, no judgement. No trolling, either. I can tell you're not the feelings pow wow sort of person, but you have to let feelings out sometimes.

[Just... try to not cause as much destruction as his own 'outlets' sometimes cause...]

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[Dave's the one to take a long time to reply, this time.]






ok
well

ill think about it

[crouching_sin]

There's no rush, obviously.

[And away from this topic we go.]

Have you caught anything interesting lately?

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dude i dont think ive actually CAUGHT anything for myself since i pokeballed a murkrow to get her to stop divebombing my face
but here look
look at this

[He sends a small video attachment: A baby Litwick follows Wart the Gallade around and covers her face every time he turns around, perplexed and slightly annoyed.]

she did that for like half an hour
shit was hilarious and pretty much unbearably cute

[crouching_sin]

My Murkrow doesn't do that. Maybe I got lucky.

[That's... that's adorable.]

I guess she likes him.

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she LOVES him
which is good because shes kind of rude and terrible to everyone else
likes pulling pranks and crap
kids these days am i right

[crouching_sin]

Definitely.

[He's not quite cracking up, but he's chuckling at least on his end which is just as good, honestly.]

My Spiritomb sometimes tries to pull some pranks on my other Pokemon, but Alice usually spots them before they can go too far.

My Ditto, on the other hand, had to be trained out of latching onto faces while people sleep. There's pranks and then there's murder attempts.

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haha oh my god
it wasnt malicious right its just the thing i heard cats do to their owners?

[crouching_sin]

Pretty much. Proteus thinks it's funny, but it's made of goo. That's dangerous to do to people.

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yeah legit
dittos the one that can turn into other pokemon right
maybe you couldve told it to turn into a cat if it wanted to do that

[crouching_sin]

It is, yes. I also have a Zoroark that I inherited from someone who left, which can turn into people.

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oh my god
can it talk when it turns into people
because that sounds like a hilarious slapstick routine just waiting to happen

[crouching_sin]

It absolutely can. Technically, it's not actually turning into anything, it's just making an illusion, but as long as no one touches it, it's very convincing.

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who does yours like to imitate

[crouching_sin]

Her former trainer.

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aw
thats kind of sweet
she misses them?

[crouching_sin]

Yeah. I think so. He was here for a few years. It was a bit weird coming here and seeing my student suddenly near twenty rather than seventeen.

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so you teach and program stuff at the same time?

[crouching_sin]

Not formal teaching. More like mentoring, I guess? We met online and he seemed to have potential, so I started giving him more advanced lessons. His parents are often out in Silicon Valley, but he's picked up enough from them to be able to grow on his own.

He was smart enough to know how to break the encryption on the COMPs I gave him, my cousin, and their friend. I knew they'd survive well enough with that kind of skill at their disposal.

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oh right
with the demon apocalypse and stuff right
and your cousin who became the messiah
wouldnt they need more like combat training than computer application skills for something like that

[crouching_sin]

The COMPs they used were somewhat like the Pokegears we have here, though initially designed for gaming. Theirs were modified, of course.

And part of the Demon Summoning Program included something called a Harmonizer. It tunes to the wavelength of human beings, increasing their attack effectiveness while lowering the damage from demons. It doesn't reduce all damage, of course, but enough so that all but a complete idiot could use it.

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so
hm
they summoned demons and also went hand to hand?