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[The video starts on an unsure-looking Kirlia. He starts to edge away, but Dave--apparently behind the camera--speaks.]

Naw, go ahead, dude. C'mon. Don't be shy.

[The Kirlia sighs, extremely put upon, and then ballet-toes back into place. There's a Dawn Stone on the floor nearby; the Kirlia bends primly at the waist to pick it up, and:

Presto.

Wart the Gallade examines his arm-blades for a moment, then shoots Dave a look as if to say, "If we're quite done now." Dave chuckles quietly.]

Yeah, yeah, thanks for humoring me, bro. The moment has been secured for posterity. Duty discharged. [The relief on the Gallade's face is palpable before Dave turns the camera towards his own movie star mug. Hello, Johto.]

So, hey. I get that baby's first evolution is probably ancient headwear for most of you, but he's the first guy I got all the way to his final form. That's worth some kind of jokey home video.

[Yeah, because he's obviously being ironic about this. He's not Proud Dadding all over his starter, no sirree.]

Anyway, I've been hearing about a bunch of different evolutionary paths our Poképals can take, and, I dunno. I'm curious, I guess. If you ever made a choice like that, what made you pick one way or the other?

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I guess that's something big brothers are just good at, huh?

[Dave takes an odd, blank pause for a moment before he answers.]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Whatever the weirdness is, though, it passes.]

Do you have any siblings, is that why you said that?

[Well, he's a ghoul.

Ghouls.... tend to make pretty shitty siblings, whoops.]

I'm an only child, so I guess I missed out on being a big brother.

Would you have wanted a brother or a sister if you were?

Wait, was the town literally made of cans, or is it just a name?

[Because of it's the former... wow. This must've been one weird world.]

Either way, sounds like an interesting guy, but how'd you manage to talk politics when he didn't speak?

Literally cans. And books for roofs and stuff.

[Riku may be overestimating the scale of this town.]

Look, it's hard to explain without him here. You'd just kind of look at him and let the understanding in. He had some real great ideas, if he were a citizen of America or even of my whole planet I'd've voted him President immediately.

Oh, maybe your world was the strange one then.

[Three worlds isn't much of a sample size, but apparently that's what they have to work with.]

But that's not a bad thing! You might not have had the future planned but you didn't have to worry about Grimm attacks, and it sounds like there were a LOT more people on Earth than in Remnant!

[Until. Um. They mostly all died.]

[ALL THREE OF THESE WORLDS ARE MESSED UP. NONE OF THEM SHOULD BE THE BASELINE OF COMPARISON.]

Yeah, maybe. I imagine if I'd had some kind of known impending threat looming over my childhood, I might've been more focused regarding my career path. Probably.

Oh hell no, Strider, I've got best friend privileges, you can't void them even if you try.

[Aereon is actually a pretty good name, though, all told.]

Hopefully the shiny isn't black, then it'd be a Corveon and you'd mysteriously have swarms of them all up in your business daily.

Oh Christ. Fuck. I take it back, there will be no Aereon, Dave's Poképrediction Corner is closed forever. I've got enough of that with Poe and Turkey Leg, thanks.

[Okay, so... a lot of that doesn't really go over Elsa's head, but it's a bit difficult to grasp. She thinks she gets the gist of it, though.]

So no matter what happens, you can't change anything.

[...]

Then... what's the point of such a power?

I mean...I could, as long as it's supposed to happen. A couple of me have come back to the past from bad timelines to fix what went wrong. But it doesn't turn out so well for those guys.

I would have. I like kids; I'm good at cheering them up and taking care of them.

I recommend sisters. Little sisters can be, like, brainy and evil and make you want to swallow your own dick in shame sometimes, but then. I dunno. Sometimes it's worth it.

Little brothers are just assholes.

But how do you know what you're doing is supposed to happen?

If you're trying to change something that's far away from the you that's living in that point in time, there's a chance that you won't find out about it. So how are you supposed to know if you're allowed to do it or not?

[GEEZ, ELSA'S GIVING HERSELF A HEADACHE HERE...]

If a future me doesn't loop back to tell me about it and let me know what I should do, then.

[He shrugs.]

I don't, I guess. I gotta go by intuition, and if I'm wrong, well, fuck me.

[Work with what you have, Dave. Not what you might one say theoretically alchemize out of frogs and healthy emotional responses.]

I suppose that could be part of it! Lots of people on Remnant have careers that don't involve fighting at ALL, but I don't know how young they are when they decide that kind of thing.

...Did a lot of them want to be fighters, your alien friends?

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...There was a girl I knew, back home. She ended up with me and a couple other people for... complicated reasons.

Hinami-chan. She was very sweet. I miss her.

...so how small was this guy?

[Because if he's serious about this, then it doesn't sound as much like a town as a playset. Then again, maybe the town was populated by mice. Hard to imagine, but he's not about to close his mind to the possibility.]

Either way, those must've been some... intense looks, if you could read that much from him. Heh, unless you're some kinda telepath, anyway.

Yeah, actually. I think all of them did? That or all troll careers involve some element of violence just by nature of being fucking bugnuts shithive. Karkat wanted to be a threshecutioner, Terezi wanted to be a, what the fuck was it. A lawyer thing. Legislacerator, that's it.

...I miss my sister, too.

She wasn't sweet, Christ fucking no, but. She was my sister, even if we only knew it recently. So I get it.

Oh god, no, I'm not psychic. You'd want my sister for that. But I don't think she was that kind of psychic.

[Oh my god, Dave, she's not Psychic. Anyway, he holds a hand up about three, four feet off the ground.]

The Mayor's, like, yay big? Something like that.

She might always come here.

I've been hoping Hinami will show up here for a long time, now.

...

For your sake or hers?

[.....]

Maybe a little of both.

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