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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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...Well, maybe I'm the one who doesn't know. My world could be the one that's different, you know. It was pretty fucked up by most standards.

Wasn't the point of that multiversal theorum that every world was different?

[She distinctly remembers that part of it, at least.]

And it's possible my own experience was an outlier, I didn't have much opportunity to ask other kids!

Yeah, me neither. I mean, I had John and everyone, but mostly I think we were more focused on having fun doing what we were doing instead of thinking of the future. I guess the trolls all had really solid life goals, but their society was kind of weird and messed up anyway.

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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.

[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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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.

...wow, yes. Those sound EXCEPTIONALLY violent.

[Somehow moreso than the title 'Huntsman' or 'Huntress', at least.]

Some of them were even crazier, but I don't really remember all of them. I only had extended contact with a couple of the trolls ever on account of the rampant death and planetcide that goes with our set of universes.

...that game you were playing really was just no fun at all, was it.

[It does make sense that a game involved in creating worlds would at least have high stakes, but. The law of equivalent exchange can eat it.]

You didn't know what it would be like when you started, did you?

Aw hell no. At worst, I thought it might've been some kind of boring game for babies, not the rank helping of cosmological horseshit we got served. But it's not like we ever had a choice about playing it, so.

Someone was forcing you? ...oh, or is that more of the "time shenanigan" things?

[Something something predestination paradox, right?]

It sounds really confusing, on top of being so dangerous.

Yeah, it's time stuff. If I say something and it doesn't totally make sense, usually you can pin it down to time stuff.

[That is so untrue I can't even begin.]

[Penny nods in understanding, she's totally got this.]

~~[Lying to impressionable young women isn't very knightly, Dave.]~~

It sounds like something Ciel might have understood, she was always VERY careful about time.

She was another student from Atlas Academy, Mister Ironwood had assigned her as one of my teammates for the Vytal Festival Tournament.

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