ghostytrainer | prank #48

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prank #48 | video

[John seems somehow distracted when he turns on the video today. He's sitting at the kitchen table in his house, chin propped in his hand and eyes on a Pokéball he's rolling idly on the table in front of him.]

You ever wonder what it is that determines what happens to a Pokémon after its trainer goes back home? I mean, I've thought about it before but never really thought about it if that makes any sense? This is really the first time I've inherited one that wasn't from a friend so it just got me thinking.

Granted, it originally belonged to someone who was... [He pauses, seeming almost hesitant to finish that sentence. Or perhaps unsure of how he wants to end it.] ...a friend. At...one point in time... [He trails off, brow furrowing as he stops rolling the ball around.] So maybe it has less to do with Eridan and more to do with her.

[He leans his chair back on two legs, picking the ball up and passing it back and forth between his hands, finally looking at the camera.]

So yeah. Anybody have any good conspiracy theories on the matter? I'm curious.

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haha, nope! definitely not.
tenten said the same thing though. that she'd felt better than she had all month.
and i have to agree with both of you on that front.
so whatever we did in that castle, yeah. it was the right thing. :)

beating the uh...thing.
can you remember what it looked like?
neither tenten nor i could so i'm curious. all i remember is that it was really, really big.

It was big. And Naegi-kun shot at it with...arguments.

[...]

I think it had horns?

oh, yeah i remember that! naegi, i mean.
before he could shoot, he had to say stuff like...uh.
what was it?
ding dong, you're wrong?
no, that's not it, that's just dumb.
anyway, yeah. that was kind of cool even if it had kind of a weird restriction on its usage.

he can't normally do that though, right?
i ran into him in the dungeon earlier that week.
he said he didn't have any powers.

He couldn't do it unless he advanced an argument. Or exposed a weakness in...the monster's, I suppose.

He can't normally do that, no. I can't normally do the strange thing I manifested, either — as far as I know.

Why were you both in the dungeon?

what did you manifest?
all the stuff i could do was just powers i used to have back home.

because we died.
or uh...not-died? i guess that clause still held true even in...wherever we were.
because i SHOULD have died, but instead i just blacked out and woke up shackled in the dungeon but otherwise completely fine.
no stab wounds or anything.
then naegi just kinda...showed up a little bit later in much the same predicament.
only apparently he got mauled by bears instead of stabbed.

He what?

uh.
shit, did i just get him in trouble?
because if so, please forget that i said that.

I didn't know that.

[Shit, shit, shit.]

So he saw bears. And you saw something that stabbed you.

uhh...well then. surprise! now you know!

[Oops.]

but yeah, basically.
from the sounds of things, the monsters changed shape depending on who was looking at them?
found that out when i ran into my friend shaun.
we both saw two completely different things but we were both looking at the same monster.
his guess was that they took the form of whatever they thought would scare us most.
not sure if that's actually how they worked but it wasn't a bad little theory, in my opinion.

...The strange thing I manifested. It was...

[...]

He couldn't be harmed when I was around. I could, and others could. But blows didn't land on him.

so you were like his protector then, huh?
hehe. that's pretty neat.
you two must be really close friends, huh?

If what you've said is true, I don't know if it's a role I'm altogether happy with.

But I suppose it's fair to say we're close.

wait...you don't think that was your fault was it?
the bears thing, i mean.
because i don't see how it could have been. i mean the powers thing didn't kick in till we were all downstairs.

and those things were pretty persistent and deadly!
i mean i was with rose AND dave and they still got me.
so...don't beat yourself up over it, i guess is what i'm trying to say here.

No. The bears weren't my fault.

But the bears and the grant of responsibility for Naegi-kun's safety both suggest that this place was somehow relying on information that I'm not altogether comfortable with it having.

ohhh ok.
just as long as you weren't blaming yourself for something that clearly wasn't your fault.

i don't know what to tell you about that though.
i mean i guess that's possible?
but who knows.

Does it bother you? On the occasions when this place seems to know too much.

not really no.
but then again, i can't really say that's happened to me much?
i mean there was that outfit in my bag but that's really the only thing i can think of that falls in that category.
or well...i guess some of those mystery eggs i've gotten sort of do as well?
but even then, it always just seems like more of a funny coincidence than anything.
but that might just be because the information in question isn't stuff that makes me uncomfortable.

i mean it's not really all that big of a secret that i'm kind of...a nerd. i mean if i am being completely honest with myself, that's the truth right there.
so getting super nerd clothes, while kind of HAHA REAL FUNNY isn't particularly unnerving.
nor is getting an egg containing a pokemon with a reputation as a trickster, that just so happens to have a shiny form that kind of
uh.
matches my color scheme for lack of a better way to put it?
like her horns are the same color as my eyes, instead of green and she's black instead of brown. my hair is black.
you get the idea.
and matching ghost squid eggs with rose on valentine's day was the same sort of deal.
though i'm not sure if that counts since like...rose and i weren't dating back home or anything like that. but she likes tentacles and i like ghosts so...

anyway, tl;dr, most of the stuff that's happened to me like that has been based off of my interests or other little mundane things like that.
so it never really bothered me, personally.
even with the monsters in the castle, one could argue that that was our own doing, rather than someone/thing knowing more than it should.

[Okay, there's plenty to address there but Kirigiri's just going to take a minute to zero in on what is clearly the most important.]

She likes tentacles?

[A+, Kirigiri.]

yeah.
tentacles are kind of her thing.
she's pretty much all about the eldritch horrors and the zoologically dubious.
i am pretty sure she had a field day when she found out they were real in our world.

I see. As an area of study, then.

[Kirigiri...]

i'm going to say "yes" and think no further on the implications of that.

[Surely, if he believes hard enough, that will make this statement all the more true. He tries not to think about the fact that her interest in tentacles most definitely extends beyond academic interest.]

[lalalalala not listening.]

As opposed to personal romantic interest.

There are plenty of Pokemon for her to study with those criteria, as far as I know.

called it.
did you get pics?

oh yeah let me go get my desktop that i dont currently have
course i did
naturally she is reading this and going to tell you that she didnt or elaborate on it
bet is on the later

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