In winter, Rose practically doubles in side thanks to her thick, padded winter coat and boots and hat. She bursts into the caravan with a wide grin and bright eyes, clutching her 'gear, a sudden explosion of pink that fills the doorway entirely.
Greg had been taking a nap at that point. He's getting older, he's not working any jobs at the moment and there are a lot of blankets on the bed. He can nap if he wants to.
"Huh... wha...?" He pushes himself up, blinking blearily at his wife.
Rose is completely unbothered by Greg napping, he can nap whenever he'd like. It isn't as though they have some sort of schedule to keep. She sets her gear aside and starts unbundling herself in the warm confines of the caravan.
"Oh...I don't know how soon, but I can just replay the announcement." Rose's excitement superseded little things like paying attention to details like when and where.
"But it isn't like the show type ones, it's a cooking contest! How clever! Trainers and Pokemon cooking together...."
The stars in her eyes at the idea are practically visible.
Greg blinks. "Huh," he says. "I was kind of hoping for a show," he admits, "since I want to do better than last time. But-- huh. I think I can work with this. Can we enter together?"
Probably not, he thinks. They didn't let people last time. But it would be nice if he could enter with Rose.
[Armin debated a long time whether to do this over voice chat or via the written word. In the end, he went for voice, if only because there'd be so much extra information to be gained from vocal inflection. And he wants all the information he can get, even if he is going to die from embarrassment getting there.]
[nervous? Armin is not nervous. He's cool, relaxed--
Okay, he's nervous as tits.]
O-oh, it's just... I'm sorry, by the way, for suddenly calling you like this. I realize you might have more important things to do.
[Is he stalling? Despite the fact that he's already been staring at his gear for almost an hour, rehearsing this conversation in his head? Absolutely.]
No, no, I'm fine. I didn't have anything more important to do. And besides, you're my friend, Armin. If you need to talk to me about something, well, that's important too.
Uhm, well, I was hoping you could give me some, uh, relationship advice.
[Because, really who else is Armin going to ask? Shiro'd probably run for the hills if he dropped the r-word. Jean doesn't exactly seem like the relationship master either. Steven? Steven dated Jack.
Beyond that, Armin isn't sure if he knows anyone else with actual relationship experience. At least not people he'd dare approach. Greg is, for all intents and purposes, his only hope.]
Oh! Do you want to talk about moving in with each other, then? Because you should probably figure out first who's got the bigger place and the least rent... I guess that would be you, with the whole gym and all.
We are already living together. I mean, she's got her own room at my gym. I've got plenty of space and she needed somewhere to stay. It's not even related to us dating, really. She would always have been welcome.
[Though they definitely do not share a bedroom or a bed yet. Which, uh, is the thing Armin really wants to ask about.]
No, uhm. What I wanted to ask is-- Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy right now. Angel is great and I'm not disappointed with anything we do. [Pause as he tries to work out a way to phrase this delicately.] It's just that I know... relationships are supposed to... progress over time but uhm.
H-how do you know it's time to, you know, progress to the uh, more progressive stuff?
[Greg can't see Armin, but the blush is very audible in his tongue-tied words.]
[It's a good thing that he's already had a conversation about this with Steven. Well, sort of. Admittedly, the existence of Stevonnie was probably a darn good form on birth control in themself.]
I suppose you've gotta ask yourself if you want that. And then you've got to ask her if she wants that. And if the answer to those is yes...
... then you're definitely going to need to wear a condom. Don't worry. Rose and I have more than enough on hand--we'll mail you a box.
[Yes, yes, asking himself and then asking Angel-- Armin certainly figured that much! But how do you introduce such a subject into conversation? Is he supposed to just bring it up over breakfast one day? Is he rushing things? The only measure he has is what little Steven has told him about his love life (not a good measure by any means) and the sort of stories the boys of the training regiment had passed around after hours in the barracks (also not a good measure, and in any case, Armin really doubted even half of that was true) and--
... oh. Right. You're sort of from the past in terms of technology compared to this world. You probably don't have them yet, since you wouldn't have latex.
[Greg takes a deep breath and lets it out.]
Okay, so, condoms are what we call birth control. They stop women from getting pregnant. If, uh, you have any diseases of the private parts--which I really don't think you or Angel would have--condoms will stop other people from catching them.
How they work is... well, you know your, uh, your privates? A condom is a long, thin sheath made of latex and you put it over the, uh, penis when you're going to have sex. That way when the moment comes, none of the sperm will make it into the woman's vagina, because the condom traps them.
But like I said, we've got boxes of 'em in the caravan--Rose likes to stock up when we're in towns--so I can just find one we didn't open yet and send it to you through pidgey post.
And don't worry. You'll still be able to feel things even through the condom.
[It's okay Greg, this is about as embarrassing for you as it is for Armin.
(though despite the embarrassment, he is taking some notes. Cause this is important and the downside of doing this over voice is that he won't have a nice and easy text record of it.)]
A-and that is enough to keep a girl from getting pregnant? Or uhm, should I be doing more?
[Does he need to pull out too, cause that is basically the only sex-preventive tactic Armin knows about.]
It's a great start! Unless the condom breaks or it was old and had a hole in it--which is why you don't use the one that's been in your wallet for years--the condom should keep your sperm contained. Just, you know, make sure it's new? And roll it down as far as it goes. Oh--and when you're pulling out, sort of pinch the top of it to you, so it doesn't accidentally slide off you in the process. Condoms when they're used right are really great for preventing pregnancy, but not everyone uses 'em right.
And, uh, there's more stuff that can be done to keep girls from getting pregnant, but except for the condom, they're all stuff the girl has to do. If you and Angel think you're gonna have sex regularly, she can talk to the doctor at whatever clinic you go to about her getting the Pill or the Shot. Uh, the first is one girls take every morning to keep from getting pregnant--the second they get every three months I think?
[He thinks for a moment, before adding,] Plus if you're worried, there's other ways to have sex than just the kind that makes babies. You know how, uh, sometimes it won't go down unless you do something about it? Well, people will 'do something' about it on their partners instead. With, you know, their hands. Actually, if you and Angel feel comfortable about it, showing each other how you touch yourselves is probably a good thing? Because you'll know what kind of touches she likes and she'll know what kind you like.
And, uh, there's using your mouths too. In my experience, almost everyone likes it when their partner puts their mouth there. Girls especially, sometimes more than the baby-making kind of sex.
And please, Mr Greg. Armin might not know much about being in a relationship or birth control, but he knows a bit about different sex acts. He still appreciates the advice though, but to save himself and Greg from more embarrassment, he won't focus on that.]
Noted.
Uhm, how do I know if a condom is old? Is there a specific time-frame I should keep in mind?
There should be an expiration date on the package but if you open it and it's dry or sticky or stiff, it's still no good even if it hasn't hit the expiration date.
[Part of Armin really wants to know what makes some of these condoms fancy compared to others, but perhaps he should wait to ask that. At least until Greg and Rose have sent him the box of condoms they promised. Perhaps it will all become clear when he has seen an actual condom.
(Greg may have explained it, but the actual appearance of a condom is still a bit vague in Armin's mind)
Besides, there is still that other thing he wants to ask.]
But how will I know we'll be ready for-- for all of this? I know a relationship is supposed to progress, but how do you know it is time for the next stage? H-how do you know if you are rushing something or being too slow?
Huh. Well. I think a lot of that is asking questions, so you know how your partner feels about things. If she wants to sleep with you and you want to sleep with her--or him, if you swing that way--and both of you feel good about the idea, then I think it's time. It doesn't matter if you met her a year ago or an hour ago. What matters is that it feels right for you.
Having sex for the first time-- it's a scary thing for anyone, Armin. But if you think about doing it and you feel more good about doing it than you feel nervous... that's probably a sign that you're ready. And it'll be the same with her too.
hi. it's felix. I'm looking for guitar lessons. you're good at the guitar. I'd like to hire you to teach me if that's something you would be willing to do.
Oh sure! I've done it before. My son even made these cute tee shirts advertising me as Guitar Dad.
You looking to do in person lessons or is over the 'gear better? I guess since I've got most of the warps by now as long as we stay near major cities we could do the first pretty easily.
['Guitar Dad.' Rodrigue rarely had the time to teach his sons anything personally, but he did sometimes spar with them or take them horseback riding. Felix remembers the times when, after Glenn's death, his father would offer and he would say something scathing and leave.]
guitar dad huh? as good an endorsement as any. I would prefer in person. we've settled in olivine for the moment and will be coming back often. if that works for you.
the kind you play. the one you had with you at the cooking contest. it makes good accompaniment for someone singing. not me. I don't sing. but a few friends do. I'd like to play for them.
I can play both, but the one you're thinking of is an acoustic guitar! I probably should get another electric someday if Rose and I ever have the money for it.
Acoustic is good to start out with, anyway, because you don't need electricity try play it. It's better for traveling.
acoustic then. although couldn't an electric pokemon provide the electricity to play the other kind? or would that just destroy it? anyway we'll have to wait a week or two to begin. my wedding is this weekend and then we're going to sevii for a week and then as I understand it there's some kind of dance event? so after that.
Huh, I bet it could, actually, if you had some way to regulate how much electricity the pokemon was making. Maybe I should look into that.
I don't mind waiting a week or two. It'll give me time to come up with your weapon plan. Do you have a guitar of your own yet or will you need me to come in person with my guitar for the first few lessons?
Congratulations on the wedding! Rose and I finally got married last year, in a private ceremony in the woods, with just our pokemon. It was really nice, actually. Doofy (her Bidoof) carved our rings an everything.
Yeah, Prom is coming up. It's every year? Rose and I went last year. It was pretty nice, except when all the pokemon got suddenly really, really big and people had to fight them.
I have quite a few electric types. perhaps when you come we can test it. weapon plan? I have a guitar. dimitri and I went with zuke to the music shop in goldenrod. dimitri wants to learn drums. that does sound agreeable. ours will be on the beach in olivine. just our traveling group and a few friends who are making food. people fought giant pokemon last year? that sounds much more interesting than a party.
Sorry, the autocorrect thing on this pokegear is being weird. I don't do weapons, man. Even when I got dragged into fighting things made of light with Steven (my son Steven, not the guy who sells weed Steven) and Connie, I just played the guitar to give 'em positive reinforcement.
They were huge! Our hosts were these weird guys from Galar and they brought with them these special rocks that made pokemon grow big, only they lost them and some random other pokemon found 'em. And then they got big and people had to fight them to get the rocks back.
And then that one Lance guy showed up (the league guy, not the self care guy) and I think he must have deported them for importing the rocks.
[Felix makes a face at his Gear. A weapon plan sounded intriguing.]
oh. idk about selling weeds but do you mean fight club steven? I didn't know your son was also steven. is that a common name in multiple worlds? I never thought about someone playing music to help in battle although we do have dancers with magic that is similar. if prom is like that again I might enjoy it.
Yeah, you can get berry weed at Fight Club. The girl who runs the bar sells it to you under the counter. It's not really made of weeds, but a bunch of by-products of persim berries, but a lot of people call it 'berry weed' because it's similar to marijuana.
And my son is also named Steven, yeah. He's sixteen. I guess he'd be seventeen now. He's back home, with the Gems. They were Rose's sisters-in-arms before she left us.
I think it's a pretty common name, yeah! Sometimes people spell it with a 'ph' but that's a bit more fancy than we wanted to go with. We were gonna name him 'Nora' if he was a girl, but then he wasn't.
Back when we had to fight the light, I'd play music that would help the others recover or help them do fancier moves and sometimes I'd even play music loud enough to disrupt the light.
[Felix doesn't know what 'marijuana' is either, but he decides he doesn't care that much.]
your wife left? where did she go? you keep talking about these gems and your son fighting. is your homeland at war as well? I have no idea wtf you mean by fight the light. was it some kind of magic?
I guess the easiest way to explain is that we lost her when she gave birth to Steven. I feel really lucky to have found her here again in this world. It had been so long...
It's not at war now, but until two years ago there were a lot of monsters around. My son Steven and the Crystal Gems fought them to protect people. Rose did too before Steven was born.
The light was a magic weapon that had a mind of its own. Usually I wasn't a part of the fighting but when the people who made the light tried to take it back and use it against us I was.
she died? people who are dead in our worlds can appear here, alive? oh. of course. they come from an earlier point in time I suppose.
[It's hard for Felix to continue typing; he puts the Gear down and gets up to pace around for a few minutes. Of course the dead can show up here, from a point before they died. How could Felix never have considered this possibility? What if...what if Glenn or Rodrigue appears one day? Or King Lambert? ...Miklan?
...he'll have to talk to the others about this later. For now, he forces the thoughts aside and takes up his Gear again to finish the message.]
I see. I have fought monsters and animated magical weapons as well. it's never a pleasant or straightforward fight. I have seen beams of light that can tear through flesh and stone. demonic beasts the size of buildings uprooting chunks of rock from the ground to fling at entire battalions. your son and these gems must be quite strong to have survived and won.
Steven especially, really. He gets that from Rose. He gets so much from her, which I suppose makes sense because he is, after all, half her.
Though in the end, they didn't end up defeating all the monsters. Instead, they went to Homeworld, where Rose's people come from, and managed to convince her... family, I guess, is the best word for them? He got them to help heal them.
Because that's the awful thing, Felix. All those monsters that they fought were nothing but soldiers from a war five thousand years ago, corrupted by the use of a terrible weapon. Rose and her closest companions were the only ones that managed to avoid being hit by it.
[Felix stares at the message for a minute, his mind's eye immediately fixed on the Lance of Ruin transforming a screaming Miklan into a horrific, murderous beast. On Sylvain's face as they fought him. On the corpse looking just as human as ever once they felled the monster.
Didn't Greg say his son was just a teenager? The same age, perhaps, that Felix and the others had been. And yet, he was able to rescue those corrupted soldiers. Could Rhea have done something similar, if she'd tried? She must know more about Crest stones than anyone else; could she have found a way to reverse what the Lance had done?
Felix shakes his head. Enough of getting lost on memory lane.]
I'm familiar with that kind of battle too. someone I once knew stole an ancient weapon he shouldn't have touched and it transformed him into a demonic beast. we had to take him down. it happened again with others, but deliberately inflicted. we never found a way to reverse it. I commend your son for doing what we couldn't.
[Then, after about ten seconds, another message comes:]
Well, he did have Rose's... well, I wasn't sure if I ought to call them her sisters or her aunts and mother, but he had Rose's kin to help him. Since they were the people who'd made the weapon that had corrupted everyone who Rose hadn't had under her shield with her when they set it off, it was really the least they can do.
And, well, no. She's about twice that I think? That's just how long she's been on Earth, more or less. Gems are very long-lived.
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Date: 2021-01-13 02:29 am (UTC)In winter, Rose practically doubles in side thanks to her thick, padded winter coat and boots and hat. She bursts into the caravan with a wide grin and bright eyes, clutching her 'gear, a sudden explosion of pink that fills the doorway entirely.
"Did you see?"
Re: Action!
Date: 2021-01-15 06:58 pm (UTC)"Huh... wha...?" He pushes himself up, blinking blearily at his wife.
"See what?"
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Date: 2021-01-22 01:00 am (UTC)Rose is completely unbothered by Greg napping, he can nap whenever he'd like. It isn't as though they have some sort of schedule to keep. She sets her gear aside and starts unbundling herself in the warm confines of the caravan.
"But a new kind this time!"
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Date: 2021-01-29 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-04 01:05 am (UTC)"But it isn't like the show type ones, it's a cooking contest! How clever! Trainers and Pokemon cooking together...."
The stars in her eyes at the idea are practically visible.
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Date: 2021-02-22 09:22 pm (UTC)Probably not, he thinks. They didn't let people last time. But it would be nice if he could enter with Rose.
Voice
Date: 2021-01-29 02:37 am (UTC)Uhm. C-could I talk to you? P-privately?
also voice
Date: 2021-01-29 03:12 am (UTC)[There's some noise in the background. Probably the sound of Greg making/finding that privacy.]
Okay! So what's up, Armin? You sound kinda nervous.
voice forevermore until the end of time.
Date: 2021-01-29 03:46 am (UTC)Okay, he's nervous as tits.]
O-oh, it's just... I'm sorry, by the way, for suddenly calling you like this. I realize you might have more important things to do.
[Is he stalling? Despite the fact that he's already been staring at his gear for almost an hour, rehearsing this conversation in his head? Absolutely.]
Re: voice forevermore until the end of time.
Date: 2021-01-29 03:57 am (UTC)No, no, I'm fine. I didn't have anything more important to do. And besides, you're my friend, Armin. If you need to talk to me about something, well, that's important too.
So what's happening?
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Date: 2021-01-29 04:15 am (UTC)Uhm, well, I was hoping you could give me some, uh, relationship advice.
[Because, really who else is Armin going to ask? Shiro'd probably run for the hills if he dropped the r-word. Jean doesn't exactly seem like the relationship master either. Steven? Steven dated Jack.
Beyond that, Armin isn't sure if he knows anyone else with actual relationship experience. At least not people he'd dare approach. Greg is, for all intents and purposes, his only hope.]
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Date: 2021-01-29 04:47 am (UTC)Oh. Sure. About your friend Angel, right?
[Most people know by now that you like her boobies.]
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Date: 2021-01-29 04:51 am (UTC)[Armin figured that infamous post had let the meowth out of the bag when it comes to that particular subject.]
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Date: 2021-01-29 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-30 12:09 am (UTC)[Though they definitely do not share a bedroom or a bed yet. Which, uh, is the thing Armin really wants to ask about.]
No, uhm. What I wanted to ask is-- Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy right now. Angel is great and I'm not disappointed with anything we do. [Pause as he tries to work out a way to phrase this delicately.] It's just that I know... relationships are supposed to... progress over time but uhm.
H-how do you know it's time to, you know, progress to the uh, more progressive stuff?
[Greg can't see Armin, but the blush is very audible in his tongue-tied words.]
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Date: 2021-01-30 12:56 am (UTC)[It's a good thing that he's already had a conversation about this with Steven. Well, sort of. Admittedly, the existence of Stevonnie was probably a darn good form on birth control in themself.]
I suppose you've gotta ask yourself if you want that. And then you've got to ask her if she wants that. And if the answer to those is yes...
... then you're definitely going to need to wear a condom. Don't worry. Rose and I have more than enough on hand--we'll mail you a box.
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Date: 2021-01-30 03:52 am (UTC)... wait a moment.]
W-what's a condom? How does that factor in?
i can't BELIEVE greg had to say 'penis' for this. AND vagina
Date: 2021-01-30 04:37 am (UTC)[Greg takes a deep breath and lets it out.]
Okay, so, condoms are what we call birth control. They stop women from getting pregnant. If, uh, you have any diseases of the private parts--which I really don't think you or Angel would have--condoms will stop other people from catching them.
How they work is... well, you know your, uh, your privates? A condom is a long, thin sheath made of latex and you put it over the, uh, penis when you're going to have sex. That way when the moment comes, none of the sperm will make it into the woman's vagina, because the condom traps them.
But like I said, we've got boxes of 'em in the caravan--Rose likes to stock up when we're in towns--so I can just find one we didn't open yet and send it to you through pidgey post.
And don't worry. You'll still be able to feel things even through the condom.
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Date: 2021-01-31 01:34 am (UTC)(though despite the embarrassment, he is taking some notes. Cause this is important and the downside of doing this over voice is that he won't have a nice and easy text record of it.)]
A-and that is enough to keep a girl from getting pregnant? Or uhm, should I be doing more?
[Does he need to pull out too, cause that is basically the only sex-preventive tactic Armin knows about.]
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Date: 2021-01-31 10:00 pm (UTC)And, uh, there's more stuff that can be done to keep girls from getting pregnant, but except for the condom, they're all stuff the girl has to do. If you and Angel think you're gonna have sex regularly, she can talk to the doctor at whatever clinic you go to about her getting the Pill or the Shot. Uh, the first is one girls take every morning to keep from getting pregnant--the second they get every three months I think?
[He thinks for a moment, before adding,] Plus if you're worried, there's other ways to have sex than just the kind that makes babies. You know how, uh, sometimes it won't go down unless you do something about it? Well, people will 'do something' about it on their partners instead. With, you know, their hands. Actually, if you and Angel feel comfortable about it, showing each other how you touch yourselves is probably a good thing? Because you'll know what kind of touches she likes and she'll know what kind you like.
And, uh, there's using your mouths too. In my experience, almost everyone likes it when their partner puts their mouth there. Girls especially, sometimes more than the baby-making kind of sex.
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Date: 2021-02-01 03:07 am (UTC)And please, Mr Greg. Armin might not know much about being in a relationship or birth control, but he knows a bit about different sex acts. He still appreciates the advice though, but to save himself and Greg from more embarrassment, he won't focus on that.]
Noted.
Uhm, how do I know if a condom is old? Is there a specific time-frame I should keep in mind?
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Date: 2021-02-01 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-01 09:44 pm (UTC)Okay. Uhm. I know you said you can send me a box but w-where can I normally buy them myself? A-are there special stores for this sort of thing?
[Like. Dedicated condom stores?]
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Date: 2021-02-05 01:21 am (UTC)[After a moment he adds,] Depending on the store you might have to ask for someone to take 'em out of a locked case.
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Date: 2021-02-05 05:44 am (UTC)[Part of Armin really wants to know what makes some of these condoms fancy compared to others, but perhaps he should wait to ask that. At least until Greg and Rose have sent him the box of condoms they promised. Perhaps it will all become clear when he has seen an actual condom.
(Greg may have explained it, but the actual appearance of a condom is still a bit vague in Armin's mind)
Besides, there is still that other thing he wants to ask.]
But how will I know we'll be ready for-- for all of this? I know a relationship is supposed to progress, but how do you know it is time for the next stage? H-how do you know if you are rushing something or being too slow?
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Date: 2021-02-22 09:18 pm (UTC)Having sex for the first time-- it's a scary thing for anyone, Armin. But if you think about doing it and you feel more good about doing it than you feel nervous... that's probably a sign that you're ready. And it'll be the same with her too.
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Date: 2021-04-07 05:23 am (UTC)it's felix.
I'm looking for guitar lessons.
you're good at the guitar.
I'd like to hire you to teach me
if that's something you would be willing to do.
Re: [Text]
Date: 2021-04-19 10:15 pm (UTC)You looking to do in person lessons or is over the 'gear better? I guess since I've got most of the warps by now as long as we stay near major cities we could do the first pretty easily.
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Date: 2021-04-20 01:50 am (UTC)guitar dad huh?
as good an endorsement as any.
I would prefer in person.
we've settled in olivine for the moment
and will be coming back often.
if that works for you.
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Date: 2021-04-30 09:01 am (UTC)Are you hoping to learn electric or acoustic? There's a few differences in how you play them, but not too many.
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Date: 2021-04-30 09:24 am (UTC)the one you had with you at the cooking contest.
it makes good accompaniment for someone singing.
not me.
I don't sing.
but a few friends do.
I'd like to play for them.
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Date: 2021-05-01 06:26 am (UTC)Acoustic is good to start out with, anyway, because you don't need electricity try play it. It's better for traveling.
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Date: 2021-05-01 07:08 am (UTC)although couldn't an electric pokemon provide the electricity to play the other kind?
or would that just destroy it?
anyway we'll have to wait a week or two to begin.
my wedding is this weekend
and then we're going to sevii for a week
and then as I understand it there's some kind of dance event?
so after that.
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Date: 2021-05-02 09:31 am (UTC)I don't mind waiting a week or two. It'll give me time to come up with your weapon plan. Do you have a guitar of your own yet or will you need me to come in person with my guitar for the first few lessons?
Congratulations on the wedding! Rose and I finally got married last year, in a private ceremony in the woods, with just our pokemon. It was really nice, actually. Doofy (her Bidoof) carved our rings an everything.
Yeah, Prom is coming up. It's every year? Rose and I went last year. It was pretty nice, except when all the pokemon got suddenly really, really big and people had to fight them.
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Date: 2021-05-02 09:41 am (UTC)perhaps when you come we can test it.
weapon plan?
I have a guitar.
dimitri and I went with zuke to the music shop in goldenrod.
dimitri wants to learn drums.
that does sound agreeable.
ours will be on the beach in olivine.
just our traveling group and a few friends who are making food.
people fought giant pokemon last year?
that sounds much more interesting than a party.
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Date: 2021-05-02 10:17 am (UTC)Sorry, the autocorrect thing on this pokegear is being weird. I don't do weapons, man. Even when I got dragged into fighting things made of light with Steven (my son Steven, not the guy who sells weed Steven) and Connie, I just played the guitar to give 'em positive reinforcement.
They were huge! Our hosts were these weird guys from Galar and they brought with them these special rocks that made pokemon grow big, only they lost them and some random other pokemon found 'em. And then they got big and people had to fight them to get the rocks back.
And then that one Lance guy showed up (the league guy, not the self care guy) and I think he must have deported them for importing the rocks.
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Date: 2021-05-02 10:28 am (UTC)oh.
idk about selling weeds but
do you mean fight club steven?
I didn't know your son was also steven.
is that a common name in multiple worlds?
I never thought about someone playing music to help in battle
although we do have dancers with magic that is similar.
if prom is like that again I might enjoy it.
greg is referring to the video game 'save the light'
Date: 2021-05-02 10:39 am (UTC)And my son is also named Steven, yeah. He's sixteen. I guess he'd be seventeen now. He's back home, with the Gems. They were Rose's sisters-in-arms before she left us.
I think it's a pretty common name, yeah! Sometimes people spell it with a 'ph' but that's a bit more fancy than we wanted to go with. We were gonna name him 'Nora' if he was a girl, but then he wasn't.
Back when we had to fight the light, I'd play music that would help the others recover or help them do fancier moves and sometimes I'd even play music loud enough to disrupt the light.
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Date: 2021-05-02 10:46 am (UTC)your wife left?
where did she go?
you keep talking about these gems and your son fighting.
is your homeland at war as well?
I have no idea wtf you mean by fight the light.
was it some kind of magic?
God I hope I'm remembering this video game plot right
Date: 2021-05-02 10:56 am (UTC)It's not at war now, but until two years ago there were a lot of monsters around. My son Steven and the Crystal Gems fought them to protect people. Rose did too before Steven was born.
The light was a magic weapon that had a mind of its own. Usually I wasn't a part of the fighting but when the people who made the light tried to take it back and use it against us I was.
XD I wouldn't know if you didn't!
Date: 2021-05-02 11:16 am (UTC)people who are dead in our worlds
can appear here, alive?
oh.
of course.
they come from an earlier point in time I suppose.
[It's hard for Felix to continue typing; he puts the Gear down and gets up to pace around for a few minutes. Of course the dead can show up here, from a point before they died. How could Felix never have considered this possibility? What if...what if Glenn or Rodrigue appears one day? Or King Lambert? ...Miklan?
...he'll have to talk to the others about this later. For now, he forces the thoughts aside and takes up his Gear again to finish the message.]
I see.
I have fought monsters and animated magical weapons as well.
it's never a pleasant or straightforward fight.
I have seen beams of light that can tear through flesh and stone.
demonic beasts the size of buildings uprooting chunks of rock from the ground to fling at entire battalions.
your son and these gems must be quite strong to have survived and won.
i can't believe a simple request for lessons turned into greg telling felix more su plot
Date: 2021-05-04 05:22 am (UTC)Steven especially, really. He gets that from Rose. He gets so much from her, which I suppose makes sense because he is, after all, half her.
Though in the end, they didn't end up defeating all the monsters. Instead, they went to Homeworld, where Rose's people come from, and managed to convince her... family, I guess, is the best word for them? He got them to help heal them.
Because that's the awful thing, Felix. All those monsters that they fought were nothing but soldiers from a war five thousand years ago, corrupted by the use of a terrible weapon. Rose and her closest companions were the only ones that managed to avoid being hit by it.
lmao and it's just giving felix trauma flashbacks...
Date: 2021-05-05 12:58 am (UTC)Didn't Greg say his son was just a teenager? The same age, perhaps, that Felix and the others had been. And yet, he was able to rescue those corrupted soldiers. Could Rhea have done something similar, if she'd tried? She must know more about Crest stones than anyone else; could she have found a way to reverse what the Lance had done?
Felix shakes his head. Enough of getting lost on memory lane.]
I'm familiar with that kind of battle too.
someone I once knew stole an ancient weapon he shouldn't have touched
and it transformed him into a demonic beast.
we had to take him down.
it happened again with others, but deliberately inflicted.
we never found a way to reverse it.
I commend your son for doing what we couldn't.
[Then, after about ten seconds, another message comes:]
wait your wife is 5000 years old??
Re: lmao and it's just giving felix trauma flashbacks...
Date: 2021-05-21 02:37 am (UTC)And, well, no. She's about twice that I think? That's just how long she's been on Earth, more or less. Gems are very long-lived.