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[impheired]

When it comes to gym battles...which is more your style? Getting the damn thing over with as fast as possible by exploiting their weakness? Or drawing it out by not taking advantage of their typing handicap?

[Kuzuryuu, your team is hardly the pinnacle of typing diversity you really don't have much room to talk about type handicaps here. You beat Chuck because you were over-leveled, let's not kid ourselves here.]

...This isn't meant to be some deep analytical bullshit of your character or anything like that. I just got my Storm badge and that got me thinking. [...] It...seemed like a good conversation starter.

[He...tried? God, is he ever making an attempt at socializing. It's just not a very good one. Especially with this long pause he seems to have gotten himself stuck in now. Did he forget what he was going to say? No, he just kind of got off-script from how he'd initially planned this post to go and now he's not sure how to end it.]

Look, just... oh what the hell, fuck it. [He sighs in frustration, snapping back to his usual, irritable self. He was trying not to be obvious about the contest thing but FUCK IT.] The name's Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu. That's western order but let's keep it to family names, yeah? [Do not be fooled by the question mark at the end of that sentence. It is not a question; it's a statement, and his tone makes that abundantly clear. You are not on the (very short) list of people who are allowed to call him Fuyuhiko.] If we've never talked before, let's do it now. It doesn't even have to be about what I said before. The topic doesn't matter; I don't fucking care what it is, as long as it's not something stupid. Don't waste my goddamn time.

[WELL THAT SURE WENT DOWNHILL FASTER THAN A ROLLER SKATER ON CYCLING ROAD. People will be absolutely lining up to talk to you, Kuzuryuu. Well done. You will most assuredly beat Nanami now.]

Comments

[styxiedust]

It's a survival instinct so, generally, yes they can.

...Are you quite all right?

[impheired]

Tch, I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be? I just didn't think they'd be able to pull something like that off right away...

[styxiedust]

Pokemon are fantastic creatures, they can do quite a lot of things even if they've just hatched!

[impheired]

So I'm learning...I mean, I've had some that have hatched with crazy-ass movesets but this just seemed different somehow. Though I didn't buy the thing for myself so I didn't really look into it...

[styxiedust]

Oh, a gift for a friend?

[impheired]

...

[That's a very good question Botan. Interestingly enough, Peko herself asked him more or less the same thing just a few weeks ago. He still has no idea how to answer this question.]

[Because on the one hand: no, they are not friends. As much as Kuzuryuu has always wished they were, that has never been their relationship. But on the other hand: he'd rather not get into the truth with a stranger.]

In a...manner of speaking.

[styxiedust]

[What in the world sort of answer is that? She didn't realize that eminent folk had such difficulties with something as natural as friendship of all things.]

Well...I'm sure their Zorua won't prank them. Just everyone else in the vicinity.

[Totally comforting.]

[impheired]

[IT'S COMPLICATED, BOTAN. MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM. Kuzuryuu just makes things more complicated than they need to be sometimes.]

That's part of what I'm concerned about. I'm kind of part of the "everyone else in the vicinity."

[styxiedust]

At least...you won't have to worry about successful human transformations until it evolves? If it tried to mimic you, people would see the tail--oh, also not talking might tip them off.