002 ♦ Video

[notcrackers]

[The video feed shows Ritz, sitting near the water in Cherrygrove. Something large and very blue is nudging her- anyone who knew Ritz's old team might recognize this as Andre, her Gyarados. She also has something fairly large and teal nuzzling up to her, and just seems to be the center of a four-pokemon cuddlepile while wrapped around a fairly distinct harp.]

Guess it's my turn, huh? Just sucks that I didn't get to at least meet up with him again before he left.

[She's looking up and staring at the Gear for a moment, tilting her head.] Exodus, you don't have hands, how in the- you know what, nevermind.

To anyone watching this, I'm pretty sure Kuja's gone. I dunno if he'll be back or what, but I have a couple of his pokemon and some of his stuff.

Comments

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[notcrackers]

Yeah. I think the funniest part was that it was him basically going "well in that situation, I would be doing this thing, so here's how you get around it". [Ritz is smiling.]

It's a good thing, right? And-- it's not like any of my friends from home were here, and even if they were... a lot of them are my age. They're not really good people to talk to about stuff like-- oh, how bad it is that maps were kind of weird to me.

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[skirtchases]

Huh. Well that's something.

[He nods, just listening to her for a minute before getting curious.] Why're maps weird? Can I ask?

[video]

[notcrackers]

Because learning about what was outside of your hometown wasn't exactly.... something people wanted to happen. There was pretty much- unless something really weird happened- this attitude that you were born in, and died in, your home town.

[Ritz is smiling crookedly.]

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[skirtchases]

...That sounds like it sucked. Not being able to learn about the outside world? That's what makes things interesting, doesn't it?