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Trainers with Aerodactyls. Did any of you manage to get yours to quit snapping at everything in sight, or is this something I'm going to have to figure out on my own?

[Staring into the screen, Vanitas looks all sorts of nonchalant today, despite the ancient dinosaur with wings having a mouthful of forearm in her jaws. She's a bit smaller than an Aerodactyl is supposed to be, but it certainly doesn't change the annoyed snarl from her face. Really, he's just calling it a baby tantrum; she didn't like that he reached down in the way of her food and took a chomp.

Why the hell does he look like it doesn't hurt? When Sharon growls and tries to grind her teeth more, all she manages is to tear his sleeve a bit and reveal that there is a heavily hammered steel gauntlet beneath the fabric, and while the teeth aren't getting through, they're starting to leave some nasty dents.]

Anyway, the Pewter gym looks like it'll be easy as hell. It's a rock type gym, right? I guess we'll see if I get surprised at all or not; I did underestimate Celadon's gym once.

[Sharon doesn't like this 'being ignored' thing, and growls louder, gnashing her teeth against the steel.] Gnaw all you want, you big baby. You're not breaking through it, not with how many layers I melted into that thing.

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Time, energy, some gray hairs, water guns, a psychic type, and music.

Water guns and music. [At least water guns might be more useful since rock type, but music?]

Aerodactyls aren't stupid, at least mine isn't, but they don't understand language like most of the Pokemon in the world.

But until you get it to learn some form of commands, the best way to keep them in line is negative reinforcement.

*Fancy way of saying spraybottle to the face. Which for Imogen and Aglon is having Brenn shooting the dinosaur out of the sky.*

Maybe she's teething? [ she'd be a bit more worried if she hadn't already seen one. SEEMS LIKE GIANT TERROR BEASTS AS PETS IS SOMETHING NORMAL HERE.

instead she's going to focus on that gauntlet. ]

Oh, what well-made armor though... [ that'd be madly handy for training with pokemon...or going to war. ]

...Didn't you watch me with Nick at all?

Yeah, I figure that's what the water was for. What about the music?

.. Maybe, yeah, I didn't think of that. She had teeth when she hatched, but maybe in the back some are coming in? [He'd be taking a minute to try prying the Aerodactyls mouth open to see now, but oh. She commented on the armor. It actually makes him crack a smile now, shifting his arm as if wanting to take a minute to show it off more, but Sharon just growls louder and gnaws.]

Yeah, you think so? Made it myself.

Sometimes. I was dealing with a shitty poison frog that thought it was funny to sucker punch me whenever it could though. Plus I just wanted to see what was said most often.

Aw...is it itchy or painful, little miss? [ yeah, she's going to just. coo a little at the giant dragon bird thing. ]

Wow, are you a blacksmith? It looks like it'd be really handy especially uh.... [ she watches her gnaw. ] Especially for that.

[Sharon snarls, what are words for this little miss, right? Instead, she just lifts her hands and holds her trainer's arm in place, aggressively clamping her jaws multiple times.]

I.. yeah, I guess I am now. Self taught over the last year and a half. It comes in handy more often than not, though I make a few weapons now too.

[ talking about weapons and armor is much too distracting for her to notice his vicious animal not responding to words. ]

Really? That's incredible! And here I thought no one used armor and weapons in this world! It's so silly, if there are bandits why did they take away our weapons! [ she clasps her hands together and just kind of stares into the video intensely, he has her respect and admiration. and possibly some sparkles. ]

That's how I fixed the language thing. I borrowed a Psychic type from Foofyku to translate musical cues to battle commands. Showing an image of the attack into Aglon's brain while I played a cue. It took a lot of work, but well worth it.

Dunno if music is the right answer all the time, but it's right for me.

[Oh. Well now, that's pretty.. neat.]

Huh.. creative. That must come in handy when you battle, since someone won't know what tune means what.

Heh, Pokemon are still the main firepower here. I just like having something to continue my training with, and armor has helped in situations like this. [Shifts his arm a bit to imply which situation, but honestly that admiration is boosting his ego.]

By bandits, I'm guessing you mean Team Rocket?

But what if they surround you? Flaming Rabbit is good but if I'm surrounded I'd feel better if I had my fan with me. [ animal companions had always been more of just a nice bonus back home. ]

...I guess if you didn't have that you might not have that arm anymore. [ headtilt. should she be worried? but he's not screeching in pain or anything so she assumes it's all good. ]

Oh, right. That was the name of the bandits. [ she forgets these things. ]

Once your Pokemon get stronger, you really won't need to worry about getting surrounded. So you fought with a fan?

[The comment makes him chuckle though, and after another growl from Sharon, a small blue and yellow mouse comes creeping up over Vanitas' shoulder. With a chitter and a look from his trainer, the Minun goes scampering down his arm to sit on Sharon's nose; the Aerodactyl doesn't particularly like it, but she quiets and the continuous gnawing stops. She doesn't let go, but it doesn't go any further.]

Yeah. They're not really an easy group to take out in one swing since they've been established long before any of us arrived in this world, but lots of people have been trying to take out the more active members who show up on the network and taunt.

I'd just feel better if I could protect my partners as well. [ and she just likes...beating people by herself, it's what she's used to. ]

Yep! One or two fans...and sometimes other things. Sometimes you just have to pick up whatever's lying around, you know?

[ she watches curiously, that small one's really cute too... and apparently the boss of giant death bird/dragon pokemon. ] Oh!

[ team rocket, right. Xiaoqiao isn't innately righteous or anything like that. she just wants to be able to defend herself in the absence of...other people looking out for her. ] ...huh? Oh, I don't want to beat them or anything, not unless I have to. It's not really my business to try to do something like that in a world I don't understand.

Understandable enough. [He remembers when his Altaria was just a newly hatched Swablu, a tiny little blue and white fluffy thing, and yeah. He understands that want to protect well enough now.]

Were they normal fans? Or ones with metal insides, rather than paper?

Mm...when I use double fans they have just a metal frame that's covered with fabric. When I use a single steel war frame it's made entirely of steel. [ she makes a flicking motion with her wrist, a familiar twitch that she misses. ]

Oh! Do you think you might be able to make either? I have some money from working but how much would it cost to commission that kind of thing?

[He's quiet for a few minutes, mostly thinking, trying to see in his mind just how the fans would be put together; where would he weld the steel together, where would he leave it sharp?]

I can try and see if I can figure it out. Don't worry about money, it might not even turn out all that great. What's your name? I can give you a call when I think I've got something.

Oh, thank you! [ if she wasn't sparkling before she is now. ] I'd be thankful no matter how it turned out!

[ if it's metal and she can hit people with it, she's good. ]

I'm Xiaoqiao, how about you, Master Blacksmith? [ fyi, if she doesn't get a name she's just calling him that. heck, she might call him that sometimes anyways. ]

[He actually puffs up with a bit of pride at being called Master Blacksmith, cracking a bit of a smile at that.]

Vanitas. Nice to meet you. I'll see what I can do with the fans, though I'm thinking the steel one will be made first, since I've got plenty of steel to work with. It's the nice part about having two Skarmory who shed steel feathers, you know?

It's an honour, Master Vanitas! [ she is not afraid to stroke people's egos if she can gain friends of free things from it! ]

A skarmory? Oh, you mean the shiny pointy bird! There are so many incredible creatures here! [ she wants to take them all home. ]

Creative is my middle name! True story.

*Imogen is a lying liar that lies.*

I've been teaching the rest of my team something similar. They're easier to teach tunes to because I can tell them the command before playing the tune while training. But with Aglon she needed more wing holding on it.

If you can communicate with it, without words, and it isn't like Terror you should be fine! ...You know, eventually.

Asking seems completely asinine at this point, Vanitas.

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