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[shadowdive]

I was starting to think I'd seen it all, and then this... world throws me a curve ball.

[Swing goes the feed and -- wat.]



I don't even... see how this works. Ice cream is food. So why is it staring at me and chirping?

[It's just sitting there on the counter, looking so adorable and innocent and sweet and edible... do you all see the problem here?]

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[Video]

[shadowdive]

[The word 'purify' just makes him think something else.] No, it's just too cold, not dirty or anything like that.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

Oh...in that case, just let it warm up. Or boil it over fire.

[Video]

[shadowdive]

I don't think it defrosts, and fire just knocks the thing out.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

Then...okay, I got nothing. [For now.]

[Video]

[shadowdive]

[kayneShrugs.]

I guess I'll just set it aside until I find something it can do. ... It could stop staring at me any time though. [Saying this particularly to the creepy ice cream past the gear now.]

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

Distract it! [How?]

[Video]

[shadowdive]

[Give him a moment, picking up the closest thing in reach -- Blitz the Minun -- and shoving him towards the baby Pokemon. Except I.C. is far more interested in leaning around the rodent to STARE MORE AT HER TRAINER.

Turns the feed to show the creepy stare.]

This thing is persistent.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

It must really like you a lot.

[In a way.]

Are you really going to keep it?

[Video]

[shadowdive]

I don't know why, it looks like it just hatched.

I don't know yet. I might see if it's any good at fighting. If it isn't, I'll see if someone else wants it.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

I'd offer to take it, but I'm busy with my younger Pokemon's training.

[Video]

[shadowdive]

I'll figure something out. I'm still training my Scraggy to find him a proper name, so I may as well include this one too.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

A Scraggy? What kind of Pokemon is that? [Reaching for his Pokedex to look it up.]

[Video]

[shadowdive]

A dark and fighting type. [Oh, give him a moment, he'll let the yellow guy out and show him so the dex will get a response.]

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

Dark and fighting? So a fighting type that can actually fight against psychics. [Let's see what the Pokedex say.]

"Scraggy, the Shedding Pokemon. It immediately headbutts anyone that makes eye contact with it. Its skull is massively thick."

...If it headbutts a lot, of course the skull's thick.

[Video]

[shadowdive]

Heh, yeah. Sometimes those information blurbs say stuff that makes me call it captain obvious. He's not too bad, but he has a penchant for always staring at me like I'm catching him doing something bad.

[Like now, when he looks down and the Pokemon is snapping his little arms up, dropping the yellow skin around his gut.]

... Like that.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

He should get over it, unless it's normal for him to do something bad.

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[Video]

[shadowdive]

It isn't. Even right after he hatched, he stared at me like that.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

...Then I got nothing. [Sorry, man.]