Lt. Carter Blake (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lieutenantantichrist) wrote2013-05-11 03:44 am
lieutenantantichrist) wrote2013-05-11 03:44 am
[5]Video/Action for Violet City
[The feed comes up on Blake outside the Violet City gym. He's holding the Gear in one hand and tossing something small in the other. Behind him his Snubbull is sitting on his Mareep, both looking proud of themselves. For his part, Blake doesn't look so thrilled.]
Hell of a loaded word, "badge."
[He catches it on the toss and holds it up to the camera.]
Look at that. Does it looks like much use to you?
[He sighs and slips it in his pocket.]
Zap the crap out of a kid's birds and get a medal that lets you fly.
You know what the worst part is? It's not until right now I realized there's anything wrong with that. I'm getting used to it.
[He starts walking aimlessly down the street, Pokemon trotting after him.]
It's baseball season, not that you'd know it here. Can't remember the last time I missed Opening Day. But hell, now it's been more than a month. Just went right by. How's it even May if you're not arresting drunk idiots on Cinco de Mayo? It's not right.
[Blake looks troubled.]
It's too easy to get caught up in this animal fighting crap and forget about the real world.
[His expression shifts toward its more familiar flinty pugnacity.]
Almost everybody here's been here longer than me. Give me some proof you haven't forgotten. Tell me something about home. Anything, I don't know, something you miss.
Hell of a loaded word, "badge."
[He catches it on the toss and holds it up to the camera.]
Look at that. Does it looks like much use to you?
[He sighs and slips it in his pocket.]
Zap the crap out of a kid's birds and get a medal that lets you fly.
You know what the worst part is? It's not until right now I realized there's anything wrong with that. I'm getting used to it.
[He starts walking aimlessly down the street, Pokemon trotting after him.]
It's baseball season, not that you'd know it here. Can't remember the last time I missed Opening Day. But hell, now it's been more than a month. Just went right by. How's it even May if you're not arresting drunk idiots on Cinco de Mayo? It's not right.
[Blake looks troubled.]
It's too easy to get caught up in this animal fighting crap and forget about the real world.
[His expression shifts toward its more familiar flinty pugnacity.]
Almost everybody here's been here longer than me. Give me some proof you haven't forgotten. Tell me something about home. Anything, I don't know, something you miss.
[Video]
[That's a whole new level of horror. If there's one thing Blake's accustomed to, it's being remembered. The sons of bitches with vendettas with his name on them can vouch for that.]
I knew there was something wrong with these people, but that's some goddamn 1984 bullshit.
[He read that in high school. Well. He was supposed to read that in high school. He threw it at a nerd.]
[He pauses for a good 5 seconds.]
There, I thought about it. It's still nuts.
It's 2011. When else would it be?
[Video]
[There's a pause as Dave debates showing he DOES read or not. Moment passes because he's so much like his bro in the levels of do not care.]
At least it isn't like fahrenheit 451. But yeah, they seem to just forget. I've been here four times before now, don't remember a thing from those times and neither does this place remember me.
[Video]
[That's not too big a difference, though.] Hell, these days somebody claiming to only be a couple years' worth of time traveler is a goddamn relief. That's almost normal.
With all these fire-breathing animals, that's probably next.
[That is unnerving information.]
Four times.
Four fucking times?
Jesus christ, kid, you're getting yanked back and forth like a goddamn yoyo!
[Video]
Good thing my string hasn't snapped by now, or we'd have a really big mess on hand when I got yanked again.
There's a whole list of people this place keeps claiming and tossing back. It's like fishing only a lot more annoying. [Not that he's ever fished before.]