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[lieutenantantichrist]

[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.

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[aflashoffaith]

Why do the Pokemon fight for us, you think? What do they gain from it? I guess companionship is an easy enough answer, the ones I've come across seem to enjoy the attention and being social. But that's not really a tangible reward, they could just as easily stay in the wild together and it doesn't answer why they're willing to partner up with a human to do the same things they did before.

Though maybe it's not that much different to why we do it, why we protect others. Loyalty, duty, out of the goodness of our hearts, however you want to say it.

[Hm. There's a bit of a pause and then:]

And the toads aren't bad company really. Especially when they're willing to share their alcohol.

[lieutenantantichrist]

Hell if I know, but I haven't kept any on a leash and none of them've taken off yet. I figure they like the fighting. Or maybe it's just my winning personality.

[He does kind of wonder sometimes.]

Drunk frogs. That sounds even better.

[aflashoffaith]

Perhaps.

[He's too polite to comment on the winning personality.]

Any type of company tends to become more amusing while inebriated.