lieutenantantichrist | [12]Video/Action Olivine-"If I Had to Write an Article About You, It Would Say You're Very Negative"

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[WRITING CONTEST]

[All Blake wanted was a paper.

Sure, they're mostly stupid crap and the headline puns are even worse than at home, but there's something right and normal about heading out to the little newsstand in the morning to pick one up.

He's gotten to know the guy who works there a little. Decent enough guy, almost normal. Chatty, though. Today Blake's not paying much attention as he fishes change out of his pocket and goes uh-huh, yeah, sure, until all of a sudden he hears, "Oh, wow, you will? Thanks! That helps me a lot!"

Ten minutes later, he's gotten a firm handshake, a bunch of paper, and a dawning idea of what he just got himself into.

Shit. Just doing the damn thing is the fastest way to get these people to leave him the hell alone.

That's why, a couple hours later, you might come across Blake or one of his Pokemon going around town stapling up flyers about a little local contest. (He went and made the things, and the guy from the paper went "Oh" and went over them with a black pen real quick.) It will be the most sullen stapling you've ever seen.]

[VIDEO]

Hey. All of you.

[Blake's out on the main street of Olivine, in the shade of a building.]

I got roped into running some kinda contest bullshit. Something about making up stories or other crap. You make shit up, you send it to PO Box 226, they put it in the paper, people vote, you win shit.

[He waves a flyer at the camera.]

Fuckin' voila. So do it. [He perks up a little.] Or don't. Hell, that way I don't have to deal with it.

Here.

If you got any questions, don't fuckin' ask me.

[OOC: The writing contest has officially begun! Entries go here, and more information, including specifically how the special guest prizes work, is here. The Nurse Joy sprite was made by L-mon at DeviantArt. Happy writing!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Frankenstein was written in 1818 and, therefore, has been popular for almost two centuries by now. Really, I'd expect you to at least know the bastardized pop culture version of the monster, at least.

...That would very nearly be clever if it weren't entirely unsatisfying, actually. And... yes, I'll agree that the inclusion of Pokemon really makes everything that more unnecessarily surreal.

It doesn't help, that's for certain.

I know who the green guy with the bolts in his neck is, asshole.

[Blake's just getting warmed up to his topic.] That's the one I believe. Bastard's dead. But there's another idea. See, some people say that the whole point is you'll never know. You and Tony, you're in the same boat - seeing the past everywhere, looking up every time the bell rings. Just waiting. Never knowing when it's gonna come, or if it's already too late.

[Every cop knows that feeling, just from the other way around.]

The bell's supposed to be a normal one and not a little plant with a face, but it's the same idea.

Ugh, that wasn't what the monster was like in the original book at all... he was an intelligent creature, rather than some shambling brute. Of course, I don't even think that movie was attempting to be an actual adaptation, but it didn't even manage to get the spirit of what it was taking inspiration from.

...

How much thought have you put into this?

Big monster gets hit by lightning and goes urrrghhhh. The fuck else is there to it?

[Blake crosses his arms.] When you're on a stakeout, you get plenty of time to ponder these things. Something pisses you off, it runs through your head so many times you start to see it different.

A deep, philosophical examination of an intelligent being that should not exist, for one.

[...]

...I can understand that, actually...

Oh, yeah, that sounds like a mile-a-minute thrill ride, there.

[He lifts a hand in a half-shrug.] Something pisses you off enough, you start thinking about why it pisses you off. Decent way to kill an hour while you wait for a guy to come out of a laundromat, anyway.

The part where the monster starts murdering everyone Victor Frankenstein loves is quite a bit more compelling when there are actual motivations behind it.

Well, the combination of anger and having too much time on your hands is a font of inspiration, I'll give you that.

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