JUNE - JULY TEST DRIVE MEME

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➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!

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Comments

[yousayyes]

Uh-huh- so I take it I wasn't the only one that took the ferry. [What was that about him being a dick for going to Kanto again, Venkman?]

...you know, I might already have something that'd work as a ride... well, maybe not yet- she'd need to evolve first, but... Hang on, I'll send you a picture.

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[If Venkman opens it, he'll see a photo of Winston kneeling down in front of a sign that reads "ROUTE 1", with one arm slung around his mudbray, and the other holding the Pokégear's camera out in front of them both. Winston's giving the camera a good smile, while his mudbray has its head down, much more interested in licking a patch of dirt on the ground.]

[neverstudied]

[There's no good way to answer that, so he just rolls his eyes and declines to answer. And the image attachment makes it even easier to ignore that question, because seeing Winston's face again makes Venkman's heart hurt in ways he didn't think were possible. There's another sharp little intake of breath as he takes the image in, and he barely notices the Mudbray at first.

It takes a few seconds for him to actually respond.]

... Huh. I think you're the only one of us that might wind up with a ride Pokemon that isn't completely weird. Egon's got an eight-foot-tall centipede, for Christ's sake.

[yousayyes]

That sounds about right. [He'd be hard pressed to name a more "Egon" thing to do than "willingly decide to sit on the back of a massive venomous bug". Although... according to Venkman, he wasn't alone when it came to having an unconventional means of travel.]

[He almost doesn't want to ask, but...]

...should I be worried about the ride you took to get to Saffron.

[neverstudied]

... Well, they're definitely not one of the weirdest Pokemon we've got- and compared to most of Egon's, they're pretty normal. But here-

[Winston gets an image attachment of his own- "motherfucker.png".

Most of the pictures of Venkman's Dodrio are blurry as hell, and this is no exception. One head is throw back with its beak wide open; one eyes the camera with clear disgust; the third just looks like its slightly uncomfortable with whatever's going on here.]

They're one of the ones that's tried to kill me the most, if you're wondering. Or three of the ones. Never quite figured out which of those is the more accurate way to describe it.

[yousayyes]

[Winston struggles for a bit trying to make out the image. ...but before he can even fully form an opinion about what he's seeing, he quickly shifts his focus from the picture to what Venkman says shortly after sending it.]

Peter-! [He blurts out in a fit of panic, before catching himself and trying to keep his voice down again... this is a library, after all.] Forget the terminology, what was that about them trying to kill you?

[Aw, would you look at that, he's worried.]

[neverstudied]

[Venkman laughs- a real one, this time, not one broken up with emotion.]

Hey, I told you, we can't die here. Figured that out mostly 'cause other people told me, but the fact that I've gotten tossed around like a ragdoll, burned, bitten, attacked by a swarm of origami aliens, had my life force taken by Egon's stupid mushroom and my own candle, smacked by a god's tail and thrown back onto a cruise ship...

Well, all of that adds up. Don't worry, I'm fine. The only thing that's really put me in a hospital for a bit is some bikers, and they've got free healthcare here. Amazing, huh?