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Melissa Lyre | Hunter: The Vigil/Vampire: The Requiem

[stopinthenameofawe]

Rocket Training

This entire thing is bullshit.

Melissa would have thought this was some kind of insane fever dream, except a.) vampires don't get sick and b.) she has no context for what the fuck is even happening. She knew Pokemon was a thing, vaguely, in the most general of terms. Enough to know that the cards were banned in schools either because of fighting or 'gambling' or both. She didn't have enough knowledge or creativity to actually have a coherent dream about it. And yet here she is, in Team Rocket Orientation, possibly the worst orientation she's ever been through.

She's been left on her own for the moment, the Rocket training her off to fetch something or other, which means she's leaning against the wall watching people go back. Should you look like you're going to try and talk to her (and honestly, she's kind of hard not to notice), she can start off the conversation. "Hell of an introduction," she says dryly, reaching to fix her ponytail, "Possibly literally. Did I die and my eternal punishment is to be relegated to kid's show villain for the rest of eternity?"

(She doesn't actually know Team Rocket is the villain of Pokemon... just that 'stealing' is pretty clearly their core focus and, given that she was a security for eight years, doesn't really endear them to her.)

Pokégear

[This particular communication is not very long: just a picture of a Scraggy and the attached text:]

Do they all look this stupid?

Pokegear, text

[worthallthis]

[Well that's just mean. Don't talk about your pokemon like that, mystery person.]

that does not look stupid

they are all different and good in their own way

also they can understand human speech

[stopinthenameofawe]

[sorry not sorry she's a bitch]

it looks like a child drew it and then it came to life

and if it can understand me why the fuck does it just keep repeating what it is at me

[worthallthis]

[Maybe so but that doesn't mean it's stupid.]

pokemon only say one word that's just how they are

it may be a biological limitation

some can learn to write though and they communicate well with tone and expression if you are observant

[stopinthenameofawe]

[look she didn't say it was stupid, just that it looks stupid.



no but she also probably thinks it is stupid.]

all of them? are you kidding me?

[worthallthis]

why would i be kidding you i don't even know you

[And he's not sure he likes her, either. He was at least nice to his pokemon from the get-go, even if he didn't understand them.]

it's always only their type name so each type will have a different word

yes i know it is weird

Pokegear

[fearinahandfulof]

They don't all look like that. None of mine do.

It's probably not evolved yet.

[Cassandra is not sure she'd call it stupid-looking, but it does look a bit strange, and not very intimidating. Then again, it's probably young, or what passes for young among unevolved Pokemon.]

[stopinthenameofawe]

evolved?

[that... actually sounds like potentially useful information. carry on stranger.]

[fearinahandfulof]

Some of them start in one form and then change to another when they grow stronger, or if you give them a specific item, or once they decide they really trust you. Some of them even evolve more than once.

[stopinthenameofawe]

huh

good to know

how do you find out if they can do that?

[she hopes this one doesn't have the trust requirement. she's not... great at that kind of thing........]

[fearinahandfulof]

Sometimes it will say in the Pokedex thing. But I think those mostly contain only those Pokemon you've seen and... scanned? with it, so that's not always helpful.

[Cassandra had found out that two of her Pokemon could evolve when they evolved.]

There's also a Training School in Violet City that has information. From what I've there, it's more common for Pokemon to evolve than not to.

Pokegear, text

[carbonatedscientist]

To be fair, it probably thinks you look stupid as well.

[stopinthenameofawe]

[oh bitch you did not]

such a burn. how will i ever recover.

[carbonatedscientist]

Did you honestly think you'd be able to ask that question without anyone taking such a potshot?

But really, approaching the Pokemon with kindness will go a longer way.

[stopinthenameofawe]

glad you at least know you took the lowest road avaliable

i'm not really a pet person but it's been following me

[carbonatedscientist]

I'll admit that normally such an approach is beneath me, but I'd like to think that would make more of an impression in this instance--belittling another creature like that is poor form.

We've all had them following us around; you'd do well to make friends with it.

TRAINING OBVSLY

[fingersandteeth]

The man she's talking to hands her a bottle of water, condensation beading on its chilled exterior. "Well. You don't have to die to end up here. Some of us are taken directly from our daily lives. I can promise you, however, that it will be much better when Mandatory Training Hell Week is over and all you need to do is make sure you keep up with your quota."

The man himself is about six foot tall and brick-shaped, although he holds himself to downplay his size. He's recognizably Latino, with a light beard, wire-rim glasses, and classically handsome features.

"I'm Steven, by the way," he adds. "If you're from another world, which it sounds like you are, then we're likely to be working together--most of us that aren't from around here tend to work together when we can, rather than with the native Rockets. We even have a sort of ad hoc crew."

[stopinthenameofawe]

Melissa takes the bottle of water, but doesn't open it yet- she hasn't quite adjusted to the fact that she's not currently a vampire. Mostly because thinking about it too hard triggers an existential crisis that she was not expecting and if Melissa is good at anything, it's ignoring potential moral quandaries.

"Melissa," she says, with a nod of thanks as she lifts up the bottle, "I will say, I do think this is worse than security guard training. ...Though we may need to go back and talk about that 'other world' comment, because holy shit did you run through that way too casually."

[fingersandteeth]

"Ah, sorry," he says, a touch awkward. "But-- that's a thing that's been happening for the last decade here, apparently. People from other worlds--other timelines or dimensions, what have you--have been suddenly arriving to this one, usually over the weekend. Never too many at once, I think. I'm told that the god of this world brings us here."

[stopinthenameofawe]

"The god of this..."

Melissa doesn't even bother to recap the rest of it, reaching up to rub at her temples. Honestly, maybe it's a good thing she's used to weird shit, otherwise that might break her. "Please tell me," she says dryly, not yet looking back up at him, "that there is some alcohol in this fucking place so I can properly cope."

[fingersandteeth]

"Of course," he promises her. "All the alcohol you'd like. You won't have been paid yet, but I can take you to a bar with training's done for the night. Though-- hm. Were you in your street clothes or your pajamas when you woke up in the dorm room? Because honestly, you don't want to wear these uniforms when you're not on the job. It just makes you a walking target for people's aggressions."

Pokegear, text

[fighterstar]

I don't think it looks stupid. Determined, maybe. A little odd, sure. But not stupid.

[There's a good chance that Seiya is just here to argue, but she also has to disagree with that assessment.]

[stopinthenameofawe]

[why is everyone like this.]

we must have different standards

[fighterstar]

[Nobody can say for sure why she's like this.]

That's probably a safe assumption.

Anyway, you shouldn't be so hard on the little guy.

[stopinthenameofawe]

Who says I'm being hard on it?

[it's not mean if it's a fact, right?]