[Day 153] I understood the meaning of love... [OPEN]

[hellpyre]

Who: Rin and YOU!
Open: Open
When: 153, afternoon
Where: The Gazebo
What: The past few days have been difficult, but Rin is in a surprisingly good mood today. Apparently that's enough to warrant randomly singing??
Format: Starting in action, but I'll folow
Warnings: Rin being Rin is a given by now.

[The past few days had been a whirlwind of emotion. Some good, some bad, but all of it actually fairly exhausting. In it, though, Rin had gotten out some much needed things that had been bottling up for some time, and in a stark contrast to the anger that had nearly destroyed the kitchen, she found herself in a surprisingly good mood this day.

Like. Really good mood.

Good enough to apparently sing. Which she didn't do very often at all. Sometimes she could be caught humming a song while working, but actually singing something?

Well, she did used to be in the church choir growing up, so it wasn't that far fetched of an idea. But it had been years since then, and her voice was a little out of practice.

Still, something about that good mood compelled her to make her way over to the gazebo where the piano was. She couldn't play (Yuki could, but even she had fallen out of practice with that in recent years, too) but she knew enough to strike a note and start from there. She wasn't singing to anyone in particular, and the song that came out of here surprisingly wasn't a church hymn.]

Kuon no shijima yagate sora ni
aoku aoku tokete nijinde
mahiru no tsuki no usui kage wa
sugu ni sugu ni mirai wo yobu...

[It didn't quite sound the same without some accompaniment, but she still got rather in to it. Enough that she probably wouldn't notice if some one stopped to listen...]

Comments

[ourlegends]

... Yeah, they do. Back home, after the craziness with Team Plasma and everything, there were people who wanted to face me to see if they were better trainers, and then people who were scared to face me.

[ She's talking as if Rin knows exactly what she was talking about. She smiles sheepishly. ]

S-Sorry, I forgot for a moment that you're not from Unova ...

[hellpyre]

So... what, fightin' is normal where you're from? Just... with Pokemon instead'a people?

[ourlegends]

Yeah. Pokemon battles are one of the most common things where I'm from. The Pokemon really enjoy it most of the time, because it gives them a bit of exercise and a chance to show off their skills. Pokemon battles are never to the death, though. Mostly until the Pokemon doesn't feel like they can continue with the battle.

Pokemon are like people, though, in that they come in a lot of different varieties, personalities ... not all Pokemon enjoy fighting. Some would rather perform, or just hang out with their trainers and spend time together.

[hellpyre]

... wow. That... sounds really awesome, actually.

[Man why can't demons and humans get along like that? Not that demon battles would be particularly good for their world, but at the very least co existing with humans instead of wanting to torment them all the time.]

[ourlegends]

It is pretty awesome, yeah ...

[ She smiles brightly. She really likes her world. ]

[hellpyre]

So like how many of these Pokemon are there?

[ourlegends]

Umm ...

[ She takes out her Pokedex. There are so many that she can't always remember exactly how many. ]

649 current known varieties of Pokemon. New ones are being discovered all the time, though.

[hellpyre]

[Six-hundred?! Rin couldn't even imagine there being that many different types of demons. Other creatures in Assaih, sure, but it still made her head spin.

... at least until she noticed the device Hilda had.]

What is that?

[ourlegends]

Oh, this? It's a Pokedex! It records information of all of the Pokemon I catch.

... or, it did. Before. Well. This. But even before this I wasn't really in my own world, so ...

[ There's a flicker of sadness in her eyes, but she does her best to cover it up as she hands the device over to Rin so she can see more of it. ]

[hellpyre]

[Rin remembered her group showing up, and how they talked about being in another world different from where they had all originated from. Rin couldn't even imagine going from that to the literal end of all of those worlds...]

Really? That sounds neat!

[ourlegends]

Here, see, if you press this button you can cycle through all of the different kinds of Pokemon ... any of the ones that I've seen, but haven't caught, won't have full data recorded. It'll only give a picture and a name and some unfilled data. But then you come to one of the ones I have caught ...

[ She flips to Tepig's entry. ]

Here! This is what Emboar looked like when he and I first met.

[hellpyre]

[Most of that went over Rin's head, but coming to what Emboar used to look like does get her attention.]

... he was so tiny.

[ourlegends]

He was! I used to carry him around everywhere, and he used to hop up on the table and steal food from my plate! Now he carries me ... and he still tries to steal food from my plate. Every once in a while I pretend not to notice, just to give him a win now and then.

[hellpyre]

[Rin lets out a quiet laugh at that.]

Sounds a bit like Kuro...

[ourlegends]

Who's Kuro?

[ She's really curious about Kuro now. ]

[hellpyre]

Oh uh, my familiar.

[Rin patted her pockets for a second, tugging out a folded, faded and somewhat beat up photo. A bunch of teenagers, one who is obviously Rin herself, together with a large window overlooking an old looking city from very high up. There's a black feline on her shoulder, grinning big with horns on his head.]

That's him. He's a Cat Sídhe, a class of demons that possess cats. If they live long enough their tail splits -- see, you can see the two tails right there. They were protectors of temples for a long time, back when Japan still had a ton of active ones. Now a lot of 'em go in to contracts with human exorcists to be their familiars. He's tiny there but he can grow really huge if he needs to.

[ourlegends]

[ She looks over at the picture, eyes focusing on the cat-looking demon in particular. Oh ... ]

He's really cute ...

[ And he is. He looked like he'd fit right in with most pokemon. ]

If you didn't tell me he was from your world, I would think that he's a Pokemon.

[hellpyre]

Heh. I bet a lotta demons would look like Pokemon to you. Though I can't say Pokemon really look like demons...

[ourlegends]

Probably. If they're small little animal-looking demons like this guy, I'd think they were Pokemon for sure.

What other kinds of demons do you have in your world?

[hellpyre]

Uhm... I can't remember all of them. I kinda wish there were some of my old text books here. Wow never thought I'd say that out loud...

[ourlegends]

Text books can come in handy.

[ Though she was only in school for a few years before starting on her Pokemon journey, so ... ]

[hellpyre]

A thing like yours would be a lot better, though.

[Clearly the Vatican needed a Demonology app for iPads.]

[ourlegends]

I guess I have to agree with that. The Pokedex is small and convenient. We still have to do most of the work with filling it out, though.

[ There's an app for everything nowadays. ]

[hellpyre]

How do you fill it out?

[ourlegends]

We have to capture Pokemon. It only records the full data whenever a Pokemon is captured and recognizes me as its trainer.