[Day 194] Hello world... how you been? [OPEN]

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Who: The Pokemon Daycare people, some Pokemon eggs and you!
Open: Open!
When: Day 194
Where: Pokemon Daycare
What: It's finally time for more eggs to hatch
Format: Any
Warnings: N/A

[Bit by little bit, trip by trip out to those shattered remains of the world that once held hundreds upon hundreds of Pokemon, eggs were being located and brought back to the Bastion, coming under the care of an ornery Ditto and the newly designated "daycare couple".

The last time eggs had been hatched was after the festival when N, Hilda, and AZ had all received an egg each as gifts, so it was finally time for the first true arrivals from the Skyway locations to hatch.

Of course N had been preoccupied with Hilda after her injuries, and it wasn't until he was outside getting the other Pokemon fed that he realized some of those eggs were starting to move.

Woobat let out an excited noise at seeing them and quickly fluttered over, joined soon by Zoroark who was nudging the eggs with his snout in hopes of encouraging the baby Pokemon inside.]

Oh... they're hatching... !

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[unwrittenformula]

[Excuse you they own it. Rude.

But okay all that aside there are eggs and they're getting ready to hatch and N just looks so happy.]

Yes, it should be soon!

[fuckthemancers]

[Nerrrrrds]

[Happy is always good! They always need more happy, considering... everything. So Zulf comes further in.]

It sounds exciting. What kind are you expecting?

[Because he seriously has no idea what the deal with any of these are]

[unwrittenformula]

[ur a nerd]

Sewaddle, Tirtouga, Cottonee, and Solosis.

[N points to each of the shaking eggs, indicating which ones were which.

Not that Zulf would have any idea what those names meant.]

[fuckthemancers]

[Yeah, no, what the hell. why can't you guys just name your weird creatures perfectly sensible names, like Lunkhead. Or Pecker. That's totally not an innuendo right]

Ah, I see. [He doesn't.] Cottonee sounds... fluffy. [Yup sounding smart over here]

[unwrittenformula]

[Its your creatures that are strange to N, Zulf.]

Quite fluffy.

[Is he going to have to break out Hilda's Pokedex?]

[fuckthemancers]

[Talk shit about Rattle-tails, get hit, N.]

What do they look like? Ah, I suppose I'll see in a moment, won't I?

[And maybe.]

[unwrittenformula]

[He can't understand your creatures! It upsets him.

And yeah, he borrowed her Pokedex for a reason. He takes it out and opens it, starting on the entry for Cottonee.]

Cottonee, the Cotton Puff Pokémon. Cottonee is blown around by the wind because of its lightweight composition. The only circumstance in which it cannot be blown by wind is when it has been soaked by rain, which weighs it down and makes it soggy.

[fuckthemancers]

[Welcome to the rest of the world, N.]

[Zulf leans closer at the Pokedex and makes a small sound of understanding.]

I see... We'll have to be careful to make sure it doesn't get blown out onto the Skyway, then.

[unwrittenformula]

[These worlds upset him. D: ]

I think we can keep it here so long as it doesn't go near the edges.

[But that's what training them is for.

He hands Zulf the Pokedex, moving closer to the eggs to put a hand on one.]

Shouldn't be much longer now.

[fuckthemancers]

[Time to bullshit how to use advanced technology. This isn't steampunk or weird crystal bullshit, how do]

I see. Do you mind if I stay awhile until they hatch?

[unwrittenformula]

[Press buttons until it talks at you again.]

I don't mind. ... but don't be surprised if a small black fox comes around and starts begging for your attention while we're waiting.

[fuckthemancers]

I don't mind at all. I find your companions very interesting.

[unwrittenformula]

Zoura has... boundless energy. "Interesting" doesn't even begin to cover how she can be so excitable at nothing at all.

[But he loves that ball of fox fluff. Really.]

There are over 600 kinds of known Pokemon where I'm from... we've gained more here recently thanks to our finds out there, but it still feels so strange to only have the handful we do.

[fuckthemancers]

Children often are.

[Zulf smiles for a moment before N's next words, and then the expression fades. He looks down at the Pokedex for a moment, silent.]

Yes, it's... disconcerting at times for there to be so little as things are as they are now.

[unwrittenformula]

[N's attention remains on the eggs, but there's something in his pale gaze that's almost... angry. Distant, obviously thinking of something far away from this place, but still upset.]

All of those lives... all of those beautiful, unique Pokemon gone now. I was in denial for so long about what had happened, until we found the Unova Daycare Center. I knew then that I couldn't stay ignorant to what had happened to our world.

Unova, Kalos... Johto, Sinnoh, all of the regions. They're gone now. And all of the Pokemon within them save for the ones we've just barely managed to rescue...

The Bastion is a place of kindness and peace away from the turmoil of the Skyway but it still weighs on me to know what these new ones will never get to experience.

[fuckthemancers]

Try not to think about it too heavily.

[It doesn't seem like good advice, but it's the one Zulf has been relying on so that he doesn't break apart at a moment's notice.]

There's many things these new lives won't ever get to experience, that's true... But they'll get to know people like Rin who can control fire just like some of them can, or the dragon. There will be things they'll grow up used to. [A dry smile.] They'll be the rare children who grow up actually used to Donut Trees.

[unwrittenformula]

It's difficult not to, when I was so connected to all of them.

[It's literally like having your own internal voice silenced, though for N that voice was thousands of hearts and minds connected to his own.

But he has a point.

Up until the "donut trees" comment.]

... donut trees.

[fuckthemancers]

Yes.

[Zulf just covers his face in his hands.]

...Aoi Asahina troubles me greatly.

[unwrittenformula]

... but... why donuts? Couldn't the cook-- ... couldn't Rin [Gosh N people have names you can use them] just make such things? A fruit or berry tree would make so much more sense.

[fuckthemancers]

She really likes donuts.

[He's not sure what else to tell you, N.]

[unwrittenformula]

... I have solved some of the most complex mathematical equations of my world, and I can't even begin to quantify how a love of food equates to... donut trees.

[fuckthemancers]

I try not to question it too much, but still find myself doing so. I believe she has more shards now. We should stop her before she makes a donut house.

[unwrittenformula]

I believe that would require a level of intervention neither of us possess. How would we even begin to stop her?

[fuckthemancers]

Tie her to something?

[unwrittenformula]

... I think my girlfriend wouldn't take it very well if I told her I was going to tie some girl I hardly know up. Even if it was for a good cause.