ITP: Cheer.

[cheerleading]

[these? being shoved into your hands? these would be a pair of red and white pom poms.]

Okay, hot stuff. Show me what you've got.

((zzz back later. MUCH later whups.))

Comments

[healerhat]

... What are these?

[cheerleading]

Cheerleading pom poms, duh!

[healerhat]

Oh...

[... Nope, still clueless.]

[cheerleading]

You've never seen cheerleaders at a sports match or on TV or something?

[healerhat]

I don't think the Pokemon League has anything like that.

[cheerleading]

Don't tell me, don't tell me, you're from a world without cheerleaders. How do you people cope?

[healerhat]

[It might have cheerleaders, I just spent most of my childhood running around in forests.]

What do you do with these?

[cheerleading]

You- wave them around. Kind of like a dance? But in sync with all the other cheerleaders. And yell supportive stuff.

[healerhat]

[... shakes one of them up and down tentatively.]

Wouldn't that be really distracting?

[cheerleading]

It's encouraging! Mostly it just works the crowd up before and after a play, we don't cheer much when in the middle of a match.

[healerhat]

Oh... What kind of sport is that?

[cheerleading]

Football!

[healerhat]

Hm... I've never actually seen football...

[cheerleading]

A lot of guys I know play, but I'll tell you a secret: I don't think it's that interesting.

[healerhat]

You don't like it, but you cheer for it?

[cheerleading]

Cheerleading's kind of like a sport on its own.