First Evolution - Audio

[hercatcameback]

[On comes a female voice recording.]

If this reaches anyone, please, I have a few simple questions. I have plenty of reason to doubt that this is the Digital World, but I would like to know where this is, why I am here, and for what. Do these devices mean anything, or are they simply for communication and data collection with no deeper

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[doesactivities]

Don't know the name, but it's not a long shot or anything, my sister was already here when I showed up.

[Sokka stretches his shoulders a bit.]

I'm told this place is called Johto, it's a land with a lot of cities in it. Apparently you travel through them and fight monsters. But not yourself, because no weapons and no powers. You use other monsters, which is... weird, I guess, but everything's weird here, and hey, could be weirder.

Could always be weirder.

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[hercatcameback]

It apparently wasn't - she just contacted me. And Johto - understood.

That isn't so strange. There was a manual in the bag I was given when I found myself here - if I understand, we're partnered with these creatures to train them, assist them in gaining power. But is that truly the only purpose to our presence here?

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[doesactivities]

Oh, cool, congratulations! Nice to know there's someone to count on already, right?

So you come from a place where monster-fighting is semi-common? Demi-common? Or just plain common?

As for purposes... no idea. I haven't found one yet.

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[hercatcameback]

Common enough. The creatures of my world are not expected to violently attack each other though combat and sparring are the quickest and simplest ways to build power - as far as I've seen, humans on the whole are not unlike them. Partnership with humans to that end isn't nearly as common - at least, it hasn't been until recently - but it isn't unheard of. In the past, only select humans have been allowed into my homeworld to meet their partners, as a response to the rise of dangerous forces. They draw power from each other in a sense, so a creature with a human partner can become stronger much faster than one without one.

This seems much simpler than that, however, and I take it wherever you're from humans work little with monsters.

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[doesactivities]

Hey, I'll have you know, I am close, personal friends with both a sky bison and a flying lemur... though granted, I guess Aang would be their partner, not me.

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[doesactivities]

[He looks really thoughtful for a minute.]

Is there any kind of limit on how much power they can draw? Or who they draw it from? Or how? 'Cause that sounds like a really nifty ability to have. Everyone loves having more power, right?

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[hercatcameback]

Partnerships are destined - a creature will feel some amount of a natural connection to their human partner. I met mine without knowing for a while that she was mine. As for limit to power itself, it's reflected in evolutionary stages, similar enough to Pokemon from my understanding, and there is a point beyond which one can't evolve further, but the power gaps are wide enough between stages that any limit in that hardly matters.

It's more difficult to answer the question of "how" it happens. I can say that a human's emotions can boost their partner's power and allow them to temporarily evolve. When the need for it fades, so does it. Permanence calls for mutual mental discipline and experience.

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[doesactivities]

That's... pretty interesting. Destined and all.

[Why is everything about Chosen Destined Ones, seriously? Do normal, no-account, everyday folks just not matter anymore?]

So... in layman's terms... it's really cool and stuff but all you know is that it happens, basically? Still. I'm guessing it's like bending and doesn't work here.