What addiction can do to you

[battlestandby]

[Paul's near the beach today, leaning against a palm tree as he's been there for hours obsessively playing Tetris, which his loving not!mother gave him for his birthday. He hates this game so much and yet he can't put it down. It's gotten to the point where he can't be bothered to actively train his Pokemon; just telling them to train as they

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I'll come gawk :3

[rising_dawning]

[Dawn is having a lovely stroll with her three smallest pokemon when she sees this. A small giggle will come out as she comes over to you. She is going to look for the purple scarf she gave you.]

Hey, Paul. Did your Horsea just evolve?

[battlestandby]

[Paul definitely doesn't have the scarf on hand; at most he probably just stuffed it in his backpack and forgot about it completely.

Anyway, he's not so very pleased to see Dawn.]

That's fairly obvious, isn't it?

[rising_dawning]

Hey, I was just asking. [Slight offence here, Paul.

She was happy, now it's gone a bit sour.]

So, what are you doing?

[battlestandby]

[Paul tends to do that to people. He'll just be... nonchalantly wringing himself out since he's still soaked.]

What's it to you?

[rising_dawning]

[She is going to give you a disbelieving look.]

It's nothing to me. I was just wondering, that's all.

[battlestandby]

Look around you... what do you think is going on?

[rising_dawning]

I think that you were sitting and doing nothing. Like a bad trainer. [Yeah, she went there.]

[battlestandby]

My Pokemon are competent enough to not require my constant supervision during their training sessions. Your assumptions are baseless.

[rising_dawning]

Obviously. That's why they sprayed you with water.

[battlestandby]

That was just Seadra... he's always been insubordinate.

[He'll pause to glare at Weavile.]

You're supposed to be keeping him in line! Are you trying to be useless, Weavile?!

[Weavile stumbles at that and gets his act together, firing an ice beam at Seadra for "disciplinary" measures.]

[rising_dawning]

That's not how you talk to Pokemon! [Pachirisu and Buneary are trying to hold back Piplup from clobbering you. It's almost working.]

[battlestandby]

[He'll just give Dawn a look.]

... You do things your way. I do things my way.

[rising_dawning]

[And she'll just give you a glare.]

And what if your way is the wrong way? What then?

[battlestandby]

It isn't. You can ask Ash yourself.

[rising_dawning]

I can't. The Ash I know isn't here. The others are from different times and different worlds.

[battlestandby]

They're all pretty much the same, anyway...