third psywave | written + action
[Mewtwo takes to the journals for his first real post to the network - he spends more time thinking over what needs to be said than actually writing. Placing words on a page for everyone to see is different than communicating directly to someone, and isn't something that Mewtwo quite understands the way most others seem to. Language isn't an
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So it instantly gets Robert's attention. Even if the writing is strange - spastic, all over the place, with scattered markings through it - it's legible enough that he can understand it.]
Well. I am a homo sapiens myself - but I presume, from you asking this question, that you are not? [As an astrobiologist, this intrigues him muchly.]
... And what is a "Pokemon"?
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but that cannot be true here
[He doesn't really know how to define it anymore.]
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Are Pokemon perhaps an extremely varied species? Similar to something like domesticated canines on pre-Terran Earth?
Regardless, I am enthusiastic to meet another non-human sapient. It is always a pleasure seeing the vast scope of life in the multiverses.
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there are many kinds
[Hopefully that answers the question...?]
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Ah, I see... It would be most fascinating to study them sometime.
The only other visible non-human sapients I have met here are large anthropoid trachemys scripta elegans, mutatens - well, that was how he identified himself to me, anyway. If I have met others, I have yet to identify them. [Robert has met them, he just doesn't recognize them because they're too human-looking.]
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....except for when scientific names come into it. Because that's just cheating.]
I do not know what that is.
are you a human scientist?
[It's.
it's kind of obvious.]
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It is the Latin name for a species of turtle commonly referred to as a "red-eared slider". Well, minus the "mutatens" part on a typical turtle of that species, anyway...
Yes, I am. More precisely, I am a Terran astrobiologist - I study non-human sapients from outside of Terra. Which I presume would include those like yourself.
[To be fair to Mewtwo, a significant portion of non-scientist Terrans would speak quite similarly to how Robert does.]
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-you know what, forget it]
What is Terra?
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Terra is the name for the third planet in the Sol star system - in its past, it was called "Earth". More people seem to recognize its past name here than its present name, for whatever reason.
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your world
[and you study aliens. Mewtwo knows an alien! He is a cool bro.
The scientist that Mewtwo is familiar is also a cool bro dad. You are getting an instant coolness credit for that, and that is why he is putting up with the...wordage.]
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Is your world also a paranormal one?
And what may I call you by? [Robert's not sure if he should use formalities for a non-human sapient...] I am Professor Robert Alexander Hastings.
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I mean, if Ghosts are a recognized taxonomical order...]
what is paranormal?
[A pause.]
I am Mewtwo.
which name can I use?
['Cause you've got a lot, buddy.]
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Examples would be things like magic, souls, psychic powers [- and that one'll strike a chord for Mewtwo -], demons and the like.
... All of which I have heard talk of here. And in the case of magic, have witnessed myself.
[Mewtwo... The fact there was a two in the name, a number on Terra, was fascinating.] It is a pleasure to meet you, Mewtwo.
My first name, Robert, would be acceptable - as would Professor Hastings if you wish for the formalities. [Robert's getting used to people wanting to drop the formalities with him. It's still strange, but...]
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sounds pretty damn boring]
there are Psychic Pokemon. Ghost Pokemon are sometimes called souls
humans do things here which only Pokemon can at home - some called magic?
[He really doesn't know.]
Robert is shorter to write.
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But it's certainly a rational, logical world - perhaps that would be boring to most. To Robert, it's comforting; understandable.]
I see... your world must have a very fascinating biosphere, indeed. It isn't inconceivable that physics and the evolution of life on your planet have allowed for that sort of thing... though I have yet to understand how, exactly. I intend to make something of a personal project regarding the study of magic-like phenomena here.
Feel free to use Robert, then. [Robert wonders if Mewtwo has difficulty writing - maybe zie [as Robert can't afford to be cisgenderist] has some trouble manipulating the pen. Or maybe zie simply doesn't want to write much - such were the intricacies of non-human sapient minds.]
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...as it is, he spends a few minutes puzzling the sentences out before he realizes that it's more of the enthusiastic scientific-curiosity babble and just skips to the end.]
project?
how?
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