Second Evolution - Video

[hercatcameback]

[Camera on to Tailmon, sitting in the grass somewhere off on the edge of Cherrygrove City. No Pokemon are visible, though there are a couple of chipper "Prr-ii! Prr-ii!"s from Togepi - followed by a Zubat screech. Tailmon is looking over her PokeGear at the source at first, carrying over a slightly twisted mouth and not quite troubled but pensive

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[chosenlightchld]

[Hikari giggled, taking a moment to look at the gear when she noticed Tailmon's message.]

Honestly, for me it seems like I've suddenly became a mom than anything else. Though that might've been because I ended up with four pokémon eggs right when I first got here.

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[hercatcameback]

Ha... How did that come about?

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[chosenlightchld]

Well, one egg suddenly appeared in my backpack and another three were delivered to me.

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[hercatcameback]

Hm-m. My party of two is nothing next to that.

The question is something I've been turning over since I caught my second Pokemon the other night. [A little of the smirk she's put on slips off as she glances over her PokeGear again.] A Zubat. I wasn't particularly trying, but I suppose he's still my Pokemon now. It's transparent enough from the beginning that a Pokemon-trainer partnership is rather different from a Digimon-human one, but now that I'll personally have to get used to the idea of having more than one under my wing, I've been contemplating what those differences are.

The bond between a Digimon and human is obviously deeper, but it seems as if a Pokemon and its trainer aren't entirely partners at all, are they? As trainers, it seems we're more meant to fill the roles of guardians and teachers Hence the term.

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[nodoubleteam]

The deepest bond Johto can offer, of course. [ it's said lightheartedly, like he's not entirely serious about it--which is true. he's not. ]

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[hercatcameback]

It sometimes gives outsiders their old close friends, and I'm sure plenty make new ones. [Dry smile.] Though with the likelihood that it's purely accidental, that's probably not entirely unfair.

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[nodoubleteam]

Indeed. [ he shrugs. ] Though it's much like any place in its accidental meetings, so perhaps that isn't quite significant to note.

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[hercatcameback]

In any other place, as far as anyone can tell, two people who meet by chance will have both been natural inhabitants together all along.

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[usedfeint]

They're smarter than some of the monsters I've run into in Ivalice- I'd say closer to clanmates that just can't talk like me, sometimes. I mean, I can still see where they have animal instincts and motivations, but they're a lot smarter than a lot of animals.

[Ritz says this, and then gives the Espeon sharing the shot with her an absolutely filthy look.] Sometimes too smart.

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[hercatcameback]

[Little smirk there - s'pose every sizable team's got one.] They're equals, then.

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[usedkendo]

I've also been thinking about that...

[And he's wondering what it's like for a digimon to be here to take care of pokémon.]

It's not like having a Digimon partner.

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[hercatcameback]

I didn't think so. When I give it thought, apart from in, for example, combat situations, obviously, I can't imagine how what we are to our partners could be any different from what you are to us. Trainers and Pokemon aren't on such equal terms, which needless to say isn't to suggest that Pokemon are beneath us. This is already nothing like what I've gotten used to.

[Video] How old is Tailmon, by the way? In both look and age.

[otherpumpkin]

My Pokémon are like children- [A happy chuckle] 'Though they're happy to help out looking after my children too, of course.

[Video] Her form level translates into young adult - I imagine her looking 18-20something.

[hercatcameback]

[Who could help but grin a little at that?] A friend of mine said the same about hers.

You have children here?