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?

[typeless]

[Your not!aunt is now looking over your shoulder.

... Did you even notice her there?]

Tetris?

[battlestandby]

[What the f-

HE IS MOVING AWAY SO QUICKLY to put distance between himself and not!aunt, glaring at her.]

What's it to you?!

[typeless]

[... You're ridiculous.]

Simple curiosity.

[battlestandby]

You've been stalking me. Admit it.

[notinmtsilver]

Paul! [Iiiit's not!mom]

You alright there?

[battlestandby]

I'm fine--[mom], Ash. It's just water.

[notinmtsilver]

Yeah, but it's salt water, you should probably wash it out first.

[battlestandby]

It's not that big a deal.

[towersecure]

[we just got off our surfin' cloyster to see, well...]

... isn't that impressive?

[battlestandby]

[eeeeeee. Forget the comedic soaking; this guy is on Paul's Asses-to-Kick list.]

...

[towersecure]

Loyal member of your team you got there.

[battlestandby]

Don't talk to me.

[nintentrainer]

[Oh hey this guy... was kind of not the most fun, but is that a game syste-

...oh...

...well, if it's Nintendium it's alright!

...so yes, she went from about to joyfully inquire as to what he was playing to... uh... gawking, basically.]

[battlestandby]

[And of course, he never takes gawking well.]

Is there a problem?

[nintentrainer]

...oh! No, there isn't.

[battlestandby]

Then what's the look for?