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[purrloinblocked]

[He's tense because he just released a vicious Liepard from its pokeball and from quite the distance as well. The Liepard makes no hesitation to bristle and hiss at him. ]

Liepard.

[He tries to remain firm, but his voice doesn't have much leverage to it. A bond to this Liepard and with great pain. The Liepard growls while kicking sand at him. Reflexively he covers his face, but he known this Liepard and thus knows how she works. While covering his face he dives away from a Night slash attack. Liepard meant business with an increased critical hit move. Thankful for his own training, he was able to roll through the sand and back up to his feet. Air is still a little cloudy, but he can feel the cat pokemon leaping for him again. Another roll and he has a grip on the pokeball, but he doesn't return the pokemon.]

Liepard, please! I'm sorry I was too weak before!

[Leverage gone; his voice shakes. It isn't loud enough for a powerful yell. It might look like incompetence but it's far from a common trainer problem.]

Comments

[purrloinblocked]

Are they all whimsical weirdos?

[stalkerwithacap]

[... to be honest] Kind of, yeah.
Some got better.

[purrloinblocked]

[..."Better". That's where his eyebrows quite clearly raised up.]

[stalkerwithacap]

The one I know best here... well he got to see for himself what was wrong with plasma and took his own path... he made a bunch of friends who helped him let go of the conditioning and become his own person... he's a pretty cool guy, even if he's still unusual.

[purrloinblocked]

[PLASMA.....]

[stalkerwithacap]

[That reaction] Yeah, guess who made him that way.
His "father" didn't just fuck with pokemon.

[purrloinblocked]

[HRGH....Plasma.] "Made him that way" I'm not going to feel any pity about it.

1/2

[stalkerwithacap]

Pity doesn't help anyone anyway. But it puts things in perspective a bit.
One I knew was driven crazy by the abuse. I don't know what happened to yours... but it might explain why someone who originally loved pokemon more than humans ended up abandoning one.

[stalkerwithacap]

Finding someone to blame's not gonna change anything though. [sigh] 's best to try and fix things and make him feel better.

[purrloinblocked]

Perspective? You mean bias you and I both have. [He hates anyone and anything to do with Plasma] Not to mention you're blaming his father. Plasma is split into two sections, the other half talked about N the other half with Ghetsis. They're all ridiculous and I hate them. And anyone who hurt Pokemon under a false 'dream' is a jerk and a moron. We're not always a product of our parents or our parents themselves. No matter what happens.

1/2

[stalkerwithacap]

That's why I said blaming won't help. I hate ghetsis's guts and most of plasma but I've got better things to do than go after them. I've got people to take care of.

[stalkerwithacap]

[grumbled very low, you may or may not hear it] Else I'd have sent him to hell long ago.

[purrloinblocked]

[Huff] I hate hypocrites! I hate how they blame everyone else for hurting pokemon, know it's a lie and keep going about it. That the stupid zealots split into two still thinking stealing pokemon from people is liberating them when that hurts people and pokemon alike and the other half flat out wants to take over and rule. I will crush people like that under my fists. I have, and I will continue to. I have felt the heart break and I have seen it too many times! I lived with my own and my little sister's for years until I trained to be able to do something about it. You talked about several, and only "one" got "better". Put it together...

[stalkerwithacap]

Can I ask you a question.

[purrloinblocked]

What.

[stalkerwithacap]

What do you think happens to people when you treat them like that?

[purrloinblocked]

I asked them that. They laughed in my face. [Clenches his fightan gloves.]

1/2

[stalkerwithacap]

God fucking damnit, I hate Plasma.

2/3 (maybe)

[stalkerwithacap]

... look. I don't think pokemon and humans are that different. They attach the same way and they get hurt the same way. And the shit those guys have done to pokemon they've done to people too. To kids too.
You're not blaming your pokemon for being hurt, are you? It's kind of the same with him. He got better in this case because someone reached to him and took the time to help him heal. The other one I talked about... I tried but I was too late. He had been lied to, abused since childhood, raised without love, then sent on a wild goose chase of a mission, and when he did his best to do it to try and get some affection and approval from the one who acted as both family member and master, he was betrayed and abandoned. And he broke down, and lashed out at those who hurt him, and eventually died.

3/5 actually

[stalkerwithacap]

I'm not saying the one you know's all innocent and you shouldn't blame him. I dunno, I haven't met him. And with this island... doubles aren't always similar. I've met doubles of people I love who turned out downright evil. So your N might be really different from the one I know here--and I can tell you, this one's a good guy and knows what the bond between a good trainer and his pokemon is worth.

[stalkerwithacap]

But yeah. N's... a fruit of plasma's shit. Not the root of the problem. Lashing at him's not actually gonna help you take them down.

[stalkerwithacap]

... and yeah, "stupid zealots" is a good description, from what I gathered their grunts are a mass of stupid to believe the whole "liberate pokemon" bullshit.
And those who're not stupid are power-hungry hypocrites.

[purrloinblocked]

He was your friend and you lost your friend, I get it. I almost lost a family member to them and my little sister broken from it--and they hurt me too until I got strong to deal with or without pokemon. I would fight for my friends and all pokemon with every fiber I got. Seeing the opposite burns the pit of my stomach worse than a virus. He is one person in comparison to an entire region and generations of people and pokemon a lot. What wouldn't stop them from trying to pursue the world? It's cold but that's what it is and you're speaking from the view of a friend. I try not to do that, I fight for my family and friends, but I want to fight for the future too. They went against both. My parents changed too, fearful all the time. It'll take a long time for me to let that go.

I'm not going to antagonize the N here. But if that Zorua was left behind, there's a lot of others probably left behind too. Liepard...she's been hurt in more than one way. They treat Pokemon like objects, and people like obstacles and props... He is the "fruit" yeah, and that makes him dangerous even now.

[stalkerwithacap]

[... that's pretty much... how he feels about that dark trinity guy. You're giving him a mirror, Hue. And it's making him question how he feels about him even more in light of what he's just said.
But it's making him mellow even more towards you]
... yeah I get that. Whether it's someone's fault or not doesn't mean you don't have to stop them if they're dangerous. I know.

[purrloinblocked]

[...Nod. He's not mad at you, really. He gets how you feel, he's just against the person of your feels. He spent years on this. In fact, he's tightening his belt. ]