☭ 006 [Anonymous Text]

[meatysoviet]

[There's not very much to this text other than what's written. There doesn't really need to be all things considered.]

What do your pokémon mean to you?

[Humor him, he's genuinely curious.]

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anon text;

[nodoubleteam]

Emergency food rations.

[ joking, of course. but it's not like he makes that obvious. ]

anon text;

[meatysoviet]

[Some one texting anonymously? PARANOIA INITIATE.

However that idea...]

Had never considered that.

anon text;

[nodoubleteam]

[ go be paranoid, ivan. jade will be here just kind of shrugging. ]

Careful now. It isn't exactly a popular train of thought.

anon text;

[meatysoviet]

[He will be. He needs to figure out WHO YOU ARE.]

If I cared for popularity I would have agreed with everyone who answered this question.

It is still an interesting idea. Are any of these monsters edible? Magikarp are not.

[He's tried that one already.]

[Anon Text]

[meatysoviet]

More than human companions?

[All of the Anon Text!]

[meatysoviet]

So you would consider a dog on par with a human in the ways of friendship then? You could not pick one over the other?

[Text]

[ttlyahero]

[YOU ARE SUCH A TROLL---]

They're my friends, obviously! Just because they take another shape or form doesn't make them any less important!

[Anon Text]

[meatysoviet]

[THEY SEE ME TROLLIN'--]

How do you know they are friendly though? What if they are waiting for you to lower your defenses?

[It wasn't his original goal, but if he can freak Alfred out about being near pokémon, then his day will be made. He'll do his best to make this happen.]

[Text]

[ttlyahero]

[THEY HATIN'--]

I have a tendency to see the good in people or... uh Pokémon anyway, so I doubt that.

[Yeah, no wai man. He loves his friends. Wailmer is just like his whale at home okok]

[Anon Text] Sorry, I got distracted by watching Mister Bojangles numbers.

[meatysoviet]

[TRYIN' TO CATCH ME TYPIN' DIRTY.]

Could strike you out of grass when you sleep. Or wait until the one time you leave them out of their pokéballs and your back is turned...

Especially the more tencious ones; who knows what they are thinking.

[islandshore]

It's complicated. I used to think of them just as weapons-- a means to an end. Something to show off and prove how strong I am.

I'm not as hard on them these days, for the most part. Got some sense knocked into me when I lost my first battle in over a year.

I try to communicate with them more often. Some've picked up writing, and sometimes my Alakazam translates for them. Even without him, I can usually work things out based on body language.

[meatysoviet]

[A moment's pause]

Your monsters can read and write?

[islandshore]

Some can. They all understand what I'm saying for the most part, but I've got... maybe four or five that actually write stuff down.

Plus, Psychic types can speak with telepathy.

[meatysoviet]

I dislike the idea of telepathy immensely. I do not like the idea of something else in my head other than my own thoughts.

Reading and writing however could be useful.

[text]

[killer_sweets]

Friends that know how to take care of themselves.

[anon text]

[meatysoviet]

If that is the case then why do they stay with us?

[text]

[killer_sweets]

Who knows, they have the free will to chose whatever they want.

Through for certain pokémon it's because their trainers are their surrogate parents.

[Forever Anon Text]

[meatysoviet]

Parents? I take it you mean for monsters raised from eggs?

And staying because they want to makes me wonder about why bad owners still have monsters then. I have yet to see an abandoned monster, or hear of one leave a trainer of their own free will.