Could you be more specific?

[spiritcrystal]

[Keeping Up With the Next Generation: An All-Purpose Guide to All That Stuff Those Kids From Other Regions Keep Talking About.

That's the name of the book Kris is reading in some weird and strangely specific library. Some other hits she sees in the shelves are How (Not) to Deal With Meddling Kids in Caps, It's Not All Black and White, The Series of Guys That Cramped My Style And Messed With My Social Life, and Hot Enemy Problems: Part 1.

But it's a large library. A huge library. The possibilities are endless... and very specifically tailored to everyone's needs.]

[ooc: Aaaand mingle post! Go ahead and comment/tag around!]

Comments

[illegalteendad]

[Hot Enemy Problems...

now

gold doesn't have that proble oh yes he does he's not even gonna deny it

but like hell he's gonna let anyone catching him reading up on how to deal with it

nope, it's being hidden behind a book he randomly picked out: The History And Construction of Various Towers in Johto, Complete With Diagrams And Floor Plans

but he'll end up poking kris in the side to check out her book too hey hey you you]

[semiductile]

[I see your hot enemy problems hidden behind floor plans and raise you Friends That Make Terrible Life Choices hidden behind Unova Pokémon and You: All of Those Trade Evolutions You Missed out on.]

[illegalteendad]

[you're crazy he's just totally invested in the sprout tower's long and detailed history

though he'd be lying if he said he wasn't startled in glancing up and seeing suddenly silver

until realizing it's not his

ah good okay time to bother]

You really like trading that much?

[semiductile]

[...It's that other Gold.]

It was my specialty. It's saved my life before. [Both of our lives, he wants to say. It's still his specialty, he also wants to say.

Is that true anymore?]

[illegalteendad]

[what gives it away, his good looks or his careless attitude]

That's pretty cool. [maybe his own frenemy's got that talent too? eh] But mine's way cooler. How did yours save your life?

[semiductile]

[The latter makes more of an impression, just so you know]

Politaro evolved and kept the two of us from getting crushed under a collapsing tower.

[...That's too soft and memorable.] We've traded a few times on some dangerous missions.

[illegalteendad]

[as a poliwrath, maybe? that'd be cool. his polibro's not quite there yet]

You two sure are "partners" if you trust each other with your friends like that. I know for sure Silver'd never let me touch Sneasel.

[semiductile]

That's different. I'd never let anyone touch Sneasel either.

[illegalteendad]

Yeesh. It's weird to see you guys be similar in some ways and totally different in others. I probably wouldn't let him go with any of my buddies either unless I could see what he was doin' though.

[they're getting there!!]

[tsuntrader]

[SO AFTER THE YELLOW FIASCO, JUST OUTSIDE THE DOOR-

Whoa dude calm down you're gonna run right into him at this rate-]

[illegalteendad]

[NOPE SHE'S DEAD SERIOUS ON HER THREATS

PLUS SHE LOOKED LIKE A SCORNED LOVER

HE'S NOT SCARED OF HER (YES HE IS) but he don't fancy finding out if she's serious (which she is)

it's okay if he bumps into silver though because silver's not gonna budge so much as gold's bounced back kind of



taller older looking.......]

Proteam Omega Silver? [the most hopeful]

[tsuntrader]

Is that really what I'm-

[...Actually, that sounds pretty cool.

Proteam Omega Silver...]

Yeah.

[illegalteendad]

Sweet! Okay, you're older so I gotta ask you something since I figure you've figured it out by now but first we gotta split.

[taking your arm

and dragging

away from the library]

[tsuntrader]

[Huh- wh-

well, okay--]

What's the rush?

[illegalteendad]

I'm being accused of being a homewrecker.

[no more, no less]

[tsuntrader]

...A what?

[illegalteendad]

[gold doesn't really know a 'safe place' to go so

around a few corners will be good enough

he'll just keep an eye out for unwanted company]

Guess I won't be welcome at his place anymore. Too bad. Anyway, you know anything about Rhydon? A... [.... friend??? no they are enemies] Someone I know has a hunch there's somethin' more to it.

hey

[littletightdress]

Whatcha reading, boy?

oh fuck me

[illegalteendad]

[...

it's just another him, right?

but that way of speaking is slightly off somehow





he can't put his finger on it]

Just the structural formation of the towers back home. They're actually pretty interesting. [he is discreetly closing the big book shut

never mind that there's an awkward 'bookmark' sort of thing going on with his self-help book in there]

i might as well get some mileage on these

[littletightdress]

Don't mind if I doubt that a little there. [Hand goes on the book's cover! And touching his super awkward bookmark.] You'll mess up the binding if you do that, you know. Crys'll be mad if she finds out.

[it is so weird to refer to that chick by (nick)name like damn]

might as well

[illegalteendad]

That's why she ain't, alright? [moving the book away

out of all the people the last person he's gonna show (now) is another him

seriously] It'll be our secret! I'll just fix it all nice and tidy when I'm done.

[littletightdress]

It'll be your secret. Tell me the other book you've got before I find out myself.

[illegalteendad]

It's just a book to hold my place, that's all. Somethin' I grabbed off the shelf.

[littletightdress]

You and I both know we're not the kind of guys to go looking at stupid books for tower floor plans. [Also Johto's boring.] That's Crys's deal. Or Silver's. It's bad to lie to yourself, you know?

[illegalteendad]

What, a guy can't be bored enough to look at anything? Ain't none of your concern what I'm readin' anyway, even if you're another me.