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!]

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[semiductile]

[...Was Gold like this before?

Man, he doesn't even know anymore-] Whatever you say.

[illegalteendad]

Don't believe me?

[semiductile]

Don't care enough to decide.

[illegalteendad]

It's not like I'm out to be his friend, you know. I just gotta pull out one piece and the rest of the tower'll crumble.

[... it feels wrong to say that though

whatever!!! it doesn't matter it's the plan and that's that]

[semiductile]

...So you're manipulating him.

[There's a word for that, you know.

He knows it pretty well. He does quite a bit of it himself.]

[illegalteendad]

Ah-ah, bad guys manipulate. I'm convincing him to drop what he's got and join the right side. Saving him.

[it's all a matter of connotation, silver]

[semiductile]

Shut up.

[No.]

[illegalteendad]

Got a problem?

[semiductile]

What's the difference, Gold? What makes you a hero?

[illegalteendad]

I'm not part of an evil organization that steals Pokemon, threatens the peace, and kills people on like a daily basis. I'm fighting against that, to keep Johto and everyone safe, and if that means I gotta play a little dirty for the greater good it's no skin off my nose. Doing what's necessary is what being a hero means.

[semiductile]

Yeah? When some crazy old masked man kidnapped my sister and I, I did everything in my power to stop him. That was necessary. I stole, I fled, and I was ready to kill or be killed to do the right thing. The same when I first met my father. The same in Hoenn. The same when Blue stood alongside what i hated the most.

Blue joined Team Rocket because it was necessary. So did Gold. So did I. Heroics turned against us.

It doesn't matter if you're the hero or not. Manipulation is manipulation. Don't pretty up what you do.

The hero isn't always right.

[illegalteendad]

[delicious delicious info

probably doesn't pertain to his own silver and blue at all but worth a mention to see if there's any reaction

the hero isn't always right, manipulation is manipulation

yeah right

you're the one who told him to never stop being a hero silver and heroes are always right because it's for the greater end]

You weren't born into the family biz, dude, the situations are totally different. Your right's obviously screwed up though. [completely dismissing it all, isn't he?] What made you guys join in anyway? Don't see a reason to.

[semiductile]

[Not a word of that got to him, huh?

Of course.]

Our good guys are the bad guys.

[illegalteendad]

[it'll come later]

What, like the old man? Or Crys? [crys hadn't been in that list, and he'd had some reaction to her name before too]

[semiductile]

[...His face still sours, but at least hearing about Crys throws him less off guard this time.]

...Guess you wouldn't get it since everyone's in Team Rocket. [He doesn't want to talk about this. He doesn't want to talk about it at all.]

We were all dex holders. You, me, Crys, Blue, Yellow, Green, and Red. We saved the world a handful of times.

[illegalteendad]

[all you other silvers have really weird worlds]

Se-Seriously? [ppppfft--] Hahaha! No way! You other Silvers have the weirdest homes!

[it's not terrible funny, but he'll 'wipe a tear from his eye']

Ah, man... I can't even imagine that.

[semiductile]

I can. [You're the weird one here, Gold.]

[illegalteendad]

[the only weird gold is the mopey one who joined team rocket in his opinion]

I'm not doubting you or anything like that, it's just that with the people I know I can't imagine it. Red at some point before he got beat, maybe, but Blue or Yellow? Nah, nah. Okay, so you guys were Dex holders. What then?

[semiductile]

That's for me to know. [But not for this Gold to find out.]

[illegalteendad]

Ah, come on. [he's tapping his fingers on the table impatiently] It's got somethin' to do with Crys, right? She wouldn't let me join those guys in a million years!

[semiductile]

At least you understand that. [Nope nope noping the fuck out of this conversation]

[illegalteendad]

What happened to Crystal?

[semiductile]

[...No. He shakes his head.]

[illegalteendad]

[he's annoyed

no, he's beyond annoyed

crystal's his friend no matter the circumstances and it's ticking him off that silver won't tell him what happened

seriously, what could've been so bad that he would've joined the rockets?]

Fine, whatever! Thanks for what information you actually gave me. [he shoves his book away, but it's actually just the decoy that comes off and he freezes as Hot Enemy Problems appears like it's a goddamn magic trick]

[semiductile]

[...Hot... what...?

The serious look is gone, at least for now. Gold.

Gold, what are you reading.]