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

[illegalmarriage]

Stop prettying it up.

[aintseennothin]

I'm not prettying it up, I'm telling you how it is. It's the truth.

[It's her truth. Not just one forged by her legacy in Team Rocket, but by all of her life experiences.]

Humans act helpless, but if they really wanted, they could band together and get rid of us. If they weren't so scared for their lives even when the odds are technically in their favor - think, just how many of them are there compared to us? - they would have gotten rid of Team Rocket themselves long ago. When Lance rose, people cowered, without realizing that he couldn't take all of Kanto on if they had organized into an army. Thousands would die, but their fears overpowered them. Instead, they counted on me, on Team Rocket, to protect them. Because it's in our best interest that they are alive and feeding us the profits we need.

You saw the papers. The reports on what happened in Hoenn. Do you think people really didn't notice the radical terrorism happening before those ancient god-Pokémon were released? No one did anything. They went on with their self-absorbed little lives, thinking "someone else will handle it, I don't have to sacrifice anything, what about those that depend on me?" Whatever excuses they want.

People are walking corpses until there's the select few that have the spark of heroism in them. And they're never heroes. They're martyrs.

[illegalmarriage]

This isn't about other people. This is about us.

[He. He doesn't want to hear that. It will sink in later, but for now...]

We're cold, harsh, and cruel. You wouldn't bat an eye at killing anyone. I'm perfectly content to comfortably sit in an office and decide the fates of countless people and Pokémon with a pen before watching cartoons.

Own up to what you do. At least acknowledge that it's wrong. Fear and ignorance isn't some excuse you can give to say anything we do is okay.

[aintseennothin]

As far as I'm concerned, I'm no worse than Pokémon that kill anything that encroaches upon their territory. It only makes sense. Humans have such an inflated idea of "right" and "wrong", but don't have any gumption to back it up. The day that someone makes sense of it to me is the day I consider it.

[illegalmarriage]

...Until you consider it, you won't see why I put up with Gold.

[aintseennothin]

Unless he can explain to me why morality and heroism is important even though Pokémon don't have it, I'm not interested. You know who else wanted to save the world? Lance! He was so certain that he was right to destroy all of humanity to save Pokémon... and the handful of trainers he deemed worthy of living with them.

Everybody has such a different interpretation of morality. It's so subjective. I know I'm "wrong" and "bad" and "evil". But those words don't mean a thing to me.

[illegalmarriage]

[That's wrong. That's wrong and he can't explain why. He doesn't want to deal with this. He wants to walk away.

But that would hurt Yellow. That would hurt Yellow and leave Yellow to hurt Gold.

...He doesn't trust Yellow. That's it, isn't it? Right now, he doesn't trust her.

A sinking feeling fills his stomach.]

Believe what you want. I don't care.

[aintseennothin]

Just think about it, alright? You've given Gold's words so much thought, at least give mine the same effort.

[illegalmarriage]

Funny, because I spent that entire conversation arguing with him and defending you guys.

[aintseennothin]

If that's arguing then Red and I need to go to couples therapy.

[Well okay that's still entirely a true statement but.]

[illegalmarriage]

[Could you quit reminding him

What was he even thinking--]

[aintseennothin]

[You get one more hug!]

Don't get roped into something like that again, doofus!

[Before she starts heading out of the library! She's got someone else to track down and talk to, if she can find him.]

[illegalmarriage]

[...]

If you run into him, don't threaten him.

...Please. [That's not an order. That's a request.]

[aintseennothin]

I won't threaten to kill him.

[But she can't promise anything more than that!]

[illegalmarriage]

Please.

[C'mon Yellow, be a bro. How often does Silver use the please word? Never, that's how often.]

[aintseennothin]

...I won't bug him today.

[YOU'RE KILLIN HER HERE]

[illegalmarriage]

C'mon.

[He can deal with this himself, please don't make it worse by threatening his friend- his bo- his enemy.]

[aintseennothin]

Only if you promise not to start mackin' on him again.

[illegalmarriage]

I don't want to talk or even think about that ever again.

[aintseennothin]

Then you've got a deal.

[illegalmarriage]

Good. [Alright, alright, carry on then.]