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]

[... hold on weavile let him take a look at you

squatting down and everything

between him and a sneasel]

They look just alike-- Oh, Weavile's got another claw! Huh. Is that a trade secret too?

[tsuntrader]

I'm not sharing info for some version of me in Team Rocket.

[But yes. Three claws on his hands and feet, shiny gold thing on his chest is gone, extra feathers... It's an evolution.]

[illegalteendad]

[huh

it moved up to its head

tap tap OKAY STANDING]

He'll probably figure that one first and on his own, since they're tight as can be. Figures they're not a bundle deal though. You're pretty cool lookin' Weavile.

1/2

[tsuntrader]

[Damn right I am.]

[tsuntrader]

Weavile, I need everyone to defend Gold if he ever shows up here. Got it?

[Yessir defend the dumb Gold I'll tell the troops right away]

[illegalteendad]

[wow jeez that sure is nice of you

how weird feeling

is this what it's like being bros with silver uhhhh w e i r d]

Thanks? I guess. These guys aren't gonna say anything either, right?

[tsuntrader]

Duh. [But he waves them away regardless. Just because they won't tell anyone doesn't mean that anyone won't hear it.

Weavile's got this; he can keep their attention for a while.]

Now what's your problem?

[illegalteendad]

[uggghhh

he's not gonna sit down he's just gonna play with his cuestick]

About not being able to leave that guy alone, right? It's a dumb reason. [makes him kinda mad too]

[tsuntrader]

[...Well go on, he's all ears.]

1/3

[illegalteendad]

[how to word it

gold doesn't usually think about wording because he's a natural talker but this topic's got some... questioning to it lately

aaaah fuck it]

So he's always alone in his office, right? Well - pretty much alone. Blue and Yellow I know for sure come around, Red and him probably chill together too... There's me too of course, especially now that-- [hold on will silver want this key back


oh well he's not getting it] Forget that. Lately he's been all riled up and bothered and he blames it all on me and I ain't sayin' I'm not takin' him thinking I'm a thorn in his side as a compliment 'cause it really is, but it can't all be my fault so I gotta know what's up with him and stuff.

[illegalteendad]

[... right?

yeah this is the right track

it still feels super stupid though]

[illegalteendad]

I doubt he's got any friends he can trust with his back in there without them lyin' or coddlin' him or anything like that. I mean, part of is [was?] that I want to be his friend so he'll stop being in Team Rocket and the whole thing'll start to come apart, but I guess I feel kinda responsible for makin' sure that no one hurts him and that he's not like totally alone too. He's a good guy. Bad choices in life and family and junk, but a good guy. He doesn't gotta be a bad guy just because it's his family's biz. You know?

[are you happy THIS FEELS INCREDIBLE STUPID AND STUFF

it's a start he still doesn't completely understand it all

(because silver can handle himself and he knows that??? god the guy's a good battler and shit it's not like he trumps him every time)

but he's getting there]

[tsuntrader]

...You're being friends with him to get him out of Team Rocket?

[illegalteendad]

It's a good idea, right? Play nice, get to be friends, show him that his family's a bunch of baddies and he'll leave them and things'll start to go to shit.

[it's such a good idea

so why does it feel bad]

[tsuntrader]

You'll mess with him, turn him against his family, and laugh at their expense when things go bad for them.

[illegalteendad]

[that is

an entirely accurate to put it]

What, you gonna tell me it's bad too?

[tsuntrader]

You tryin' to tell me it's not?

[illegalteendad]

Hell if I know! [et tu, brute???] I'm doin' it for the greater good, so it's good to me. But some other Silver says that... what, that manipulation's manipulation, or somethin' like that. I don't caaaaare ends justify the means.

[he's just tired of all you tellin him shit

but he does kind of care because ??????]

[tsuntrader]

Well, yeah. I could say the same thing about stealing and killing.

Manipulation doesn't look good on you, though.

[illegalteendad]

[stealing and killing are




complicated matters

it's okay if it's the hero, right?]

I'm doin' what I gotta do to protect my home. [it... doesn't apply here though does it]

[tsuntrader]

If Johto's in one of these rooms, point me right to it. [Nope, not buying it.]

[illegalteendad]

It was like this before we got signed up! [...] Well, it was sorta a a plan I was going for. It's easier to do things here.

[tsuntrader]

...You're being an asshole.

[Calling it like he sees it. That's not cool, Gold.]

[illegalteendad]

[you're not cool, silver]

Yeah? What makes you think I care?

[besides the fact gold's got a problem not leaving silver alone that is]

[tsuntrader]

How couldn't you? You think it's okay to toy with someone's emotions just because they're a bad guy? That's gonna backfire on you, you know.

If you call that being a good guy, you don't even deserve the name Gold.