First Splinter ♡ Text/Video

[heartsplintered]

So we're legit in a Pokémon world of some kind here, aren't we.
Or at least, the fact that this fucking bird won't leave me the hell alone is leading me to think as much.
Are they typically this dumb? It's been years since I played any of these games, I don't even know what the hell it is.

Whatever.
Uh.

[He clicks the video option and it focuses on a skinny blonde teenager covered in freckles, wearing a pair of stupid triangular shades with his hair gelled into an impossible style that is currently being partially destroyed by his newfound Wingull. Dirk looks entirely less than pleased.]

I'm Dirk.

[[ooc; Apologies for the un-cut orange courier, I didn't figure it'd be in the best form to have his introduction post hidden beneath a cut.]]

Comments

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[heartdive]

Or maybe he just likes you? I mean you are his trainer and all.

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[heartsplintered]

It's barely had ten minutes to make an impression of me, so I'm right impressed if it's decided I'm likable already. Though my hair is pretty fine.

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[heartdive]

Some are just like that though. Fluffy was! ...Still sort of is.

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[heartsplintered]

... "Fluffy"?

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[heartdive]

Fluffy. My Altaria.

[ as if on cue, the cottony dragon bird chirps and pushes his head into view. ]

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[heartsplintered]

I am so Poké-retro, I swear to God.

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[heartdive]

Retro?

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[heartsplintered]

Retro. Like retrospect, or retroactive. In the past, more or less. I'm behind on the Poké-times.

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[heartdive]

Oh.

You're from one of the worlds where it's a game, right?

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[heartsplintered]

Several, actually. Card game, video game, pretty sure there's a version of Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit centered around it.

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[heartdive]

Geez. Popular much?

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[heartsplintered]

Cute pet monster things that kick each other's butts in the name of shiny badges and accomplishments, man. It's human nature to love that shit.

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[heartdive]

Okay. You got me there. Kinda does make me wish we had this sort of thing where I come from.

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[heartsplintered]

Right? Would make everything better. Everywhere. Pretty much.

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[heartdive]

It'd definitely give us more to do than to just chill out at the play island.

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[heartsplintered]

[In all honesty Dirk's probably familiar with Kingdom Hearts. But I can't see him being a guy to pop someone's bubble and mention them being from a game-- maybe mention "something similar". But either way he just grins.]

Play island? Sounds pretty sweet, dude. I lived on sort-of an island, myself.

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[heartdive]

Sort of an island?

[ nothing can pop Sora's bubble. Sora's bubble is inpoppable. ]

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[heartsplintered]

[He shifts his shoulders back and forth in a not-shrug.]

Well it was an apartment building, sort of made into an island because most of the planet was covered in water. So it was like an island 'cause it was all that really stuck up out of the water.

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[heartdive]

...You weren't alone, were you?

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[heartsplintered]

Well, being one of two living human beings on the planet does that.

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[heartdive]

Wait.

What?

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[heartsplintered]

I'm from a post-apocalyptic future wherein me and my friend Roxy are the only two humans left alive. It's... sort of a long story.

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[heartdive]

But there are others... That are just not human?

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[heartsplintered]

...Yeah. Hostile alien takeover.

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[heartdive]

[ he's silent for a moment. mulling this over. ]

I don't get it... Like, I understand there are different worlds and each one has its own rules and stories.

But why are there so many sad ones.