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  1. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    “Don’t know exactly how much, but she seems to be able to understand a fair amount of words. Eight or ninth category? I think the way I use the word ‘sapient’ has shifted while I’ve been here, I’ve started using it as a shorthand of the difference between my world and this one. So, not like the...
  2. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    Gladion nodded. “Yeah. All these metal bits are a post-hoc addition that takes manual control of our typing. There were some neurological issues with the original system, but… the typing control wasn’t really a necessary part of the solution. Part of the reason they were made to be intelligent...
  3. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    Gladion waved a talon ambiguously, the closest he could get to conveying the mood of a shrug. “Close. Got an interest in veterinary research. I’d have to pay tuition though, so… eh, we’ll see if it actually happens. Cons of bailing on my family. Combination of long-standing interest, plus… my...
  4. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    “I know, but even here it feels like a good chunk of what we do is clean up human…” Gladion’s eyes widened as his brain caught up to his mouth. “Oh. Oh shit.” What was he even supposed to say to that? Multiple child murders was not the kind of situation he had a social precedent to use. ‘I’m...
  5. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    Gladion’s eyes widened. That was a hell of a story. “You were able to do that? And… they’re alive? That’s…” What, incredible? Scientifically, it was. He found the whole concept insanely impressive in a vacuum. But these were people, and it sounded like Dave had scienced himself into a legal...
  6. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    Gladion appreciated Dave jumping to the new topic without asking any other questions. “Huh. That’s fascinating. You did that?” (Honestly, sounded like Mewtwo stuff to him, but that was supposed to predate Null stuff so they were probably a vegetative husk that imploded under its own psychic...
  7. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    A horrified look crossed Gladion’s eyes. “Oh. Okay.” He couldn’t quite bring himself to look Dave in the eye. “They’re not exactly sapient where I’m from either, but in Null’s case, still really intelligent. I’m sure that wasn’t the case in your world. Would’ve been… needlessly cruel.” Gladion...
  8. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    Gladion raised a brow in concern. “Sounds like… an interesting life. Guess there’s nothing to be done about it here, but good luck dealing with it back there.” Hope you don’t get shot or something like that. The idea of Dave hearing about the yet-to-break-in-his-time news about Nulls as a kid...
  9. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    "Ah..." (Yeah, alright, that would be worse.) "I knew the escort was attacked, and one of the admins... but it. But I think I was lacking some of the sense of scale there." Gladion grimaced, chastising himself internally for gunning for what was probably the worst possible topic right away...
  10. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera
    Threadmarks: Ch05: Lab Experience (Dave and Gladion)

    Now that he had his helmet off, more of the places in Frontier Town felt open to Gladion. The ability to eat and drink easily in public was nice. He'd never actually been to most of the establishments here, aside from at the team meeting. But he wasn't here for drinking, he had a reason to be...
  11. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Thanks for that. I've been meaning to talk more to Wes for a while, I can bring it up to him." Gladion eyed the posters. He hadn't med Seth firsthand, but the guy had something of a reputation, and Gladion couldn't help size up the people on the posters. Miror probably would post a threat, the...
  12. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Main Street

    A worried look crossed Gladion’s eyes. That was something he was woefully unqualified to deal with. He wasn’t sure if anyone was, though. Might just have to give it a shot anyway. “One hell of a time on Forlas, by the sound of it. Less sure I can help with that. But I’m not really sure who else...
  13. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Main Street

    “Old cabin. Sierra’s daughter, Brisa used to live there before she went missing. Probably a temporary arrangement, gotta give them some time away from society to readjust.” He hoped. Because if they were able to permanently co-opt the place, that probably boded poorly for the fate of Brisa. No...
  14. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Main Street

    “They seem better than I’d expect they actually would be doing. Nova’s living with them to make sure everything’s going alright.” It took Gladion a moment to parse Archie’s gesture, mostly because for a moment it panged familiar in the way Silverbell would ask for uppies, though Archie was a...
  15. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Main Street

    “Good for you,” Gladion offered, “Hope it didn’t out too much of a damper on the memory of your experience.” Or had for him, but only because he had an expectation of what his evo should have looked like. For whichever kind of battle or maturity evo Oshawott had it might be less surprising. “We...
  16. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Gladion narrowed his eyes at the poster. He knew from Lovrina that even the most bizarre Cipher admins weren’t to be taken lightly, but… “Is that… hair? On a bird?” This world continued to find small new ways to push the boundaries of what made sense to him. He’d seen what Quaquaval were...
  17. Shiny Phantump

    Frontier Town Main Street

    That was the Archie, wasn’t it? Dual-wielding wanted posters, probably looking for his next job now that fiends situation was dying down. He’d worked with Archie a couple times, but never really talked to the guy. Maybe Lumirror was too harsh a starting point, but he should probably at least...
  18. Shiny Phantump

    Sojaveña Wilds Clan Battlegrounds

    Gladion tried to smirk, not that his beak accommodated it particularly well. Scanning Halcón to see who would make the first move, he dropped into a ready stance. "Threatening me with a good fight? Sure, somehow I think I can find it in my heart to forgive you." Was he about to get his ass...
  19. Shiny Phantump

    Sojaveña Wilds Clan Battlegrounds

    Gladion blinked, as if snapped out of something. “I’m not so much worried about fixing everything, I’m not that idealistic. Just… worried about making things worse by accident,” he rationalized. Though at least in part he had been picturing wanting to make things better. “And for my old life…”...
  20. Shiny Phantump

    Sojaveña Wilds Clan Battlegrounds

    “All of those. At once.” Gladion laughed. It was still an awkward laugh, but one that felt more like a release of tension than a continuation of it. He scoffed separately at Halcón’s joke, counting himself lucky his face was inscrutable. He was lucky Halcón explicitly declared that one a joke...
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