IC Contact/Voicemail

[ardent]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL]

"You've reached Kiyotaka Ishimaru; I seem to have missed you! My sincerest apologies for that - but if you leave your name and state your business, firmly and concisely, I'll return your contact as soon as I can!

Until then, I look forward to speaking to you; do what you can to make your day pleasant and productive, and be sure to keep your head up!"

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

Comments

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[struck_out]

Hey Ishimaru! I saw somethin' the other day and he kinda reminded me of you. Check your PC when you got the time. And no need to thank me either, I'm just that swell of a guy.

[And inside the PC waiting for him is a certain red fish...that has had some black lines scribbled around its eyes. They almost look like eyebrows.]

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[ardent]

[And...some time later...]

Kuwata-kun, do I really want to know where you got that?

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[struck_out]

Does it matter? Come on Ishimaru, I got you that fish cuz I thought you'd like it. He really looks like you, huh?

[ardent]

[You know, he's really not sure if Leon is messing with him here or if this is just so far down the YOU TRIED rabbit hole that you can see nothing but gold stars for miles.]

Well, I'm not saying I don't appreciate it! It's definitely an interesting species!

[There's a bit of a pause, then another text - one that's...decidedly more rushed than the first.]

KUWATA-KUN, DID YOU DRAW THOSE ON

[struck_out]

[It...might be more of the former than the latter. But hell is Leon going to tell him that.]

Maaaaaaybe? I mean, he wouldn't look like you without those monster eyebrows of yours. ;)

[Yes, he can use emotes as well.]

[ardent]

[what did he do to deserve this]

If I knew how to feel about that, I would tell you.

[struck_out]

[you have Leon as a classmate. That's all you need to know.]

You can tell me how fucking cool the fish is!! I mean, it's like a piranha with your face on it! I nearly wanted to call it Ishi Junior, but I think you should get to name it instead. Call it something awesome, ok? Nothing lame like "Majime" or "Hagemu" or he'll end up all stuck up and stiff like you.

[ardent]

[Well. That's true...]

I wasn't planning on it!

...I'll call it Toranosuke for now. I'll change it if I find something more suiting.

[struck_out]

Well I guess that's an alright name. Make sure you raise him to be the most badass fish in all of Johto, k? His previous trainer didn't seem to like him very much but I'm sure you can train him good.

[ardent]

His previous trainer...? Who would that be?

[struck_out]

I actually don't know his name? But we've been speaking over the network a few times. He's a bit weird; I think he's one of those guys who's from the past or a different planet, but he's fine.

[ardent]

Well, this one doesn't seem to have been trained at all, and he seems kind of wary; I'm wondering what the treatment he received before was like...

[Ugh, don't make him actually care about this fish, come on...]

I'll see what I can do with it, though; I've raised difficult ones before. Kamina, for example.

[struck_out]

Now that you mentioned it...when I first released it into the bathtub it went nuts! Just went stir-crazy and nearly started a mess in the bathroom. After I yelled at him a little though he quietened down real fast and just went to the corner, didn't even struggle when I started drawing on him.

...Actually, his trainer mentioned trying to eat him once. I don't think he's an animal person.

[ardent]

[WAIT, WAIT, WHAT - ]

His trainer tried to eat him?!

[struck_out]

I know right? Fucking sick. But I think he's from a place where they don't keep pets. Like...he thinks the only reason you keep animals is because they have to do something useful. Like if you had a dog, you'd use it for hunting. Hard to find a reason to keep a fish then, unless you wanna eat it later.

[ardent]

Well, given that Pokémon are more useful than animals back home overall, I'd think he would have found some use for it!

[Hell, he could probably use the fish for hunting if he were particularly determined. SIE SIND DAS ESSEN UND WIR SIND DIE TRAINERS]

[struck_out]

Don't think he saw them like that. But he just seemed really glad to give the Basculine away. He was OK about his other Pokemon though, it was just the fish that he didn't like. He wouldn't tell me why he wanted to give it away either.

[ardent]

...I'll have to see how it reacts to things, then. If it was his starter, some of them are a little strange sometimes, and not in a good way.

[struck_out]

Really? Keisuke's been pretty cool so far, but maybe I just got lucky.

I'm sure you'll be able to fix'em Ishimaru. You're good at this leading thing.

[ardent]

You know, I don't think I've seen your starter, actually - what is it?

[struck_out]

A fire monkey. I think it's ...Chimchar? But right now he's an Monferno. He's damn amazing in battle; he's fast and he hits hard, and he looks so fucking badass!

What's yours Ishimaru? Bet it's not as awesome as mine!

[ardent]

He started out as a Darumaka, but he's a Darmanitan now; I don't use him, as he's one of the ones I mentioned before - he's not very friendly, to put it nicely, and large enough to take me down easily if it got into his head to do so. I can't trust him very well, so I'm leaving him in the box for the time being.

[struck_out]

You don't trust your own Pokemon?

[ardent]

Not really. I think there's something wrong with that one, due to something I can't discuss over the network.

[struck_out]

Is it sick in the head? Maybe you should get it to the Pokemon Centre. Or maybe it just needs something like friendship shit. You know, show that you wanna be his buddy and get him to open up.

...you didn't try to eat it did you?