homeless and probably VERY rough sob

[geekout]

The hell's the matter with you?

Just- just look at half these places, they don't even got computers, let alone an internet connection. Probably have to walk halfway to Mordor if I want to get myself a damn soda, too, just look at all the crap everyone in these games has to put up with, man. What'd I even do to you to make you wanna do anything like this?

...No, just because half the people out there are from video games doesn't make it worth it. I wanna see them, I can pull up a computer chair and get it going somewhere I'm not gonna get shot in the head, or get a sword in the chest, or someone hitting me with some damn poison, or nothing like that. Ain't worth it, man. Ain't worth it.

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[geekout]

No one ever tell you, it's about the journey, not the destination? You gotta prove yourself, show everyone you're the best, that's what pokémon's all about! [HE HAS STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT CHILDREN'S VIDEO GAMES OKAY?] If you wanna just steal it or beat someone up for it, you might as well be Team Rocket.

[Oh but let's move on.]

You get yourself a Meowth? Doesn't that feel like cheating? You don't gotta work for the money, it's like printing it yourself. No challenge.

[Then again this is Parker. Her love of money is sometimes always disturbing.]

[nostabbing]

No, it feels like lots of money. Lots and lots and lots of money. I fell in there out of nowhere, Hardison, you know what that means? No money. None of my money was there. None of it, no secret bank accounts, no cereal stash, no storage locker emergency fund, nothing. No money. No money.

[Granted, she'd proceeded to remedy that within her first two hours by stealing a couple million dollars straight out of the Team Rocket Operating Budget, but that's not the point.]

...Oh. That's the other reason you should come. [Stage whisper.] To help me take down Team Rocket. They're pretty bad guys.

[geekout]

Yeah... yeah, okay, I feel you. [They may be reformed thieves, but being broke is never, ever cool.] But I hope Pokéworld doesn't have inflation or anything, Meowths all spitting money out everywhere...

[Thattagirl, rob those jerks blind! Leverage lives on, in a world where eternal ten year olds go on lifelong journeys.]

Bad guys- bad guys, you kidding? Team Rocket is the worst, girl, they're never gonna give up on nabbing that Pikachu. You better be working hard on taking them down, or I ain't ever looking the same way at you again.

[nostabbing]

I am! My backup is...pretty bad, actually, but one of them can punch okay.

[And in fairness, it's just proof of how far she's come that she actually thought to go find herself some backup rather than just trying to solo the thing again.]

But I keep having to grift. You know I can't grift!

[geekout]

You mean your human backup or one of your little pokédudes? 'Cause if it's a pokédude, you just gotta go have him beat up some things, he'll be stronger than Eliot in no time.

[It's a sickness, they're all getting afflicted with the teamwork bug. Dammit, Nate, this is your fault.]

Aww, girl, you can grift when you gotta, I've seen you pull it off. We can't all be off-stage Sophie, but you're better than... on-stage Sophie.

[nostabbing]

My human backup! My Pokédudes are good. Nate's good, he kind of runs everybody except Sophie. And then I've got Bitey, Hitter, Gummy, Taser, Switchblade, Toucan Sam, a plant that does something...oh, and a couple of evil horses. I named one of them after Evil Nate.

[Who thought it would be funny to give her a flaming horse. Who. Someone with a sick sense of humor, that's who.]

...A dead cat is better than on-stage Sophie.

[geekout]

Nate's good-? Oh, you named a... [Nope, gonna just listen in while she lists off her battle critters. Those are definitely some Parker names, right there.] Evil horses, no kidding? You gotta be careful with those, they're gonna go setting fires everywhere if you let'em out of their balls.

[There are many, many pokémon that would utterly terrorize him to know she has. Fire-horsies are up there, but they ain't the tip-top, it can be so much worse.]

I won't tell her you said that, but, point is, you got it in you. You don't even gotta stab anyone to get it done.