Nuzlocke AU impulse apping to Jarjammed

[frustrates]

You are such an ass.

I don't even know where I stand with Pokemon right now, and now you're sending me to some entirely new world full of even shittier monsters to get in my way? On a whim, even, when you know full well how tired I am of getting pushed around by overexcited people who want me to do what they want. Yeah, you just added yourself to that list.

[sigh.]

Isn't there any other way to resurrect her? I don't want to quit training. I still owe March for what I did... besides, it'd be better if you caught up to my canon point in your comic, rather than use up all your ideas for me on RP. You really have no sense.

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[unlockeing]

[Samson clenches his fists at the implied vitriol there, but holds his tongue. He's debating whether or not to write this one off as just another one of those trainers, when something she says catches his attention.]

...Resurrect?

[frustrates]

[Yeah, there's vitriol. April only likes her own pokemon.

She pauses, regarding the other trainer with caution.]

My mun says there's a thing called a "kernelsprite" that can bring back the dead, among other things. It's in the game she wants to dump me in... and that's the bait.

Not much of a choice, right?

[unlockeing]

[Samson, on the other hand, likes virtually all pokemon; it's other trainers who have his automatic suspicion. Even now, he's still meticulously avoiding eye contact.]

I- I dunno. If it's something you do, maybe, but- [He shakes his head.]

She offered me Starkey back. Said it wasn't fair, said we were right by the healing springs, said maybe she could just be maimed and not dead... But if she'd do that for her, why not Garfunkel? Why not all the pokemon, ever?

It was just.... so, so stupid.

[frustrates]

[She narrows her eyes, but not because she disagrees - no, it hits pretty close to home.]

Ugh... yeah, that's true. The bargaining they do is pathetic.

[Well, he shared a story, so now she feels like she has to. Actually, giving her reasons to complain is one of the best ways to get her to talk.]

One time she redid a battle just to see what could have been, and saved everyone, but decided to go the route that killed three of my team anyway because it'd make me angry.

Well, it worked.

[except she's starting to get past the point of anger. It's made her do some pretty heartless things, and now she just wants to take it back.]

... But yeah, the kernelsprite is something I'd do on my own. It's not like that.

[while we're on the topic of muns being awful, though...]

Besides, Aperil shouldn't have fucking died at all! It was all mun's fault to begin with, she prepared for Maylene instead of Fantina. Do a little more research into changes between games, right?

[unlockeing]

...'msorry.

[Samson doesn't know what else to say to that. Aside from the topic of death (where he never is sure of the right thing to say), much of her rantings are completely alien to his way of thinking.

He's experienced the consequences of research failures, too, but never conceived of it as his mun's mistake rather than his own. In his head, there's no meaningful way to distinguish between her decisions and his own in battles, not while maintaining any illusion of free will. But then again, he's never experienced the same degree of emotional manipulation that she apparently has. His mun has hurt him, sure, but never that deliberately, never purely for the sake of a desired reaction. Maybe in her shoes, he'd feel the same way.]

I hope things work out better for your team and you, wherever you end up.

[frustrates]

[the difference is a lot clearer for April, because her entire journey is being written down in a comic format - therefore, the factors that don't make it into the comic are OOC, out of her hands. And that's also why her emotions are being manipulated - it makes a better story.]


... Thanks.

[and as an afterthought:]

You don't have to avoid eye contact like that. My pokemon are with my mom right now until I get my shit together. So I can't even battle you.

[which is convenient since her game wouldn't allow her to take them in with her. April realizes she's doing a VERY strange thing for a trainer, but things have been really fucked up lately, and she just thinks they'd all be happier this way.]