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(open log) First mix

Who: Aelita, anyone!
What: New Pokemon that is also learning how to be alive, do chores and commit violence
When: April
Where: The city (Cheri berry guild, the training rooms, beach)
Warnings: Heights? Possible talk of child endangerment and everything about Aelita's background sounds Unfortunate without context.

Cheri Berry Guild
Berry collection
[Having to collect food was one of the many new things to her. Though from what she'd learnt from the others, humans didn't collect food. Her friends had mentioned going to a canteen but Aelita was sure that wasn't as involved as this.

Because she had a small woven basket tied to her back and was nimbly climbed up the thinner branches. Filling it with a few berries, then scurrying back to place them into a larger basket for someone else to collect.

The height didn't bother her. She regularly had to navigate worse when doing her patrols.

What did make her pause was the big berry. Something that had become apparent very quickly was that... She was small, very small. And this berry was more than two inches larger than her. It wouldn't fit in her basket and even if it did, she wasn't sure how much it'd weigh.

Time to return to platforms. Then she darted to the first Pokemon she saw.]

Hello there. Are you busy? I need help carrying something.

Leaving present
[For the last year, Aelita hadn't need to sleep. She'd spent her time looking for Xana activity, helping Jeremie on the materialisation program, talking to Jeremie, browsing the internet when Jeremie was sleeping.

So the first time she fell asleep was... Probably a bit more literal than it should have been.

But she knew better now! She could recognise when she was sleepy and where to go. She'd been given a pile of leaves. A majority of those leaves remained as a bed. The rest? They'd gotten tangled in her curly fur. Though some did fall out when she moved suddenly. Or when the scruffy creature did a full body shake.]

Quest related
Not a minior ma-
[She just wanted to help. Aelita hadn't liked watching the Minior when they were...in pain? She wasn't sure. But she'd not had the skills to help with their healing process.

What she could help with, was making these catapults. Her little paws were great for tying knots, climbing up and placing delicate parts of the mechanism. She was light enough to avoid brea-

With an actual squeak and she was gone.

Good news! The catapult works. Bad news, the rodent is airborne.]

Other
(ง •̀_•́)ง No longer an escort quest (debatable)
[Aelita didn't fight. She had powers on Lyoko, but those required life points to use and they weren't practical in the same way a sword was. There was a difference between an actual weapon and manipulating the terrain so foes would take themselves out.

Since arriving she'd had a few bursts of power. Shooting off uncontrolled sparks of electricity (her first sneeze). No one had gotten hurt but it was probably better to learn what she could do.

That was how she found herself in the training rooms of the Spire... Now what? She awkwardly waited by the sidelines until another Pokemon seemed to be done, then waddled over with wave.]

Excuse me. Um... How do you know what to do?

Coastal charms

Can you really touch it without being destroyed here?

[She'd been sat in the sand for a while, just watching as the waves ebbed and flowed. Though she never got near. When it seemed like the tide was changing, she'd get up and retreat further up the beach and away from the water.

Aelita hadn't even looked at the approaching Pokemon. She'd just spoken without moving her gaze from the water. Those who'd met her before might notice that she was a lot more subdued. She wasn't looking at everything, marvelling at the feel of the sand...just listening and observing the ocean.]

It's beautiful...

[Was this what her friends had wanted her to see?]

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[ It's rare to find Hatenna on a "break", as even around the Cheri base she's known for all the ways she keeps busy, but with the weather starting to warm up a little and the area still being mostly clear to avoid potential emotional whiplash, she's taken a little time to contemplate the ocean, herself. Even if it does have more of a different context for her.

Usually she wouldn't speak up unless someone was directly talking to her, but sometimes hard not to be drawn into responding if just that distracted enough. ]

Oh? You seem to be an electric type, so you might end up conducting it more than not if you're not careful...

[ Which probably wasn't exactly what was being asked, but hey, it's an answer to something potentially not rhetorical. Fire types and ground types needed to worry more about it anyway. ]

[ eleanor's been taking her training a bit more seriously, having grown more used to moving around in her body. she's less agile as a Brionne. of course she is. so here she is, in the spire training rooms, flipping and somersaulting about while occassionally letting off a bubble beam or aqua jet.

she lands next to the much smaller dedenne and glances up when the question is asked, taken out of her concentrated state with a blink. ]

What do you mean? [ she probably isn't the wisest person to be asking this to, but she's all aelita's got. ]

Oh... [She was going to shuffle even further back away from the water. It was much with her small size, a shuffle was only a few inches.]

I don't have full control of my output yet, so I shouldn't touch it then.

[Not that Aelita had been planning on going close. Knowledge of how the digital sea functioned couldn't be erased by a few pretty views. Aelita still winced whenever someone made contact with the water.]

[ She observes the other pokemon's actions curiously, though she doesn't know the reason promoting the concern of the perceived actual danger, yet. Time to be proactive, perhaps? ]

... The water itself shouldn't hurt you, if you wanted to try it out in a smaller portion. There should be some uninhabited mini tide pools nearby, we can go check for them if you'd like.

[It really was harder to approach people than she'd thought. Not that there really was a way around that back home. But at least she could practise here? And get used to feeling things.

Aelita hesitated. Tilting her head from side to side as she thought. ]

How are other pokemon moving the plants? Or the ground? [She'd not been here long. But she'd seen a few things that even she knew wasn't normal.]

I tried doing what I normally do, but I can't sense my surroundings any more.

[It felt a bit like a part of her was missing. She had all these new senses. But she couldn't sense energy flowing around her, couldn't reach for that energy and take control of it.]

It's like magic, I guess.

[ not that she has a basis for magic, but magic need not follow any inherent logic. ]

I think we've gotten off on the wrong foot. Sense your surroundings? [ like, sonar? ]

[ When Bigby agreed to collecting berries around the Canopy, he didn't think that meant actually going up it too. At some point, he's just going to have to forget about ever helping out around here because that climb is a nightmare for him everytime. Unfortunately for him now, he's just going to have to commit to finishing what he started.

Satchel in tow, he is very literally reaching for low hanging fruit that don't require leaving the platforms. The problem is there's not enough for him to make his quota that way. In the middle of contemplating just quitting while he's ahead, he fur stands on end at the sudden question coming from behind. ]

Uh... huh. [ Another small and scruffy electric rodent. Funny that. ] Sure. What is it?

[ Despite basically saying yes, he is very firmly planted where he is with no intention of moving. ]

[Of all the ways Shoka had changed upon being transformed into a Mimikyu, one of the more embarrassing was her sudden, inexplicable fondness for Pikachu. It had hit her out of nowhere, rooting itself in her heart long before she'd even seen an actual Pikachu in person, and in time she'd discovered that it extended to all things Pikachu-shaped, including Pokémon that were even just vaguely Pikachu-like.

When Aelita approaches her, Shoka's instinctual response is much like what she felt the first time she saw Dr. Denne: she freezes, ears perked and eyes wide, and can't help thinking once again that OMG, Dedenne is so stupidly cute and so shaped like a friend. It's extremely unfair. Not for the first time, she's thankful that her shroud conceals any embarrassing faces she might have made.

She had just been finishing repairing a rip in the neck of her costume; now, her ghostly arms disappear under her cat-like disguise rag, taking the needle and thread with them.]

You're gonna have to be more specific.

Aren't there different types of water? [But she was getting up. Wiggling a bit to try and get rid of the damp sand... She was still caked in it, but it's fine.]

That's how it was like back where I'm from.

[There was the digital sea. Then there were the oasis and small pools in the desert and ice sectors.]

Magic..? [Enjoy the beady black eyes staring. If Aelita had eyebrows in this form, she'd raise them. Alas...]

Before coming here I could... control the area around me. If I needed a bridge, I could make one. Like that.

[It was slow. She'd never had to explain this before and it'd always came to her. There'd been no need to think about it. ]

[ huh! eleanor's not quite sure what to make of that, but it sure sounds like an annoying ability to lose. ]

I suppose a move is something like that. If you need an attack, you can probably do it. [ she shuffles away and hurls another aqua jet towards the training dummies. ] See? Yours are probably electric.

['Earn your keep' was such a simple, transactional idea that Aelita hadn't thought anything of it. She ate food, it made sense to gather it. It wasn't as though there were many jobs he could do.

Compared to patrolling the mountain sector, the canopy was easy to navigate (no moving platform!). With claws that could grasp the groves of the bark and a long tail to wind around branches? She was almost throwing herself through the treetops.

She swung an arm out the point... At leaves.]

I found a berry, but it's too large for me to carry. [Her arm dropped and she stared for a moment. Looking him up and down.] Oh... You're small too.

[The motions got a head tilt from Aelita. Oh... They have two faces. Well, now Aelita wasn't sure which to look at. She'd just look between the two, perfect. ]

The...fighting. I want to learn how to defend myself.

[Maybe here she wouldn't have to see people get hurt protecting her.]

[ His eyes follow to where she's pointing, only for his ears to slowly droop. ]

... All the way over there?

[ Said with a tone that's basically asking if that's even worth it. Then his attention immediately snaps back to her with a slight frown. ]

Yeah, thanks. I've noticed. [ She sounds young, so he tries to reel it back. ] Don't sell yourself short though. [ Hah. ] The two of us make one regular sized Pokémon. Should be more than enough.

[It'd been an experience. Her senses had weakened by so much, but then she'd gained new senses in exchange.

Aelita just stared for a bit longer. Because that... it really did just sound like people could do these things without thinking. Which admittedly, was how she'd always done things before but...]

So I just...

[She frowned at the training dummy and-

And...

Her little cheek antennae just started giving off little sparks.

Sparks that weren't going anywhere.]

There you are.

[ it's a start. she's not sure what else to prod for beyond that, but she can at least be encouraging. ] Try and put a little more into it. Really set your mind on it if you have to.

[ she tilts her head to the side with a supportive smile. ]

I'll be right here to make sure you don't overdo it.

Aye. Though it's rather cold this time of year.

[Firoza is just around taking a walk. She recognizes this little creature...you were wandering around in the snow with no protection, weren't you? There's vague memories there.]

And if you do not know how to swim, you oughtn't go far into the water. The tide can easily overwhelm.

Most bodies of water like this tend to seem similiar, but this ocean is made of regular salt-water. Certain types of pokemon do better to avoid it, but it shouldn't cause you an issue as you are.

[ Still, hard not to tell there's something else underlaying the questions. ]

What other types were you used to?

[The Pokemon who'd been working with one of the practice dummies is blue, bipedal, and immediately grows a grin at the question.]

It's part instinct and part practice. Are you still figuring out your moves? One of the best ways to learn is by sparring.

[Nodding!]

It's away from the path but there are too many leaves for the fliers to reach it.

[She wasn't an expert, but it smelled nice. That was a good sign right.]

Is that how it works? [The head tilt of doubt? Even if she was smiling.] My friend did say 'big things come in small packages'... Then he got called scrawny...[Annnnyway, shaking her head. Moving on.]

It's too big for the baskets.

I like the cold. [Her muzzle quirked up in an attempt at a smile. It was a weak attempt though. She does manage to turn before speaking again.

Oh. She knew this pokemon, didn't she?]

...What is 'swim'?

[Well, this is going...swimmingly.]

[Aelita said nothing. Her face scrunching up as she formed more sparks.

She leaned forward, trying to make said sparks move forward as well but... No. They just crackled around her antenna.

Tragically, all her moves were close contact.

And now she's flopping on her belly and fizzling out. ]

[ ah. all right. she guesses they're doing it this way then. she leans down next to the dedenne and tilts her head to the side. ]

You're not giving up already, are you?

I'd been told of salt water and fresh water in the human world. [It had been something her and Jeremie had spoken about. ]

Where I'm from there were two types of water. There are small pools that you can touch, though sometimes it's just a visual illusion. [Given she didn't want to die, she'd not really experimented with them to find out.

The digital sea...that was harder to explain.]

The dangerous one, it's... it's not really water. It just looks and moves like it. [She tilted her head. Looking at the other pokemon, checking if they were following. ]

If you touched it, you'd be absorbed and scattered throughout it's body.

[Aelita smiled back, smiling was good right?]

What is sparring?

Aelita! [Kinger yells, hopping into the catapult himself to launch himself afterwards. He pulls off his two side mushrooms, making him an aerodynamic mushroom arrow that sails forward quicker, catching up with Aelita in midair. He reaches out a tendril to grab Aelita's paw as the wind whistles past them as they fly.]

Hi! What's the plan? [Kinger seems to have forgotten that he should've been the one making the plan.]

Another totally clueless newbie. And here I thought I was done for the day... [She gives a little sigh, feigning annoyance.] Well, lucky for you, Mightyena'd get on my case if I told you to go find someone else to babysit you.

[She isn't sure if that's actually true. Guild Leader Mightyena had always been patient and all too understanding in her experience, after all, even when Shoka didn't deserve it (or maybe especially when she didn't deserve it)—but it's a decent enough excuse.]

So—fine. I guess I can give you some pointers. Have you picked up anything so far?

[ The other pokemon rather prefers to specialize in being hard to read, but the mentioning of other worlds does have her shift thoughtfully on her feet, considering...

And while she hadn't heard of "water" that did something like that specifically, there's still something familiar in the descriptions. The concept of being scattered she knows all too well. ]

Huh... so you were unable to interact with the 'human' world normally...

[ She hates that enough of this is unclear for her to have to ask clarifying questions, but here they are. "Are you a digimon" seems too direct; and likely not the right guess; most she's encountered aside from herself seem to broadcast that immediately. ]

But what you're describing seems more... digital in a way, though I can't say I've encountered water that does that. It sounds more like a firewall. [ All that aside- she'd known water in other forms too. ] Though it being a visual effect makes sense.

[Aelita hadn't been too worried. She'd fallen off mountains before and only taken 10 life points of damage, as long as one landed on the ground and not in the digital sea it was fine.

It wasn't difficult to catch up. Being an orb she was far from aerodynamic.

So she just held the tendril back, turning her head.]

Um... I don't have one.

[Casually.]

[Aelita hesitated. Remaining silent and shuffling her paws. She'd not told anyone what she was. Her friends had always avoided letting auhority figures know, that if an adult knew they'd have the supercomputer shut down.

But Aelita didn't know what an authority figure was here. Or how to tell which pokemon were even adults.

She didn't even know if she was connected to the supercomputer any more...]

It's not a firewall...[Was there even a point to hiding things? Wouldn't people realise given she'd needed help with basic parts of being alive? That she'd not known she'd needed to sleep.]

It's the digital sea. If you touched it, you'd be fragmented and scattered across the internet.

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berry collection

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Coastal charms

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lmao she's gonna die

Not a minior ma-

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and they ded

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