Route 29: 002

[arrogantalloy]

 Don't know really how to start with this one. But one of my pokemon is kind of going disco fever on me. I've been looking through the Pokédex and trying to see what I can find on this, kind of coming with nothing here.

Can anyone help me out here?

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voice;

[usedshooshpap]

Yeah... The significance of the term "disco fever" is completely lost here.

This is one of those moments where you should consider a psychic type. You can ask directly just what the merry fuck is going on.

Could be that she just doesn't want to leave your presence. That's what's up with my Joltik anyway. Gets put out otherwise and uh...

Jumpy.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

She keeps flashing and then suddenly stopping. And that's what most of disco was, well that flares, and hairy chests.

Well, yeah she doesn't. She spends most of her time clinging to me to be honest.

voice;

[usedshooshpap]

...Humans will never cease to confuse the ever loving hell out of me.

[ but the flashing... ]

Ever think she might be trying to evolve? That's the only flashing I know unless it's some kind of move she's trying to learn.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

What kind of not human are you then?

Well if she is, I wouldn't know because she would be the first. All I know is she starts shaking her head when she realises she's doing it then stops.

voice;

[usedshooshpap]

A troll. Space variety, not the under the bridge, human mythological creature type. I'm very tired of the bulge fondling bridge jokes.

And it sounds like, yes. Probably getting ready to evolve but she doesn't want to. I never caught Static or Tripp in the act, but I know for a fact they refused to evolve.

How long have you had her?

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

How about references to jeweled belly-buttons, with neon fluffy hair?

She was the first egg I had, also first to hatch. So, three months, or so, I'm kind of bad with time.

voice;

[usedshooshpap]

I haven't heard of that one but the mental image is still disturbing enough for me to be highly offended. The only thing colorful about us is our blood.

...And see. Three months and that particular beast evolves with affection. Chances are she's reached enough ooey gooey good vibrations that she can evolve. Give her an everstone and see if that solves the problem.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

There are times I hear things like that and worry that I don't find it remotely weird.

So she's evolving then?

[There's a pause as he looks down at her]

I thought they were meant to evolve, though? I'm not the one stopping her.

voice;

[usedshooshpap]

"Weird" is just pretty much second nature by now. I mean you arrived in a magical land where you raise beasts, welcomed by some delusional adult that believes herself to be your custodian. Alien trolls with psychadelic blood colors doesn't seem that far off the grid.

Anyway. Yeah. Evolving. Some will and some won't want to.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

Things have been "weird" for me for a lot longer than the few months I've been here. I mean, frozen heroes defrosting and working with you, listening gods, and a green beast that makes Christian Bale seem tame, and aliens showing up to destroy a major American tourist capital kind of makes you used to weird. Not to mention the things I've had to do to myself.

Hmm. So talking this out with her's kind of going to have to be something that happens.

Also, are you the same as the one with goat horns? Or are you some other alien?

voice;

[usedshooshpap]

That will seem pretty goddamn tame in comparison to the shit my friends and I have been through.

...Mostly because no one can seem to comprehend anything about our joint universes and the shitty game we're stuck playing.

But yeah. Talk it out with her, I guess. It's never really been that big of a fucking deal for my beasts. Even though some don't want to evolve, they can take out anything that comes at them.

[ goat horns... ]

Aradia or Gamzee... Technically speaking, I guess Aradia's sign resembles a ram so her horns are kind of ram-ish? But Gamzee's sign is Capricorn which is a goat so that would fit him too.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

Considering I have no idea what your 'shitty game' is. I'm still going just side step who's dealing with the worse deal.

I think someone on my team has a psychic, so I'll just see what I can work with there then.

Well, they looked like a grey but sort of cute girl with red lips, so I'm thinking it's Aradia over... Gam...The other on- Is that really even a name?

voice;

[usedshooshpap]

Like I said. Psychics are good. Get one.

[ Leopold is a staple in Karkat's arsenal, yes. ]

Aradia. Cute. [ snort. ] Maybe if you have a thing for the macabre. She and I are the same species, sure. But Gamzee? How is it not a name? It's as good of one as John or Sue is.

It'd be cool if we really were gray and whatnot again, instead of being stuck in this pink, fleshy meatsuit, but that's this place for you. Doesn't matter how long I've had to go it like this, but I still feel abnormally weak and vulnerable. No fangs or horns with sub-par eyesight and a calcium based skeletal system to boot? Fucking pass.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

Someone I'm traveling with has one. So I can work with that.

Who doesn't enjoy a goth now and then? But I was more talking about the fact she has a cute face. Well John and Sue make sense as names, Gamzee sound like a kind of disinfectant... Or disease.

And I've been in my pink, fleshy 'meatsuit' 47 years. I think it's a pretty useful thing to be in. But then again, I did recently make a few suits to protect that calcium-based skeletal system, so you do have something of a point on the vulnerable part, I guess.

voice;

[usedshooshpap]

...Gamzee kind of is a disease. I might have to agree on that one.

[ not even Karkat can deny that one. ]

It's not just vulnerability. No night vision too. Then to top it all off... Death by blood loss seems to be an actual thing.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

Wow, that was a nail that was weirdly yet accurately hit on the head, there. Huh.

Well, funny thing about blood is, it does tend to work a whole lot better when it's circulating in us. And hey, being a human really isn't all that bad.

voice;

[papshooshing]

You'd have to know him to realize how accurate that statement is.

I've only found one benefit to this humanity that has been thrust upon me. But just one.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

It's that we created frogurt, isn't it?

And I get the feeling I'll want to pass on meeting this guy.

voice;

[papshooshing]

...I have no idea what frogurt is. Somehow the mix of a frog and yogurt is not likely accurate.

And yes, yes you would. I don't think you want to meet a pious highblood. They're batshit.

voice;

[arrogantalloy]

It's Frozen Yoghurt, you've really got to keep up on the terms here. And it's tastier than frog yoghurt, that's probably for sure.

Batshit, huh? Well, at least I probably wont be surprised with anything they do.