konpeitoqueen | ❀ 1st Konpeito ❀ [Video]

Someone better- better explain this to me! Before I-

[Someone's screaming into the receiver, mouth and face too close to identify them. However, the voice sounds young and feminine, and it's screeching.] I- I don't want to be here! I want to go HOME! WHERE AM I?!

[The video feed suddenly drops on the ground. For the next few minutes, you can hear sobbing in the background. And then the door opening. At one point she starts screaming and suddenly there's the cheery tune of a Christmas song starting, before the door slams roughly. After a while more and a bit of 'Mawile, mawile?', she finally comes back into view.]

...Ugh. If anyone makes fun of me, I'll rip your head off.

[There's a girl on the camera, wrapped up in so much towels, spare trainer sets and so on that she looks more like a ball of tossed clothes than anything else. Her Mawile tries to snuggle in with her, but she visibly pushes it away and pins its head against the floor. The Pokémon's back mouth snaps in shock, but she doesn't pay much mind.

Her eyes have rings of red around them- hell, her entire face is extraordinarily red. It seems that apart from the cold, she's also been crying.] I'm the Saionji Hiyoko. SHSL Classical Japanese Dancer. From the super-famous Saionji clan.

People keep telling me to leave this town and go beat some Gym Leaders or something, but who cares?! It's cold, this is stupid, and all I have for defense against all these monster-things is... another monster-thing. [Ayani the Mawile perks her head up.] It's not stinky or mean, but it's stupid and rock-hard like metal and just makes me colder! Plus, there's a weird red-nosed deer outside the door that wants me to 'ride it into Cherrygrove in the name of Christmas' or something. Isn't that all a Western tradition? Christmas is just a some event that gives you discounts in stores where I come from. Figures, scummy foreigners just love shoving their shit in everyone's face, even someplace like here... what even IS this place?

...Is there a chance... [She suddenly seems reluctant to say the next few words, but her face turns sour again- almost in realization- and in an instant just spurts it out.] Is this place yomi? It's cold and dead, that's all I can tell! All it's missing is the huge dirty river that separates us from the living realm. I want to give that stinky rotten Izanami a piece of my mind for allowing me to suffer like this! Where is she?! And- [Saionji grabs her Mawile, and both mouths start yapping-] What kind of Yomotsu is Ayani?! [If you're not familiar with Shinto lore, the girl on the video feed is currently spouting nonsense. And even if you are familiar with Shinto lore, her yelling and complaining is so jarring that you'd mistake it for nonsense anyway.]

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Of course they're animals! And you're supposed to take good care of them because of that. They're your companions. You take care of them and they take care of you. [Gosh, didn't you ever have a pet before?]

I like the weather right now. But I don't mind the cold much.

But... they're... animals. [Saionji just says that like it's the most obvious thing in the world. Being raised in Japan, one of the cruelest developed countries towards animals, didn't help her lack of empathy towards them. To her, animals were either accessories or tools.]

I danced in the first snowfall every time back at home! You need to have the grace of snowflakes to be a decent dancer, after all! But I was forced inside to practice after that until winter passes over. My grandma really didn't want me to get sick. So I'm not used to this kind of blizzard! Snow is nice, when it's not trying to kill me!

They're companions. Animals have feelings just like we do. When you hurt an animal like you hurt a human, it feels the same thing! You probably never actually took care of a pet to witness this! [Ugh. Jade will be patient though. Maybe she can reason why Saionji should treat her Pokemon better.] They have shorter lives and they can get hurt, and if you don't take care of them, they don't get better.

It won't kill you if you take care of yourself.

[For some reason, she suddenly switches back to video response. The blizzard's terrible.] Uuuugh. Maybe I would actually care about them if they were more useful! Stupid deer-thing just slammed into a tree!

[She rubs her temple- thankfully, or not so, she doesn't seem hurt.] Humans, animals, it doesn't matter if they don't have smarts, talents or something to give back. That's just how the world works- [-aaaand suddenly an Exeggcute jumps at the back of her head, right on cue. She starts screaming and released Ayani on accident, leaving a very confused Mawile sitting on the snow.]

[Wow, it's bad out there.]You wouldn't be doing much better in that blizzard by yourself. It's trying its best to get you to town. [ :( Oh noooo. She hopes they're okay though.]

What happened? Is something attacking you?!

HELP! [Shit- cockfighting, right?! That's what it is?!] Ayani, just- attack it! Attack this... pile of eggs!

[Out of context, that sounds incredibly weird. At this moment, Ayani roars and uses its back head to wrench away the Exeggcute, before she screams at it with both mouths with Astonish. The Stantler has its head buried in the snow and Saionji is shrieking like a banshee.]

[Jade covers her ears. Oh noooo. She understands why Ayani is screaming. BUT WHY IS SAIONJI CRYING? This is too much screaming.] She'll protect you. You don't have to scream too...

[She takes a few hours to reply. Probably a bit worrisome, if Jade actually cares for her well being. But when she's back on screen, her Mawile is chugging too much hot chocolate, and her snark is back.] Turns out, Ayani can beat an Exeggcute... or, whatever it was called. So I guess she's not too dumb.

[Jade waits patiently. But she is very sure her Mawile will win! She is very optimistic and is sure they are going to make it safely to their next location!]

If you train her, she'll be able to beat more than that. She'll be able to fight and win badges for you.

Ehhh? So the badges Big Sis Nanami and those weird crazy people back in New Bark Town... it's from Pokémon battling too?

[Her Mawile ends up choking on the hot chocolate in the background. Saionji hits it on the back, and Ayani ends up spitting a marshmallow across the table.

Saionji looks kinda disgusted.] ...Not that she's gonna win any soon.

Yes! You can train your Pokemon so they can battle other Pokemon. The Gym Leaders have badges you receive by beating them.

[Awww. Ayani, you're so cute. Jade just wants to coo at you.] She'll be awesome in no time! She just needs some training.

Huh... alright, then! How long will that take? [When she hears the last statement, there's a sly grin on her face.]

She better.

I don't know. I haven't really done a lot of this Pokemon training stuff. I just arrived a few weeks ago, actually.

So you're no help then.

[Harsh.]

Because you're doing sooooooooooooo much better on your own. I guess I should just hang up then and you can do the rest aaaaaaaaaaaallll on your own. You seem to know what you're doing anyways! [Rolling her eyes man.]

Might as well! Even if you've been here longer, if you can't answer me, then you're no use anyway!

[Aaaaand she decides to hang up on you first, instead.]

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