If we stand as one, there's nothing to fear

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

Who: Konata, Yayoi and optionally anyone in Yayoi's party (Bokurano cast?)
Where: Between Cherrygrove and Violet
When: Evening, Thursday, June 10
Summary: Konata catches up with Yayoi, and follows up on a promise to teach her how to battle
Rating: R for graphic depictions of gross animal(?) cruelty and abuse. (i.e., a Pokemon "PG")
Log:

The sun had almost completely set when Konata finally caught up with Yayoi's party. She had actually almost passed them outright; it was only Kamikaze, the Pidgey she had sent to scout for rare Pokemon, that alerted her to the other group. Spotting Yayoi, Konata waved and moved in to join the procession.

Comments

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. "... There is no crab type. Iori is just water type, I think."

[10yen_idol]

There's a moment of silence.

"... huh? Um, does that mean Iori isn't really a crab?"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"N-- No, it just means 'crab' isn't one of the types. There are only so many. Like between ten and twenty, I think."

[10yen_idol]

"Uuuu..." Yayoi held the top of her head as if that would help descramble her thoughts. "So that means... she's just a crab that happens to be a water-type, right?" she asked with less and less confidence.

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"Right. There's crab Pokemon, seal Pokemon, starfish Pokemon and fish Pokemon, but they're all Water type."

[10yen_idol]

Yayoi brightened up immediately. "Ah... I think I might get it now! Everything that lives in an ocean or a pond or a river..."

She mulled this over. "And they can all eat fire, right?"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"Well, I don't know if they EAT it, but they're really strong against fire types. Water type resists fire attacks, so they take less damage... and water attacks do extra damage against fire types. So if you use water against a fire type, you're likely to win."

[10yen_idol]

"Okay, and, um... water douses fire, which burns grass, which drinks water, right? It's a little like rock-paper-scissors, then!"

Yayoi let out a sigh of relief. So all of this wasn't NEARLY as complicated as she thought it would be! "What about the other types?"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"Well, I don't remember all of them exactly. I think there's a list in the trainer guide in your backpack. But, for instance... water and grass both erode rock, but rock resists fire. Flying is immune to ground. Bugs eat grass. Psychic is strong against fighting...

"Oh, yeah, and normal type and ghost type are immune to each other. That's a bit of a weird one, but it's important to remember."

[10yen_idol]

"Really? Um..." Yayoi pulled the trainer guide out of her backpack and took a moment to find the appropriate page.

She stared at the list. Then she looked up and stared at Konata as the other girl rattled off a slew of strengths and weaknesses.

She looked back at the list. Looked back up.

"... bugs eat grass?"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"Um, I think so. I mean, I think bug attacks are strong against grass. But there aren't very many good bug attacks, most bugs use other kinds of attacks like normal or psychic. So it's not a huge deal."

[10yen_idol]

"Really? But... they're bugs, aren't they? Why wouldn't they- uuu..." Yayoi's hands go back up to try and stop all this information from leaking out of her head. "T-This might be too much for me to remember..."

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"It's okay, you don't have to stress about it. Just keep your trainer book on hand when you fight, and check the table if you're not sure."

[10yen_idol]

"... still, you sure know a lot about this kind of thing..." Yayoi tilted her head. "Konata, did you memorize the whole list?"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"No, I just had a lot of experience with the game."

[10yen_idol]

That again, huh? A LOT of people had been saying something like that, now that she stopped to think about it. "What kind of a game was it?" Yayoi asked. "Did it have a controller that had buttons on it?"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"It was a Game Boy game, so it was a little handheld machine a little smaller than our Pokegear."

[10yen_idol]

"Oh, you mean the, um..." What was it that those boys in class had called it? "The Gameboy Dearly-Stars, right? The one with the two screens!"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"Umm, actually, there was a Gameboy before that -- wow this is making me feel old -- before that that only had one screen. There were a bunch of Pokemon games on that."

[10yen_idol]

"Really? Pokemon goes that far back?" Yayoi looked at her surroundings with a new appreciation. "Wow... I feel like I'm learning a lot about video games just by being here!"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's a lot more simple to play the game than it is to actually interact with a living Pokemon. No game is this detailed."

[10yen_idol]

"... the game sounds pretty hard too, though. I mean, it has all those types and attacks and magical ledges."

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"It's not that bad. One thing about video games is that generally the world revolves around the player character. So all of these things happen to you to make sure you win.

"But real life can't be like that. In this 'game' we're in, there are a lot of different players. And things may be relatively easy for us, but we're still equal when we compete against each other."

[10yen_idol]

"Ah, that's like, um... 'a lot of cooks spoil the soup,' right? Except like a game?"

[playingyou.livejournal.com]

"Um... no.


"It's absolutely nothing like that."