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cw: mild suicidal idealation

[i_am_emmet]

Yup, I actually thought I had died originally and was very okay with that.

[Says...brighter than someone SHOULD say something like that.]

Was more concerned if one of my Pokémon ate my body, because people don't take too kindly to Pokémon eating people.

Re: cw: mild suicidal idealation

[steepwithdead]

[Caduceus's lips purse into a tight frown. Literally none of that was great, actually! But he's also no stranger to dark thoughts after losing one's family, so he can understand the sentiment. When you think you have no one, you live on the cusp of some very dark days, very dark thoughts.

He cannot - and will not - judge.]

I'm very glad you reunited with him, rather than the alternative. How was your first meeting?

[i_am_emmet]

I think it went well, besides me being a crying mess, yup.

[He cried a lot.]

Ingo must have thought I was a crazy person because he didn't remember me. Still doesn't remember me, but that's okay.

[steepwithdead]

Not entirely, but there are signs of recognition, developing gradually. Your identical face must have resonated with him as well.

[He imagines it would have been very odd, seeing your own face on someone else.]

[i_am_emmet]

I am pretty sure a part of him thought I was a Pokemon at first. Also, of course he recognizes me now, he is getting to know me again.

[Makles sense to Emmet right?]

[steepwithdead]

[Makes sense in general, really. ...Except for the first part.]

Pokemon can look like humans?

[i_am_emmet]

Yup, using transform and stuff. When I was a kid, the mean kids would think I was a Zorua because I looked like Ingo and didn't talk.

[steepwithdead]

That's... huh. [Strange thing to imagine, but shapeshifting isn't so uncommon in his world. It's just usually not the wildlife.] Children can be cruel at times. I'm sorry you had to experience it.

[i_am_emmet]

I'm over it.

[He very much was not.]

[steepwithdead]

[ DOUBT ]

You do not have to be.

[i_am_emmet]

Sure I do, I was a successful Battle Facility Head,

[NEET now though here in Folkmore]

-An accomplished trainer, and they were children. And many of them are working 9-to-5s they hate, yup.

[Isn't that what you're supposed to tell yourself in these sorts of situations? You're happy, they're miserable. Best revenge is living well, blah blah blah.]

[steepwithdead]

Hmm. Revenge through a life lived well?

[He's also heard that said before. Does he agree with it? Ehhh. It's better than the alternative, he thinks. Still puts too much focus on the other person rather than yourself.]

[i_am_emmet]

Exactly. Besides, now I am here. Happy. Yup.

[steepwithdead]

That is admittedly the most important part. Joy is the catalyst for great success in life. Just don't neglect your honest feelings, even if they may be negative at times.

[If you're over it, be over it. If you're not, that's okay too- but be open and work through it.]

[i_am_emmet]

There is no reason to be upset, yup. Ingo is here, Ingo is safe. I am here. I am safe.

[Absolutely not, obviously the healthy answer is to take any negative feelings, say they never happened, shove them in a box and mail the box to yourself and hope it gets lost in the mail!]

[It won't get lost though because the postal system is very effective at making sure most things don't get lost, but we can all pretend!]

Besides, there is no reason to want anything more than that.

[steepwithdead]

Mmm... you know, one benefit of existing in a world that is relatively safe and peaceful is that you have the time and space to explore what hurt you in your past. To examine those feelings, and deal with them in a healthy way, rather than trying to forget it ever happened.

[Shoving them in a box generally does not work, sir.]

[i_am_emmet]

Seems counter productive. Because the entire thing here is improvement, right? I get better, I go back to Unova.

[steepwithdead]

What do you suppose "get better" means, exactly?

cw: improper disposal of a body

[i_am_emmet]

Be a better me, of course. Be someone that people won't think you chopped up your twin and fed him to a Pokémon or something.

pokemon gettin wild over here

[steepwithdead]

Is that truly a flaw in you, or a flaw in those people who thought that of you?

Do you think in pokemon, people with ghost type family members show off if they're shiny?

[i_am_emmet]

Who knows? Could be both.

even ghosts deserve to sparkle!!

[steepwithdead]

Hmm. Fair enough. You can't do much about one, but you can work on fixing the other.

[He doesn't exactly agree, but he can see Emmet's not ready to swerve on it just yet.]

Can you think of anything about yourself that might give such an impression?

[i_am_emmet]

I'm not nice.

[Well, it would be better to say that Emmet is blunt. He is nice, but it is hard to get past how he talks, like how Ingo is nice, but people might not be able to get past Ingo's RBF.]

[steepwithdead]

[Yeah, he's not sure if he agrees on that one.]

In what ways are you not nice?

[i_am_emmet]

It's like this, someone gets on the train and starts eating. No eating is allowed on the line. I tell them they must stop eating because again, food isn't allowed on the line. They said they haven't eaten all day- I tell them that's the rule and when the next stop is so they can finish eating.

But Ingo would be more likely to go 'This one time.' and carry on.