justanexpression | Video 2: Being Human (Action for Cherrygrove City)

[Obviously, someone has been practicing. When the feed kicks on, it's a properly framed picture of one Jack Frost. He's set up camp in the woods fringing Cherrygrove City with a good view of the beach and a frolicking Seel in the background behind him. He also looks more cheerful and less confused than last time.

Oh, and the egg in his lap. That's new, too.]

So, everyone was awesome about answering my questions last time, now I've got more of them.

Cherrygrove is nice. Been here a couple days, now. [He gestures over his shoulder.] You can tell Phil likes it. Kind of got lost on the way here, yeah, yeah, I know it's a straight line, okay, and Phil is about as slow as slow can be, but now that I'm here, I've got this guy. [He pokes at the egg. It's blue and white and people in the know might recognize it as a Pachirisu egg. Jack is not in the know.] Or girl. How do you tell?

For that matter, what do I do with it? Am I supposed to keep it warm? Someone mentioned a deal for new people just showing up, and that's totally me, so I, uh... just kind of hit buttons until I saw something that sounded good, but now I'm thinking that wasn't the best idea?

[He takes a second to glance over his shoulder, probably to make sure his Seel hadn't been eaten by a shark in the last few minutes or anything. If nothing else, this place seems to be teaching him a really strange sense of responsibility. If only Bunny could see him now.

He resettles, placing the gear on the ground in front of him so it can pick up a full body shot, including the sneakers he wasn't wearing before.]

Okay, second question, and... I know how crazy this sounds, but at least some of you weren't human before getting here, right? Pretty sure I've met one already. [Again, unless Thor's parents had some ridiculous delusions of grandeur.] So the question is- how do you stand it? Not the being here, that's turning out pretty cool, but the rest of it. All the getting hungry, and tired, and walking everywhere, not to mention buying stuff. Am I gonna have to get a- [shudder] -job?

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...Jack Frost?

[OMG. Look at her light up.]

I thought you went to sleep or something when it got to be spring. Like a bear.

[Moving on.]

I think you can move around? I take my egg places and it seems pretty okay with it. The shell's really hard, if you knock on it.

[He pokes at the egg in his lap again, nudging it back and forth. He hadn't even been THINKING about names. Shoot.]

How bad could it be? The egg isn't THAT big. So the baby has to be pretty small, right?

The thing is - hey, Riley!
[An Aerodactyl is suddenly in view, letting out a bit of a whine!]
Riley here hatched at this size - well, maybe a little smaller. I don't really get it, but the eggs can be a lot smaller then the baby inside.

[You have just made his CENTURY! Well done.

Okay, play it cool, Jack. Play it cool. She just recognized you. No big.]

Sometimes. Usually I just go farther north. Bug the yetis or something.

[He'll skip the knocking, thanks, but look at the egg in a new light.] As long as I won't hurt it. The backpack seems pretty safe, though. [And bigger than it should be, from all the stuff that fit in it.]

It's kind of complicated. [Maybe he just needed to make a recording, now that he actually had people he could tell who didn't already know.] A spirit of winter is about as close as I know how to get. A Guardian, if you want to be technical.

[Literally dark times? ~~badum-tish~~]

Yeah, I noticed. You can probably use it to figure out where you are if you get lost, anyway.

[TWO BIGGEST NOT-KIDS IN THE UNIVERSE, ALL UP IN THIS VIDEO RIGHT NOW.]

That makes sense.

[She nods, completely believing him. Because why wouldn't she? He's Jack Frost. Come on now.]

If you have a spare hoodie, you could put it in that. That's what I did with mine, see?

[She reaches offscreen into her own bag, retrieving a blue and tan egg snuggled up securely in a light gray mass of cloth.]

[Goldenrod... Goldenrod... No, he's never been that good with maps. He gives up.]

Is that here in, uh... Johto?

[Actually, he's totally coveting that Gyarados now, yup.]

I guess they get pretty big? Definitely aiming for that.

[He can't even claim not-kid, really. Much as he might try. And she should TOTALLY believe him just because he's Jack Frost. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that could ever go badly. Nope.

He does totally have extra clothes, now she mentions it. And they're hideous, so he'll absolutely never wear them. Win-win!]

Huh. Good idea. I'll do that. [He leans over to drag his own bag closer right now. The shirt he pulls out seems to be... a schoolboy shirt? Yeah, definitely never wearing that.] Your egg is different colors than mine. Are they all different?

Yeah. The shell is usually the same colors as the thing that hatches from it.

[She reaches offscreen again, and this time when she comes back up, it's with a very merry-looking Pichu, who waves.]

Taser's egg was all yellow when she was still in it. And she's all yellow now, see?

Uh...

Okay. Totally proved me wrong.

[He totally isn't eyeing his egg warily now, nope.]

[Jack waves back automatically. The pokemon have him pretty well trained already!]

So if you know enough about the different kinds, you can figure out what the eggs are. Makes sense.

Yeah, and there's a point-and-shoot index, too. Watch this.

[Granted, doing this involves actually moving the Gear, so the camera angle goes a little awry at this point, but the audio maintains; there's a bit of clicking, and then suddenly: ]

"PICHU, the TINY MOUSE Pokemon. It plays with others by touching tails and setting off sparks. This appears to be a test of courage."

Eggs don't need to be kept warm to hatch, strangely enough. All they need is some time-- they have hatching dates. [Unfortunately Hope's not familiar with the Pachirisu species.]

As a human though, I cant tell you how it is because this is how i've been all my life. However, if you get the right Pokémon and raise it properly, it will be able to carry you.

[Another dead kid. At first, she looks a bit excited with the answer, about to ask on the Guardian bit, but dead... he looks like he is barely a teenager?]

Oh! Oh... I'm sorry to hear that you've passed in your world. At least it sounds like you aren't missing anything, being a guardian of fun?

My name is Cheria Barnes, so it's good to meet you. If I miss explaining anything about being human, please feel free to call me, okay?

I suppose that depends on the pokémon egg. What is it like? You can usually tell what type of pokémon it'll be by the state of the egg.

That too!

_{[This other Jack learns quickly!]}

Though I've noticed the stores and pokemon centers tend to sound the same, so make sure you go outside if you suddenly wake up somewhere you don't remember falling asleep.

Don't fall into the river.

[Seriously. He got sick.]

Someone to travel with is. [Grump grump sulk] Nice.

Most of them do. I guess. I don't have one so..

Yes, that's right. You have to go to Azalea Town and through the Ilex Forest to get there.

I'm sure someone mentioned, but your gear can help you figure out information about your 'mons! Oh, and definitely keep the egg warm! And I can send you an egg sling...that makes it easier to carry around, for sure.

[ She's pretty sure she's why he got it, anyway. ]

And yep, some of us weren't human! I was a troll, myself! I think that parts of it were different, though. I mean, I got hungry and tired before, sometimes! But the walking is sort of a pain. I miss flying.

[Hey, 14 is practically mid-teens!]

It was a long time ago. Really. And it was for a good reason. [He can actually say that and mean it now. He still shrugs.] Anyway, I keep busy.

I'll get the hang of it again eventually. Don't worry about it.

...That happens, too? What is WITH this place?

[Cue yet another blank stare, followed by a sigh and a sheepish smile.]

Maybe I'll find it eventually.

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