Video 2: Being Human (Action for Cherrygrove City)

[justanexpression]

[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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[exeggutorhead]

[He snorts.] You'd think. But hell, we don't even know if there's a 'they' at all. It just feels like there is sometimes.

So what were you before?

[He does sound actually curious; two and a half years isn't long enough for him to have stopped being kind of fascinated by so many other kinds of nonhumans.]

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[justanexpression]

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.

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[exeggutorhead]

[A recording would probably be a good idea.]

Guardian of what? I didn't think snow needed much guarding.

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[justanexpression]

[He rolls his eyes, but it's an amused sort of gesture, not an OMG ADULTS WHY sort of gesture.]

Not the snow. Kids. Guardians protect all the best things about being a kid, and I'm the Guardian of Fun. Snow ball fights, snow days, that kind of thing.

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[exeggutorhead]

So the only parts of winter that are actually good for something, you mean.

[Envy is not a fan of children, but these past few winters here in pokemonland he's definitely become a fan of snowball fights. He will just...not let on that he hates kids.]

So, guardian of fun, you have a name?

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[justanexpression]

[Probably for the best he skip that part, yeah, what with kids being kind of a big deal for Jack and all.]

Exactly! [Which was all of winter, including snow storms, blizzards, and the sort of ice that froze your windshield wipers into immovable, useless ice blades, but seeing as Jack likes all of winter equally, it all counts in his mind.] And the name's Jack Frost. What about you?

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[exeggutorhead]

[Jack those things are not fun. And that name doesn't ring any bells with Envy, sorry.]

It's Envy. [He laughs, disarmingly.] Which is a weird name, I know.

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[justanexpression]

[Of course those things are fun! Obviously, Envy just isn't fun enough to have fun with such totally fun winter-time events. But it's okay. He's kind of enjoying people who have never heard of him still being able to see him. Kind of his equivalent to Christmas when you get a bunch of stuff you want, but also really ugly bunny pajamas.

But sure, maybe the name's a bit on the strange side. E. Aster Bunnymund isn't exactly winning any 'cool name' awards, either, so it's not as huge a deal as it could be.] Eh, I've heard stranger. Where I'm from, names can tell you a lot about a person, so you get some pretty weird ones.

[Whether that's true of where Envy's from or not, he doesn't know. Envy hasn't done anything to him, so he's not going to bother jumping to conclusions.]

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[exeggutorhead]

Mine mostly just means that my mother's got a very interesting sense of humor.

[He shrugs, making a flippant gesture with one hand; he clearly doesn't mind his name.]

But what sort of weird names are you talking? I get what Frost is referring to, but Jack's not too unusual. And it's not often I hear that Envy's not the strangest name someone's heard.

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[justanexpression]

Pitch Black. I mean, I kinda get the impression it's not really his real name, but it sure seems like his real name, you know?

But even some of the other good guys. Toothiana. Dingle the elf. Heh, the most normal one in the bunch is the yeti I named Phil back there after.