Video 5: Now with Bonus Swablu Hat! (Action for Traveling Party or Azalea)

[justanexpression]

[For once, the feed clicks on and Jack looks, not happy or excited or even amused, but vaguely confused and unimpressed.

A large part of that may have to do with the Swablu cooing and preening his hair. It's wrapped itself over the top of his head like a hat, and while it looks a bit worn out like it's just reached the end of far too much traveling, it also looks supremely pleased with itself.]

So, uh... Akito? I think this is your fault?

[He tries to look up at the Swablu only for it to coo even more loudly and hunker down on top of his head, as if it knows he's thinking about trying to pry it off. He sighs, but it's offset by a tiny smile.]

I think I need some advice. Don't get me wrong, okay. It's cute. Like really cute. But...

It won't move. It hasn't moved, and it's been like an hour since it came out of nowhere and landed on me. It won't even go into a pokeball. Here, watch.

[He pulls out a pokeball, and the Swablu gets pulled in at first, but soon enough, the ball pops back open as if he'd tried and failed to catch a wild pokemon. The bird flutters straight back to his head, cooing an admonishment this time.]

So yeah. Advice.

Help?

Comments

[justanexpression]

[Between the acting and the Mount Doom reference going straight over Jack's head, Niou just ended up with one confused kid blinking at him.]

Huh?

[trickyoutwice]

Shakespeare. Loose on the world, ravenous hellbeast, imminent doom?

[He figures it's pretty believable after some of the worlds he's heard about.]

[justanexpression]

I don't remember him being that bad.

[The guy, that is. Or the plays. They were kind of fun to watch sometimes. He's never read them, though, which is probably the difference."

[trickyoutwice]

You're lucky, then. Back where I'm from, we call him the "Phantom of the Opera." You used to hafta wear garlic to all the theaters to ward him off before Chekhov sealed him away.

[Truly, they were trying times. Or would be, if there was an ounce of truth to Niou's story.]

[justanexpression]

Your world sounds... weird.

[Hey, in his world, Santa and the Tooth Fairy are real. Anything is possible.]

[trickyoutwice]

It's a gritty, dangerous place. The streetlights only work half the times and all the buildings have sharp corners. You could say it's dark and edgy.

[Niou may feel sorry for this one day. Maybe.]

[justanexpression]

[Jack just blinks as that one sinks in. Even he can figure out the pun behind that one. And from that, he slowly realizes he's been played, and badly. But somehow, despite that, he finds that he has to respect the integrity of the prank and can't even be that upset.

It doesn't deserve an answer, though. He just rolls his eyes dramatically and turns the feed off. Niou deserves those cats.]