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Yagyuu Hiroshi ([personal profile] usedlaserbeam) wrote2011-09-04 09:40 pm

007 | Outskirts of Goldenrod City | Video / Action;

[It's late afternoon on the outskirts of Goldenrod City, where Yagyuu has evidently been out training his team; it's a somewhat unusual sight to see them all out of their Pokeballs at once, but at the moment the full roster has been released to roam around the open expanse of field chosen for today's practice grounds.

Or at least, most of the full roster is: there's an Absol staked out relatively near his trainer, seemingly on high alert as he surveys the other Pokemon in his midst. Farther back from the camera, a Rapidash is roaming with a stately air as a very small Vulpix trots along beside him, bounding four steps for every one of his own. And even Yagyuu's Ditto seems to be present— if the occasional glimpse of purple molecular goo seeping over the edges of the camera lens is any indication.

Yagyuu himself is visible, too; he's crouching down to administer his Eevee's usual meticulous grooming— an activity she clearly seems to enjoy, given the way her tail is flicking with pleasure at the attention— and speaking quietly to her while he's at it.]


Now that Vampa's evolved, that only leaves you to go, doesn't it?

[And she coos, pushing her head against his hand insistently.]

You're certainly growing strong enough for it. And the necessary stones aren't particularly difficult to come by, either; a quick trip to the department store will easily take care of that. So it's just a matter of deciding which type suits you best, isn't it?

[He glances over, surveying his team as they roam and remarking almost absently:]

An electric type, perhaps, might—

[But he never gets the chance to finish the sentence, as the Eevee lets out one last emphatic trill before taking one step back and beginning to glow with bright, almost blinding light—

— and when it clears, there's an Espeon in her place, just as perfectly well-groomed and somehow managing to look twice as haughty for it.

Yagyuu, for his part, just stares for a few seconds before shaking his head in what is probably half amusement and half disbelief.]


...Ah.

[And he keeps staring, up until a Pidgeot comes flapping down from overhead a few minutes later, drawing his attention up and away from the Espeon and toward this latest arrival.]

Irene, another excellent job, but I see we'll have to work at perfecting your aim—

[And on that fairly cryptic note, purple goo oozes completely over the lens, and the Gear switches off.]

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[identity profile] usedlaserbeam.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't there a moral argument to be made, that if they're truly sentient, then it's hardly ethical to capture and train them the way we do?

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[identity profile] sfaccendato.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, but do you really think that would stop most people? Particularly given how little the Pokemon themselves seem to mind.

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[identity profile] usedlaserbeam.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think it would stop them, no. Just that it'd imply something about the character of the person that knowingly continued.

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[identity profile] sfaccendato.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
True enough. Though given that essentially everyone here participates in battling, it would imply something about the characters of quite a few people.

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[identity profile] usedlaserbeam.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Or about their susceptibility to participate in a system that condoned such activities.

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[identity profile] sfaccendato.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Or that, yes. I imagine it would be much easier for most people to go along with if it was an acceptable societal norm.

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[identity profile] usedlaserbeam.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
And which theory do you subscribe to, Oshitari-kun? Are people inherently cruel, or merely blindly following a herd mentality wherever it may lead, even to the point of atrocity?

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[identity profile] sfaccendato.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Are those my only two options?

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[identity profile] usedlaserbeam.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, you've earned yourself a smile for that one, Yuushi. Well done sidestepping his false dilemma.]

Not if you see a third one.

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[identity profile] sfaccendato.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
At the very least there should be an "all of the above" answer.

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[identity profile] usedlaserbeam.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome to it, if you'd like one.

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[identity profile] sfaccendato.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmm, I don't think that would be my choice, really. But it should certainly be an option.