Joe says "If anything ever happened to it, I never heard about it."  He considers Lucky's comments and outlook, then says "This would be part of the reason for my lazy and reactive approach.  I could end up putting effort into just being kind of a dick."

Relic is proud of the fact cubones have such a reputation. But he doesn't puff his chest. He just keeps that standard "I'm too tough to look proud, happy or sad" look that cubones do.

Liberty says, "Most people with a background like yours, Joe, would wind up looking to destroy Pokémon, humiliate them, or otherwise "get back at" them for what the one did. Or they'd be afraid to go out or even to have a Pokémon. You must be brave at least for that much."

Lucky nods.

"She's got a point.  Glad you didn't wind up angry or scared of all pokemon.  Admittedly, I find it hard to not be prejudice myself."

  Joe says "Well, I guess some of it is self consciousness about similar mindsets.  If I reasonably want people to shut up about 'blarg all Humans are jerkfaces by nature', even if nobody will, then it'd be kinda stupid to go 'blarg! All Pokemons are jerkfaces!'."  We're pretty sure as both Player and Character there are plenty functional Hypocrisies'(is that the spelling?) Joe still puts to use.

  He shrugs "Granted, Humans cant level a building by default.  The cynical deep end of my outlook assumes the whole kids with licenses thing is a sugar coated method of keeping Humanity from being wiped out.  Encourage a bunch of competitive adolescents to train small armies in combat in case one of the many mountain leveling Pokemon decides they don't like how a city ruins their ocean view."  Cheaper than arming children with guns too, not that Guns would work on most pokemon.

Liberty huhs. "Yeah. Can't level a building normally. Though I think what Lucky said earlier makes sense. Most humans and Pokémon are not jerks. It's the jerks that give the others a bad name. But whatev. How'd you meet Superbird?"

Relic eyes Superbird.

"Yet somehow being unable to level buildings with their bare hands never seems to slow a human down from leveling buildings by other means," Lucky points out, "And pokemon don't have the power to cram humans into little balls, summon humans at will, or mentally dominate humans with gym badges.

"I like your frankness, Joe.  I can appreciate your outlook.  I just wish people wouldn't sugar-coat it.  Or institutionalize it.  I don't think it necessary to make jerkfacery the norm in response to a few bad apples.  Pokemon or otherwise."

  "I always figured the Gym Badge thing was because More Shiny objects was better than no shiny objects.  Hmm, amazing and argument breaking point about 'humans can still destroy buildings."  Joe then dramatically points at a radioshack "Librty! Tear down that building right now!... Oh, that's right. you can't.   Might as well say 'Humans built airplanes, so its completely the same to compare Human ability to fly to a birds'.  Or 'you have submarines, so what's your excuse for drowning to death?'."

  The bitter meter is rising captain!  "Yeah, most people and most pokemon aren't jerks.  But that still doesn't take away that all humans-" The stray psychic or plot powered ones aside "On their own merits can't exactly do a ton themselves, compared to even the 'weakest' of pokemon being able to kill their faces off if they decided to, or even accidentally." Oh, look. Pikachu shocked Ash again for disagreeing with him, That's hlariouoh, Ash is dead... whoops.  Okay, who's the smartass that turned off the cartoon physics?  I don't want to have to scrape challenging pokemon off the Gym floor after Onyx is done with them.

  "Anyways, as for Superbird here, He's a stalker."  Superbird tiltcrashes.  "What? It's true.  You keep a him from stealing your soft pretzel and you never hear the end of it from them."

  And how did Joe accomplish the snack theft prevention on that first meeting?  Step 1) Dodge.  Step 2) Jam that pretzle in your face like you're a hamster.  Step 3) Avoid choking.  Step 3 is the tricky part, but Joe did it.
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Liberty says, "Hey now... I can do plenty! I have opposable thumbs!" So does Mr Mime, but guess what he resembles? A human. That's right. Regardless, even as Lib says this, she holds her thumbs up. Then sets her hands down. "But yeah. I don't think destructive power is everything." That's because THIS Liberty wasn't raised to believe that being a killing machine is all she is good for. "I think Lucky's point is that humans are the ones who rule the planet. Not Pokémon. Unless I'm completely wrong."

Relic resists the urge to point and laugh at Superbird. Good thing cubones have those skull masks to hide their expressions.
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"Liberty's kinda right," Lucky answers, flip-flopping his tail in that lazy kitty-cat manner, "Hey superbird!  Use vine whip!  Cubone.  Surf!  You're pokemon, obviously, you must be able to.

"Missed points aside, an individual's ability to hold their own in a one-on-one fight is less an issue than their willingness to be a jerkface.  Few seem to object to Snorelax's incredible strength... because they have reputations for being too lazy to be jerkfaces.

"Or am I misreading and you're jealous of pokemon for being good gladiators?"

He looks at Superbird, puzzled.

<Pursian, purr!>"You harass him for a different reason.... riiight?</Pursian, purr!>
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  Superbird Wingflaps <subtitles>"Dude's crazy, he broke his hands punching a Scyther unconscious that was trying to tear my wings off when I first met him.  Then he gave me a pretzel.  He keeps making up a stupid non badass story for I have no freaking clue why.</subtitles>

  "Eh, it'd be a lot more convenient if the 'capacity for violence, yes no' wasn't even a factor in day to day life really."

Liberty holds her ice cream cone up in a "cheers" fashion to Joe. "Amen. I wonder how many world-smashing tyrants, Pokémon or otherwise, could be dissuaded by ice cream."

Cubone says in response to Superbird, <Bone>"I like this Joe guy."</Bone>
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Lucky blink-blinks at Superbird's response.

"He's saying that you punched out a scyther when you first met.  Not being inconvenienced by another's violence would be great, yes...  But I doubt ice-cream would be very effective against most jerkfaces."

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afzqnyxZxQM  Refer to 2:30, on Joe's Thoughts on how Icecream could be effective against Jerkfaces.  Or failing that, eye socket.

  "That's crazy talk, that would take at least fifteen punches to the lose chitin segment on the left side of their head followed up with a nearby rock."  Superbird facewings.

Liberty is done her ice cream and looks at the two new Pokémon. "Comm'ere."

The Pokémon obey. The Caterpie crawls to her while the Bellsprout wobbles to her, practically dancing its way over. Liberty puts her hands on them, one hand on each, slowly petting them. She closes her eyes. The Pokémon look at her curiously and innocently. Then close their eyes.

Relic stands in front of Liberty with his back facing her, holding his bone upright in front of him like a guard.

Lucky watches curiously, flopping the tip his tail.

"So...  What's this all about?"

  Joe wonders it Liberty is going to use the Taunisian skeletal pull of DEATH... Wait, no, she wouldn't do that to them.

  Bugs and Plants don't have skeletons, duh.

  "I have no freaking idea.  When you pat someone on the head, you usually lift your hand after Liberty."

OOC Style:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6BGwITuBr8  at 2:05

Relic answers Lucky, <Bone, Cubone>"She's connecting with them."</Bone, Cubone>

Liberty opens her eyes and looks at Joe. "But when you pet them, you don't. I was just figuring out what to name them..."

She then looks at the Pokémon, who have now opened their eyes. She looks at the caterpie. "I will name you Shift." she then looks at the Bellsprout. "And I will name you Valor."

"Connecting with them?" Lucky echoes, "Meaning psychically?  I've heard there's psychic type humans, but they're rare and most live in one city.  Nice names.  You coulda asked 'em their names, but they likely wouldn't have a human translation."

  Joe comments "So, you hate being called Lucky then, or do you just go with it because it's less of a hassle then saying 'my name is 'untranslatable', get it right'?  Considering you'll supposedly be hanging around me for a while, I'd prefer to call you something that won't set you off in seething rage"  Deep man, Deep... Wait, no it isnt.

Liberty says, "I'm guessing that when someone introduces themselves, they tend to use a name they prefer to go by. Just a hunch."

She then looks at Lucky. "I try not to talk about it too much, but yeah. I'm psionic. But on the topic of names, many trainers name their Pokémon. It's like giving them a rank or a title that defines who they are."

"My name is <Pursian>Lucky</Pursian> which translates quite nicely to Lucky," Lucky explains, "And you have little to worry about from me as far as violence is concerned.  I avoid violence.  I don't even like 'playful' matches between willing pokemon.

"Why hide being psychic?"

  Enemy used Rock Paper Scissors!  It was considered Distasteful.

  "Don't look at me for the whole 'why that name' thing.  He picked it."  This said pointing at Superbird.  Superbird wingshrugs, <subtitles>"If Humans are gonna call me something, it better be something awesome"</subtitles>

Liberty answers Lucky's question. "Many humans are afraid of psychics, human or not. The very topic makes even the more tolerant uncomfortable. And the less tolerant... become violent."

Lucky mews a groan.

"Really?  Ugh.  Sorry about your troubles, Liberty."

  Joe's less than eyetwitchy over the subject in this thread than in others.  It also helps that Liberty isn't a jerkface.  "I guess some people feel the need to punch the outside of someone's head before someone gets a chance to punch the inside of theirs.  even if it wouldn't happen in the first place"
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