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[harlequinhater]

uh... hello? does anybody read these memo things?
is this some kind of prank? i wouldn't put it past terezi to pull something dumb like this.
so terezi if you're reading this can we just go through the "gotcha" moment and can you send me back?

anyways if you are NOT terezi and this is NOT a prank could somebody please tell me what's going on?
because last thing i can remember i was running a bunch of weird time errands for an alien girl.
and then i woke up here in a bed that is definitely NOT mine because it doesn't have cool ghost bed sheets.
also apparently i have a mom now?
she is nice i guess and this lunch box looks delicious, don't get me wrong!
but i was doing some important things!
i don't have time to be playing with this cloud bird thing!!!
(though it is a very cute cloud bird, i will give it that.)

i have tried to get back but my weird time jumping powers do not seem to work here.
and i cannot even fly anymore which is such bullshit! i forgot how lame it was to walk around everywhere.
also my sylladex is gone. so i don't have any of my cool computers or weapons.
instead i just have a backpack and this lame "poke gear" thing which doesn't even have pesterchum installed.
so. yeah.
could somebody fill me in, please?

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[usedglaciate]

Nothing like that, I don't think. In theory, I can summon monsters I've fought before. In practice, that hasn't worked out too well yet.

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[harlequinhater]

that sounds pretty cool! in theory anyways.
though i can see why the pokemon universe wouldn't let you have that power here.
then you could summon all of the pokemons whenever you wanted to!
which would be really cool, but also kind of cheaty?

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[usedglaciate]

...you know, I had not thought of it that way. When I think monsters, I think giant scorpions, bears, birds, all that.

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[harlequinhater]

aren't there pokemon like all of those things, though?
i mean, i know there are birds because i have one on my head right now.
but i would be surprised if there were not also scorpion and bear pokemon.

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[usedglaciate]

I have a penguin, and a scorpion. They're a lot different than the Grimm back home, though. Those don't have souls, and the Pokemon definitely do.

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[harlequinhater]

oh man, a penguin pokemon sounds adorable!
do you have a picture? can you send pictures over these things?
...also whats a grimm?

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[usedglaciate]

Grimm are the monsters where I'm from. And...I don't know if it takes pictures, but hold on a second.

[A minute later, she sends a video message. Aster the Prinplup is out of her ball, next to Weiss.]

- right. So I'm Weiss, and this is Aster.

[Aster gives a flipper wave.]

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[harlequinhater]

[John doesn't know if Weiss would see a text while she's in the video function, so he decides to open up his video screen too. He's visibly grinning on the other side, buck teeth and all.]

Oh man, that really is a penguin Pokemon! He's adorable!

[He shifts his camera view up to the top of his head, where a Swablu is nesting comfortably.]

This is Blue. I just met Blue, but she seems pretty cool.