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[Doppio has been at this training thing for a few days now. Nothing too complex, as he expected, but he does at least appreciate the tours of the city's back alleys and underground tunnels.
However, there are a few things that training isn't telling him even though he figures they may be handy to know if he wants to get anywhere in this place, and, well, he should really stick to Rocket communications for this first couple of weeks. From what he gathers, one of the Pokémon he's been given has already been trained a bit, so it might be suspicious to show up out of nowhere with THAT under his belt. Best to learn the ropes first, and then he can tell civilians he's been at it for a little while and just hasn't talked to anyone over the PokéGear yet.
So this is where he's turning to, with a Morpeko in his arms and a Magikarp in a tub full of water.]
Uh, hello? It's my first time doing this, so hopefully I got it right. I'm a new recruit - my name's Doppio, by the way - and I think the training is going okay, but... I have a few other questions? Like, what are Pokémon supposed to eat? This one [and he tips his head towards the Morpeko in his arms, whose ears twitch. Its fur is already darkening.] keeps stealing MY food, and the fish... might be sick? I don't think it can do much. Do they usually assign these to new people? Because that seems kind of unfair. ... Ah, are you getting hungry again? Already?
[The Morpeko shifts in his arms with an annoyed squeak. It hops free in no time at all, and an increasingly purple blur runs right across the feed.]
Cristina? Cristina, that's not MY food. Cristina!
[... He'll be right back.]
However, there are a few things that training isn't telling him even though he figures they may be handy to know if he wants to get anywhere in this place, and, well, he should really stick to Rocket communications for this first couple of weeks. From what he gathers, one of the Pokémon he's been given has already been trained a bit, so it might be suspicious to show up out of nowhere with THAT under his belt. Best to learn the ropes first, and then he can tell civilians he's been at it for a little while and just hasn't talked to anyone over the PokéGear yet.
So this is where he's turning to, with a Morpeko in his arms and a Magikarp in a tub full of water.]
Uh, hello? It's my first time doing this, so hopefully I got it right. I'm a new recruit - my name's Doppio, by the way - and I think the training is going okay, but... I have a few other questions? Like, what are Pokémon supposed to eat? This one [and he tips his head towards the Morpeko in his arms, whose ears twitch. Its fur is already darkening.] keeps stealing MY food, and the fish... might be sick? I don't think it can do much. Do they usually assign these to new people? Because that seems kind of unfair. ... Ah, are you getting hungry again? Already?
[The Morpeko shifts in his arms with an annoyed squeak. It hops free in no time at all, and an increasingly purple blur runs right across the feed.]
Cristina? Cristina, that's not MY food. Cristina!
[... He'll be right back.]
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Look. I am never talking about girls. If for some reason you ever think I am, I'm not.
Now I'm adding a corollary: don't ask me anything about girls unless it's Carly or Connie.
As for the metaplot: think of things that happen here as a story. But not your story. Not the story of anyone here in particular, even. So don't try too hard to find the main character.
But things will happen, and they will clue you into the future. There will be foreshadowing, and conflicts with climaxes and resolutions. The people like you and me... and Carly, and Steven, and anyone who isn't 'native' to this narrative in a meta sense... are the participants whose actions will complete those stories. On our narrative backs, we carry these plots to their conclusions.
And no, I'm not insane. I may sound that way, but that's just the entry fee for awareness of the metareal structures we inhabit.
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Keep up, will you? I'm giving you the tools to understand what's happening to you. I don't do that for just anybody, especially not right out of the gate like this. This is a privilege.
But maybe I did jump the gun a little. That was the experiential take. The epistemological perspective, if you will. I thought it might be easier for you to "get." Maybe not. I'll dial it back a little. Let's do the basic basics.
I know that video games exist where you're from. So try to understand I'm being extremely literal about what I say next.
This. Is. A. Game.
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[She said something along those lines, too. If this were the first he's hearing of it, he DEFINITELY wouldn't have believed it; it hardly even seems believable as it stands right now.
The music sure makes it more convincing, though.]
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'Hey, Carly, I wanna trick the new guy into thinking this is a video game. Why? Oh, I think it'd be funny.'
Something like that. I can see where that possibility might occur to you.
Except you'd be wrong.
I don't play those kinds of pranks. I'm told I'm a real smug-ass motherfucker, but I'm not that bored or that boring.
This is all very real.
By which I mean, it's all super fucking fake, and it's the fake part that's unfortunately real.
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And he doesn't even have a super nice voice like the Boss does! Not that Doppio's heard him, but he's sure he can't sound anywhere near as nice as the Boss.He's starting to forget why they're even talking about this in the first place, but admitting that would be a sign of weakness, wouldn't it? The Boss told him to put his most professional face forward...]
Point taken.