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Who: Tyler Huang and OTA
Where: Goldenrod Rocket Base
When: Early March!
Summary: Baby Rocket. baby
Rating: PG-13, with some casual swearing

Log: It's a fucking blessing that he's already met Steven, and gotten a hand from him with all of the training stuff. Sure it makes things about twice as long as they probably would be otherwise, but at least he actually comprehends all of the pointless mass speeches he's being dunked into. Which, uh. It's not nice but at least he's not going to get punished for really basic, stupid shit.

It does also mean, though, that so far he's making very little attempts to appeal to the good will of the other Rockets. From what Steven's told him, the only ones worth actually caring about are the other ones who got sucked in from other worlds - but since he's only gotten names, not faces, he has no idea who they're supposed to be.

He's easy enough to find in the mess halls - big guys stand out a bit, especially when the Natu sitting on his shoulder hops up onto his head and starts sending random people evil(? it's hard to tell) looks around the room. But usually, whenever he gets a free chance, he'll be back in the training halls, working on hand signals with his Houndour. If he can train it well enough now, then it'll be smart enough to fight in future without needing to glance back at him every few seconds.

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He frowns at the reply note. And takes the pen to circle the word 'Dubwool' and adds a question mark over it.

I think it's a foreign kind of sheep pokemon. Like Merino? Not necessarily a direct analog, though.

He pulls a face at reading that. It'd be a sneer if it wasn't closer to 'look at that bad pun you made, you should feel bad'.

There's going to be a lot of semi-analogous shit like that, isn't there?

Yep. Like I mentioned, before we got caught up in realizing we're from the same world, there's weird versions of pop culture from back home here. Like the Smashing Pumpkaboos or Seismitoad And The Wet Sprocket or Counting Murkrows or Hootie and the Qwilfish...

... or in an attempt to not date me horribly, Taylor Shiftry. The song 'Trouble' in our own world doesn't have actual goat screams in it, does it? Because the Gogoat samples are definitely the weird part of an otherwise catchy song.

The second paragraph scores Steven one (1) incredibly dry look, and when Tyler writes his next sentence he holds the notepad up with both hands for Steven to read in the air.

I don't know how you expect me to tell the difference.

He holds it there for a few seconds, before he adds another line beneath it.

Allegedly it was human singing and the goats were just a meme.

Steven drags a hand down his face.

Fuck. I'm an idiot sometimes. Thank you for clearing that up.

He holds up Yeah you are. with a broad smile on his face.

On the plus side I now know that most of my memes will be perfectly functional for you with minimal translation.

Great. Amazing.

But he's smiling a little too. Someone Tyler's age who 'speaks' in memes? It's what his life was lacking.

I feel so privileged to be in touch with the youths.