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[good. lord. archie. what. is this did that emotional breakthrough mean nothing to you why are you still trying to ruin nanu's day-to-day life as you clearly are]

Blood flow can vary between blood vessels, ranging from normal velocity to complete suspension due to constriction that almost seems like strangulation symptoms.

Archie, what are you doing to me?

[the exasperation is palpable through their telepathic link]

[there's something like a mental record scratch when nanu speaks up.]

Nanu? Huh? I didn't do anything. Did something happen?

Don't act like you didn't just ring me up to stuff half a lecture about lakes into my head.

I-- I didn't? Why the hell would I do that?! I'm trying to read in peace, I suppose maybe I just-- just broadcasted it to you by accident. I'm not exactly a telepathy expert, Nanu! I'm sorry!

This hurts my brain. Why would I think of you while I'm reading about lakes? Is this a roundabout way of trying to share interests because we're definitely best friends now? Am I secretly in love with you? Do I just want to see Krookodile in the mud again?

[THIS IS WORSE]

Archie, slow your damn roll! What the hell is wrong with you?! [wAIT] Don't answer that. I don't want to hear your private thoughts. They're private for a reason, Archie!

Do you want a list? How much of this am I sending? Arceus, he's like Maxie. I can't believe I miss Maxie. Matt and Shelly... no! Stop thinking about that!

Think of... think of something he'd like! I fell down the porch stairs yesterday!

Everything. You're sending everything. Do you have an off switch?

[He gives off a quick vibe of...being insulted. As in, excuse you how is he like the leader of Team Magma? That he knows little about but it's still an offense? There's also confusion but also okay that's kind of funny in the way that he's even thinking of that to make this better for Nanu]

Cripes, Archie, don't start sending me a string of home videos of you falling flat on your face.

Yes, on my head, but you have to hit it very hard. You know it would be from my point of view, right?

[god, what if he can't ever switch this off? he hates it.]

I don't know what else to say. I can't exactly switch my brain off. I wish Lance was here, he made me feel better. So does Jill, but I don't know where she is. Shelly would know what to do as well. She always knows what to do...

Okay. It's been quiet for a while. Did this stop? I don't want to annoy him. I probably shouldn't read for a while though... that's definitely off the table. Where did I get these Buck Mingle books from? I need to put them back. Maybe if this gets worse I should talk to Peromei again...? She was so cute. I wonder where Silver went. What if more dangerous people arrive? What if Giovanni gets brought here? Can legendary Pokémon be brought here? What if Kyogre comes here? It would be so mad with me rightly... the water here is really clean though. I want to jump in the lake right now. Why aren't books waterproof? Maybe I should try and find out about that when I get home. I wonder what they're doing without me... do they think I just left them for no reason? They wouldn't even be able to contact me! Poor Matt must be beside himself, after what happened before... why do I keep hurting the people I love? What's the point of life? Is there a higher purpose? I want to see Jirachi again. I miss its smile. I wish I could let Sharpedo out on land. Why didn't Arceus give it legs or the ability to float in air?

Edited 2019-02-24 02:26 (UTC)

So
help me
Arceus
I will walk down to Jill's house
and render you unconscious myself.

Buck Mingle?

Oh. Fuck. Okay. I'll-- look, if you're still stuck in my head then I'll... ah! An idea.

[he concentrates on something else; a memory that's a little fuzzy, but when it clears up it's immediately obvious what he's sent. the bright yellow form of jirachi slowly forms, floating in front of someone who - judging by the height they're standing at - is very young. it laughs lightly, clear and magical like a bell, then flies towards archie. he catches it in his arms and they both laugh before it flies away. archie follows-- jirachi leads him and shelly, who's running beside him, to the beach of pacifidlog. he looks back towards the floating town where the decorations are clearly that of tanabata. jirachi lands on shelly's head, tails hanging down next to her face like long bangs, and the memory ends.]

They're nothing. Don't look them up. Don't judge me if you do.

[nanu is simultaneously never looking them up yet judging archie anyway]

[The memory, though? The memory is finally worth something; Nanu no longer feels the need to deprive Archie's brain of oxygen until he passes out and gives their minds sweet silence. He recognizes the mythical pokémon immediately, coming to conclusions fairly quickly, and is perfectly content to follow this line of thought rather than...the alternatives...]

[It takes a moment for him to respond, though, mainly because he has to switch gears from chokehold, to Buck Mingle, to delightful childhood memory.]

...You met a myth as a tyke, huh? Not a lot of folks can put that on their resumé.

I still don't know why it came to us, of all people. I miss it every day but I know I'll never be able to see it again. Sometimes I wonder what it would think of what I became and did.

[he sends another memory, though this one is accidental. might be obvious seeing as it's jirachi flying away and tinged with sadness.]

I don't have any secrets about it to share, if you think meeting it would give me that. I barely even knew it wasn't a normal Pokémon when I was a stupid kid. Shelly was the one that told me it was a mythical.

Pokémon are a lot more forgiving than most give them credit for. It had a reason for coming over to you two, even if that reason was just because it liked you best.

[The emotional whiplash is hard to slog through, but this isn't something to make fun of. He doesn't care about secrets; not that he would think Archie would have anything life-shattering to learn at such a young age, except maybe that drowning the world is a bad idea.]

Hmh. I think that would make the memory better, in that case.

I don't doubt that. Don't worry, I've managed to stop myself letting that memory become clouded with bad emotions.

[there's a pause, while he thinks something over.]

I wonder if the trainers here having experience with mythicals or legendaries is a coincidence or not...

There is a disproportionate number of trainers with...special ties, who show up here. [Nanu's definitely noticed.] Legendaries, mythicals; people in important positions.

But the latter applies to most otherworlders, doesn't it.

Yeah. It's enough to make you stay up all night theorizing. Not that I've done that. I don't have a wall.

[he'll distract but focusing and sending nanu a far clearer image of jirachi sitting on his forearm with a big smile.]

All I could tell you that people might not already know is that the blue tags on its head are related to the wishes.

Reassuring.

[The better look at Jirachi is appreciated. It's the only chance Nanu will ever get to see it, unless the champion comes across one somehow. He tries to study the image in his mind's eye once the memory fades.]

People decorate bamboo with paper slips that look like them, right? With whatever they want to wish for. I remember a little about it when I visited Hoenn.

That's right. Though I haven't celebrated Tanabata properly for a while. Maybe we could do it here, or something.

[it would be nice, for sure. if they don't already have something like it?]

Might be worth a shot. [To bring it up or something, he doesn't know. It is a nice thought, right up there with Selenium's core reason and beliefs.] It'd be one festival you wouldn't have to drag me to.

No kidding. They celebrate anything like that in Alola?

Nothing like that of our own, but I've seen practices similar to it on Ula'ula. A lot of Johto- and Kantonian presence there. [He sends a mental image of Malie City and its garden.] We observe a lot of our own traditions that tie into everyday life, though.

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