whateveryoueatliveitspart | [Video/Action for Mahogany Town]

[For those who pay attention to backgrounds, Apollo's sitting against a tree near the Mahogany Town PokéCenter, turning over a standard pokéball in one hand and looking a bit worried.]

Has anyone ever met a Pokémon who didn't want to come out of their pokéball and wanted to be left in the PC Box all the time? I thought that they would all want to come out as much as they could, but he doesn't. Does this happen a lot with Pokémon?

[He opens the pokéball to release...

...a Yamask that goes flying straight for the pokéball, yelling in pokéspeak as it does.]

Put me back in the PC! I don't wanna forget again! Let me in the ball!

[Apollo swings the ball around wildly for a few seconds so that the viewers can actually see the Yamask before it returns to its ball. It finally manages to get inside after a moment of that and Apollo returns his attention back to the camera.]

I found him in the PC Box when I was in Goldenrod a while ago. I think he might be the Yamask who was controlling my body before, but I don't remember catching him. The only thing that I've been able to get him to tell me is that he's afraid of disappearing or forgetting something, so he wants to stay in the PC Box because those things won't happen there? He's like this every time I try and take him out. He won't stay out long enough for me to ask him anything else.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

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From:

captainash

...Maybe he has some form of amnesia, and the PC somehow slows it down? That would outweight any appreciation for the outside world.

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whateveryoueatliveitspart

Amnesia? You mean like the move that Furret has? That's not a damaging move though.

From:

captainash

I mean the sort of amnesia where people lose all their memories of the past or become unable to create new ones. It can be caused by head injuries or certain illnesses.

From:

whateveryoueatliveitspart

...

[Okay that's a scary thought that that could happen. Consider him a bit spooked.]

That kind of thing can happen? Does it happen to people a lot?

From:

captainash

Not a lot, but sometimes. I've seen pilots get injured in combat and not remember the last week or year before the incident. Something similar could have happened to that Yamask.

From:

whateveryoueatliveitspart

[He looks past the camera for a bit, then focuses on Ash again.]

None of the Pokémon who are with me say that they've heard of that kind of thing happening before. If this is the same Yamask as the one that was controlling my body, it didn't seem like it was forgetting anything then. [Though Apollo has no clue what half of that stuff he was talking about even means.]

Do you know if there's any way to heal someone from amnesia?

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captainash - Date: 2012-11-22 02:17 pm (UTC) - Expand

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3_butterflies

That's so strange... do you think it has anything to do with when all those Yamask possessed us?</small.

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whateveryoueatliveitspart

I didn't see any other Yamask around other than the one who was controlling me, so he's probably the same one.

Did you have a Yamask control you too?

[He didn't have the "pleasure" of seeing Yamask!Fluttershy, so that's one less person she needs to apologize to.]

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3_butterflies

[She nods slowly.]

He, um, made me very mean... He said it was just a joke, but it wasn't funny at all.

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whateveryoueatliveitspart

I think that the Yamask didn't know that they weren't controlling their own bodies, so he wouldn't have been trying to make you mean. It must be how he normally is.

It still wasn't nice though. Being mean is never funny.

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3_butterflies

Mine definitely knew what it was doing... but is that what yours was saying?

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whateveryoueatliveitspart - Date: 2012-11-22 10:28 pm (UTC) - Expand

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ghostytrainer

Huh. I wonder if your Yamask has some kind of amnesia too. Mine can't remember his life as a human but he doesn't try and stay in the box all the time or anything. Strange.

But without really knowing what happens to a pokemon inside the box it's kind of hard to know for certain what the deal is.

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whateveryoueatliveitspart

I don't know what he can remember or not. I haven't been able to get him to talk yet. It sounds like he remembers something though.

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ghostytrainer

Hmm...well that's a problem. Do you have any psychic types? Maybe they can talk to him while he is inside the ball. Unless your powers would work that way but I am guessing they don't because you probably wouldn't be asking for ideas if you could do that.

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whateveryoueatliveitspart

No, none of the Pokémon with me are Psychic-types. I can't talk to Pokémon when they're inside a ball or the PC either. I can't even talk to them when they're in an egg, and I can do that with birds back home. Pokémon are different somehow.

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ghostytrainer

Huh...well that won't work then. I would off one of my psychic types but I am not sure how well that would work over a video feed.

From:

whateveryoueatliveitspart

It doesn't work at all.

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tearsofademon

Hmm... Well, I don't really know much about Yamasks, but I have a Yanma who started out kind of like that. Never wanting to come out of her ball, always hiding in small places whenever I got her out of it... She's gotten a little better over time, but she still doesn't like coming out much.

[note: the Yamask part of the comment is a lie, he just doesn't want to talk about his own experience]

From:

whateveryoueatliveitspart

Golurk was kind of like that when it first hatched too. It's still shy, but it's never panicked when I took it out of its ball and tried to get back in as fast as it could. Yamask doesn't just want to stay in his ball, he wants to stay in the PC and for me to just leave him there.

[And the lie will go undetected, because Apollo never saw that post. He's more confused by his own experience, and maybe slightly annoyed at ending up with a lighter wallet, being nauseous for a few days, and having to spend an hour or two getting all the stuff out of his hair so it would stop being spiked.]

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tearsofademon

Maybe something happened? I mean, some really crappy stuff happened to Rey before I met her.

From:

whateveryoueatliveitspart

I don't know since he isn't talking to me. If it's the same Yamask, he didn't do anything bad while he was controlling me. All he did was do things he liked and try to get people to help him fight something called the "System".

[Apollo remembers what he did, but has no clue what any of it actually meant.]