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whateveryoueatliveitspart[The feed comes on to show a forest, mostly clear of snow save for some stubborn drifts that have taken shelter beneath the evergreens. Exactly where this is isn't clear, though the music is that of the Lake of Rage, so that at least gives a general area. Apollo's voice comes from off-camera.]
It's almost spring now. I think that spring is my favorite season. You don't need to shelter from the cold and snow all the time and you can watch all the plants start to bud and the seeds sprout after being buried under the snow. Everything's beginning fresh. The best part about this spring though is that it's warm enough again that I don't have to wear shoes anymore. My feet have been sore wearing boots all the time, even worse than just putting on shoes to go into a store or work at the Pokémon Center. Covering your feet makes sense if you're going out in the snow, but I still don't understand why people keep wanting me to wear shoes to come inside where the floors aren't cold, or why anyone would want shoes to have such thick bottoms. I can't feel the ground when I'm wearing shoes and they seem like they're shaped to make me walk differently. They aren't comfortable.
[He suddenly realizes that he's off on a tangent about one of his pet peeves with this world and forces himself off of the topic. Unfortunately for the viewers, he fails to provide a segue.]
Once it gets warmer and the ground softens, I'm going to try planting some of the berries that I got from the berry orchard in Pallet Town. They're supposed to need to be kept warm all the time in something called a "hothouse". They don't look like they're hard to make. I'll just need to find materials to make them out of. I can probably find something useful in Goldenrod City.
I think I've figured out what kinds of places the berry plants on the routes grow best in, but the people at the berry orchard couldn't tell me much about where the plants that they were growing grow naturally. Has anyone else tried to grow berries?
It's almost spring now. I think that spring is my favorite season. You don't need to shelter from the cold and snow all the time and you can watch all the plants start to bud and the seeds sprout after being buried under the snow. Everything's beginning fresh. The best part about this spring though is that it's warm enough again that I don't have to wear shoes anymore. My feet have been sore wearing boots all the time, even worse than just putting on shoes to go into a store or work at the Pokémon Center. Covering your feet makes sense if you're going out in the snow, but I still don't understand why people keep wanting me to wear shoes to come inside where the floors aren't cold, or why anyone would want shoes to have such thick bottoms. I can't feel the ground when I'm wearing shoes and they seem like they're shaped to make me walk differently. They aren't comfortable.
[He suddenly realizes that he's off on a tangent about one of his pet peeves with this world and forces himself off of the topic. Unfortunately for the viewers, he fails to provide a segue.]
Once it gets warmer and the ground softens, I'm going to try planting some of the berries that I got from the berry orchard in Pallet Town. They're supposed to need to be kept warm all the time in something called a "hothouse". They don't look like they're hard to make. I'll just need to find materials to make them out of. I can probably find something useful in Goldenrod City.
I think I've figured out what kinds of places the berry plants on the routes grow best in, but the people at the berry orchard couldn't tell me much about where the plants that they were growing grow naturally. Has anyone else tried to grow berries?
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Date: 2013-03-19 04:09 am (UTC)[That about sums it up. The only reason that Norman doesn't have the same problem is because he (presumably) started wearing shoes when he was only a few years old, thus the constant wearing of shoes has reshaped his feet to fit in them and he's forgotten about whatever discomfort he may have had.]
I usually take breathers whenever I need to, but when I'm wearing shoes my feet start hurting even more if I stop for too long.
I didn't choose the ones I have right now. The shoes were in my bag when I came here and when Yamask was controlling my body he tried on a bunch of boots and decided that the ones I have now were the most comfortable.
[But then, Yamask was in denial about being dead and was thus rather confused by the strange reactions that "his" body had to what he did to it - for example, becoming nauseous after eating pizza because Apollo had never had grains before and his body wasn't sure what to do with them. Not realizing that "his" feet hadn't had much experience with shoes before was just another oversight in a long list of them.]
Are the bottoms of all shoes the same thickness? Or are there some that are thinner than others?
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Date: 2013-03-22 04:06 pm (UTC)Eat your heart out New York.]
...Depends on the kind of shoe you have. Boots are a lot thicker than others shoes because they're built to be durable for the outdoors. The shoes I have on are meant for more casual things like walking around the city.
[A beat.]
What's this about a Yamask though?
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Date: 2013-03-22 04:33 pm (UTC)I would have thought that it was usually the other way around, since the ground in the towns is harder than the ground outside them. I think that shoes with thinner bottoms would be more comfortable.
Back before winter started, a Yamask accidentally got his mask on my face, and somehow that let him control my body. It turns out that Yamask are the spirits of dead humans, but he didn't remember that he was dead and thought that he was in his own body, so he went around doing the things that he normally did and talked to people about fighting "The System". After two days he lost control of my body and vanished, but I found him in my PC Box the next time that I checked it and one of my pokéballs was missing, so he must have caught himself somehow. He won't come out though. Every time I take him out of his ball, all he'll say is that he's afraid of forgetting something and that he wants to go back in the PC Box, then he goes back in his ball.
[All said with some concern for the Yamask but otherwise as if there's nothing unusual about what happened.]
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Date: 2013-03-25 04:21 am (UTC)[Maybe for next fall/winter. Who knows? It's hard to imagine anyone walking around with nothing to protect their feet. Then again, that's just the postmodernism talking.]
[But Norman takes the liberty to look up what exactly these Yamasks look like. He's seen puppies spit fire and pink elephants "eat" dreams but pokemon possessing bodies? That's a real stretch.]
A little thing like that? How could those possibly be human spirits? I thought the story was that humans can't die here.
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Date: 2013-03-26 03:12 am (UTC)[Sneakers are actually what he has right now, he just doesn't know the name of them. Oops. If he ever finds anything he can deal with it'll be something like moccasins, or those Vibram FiveFingers things, if those exist in Johto (they probably don't).
And he's had 13 years to get his feet used to having no protection. Though he does wrap bandages around his arches, probably because of how in canon he crouches on branches a lot and sometimes seems to let his feet slide off them as he moves. The bark would probably tear open his feet if he did that completely barefoot. Still, there's nothing on the rest of his feet.]
I don't know. But I remember everything that he was saying and doing while he was controlling my body, and he acted like he was used to being a human.