Be it grass, fruit, or beasts, whatever you eat, you have to live its part.

Yamask finally stayed out long enough for me to talk with him.

[After almost a year of trying to get the Pokémon who possessed him for Halloween to actually have a conversation with him, you think he'd be in a better mood. Except not, because Yamask used to be a human.]

His name's Tim Balkie, but he says that I can call him "Punk" if I want. He was 17 years old and lived in Goldenrod City. He likes listening to "punk rock" music and getting into fights, and he wanted to make it so that everyone in Johto is free and no one can tell anyone else what to do. He says he died when he got into a fight and someone hit him on the head with a baseball bat.

[Talking to the ghost of someone who died. Could this get any more depressing?]

Today's his birthday.

[It can.]

He says that he was staying in the PC Box because he'd heard that Pokémon can't die if they're in there, and he didn't want to forget about his life again like he did before we met.

[It really can.]

...I don't know how to cheer him up. I don't even know if I can. Is this even something that someone can be cheered up from?

[Anyone in Mahogany Town will be able to find him sitting under a tree with a pokéball on his lap, fiddling with the pokégear. From what it's reading aloud, he's going through the pokédex data for Yamask, specifically the moves that they can learn.]

[Beat-up combat boots? Check. Khaki army pants? Check. Black leather motorcycle jacket? Check. Black shirt with a black and white picture of some mohawked punk giving two middle fingers and "FUCK THE SYSTEM" on it? ...Check. Hair in short liberty spikes? Check. A bunch of safety pins through his ears in different places? ...Check. Way too many bracelets and wristbands, a studded belt, a bullet belt, and a bunch of wallet chains? ...Check.

Meet Yamask!Apollo, a teenage punk who's rubbing his forehead because he has Apollo's ability to connect to Pokémon's minds but a subconscious that hasn't had 13 years to learn how to turn that power off or understand most of what he's getting. Standing on Cianwood's beach next to an entire sea full of Pokémon is getting to be painful.

But enough forehead-rubbing! Time to get to why he's making this post!]

Listen up, fuckers! This here's a fuckin' wake-up call for yous all!

[He presses some buttons on the Gear and this starts blaring across the beach and the network at max volume. He sings along and does a decent job at it, even if he's a bit hard to hear over the music. When it's done he lets the silence echo for a moment before speaking.]

So're you fuckers gonna jus' sit around and let the Man tell yous all how to live yer lives? Or're you gonna take 'em back and do whatever the fuck you want with 'em? Get off yer asses and come tear down the System, fuckers!

[As the feed is about to close, Yamask!Apollo stuffs the last piece of a giant pizza into his mouth and suddenly looks very sick just before the feed ends.

Fun fact: Apollo's eaten a diet that's very heavy in meat for his entire life, and the only grains that he's ever eaten were in the food that Mom gave him. The human body can't switch between getting its energy from fat and getting its energy from sugars instantly, it takes a week or two. Yamask!Apollo is discovering what that process is like for many people who try to switch between the two.]