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Ingo ([personal profile] offtracks) wrote2022-05-31 06:34 pm

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let's go to the zoo

[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-24 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Let's go to the zoo!!

It's perhaps all the better that Silvally is sort of worn out from several days of Adjustment; it won't let Gladion go anywhere without it (this is, literally, nominally, what a Pokeball is for), but it's content to not spend the day physically looming over his shoulder, meaning he and Ingo can head into town together the "normal" way.

Not that normal travel is a truly normal experience, as a monster - you get stared more than the average person - but, you know. And it's better, going as a group. Better in sort of the same way that being with Silvally has been (selfishly) better these past few days, giving him something, someone to focus on when otherwise he'd just be very conscious of being alone.



...But, hey! It's the zoo! Gladion's been here enough times to know where the maps are; he beelines for them to hand one off to Ingo.]


There are a few climate-controlled indoor facilities for small and tropical animals, and the larger ones live in the outdoor enclosures on this circuit.
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-24 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Both. They're on the west side. [Pointing that out on the map. They can start walking.

Gladion ties his vines down somewhat when he's out and about. At home, they'd idly wind themselves around his body while he went about his business; here, he keeps a mostly-human silhouette, but the last foot or so of the tail-vine hanging in a loop at his hip still tries to grab and ungrab his pocket as he walks.]


They're more...related across a family tree, I think. Like Skitty to Glameow. But people will also call them "big cats", as if that's not vague. And it's only cats, too, as far as I know. There aren't "big dogs". Just wolves, and whatever's going on with all those breed-forms.

[christ.]
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-24 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's odd to notice, because Gladion thinks Ingo definitely seems more relaxed today and then he has to think back and determine exactly when the last times he saw Ingo actually relaxed in public were. There's always some little qualification on it like except for the stress about looking monstrous.]

Supposedly pigeons are a domestic species that just went feral. Rats aren't, though. [He likes pigeons. They oscillate really quickly between seeming very stupid and doing things that are so clever it feels like having Pokemon hanging around.]

My education involved a lot of reading about interspecies dynamics in modern cities, and things like that. There's a lot that's similar. Like how the most common species are considered the least interesting, even without a barrier like this.

[Something kind of cosmically sad about the local rodents being overlooked AND just intrinsically less able to communicate.]
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-24 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Interesting"...

[Definitely. And the world is definitely better for it. But at the same time - there sure are plenty of Pokemon that have suffered for being "interesting". And not just because of people like his mother.

Monsters swing back and forth between "frightening" and "interesting", too. And that's not philosophy, that's just an everyday observation. An every-week conversation. So...hm.]


Is it weird to imagine that there are Pokemon like that in the future? So...habituated to living with humans that they can actually be abandoned.
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-24 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. [yeah... He puts his hands in his pockets.] I mean, it varies. But in more urbanized regions especially, there are a lot of Pokemon that were hatched and raised in human care. And there might not be a wild for them to just go "back" to, because their species came from some other region entirely. Sort of the upsides and downsides of how much more travel there is.

[Which is also not unlike the animals here, actually. He's had an exchange with Leo about that, even - how many of them are meant to be somewhere that hasn't existed in...however long it's been since the Fog did what she did.]
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-25 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Would have changed the future a lot, I bet. [Like. Maybe things would have just changed later rather than sooner - swept up, like Alola, in the section of his history books that starts with the invention of the mass-produced Pokeball and ends with The Modern World. But also, it probably would have Beautifly-effected Moon out of existence, and then where would he be??] If I was paying attention in history lessons, something similar was happening in Alola right...around the same time. The islands unified, trade took off. People came mainly to work on new farms, I think.

[Suddenly wondering if there was something going on in Johto specifically that was driving a bunch of people off, or if that's just a coincidence.

Guess they'll probably never find out.]


My family doesn't have relatives there or anything. We're recent arrivals, with the Foundation.

[His tone isn't going anywhere in particular, but there is always a little...like...a little awkwardness inherent to the subject.]
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-25 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Uh. [Sound of the gears in a teenager's brain whirring as he tries to remember shit he just really really really did not care about memorizing when he was twelve.] Technology...probably. It was the...that was when factories started to be built, so all the trade for raw materials...and it started out of Galar. Coal power. Or steam?
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-26 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[...pfffheh.]

I'll believe it.

[Of course he spontaneously recovers train trivia. That makes sense. Gladion is grinning, for the moment.

(Now approaching the tiger!)]
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-28 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Reminds me of a Persian, in the body. [Sort of Incineroar in the face, but eh. Gladion goes into his pocket for Silvally's Pokeball and holds it by his chest so it can have a look too, if it wants.

The zoo has still not stopped being kind of novel, as a concept. Like, yeah, zoos and parks and gardens where rare Pokemon just live for viewing exist, Gladion's been to a few, but they're not usually this...general? This controlled? This casual? The vibe just isn't the same.]
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-02-28 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...Sort of. [Is there something to lean against? Gladion wants to lean on a lamppost or railing or something. There is now, and he does.] Most of the Pokemon viewing attractions I can think of are more like...nature preserves. Or gardens. Or aquariums, since there's the whole issue with [vague gesturing like a tank, or glass?] seeing underwater.

[Once again, there's a conversational door into Perilous Territory! Once again, Gladion turns it over in his hands and thinks, okay, maybe this isn't such a huge deal.]

The conservatory at Aether Paradise was open to the public. That was kind of like this, where you stayed up on walkways instead of walking right through the habitats. But most of the Pokemon there rotated through, since they were still actually wild, just being rehabilitated. Mostly, people see rare Pokemon in person if they're with a trainer, I think.
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-03-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Water is...I think it's just a lot less of a hassle when it's not so cold. [But he might be a bit spoiled on that front. SHRUG.] I like the aquarium, too. Feeling kind of...surrounded? In a peaceful way. [again SHRUG.] Might just be that there wasn't exactly a lot of foot traffic that night.

[Whereas there are plenty of people here right now!]
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-03-02 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[How about he doesn't bring up the whole "I wonder if they know they're supposed to live somewhere they'll almost definitely never get to see" thing to Ingo...]

I don't think any of the big cats live wild in Ryslig.
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[personal profile] familyproblem 2023-03-04 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yet.

[thinking about the katt and that groundhog. God knows what other kinds of Unauthorized Fucking Creatures are roaming around out there, conveniently undocumented and excluded from everyone's assurances that "oh no animals definitely don't breathe fire". He should probably expand his research to mythical animals, if things like that are going to keep happening.

The tiger, in the course of doing its tiger things, bats a big rubber ball into its pool and jumps in after it, splashing and rolling and gnawing at its toy...]

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