Pokemon: The Shopping District

[idolpro]

Once you've left behind the quaint little houses where everyone lives, you'll reach the shopping district. Here you'll find all kinds of restaurants and whether it's a cute cafe with desserts and drinks or a fancy place with four-star, four course menus both people and Pokemon are welcome. There are also a number of salon, costume, and toy shops catering solely to Pokemon so you can dress and pamper your partner properly. You can also procure raw items and tools to build and decorate those homes for your Pokemon from a number of the shops in the area.

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Comments

[softlyfalling]

Not certain how you feel, or... if there's anything to be concerned about.

[forgottenmercy]

More the, ah, first...

[softlyfalling]

That's—understandable, yes.

...I usually just categorize any feeling I can't pin down as "worried," I think.

[forgottenmercy]

Specific feelings are, ah, often hard to categorize...

[softlyfalling]

I'd say so, but I think a lot of people have an easier time with it...

[ how do emotions work, please help, ]

[forgottenmercy]

[someone please help them.] They, ah, likely spend more time considering it?

[softlyfalling]

I don't know about that. I think sometimes I spend too much time trying to hash that sort of thing out.

[forgottenmercy]

...I wonder what their, ah, secret is, then.

[softlyfalling]

Mm.

[ she leans forward to rest her elbows on her knees. ]

Sometimes, here, I feel like I missed learning something that everyone else did. At home we didn't really... talk about feelings.

[forgottenmercy]

I, ah, never really considered mine. [and went back to not considering his feelings]

But I, ah, agree about feeling like missing learning something that most people know.

[softlyfalling]

I mean, you've... seen my mother, a little.

...what sort of parent was Amaranth, to you?

[forgottenmercy]

...from what little I remember, she was kind and, ah, supportive.

But I no longer lived with her after I was seven, after I became the sacred maiden for the shrine.

[softlyfalling]

We both spent a lot of our lives in service, huh.

[forgottenmercy]

It, ah, seems so, yes. Though, ah, different routes of that...

[softlyfalling]

I suppose so. Though—I suppose the salient point here is that neither of us ever really... had much opportunity to consider our own wants, or needs, or interests, for one reason or another.

[forgottenmercy]

[absolutely not what he wanted to think about]

It, ah, seems not, no. Not with the, ah, lives we led...

[softlyfalling]

[ listen, the gay trauma unpacking is just happening now. ]

...it was easier, in a lot of ways.

[forgottenmercy]

[he doesn't have to unpack his trauma.]

To, ah, not think about it...?

[softlyfalling]

...mm. To not bear the weight of decisions, or responsibility. To accept no role in my own destiny.

[forgottenmercy]

Easier to, ah, be swept by the current...?

[softlyfalling]

Something like that, I think. I don't know. I go back and forth; it's so hard to be a person when you're not used to it.

[forgottenmercy]

And that is, ah, why people assume you are weak-willed... because they, ah, do not know the effort it takes to learn how to exert will when you never did before.

[softlyfalling]

I was talking to Thorn, on the summer holiday—ah, he makes it sound so easy. "Get back up if someone shoves you down again," "just do something else," things like that.

It's meant well, but, it's sort of... I don't know how to explain to some people that it's... harder than that.

[forgottenmercy]

If, ah, having the ability to exert will at all is new, then remembering it is an option is...difficult?

[softlyfalling]

I think it's hard for others to understand, though.