Pokemon: The Shopping District

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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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[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.

[forgottenmercy]

It, ah, seems so.

[softlyfalling]

What was it you were doing when I first met you?

Clearly you found some kind of path of your own that you felt strongly about, but...

[forgottenmercy]

...I, ah, was trying to do something about powerful men who abused their power. And, ah, abused others.

[softlyfalling]

...is that the work I was a fan of?

I suppose I did want a kinder world, so... I can't argue with that.

[ she's not terribly subtle; she's clearly mentally connecting the dots between "husband bad feelings" and "and then I was on a personal mission to kill bad men." ]

[forgottenmercy]

...it, ah, seems so, yes.

[definitely noticing that]

...I, ah, like to think that it made even a little difference, in the end.

[softlyfalling]

I can't recall, myself, but I'd hope so, too. There's so many cruel people in the world.

Maybe it's just what I've been exposed to, but I feel like all the petty fiefdoms and border squabbles in the Hundred Kingdoms bring out the worst in people. So many small-time tyrants.

[forgottenmercy]

Too many, ah, petty tyrants and lords. Too many lords who do nothing to protect their, ah, people.


...but having one, ah, lord is no solution, either.