First Quirk - Route 29 (Voice/Action as appropriate.)

[for_realsies]

So... the rules for this sorta thing aren't any different right? Stay out of tall grass, you can't jump up those ledges. Try to be the very best, like no one ever was?

*She sounds more than a little bored, but that might have to do with how much walking there is on route 29. At least two overdramatic sighs made it into just those three sentences. Game time was so much quicker, where you could go Pallet to Viridian and back in a few minutes when she was a kid. She supposed it had to be, or else nobody would play the game. They would get bored, and go outside. The real outside.*

...I don't have to battle everyone that looks at me, right? Cause that would get more than a little old. I mean, I am just starting out and stuff. Oh! Can I find Rattata out here!? They are so cute! I want one, no, ten! I want ten!

*slight pause*

...Somebody keep me company, Omen is cute but we've run out of things to talk about.

*For anyone on the route with her, there' a strange girl with her hair up, wearing a mish-mash of colors and darks, with tiny mis-matched dice hanging from her ears. Swaying her hips, and bobbing her head, to the beat of the background music. Wandering around with an Absol walking at her side. He seems to be amused by her boredom, but is keeping his eyes out for anything that might be a danger to his new master.*

*Congrats, this is Imogen.*

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[melodicnocturne]

Awww, it ain't all that bad. There's hundreds of these little guys all over the place. Before y'know it, you've been here for a week or two and you've fallen in love with 'em all.

[He grins wide for a few moments and chuckles a bit.]

Don't worry about that too much, either. There's clothing stores out there, you can just go out and buy a trainer's hat if you wanna.

[for_realsies]

*Given her hair is currently in two balls, one on each side, with a pigtail sticking out the middle hanging to her neck. She doesn't wear hats.*

What's the count of Pokemon up to? I didn't recognize Omen and I did manage to catch everything when I was younger. So it has to be more than 151.

*She nods about the clothing, then rummages in her bag and holds up the B/W era Lass outfit.* I'll find something. I just don't like the really boring outfit my backpack gave me. I'll need to do a lot of work to make these wearable.

[melodicnocturne]

Six-somethin', I think. Someone did a long count a while back if I remember right. Can you even imagine? Over six-hundred of the little guys. Big, small, fluffy, weird, an' every flavor in-between. Welcome to the world of the 'mons...

[And then he realizes she just said the magic number.]

Ah, hey. Wait a sec. A few other people said that before! What'cha mean 151 when you were younger? Have you been to this place before?

[for_realsies]

Woooow, how many can I catch!? Are they all available, do I have to sucked into a different wild adventure to get like two dozen that aren't available in this version? I really should have paid more attention to video games to prepare for this sorta thing!

*This is all perfectly reasonable to think about, why wouldn't it be?*

Huh, well, no. I mean. There were video games. Everyone at school played them way back when. They were all so cute I did catch all 150, and got a Mew from a friend at school! I didn't even care that I only got a stupid 'you did it' message from the game for completing the Pokedex!

Why, are you from someplace that didn't have Game Boys?

[melodicnocturne]

...Game Boy? Video Games? ...Mew?

[Penny's in the air, boys and girls.]

Do what now?

[for_realsies]

Game Boys are kinda like these phones, only they were for playing video games on. Video Games are fun pretend things to keep kids from reading books or whining during long car trips. And Mew was a super secret hard to get ultra rare Pokemon when the first games were released.

So rare it wasn't actually in any of the games.

...probably means I can't catch one here, huh? *And Imogen has completely lost focus on things.*

[melodicnocturne]

I...I dunno. You could check the dex off your gear, though. If it's as rare as you say it might not even show up.

[This is, of course, him assuming the thing in question actually exists for the sake of taking anything she just said at face value.]

Sounds weird. But, whatever floats people's boats... Anywho, I'm Demyx. A trainer, just like you. I'm not from this world either, but I've been here for a while and have done some traveling. If you've got any questions about how things work, I could try to field 'em for ya.

[for_realsies]

*This is the most logical and rational Imogen has been since she arrived here. And that's terrible.*

*Shrug* It doesn't matter, Rattata is cuter anyway.

Nice to meet you, I'm Imogen! Um... questions, hmm. *She's thinking.*

*...She's gotten distracted by the background music.*

*And she's back*

Um, I don't think so- Oh! how do you get your hair like that, do you just brush it or do you use hairspray or something?

*...She does not focus well.*

[melodicnocturne]

Eh? My hair?

[Oh, she is just a special little snowflake, isn't she? Demyx looks up at his hair for a few moments in befuddlement.]

It just...stays like this. I've never had any problems with it.

[Welcome to the world of 'I was born in a Square-Enix game,' Imogen. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.]

I mean, yeah, I brush it. In the mornings and whatever. Not much else I gotta do about it.

[for_realsies]

*Imogen could be normal if she wanted to. She never wants to be.*

Lucky, I do not look forward to dealing with my hair if I have to camp out.

*Imogen takes great pride in her weird and fabulous hairstyles, it also takes time to look this fabulous.*

It doesn't seem too different from what I remember. Just the town names, all the new Pokemon, the fact that it's real, and how boring walking is. Otherwise I think I know what I'm doing.

[melodicnocturne]

Lucky you. I had no idea what I was gettin' into when I woke up in that bed.

It helps if you can make friends to keep yourself occupied on the road. Also, if you can get a big and fast enough 'mon you can hop on for a ride. It makes travel easier, until you can use fly at least.

[for_realsies]

Oh right, Fly requires a badge from... what badge does Fly need here?

I would like to find a Pokemon that big, but I'll only ride them if they are really okay with it. But the first Pokemon you meet are always the small cute kind. Like Pikachu and Caterpie.

[melodicnocturne]

[Demyx taps his chin, trying to remember both places that the badge and HM come from.]

Cianwood and Saffron for the HM, then... I think it's Violet and Celadon that let you use Fly outside of battle. If you think about it, it's probably a bit easier to take on Falkner at Violet, then go to Kanto from Goldenrod and take Saffron city's gym leader down. I was thinkin' about doin' that pretty soon.

You'd be surprised how many of the big guys like to be helpful, and plenty of the smaller ones evolve to be big and strong!

[for_realsies]

Saffron is... OH! Um, that might be easier for me because I think this thing said Omen is good against Psychic types.

But it's a bit far away, and probably way tougher than I can handle right now.

This'll take forever...

[melodicnocturne]

Actually. If you take out Falkner in Violet, then head to Goldenrod City, you could just take the Magnet Line to Saffron and knock out Sabrina right then and there! Bam, two badges, one HM, and the power to fly almost anywhere. Two birds with one stone.

[for_realsies]

But Sabrina was like the... fifth gym, so she should be way tougher than I can handle right now!

...how tough is Falkner?

Also I need a bird to fly anywhere, I only have Omen right now. So I should try to find something with wings that can fly. So not Charizard.