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[fony]

[This video starts off with a very annoyed Luke peering at the screen. He's got his hair up in a very fluffy ponytail this time, but there's nothing interesting behind him this time. A television can be heard in the background though, mingled with the ever-present background music.]

Whoever sent me the blob, you could've mentioned it can turn itself into other stuff! It turned into my PokéGear and I didn't notice until I had been talking to it for a while.

[Only about five minutes, but still.]

It's blue...but when I tried to see what it is, the picture that came up was pink. Is it sick or anything?

[He moves the camera to show a said blob--a shiny Ditto, sitting placidly on the floor. A Vulpix and a Growlithe can be seen wrestling in the background, periodically emitting angry yips.]

See? Blue.

[The video ends there, as he goes to break up the fighting 'mons.]

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[theotherother]

...I was wondering if anyone else got one of those.

[He ended up with the same exact thing. And no, he doesn't really find it funny either.]

I forget what they call it, but sometimes stuff like that happens, and the coloring's different. Or maybe it is sick. The hell if I know.

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[fony]

That's not very helpful...

[But at least he's not the only one to experience it.]

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[theotherother]

[Yeah, sorry, he's not a very helpful person sometimes.]

Look, take it to the Pokemon Center if you're worried about it. They can tell you if it's sick or not.

[Don't just shove it in a box like he did.]

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[walkersystem]

Mine's a different color too!

_{[HEY LUKE did you miss Molly, she's cheerful and curious as ever.]}

He's lighter than normal. But at least he's not completely different.

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[fony]

[Oh god small child.

No actually he likes Molly.

He's staying in the Cherrygrove inn if she wants to bother him in person. Much better than camping.]

Is it a blob too? Or something different?

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[walkersystem]

<sub>[She's hanging out outside at the moment, but she might well swing by!]

[He'll be able to see that she's outside too since she'll pause, bend down and pick up a little sentret from the ground.]</sub>

He looks kind of like a rabbit, doesn't he? Except he has a tail. I don't know what he is.

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[paladinlost]

You've no need to worry about you Ditto's health; it merely happens to be shiny. It's a rare condition, but it's completely harmless.

[Probably more harmless than the way Cecil's own Ditto is try to spread itself over its trainer's face, anyway.]

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[fony]

[S'ok, Luke is unhelpful *most* of the time.]

I will, I will, geez. I just wanted to ask around and see if anyone else knew what was wrong before I went there.

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[fony]

[Uhh, should he be concerned about that?]

Oh...good.

[A relieved sigh, then:]

...I'm glad it's not sick, blue's better than pink.

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[paladinlost]

It's a very lovely shade of blue, too.

[Maybe, maybe not? But he's still breathing, so that's probably a good sign.]

Though I must warn you that colors are the least of your worries, now that you have a Ditto. They have... tendencies.

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[theotherother]

If there is, somebody'll probably tell you. Everybody seems to know everything about Pokemon.

[Not him though. He sort of refuses on principle.]

I mean I'm not sure why the hell you'd want to know every last detail about why this one's blue or why half the weird shit that goes on here is totally normal, but people do for some reason.

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[fony]

...Tendencies? What kind of tendencies?

[Suspicious intensifies.]

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[paladinlost]

[...How can he explain that delicately?]

They can breed with every other Pokémon species. They enjoy breeding with every other Pokémon species, and will do so as often as they can get away with.

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[freshprints]

...Ah. You got one, too.

[Apparently it is a party of shiny Ditto owners all up in this place.]

I've seen one like that before, and it's not sick. It's simply a genetic mutation, of sorts.

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[fony]

[This dude sounds unreasonably angry about the Pokéworld. Luke wonders if that's how he sounds sometimes when someone tries to explain something he doesn't care about.

Egh.]

Some people are weird? I mean, I don't get it either, but I know how it is.

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[fony]

Kinda...the ears do, but...yeah, the tail doesn't look like a rabbit's.

[It's a cute bunny...raccoon thing.]

I don't know what it is either...have you tried pointing the Pokégear at it?

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[fony]

[Shiny Ditto party! Too bad they can't breed them together and create more shiny Dittos.]

Haha...I'm glad I didn't take it in to get it checked out, that would've been embarrassing.

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[theotherother]

[Kaine's unreasonably angry about a lot of things.]

Yeah.

[Awkward silence.]

Oh. Try not to lose it either. I mean you mentioned the whole PokeGear thing, but mine decided to turn into a chair, and I sort of...left it in the room. For a few hours.

[A+ Pokemon trainer here.]

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[fony]

...So it'll just try to have sex with anything that moves?

[Should he ask how? Does he want to know how?

...No, he does not want to know how Pokémon have sex, let alone anything that doesn't look like it's capable of any sort of sex in the first place.]

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[freshprints]

Really? From what I can tell, concern for a Pokemon's well-being is thought of very highly around here.

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[fony]

I...w-wait, uh, I didn't mean it that way!

[Backpedaling backpedaling]

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[fony]

I mean...I don't want anything to happen to it, but it seemed fine for a while...and um...

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[fony]

...Well, I didn't want them to think I can't take care of anything. I-I was going to take it in if no one said it wasn't a problem, really...

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[fony]

[As they speak, the Ditto in question is currently pretending to be a pillow out of the camera's range of vision. It has a face. Luke hasn't noticed yet.]

...Uh, right. I'll check my furniture before I leave.

You got it back though, right?

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[paladinlost]

...More or less. Considering how Pokémon breed, I'm not even certain that whatever happens between them can even be called that. And to be honest, even if it can I'd rather not know the details.

[He broke his own mind too many times trying to figure it out. He's not doing it again.]