foolishwren | 79. [Video/Action] Backdated to the morning of October 1st!

_{[So what's the best thing for someone who's been spending their time alternately fretting and pretending not to be fretting over circumstances well beyond their control?]

[A) More fretting
B) Meditation
C) A DISTRACTION]

[If anyone answered anything other than C, they're either very silly, or Cooper.]

[Heather is neither (.... okay, maybe she's the former quite often), so needless to say... when the posters for the Johto-wide fighting tournament going on in Goldenrod City hit the streets, they were the first thing to catch her eye. In fact, anyone spending any amount of time with her in person has probably noticed the way she's been stopping in the middle of whatever she was doing every single time she passes one of the damn things to look at it contemplatively, with a cocked head and a sort of half-wistful, half-devilish look in her eye.]

[As such, nobody whatsoever should be surprised when she pops up on the network on the day of signups ending with one of the flyers in hand. She'd been waffling on account of the fact that her father was sure do disapprove, but... man, she's been spoiling for something like this for months, and she's got... more than a little steam to blow off. Steam that isn't always so easy to blow off in a world where society expects you to resolve all your conflicts by letting animals do your fighting for you.]}

YO Johto, what's the happs?

_{[She grins broadly and then flourishes the poster at the screen.]}

Guys. Guys. Look.

Look at this.

Best thing ever, or BEST thing ever?

Who else's gonna sign up?

I'M gonna. ... Assuming the puppy-eyes work on Dad, I guess. They're a little rusty but I was once the puppy-eyes champion so I should be okay. And for anybody weirded out by the surreal idea of ME doing puppy-eyes, ask yourselves this: how ELSE could I have gotten away with all the crazy crap you totally know I got up to as a kid?

_{[A sly, knowing nod.]}

Yeah, makes more sense now, doesn't it.

ANYWAY.

_{[Another flourish of the poster.]}

So if any of you are planning on being in this thing, gimme a shout! I wanna size up the competition and stuff. ... And also, transportation? I'm in Ecruteak, so... if anyone's in the area, I guess we could carpool, or something? _{[She's not opposed to the idea of leaping on a strange Pidgeot if she HAS TO, buuuuut...]} I mean, the Tournament isn't supposed to LAST too long, so I'm guessin' we'd all only be gone for like... what, a week or two at most? Then I'd be headed back to Ecruteak because seriously, nice place.

Anyway... _{[She trails off, eyes flicking off to the side of the screen.]} I'd better go convince Dad that I won't die if I do this. _{[Eyes back to the screen, she gives a somber, soldier-like nod and salutes solemnly.]} Wish me luck, my people.

_{[BOOP. End feed.]

[TIME TO GO FIND DAD.]}

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Are you the fastest of them all?

Only when being chased by fangirls!

[[Well. Not that he's ever even gotten the nerve to RUN from them, but he's wanted to. Ooooh has he wanted to.]]

... Fangirls.

Really?

Some of them are pretty terrifying!

[[seriously, when are NOT good with girls, having a gaggle of them latch on to you and drag you around is bad enough, but when one of them gets an Idea...

It's like being the main character of a harem anime. And when you didn't even LIKE girls...

Worse nightmare. Not even getting into the guys in the school getting angry because you have a fan club!]]

_{[Oh don't worry, Heather KNOWS what it's like to have terrifying fans... coughSTANLEYcough.]}

Don't worry, I believe you, I'm just-- ...

_{[... SURPRISED HE HAS FANGIRLS.]}

... What do they fangirl over?

Are you a celebrity back home or something.

Not at all! I think it's just because of how I look... [[which he really doesn't get]]

... Hm.

You are kinda... willowy. Some girls go for that.

But I look like a wimp... [[and like a girl, as Ryuzaki oh-so-helpfully had pointed out as if he didn't already know]]

Well, uh ...

_{[She tries to think of some reassuring words.]}

... Some girls go for that.

I really don't understand girls at all...

If it makes y'feel any better, I'm pretty sure most of us don't understand boys, either.

[[That gets a bit of a smile there]]

A little. I'm just really glad girls here are different! The only fanclub I have to worry about is the pokemon one for my hair!

[[There's a cheerful "Pip!" from one of the charter members of that who's currently just off screen perched in his fluff]]

Sounds like you just found a rash of annoying ones back home.

We're not all like that, I promise.

I think I somehow just attracted them back home! There was only one or two per school I managed to even get to know who were like normal people. [[and by 'normal' he means the slightly tomboyish ones. The type Heather fit in very well.]]

Well, some is better than none, I guess.

Un! I keep hoping someday I'll get to a school where the normal girls outnumber the fangirls. Or at least one where the fangirls are going after someone else! Though Jounouchi-kun has finally managed to chase most of them off. [[A bit of an impish smile there.]] Now most of them follow Otogi-kun around instead, and he doesn't seem to mind at all.

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