foolishwren | 101. [Text] (backdated to the 23rd)

okay listen up you weedles, I was going through a bunch of old photos stored on this thing and found this one I forgot about from like idk a few months ago or maybe a year or something

it's starter appreciation day so it seemed appropriate to just say a few words or something about that ugly orange thing in the picture with me

okay so first of all
i hate dogs
like
i fuckin HATE them, okay. I always have
I also hate FIRE
Fire and dogs are basically like the top two things on my hate list
so when you take that into account, Cujo the Growlithe is essentially an overlapping circle graph of everything i hate



needless to say, when they gave me HIM on top of all the interdimensional kidnapping and shit it basically felt like this:



except he was some kinda huge mutation or something 
so
i mean
really




like seriously let's take a look at this majestic animal



unlike that other picture, nothing in this one is an exaggeration everything you see is the bare naked truth, like speaking of naked i have no idea how he loses so much hair (on me) every single day and yet still looks like the unholy baby of a tiger and a dusty bunny that lives on the cutting-room floor of a Muppet movie

so yea what I'm trying to say is that i was SUPER DUPER THRILLED at being told i was going to have to go on a magical adventure with this thing. like it'd be one thing if he minded his own business and stayed away from me but



what made it even worse is the fact that i am pretty sure this dog has like two fucking brain cells, i don't think dogs are supposed to be like this



anyway i would draw more of the retarded stuff he does but i think you get the general idea. he is basically the stupidest thing on the planet

so it probably goes without saying that for a long time i basically hated him. he was always up in my space and as i said before, i fuckin hate dogs. his hair got all over my clothes. he was heavy and knocked me down and chewed on my shoes and constantly ran away and got me in trouble because he knocked OTHER people down and chewed on THEIR shoes and to top it all off he'd light things on fucking fire



so what you're all probably thinking is, wow, she clearly hates this poor animal, so was that picture at the beginning photoshopped at something

i'm not even actually sure if they have photoshop here but the answer is NO

you see, after a few months of just generally trying to ignore him, some shit happened and i learned something
despite the colossal asshole i'd been, he stuck with me and protected me anyway. like seriously i was pretty much the most gigantic douchenozzle towards him but he was basically too stupid and nice to care, and things like that deserve someone who actually treats them decent

because seriously i probably would have died if it weren't for him

so yeah uh three years later, here we are

love ya, you stupid stinky dog




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[ She's like that character in a children's TV show that spouts some thinly veiled moral before disappearing in a cloud of sparkles and bunny crap. ]

Yes, but I've seen a few people that capture another pokémon and then release their starter. Or, similarly, they box them eternally. It could have been a possibility for you at any moment, yet, you did not do so.

_{[Obviously she needs to be someone's fairy godmother.]}

well...

_{[She's got no real justification for keeping him. She's not really sure why she did, sometimes.]}

I dunno

most people seem to keep their starters.

I mean kicking it out into the wild, that's cold man

besides, if i'd tried that he'd probably have just followed me

[ But she's already Heather's!!! ]

Yes, but that's why you use the PC. They're dropped off somewhere within the next town or two and it's often impossible to find them. But, knowing your luck, he would end up finding you. It's nice to know that you find it cold, along with permanent boxing to never deal with them again?

even if I don't like someone the thought of stuffing them in a box for the rest of their lives is fucked up

_{[She'd once spent seven years strapped to a hospital bed, her only escape from it being either wheeled around in a wheelchair or fleeing into her own mind. Even if a PC box isn't the same thing, that sort of confinement isn't something she'd wish on anybody.]}

Edited 2013-03-03 20:46 (UTC)

Hm? And why is that? It's never proven that the box is ultimately a cruel place, nor do they have recognition that they're in the box. For all we know, the pokéball sends them to the same exact result.

[ Lust isn't seeing the big deal. Sometimes, some pokemon just need to be boxed. It's like, discipline. ]

no matter how nice a room is, being stuck in it forever sucks

Agreed. So, what do you do with the pokémon you can't take with you?

[ Does she just constantly rotate them in and out? I mean, I guess that'd make sense but talk about time consuming. ]

i just make sure they get some fresh air every so often

obviously when I travel most of them have to stay in the box, but i don't always travel with the same Pokemon every time

I do the same thing. I usually pick names out of a hat to decide my roster and try to make sure they're all within ten levels of each other. One pokémon that refuses to be boxed stays with me the entire time, although, I have been forceful enough to keep him boxed for multiple reasons.

what reasons are those?

He is rather intimidating to have near children, as I have discovered through previous circumstance. He's also clingy, hostile and haughty and, sometimes, if I need to be productive, those traits can be a hassle. So, from time to time, he has to be boxed for more cooperative pokémon. That, and, I don't want to end up being Officer Jenny's latest fascination because I have a rabid Sneasel as a partner.

...oh

jeez


yeah i guess i'd probably wanna keep him in the box most of the time too

I don't keep him in the box most of the time. Despite his rather fierce disposition, he is my starter and he's not awful to have permitting that there's solitude, or people that he deems tolerable.

i guess that makes sense

i'm glad cujo isn't picky about company

He seems like the type to not be fussy about anything.

not really

as long as he's fed he's a pretty happy animal

You don't say. They say food is the quickest way to get to someone's heart. I think I'd know from first hand experience. [ Damn Gluttony! ]

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