genessia | —even I wasn't prepared for a faceful of raccoon

screaming, possible action for any responders; Genessia Commonspace
[For anyone still residing in the commonspace, if you aren't already awake today, you get a completely unintentional wake-up call: a loud girlish shriek that sounds like it may be more out of surprise than anything, followed by an equally-audible stammering that may or may not include "what", "where'd you—", "how'd you get in here", "sora mea what is going on", and "nonono get off" among other things.]

video; Celia's room in the Commonspace
[When the feed comes on, not long after her yelling, Celia's lying on her bed, on her stomach and sporting a new hat. Unfortunately for her, said hat happens to be half her weight, and it's pinning her down onto her bed and pressing the bottom half of her face into a pillow with its front paws. She looks simultaneously slightly annoyed and very, very confused. When she speaks, her voice is slightly muffled, because pillow.]

This thing woke me up an' I got no idea where it came from. [Somebody never actually found her egg; it's more like the egg found her without her really noticing it.] It's kinda cute an' all, but can anyone tell me what is an' what am I supposed to do with it?

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It looks like a Zigzagoon...

[ But.. the commonspace is so small, there's barely any space to hide anything.. Weiss looks doubtful. She's judgin'. ]

It probably came from your egg. [ Please tell her you knew about the egg. It seems like logic to assume the animal came from the egg to her so please prove her wrong. ]

[Celia is bad at paying attention. Like, a lot of the time. She's working on it, but feel free to judge in the meantime.]

Eh? But I didn't have— [The timing couldn't be more perfect for it to drop a slightly-chewed piece of shell down between her face and the phone.]

What.

[ Oh she'll judge all she pleases. ]

You're in the smallest rooms with basically zero hiding places, how did you miss a giant egg?

[Well, she's looking a bit upset with herself now. She knows she has problems with paying attention and staying focused and some other things, but really, how did she miss that? If it was big enough to have a Zigzagoon in it then there's no way she should have, not in a room like this one.]

[ Sorry, Weiss has no sympathy for air-headedness. ]

Are you serious?

[Well, now Celia feels like there's nowhere to go but down.]

Yes. [She may as well admit it.] Think whatever y'want of me, but sometimes I jus' don't notice stuff, even when I really should. I've been workin' on that since before I woke up here, but obviously not hard enough, an' I know I'm gonna need to get better if I expect t'do anything 'round here. [It's much easier when she has things to actively focus on, reasons to actually pay attention. Zigzagoon will probably help with that one way or another, and then if or when she finds herself some work, there'll be that, too, though that does suddenly feel like a really big "if".

She pauses for a moment, not sure what else to say, then remembers that Weiss did answer one of the questions she asked.]

Thanks for tellin' me what this little guy's called, though. I do appreciate that.

[ Yeah, she's not going to go into that. The girl obviously knows she needs to improve and she's not going to congratulate her, but she's not going to feel bad about judging her for it either. But at least the topic can change. ]

You can typically name them and they'll respond to their names as well.

That would be a pokemon! Lovely creature; so intelligent I'm tempted to say they have souls. They can understand our speech, though, sadly, it only goes one way.

As for what to do...ah, probably find another living space for starters. The Commonspace, alas, frowns upon pets.

After that, there's the usual with pets. There's also beauty contests, and violent contests! I'm told they all have some passion with the latter. Mine certainly do.

[It does?

Actually yeah, she does remember that being mentioned somewhere now, probably when she was flipping through the pamphlet and all when she first arrived.] Y...eah maybe I should. [But where? She'd want a place somewhere close by to wherever she ends up working, and she hasn't yet gotten around to going and following up on the suggestions she'd received; this little guy getting in her face this morning was quite an effective distraction from that.]

And contests, huh? [Beauty contests, well, maybe if she could keep this critter cleaned up? But she's ten different kinds of unsure about making anything fight without having actual reason to.]

Unless you've lucked into a ghost pokemon! I'm sure those can go through walls or make themselves invisible, or some such suitable subtlety.

[But she hasn't, so it's back to basics and cleaning pokepoop. Some people have all the luck.]

Certainly. Practically all of them rather thrive on roughhousing. I don't mind teaching you the basics, if you like.

It's suppose to be your friend, if that makes sense. What you do with your new friend has a longer list of possibilities.

[Fai wondered of he really needed anymore pokemon... the answer is yes. he will be the crazy pokemon man.]

Edited 2017-03-25 15:55 (UTC)

So whatever we—mmn?! [She's interrupted by Zigzagoon deciding that now would be a good time to lean forward for a closer look at the phone that she's holding. It's still sitting on her, front half parked right on her head, so the increased pressure from it leaning forward presses the girl's face fully into the pillow. She jerks herself to one side to make the thing roll off and onto the bed, and sits herself up properly so it can't do that again.] Don't do that, okay!

[It seems pretty amused.]

But uh.

Pretty much whatever we can figure out, then? [So she'll need to find out what this thing likes to do that isn't it being a pain in the butt, and go from there.]

Edited (re-organized one sentence for better readability) 2017-03-27 01:18 (UTC)

Yes. For me I keep them as friends and companions for the most part. They fight, sure but they seem to enjoy that from time to time. it helps them grow and level up.

—even I wasn't prepared for a faceful of raccoon

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