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"... So I just talk? I start talking? .... Now? ... What's the light mean? ... Oh! HI, I'M WRATH, THIS IS MY MAIL VOICE, PLEASE LEAVE A--" BEEP.

[OOC: Want to thread with me but don't have a current post to do it on? Wanna send Wrath a private message? Wanna prank-call him in the middle of the night and then instantly regret it as he dials you back over and over and yells "Hello? HELLO?" into the mic? Pop a thread on here with the IC date and time and let's get playing!]

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The new recruits get the same species of Pokemon. But the variety we steal is much more than those basic species.

Have you been in the Labs?

[ He couldn't lie...but he could ignore the question. A grand achievement for Walter ]

No. I work in the field.

Tell me why you're asking these questions!

_{[He remembers how it was when Lust turned traitor. It started with questions. Sloth told him so.]}

You're my superior. If I have questions, I was told to ask you.

You couldn't answer all that I asked last time, so I thought I would keep my questions simpler this time.

Well, I'm not an Admin.

I don't have the answer to everything.

_{[He sounds defensive, because he kind of is. In many ways Wrath is a naiive boy. But he knows Walter isn't asking him these questions out of innocent curiosity.]}

I'm aware. You will refuse to answer, if I ask the same questions I did last time.

Why do you keep certain Pokemon for yourself, Wrath, instead of handing them all over to the Admins and to the team? [ He knows that Wrath has kept Pokemon for himself. But was there any rhyme or reason to it? ]

I keep the ones I like! Or the ones that the Admins give to me!

_{[Because he hadn't exactly chosen to keep Dirty.]}

I see.

[ He gives Wrath a moment as he thinks that over. It fitted with what he had seen of Wrath's team. ]

You do not ask many questions of Team Rocket yourself. You simply do as told.

Yes!

_{[He says this emphatically, as though Walter had finally gotten the correct answer to a math question.]}

I do what I'm told!

That's what you do in a team! You all do what you're told and everything works out!

And if you don't, you get punished because that's not what you do in a team!

So you do not think about what you want, unless it is what Pokemon you keep for yourself. Nor do you think about what it is we do.

If they asked you to take my Pokemon as a punishment, or to steal Envy's Pokemon, you would do it. For the Team.

They wouldn't.

They wouldn't tell us to steal from ourselves.

_{[And Envy... well... well... Wrath has never been commanded to steal from any one specific person. He's always been able to choose who, even if he couldn't simply choose not to steal.]

[The fact that he has to think about it at all rankles him, though, and he's scowling now.]}

That wouldn't make any sense.

Yet, a Team Rocket member have attempted to steal my Pokemon, in the Headquarters. When I last brought that up, you ignored it.

And Envy?

[ He didn't cover that part at all. ]

_{[The boy's nostrils flare. He doesn't really have the vocabulary to put words to what he knows Walter is doing. It's frustrating-- because Wrath has a lot of strong feelings about things, and not a whole lot of language to describe them with.]

[The curse of being technically being a three year old with little to no understanding of the world.]}

Did the admins tell that Team Rocket member to steal your Pokemon? Or were they just being mean? Some team members are mean, you know. That doesn't mean that we're supposed to steal from each other.

And I can steal from Envy.

I've done it before.

_{[He'd been caught and forced to give back the wallet pretty much immediately. Which is actually a big reason why he's not worried about it-- the thought of Team Rocket being able to actually harm Envy or his Pokemon doesn't even compute in his head. Envy's just too powerful.]}

But they wouldn't ask me to.

Why would they? There are plenty of strong Pokemon out there to steal without going to ONE specific person!

And anyway, you're not even listening to me. You're just asking questions you already decided you know! Because-- _{[He pauses, searching for a reason why Walter could possibly have decided to hate Team Rocket. The 'hurting and mistreating Pokemon and people' bit doesn't occur to him-- that's all he's ever known and all he's ever been used for. So instead...]} --because you don't like me anymore!

_{[Yeah that's totally it.]}

[ Walter shook his head. ]

I do not dislike you, Wrath. I still enjoy your company. You're not mean to me. But I want you to think about what we do for Team Rocket, and if it is what you want to do.

[ If he truly disliked Wrath, he wouldn't be pushing him like this. He'd be finding loopholes to annoy and anger the Admins themselves. Which he was but in a more subtle way. He thinks, choosing his next words carefully. ]

You never answered why I should be loyal to people who would be mean to me. I was loyal to a group once who were like that. They hurt me often. They put me into very small cells. And they hurt every person I'd known. So I repaid them for both their kindness, and their cruelty. [ He completed the ritual in return for them providing him with food and shelter at the orphanage. And he used them for it, to repay for his suffering at their hands. ]

_{[The boy puffs as Walter speaks. He looks livid, but he doesn't interrupt. Walter has a calm and decisive way of talking that makes it difficult to.]

[The things Walter describes are not alien to him-- no, those words make perfect sense to Wrath, he already knew that they both came from cruel masters. The part he doesn't understand is why Walter would choose to dislike their new team when it was comparatively so much better! HOW????]

[When he does speak, it's short and angry, breathless. He pauses sometimes, struggling with the words.]}

Because if you're not loyal, they're even meaner. Why would you want that?

Here they don't put us in small cells or hurt us. They don't even ask us to kill humans!

They take care of me and tell me I'm good when I do my missions. It's not like the team I was in before-- we were always hurting.

But to them I'm good. They say so. They say, 'Good job, Private Wrath!' sometimes. That's not like my old team either-- even if we did as we were told, we were still bad and not real. I was always scared. So I don't give them a reason to do that! It's not hard! I just do my job!

THAT'S why I'm loyal.

Because maybe I was good all along and my old master was wrong and Team Rocket is right.

Why would I give that up?

That would be stupid!

Disloyalty is stupid!

[ Walter paid clear attention to Wrath, still remaining calm. When he spoke, his voice was soft, and he was clearly taking time to think his words carefully. ]

Wrath, I can't speak for how you were before I met you. I do not mean that you were bad, or not real - but because I was the same. I killed other people. For most, I felt nothing. For others... [ He shook his head slowly. This wasn't the time. He continued, a little slower as this was still difficult for him to say. ] But...I think you are good. You care for your Pokemon, and treat them well. And...you have been good company with me. I'm not...good, at this. At expressing this. But I told you before that your memories are yours. I think you are real. ...You matter. If you didn't matter to me, I wouldn't talk to you about this.

Team Rocket are like our old masters. Not to us. To the Pokemon we steal for them. They hurt them greatly, Wrath. They put them in little cells for months. It does not matter, if a Pokemon is obedient or loyal. When they cannot use it anymore, when it is too broken to give them anything, they maim it so they can sell it's body parts and abandon what is left.

I'm tired of it. Of being told to hurt things, because I 'have to', or because I might be punished. And there is another way.

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oof sorry for the lateness

I lost this reply twice fffffffff