005. [Video]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[For what is possibly the FIRST TIME since this kid figured out how to hit the 'post' button, the video is actually STILL.]

[That's because he's set it down on a fence post. The pale, mystical feathers that have been coating every surface like magical dandelion fluff are drifting past on the breeze, but they're not the focus of the video. Instead, the 'Gear's camera seems to be pointed directly into someone's yard, although it's from a little bit of a distance.]

[The place is kind of a dump, with junk littering the corners and lots of weeds. A ramshackle doghouse is erected in the middle, with an upturned waterbowl that doesn't appear to have been filled in some time.]

[A coil of old, frayed rope is tied around one of the boards of the 'house' and at the end of it is a snoozing blue Vaporeon, ear-fins twitching lightly.]

[The view isn't especially zoomed in, but it's still obvious what the Pokemon is.]

[For a time, that's all the video shows.]

[But then Wrath speaks, his voice hushed.]</sub>


... I saw the man in that house come home and he didn't even PET her.

Or give her any food.

She looks sad.



[Half an hour later...]



_{[Now the feed shows HIM, and there's part of a rotten board stuck in his hair. And rope twines in his teeth. And he is cradling something blue that kind of overflows out of his arms in a pile of contented paws and fins.]}

This is Sleepy.

She's blue and I love her.

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[video]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[HMMMM, WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY REMIND HER OF?]

[Wrath laughs, so very pleased with himself.]</sub>

Nope! That guy didn't!

<sub>[.... And then he realizes what he just said, and claps his hands over his mouth.]

[O O P S]</sub>

[video]

[scoutingangel]

[... O O P S indeed, because that's really not an answer she's expecting to get and this isn't locked. Not for now anyway. Quick thinking. She could give him a talk about how doing it that way is wrong, or she could try to -- not get him into trouble for the sudden confession. Welp, let's see if the kid can play along with this.]

Not that he'd need one if you just adopted her from him.

[Because we can pretend that that's totally what happened there.]

[video]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[Wrath might fumble the proverbial ball sometimes, but he is quick on the uptake.]

[So after only the briefest confused looks, realization dawns in his eyes and he hastily scrambles to answer.]</sub>

Oh!

Oh, yes.

I 'dopted her.

[video]

[scoutingangel]

I see, that's good. [it's one way to play with a kid, orz. but honestly, she's curious about Eevee evolutions, so]

Do you happen to know much about Vaporeons?

[video]

[garbagechild]

_{[He shakes his head.]}

Nuh uh.

Is that what Sleepy is?

I thought she was a catfish.

_{[Or a 'blue tube dog', depending on whichever sounded better at the time.]}

[video]

[scoutingangel]

[...Ah. Well then...]

Mm~hmm, I think so?

[What a good answer. Time to try fixing it a bit because she means...]

She looks like the water-type evolution of Eevee, aka Vaporeon if you ask me. Not that I've ever seen one live before.

[video]

[garbagechild]

Oh.

What's a Eevee?

[video]

[scoutingangel]

[ . . .Ohhhhhhhhhh.]

This~ [She lifts something from the ground, when she's back on screen... Well it's more like she's not exactly back on it as she's holding an Eevee and it's taking the full screen.]

is an Eevee. [a very cheerful looking one too, sounds like it says hello to the kid!]

[video]

[garbagechild]

--OH!

Oh, I've seen those!

You mean Sleepy looked like that when she was a baby?

[video]

[scoutingangel]

Yeah, that's what I mean. And then she or her owners from back then -- or they both together, decided on her evolution since that evolution is given to a pokemon with an item and not with just leveling up.

[video]

[garbagechild]

Ohhh!

I didn't know that.

Well she's very pretty now. I like blue better than brown.