smash_logs | herei come snep run over your pokmens

Who: Kieran, Captain Falcon, the medbay squad, and YOU
What: Some idiot deer gets hit by a car and proceeds to moron it up all over the joint.
Where: Directly outside the school, then in the infirmary, then EVERYWHERE
When: Thursday, March 8
Warnings: Deer Xing

What was this place?

Kieran had never before left the comforting embrace of the forest. To see the trees entirely absent, replaced by these strange, perfectly rectangular... caves? It was... disquieting. The paths were full of those peculiar two-legged creatures, casting him odd stares and jostling against him as they hurried to wherever their destination was. It was so different from the forest in every single way... a part of Kieran couldn't help but wonder if someone he had wandered right out of the mortal realm entirely. It was starting to make him nervous; he felt oddly exposed without the cover of the trees all around him.

He... he needed to get out of here. Wherever this was, he wasn't ready for it. He pushed his way out of the crowded sidewalk, bounded out into the road. His hooves scrabbled for purchase on the oddly smooth surface, but if there was one thing Kieran could do, it was run.

[OOC: I am setting aside a thread for WHUMP, CARFACE and also one for the infirmary. For the rest of the log, Kieran will be exploring this wondrous magical place called the school. Feel free to post your character anywhere -- cafeteria, dorms, in the shower -- and Kieran will just... butt on in to say hello.]

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Very much so! The season that you are attuned to is something that steers your entire life. Not just your personality, but your role in the herd, your strength, who you should choose as a mate when the rut comes. I imagine it must be different for those who don't care quite so much about the turning of nature's wheel, though.

[He would shrug if that were a thing a quadruped could actually do. Anyway, you probably don't want your primo basking space looking all sparse, so he's gonna drift a little ways away to paw some slush out of the way and do some grazing there.]

You must be younger than you look! I suppose you won't be ready to learn your kind's rites for a few years, then?

Mmm, I guess! I wonder what would happen if you guys had two evolutions though. Would it count for multiple facets...?

[Why yes he was maybe a little curious for his own sake. It was an interesting concept!

He appreciated the fact that you weren't going to eat his whole spot. There was the awkward topic though. It wouldn't have been so awkward a year or two ago. As happy as Bulba was with how his life went sofar (which was more or less Pretty Happy despite recent events), he still felt... Well he felt a bit out of place next to those that were real children of the forest. However that went.

It wasn't the best feeling to feel like an outsider with your own kind, but there you had it.]

Oh... I'm not sure I'll get to know them properly at all. I wasn't raised in the forest like other saurs.

What a question! I've never had to consider that, since... well, we couldn't evolve twice if we tried. I suppose that would mean that who you are would change completely unless you evolved during the same season both times!

[He lowered his head to nibble up some more lunch, but then Bulba spoke up again, and Kieran immediately looked up. A child of the forest who wasn't raised in the forest? Bulba might as well have announced he simply blinked into existence in the center of a black hole.]

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard! How have you managed to survive this long without knowing the forest?

[Well huh. Bulba could sort of see how part of that made sense, since Pokemon changed a little bit each time they evolved. He was definitely different from when he was a Bulbasaur. How much of the difference came from life and how much was affected by the season, Bulba had no idea. He didn't know what would make one season one thing and not another.

Yeah there we go. Bulba idly stretched his claws out through the grass, lightly scratching at the soil below.]

I've always had Green with me! He's my trainer. I didn't think I needed anything else other than him. I didn't know I was missing it either.

[Didn't know he was missing the forest! Another statement Kieran has difficulty wrapping his head around. It's like never having that seed on his back at birth, and announcing he never knew he was missing his flower. This really was a very different realm.]

I'm relieved you've found something to fill the absence, but... I didn't understand what any of that is, Bulba.

[This was an uncomfortable conversation. Bulba's ears perked up in surprise of his own disregard. Of course Kieran didn't understand, he had just told him that he didn't know anything beyond the forest. Way to go, Bulba.]

Oh! Sorry... um... Green is my human's name. That other form you have now, that's a human form in case you didn't know. He's... I guess you could call him the leader of my herd?

Oh! That, I understand. Then you're not as alone as I thought! That's very good.

[Let's have some more grass to celebrate. Good stuff, man.]

I've never heard of a herd that's ruled by a spirit, but I suppose it's not so unusual. My own herd has adopted Stantlers, and every summer the Jumpluff stay with us for a while, so they may gather our news. Maybe this realm isn't so completely different from the forest!

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