Dorm Log: the millionth revenge

[raw_angel_power]

Who: smosh ocodomy
What: Dorm log! SUMMER BREAK EDITION!
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus. Everything is acceptable.
When: The span of July 11 - July 22
Warnings: Imagine college, only with more super mushrooms-- WAIT NO lollipop drugs are the craze these days.

Ripped off the last one and all its friends: Basically, here's what's going down. We all know our characters experience downtime after classes and their busy schedules, and this is a good venue for those kinds of miscellaneous dorm-shenanigans to take place. Not only does it give your characters the easy chance to meet new people in a laid-back environment, but it's a good mechanism for strengthening CR. It's easy!

Feel free to begin in any way you please! Plan with (a) fellow player(s) if you'd like! Or, set up a thread and wait for characters to bite! Whatever you want. It can all be yours if you make a thread. So have at it! Don't let this log get away untagged.

Keep in mind that starting the 17th, the school will progressively be inundated with flood waters.


Directory
Ai | Apple Kid | Blacky | Blaze | Blue | Bowser | Bulba | Byrne | Caim | Casey | Charlise/Kitty | Chili | Chell | Chun Li | Cress | Daisy | Doopliss | Duster | | Eikichi | Eggman | Eli | Evve | Falcon | Flint | Flurrie | Garry | Goombella | Jet | Jolt | Jon | Kanji | Kazooie | Kumatora | Lash | Link (SS) | Link (OoT) | Mac | Marie | Marth | Mary | Max | Mio | N | Nabooru | Naoto | Nephenee | Peacock | Phoenix | Raiden | Rick | Riwane | R.O.B. | Rhys | Sable | Samus | "Seth" | Shadow | Sig | Silver | Skull Kid | Sonic | Sophie | Snake | Vianca | Voile | Watt | Wheatley | Zelda (SS)

Comments

[dothelokomotion]

"Ah, it's a Pokemon thing," he responded, finally getting what it stood for. Pokemon trainers apparently had a team of Pokemon that battled one another, though Byrne knew so little about it. It sounded like a form of slavery to him, but apparently it was not.

"Fine, you may have strong Pokemon," he acknowledged, "But that's useless if you don't have your own strength. Pokemon will not help you in my class."

[makesithot]

"Yeah look at my strong Pokémon!" sed Chili and Pansear came out and was a weak baby monkey "YEAH SO STROOOONG!!!!! how am i a gym leader"

He placed a hand on his hip. "I know that! My Pokémon are strong... but..." He was letting them down, he'd already decided. Chili knew he couldn't be a reliable trainer without matching the vitality of Pansear, and that was what he was here to study for.

"I want to be strong, like them! It's me who needs the work." Did that even make any sense? Chili wasn't sure. "What I mean is, I can't let my friends down anymore just because I wasn't fast enough, or strong enough, or smart enough..." He frequently let Pansear and Lillipup down for not having faith in their combination as a team, and he let Cress down by mistrusting him and... getting himself killed. "...And I don't want to be the one that falls behind! That can get you k-killed." He stuttered. Chili didn't often stutter, and even he noticed the trip in his words. It left a bad taste in his mouth.

[dothelokomotion]

Normally Byrne would have shrugged off those words, but today that last phrase hit a nerve in him. Fall behind and you get killed... If Byrne hadn't let himself get captured somehow, if he had paid more attention... He had grown too cocky, it seemed, and whatever had happened in that laboratory was obviously attempting to teach him a lesson.

"Indeed it can," he said. "And overconfidence can get you killed as well."

And Byrne knew that he suffered from overconfidence, letting it get the best of him multiple times. He was lucky he survived this long, but once he got into the rush of his own power, it was difficult not to feel secure in his abilities.

"Your Pokemon won't always be there to protect you," he stated darkly. As a lone wolf, Byrne never fought amongst companions, never relied on others to defend him. It was a skill worth having.

[makesithot]

Overconfidence, too, was something he felt might have contributed to his own death. He'd been challenging the situation as if it were a mere game, engaging in petty sibling rivalry over the matter when in reality, its consequences - the tests - weighed more than it seemed he could handle. He averted his gaze.

"Of course," Chili agreed. In the laboratory, he didn't have his Pokémon with him. He had Cress. They were usually so renowned for being in sync with each other, but even then, they messed up. "You're probably implying that I should learn to handle my own, even without anyone's help, and... I'm going to! Really!"

[dothelokomotion]

Byrne nodded. Whether or not the boy was serious was yet to be determined. But, he said his piece. Byrne didn't care one way or another whether this kid got himself killed, but he upheld what little moral responsibility he had by telling the kid how to improve himself.

"Yes, that's what I said. And that's what you should do."