Function (2) - Anonymous Text / Action for Violet City

[ladywithnovoice]

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What do you think is worse:

Someone who hurts other people for their own selfish reasons and admits it?

Or

Someone who hurts other people but says it's for a good cause?


- Starly

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[It's been a long treck to get here, and one can find Red by Sprout Tower just sitting by the water and tossing bread out to the local Duckletts. Two Growlithe and an Electrike are napping around her. They've just finished a long journey so they're allowed to relax.]

[It's a rather peaceful scene, if you can ignore the Kricketot that might suddenly run up to you with its antennae clicking together.]

Comments

[dressofheaven]

Because there's no one to prove they're lies until it's too late. If then.

[ladywithnovoice]

I can understand that. By the time you realize what's going on, everything's already snowballing... right?

- Starly

[dressofheaven]

Or it's already crashed and burned. And even then, sometimes people don't learn the lesson they should.

[ladywithnovoice]

"It's not what I meant to do".

- Starly

[dressofheaven]

Exactly. They think they made a misstep somewhere along the way, or blame someone else for interfering. They don't stop to think that maybe what they were trying to do was a bad idea in the first place.

Then again, for most of those sort of people I'm not sure they'd be able to cope with that.

[ladywithnovoice]

[...There may or may not by a few minutes pause longer than normal as Miss Starly reads that.]

It's definitely a much bigger mistake than losing a trinket from a friend.

You really think they wouldn't be able to get it?

[dressofheaven]

[That's okay, she'll just sit there and seethe at recently reopened old wounds for a bit.

She just ignores the trinket comparison. What she's thinking of is quite a bit harsher than that.]

Well... I shouldn't say it's completely impossible, but if someone really believes what they're doing is right, it's usually really hard to get them to think otherwise. It's not like they want to listen to you.

[ladywithnovoice]

I guess not. It sounds like a complicated mental loop to me.

[dressofheaven]

That's about right. And breaking it is hard. You need to really know the person to even have a chance at it. Sometimes even that's not enough.

[ladywithnovoice]

Have you ever seen it happen?

[dressofheaven]

No. I've known two people like that, and to the best of my knowledge neither of them ever really changed.

[ladywithnovoice]

That's a shame.

[dressofheaven]

What about you?

[ladywithnovoice]

I've never really had to deal with it before.

[dressofheaven]

Really? Then what made you think to ask about them?

[ladywithnovoice]

This place has a habit of switching things around... is one way of putting it.

[Not that she's really been here long enough to say what's habit and what's not... But that feels like something obvious just by the fact that they're all here and not home.]

[dressofheaven]

Switched around? That makes it sound like you are the person hurting people for some sort of cause. Or, were, I suppose.

[ladywithnovoice]

I think, if I had to classify myself, I'd be more in the first group than the second.

Things just weren't looking good where I was. Now here I am with a lot of thoughts I didn't really think I'd have the time to think about.

[dressofheaven]

I suppose that's a fairly common thing here. After all, unless Team Rocket's acting up it's a very calm world.

[ladywithnovoice]

Team Rocket... I've heard that name around, but who exactly are they?

[dressofheaven]

A criminal group, dedicated to capturing and exploiting Pokemon. They particularly like to take trained Pokemon from the trainers they defeat.

[ladywithnovoice]

And let me guess- it's been hard to put a stop to them and not a lot is known?

[dressofheaven]

Why however did you guess?

There's some opposition, but honestly the police are a bit useless here.

[ladywithnovoice]

Reassuring.

So what do people do against them?

[dressofheaven]

Band together. Avoid spots where they feel vulnerable. Train such powerful teams that they feel more secure.