tuesday week 13 ☆ interrogate cynthia club

[divinedescendant]

[Emmeryn spends the earliest part of the week floating the idea of getting everyone together at once, less in a way like she's taking a poll and more like this is totally happening so get your thoughts together ahead of time—and Tuesday late in the afternoon she gathers everyone, Lucas and Cynthia included, in the Pokémon Center. Better that they all hear the answers together, she figures; better that Cynthia doesn't have to answer the same question twenty-odd times, is how she presents it to her beforehand, while apologizing for asking her to be at the center of things like that. It all comes together regardless, one way or another.

So! Here we are in the Pokémon Center; maybe it's kind of a tight fit but, y'know, worse has happened. Worse will probably happen again in the future if we're being completely honest with ourselves. Duma, about as useful as ever, stands half-asleep at Emmeryn's feet.]

Thank you so much for agreeing to come see us all like this, Cynthia. We have quite a bit of catching up to do, don't we?

[floor's yours everyone please don't make emmeryn have to put on her babysitting hat]

Comments

[azumods]

Not precisely. It was banished from this world by the Creator.

[...So, yeah.]

[semistableman]

[......................]

Oh, so it's Satan. Is that all.

[azumods]

[She just kind of...blinks a little at that?]

I...don't understand, sweetheart. "Satan"?

[semistableman]

[He shrugs.]

Adversary of God.

It's kind of complicated, I guess? But the point is that Satan is an evil entity, in some religions.

[He's definitely explaining it like someone who doesn't want to get it, though.]

[azumods]

...I wouldn't say it's an adversary. Honestly, our legends surrounding it are all a bit unclear, because not much is known about it. But it's said that it will protect the region, should the time come for it - however, the toll will be unpleasant.

[semistableman]

Was it banished for being violent, then? I guess it's not a perfect analogy.

[enjoymyatelier]

...

So it's like if King Arthur was some sort of herald to the apocalypse rather than just ostensibly supposed to show up in a time of need.

I mean, you're probably not going to get that, but.

[eudaimonikos]

...oh, maybe we're related!

[He's joking! But also kinda not.]

[semistableman]

[Michael oh my god. Don't do this to the lapsed Catholic.]

[hyruglyphics]

[ . . . Uh. ]

So is it... an evil Pokémon?

[ Look LoZ has Ontological Evil. ]

[azumods]

Oh - no, absolutely not.

[Pokémon aren't evil... They're kind of #priorities sometimes but evil is a bit much.]

[hyruglyphics]

Then... why was it banished?

[azumods]

[i mean.]

[discutio]

So, Ifrit. Fantastic, we'll likely end up confronting that somehow sooner or later.

[azumods]

..."Ifrit"...?

[y'all and your ifrits and your satans and your goats]

[discutio]

It's nothing. Just that one banished or defeated god in a pantheon seems a common trend.

[takestheblame]

Then we should be glad he can't have this deity under his control.

[Sounds like a real handful, to put it very, very lightly]

[azumods]

Yes, exactly.

[takestheblame]

Why wasn't he capable of controlling that one?

[Maybe that could be useful information]

[azumods]

He didn't have the means at the time that he met it.

[anythingforyou]

[...the fuck's a satan and the fuck's an ifrit

maybe it's just a stupid dragon or something]

[ventulus]

...Wow, how did it manage to get itself banished like that?

[ That's...a thing. ]

[azumods]

A predisposition toward anger and violence, it seems.

[enjoymyatelier]

...given that history tends to be written by the victors, I do have to wonder whether that came before or after Giratina was shoved off into their own pocket dimension....

[eudaimonikos]

There's a bit of weird moralizing around some normal Pokemon species too, have you noticed? Some of the information about ghost and dark types seems very biased.