☄ 009; [video/action]

[usedreturn]

[Normal people might be staying inside in this weather. In fact, it would be wise of them to do so.]

[The Doctor, however, is neither normal nor 'people', strictly speaking. So one might find him just outside Violet today, catching every single Pidgey he happens to see. And doing so with a huge grin on his face.]

[His Abra, looking about as annoyed as an Abra possibly can, pokes his head into the frame as if to ask what in Arceus's name is going on.]

Comments

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

Doc-- [cough] Doctor, what are you doing?

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing. [He tossed a Pokeball to himself once or twice with a huge grin.] Nothing at all.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

It's not very good weather to be doing "nothing" in.

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

Well, it's something, of course it's something! It's just a something you don't need to know about yet.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

[Just sort of...stares. Oh here comes that sense of dread.]

Does it have something to do wit-- [sneeze!]-- with the festival?

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

...Festival, what festival? There's going to be a festival?

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

Someone told me there's going to be a Christmas festival in Violet.

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

Is there? Oh, that's brilliant! I love Christmas, I never get to properly celebrate it.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

I don't know all of the details yet, but I'm sure someone will mention it on the 'gear soon. I just hope it doesn't get snowed out.

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

Well, snow is usually the least of my problems on Christmas.

[Pause.]

...I mean that, I almost never get to just enjoy a nice bit of snow in December. There's always one thing or another getting in my way.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

What usually happens to you on Christmas?

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know... [A dismissive wave of his hand.]

Holiday chaos, the occasional party or two, alien invasions, inedible fruitcakes, homicidal trees, all sorts of old friends come to visit... That sort of thing.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

[There are so many things wrong with that statement that it's a good few seconds before he answers.]

Alien invasions?!

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

They do seem to love stirring up trouble on Christmas. I'm almost starting to wonder if it's just to get on my nerves.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

W-whaaaat?! You mean all of those aliens-are-among-us theories are right?

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

You didn't really think you humans were the only ones? I had you pegged as smarter than that.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

Well, no, but I didn't think they were walking around on Earth and apparently ruining Christmas.

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

Funny thing is, there was one year almost all of London evacuated on Christmas Eve just because they wanted nothing to do with the nonsense.

...Or they were fearing for their lives, but the former of the two sounds a bit better.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

Are the aliens usually that, um, unfriendly?

[He can't believe he's having this conversation. But by now this is pretty low on the list of Weird Things He's Heard About in Johto.]

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

It's hardly as if everything not of Earth wants to kill you.

I certainly don't, for starters.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

Oh. Right. I keep forgetting that you're not human.

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

Better than being called a Martian every five minutes. That gets on your nerves after a bit, I find.

And in fact, I've met quite a few races that were generally decent and peaceful. The problem is that there's quite a bit more that...well. Aren't.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

But there aren't-- [Actually, he doesn't want to debate about life on Mars with an alien.]

So those aliens are giving the rest of the aliens a bad name. That's unfair.

[video]

[usedreturn.livejournal.com]

There's plenty of life on Mars. Humans even colonize it in the future--around 2059, I think.

That's one way of looking at it, I suppose.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

2059? That's not that far into the future.

[Forehead poke] To the rest of the universe, are humans one of the "bad" aliens or the "good" ones?