ten. ☆ ( video / backdated to before the spring cleaning plot )

[uuing]

Uu-! Hi everyone..! Today Maria and Beato have a question for everyone!

[ Maria is practically as cheery as ever when she waves at the camera - except she's not alone right now, there's someone sitting there with her, and she turns to that person with a smile as if urging her to speak on.

Beato waves too, as excited about this as HER TINY ONEESAN Maria. ]

We thought of this some days ago, while watching the people in the tea house. You all come from very diferent places, are we wrong? I can only imagine how many wonderful stories you all have!

And so we want to hear e-verything about you and your world! [ she's just fistpumping here now, look at all this double excitement. ] Uu-, so everyone, please tell us your stories, okay? Beato and Maria re-ally want to know!

We'll be waiting! Thank you so much!

( ooc: replies will come from both Maria and Beato (fathersbeloved) and will be a bit delayed (especially on my side, since I'm going to bed right now and will get to them tomorrow)! )

Comments

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

-could the stories go both way?

Because I'd like to hear about you two just as much.

[video]

[fathersbeloved]

Ah... I hadn't thought of it that way. But I believe it's a fair trade.

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

Really? That's good, because I'm trying to figure out what to say. [First.

But give him a pause, and he'll grin at an idea.]

Where to start? Where we come from, or where were we just before Johto?

[video]

[fathersbeloved]

I'd love to hear about the place you come from!

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

Oh- Well. Domino City's kind of like Goldenrod, I guess. They're both big cities near water.

And, we don't have Pokemon, of course, but... We do have a card game, that the way it's played now, and taken of? It's kind of like those battles, I guess.

[video] no Beato what are you doing--

[fathersbeloved]

Oh... so it's like cards with pokémon?

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

Ah- No, not...

Ah-ha, I guess it depends what you mean! They're not all creatures like pokémon, though! There's magicians and knights and dragons - and cards that change the field or affect the fight...

[video]

[fathersbeloved]

Is it like the game Ryo liked so much...? He wanted to teach me to play it.

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

...as in, Bakura-kun? That's...

Yeah, it's probably the same game, unless he meant Monster World...

Did you still want to learn either one?

[video]

[uuing]

Uu-, of course they could..! [ a giggle. ]

Maria doesn't mind telling anything at all!

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

Well thanks! I don't mind either- ah-

[Yes, that was totally a stutter of what to say, not realizing there's some issues in sharing all. Totally.]

What first? What kind of worlds we're from?

[video]

[uuing]

That's right, uu-! [ nodnod. ] What kind of world does Yuugi come from..? Is it a nice world?

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

Ah... I guess so! It can be pretty cool there. It's pretty normal, next to this place, but...

[Magical items, royal spirits, death risking card games-]

I think I've run into more than most would there.

[video]

[uuing]

Run into more..? [ she tilts her head a little in curiosity. ]

Like what kinds of things, uu-? Bad people..?

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

...well, there is some of that. But I don't know if I can say there's a lot of bad people.

For one thing, some people who've come after me or attacked me before, I consider them friends now.

[video]

[uuing]

So even though they attacked Yuugi, they weren't bad people..? They just attacked him since they wanted to become friends?

Uu-, never heard of that before!

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

Mmmm, more like after we fought, we worked things out enough to get along. Or we connected over the fight. Or, just- We got thrown together after the fact.

[The last one's about someone right here in Johto, and it's still shaky, but still.]

[video]

[uuing]

Maria thinks that sounds nice.. uu-. Maria's never become friends with anyone who attacked her though since they're usually really mean and bad.

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

Yeah- well, it's not usually that...

You've been attacked, too?

[video]

[uuing]

Uu-, of course. [ she pouts a little. ]

Maria's a witch who tries to make people happy with her magic, so the bad witches who want people to be sad sometimes attack Maria for it.

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

...well I...

That makes more sense, now that I know you're one...

[Yuugi be shocked.]

[video]

[uuing]

[ Maria - as young as she is - doesn't even understand why it's such a surprise. ]

... Uu-.. Is Yuugi okay? You look weird.

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

-Yeah! Nothing wrong, I've just never met a witch before. [That he knows of.]

Or anybody back home who can use magic, without a special item.

[video]

[uuing]

Really? .. Uu-, Maria guesses that's normal.. A lot of people can't see witches anymore nowadays since people don't believe in them. Witches usually can't show themselves to people who don't believe, but there's a lot of them out there.

[video]

[kingofgamecorner]

-believing in witches makes them appear?

[Ever more strange... And yet the belief part, that's kind of familiar.]

Say- do you have friends among other witches? Other good ones like you?