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[FUN COOL VIDEO TIMES:

If you're like Char, you've probably noticed some flyers around school advertising the upcoming poolparty. If you're like Char, you're probably super allergic to water and apparently not afraid to get grumpy about that. Odds are, you're not like Char. Here he is, thoroughly deadpan:]

So. Pool party this weekend, apparently. Can't fuckin' wait.

Seems like an awful lot of the shindigs around here involve water, huh? Ain't as bad as a school trip to a hot spring, but I'm still lookin' forward to the day we take a field trip to an active volcano or two.

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[LATER, FUN COOL ACTION TIMES:

So Char's visiting the RA dorms today. He's here hoping to find Green and maybe ask him a thing or two, but if he runs into another RA while he's there (hi Bulba hi), then he's certainly not gonna complain.]

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[EVEN LATER, FUN COOL TEXTING JOLT TIMES:]

you up to anything right now?

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[Bulba looked back down at some of his papers.]

Ah... They're that bad, aren't they? Haha... ha... ha. Yeah, uh, yeah. I'm going to ask someone more qualified to figure it out though.

[He grinned at Char, only a little flustered over his low art skill points. Then he looked back down and tapped his fingers against the inside of his left forearm.]

It'll go over here.

I dunno, I kinda like your version as-is.

[He grinned, forever the teasing broter. Still, there was maybe a of wiggle in his tailtip that wasn't just smartassery.]

Shit, if I'd known, I'dve said something sooner. I can get behind goin' together. It'll make the hours go by a little quicker if we got some company, hey?

[It was the older broter's right. Bulba just rolled his eyes and snorted.]

Yeah... ! I'd like that a lot, really. What were you thinking of getting done...?

I still want Green to use me in battles if we ever go back to Kanto, so I figure it oughta be something that won't look too outta place on a Charizard.

[His smile gets a bit shy, caught between being embarrassed about how completely nerdish it is to be this into Pokemon history and how proud he is of his species.]

A way longass time ago before Charizards were domesticated, our hides used to have stripes. I figured I could get somethin' like that. It'd be dark enough to cover this friggin' thing up, but it wouldn't look too unnatural on a dragon, y'know?

[No need to be embarrassed around the most openly nerdy member of the team, bro. Besides, look how super fascinated he looks! (The answer was pretty fascinated.)]

Oohhh... That's really cool. It's a good idea... I bet you'll wear it really well.

[Pause.]

... Are they like Zebstrika stripes...??

[Don't enable him, Bulba, he'll only nerd out even harder.]

Sorta...? They're thicker and the edges ain't as smooth, and we didn't have quite as many. I could cover the whole star with just one, but I'm thinkin' I'll get a few of 'em just so it don't stick out too much.

[Do it.]

Okay... Yeah, I think I got it. I like it! It must have been really neat to get to meet them.

I ain't gonna lie, it is nice knowin' your roots. The books the Pokeprofs over the years have put out ain't got everything exactly right, but I've read up some on how things were once humans started comin' into the picture.

[He looks down at those elegantly-crafted tree doodles again, maybe smiling juuust a little.]

S'kinda funny, actually. We weren't tryin' to or nothing, but me and the boss ended up bondin' the way people and Charizards did it before Pokeballs ever came into the picture.

[The whispers of jealousy were almost hard to ignore. Almost. Feeling envious that Char had been able to go back and really get a grip on what it meant to him be a Charizard wasn't a big deal. He shrugged that off easily, feeling comfortable enough with where he was right then.

Watching him, though, and that little smile... That little, very real smile... That kind of hurt, in a funny sort of way, as if Bulba had been privy to something he wasn't supposed to know had happened. Of course, even if it had never been implicitly said, he'd already known the bond they had was something special, hadn't he? It was just... right there now. Right super there.

All Bulba could do was cheerfully smile with him. It wasn't hard at all, since honestly-]

I'm glad you were able to find each other then.

You and me both, kid. This mighta been the only team in the world that could handle all of me.

[It didn't take long for that smile to turn back into the usual sharp grin -- those kind of smiles only show up briefly, saved strictly for special occasions like mingling tails or surprise taxi rides.]

Anyway, y'get why it's important Green likes it before I go gettin' it tattooed on me. Coverin' a problem up ain't exactly the most noble thing I've ever done, but y'get kinda sick of someone else's mark of ownership, y'know?

[He chuckled a little at the first comment but left it at that, putting away the rest of his feelings to more keenly focus on what actually mattered.]

Yeah, I'd imagine so. It sounds a little more like you're just taking it back for yourself though... That's not against the rules, is it?

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