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24th bloom; Regurgitation

There's puke all over the staircase t'the boy's dorm. And in the student kitchen. In the fountain, too - just so everyone's aware.

I know I'm usually known for barfin' on people, but I've done no throwin' up or fighting for weeks. So... s'kinda surreal that it wasn't me this time, bein' Poison Type an' all. Haven't had problems with Nancy's food, either, so I hope he's not gonna take the brunt of the blame for the sick.

Anyone who can't get out've bed cuz they're not feeling well, I could make some runs t'the drug store or PokeMart or somethin'. Half my classes've been cancelled anyway, so I have the time.

Made an extra pitcher of Pecha Berry tea, too - it's in the fridge if anyone wants some. I hear it's good for shit like settlin' stomachs.

...Oh, microwave's not working, though. On account've being vomited on.

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That... that...

[She pulls a face. Which means wrinkling up her cute, little button nose.]

...That's pretty gross.

[Oh my god that was adorable. Vinnie couldn't help but laugh good-naturedly.]

Hahaha! Well, I don't have Sludge Bomb anymore.

'Course, its replacements aren't much better. Toxic's more watery, like spit, and Venoshock... you don't want to know what Venoshock's like.

[Because it was metal as fuck.]

[She wants to be unamused, and so she is, but it only lasts for some moments before she heaves a sigh. Of longing? Of regret? Of disbelief? Who the hell really even knows.]

You're such a guy.

[A pause.] Which isn't a bad thing. It just all sounds so barbaric.

[Says the Gardevoir who's been eagerly eying the eggs at the daycare centre.]

[Well he's still amused.]

Oh, I dunno about that. Pokemon can spew fire or water out've their mouths all day an' no one blinks an eye. Who knows where all that water even comes from, too...

I wouldn't be much've a fighter if I was grossed out by my own typing. Plus, it works t'my advantage if the opponent thinks it's disgusting - that's just how Poison works. I'll take any edge I can get.

I guess right now, having that poison background is the most helpful. Everyone else can suffer—or those without it—and you can come to the rescue.

[But a psychic type is strong against poison while the faerie type is weak to it. But Voile's ability to examine emotional well being helps her determine who to avoid.

Come to think of it, she's been feeling a little funnier than usual. Maybe.]

You make some valid points, though. You are who you are. Silly to be ashamed of it, regardless of what anyone else says.

Ideally, I'd rather not have everyone suffer. But it's nice t'feel like I can do something for once. Probably could use some work on the bedside manner, though.

[Being proud of what he was basically summed up Vinnie's whole attitude towards being a pink, sweet-smelling flower that became huge and warty while spewing poison puke everywhere.]

What about you, V? Y'haven't come down with anything, have you?

That is ideal, yes.

[But impossible and improbable at best. But she wasn't about to start listing off technicalities. Best to just let him be optimistic.

At his question, she pointed to herself, feigning some stupidity, or disbelief. It was hard to say.]

Don't think so. Not yet anyway. Guess it's because I haven't been near anyone who has been. Always time for that to change. Or I could just have a really excellent immune system.

[Highly unlikely.]

[Well, he was taking her words at face value - he didn't have any reason not to. It was as much of a mystery to anyone how this illness was spreading.]

I never could figure out how Psychics were so resilient to toxins...

Come to think of it... Has anyone figured out yet whether this is a flu thing, or a food thing? I think I remember some kinda bug bein' passed around last December, but it definitely didn't hit this many people.

I wish I knew. Maybe it's because we have the power of foresight? But then you'd think that we were resilient against all types and I know that isn't the case, even though I've never really participated in battles.

[Voile shook her head as he continued, plunged into her own kind of thought.]

I thought it was just a random sickness, actually. Like a cold. And the health books say that sicknesses can mutate over time, so it's entirely possible for a sickness to travel the student quarters and having changed enough by the time it returns to the person who originally caught it, they could catch it again.

Because of the change in the structure. Or something. The book made more sense than I do, honestly.

God help us if all Psychics were that tough. I hate fighting'em as it is already, the way they get in my head... no offense. I swear, I get headaches for days afterwards.

[It was definitely the least favourite of his weaknesses. With fire, water and flying, he could at least try to endure the attacks - but his brain had no defenses, no way he knew of to train its resilience against a mental assault.]

Yeah, I remember readin' about viruses bein' able to evolve. They're sorta like Pokemon that way, I guess. It must've gotten a lot stronger this year, then.

I didn't know it affected you like that.

[It was a particularly juicy piece of information and desperately made her inevitably curious as to how it felt on the other end of things for her to probe a mind and touch it in that proverbial sort of fashion. Did all people react the same way? No. Not possible. After all, Voile hadn't been able to ever do so to Warren, even though he was able to break through her own defences effortlessly.]

Has it always been like that?

I don't remember it bein' as bad back in the day, when I was just an Ivysaur. Not that I ever had great psychic defenses. Maybe it's the humanization that makes it linger a bit longer?

[That, and maybe a particularly bad run-in with a Hypno. But he wasn't going to mention that.]

Who knows. Definitely no studies on that one.

The humanisation.

[Some food for thought. But she tried not to seem too particularly intrigued by the rather odd discovery and finally, she simply nodded.]

I see. I will keep that in consideration. I'd not noticed any such thing before you spoke up. Thank you for telling me.

[Yes. Thank you for giving her something else to lord over unsuspecting people.]

[Don't totally take his word for it though.]

Considering how varied humanization gets for every Pokemon, that might not be the rule. S'probably different for everyone, just like how human-lookin' we become.

Yes. True. Everyone reacts differently. To illnesses. To other types. There are undoubtedly many things for me to consider. I'm not certain how I missed that before. I'm unsure what I'd do without you, Vincent.

I don't know if I did that much. Nothing you probably couldn't've figured out on your own, anyway. There's more t'being bright than bein' able to memorize whole textbooks.

There is, naturally. Yet the information you just gave me is a bit more than textbook knowledge. In my opinion, that should have been common sense. Especially for a psychic type. Therefore, you've opened my eyes to something I was blind to before. That's all I meant.

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