004. [Text/Action for Goldenrod City]

[neurotoxined]

[TEXT]

[Well. As much as GLaDOS likes to think she can handle things completely and utterly by herself with absolutely zero assistance from anyone else, thank you very much, sometimes there are things that are just...completely baffling. As much as she tries to work certain things out, it just isn't going to happen.

So there's going to be a brief text to the network sent out sometime in the morning aka this post is forward-dated to a time that isn't "unholy o'clock", rather blunt and to the point and...surprisingly free of sarcasm.]

Since a lot of you have probably been here long enough to figure out that sometimes people leave this place with no warning whatsoever, I have to wonder - does it mean something when you get an animal and/or property from someone who's left, or does this place just do that randomly?

Because I got something a while ago. It's been annoying me ever since, for a lot of reasons. I didn't like the idiot I got it from, so I don't think it's anything related to that.


[ACTION]

[And in news surprisingly unrelated to anything that she just posted, today is actually something of a rare occasion, given that GLaDOS is actually outside; she's found a square where she thinks she'll be alone for the most part - an assumption that can really only end in tears and pain, because she has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer when it comes to keeping her location concealed and said square is located rather near the Center she tends to work at in her spare time.

Either way, she's parked on a bench that she's cleared most of the snow off of, and it seems she's caught something recently - a Rotom is buzzing around her shoulders rather contentedly, causing the ends of her hair to frizz upwards a bit, though she doesn't pay it much mind for the time being. Her attention is focused elsewhere – namely, on the Koffing in front of her, which is currently poisoning the living shit out of her Mareep, from the look of it.

She's got a notebook lying open in her lap, though she's leaning forward so far that it's more or less a moot point; once in a while she seems to remember it's there and scrawls some notes down. She seems to be waiting for something; her Mareep is...seeming not too happy and is pretty much lying down on the ground by this point, looking at her in the most pathetic manner possible.

Well...she actually will look up once in a while toward that Rotom, which seems to give a grand total of zero damns about the apparent slow death-by-toxins in front of it; GLaDOS is humming a bit as she observes, and once in a while there's a noise from the creature next to her - the same melody repeated back, just staticky and strange, as though it's being played through a damn Tesla coil. She smirks at it, then goes back to rather gleefully torturing her sheep.

Science is going well today, it seems.]

Comments

[neurotoxined]

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

What's the difference even supposed to be?

[itsjustdust]

Basically that I'll do nice things for you and not expect you to do any back. Oh, and I'll spend time with you and stuff.

[neurotoxined]

If you're that insistent on wasting your time, you be my guest.

[itsjustdust]

Thought you'd agree with me. Oh! Are you gonna go to the breeder's con?

[neurotoxined]

[...head...tilt.]

No. Why would I?

[itsjustdust]

[He's just gonna blink at her.]

Why wouldn't you?

[neurotoxined]

Because I'm not interested.

[itsjustdust]

Course you are. I'll come get you, yeah?

[neurotoxined]

Because of course you would know.

And no, you aren't, because I'm not going.

[itsjustdust]

So you're happy with a limited testing group then?

[neurotoxined]

[...ooh.]

Don't do that.

[itsjustdust]

Because you know there will be a whole lot of variety and several other pokemon types entirely in egg form that you can look at for development and stuff too, right?

[neurotoxined]

...yes, I know all that.

[OBITO...]

[itsjustdust]

I mean, I thought the stuff like the eevees at least would have interested you in comparing their evolutions to each other and the different effectiveness levels of how their powers work and stuff.

But if you're not interested after all...

[neurotoxined]

[...OBITO.

WHY.]

Even if I were, completely and utterly hypothetically, to have any interest in going at all, I'm not going with you.

[itsjustdust]

Why not? I know some of the breeders there and would be able to maybe steer you to people who have more impressive working abilities for you.

[neurotoxined]

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

You aren't picking me up. We're going to meet there.

[itsjustdust]

[That got an immediate smile out of him.]

How about I meet you right here so we don't miss each other in the crowd and we head over together?

[neurotoxined]

[Just. Sighing. And returning her attention to that Mareep.]

Fine.

[itsjustdust]

[He grinned at her, leaning a little to bump shoulders with her.] Perfect! I'll poke you on the gear to make sure neither of us is kept waiting when I head this way.

[Giving the mareep a last look, he finally got to his feet again]

[neurotoxined]

Good. Keep me waiting too long and I'll just go ahead and leave without you. I don't have time to waste just standing around.

[......]

I'll see you then.

[itsjustdust]

[He gave her a sweet smile back. She really was nice.]

See you then Caroline-hime.

[With that, and feeling incredibly happy, he headed off to take care of some other things for the day.]