Belle!!

I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you tho. Or sorry that happened.

I guess. I feel like we've lost the plot though, I dont even think i want to be a mentor.

Yeah I know I have some time but like, you gotta think about what kind of trainer you're heading towards, otherwise you'll wind up just standing on the same route for 40 years challenging anyone who looks in your direction, y'know? And no offense to Goldie, but she's not exactly my baseline.

Silver's love to say they aren't affectionate and they don't know how to be, and then they constantly go around inflating all Gold's egos and telling them how talented and good they are at stuff??? Like. You know what you're doing.

I will not ignore that.

For the record Brass is still a dink and a dumb doo doo head, but she's now MY very loving dumb doo doo head dink that I adore 🥰

Well. Okay fair, but that's still not like, active mentoring or anything. Like I wasnt intending to help Brass for most of that, I was just yelling at her for being a dink, because she was being a dumb doo doo head.

Eh, I dont know that I was what helped Brass. I was to busy being the opposite of emotionally constipated for most of her healing. I was emotional diarrhea and just yelled at her all the time. And everyone else.

I think I'd mostly just train them to battle? Maybe overthrow the government, or a robotic uprising, but that's future dependent... if it is a war against the clankers I would have to teach them the power of human emotion, I guess. That's mentoring.

Or maybe I'll have like a troop of younger trainers that like that I'm impatient and rude? Like a little brat pack. And I'm their commander. That's a form of mentoring, right?

Girliepop is going through it. Oof. I'm glad that older, nicer me is there for them, cuz like, I'd want to, but I know I'm not patient enough.

I dont think I'm ever gonna be the mentor type of Ace trainer...

I understand why Blaze went and lived on a mountain now, being so iconic and famous and popular is draining.

That's my way of apologizing for not being on socials BTW.

[Belle slides awkwardly off the neck, catching Brass's hand to avoid completely flipping head first, and instead just lands hard]

... I'm gonna have to get used to a bird that big...

Try the second biggest one, that's my guess.

I passed by it, but I never went inside! I was sorta rushing through this whole spot since I was getting medicine. I've come back over here but only for the Safari Zone, really.

[Belle helps Brass up onto the massive bird before pulling herself up behind her.]

Here goes nothing.

...yeah... yeah I do

Hey that's like, really soon. Very Unovan of you to start on the 4th!

Man, I really wanna battle Cynthia... she seems like a real challenge.

Togekiss and Dragonite. But I'm faster on the ground.

As long as they don't make us go visit Celebi next... let's go.

I mean... that kinda sounds like saying you're gonna be a streamer cuz all the top 100 streamers are millionaires, like it's still real low odds... but I mean if it convinced your parents, man, go for it.

Hey battle focused people, what's the best like, non league Pokemon challenge? I've already done Johto's Frontier, I need more.

I've considered being a travelling trainer. Honestly the Indigo League was... well. Easy. I hear Unova has a world tournament, and Alola has that Battle Tree, and Hoenn has their own Frontier... I think I belong at places like that.

No I mean like if I am Lugia's chosen I should go? Like that seems like a big thing to leave unresolved, and we're very good at resolving things. I just. Don't want to. In like a childish, stupid way. Like it's big and daunting and I don't wanna I just wanna battle. But I should. We should.

Yeah we could talk to the captain... I have a lifetime ticket.

No, I wanna go throw up and then run away with you on Ho-oh.

I have like 3. The captain of the SS aqua gave them to me.

Hey no worries Al most of my friends are annoying, you'll fit right in.

Great, so I'm gonna go through a whole Cave dungeon to be told I'm not worthy. Let's just do it.

[She's trying not to sound distraught or bitter and instead come off quippy and lighthearted. She is not doing well. She's squeezing Brass's hand very tight.]