3rd Quest [Video, after completing Heads or Tails]

[bladeofnymeia]

[It's finally a sunny, warm day, hot but not terribly humid, and perfect for laying out bolts of felt to dry after May's deluge of rain. Or, well, to let them dry after being cleaned to ensure there's no mold or mildew or anything gross trying to grow on the fabric Firoza has worked so hard to make. And as she sits in the middle of this fabric drying in the sun, her mind wanders towards her efforts with Laios and Emmett to locate a missing Pokemon. The eerie feeling, the thought that came unbidden, the state that Zweilous was found in...

She has to talk about this. She has to express this. And when she comes in over the Grumpearls, you can get that sense of concern and confusion settling around her, making the sunny day a bit dimmer as a result.]

I don't recall Zweilous having gone missing before our arrival here. Has this Pokemon wandered off before?

[She hums, little Nidoran brow furrowed. It's important to note that she's finally started to keep her bandana pulled down again, and her right cheek (her right) has a wispy scar trailing across it, like tendrils of flame licking out. It's all healed, it doesn't look grotesque, but wow it sure is there!]

There's just...a feeling I had. "No, no, not again"...and I couldn't shake how familiar it was, to know you are missing a name and face, but you cannot put it together. Though how it can be familiar I'm not sure...

[Tap tap tap goes a paw, impatient as she thinks.]

Have any of you felt something similar, from a mission? Or am I overthinking this?

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[bladeofnymeia]

[I mean compared to Firoza's experience on most of the star, 2012 USA would be lightyears ahead. To say nothing of the whole goddamn Speedwagon Foundation...]

I was not aware memory was a key component to staying alive.

[seacub]

It definitely is, trust me!

I mean...think about it this way. Imagine if you forgot how to eat.

[bladeofnymeia]

...Touche.

[She would hope she could relearn that, that's important...]

But then, so, his memories were so lost to him? To that degree? It must have been frightening.

[seacub]

Best I can tell at least.

...He lost his memory long before we met, and even then...when we met, he wasn't able to talk, or really do...anything.

[There's a ghost of an image- or maybe it really is a ghost. That's what the man feels like. Staring at nothing. Standing where the guards last pushed him.

He's not doing anything, but Emporio's quiet thought from that time bleeds through-

He looks like mom, when...]

He was just sort of there.

[bladeofnymeia]

...

[She won't push on Emporio's thought. That's for him to share, when he's ready, only if he wishes. But there is a soft pang in her heart, at the idea of her own mother so...without her spark. That, Firoza has the presence of mind to clamp down and keep to herself.]

I see. Was there aught that could be done to help?

[seacub]

Well...technically, returning the disc would do that.

...but I don't know what Weather was like with his memories back...

[For some reason there's a vision of...Snails??? And rainbows???

What?]

But, with Weather, I just did my best. I was still learning to do things like talk, or read as well so...it was basically self-taught study, but for both of us!

[bladeofnymeia]

...Y...you had to re-teach a man to talk and read when you were that young...?

[Holy shit. Emporio is powerful.]

[seacub]

It- It really isn't that impressive..!!

It's like I said, we learned together..!!

[The fluster won't save him from how impressive it is!]

a lil Firoza Lore for a little baseball boy

[bladeofnymeia]

[Fucking, impressed big sister mode activated]

Emporio, that's incredible! I could never have done that for myself! Do...do you know how hard it is to try to learn a new alphabet enough to read when you are approaching your teens? To learn, and teach another as you go...that takes great skill, and fortitude.

[Smart people are so! Fucking! Cool!]

[seacub]

I- I mean...that's probably at least a little because they have memories already right?

[Fluster! Fluster! Fluster!!]

I- Th-thanks though I guess...

[bladeofnymeia]

Now that I wouldn't know - but do have some pride in that, alright? I think it's incredible.

[There's like zero irony or sarcasm in there, she means it!]

[seacub]

W...well...i-if you insist...

...It's just weird to think about these things as 'impressive'...

[bladeofnymeia]

[Patented Warrior of Light Head Tilt]

Why is that?

[seacub]

[There's a somewhat nervous shrug.] It was just...

Stuff I was doing, was all.