exeggutorhead | 30th Transformation [video/action for Goldenrod Pokecenter]

[The 'Gear feed comes on to show a Poke-center bed. A bed with what appears to be just a large pile of blankets in the middle, along with the odd edge of pillow…and a foot. And some long strands of green hair poking out the other end of the pile.]

Ursa!

[The 'Gear bounces up onto the bed, clearly being held by a Pokemon that was sitting on the nightstand, and moves around to where that hair is. Oh look, a face to go with it! Well, a face that's pressed into the blankets still, but it clearly belongs to Envy.]

Little Bear, if you have the 'Gear I'll turn you into a damn hat.

[This threat is lost on Little Bear. Envy lifts his head up to look at the screen, eyes narrowing blearily. His face is flushed and utterly miserable, and he's very clearly sick. This is actually Day Two of 'Envy has the flu for the first time in his life'. One arm shoots out of the blanket nest in an attempt to snatch the 'Gear back, but Little Bear is having none of that and flees back to the nightstand, laughing and turning the camera back on his trainer once he's out of reaching distance. And Envy is just too weak and sluggish to do much else about it. With a heavy, frustrated sigh, Envy rolls over to glare at the ceiling instead, still partially curled up and wrapped in blanket. And for a long moment, it seems like nothing else is going to happen, what with him refusing to play any more chase…at least, until his eyes go wide, staring up at something that isn't there.]

Teddi?

[There's no response, no indication that Envy even heard his Pokemon. And then, abruptly, he comes back to himself, scowling as he jerks up into a half sitting position and puts a hand up to grip the side of his head. What comes next is a very under-his-breath mutter.]

--out of my head!

[…yeah, he may have just forgotten that he's being filmed. He shoves the rest of the blankets off and stumbles out of bed and out of the room as quickly as he can manage to. He's wearing shorts and a loose shirt, but observant people might catch sight of part of the red ouroboros mark on his leg as he's leaving. Little Bear, now more confused and concerned than anything, turns off the feed to go follow.]

[Action for Pokemon Center]

[Envy doesn't get too far once he's left the room, and has sunk down to the floor, with his back against the wall and his knees up. He's looking both even more ill-tempered than he has been for the past couple days, and also disturbed by something. Either way, he should really not be out of bed in the hall and is probably in the way.]

[ooc: Video responses will come after he's been dragged/convinced back into the bed!]

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_{[... Oh.]}

Yeah...

... Uh... you sure you're okay, dude?

I'm fine.

[He's keeping the nonchalant look up, but not as well as usual; he's unsettled underneath it.] That was just...

Memories. It's part of being what I am, I'll be alright.

.... S'part of being a person, really.

_{[Flashbacks...]}

Somethin' bad?

Except most people have memories that actually belong to them.

[He laughs quietly, a noise the opposite of genuine, like he's still trying to pass it off as a joke. At her question, though, he falls quiet, looking uncertain. And then just nods.]

Yeah. You could say that.

_{[She's quiet for a moment or two. Yeah... most people did. ... Although the strange, foreign flashbacks she'd always gotten HAD eventually wound up being her own memories, she can relate to what it's like to experience getting glimpses of what seems to be another person's life...]}

.... Wanna talk about it?

Or should I butt out?

[Envy pauses; it's not that it's a surprise that she asked so much as that no one's ever really asked if he wanted to talk about the memories, not beyond his master trying to figure out if he had them or not back in the very beginning. And there's some things about them that he doesn't want to ever share with anyone. He doesn't realize that Heather can relate, but...]

[He had seen some of what was inside her head, after all. He switches the filter on.]

I'm guessing you won't tell anyone, right?

[Not that he thinks she would, he's just trying to figure out what he wants to say.]

_{[She shakes her head.]}

I don't share secrets.

Cross my heart, hope to die and all that.

[He nods, his lips quirking briefly.]

Thought so.

[He sighs, more of a quiet exhale, and absently twists a strand of hair between his fingers. He's still looking at the screen, but at a point somewhere past Heather's left ear rather than right at her.]

I remember...I remember him dying. The human I was supposed to be.

_{[Eye contact is kinda rough when you're talking about stuff like this. She won't try to make him keep it.]}

... How'd he die?

Mercury poisoning. He wanted to be an alchemist.

[To make his father proud, although that's one of the things Envy will never admit, and tries very hard to forget. Envy frowns, his shoulders hunching forward.]

It's stupid. I've died plenty of times, it shouldn't mean anything.

_{[She pauses.]

[... And then, very softly...]}

I've died plenty of times too. ... I still have nightmares about the first.

[That gets him to actually look her in the eyes, surprised.]

What happened?

_{[... What had happened...]

[Obviously she hadn't REALLY died, that night when the Gillespie house had burned. Hell, if she HAD, none of the rest eeeeeever would've happened, would it?]

[No... that had just been the beginning of death. And then it had stretched on for seven years, until finally what had done her in was... no. She would not say childbirth. Not even as an oversimplification.]

[The very word sent a sick shudder through her.]

[So instead, with an expression that says quite plainly that it was a lot more complicated than that...]}

I burned.

[The first thing that comes to mind is that nightmare from the Shedinjas. He remembers the fire, even if it had turned out not to be real. How could he not? He never had been sure how much of the dream had come from him and how much had been her.]

Burning's a bad way to go. [Understatement, and his tone shows he knows it, even if he has no idea just how bad it really was.]

You know...it's not often I meet someone else who's died more than once.

_{[She lets out a quiet chuff of a laugh.]}

Yeah. You're tellin' me.

_{[But she nods, looking up.]}

Honestly, I'm kind of glad that's the case. Not that I'm not glad to be alive... but I'm pretty sure people are only supposed to die once.

Any more than that and it starts doin' stuff to you.

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