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[apaintingdarkly]

I'm sure you're all excited about this return to normalcy, if that's what it is, but I still have one question for our new lord and master.

Worlds like this one don't revive on their own, not from the inside. The power has to come from somewhere - usually someone. Someone human, in the real world.

So: Who rejuvenated this one?

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[apaintingdarkly]

[ He doesn't usually get texts. What a fun new experience! ]

You'd be surprised what power an ordinary human can have.

[150th]

This is why I asked.

[apaintingdarkly]

[ Ah, yes. Duh. ]

A long time ago there was a man with the power to give life to his artworks.

[150th]

How did he gain this power?

[apaintingdarkly]

Hell if I know. As far as I know he was born with it.

[150th]

A human with that power could do many terrible things.

[apaintingdarkly]

All he cared about was creating. It didn't matter if what he created was monsters.

[150th]

Or beings who would just as soon have not been created at all.

What is life for them? To know that they were made on a whim?

[apaintingdarkly]

Life is what they make of it. They have minds of their own, what they do with them is their choice.

[150th]

I know. I was made with similar motives, if not in the same manner.

[apaintingdarkly]

[ So was Dark, but he doesn't feel the need to mention it. ]

Then you should know as well as anyone.

[150th]

It is cruel to create life with no thought for purpose.

[apaintingdarkly]

Life is cruel. What's your point?

[150th]

Perhaps he should have been stopped.

[apaintingdarkly]

'Should have' isn't worth crap. You have to work with what you've got or shut up and sit down.

[150th]

I have.

[apaintingdarkly]

Then I ask again: What's your point?

[150th]

If you do not yet understand, I feel no need to continue explaining. Most humans do not.

[apaintingdarkly]

If I were human I might be offended.

[150th]

What are you?

[apaintingdarkly]

[ He doesn't even try to explain. ]

A monster.

[150th]

Is this what your species is named, or simply a broad term?

[Pokémon are, in theory "pocket monsters." The idea of containment and possession it implies has always rankled.]

[apaintingdarkly]

I don't have a species.

[150th]

Then a monster is what you call yourself, or what you assume you would be considered by others?

[apaintingdarkly]

Both.