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[familyproblem]

[Wish Ryslig could've - yeah, that's his bugbear. He leans on statue-Silvally's leg and listens.

War?]

Modern times are a lot more peaceful than just a few centuries ago. War between regions and nations isn't as common.

[He turns to see what she's looking at - oh. That one.]

...We have petty crime, just like here. And common Pokemon can be a lot more threatening than a knife or gun.

[So there's that. But that signboard had something about "ideological conflicts", right? So it's talking about more than just Pokemon being used to mug people.]

There's also...this can't be too different from anywhere else. People want things to go their way, they'll break things to get it. [Not war! Just antisocial activities, terrorism and government takeovers and the like!] If Pokemon will listen to you, you can go as far as they'll take you. [Turns back around.] And if they won't - plenty of people look for ways around that. Raise them from the egg to be loyal. Regular old coercion, same as with humans. Threaten them with other Pokemon. Or find technological methods.

[Which he'd rather not go into because those not existing is a good thing actually!]

[lottabones]

I guess I'd be afraid of a Muk over a knife, that's for sure. [Though she wonders if the Muk, capable of having his own thoughts, would act more like a lackey than a weapon.] You've seen a lot of this happen where you're from?

[She folds her hands together.] Oh, I'm just wondering because...it's a completely different way of looking at things, compared to how I usually make my theories about the past. The stuff we dig up doesn't say much on their own, but you gotta make assumptions in order to piece together the full picture. I'm sure I still don't really get how life changes when you grow up with all these possibilities around ya.

[familyproblem]

Makes sense. [Like, having been hanging around Ingo, the first part parses. And the second - that's what each weird little revelation he has about life in Ryslig, without Pokemon, feels like. He's living it.

Anyways.] Alola's pretty peaceful, but you hear things from overseas. Criminal syndicates funding shady technologists. Sending Pokemon berserk and siccing them on...I don't know, people, to make an example of them? [He's 15. The "things you hear from overseas" are kind of limited when you only occasionally listen to the news and don't have an enormous amount of context.

There's Team Skull, who definitely caused trouble with and sometimes for Pokemon, but...not really in the way that the sign is describing. They stole to live, but their Pokemon were just their Pokemon, as far as he ever knew. Even taking over Po Town was just...maybe that counts, but thinking of that just makes a weird weight manifest in his chest. It's over for them; let it go.

Which just leaves Aether. Mother, and Faba. Silvally, and Cosmog.

...Not right now.]

[lottabones]

[Maybe let's not drop all the horrors that humans are capable of onto a teenager.]

Violent crime as usual, across universes and time. It just exists differently when Pokemon are involved. [One set of arms shrug.]

And this? [She waves a third arm towards the Statue.] Is that one of the gods of Alola?

[familyproblem]

No, uh. [He'd already resolved to just tell the truth here if she asked; he will Not downplay Silvally! That's a resolution. Still, he "uh"s it because it's just that little bit awkward.] That's my partner, Silvally. The one "personal touch" this place has, I guess.

[He got off so easy in terms of voyeuristic bullshit, compared to some of the other stuff in here.]