✓ Memoir 1 // video

[hawkethat]

[Behold the exhausted but freshly-scrubbed face of one Garrett Hawke, come to introduce himself to the network with a very important question (to him).]

Has anyone heard of a village named Rhododendron? No one at the Medical Center has heard of it, but they suggested I try asking on the network.

It's where I'm from, and I'd like to go back, but I'm not sure where it is from here. So any information at all would be great.

[He hesitates very briefly, then flashes a charming smile.]

Thanks.



[OOC: This guy's hometown is so far off the map no one will have heard of it, and it's also been completely destroyed, but he doesn't know that yet so he's still asking around. Feel free to yank his chain or crush his dreams or just be brutally honest, it's all good! o/]

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[hawkethat]

[He seems a bit surprised, but now it's manners time!]

I see. It's good to meet you, Nate. My name's Garrett.

Where are you from, if not around here?

[nateurally]

A village called Sekiun. It's very far to the North.

[hawkethat]

How did you wind up here?

[Now it's just blatant curiosity]

[nateurally]

... It's kind of a long story.

[he's not exactly ready to tell everyone he ran away from home and got someone killed]

But I eventually found myself here after being cut off from my village.

[it's not a lie, it's an omission]

[hawkethat]

Fair enough.

[His own story's been received with some skepticism here, so he's not going to judge anyone else's.]

Do the people living in your village know about this city? Or was it a surprise to you, too?

[nateurally]

No one had ever heard about Union before, no.

[hawkethat]

Same here. There was always some thought that other villages had to exist out there somewhere, but no one ever imagined something this big.

[nateurally]

... I don't think my people wanted to imagine a place like this, to be honest.

[hawkethat]

Really? Why not?

[nateurally]

They didn't exactly care much for Pokemon. Or outsiders.

[hawkethat]

[wat]

Outsiders, I can understand. But what's wrong with Pokemon?

[nateurally]

They same them as dangerous.

[hawkethat]

What, all of them?

[That's a little hard to believe...]

[nateurally]

OOC: ((SAW them. I'm an idiot.))

I'm afraid so.

[hawkethat]

[OOC: Typos happen! No worries.]

But you disagree, I take it.

[nateurally]

I'm here, aren't I?

Of course, it means I can't go home again.

[hawkethat]

...That's rough. Is it really for sure that you can't, though?

[The idea of banishment is kind of a totally foreign one to him]

[nateurally]

I have a Pokemon partner now. I'm pretty sure they'd all be afraid of me.

[hawkethat]

You don't think there's any way they might change their minds?

[A life without pokemon sounds so...lonely.]

[nateurally]

If there was, I don't know how I'd even get the chance. I can't remember the way I came. So there's no going back, at least for now.

[hawkethat]

Seems like we have something in common, then.

Hopefully being stuck here won't be too bad.

[nateurally]

I don't see it as being stuck, personally. It's a chance to learn new things, for me anyway.

[hawkethat]

[He hesitates for a second or two, then smiles.] That's a good way to look at it. Better, actually.

[nateurally]

I suppose you're right. In any case, it's how I have to see things, if I want to move on.