[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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"...yeah, Dagny roughhoused him awhile back, before he'd evolved, from what Director North said.  Figured he needed the help more than Pyroar, who seems to be doing just fine for the most part."

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"...his previous trainer abandoned him after determining he was too weak to be worth raising...never mind the fact that half of Dagny's team is able to heavily damage most fire pokemon."

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"...I was kinda worried he might overreact if Excadrill came out.  I'm glad he didn't...means I made the right choice, asking if he wanted to watch...though I can't help but wonder if that would have gone as well if Shiva had lost..."

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"...I suppose it's not too big of a worry, though.  He'll have plenty of chances to prove himself soon enough."

Nathan's clearly trying VERY hard to stay calm (there's no single, clear cause that explains why, either).  As is Kirlia.  Talking about something like this definitely seems to be helping.  The upcoming talk is definitely still hanging around in the back of Nathan's mind, he's just addressing some other stuff first.

"Yes, I've heard much the about him, and the circumstances around how he came into the Shelter's care would certainly contribute to the foul and surely grudge he holds against Dagney. Hopefully after seeing her laid low by Shiva will help alieviate such animosity, as well as gradual and attentive care to both his moods and needs. Draconic and fiercely tempered his species may be, he's still capable of becoming a more noble, beneficent member of his species so long as one invests all the necessary and more time + effort into shaping into such a being. With you as their master, I'm entirely certain you'll see him towards becoming such a ideal individual; you have a way with Pokémon that few others can claim to share, after all....."

Ventus amiably responds to the boy's statement, still smiling while doing his best to slowly ease their chaotic/rampant emotional distress he was already enduring, and let them choose the time they wish to begin their pre-ordained conversation. Last time he dictated the Encounter and tightly controlled things, and that ended up still causing things to go to pot. Time for at reversal of sorts.....