[Game] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure: Celadon City Vandel

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Reiner has a bad feeling about what those yellow eyes and that hissing seem to be implying...

Without a word, though, Reiner sends Mew out.

As she hovers there, mostly oblivious to her surroundings, Reiner just looks at her, hoping to see some kind of spark in those eyes of hers...

...he doesn't.

"...she barely responds to anything that happens.  At best.  Anything she does is either mindless or purely instinctive."

...

"...we did what had to be done, took the risk we had little choice but to take...but damn the price we paid for doing it..."

The only acknowledgement of your words was a grunt as the Merchant stepped closer and crouched down on the sidewalk to stare directly in Mew's dull, lifeless eyes, headless of getting their britches soaked by the rainwater. Their eyes glow started to incrementally increase the longer they gazed into your partner's, narrowing sharply and growing more vexed as stared into their depths, as if they didn't like what they saw. Finally, they heaved a great big extremely unhappy and troubled *Sssssigh* that again sounded very snake like as they got up off the ground and looked at you with a flat, flinty , before motioning to the mindless pink panther.

"Return her. I've learned all I can, and even if white noise is filling her consciousness right now, I don't want her getting soaked to the bone out her for no reason."

Once you presumably do so, they cut right to the chase, their tone of voice frustrated, unkind, and not the least bit light as they gave you a run down of your partner's condition.

"Reiner, let me express my opinion, blunt as I possibly can: you bloody fucked up monumentally.  Don't get me wrong, I understand why you thought you had take the gamble, what with the stakes being the entire city and all, and what happen to Mew was and will always be awful , but you still fucked up big time. What's done is done, and their isn't anything you can do to change it short of getting Celebi or Dialga in on the action- and all I can say to those prospects is good luck that with that! - , but I felt the need to get it off my chest and to express how utterly furious I am about this. You know, just in case it wasn't clear enough to you already, Reiner."

They crossed their arms at you, looking distinctly unimpressed and hardly sympathetic to your side of the plight, until they let out another hissing *Ssssigh* that sounded less wrath and more defeated as they continued.

"Putting that and my sore feelings aside, I can tell you right now that this isn't the first time I've seen Mew like this, but its easily the worst . Despite her feckless and unbothered attitude towards her interaction towards mortals and how underhanded and pragmatic she can be, she doesn't have a heart of stone toward the 'bad and nasty' stuff in life, even after all the eons she's been puttering around pulling tricks and being anti-social. If she see something downright horrific, or worse, had a hand in it and feels what she did was unjustified, she just ups and shuts down as a means to cope with it, or simply just avoid thinking about whatever happen. Typically this last for a few weeks until she can finally digest what happened and move on, but if the trauma is particularly bad like this it can be months or years until she's able to return to her normal bubbly self. All the medicine I listed can help shave time off the recovery period, but half a month or year is still a pretty damn long time. Simply put Reiner, she's going to be stuck like that for a long, long time, so if you two had any plans together they are now completely scrapped unless you can do them without her....."

"....However," The Merchant says, pausing right here and pinning your with an uncomfortably intense stare, getting your full attention if they hasn't already as she spoke, their next words offering a spark of hope.....

.....but not without price.

"I know a few ways to snap her out of this state. Let me stressssssss this, however: I don't like them, you won't like them, she won't like them, and they'll do as much harm as they will do 'good', if not worse.  She'll be pretty sore, hurt, and messed up regardless of what you end up doing to 'cure' her if we go down those routes, so their are no 'good' options, just choosing which poison you prefer inflicting on her."

"The choice is still yours to make, though. Your responsible for her being a vegetable to begin with, and she puts enough stock and faith in you that I feel you deserve the choice to unscrew up this situation, even if it just means screwing up in a different way to do it. That, you came to me in the first place to fix this, so I might as well do my part since I care about the pink fuzzball too."

...

"Well? What will it be, Reiner?"