[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

It doesn't get Nathan to react in the way Nathan might have been expecting.

While Nathan was oblivious to Malphena's presence, Ralts was not.  And so, Ralts warns Nathan about what's coming (as they're right next to each other), and instead of being scared from the display, Nathan is closer to...mildly annoyed.

"...I'm very much aware of how Ralts is doing, Malphena...that's just how it is...we're trying to calm down...it's...not easy...no, I don't think there's much you can do to help..."

Swiftfire (who Nathan and Ralts are still mounted on) looks a lot more irritated than Nathan and Ralts do, btw.  Probably because of the lack of input from psychic empathy.  She doesn't know what Malphena's potential motivation for attempting to scare Nathan is, after all.

(You know, letting Nathan get scared out of his sadness/misery would have been a good thing in this case, but oh well. Guess its the harder way then Dragonstrike)

Malphena outright glowers at the boy's remark, her eyes narrowed and 'hair' waving a little more wildly, as its so sour and plain defeatist  that she honestly believed he had CHOOSEN to be automatically miserable and give up doing anything productive about it. The fact also remained that his response did nothing to address the fact he's (in her opinion) selfishly and unfairly offloading a bulk of his grief onto his Ralts, and making THEM as sad as he was as a result. That wasn't right before hand, and its still not right now! At this point, she was extremely tempted to use Confuse Ray or start devouring the boy's fear in order to get their head out of their arse and be more reactive that a glass of cold water. As for Swiftfire's reaction, she isn't a Dark type and the screeching banshee is still empowered by Nasty Plot, so she's completely confidant that she could take care of them if they got too uppity.

Point being, the mischevious spirit is not so impressed with your continued effort to be determinedly depressed/afraid and ruining your Ralts mood, and finds your attitude right now to be repugnant, lily livered, and rude to not only herself, but his Pokémon as well. After all, its not only the empathetic species of Pokémon that is negatively affected by their gloom and doom, *Scree.....*