[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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When bring Nathan to some place close to some private place. It has some good ol view of the Chesire from many years ago. Its was not like Cheshire it is ugly place, but this past Cheshire is pretty beautiful. Heart sight, taking a deep breath to few the air around him. "This air...is pretty amazing isnt not? This...view is quite familiar with our time...but at the same time different." Heart look for a few seconds and down his eyes for a second, sad with something. "Do you...do you mind if I make a personal question Nathan?" Heart dont turn his back on Nathan. "If...if you didnt know your father was alive...if you still think he was dead...when a chance in change the future would appear to you...would you take it? Even knowing the consequences? But the feeling of solitude would be so big, you would try to change the timeline?" It was not a joke question. But a serious question.

The view we probably get looks over the Creshirean Savannah as it progresses towards the ocean.  There's more trees closer to Cress City and Liverwort Town (this town in particular looks a little chillier than most of Creshire's other populated areas), but as the land gets closer to the sea, there's fewer and fewer trees.

Nathan takes a deep breath.  "...yeah, the air's nice."

When Heart poses his question, Nathan pauses to think about it for a few, looonnnng minutes.

"...I can see why you'd be asking that..."

Nathan looks over the savannah.

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"...I don't think he's dead, and...never really fully believed he was, I guess.  Luxray's definitely with him.  And Skarmory.  Wherever they are...those two have been with him for most of his life.  They wouldn't let him go down that easily.  Particularly Luxray.  And they beat three of the Elite Four before Hayes and Latias ended their streak...he only just barely didn't get into the Hall of Fame...he's a lot tougher than he appears to be..."

...a brief pause follows before Nathan continues.

"...I...am still worried about him.  A lot.  People don't normally just...vanish without a trace...I'm not sure if I'll see him again...but if I can find something, anything that might tell me where he went...my pokemon and I will find him.  We'll latch on to that info and never let go of it until we've found what we're looking for..."

...another pause as he considers something else: the question he was originally asked.

"...honestly, I'm not sure I would need to change the past.  Even if I could...I'm not sure I should.  Celebi and Dialga...their rules on time travel say the past can't be changed.  But events in the past do mold the future...when Keni met us earlier today?  He knew us already.  Knew what we'd done for him already.  Or we at least reminded him of the ones who saved the lives of him, his parents, and all their pokemon.  That's why he seemed so...welcoming.  We'd already done the deed prior to 2017...and then proceeded to actually do it when we traveled back to now, 1925.  It had been predetermined, in a way, just as Celebi decreed..."

He goes silent for a minute.

"...I guess you don't have the same reassurances and confidence that I do, though, given that as far as you know, everyone definitely was..."

...when it comes to family matters, Nathan can be surprisingly Insightful, whether he intended to be or not.

"...I'm sorry...I'm treading in sensitive territory...I guess the point is, though...the past is a rather rigid thing.  We can't change it...but we can try to mold the future.  I think that's what Celebi intended to teach.  How much time you're given...it doesn't matter as much as what you do with the time you have.  That's what I think."

He sighs.

"...probably not my best attempt at a pep talk.  I think everything will turn out okay in the end, though.  I can't know that for certain...but I'm confident that you'll get whoever did that terrible deed one day.  You deserve at least some closure on that, in some form."

Another pause.

"...I don't know about everyone else, but I know that if I see someone in trouble like Dr. M and the Morgusis were...it doesn't really matter who they are, nor where or when they're from.  I want to help them.  I won't be able to help everyone...we can't save Captain Bridge and his men, for example...but that doesn't mean I want to stand idly by.  It's...difficult to tell if you should or shouldn't act on that when time traveling, though, to be honest, unless you know what kind of an impact such an action might have had on the present already..."

One last pause.

"...I'm not sure I could keep my dad from vanishing even if we did visit 2014 somehow.  If he hadn't...well, I might not have met Ralts 2 years later.  It's...something keeps you on your toes, that way of thinking, that's for sure..."

Well, that took a decent amount of time to type out.  What does Heart think of that little lecture?