[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

Terra frowns lightly at Nathan disparaging his own artwork, before reaching over to softly bonk them on the head in a admonishing manner.

"No. Do not put own work down, or.....compare it unfairly to Keni's. Your pictures are good in.....their own right. Juni's picture will be nice too. Having high standards not bad, but....let it not control you poorly. Understand?"

Nathan's stunned state to his blunt request was first misinterpreted as them being shocked at him making an outrageous demand, causing the mountain of the man to frown minutely in worry and sag a little in his seat. Did he futz things up between him and his friend by overstepping his boundries, or was he was asking for just stupidfyingly stupid right now? No.......not again....

Thankfully, the boy quickly rectified his misunderstanding before anything developed from it, causing him to be left blinking for bit, before he let out an almost explosively heavy *Siiigh* of relief and smiles back to them.

"Thank you, Nathan. Thank you very much. For giving me and my partners this...... honor. We will handle using ROCK SMASH to the very best of our abilities, and never use it wrongly ever. Promise."

He re-affirms that he wants ALL his Pokemon except for Bastiodon and Mawile to learn the HM ASAP, as he feels all of them are both worthy and responsible enough to use ROCK SMASH ONLY when permitted, and he doesn't want to hurt his partners by excluding them from obtaining such a momentous Move without sufficient reason (Like with his new Steels). In the case Anubi, being allowed and entrusted to learn the HM would probably be a pretty meaningful show of respect, trust, and general good will by his partner (Note to Iron: If it raises his Happiness, remember that Terra will auto cancel the Evo into Lucario), while Shiranui and Yogi would be thrilled and deeply honored to learn it too, given its the ultimate Fighting Move. 

To teach them all, Terra will rotate his partners in and out of his party by making trips to the PC back to Nathan's room learn the HM in the privacy, giving them enough time to react/celebrate acquiring the Move. By the end of the HM acquisition process, his party line up will be as follows for the night: Shiranui, Lapis Lazul, Basteele, Bastiodon, Anubi, and Tommy.

Terra would concede it be infeasible to teach ROCK SMASH to Angie right now, though, so he'd be willing to put off her learning until its possible to do it discretely. Sorry, but your chance to become even more godly will have to wait...

(If your PM idea would allow Angie to learn ROCK SMASH quickly, though, then by all means shoot it to me, and I'll edit my post accordingly!)

Oh, and his face lights up briefly when you mention's Emolga's proper name, as he's happy that he finally has a name to put to the galvanized glider!

As for the other topics.....they can be save PMing, as they are not mechanically important and more.....sensitive in nature.

Instead of Nathan seeming down about being admonished for putting himself down, Nathan just chuckles at the irony of the situation.  "...well, look at you, nailing me for the exact same thing I said you shouldn't do...heh..."  Gallade's chuckling as well.  It doesn't seem as bad when you're able to laugh about it together, right?

Once Nathan and Gallade stop chuckling, he makes one more comment.  "...I'm not really the professional artist type, and that's fine by me.  I'm not trying to put my own work down, though I guess I could have worded that a bit better...drawing is more of a hobby for me than a passion, let's just say that.  History, though...oh, the wonders of history...you wouldn't believe some of the things I could tell you about the past...well, maybe you would, actually, given what we all just experienced...what's important is what we learn from it, though.  I'm getting off track though.  You're right, Terra.  I shouldn't directly compare my art to Keni's.  It's kinda hard to compare most art to his work, after all, given that he's dedicated his whole life to it..."

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Now then, on to teaching ROCK SMASH to various pokemon!

Teaching ROCK SMASH to Shiranui, Basteele, Anubi, and Genie should be a fairly straightforward affair.  Gallade's a bit more stoic and distant than usual while Basteele's out (though he does his best to hide any outward reactions), but he's definitely more than happy to see the two Fighting types learn the move.  He thinks they're trustworthy enough.  And Genie...well, let's just say Nathan partially hopes teaching her the HM helps act as an apology for what transpired in the introductory battle...

As far as Yogi the Medicham goes...well, Gallade tenses up immediately, ready in case the Medicham decides to cause any trouble.  Nathan eyes Yogi a little warily the entire time, but provided Yogi is willing to keep the move a secret and has no problems with learning the move from Nathan (nor causes any trouble), that'll probably be fairly straightforward too.  Given that Terra trusts that Yogi will use ROCK SMASH responsibly, Nathan will do so with few complaints despite his own (or rather, Gallade's) biases.  Gallade won't object either simply to be polite about it, but mostly because he doesn't want to be the one who starts any kind of fight here.  That'd be rather rude of him if he did.

As for Angie...well...Nathan coughs, then says, "...so, uh, about Angie...I kinda took the liberty of already teaching her the move ahead of time...ya know, when ya borrowed Gallade to go to Stair and loaned her to me so we could talk...*ahem*...figured that'd be a good time to do it, considering nobody else was around at the time..."  Nathan doesn't outright say it, but he definitely already trusted that Terra would use the HM responsibly at that point, and Nathan also likes Angie, so...(if ya need me to, @Iron, I can forward the PMs involving that part of the private scene as evidence to ya)