037 ♋ Voice

[usedshooshpap]

Hopefully everyone is done wallowing in shame and embarrassment from that party enough for me to say that if I see mistletoe next year, I will fucking burn the place to the ground. Also, the adult Lalonde is not allowed to add her special "touch" to anything that might go into the bile sacks at any group function. Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment, but the end result was excruciating to watch.

Now that the official business is over, I've got a dilemma here. Obviously the first of the week, I'm going back towards Kanto. Big surprise, I know. What is surprising is that I don't know what I want to do. There are still four badges for me to get, but the question is... Do I just stay in Vermillion or Fuchsia until more tolerable traveling weather is in sight or just  keep going? I'm a little on the fence because it's fucking cold and I hate traveling in it.


[ Locked to Kanaya ]

Hey, is everything all right? I saw you leave the party, but didn't really get the chance to catch up with you.

[ /Locked ]

Oh, right. The Deino hatched yesterday. What the fuck is with these hyperactive hatchlings I've got recently?

Comments

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

You do know this is only my second season dealing with this white garbage, right?

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

So? It's just snow.

It's snows almost all year back home.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

Which explains why it's not such a big deal to you.

Hats off to you, Astrid.

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

It shouldn't be a big deal to anybody. It's snow. It melts, it's soft, and you can basically ignore it.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

It's uncomfortable.

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

Put a coat on.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

I have a coat and a hoodie, thank you very much.

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

Well put them on! And some gloves, I guess.

[Buncha wimps.]

And then ignore the snow.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

Have you ever walked in wet jeans?

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

No, but no one says you have to wear jeans.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

That's all I have.

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

...Why? They sell lots of clothes here.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

That's all I ever wore on my planet?

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

You aren't on your planet though, you're here.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

So? I just buy what I'm used to.

Though I do have to get my shirts specially printed.

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

Printed with what?

[Oh hey, she knows what that word means now, woo.]

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

My sign?

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

Oh. What's a sign?

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

The thing that's on my shirt. All we troll folk have a specially designated sign.

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

What does it mean?

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

Think of it as like your last name. You use it to trace your lineage, right?

That's kind of how it works with trolls. Ancestors and descendants all share the same sign. A sign also shows were you stand on the hemospectrum, where your place in the blood color based caste system is.

[voice]

[punchandkiss]

Right, okay. But you have a last name too, don't you?

And I'm not really sure what all that blood stuff means.

[voice]

[usedshooshpap]

Yeah, but we don't trace heredity with them.

[ a shrug. ]

All you need to know is that trolls have different blood colors, like how humans have different skin colors. We used to have a hierarchy based off of what color our blood was.