bamfsecretary | thirty-second form; and now for something completely different (video/action for housemates)

thirty-second form; and now for something completely different (video/action for housemates)

{When the feed clicks on, there's a Togepi peering curiously at the screen. She trills, and picks it up awkwardly, giving the network a lovely view of Nanao's bare feet and ankles, which grow steadily larger as the little egg Pokemon toddles unsteadily towards her.}

Love, Kanra - I wonder what that's all about... Oh, hello there. {And suddenly we're flying through the aiiiir~ but not really, as Nanao gently sets the Togepi next to her on the piano stool. The 'Gear gets unceremoniously dropped, and the view changes to one through the open back door, where a Houndour is making a concerted effort to try to attack a laughing Alakazam, who is simply avoiding every single attack with ease.}

Yes, yes, I missed you too, Miki. {The Togepi squeaks happily, and Nanao laughs a little - and outside the noises of battling cease for a moment, as the Houndour starts to glow.} Huh?

{The Houndour grows bigger and bigger... and bigger still, until it finally stops, and the Pokedex goes 'ding', announcing the fact that 'your Shuuhei has evolved into a Houndoom'. But Nanao ignores that, and accidentally leans against some of the keys of the piano as she turns around properly to see out the door.}

. . . My dog has turned into a horse. I can't believe it. {Her Houndoom looks to be just as surprised, as he looks himself over in a state of shock, before something seems to click inside his brain, and he turns to face the Alakazam, who is simply standing there.}

{And then the giant canine leaps for the fox-like psychic, and Kiyone can't move fast enough to get away. There's a few moments of slack-jawed silence from Nanao, before she mutters something along the lines of "I can't believe I'm going to do this." and a familiar sounding piano tune starts up.}

{This is a wacky chase scene accompanied by the Benny Hill theme on the piano, Johto. You're welcome.}

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[No worries, little Togepi! Puppy is getting much closer now, and standing to put her front paws on the bench. Hi there, you're getting a wet sniffing. She's a friendly one, alright. Much friendlier than her trainer, too!

Though considering the look on his face, that....doesn't take much.]

Provided neither goes too far and does something that can't be fixed.

{O-oh, hello, friendly Growlithe! Togepi will just be squeaking happily and wiggling at the sniffering because that's tickiliiiish hjhdhjsdhj}

{Raising an eyebrow}

Considering that Kiyone is almost 35 levels higher than Shuuhei, I don't think it should be too much of a problem. Even if he's now the size of a horse.

[Well have a big sniffing and some licking, too! She's really friendly and likes making new friends!]

The same could be said about us and Hollows, Ise. They've been stronger than us and we've still defeated them.

{New friends are always good, that's for sure! And licking eeee! She doesn't mind that, not at all.}

We have the advantage of training, Captain. Training and strategy and skills that have been honed over millennia.

Not to mention the ability to think in advance, which is something ninety-nine point eight percent of the Hollows that we face lack totally.

{She still has a century plus of shinigami life on you, boy. You may have bankai, but she has experience.}

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[Oh, good that she doesn't mind the licking because it's going to keep going and going and going and--yeah. Energizer Lopbunny when it comes to licking, this pup.]

So your team is untrained and doesn't know any strategies you've already used with them? I find that hard to believe.

The ability to think in advance doesn't do us much good when the other point two percent are found, you know. There are more of those than there should be.

[Experience and skills in dodging. That counts for a lot.]

{Energizer Lopunny meets bb!Daruma Doll, apparently, because Miki just squeaks, and nuzzles back.}

{Also she is just. Looking at him right now. She's stopped playing, and turns around to face him properly. This is srs business time.}

I'll forgive your naivety since you did not patrol the killing fields of the World Wars, or Korea, or Vietnam, or Cambodia, but there is most definitely a time when every plan you ever made goes to absolute shit and all you can do is throw down kidou after kidou and hope to hell that the rest of your brigade hasn't succumbed to the claws of the Adjuchas-class Menos that's breaking through the layered bakudo with terrifying ease, and that a Seated Officer has seen your call for help.

You are very lucky to have become a Shinigami when you did, I will say that. The early half of the twentieth century was an unpleasant place for mortals and Shinigami both.

{Those skills are hard won, and she learnt them early, thankfully enough. But still, they did not come easily.}

[Yay, nuzzlings! Growlithe will be attempting to get on that bench now; nuzzlings are easier when they're on the same level.

srs business time indeed, and he says nothing as she speaks, despite wanting to. No, he wasn't there, and frankly, didn't want to be. He'd read enough about it and studied it in the academy enough to know he was lucky and doesn't need her to tell him that, so she gets a look right back. He might be young, and sometimes still naive, but he isn't an idiot.]

Then explain to me what good training and strategy did for you when it appears that only luck and good timing kept you and your fellow survivors alive long enough to see the end of century.

{She'd help you climb... but what are arms.}

{She's just making sure. After all, she was only his age when they sent her off to war. She didn't even have shikai.}

As cruel as it may sound, the wars. They provided a massive influx of raw materials when we needed them the most.

You know, the Rukongai wasn't always as large as it is these days. It quadrupled in size after the First World War's conclusion - but with sixteen million souls in four years... It was interesting, to say the least.

[What are arms when you have stubborn? She'll get up there sooner or later! ...Somehow.

Which means she was long out of the academy by then; the curriculum did change by the end of the wars.]

We were told as much in class. Figures and graphs mean little in the face of actually seeing it, but they can give you some perspective when you don't have experience to draw from.

{Somehow, indeed. Miki will cheer for you, though!}

{She was out of the academy before the turn of the century - while not a prodigy of his level, she is still ferociously intelligent. And she would know, as she helped shape that curriculum.}

And some perspective is always better than none. As for experiencing it - well, unless Kurotsuchi has invented something that can read memories, they will simply stay memories.

[The cheering helps, and after a few tries, Growlithe manages to get up on the bench. Here, Miki! Lots of nuzzles!]

It's best they stay that way. Some things are best left in the past to be learned from in books instead of constantly relived.

{Most excellent! All of the cuddling and nuzzling.}

Normally, I am all for learning through experience... But those wars are one thing I would rather forget.

[All the cuddles, nuzzles, and lickings an egg could want. Friendly, warm, and affectionate. That's this Growlithe for you.]

You and most of the survivors of that time. No one could blame you for that.

[Few would want to, either. Just the way things work.]

{OMIGOSH this egg is the happiest egg ever. It is literally bursting out of it's shell with happiness.}

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened had they... not have happened.

[NO bursting, egg-buddy! Growlithe's just gonna be cuddling around you now, so enjoy all that warmth and fur. And lickings. Lots of lickings.]

Things would undoubtedly be different. I doubt we would have been prepared for what Aizen has done without experience in war. There might not have been anything left of the Seireitei without them.

[It's a sobering thought, truly.]

{Fuzzy warm softness - this egg in in heaven!}

You are quite possibly right. I.... no, you are right.

{She's still trying to process it in her own mind, and the conclusions that she's reaching are fairly horrible.}

[A heaven that isn't moving. Nope, not moving at all. Growlithe's just going to settle in for a nap, that's all.]

Without the previous wars, none of us would be ready. He could have wiped us out with a single attack and gone on to move his plans unhindered by any opposition. There's no telling what he might have done if that was the case.

[Aizen had been around during the wars, so he undoubtedly knew about strategy. Even if they hadn't happened, the older Captains knew things the younger generations didn't. If they turned that knowledge against an unknowing Seireitei....it's almost too horrible to think about. In a way, those wars saved them. Somehow.]

{Then they shall nap!}

You read my mind. I just... can't comprehend him. At all.

{In some horrible way, it all made perfect sense.}

[Napping! The perfect way to spend an afternoon while trainers talk.]

You're probably better off not even trying to. There are some things we'll never understand.

[That's what made it horrible. Nonsense could be laughed off, but actual sense? Not so much.]

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