025th Shattering * Audio / Written

[breaks_destiny]

New year, new life. Isn't that what people say? I suppose in general we can say life is the same for us here, right? But that's how it usually goes, not everyone changes countries, kingdoms or whatever there is in your world, each year, do they? It's in the smaller details where things change and new ones come to us.

We're still starting, but does anyone have something new already? Or plan to get something new during this year? I myself have got a girlfriend, the beautiful Ushiromiya Ange, sorry guys but she's out of the market now!

[And he's laughing like an idiot. Really it's not hard to see he's very happy with that. Any more immature and he would be doing a dance going "girlfriend, girlfriend, Ange's now my girlfriend".]

[Filtered to the Hughes family | 100% Unhackable]

So... Who wants to go to have dinner at the Seventh Heaven one of those days? Or have a sandwich based dinner, I can do those.

[Filtered to girls | 100% Unhackable]

[There's a quick but decently done portrait of Minato in the page now. Under it appears a written message.]

Good-looking young man, single and without any compromise. Very intelligent and resourceful, knows the worth of listening to others and puts it in practice often. Likes to sleep, take pictures, listen to music and hang around the village. Has been around here for three years or so. Good friend of his friends. Looking for more friends, specially females. For more references you can ask about Arisato Minato to: Minako, Shiki, Haruhi and Keiichi.

Interested people can ring directly to Arisato Minato's journal.

Comments

[voice] s'okay.

[catches]

Just when I thought I'd got the hang of the word...

Could you say she's broody too?

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

Yes but not gratuitously. She has reasons to be that way.

[voice]

[catches]

Well, I'm not gonna pry. [Actually, he really wants to, but that's just rude.]

So, you two're a couple, huh?

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

[It's not Keiichi's place to tell anyway.]

That's right, since Christmas day actually.

[voice]

[catches]

How... romantic. Then, you two've known each other for a while?

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

Half a year, maybe a bit more, yeah. Ever since she arrived.

[voice]

[catches]

That long, huh? So, when'd you realise you liked her?

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

When I realized that it wouldn't go away and it wasn't just about wanting to help her a lot, basically. And when the idea of her vanishing before I even told her anything terrified me more than anything ever.

[And he has many things that terrify him.]

[voice]

[catches]

Uh... [That should not sound anywhere near as cool as he's finding it.] Sounds pretty deep, bro! Can't say I know how it feels.

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

You will know it, eventually. Here or wherever, we can't live life all alone forever, right?

[voice]

[catches]

Uh... yeah! That's it exactly! [To be honest, all this talk about FEELINGS feels a little weird to him but!]

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

So, what's your name? Mine's Keiichi.

[voice]

[catches]

And mine's Brendan! Uh... and, just to get this outta the way, you ever heard of Pokémon?

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

Can't say I have. What is it?

[voice]

[catches]

Well, I guess you could say they're like animals...

Actually, your girlfriend said they were like something called 'Godzilla', whatever that is.

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

... Godzilla is a giant monster, dinosaur-like and product of nuclear detonations. Not really what I would call an "animal".

[voice]

[catches]

... See, I knew it was something bad but... Yeah. That's a little rough.

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

So they are like Godzilla? Or was that just her impression?

[voice]

[catches]

Well... the one she saw, Swampert, is a little big I guess... Don't know where she got the 'nuclear' bit from though.

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

So are Pokemon like your pets or something? Or just animals from your world?

[voice]

[catches]

Nah, they're my partners! If you want, like, a description... I guess they're a bit like animals, but not a lot. That help?

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

Partners... Isn't that like pets?

[voice]

[catches]

... No? I mean, you work together with partners; you're on an even footing! It's not like that with pets, right?

[voice]

[breaks_destiny]

Depends on the way you treat and see your pet, I suppose. But that also happen with partners, I've seen people have so called "partners" that were more "the person I dump everything in" than "someone I'm on even footing with".

[voice]

[catches]

Well, I'm not like those guys, okay? My Pokémon and I work as a team to get through whatever's in our way; we don't dump anything on anyone.