Robin 003 Ⓡ video/action for Goldenrod/FOURTH WALL

[usedacrobatics]

This is your friendly neighborhood Boy Wonder speaking.

[Speaking, and standing dramatically atop Goldenrod's Radio Tower, with a Taillow fluttering behind him and another aerial Pokemon holding his 'gear offscreen.]

If anyone wants to be rescued, uh, now's the time.

[He reaches into his utility belt and removes a shiny red Birdarang.]

I've got my toys back.

Comments

Re: Video

[hesaphantom]

Actually, it was technically my parents who blew stuff up.

Re: [video]

[iownahoofbeast]

[He's just going to assume that's a 'yes'.]

May I inquire. Does the human justice system on your world work similarly to the one adopted here, with the the forced labor regardless of what crime was committed. Or does it more appropriately deal with the criminal element.

Re: Video

[usedacrobatics]

What do you do, club people over the head with it? Pancakes for great justice?

Re: Video

[usedacrobatics]

[...]

We're talking accidental experiment, right? Not... horrific gene-splicing mad science gone horribly wrong?

Video

[starspangledavenger]

I can serve up some eggs and sausage with that too if you like. [gives a flat but amused look]

Re: Video

[usedacrobatics]

So it doubles as a skillet as well as a griddle.

That's American ingenuity.

Video;

[staystraught]

Must be. I don't know that name at all.

This whole place is pretty, uh, alternate. It's Pokemon, for heaven's sake.

Re: [video]

[usedacrobatics]

There is no one human justice system where I come from. Every city, state, and country has their own rules, and which one applies to you varies according to the severity of the crime and where it was committed. Sometimes jurisdictions overlap, too, and you can escape a worst punishment by committing an even worse crime in a place that has less stringent penalties.

action;

[usedacrobatics]

[Wrist-mounted is indeed an intriguing idea, but his gloves are full already-- lockpicks in the fingertips and hologram technology and computers.

Rather younger; he's about thirteen and a half.]

No one's sure where this is, not really. Inside a video game. No way out.

Were you hoping you'd see if you made it up high enough?

Re: Video

[starspangledavenger]

Yep, it's a true all American invention. I can serve up a side of Nazis too.

Re: [video]

[iownahoofbeast]

...That is less than ideal for a system of justice. Rather entirely the opposite, in fact.

[This is why on Alternia they pretty much just hang everyone.]

Re: Video

[hesaphantom]

What? No, it was totally an accident.

Re: Video

[staystraught]

No way. Stop yourself from getting served, maybe, but it's a shield. For parrying, not attacking.

Re: [video]

[staystraught]

Can't be helped, dude. There's six billion people in the world. You can't govern them all under one system, and plenty would kill you if you tried.

Re: Video

[staystraught]

That's a relief. Guessing it was still a shock.

Re: Video

[hesaphantom]

Well, I didn't exactly....tell them. Not for a long time.

Video

[usedacrobatics]

And they never noticed on their own, either?

Re: Video

[hesaphantom]

Pretty much.

Video

[starspangledavenger]

It being a shield doesn't make it any less of a weapon if you know how to use it properly.

[Wonders if this kid is trying to provoke him into demonstrating]

Re: Video

[usedacrobatics]

[Obviously.]

You could say that about a spoon and it'd still be lame.

[starspangledavenger]

My shield is much better than a spoon.

[it might be working]

Re: Video

[usedacrobatics]

[Obviously.]

You could say that about a spoon and it'd still be lame.

Video

[staystraught]

Do you have a favored older sibling, or...?

Re: Video

[hesaphantom]

Yeah, my older sister.

[usedacrobatics]

Can't eat ice cream with it, so I don't see how.

[He just giggles at how clever he is. Because it also sounds condescending.]