❥ FIRST DRAGONSTONE | ACTION [NEW BARK TOWN] / VIDEO

[invigorating]

[ ACTION (NEW BARK TOWN) ]

[Waking up in a strange world and being kicked out of the house you woke up in before you're fully awake is kind of weird. Nowi's still struggling to take in her surroundings as she leaves Mom's house. She's not used to getting up this early. "This early" is about ten in the morning, so it's not really early at all, but that's not the point. Nowi finally finds a nice patch of grass and flops down, lying on her back and stretching her arms above her head.]

Maybe I'll just get a little more sleep before I start that adventure or whatever...

[She should probably find the Shepards first though. Chrom will probably be annoyed that she's run off again. She doesn't recognize this place, but surely things will make sense eventually.

Nowi moves to push her hair out of her face only to come to a startling realization. She sits up immediately, reaching up to her ears.]

Wh-What!? What happened? Where are my ears!?

[Her ears aren't missing, they're just small. Instead of long, pointed ears, she's currently sporting human ones.]

How-- How did this happen!? What's going on!?

[Now that she's more awake and she's getting a better look at her surroundings, Nowi's beginning to tear up. Nothing here looks familiar. The buildings look completely foreign and not in the same way most of Valm looks foreign. They were last in a volcano, how did she get here? It isn't long before Nowi's in tears, rubbing her gloves across her eyes in a futile attempt to stop the tears.]

What's going on!?

[ VIDEO ]

[About an hour and a half later Nowi posts a video to the network. Well, it's probably not Nowi doing it, since she's not holding the 'Gear, but probably some poor sap she roped into helping her. The camera is angled down on her, which isn't really hard since she's so short.]

Hi! I'm not really sure how to start this, so I'll get to the point. I've been told that this is "Johto" or something, but I don't really care about that. I'm looking for a bunch of people! An army! We're called the Shepards and our leader-guy's name is Chrom, so if anyone's seen them, let me know!

[There's a pause while Nowi tries to remember what she was going to say. She tilts her head as she taps a gloved finger to her lips. It seems the cameraman (or camerawoman) has decided to keep the 'Gear focused on Nowi's torso, so you're not getting the full horribleness of her outfit. It's still pretty bad though. Yikes.]

Oh, right! I've got a question about my ears.

[She pushes her bangs back to show off her perfectly normal human ears.]

They're not supposed to be like this! They're like... long and pointy and stuff! They're really cute and not... tiny. These are human ears! I'm not a human!

[Way to just announce that, Nowi...]

And one more thing! What's this?

[She points to the ground and the camera pans down to show a Dratini curled up at Nowi's feet. She quickly hurries before the cameraman can say anything.]

Yeah, yeah, I know, a Pokémon or whatever, but that's not what I'm asking! Is it a dragon? It looks kind of like a dragon. It's kind of nice that someone gave me a dragon, but why was it in a ball? --Yeah, a Pokéball, that's not the point!

[She balls her hands into fists and stamps her foot as the camera moves to focus on her again.]

This is really annoying! What's going on around here? I was in a volcano last time I checked, so why am I here!?

[But as quickly as the anger comes it leaves her and Nowi sighs and folds her arms.]

Well, I guess that's all the questions I've got. So if you're listening and you've got some answers, let me know, okay? Thanks!

[And with that, the video ends.]

Comments

[invigorating]

Probably not! I mean I got this far by being this way, so I don't really see a point in changing it now!

[NOWI NO]

[nullorvoid]

[It takes him a minute to figure out what the hell to even do with that, but - ]

You know, I can actually get behind that, so sure.

[...NOWI YES, APPARENTLY?]

[invigorating]

Oh wow, normally I get something like "Nowi, that's bad" or "don't do that, Nowi" or "why this" so that's great! I knew there was a reason I liked you!

[Nowi, you like everyone.]

[nullorvoid]

[...WAIT WHAT]

We just met.

[invigorating]

Yep! You're the grumpy sort, but that's alright! I've dealt with plenty of grumpy people and they're never all that bad! I'm sure you'll warm up in time!

[nullorvoid]

You're sure I'll...?

[This is starting to sound suspiciously like-]

Ohhhh no. You are not inviting yourself along for the ride!

[invigorating]

So you've got a way to get to wherever it is we're supposed to go? Sounds great! Don't worry, I won't be a burden or anything, I can handle myself against any Risen or bandits or whatever!

[THANKS FOR THE IDEA, GINTI!!!!]

[nullorvoid]

What the hell is a Risen?!

[WHERE THE HELL ARE HIS PRIORITIES]

[invigorating]

It's like... um... hmm.

[How does she explain this...]

They're like, dead people but they're alive? And some of them aren't even people they just look kind of like living potato sacks! But I think they're also dead.

[Well, their heads kind of sort of look like potato sacks if you squint really hard??]

[nullorvoid]

Dead people can't be alive - there's nothing in there...

[HE WOULD KNOW]

[invigorating]

Well, it's not like you can explain it easily! They just sort of move around in a puddle of goop then they show up and attack with their claws! And sometimes they eat veggies! I'm not really sure why. So uh... maybe they're alive, maybe they're dead?

[Someone stop her before she hurts herself.]

[nullorvoid]

...Sure. Sure, you know what, that's fine.

[he is so done with today]

Nice to know we'll be protected if we come across any walking potato sacks with claws.

[invigorating]

Yep! You won't have to worry about that at all! I've beat up tons of 'em!

[I'm so sorry, Ginti.]

[nullorvoid]

[...]

Fine. But before we go anywhere, we're buying you a shirt.

[invigorating]

A shirt? I've already got one! Why do I need another one?

[...]

Oh, and there's one in this bag, but it's dark and looks kinda dumb. But it does have a cape, so there's that!

[It even looks sort of like her cape!]

[nullorvoid]

...Great, then we don't have to buy one. Put it on.

[invigorating]

Why?

[She's already reaching in the bag through, finally finding the outfit. It's been crammed back in and not properly folded at all, but obviously Nowi doesn't care about that.]

I guess I can just wear it over my shirt...

[So with that she pulls off her cape and yanks the shirt on over her head. It's a bit too big on her, but it's kind of surprising Mom managed to get something even resembling Nowi's tiny size.]

There, is that better?

[nullorvoid]

Yeah.

[Look, there's no polite way to say that he was not going to be taking what looks kind of like a tiny lady of the night off into the woods alone.]

...I guess I should probably ask you who you are or something. You have a name?

[invigorating]

[WELL YOU'RE NOT WRONG...]

Oh, yeah, duh! That should've been the first thing I said! My name's Nowi, it's really nice to meet you-- uh, what's your name?

[nullorvoid]

It's not like I asked.

And it's Ginti.

[invigorating]

Well, yeah, that's true.

Nice to meet you, Ginti! Say, where are you from? You've got a pretty cool outfit!

[nullorvoid]

[It's nice and not stripperiffic, yes.]

...It's a long story. It's not anywhere like this, though, that's for sure.

The outfit isn't anything special, though; it's more of a uniform than anything.

[invigorating]

A uniform? Oooh, that's a nice uniform! It looks like it'd be pretty comfy.

[THAT'S NOT A COMPLIMENT COMING FROM YOU, NOWI]

[nullorvoid]

[...UH.]

That's not how I would have thought to describe it, but yeah. Sure.

[invigorating]

You mean it's not?