Casefile 003A - Video; Sprout Tower

[used_fireblast]

[The video opens on the interior of Sprout Tower. Lara the Smoochum is padding around the bare wooden floor staring up at something offscreen. After a moment, a Hoppip slowly drifts downwards into view.]

Smoo!

[Lara takes a jump and bops the underside of the Hoppip, sending it floating back off the top of the screen.]

Piiiiii~
Chum!

[This repeats a few times, Lara playing beachball with the Hoppip. The camera turns around to show Harry sitting against a wall, a grey and orange egg tucked into his black leather duster.]

I can't tell if they're both having fun, or if Campbell's just to oblivious to care.

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[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

I figure things out for a living.

[With a healthy side of blowing things up, but that's not relevant to this kind of investigation. Probably.]

And my godmother's given me a lot of experience dealing with inhuman logic.

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[justicereigns]

Convenient.

Godmother?

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[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she could be kind of... special. To put it mildly.

[Where Harry comes from, it'd be pretty fair to say that when Disney wrote Cinderella's fairy godmother, he was full of crap.]

The place she came from always had a logic to it. It just wasn't anything recognizably human, most of the time.

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[justicereigns]

[Disney does have a tendency towards that.]

All right... I guess that could make sense. [After all giants and fishmen could have different logic... hypothetically. Except that they don't, so he can only appreciate this on a very theoretical level.] Well, so far if you ignore the fact that water should probably trump everything except plant, I guess the pokemon elements have some logic to them... But only sometimes.

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[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

[Harry doesn't particularly think water's all THAT powerful, but he might be a bit biased in terms of personal preference.]

It's possible Pokemon are at least partly magical in their abilities. It'd go a long way towards explaining what they can do, and some of the weird elemental rock-paper-scissors stuff I've heard about.

[Major problem with that being that it'd take a whole heck of a lot of power. Harry's got no idea where it'd come from.]

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[justicereigns]

Still doesn't explain how something a dozen feet tall can fit in a ball the size of a palm. Though I guess it's more like a teleportation than compression deal. How the fire pokemon can keep burning without any fuel or the water pokemon generate that much water still seems impossible. Certainly defying of logic.

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[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

[It's magic, he doesn't have to explain it.]

Could be they're converting the elements around them into what they need. Burning oxygen or combining hydrogen and oxygen to make water... Or they could summon what they need from other places, somehow.

[Doesn't mean he won't try, though.]

No clue on the Pokeballs, though. Could be really advanced tech or some kind of magic I'm not familiar with.

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[justicereigns]

I guess. The whole thing is a bit crazy. Even by Grand Line standards.