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Carmen really doesn't like it when things blow up! On a professional level, she's sort of a cross between disgusted and aghast by the whole thing, because you've got this psychopath screaming about how beautiful it is as he blows a public landmark to kingdom come, and so part of her is like okay someone needs to stop this guy, and part of her is like what is even wrong with you, that's not how you derive pleasure from crime. It's actually sort of hard to play her off the Rockets sometimes because with her there's always this fine line between "How dare you be villainous" and "how dare you be villainous in a way I don't condone". Crime is supposed to be an intellectual art form in her book, and even though Kato seems to think that a well-built bomb is a work of art, she doesn't really agree because, y'know, MASSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE.

On a personal level, she is sad because she had a Significant Kiss beneath the shadow of that lighthouse and NOW IT'S GONE, WAY TO GO, LUKE.

That said, Carmen doesn't put a whole lot of faith in the Johto police, but she doesn't necessarily discount them, either. So while she's probably a little bit like "You...do realize there were at least two culprits, right, guys?" at them at the moment, they are acting and they do get some credit for that.

If Envy were to try out sports, what kinds would he like and why?

Hmm. That depends on whether the people in question are glancing at him in his own world - him being a 520-year-old monster-man isn't obvious to fellow routelings. But besides basic things like that...

- Ondorus' natural state is excited, sentimental dorkery. Not that his elegance is all a facade, that's an image he's taken on for real, but if affected by something such that his inhibitions were removed, he'd turn into the biggest soft-hearted doofus nerd with a sweet tooth. The biggest subjects of his nerdjoy are history and LOTR-esque adventure fiction (all fiction from his world is fantasy to begin with!)

- Just how little of the world he's experienced for himself, judging by how much he knows. He's spent those five centuries helping to run a village in a desert, and anything he knows beyond that came from books or the stories of travelers.

- How emotionally secure he is. This isn't so much an opposite of how he appears as just something you wouldn't guess right away - he comes off as a friendly version of the stuffy formal mage archetype, except that after a while you realize - no, he's not lonely, he doesn't have skeletons in his closet, he doesn't needg to be taught a valuable lesson about letting oneself relax and have fun, he's actually very good at handling his feelings.

That last one was really weak, but I'm speed-replying because my phone's battery is low. I'll probably come up with a better one soon and post it later.

...I have to pick just one "least favorite"? Oh, lord.

At this precise moment in time, Albert's favorite thing about Johto is probably the fact that Coop seems happy in it. Which just goes to show you how little Albert likes Johto, really, because Coop was happy in Twin Peaks, too, and Albert wouldn't say something positive about Twin Peaks if you gave him a billion dollars to do it. The thing about Albert is that he remembers Pittsburgh, and Windom, and just how bad things got for Coop — and at his current canonpoint, they're well entrenched in the hunt for Windom on top of it — and then he comes here and sees Coop in Johto and it's like...yeah, life and karma have been sucker-punching Coop in the face for as long as Albert's known him and now he's finally, finally getting some semblance of a break from that. In Albert's book, that's not a bad thing by any means.

The thing he hates most about Johto, on the other hand, is probably how rural it is, comparatively speaking. Albert hates small towns and folksy mentalities, and thus far the vast majority of the cities he's ended up in have been these tiny little backwoods locales — and the ones that weren't had destroyed Pokemon Centers and landmarks so their medical facilities were reduced to the Dark Ages, too, and it just pisses him off so bad because he's like dammit, just give me a city and a working lab and all the tools I require and GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY. B(

Also he refuses to use the word "Pokemon" because that is his SILENT REBELLION against belief in this place.

(I'll have to see about streaming it again for Plurk sometime!)

He'll revert back pretty quickly I think, her presence (and whatever the hell happens when she sees him, considering he entirely betrayed her) stomping all over his confidence. Even if she attacks him, I doubt he'll even let his Pokémon defend him, not wanting them to hurt her.
And even though he's learnt how to be angry, he loves her too much to be angry with her.

At least, this is what I expect; RP being RP, I wouldn't be surprised if something else happens entirely. |D

Kimblee normally doesn't fear very much, but there are a few things that crop up now and then in Johto due to his canon point - potential problems with said things weren't anything that he was able to dwell on in canon due to the circumstances going on toward the end ~~and the last time he's seen, he's a bit too busy werqing Dat Class for anything else to matter~~ but to put it in...mostly non-spoilery terms, he has a lot of solid reasons to dislike things that remind him of the Homunculus Pride. The things that tend to give him issues now are basically mostly-dark, enclosed spaces like caves and tunnels (which would be where he first met Pride, and where Pride has the most power; that scene is also the only one in canon in which Kimblee seems openly nervous) and shadows moving independently of their source and behaving in ways that they shouldn't - which normally wouldn't be a problem in any sane world that adheres to physics or Earth logic in general, but this is Johto and fuck logic, we have Gengars and things that use Shadow Sneak.

As for pet peeves! ...he has about half a million of them, um. The largest one is hypocrisy, in a complete sense. He doesn't seem to mind people lying or failing to practice what they preach; really, he engages in a lot of basic hypocrisy himself in that regard. What actually pisses him off is the lack of conviction and willingness to abandon ideals that one previously held themselves to as soon as it's convenient; he doesn't care if someone does one thing and says another as long as they own their actions as being dishonest. For an example, the basic hypocrisy of an addict preaching abstinence wouldn't piss him off; an addict claiming constant sobriety while preaching abstinence would.

Did Carmen ever think about/wish she had siblings? Why or why not?

~~ALBERT IN LOVE~~ When did Albert start smoking? Additionally, what kind of music does he like?

Ooh ooh ooh, the lineup, I've had planned for years actually. Though, the Blissey could easily be swapped out for an Audino or even Togekiss at this point, since I made this... a long time ago. xD

As for the type she'd favor... hm, I could see either Water or Normal-types. A lot of Normal-types evolve through friendship or are just downright adorable, and I foresee her having a looot of Pokemon that level that way here. Water-types as a play on her name on top of her having grown up on an island, it'd just... make sense.

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He kind of does, yeah, though I don't really thinks he sees it as trolling so much as the kind of behavior he's used to dealing with back home when dealing with other mages. It seems like the sort of thing that would be common, albeit for reasons that are more to do with family secrets and mage politics than straight up trolling.

Cecil Harvey, from the great and glorious Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (with guest appearance by Dissidia: Final Fantasy), using this journal!

Barney's record is average. He has a good run with the Joys (some people collect badges...), surprisingly, but otherwise, hit and miss, much to his chagrin.

Yes he does. He has a tendency to treat the network like his blog since it's the closest thing to the internet. Much to everyone's annoyance sometimes.

Not yet.

Not on a network post, but it can be assumed he has done it a few times for people he's met in bars. Otherwise, yeah, he mostly hangs out with Larry and Larry has a girlfriend so...makes the game a bit harder.

I think she probably did right at first, since Toothless is pretty awesome, but once she got attached to Stormfly, not anymore. Not that she would object if another Night Fury turned up, of course. But she likes her dragon!

This would be less true if it had been one of the little fat ones.

I don't think so, actually! We know that from age two onward, she was growing up in the Golden Gate Girls' School, which was like combination orphanage and boarding school, and we also know that there were at least a handful of other girls Carmen's age around while she was there. (Coincidentally, I always think that picture is sort of telling in that you've got these five little girls standing in a line, and yet they're still pretty evidently split into two pairs of two, and Carmen in the middle with the bear. Even as a kid she was a loner in a crowd.) So I don't think she'd be eager for a sibling her own age, because her classmates were already acting in a similar capacity for her, and I don't think she'd envision a younger sibling because of how independent she was as a kid; I'd imagine she'd have seen them more as something slowing her down than an asset.

As for older siblings...I don't think she'd really want a sister, but that might be because most if not all her older influences in canon are male, and she seems to take better to Playing In The Boys' League™, as it were. An older brother, though...if it were going to be anything, I think it'd be that. In a sort of "the Mycroft Holmes to her Sherlock"-y sort of way.

But no, by and large she didn't think a lot about siblings. Parents, yes. And possibly she thought about siblings in a manner sort of incidental to that — "I wonder who my parents are, and if they have kids other than me, and where they are if I'm here" — but she probably didn't dwell on that too much because let's be honest, thinking about that too much would only lead into questions of "so why didn't my parents want me, then?" and that's just super depressing.

So even if a second Night Fury suddenly became available, she still wouldn't trade out Stormfly?

Nope! I could see her maybe having two dragons, but she'd never give up stormfly.

~~GILLIAN ANDERSON~~

Early on in his FBI career, I think. He was out of college and into the Bureau before he did, because as a kid he was one of Those Kids who is all like HELLO DO YOU KNOW WHAT SMOKING DOES TO YOUR LUNGS — not because of any social stigma (which, obviously, was a lot less back in the day) but more because he actually knew what carcinogens were and what they do to human tissue and he was just sort of like "really? really." when it came to cigarettes. Also factor in that a lot of the reason why young people start smoking is because they're trying to ~look cool~ or ~fit in with a crowd~, and then ask yourself how much Albert Rosenfield would legitimately actually care about either one of those things. I mean come on now.

That said, he picked it up after a given stint of time working in forensics. I imagine he probably saw something that rattled him pretty badly and knowing better than to try to console him (because lulz, Albert), one of the senior agents just kind of handed him a pack and left him alone, and after he silently pondered it for a little while, he lit up. Admittedly, some of why he persisted in it was for the calming anxiety-reducing effects that come with the nicotine, but the reason that he doesn't admit is because the smell of the smoke is better than the stink of formaldehyde and rotting corpses. So he actually trained himself into finding the smell of the smoke appealing specifically so that he'd have an easy alternative to the smells of other, more horrifying things. Like death and blood and preservative.

As for music, my initial thought was that he likes jazz. Though I wouldn't put it past him to like some big band and rock and roll, too, so long as it's good rock and roll and none of that shaggy-haired Beatles-generation boy band crap.

Just this guy here!

.... haha oh, Kayneth. Clearly this can only be a wonderful acquaintanceship...

Ur | Fairy Tail |

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Lucifer of Pride | Umineko no Naku Koro ni |

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Bartz Klauser | Final Fantasy V/Dissidia: Final Fantasy |

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Willard H. Wright | Umineko no Naku Koro ni |

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Irisviel von Einzbern | Fate/Zero |

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Eri Mizutani | The Idolm@ster

Short term, blackmail or death threats, essentially. Blackmail is easier to make effective, if only because he's surprisingly not a pushover (unless you're Ferris), but unless you have sources (like, say, Sion's), good luck finding anything to blackmail him with. Long term... well, first he has to go through Episode 24 or something equivalently world-shattering like that to kick him in the pants and give him sufficient motivation to even start breaking his lazy habits...

Only one... oh gosh that's hard. I love all his 'mons, he likes all his 'mons, his 'mons all love him (well except Arius but he's special)... If it was that he had to give up his entire team for whatever reason and could choose any one Pokémon in the world to partner up with but only that one ever, he'd keep Rose the Clefairy at this point, because frankly, she's the one he's the most attached to.

If he was starting fresh without remembering any of them (or they all died or something) though... Probably Zekrom, if legendaries count. Because there's just this massively huge parallel between Reshiram/Zekrom and certain spoilery things that Ryner is involved in that I saw the second time I ever fought N in White okay. Besides, black electric dragon. Right coloration, right typing, what's not to match?

(If legendaries didn't count, though, he'd probably end up with another Clefairy, because they can learn all sorts of elemental moves that are kind of like magic, plus their pre-evolution is a star shape which reflects his eyes, and, well, I'm just kind of having trouble seeing him in Johto without Rose at this point, okay.)

Also because now I'm curious, same question for Carmen? (The one about the Pokémon, not the one under the strike. Carmen is not lazy.)

Edited 2012-08-25 21:40 (UTC)

Otacon |

vulpesvivus | Metal Gear Solid 4

Lancer/Cu Chulainn |

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riastrad_ridire | Fate/stay night

Yayoi Kise -

pikajanken - Smile! Precure

Saber the Blue (

cashcow) from Fate/stay night
Miki Hoshii (

honeygatherer) from THE iDOLM@STER
Kyrie (

havemercy) from Devil May Cry

Edited 2012-08-25 21:22 (UTC)

Excellent question! There's going to be a lot of headcanon tl;dr here, so I apologize in advance.

I've mentioned it on plurk quite a few times and it should be obvious just from interacting with Isaac, but he's a major social fail. He has difficulty understanding sarcasm, why people would lie, and reading simple social cues, such a lulls in conversation. He needs people to lead him in basic conversation, so he's... kind of the biggest failure ever on the social front. There isn't any reason behind this - he's just had difficulty with this sort of thing forever. (I could TL;DR about where I got all this from, but we'll skip that.)

Kimblee and Isaac both participated in the Ishval War as State Alchemists. There is a flashback scene in Brotherhood which shows Kimblee talking to Roy and Riza about genocide (and how he doesn't understand why people are getting so worked up over it) and Isaac is shown in the background. Considering everything they say in the episode, it implies Isaac knew Kimblee in Ishval, but didn't understand his motivations - which goes along well with the social fail in my opinion. There's a lot of subtext in that minute and a half interaction between them in the episode, okay.

Obviously this required some fleshing out - Isaac refused to trust anyone but Kimblee and comes to him in Central Prison, putting Isaac at risk of being captured. He's there because he's sure Kimblee will help; he's in prison and Isaac is offering him a way to escape, so why wouldn't he? Besides, they got along pretty well in Ishval (headcanonly), so why wouldn't he want to help? He blew up his superior officers because he was upset with their orders, right? (Ahahaha.) This was the last interaction Isaac had with Kimblee before coming to Route, and it obviously didn't end well. I'll get back to this in a moment though, let me TL;DR about Ishval first.

Ishval was the first conflict for the majority of the cast. Isaac wasn't any exception to that. Kimblee (in Dal's headcanon) had seen conflict before Ishval and basically took on a leadership role among the soldiers; partially because he was experienced in combat and partially because he was such a good little soldier and the superiors adored him. Kimblee interacted with all the State Alchemists and took it on himself to mentor all of them. Isaac was fine with the conflict for... maybe a few weeks. He basically just avoided thinking about the orders and what he was doing on the battlefield, but eventually he did break down in a bad way. Kimblee was the one to help him through that - he gave Isaac some excellent advice (which boils down to "you're following orders; who you are on the battlefield doesn't define you as a person"). Isaac was internalizing his complaints and looking at what he was doing and how it was reflecting on himself instead of blaming the superior officers and acting like he had no choice in the matter (like Roy and Riza were doing later when Kimblee bitched them out). So Kimblee calmed him down and with those words alone managed to get Isaac through the rest of the war. That wasn't the only interaction they had though; Isaac was severely injured later on (well, he wasn't injured too badly to start with, but he figured out how to use his blood as a weapon and that resulted in more injury) and Kimblee visited him in the makeshift hospital. Needless to say, with Isaac's social failure and Kimblee having been so helpful already, he was quite pleased with that. They also probably fought together at least once or twice before Kimblee was transferred to the Kanda district and given the Philosopher's Stone - which resulted in him killing his superior officers at the war's end.

That's ultimately the huge difference here: Kimblee was a (slightly) different person before the Philosopher's Stone. Yes, he was still a bad person, but he wasn't as openly crazy or willing to ignore social norms for violence's sake. Dal can explain the differences better than I can, but that's an important reason why Isaac likes Kimblee. He hasn't realized that there is a shift in Kimblee's personality, because he didn't know Kimblee very well to begin with.

So! Kimblee was incredibly helpful during Ishval and showed some compassion (????) that Isaac wasn't exactly used to. So he ended up seeing Kimblee as some sort of mentor figure and went on to follow his advice and left the military. (Which was a way too literal interpretation of what Kimblee was saying, but that's not the point.) Seven years later he tried to recruit Kimblee to take out Bradley and was laughed out of Central Prison. Then he died and ended up in Johto. Yeaaaah, Isaac wasn't too pleased about that. He still has issues with that - he just completely ignores them!

As far as what's happened in Johto, Kimblee has been nothing but good to Isaac. Or at least, he's been talking with Isaac and supporting him (and giving him way too many gifts) which is totally the same thing. Again, social fail. Someone showing kindness to him is pretty much grounds for them to be bffs, especially if they don't get frustrated with his social failure. Most of Isaac's attraction to Kimblee is based on what happened in Ishval though; what happened in Ishval is something Isaac still regrets and wants to make up for in some way, but at the same time he's learned that it doesn't define him as a person and he did get to meet Kimblee there...

...And then there's the fact that Kimblee is quite pretty okay. Isaac seems to have copied quite a few things from Kimblee - they both keep their hair long when it would be easier to fight with short hair, they both have the stupid antennae going on, ~~they both wear eyeliner~~, and Isaac seems to have picked up on Kimblee's expressions. Quite a few of them are ridiculously unique to Kimblee in the manga (he doesn't make some of those faces in Brotherhood, unfortunately) and Isaac makes the same faces.

TL;DR Isaac cares about Kimblee because of things that happened years ago, and all things considered, Kimblee's been pretty good to him here in Johto. If by "pretty good" you mean "hasn't stabbed Isaac in the back yet."