Since These Seem To Be Popular [Action]

[ceasetoexist]

You can run into and interact with Pokey doing a few different things around town today starting mid-afternoon.

Option One
As you go about your day today, you'll find Pokey walking down the streets of the town, carrying a set of multicolored chalk with him. Every once in awhile, usually at the end of the street, you'll see him drawing what appears to be an odd, nine-blocked hop-scotch board. Inside the first eight blocks, he even draws weird little things like flowers and the like. Oddly childish considering, if anyone knew his actual, apparent personality.

While he's starting this little endeavor on Ricardo street as usual, you can find him doing this on each street he can get to.

Option Two
Pokey has managed to make his way out of the kids section of the library (after making a mess and scattering several adventure books and comic books on the floor, or course), and has made his way to the adult men's book area. He seems to be looking for something and is getting more and more pissy that he can't appear to find it, casually throwing books about golfing and shaving and the like to the ground as he continues his search.

Option Three
Here, Pokey can be found poking around just about everywhere. He generally seems to be attempting to avoid people, though he occasionally seems to try and ruin a game of kickball a bunch of younger, droned kids are having for the pure entertainment it seems to give him to be a dick.

Otherwise, he's attempting to head into any more secluded areas of the park, actively attempting to poke around and find what could work as hiding spots, which he seems to be writing down descriptions of in a small notebook he has with him.

Option Four
[If anyone is headed to Jonathon's Tools today, there's a good chance you're going to see the store-keeper trying to calm down a whining, irate, blue-skinned twelve year old boy.]

Young man, please realize that I can't see you a circular saw. You need to-

I don't care what I need to do, jerkwad! I already told you that my dad asked me to buy that saw!

Well, if you could get your father, I could-

Isn't this supposed to be the friggin' fifties, where you people will just give kids anything if they have the money for it?

[And yeah, that conversation will pretty much go on like that...]

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[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ Mieu looks over and watches Pokey draw, then blinks. ]

[ You don't know if you can count yourself as one of their friends? ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He just stares at it for a moment. He had wanted to show that he didn't know if he could trust them but that...yeah, that was true too. He didn't know if he deserved-

He tightened his grip on his piece of chalk. Of COURSE he deserved to be their friend. He was a genius, and cool, and amazing. He deserved it more than anyone else in the world deserved to be someone's friend. Why shouldn't he be? They were the ones who should be wondering if THEY deserved to be his friend.

Even if he knew that wasn't what was true, he'd go with it anyway.]

...Naw. This is stupid. I'm bad at drawing, sorry. I don't even know what I was trying to say.

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ You draw nice. Anyone that can draw nice has a good heart. ]

[ He turns back to his drawing and adds in Pokey next to his other friends, because even if he doesn't know his name he'll give him a shot. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He just puts his chalk down and stares at you. In his world, innocence more or less equals ignorance, Cheagle. And you're pushing a few buttons he'd rather not have pushed.]

...Really. Did you know that some of the worst murderers who ever lived were fairly good artists?

You don't have to be a beautiful person deep down to put something beautiful up front.

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ The Cheagle shakes his head. In his world, innocence is bad as well but to him it's just thinking th best of everyone. ]

[ You don't have to be beautiful, just nice. Even Asch had people he was nice too, and he was called "the Bloody" for a reason. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I'm not nice, either.

[And he flicks the small creature on the forehead. ...Not as hard as he could, but it still stings.]

In fact, I've done bad things. Lots and lots of bad things. So there.

[imathing.livejournal.com]

Mieu! [ He rubs his forehead, then thinks. ]

[ What's your name? ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Pokey Minch, boy genius, time traveler, and warlord.

[He's hoping that last one will help you get the hint he's a bad guy, Cheagle, even if he didn't exactly think of himself entirely as a warlord while he was one working for Giygas.]

[imathing.livejournal.com]

...

[ You don't look like a warlord. Is time travelling fun? ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Not everyone looks like what they are. [And he was one. In fact, he thinks he was a pretty good one, even if he just barely lost in the end.]

And yeah...it's a lot of fun. I ended up getting brought here while I was in the middle of doing it.

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ I wish I could time travel. Then I could stop myself from setting fire to the Liger's home and forcing them to hurt my family. But if I did that, then I wouldn't have met my friends. ]

[ You're not the only one who's a technical murderer, kid. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...Time travel doesn't work that way. Even if you were to change something in the past, it wouldn't affect your personal future. It would create a branch off future. Things would still happen as they did.

[He hasn't murdered anyone yet, but the fact someone from the future has told him he eventually does doesn't help him at all.]

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ Oh. ]

[ That's something interesting to think about. And that's sad, Pokey, need a hug? ]

[ I think it would change it a bit, because my meeting of Master was because I burned down the Liger's home. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He'd love a hug, but he's never going to say that and, despite outwardly saying he deserves one, honestly doesn't think he does. He's pretty much convinced he's rotten to the core by this point.]

But when you returned, the Liger home would still be burnt down from where you'd actually come from, you see.

Your Master? So you are a pet, or whatever?

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ Oh, I get it! ]

[ He doesn't really get it, and he'd hug Pokey if he knew he could. ]

[ My Master is Luke fon Fabre! He's nice and he called me Thing when we met. I guess I could be called a pet, but I'm Master's friend. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Awww, that's sweet Mieu.]

...I guess that must be nice, knowing you always have a friend.

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ He's a sweet little guy. ]

[ Would you be my friend? ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He just looks at the little creature for a moment, eyebrows raised in slight surprise.]

Are you sure you want to be mine?

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ The Cheagle nods, and points at his drawing. ]

[ See? You're right there, next to my other friends. ]

[ Because Pokey could use a friend like Mieu. Mieu is very trusting. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[And Pokey is very good at using those who're trusting. ...Or he was. He's starting to feel himself slide in being able to be as ruthless as he used to be, and part of that bothers him.]

...[He taps the little creature on the top of its head. Not hitting, just light little taps.]

Alright. But remember it's your fault if something bad happens because I'm your friend.

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ I'll remember. Can I play hop-scotch with you now? ]

[ He looks hopefully at the hop-scotch squares Pokey's made. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He just stares at Mieu for a moment, biting the inside of his mouth. There's a chance if they play that the code he'd been writing down in order to show how many actual people and how many drones were in each house could get mussed up, and he didn't really want to have to go over them again.

...But he supposed he could let the little guy and himself play for just a bit.]

....Yeah. Alright.

[imathing.livejournal.com]

[ Thank you! ]

[ Mieu picks up a rock and gives it to Pokey, he can go first! ]