3_butterflies | Thirtieth Flutter [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

Thirtieth Flutter [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

[Someone is singling a lullaby... it's Fluttershy! She's happily sitting on a bench in Goldenrod, cradling a Pokemon egg in her arms. She's got a few of them - six if you're counting - with a Ditto beside her. It seems to to want to stick itself in her hair, and she has absolutely no problems with this. It's also, fortunately, holding her Pokegear.]

... Hello, everypony. I've finally helped make some Pokemon eggs. We want them all to get good comes... we have three adorable Caterpi... One Dratini... One Munchlax... and one Heracross.

[She snuggles the egg she's holding and gives it a kiss. She resumes singing gently as the feed ends.]

Hush now, quiet now, it's time to lay your sleepy head...

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[Well, if there's one thing GLaDOS has actually managed to train her Pokémon to do (and we should be grateful she's managed the one thing, the way she's going), it's to appreciate vocal music, at least; unfortunately, she hasn't quite trained Test Subject Number One in the art of actually staying put and not flouncing off when she notices something that might be considered interesting. As such, Fluttershy, it seems the singing has attracted one (1) Mareep, who will very gleefully be bouncing over to get a look at what you're doing.

...her trainer will be wandering up shortly, trying to figure out where her completely nonthreatening woolly guard-beast has gone, but for the time being, electrosheep all up in your business. Um.]

[Noticing she has a guest, Fluttershy stops singing, and smiles down at the electric sheep. She has one of her own - an Ampharos now - so there's fondness to her smile.]

Why, hello there. It's nice to meet you, little one. Would you mind if I pet you?

[That will get a good amount of headtilting from the sheep in question, before she rears up a bit, sounding rather happy indeed.

I don't mind at all! It isn't something that happens too much; it's nice of you to ask.]

[Yaaay. Fluttershy shifts the egg to one arm, and uses her free hand to softly pet Mareep on the head.]

What a good girl you are... you deserve a lot of petting.

[Pettings pettings pettings omg -

...aaaaaaaaand it seems there's at least one person in the immediate area who's willing to debate the whole "good girl" thing when it comes to the sheep in question; it seems GLaDOS has finally managed to locate her starter. At the very least, she has the common sense to not go outside in the Team Rocket uniform, and she wouldn't be caught dead in public in a skirt that short anyway; she's managed to bribe a grunt into buying her something all-black and presentable - to say nothing of an outfit involving pants, she is discovering a love for pantsuits she never thought she'd have - and her long white hair is coiled up haphazardly on her head in the world's most awkward pile, held in place with far too many pens.

...basically, vaguely classy but disheveled as all get-out, and judging by the way that she's standing with her hands on her hips and the most judgmental expression ever, she gives no damns.]

There you are.

[Test Subject Number One doesn't seem too interested in returning to her trainer; the girl over here is nice and gives out pettings, so! Hmph, really.

GLaDOS sighs. Fine. Let's address the girl for the time being. Why not.]

Look, is she bothering you? She should know better than to bother you.

[As always, Fluttershy has much more trouble talking to actual people than Pokemon, so she seems to shrink down a little, though she doesn't stop the petting.]

Oh, no, not at all... I love meeting Pokemon... She heard me singing and came over to give me company... And I love Mareep, they're so fluffy and cute...

[She could care less about what GLaDOS is wearing, doing, and possibly saying. because cute sheep is cute and hnnnnngh CUTE.]

[Honestly, it's good that Fluttershy isn't terribly picky about this sort of thing, because GLaDOS is all for skipping the societal norms...whatnot that most people insist on.]

Yes, she's... [useless hopeless kind of really stupid] ...special. I guess. My own personal electrical ball of fuzz. I don't know how I lived without her.

[.........]

...I'll give you the point that she's cute, though.

[She's not really good with sarcasm either, and so she smiles, thinking GLaDOS really loves her Pokemon. She nods, and then looks back at Mareep.]

What's your name?

[...oh, hon. That said, she's just going to...kind of look at you for a moment like you've lost your mind, but at least she's kind of hedging a bit on the hostility. Not that it's...being picked up, but. This is tolerable. We can do this thing.]

You can call me Caroline. And who are you?

[Actually she was asking the Mareep - errr okay. She pulls back from the petting and hugs her egg.]

My name is... Fluttershy... it's nice to meet you.

[In which everyone wins at social cues.]

...nice to meet you.

[Don't worry, bb, you're going to get nudged a bit again after a moment.

Don't mind her, she's like that.

Test Subject #1, by the way.]

[wait, what.]

... Your name is... Test Subject Number 1?

[that's... not exactly the cuddliest name she's ever heard, but then again it's better than others she's heard, like Dipshit and Dummy.]

Um... it's nice to meet you, Test. May I call you Test?

[BTW, feel free to ignore the gelatinous pink gooey thing that has decided to sludge itself into Fluttershy's hair. She doesn't seem to mind.]

[Sure thing!

...and oh god. "Wait, what" indeed.]

I don't remember telling you that.

[So much eye-narrowing and adjusting of glasses. What on earth.]

[She looks up again, confused.]

... Is something wrong, miss Caroline?

[The most skeptical look ever.]

Where did you get that? Next you're going to tell me that she told you.

[Um.]

But... she did. I can talk to Pokemon, and animals, and I can understand what they're saying. It's a talent I have back home, too.

[...somehow you managed to make that sound not completely insane. I mean, it's still pretty insane. Just not completely so.]

Most humans I know can barely understand each other, and even that takes half a miracle. Is that common where you're from?

No... it's my special talent. Not everypony can talk and understand animals. but, to me, I can hear them as easily as you hear me...

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