pipers_son | 023 // Video

Alright, Torch! Got it set?

[Now that the weather has cleared up a bit, Joker is beaming into the camera. Besides him is a bike and, for once, the ringleader is wearing a helmet. That's one worry taken care of. Practically bouncing on his heels, Joker grins.]

Alright, everyone, I know the last time I rode on a bike, it went a tad wrong. But I think I've finally got it down. Watch!

[Getting into position, he grips the handle with his one good hand and kicks out the brake. A little bit of wobbling as he pushes off, a clear sign of his imbalance with no other arm to help steady him, but soon enough he's riding around smoothly in the street. A whoop echoes out.]

[VICTORY. Joker - 1. Bike - ....way too many, but that doesn't matter.]

[Another wobble as he draws the bike to a stop, and he grins.]

And now that we've got this biking business all figured out, me and Jimmy are movin' onta other things! Torch, go on-

[The Gear is moved around to focus on Jimmy.

Jimmy is also wearing a helmet, but instead of standing next to a bike, he’s got a bright green skateboard propped up against the ground in one hand with a scyther emblazoned on the bottom. He honestly looks like he’s ready to explode with excitement himself as he spins the skateboard around before pushing it over, stepping one foot up onto it.]

We got skateboards while we were in Kanto! I haven’t gotten to ride one since I got here, and I’m gonna teach Joker how to ride, too!

[Joker pops back into the frame for a moment.]

We'll probably be okay and not die this time around.

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Good. I've seen people lose teeth or break bones on those things before.

So nothin' too unusual from my normal line a work then. Noted.

I guess not.

... Is there a reason you decided to try one again?

[Did someone dare you, Joker?]

[No, although honestly that's a legitimate concern.]

Well, it's come up a bit lately, and since I'm doin' well with the bike...

Just as long as you wear a helmet. And maybe some elbow and knee pads.

Think that'll protect against broken bones?

If you pull your limbs up so you land on the pads instead of bare arms and legs, yeah. They'd get scratched up but you'd be safer.

...Huh.

Good point.

These things sure woulda been useful back home...

Modern technology can be an amazing thing.

Ha, but can ya imagine what folks who are farther in the future think when they first get here?

They probably think we're pretty behind, but some of the technology here is more advanced than what I'm used to.

Yeah, like what in particular?

We don't have video phones, and the computers are a lot faster, for example. And I doubt you could put most animals into a tiny ball.

Yeah, that's definitely somethin' new.

Y'know, this sorta makes me wonder if there's other places like this where ya can just... end up, far from home.

Well... I mean, even at home, if you rip the fabric of space and time hard enough, you can. That's... sort of how my dad ended up on Earth.

....Huh. That's an interestin' bit ta the family tree.

Yeah. Except something like... he's not a god but from our perspective he might as well be? Anyway that god-thing came to him and went 'no you're not supposed to be here' and rewrote things so he was never on Earth and my mother didn't remember him. I don't even know if the person that 'replaced' him is even biologically related to me or not. He... uh. Didn't really stick around, and definitely not after my mom was in her accident.

[Oh. Well that went suddenly awkward.]

So my dad's an alien except maybe biologically he isn't. He's still related to me somehow, though, since... there are things that have happened that I can only explain as being somehow partly not human, even with how weird my life has been.

...Huh.

[Yeah he's not sure what he can even say here.]

Sounds rough.

[Yeah, that'll work.]

... My life is weird, Joker.

[So weird. Let him tell you about the dinosaurs sometime.]

Weirder than here?

[To be fair, it sounds an awful lot like it is, but hey. You never know.]

It's a different kind of weird, I guess?

Ah, ain't life amazin' when we can say there's a variety a weird?

At least it keeps things interesting, right?

Yup! A borin' life is the worst thing!

[Although, you know, still 100x better than a life of misery and other things.]

That's part of why I used to read so much at home. My life wasn't great, and it was pretty boring, so books helped with getting away from that.

I've tried some of the novels here but they're not really the same.

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