Durin

“Durin” is a paranoid and secretive character, but waking up in a strange world in a body that’s not yours and with no memory of your past is bound to make anyone a little paranoid.

Is her name even actually Durin? Hmmm. Nope! Turns out it's actually Daphne! But she'd rather you guys still call her Durin. Turns out she's not comfortable going by her old name since she doesn't really know who she use to be.

She wasn’t even willing to tell her team nor her guild leaders about her amnesia at first until she found out how much of a hindrance she was not even familiar enough with her body to fight!

Although upon telling her team this she earned the nickname “Broken Brain” with Vii which….Durin really didn’t appreciate.

She strongly dislikes being called stupid in anyway, the fact that her complete lack of knowledge of this world puts her in the position of looking rather dull frustrates her greatly. Being in the guild’s library brings up a strong familiar feeling for her; she gets the sense she might have once been a studious person.

Durin has a strong moral compass and doesn’t like it when her teammates attempt to steal or cheat (Vii trying to steal supplies from the mine and Nils trying to get Vii to pay the full bill on their meal). And especially being the adult of the group she feels a certain responsibility.

While she does have sassy nature her team haven’t gotten much of a chance to see this side to her as she’s been too nervous and out of sorts with her situation to really show it.

Her main goal is to recover her memories, find out how and why she’s here, and go home maybe?

Recently she’s discovered she can hear the voice of Mother Torterra (?) she’s hoping this might be a lead on her past! OR what she’s doing here! But she’s also cautious about this being a trick somehow. After all why would the goddess of this world specifically want to talk to some alien??

**Backstory:**

Durin/Daphne doesn’t even know herself! Her main goal currently is finding it out. Currently what she knows is as a human she use to have a butterfree partner named Peter who ended up in this world with her, but ended up changed into a pignite. He says he still has all his memories and asked her if she remembered her parents or brother. Upon asking about her parents he told her they were obsessed with a tv-show with a houndoom in it. and apparently she was brought to this world to awaken the memories of gods and fight King Radian who's been corrupted.

**Opinions:**

(After the food delivery pt 2)

After all of Durin's experiences with Vii she's slowly started to warm up the little bug. Seeing her as a wild gremlin child that maybe just needs people to be more patient with her (As shown by Sval) and the two are going to be working together because of destiny and what not so why not try to bond more?
(After Zelda)
Daphne likes the rambunctious little bug! she reminds her of her old team mates honestly. Although it concerns her that she's on this quest at all, Vii should be at home doing kid things and getting into mischief not going on some world hangs in the balance quest! It's hardly fair for Vii and Daphne wonders how reliable she'll be in the future and it hurts her thinking about Vii getting crushed under the weight of this once she understands the reality of it all.

(After Mist Village): After Selkie ran over to Durin for comfort after having been knocked off of Vii her protective instincts have kicked in a little. Durin now is more aware of the little guy.

(After the Food delivery part 2)

Durin has respect for Nil's fighting abilities and feels like she could trust him to have her back in battle, but she doesn't really trust his judgement outside of it (Waving the 'gun' around like a toy, taking a hostage during the hide-and-seek game, saying they should go fight that big gang of bandits that stole the food shipment) She's mostly chalked that up to him being a teenager though. Nevertheless she does like Nils and appreciates the effort he puts towards the team and him doing things like helping her learn how to fight.
(After Zelda)
Daphne has mixed feelings on Nils.
On the one hand he ditched her in the middle of an ambush, leaving just her, Sarin, and Haux to a mob of pokemon. It makes it hard for Daphne to feel like she can fully count on him, especially with the growing intensity of their mission.
On the other hand she knows he's just a teenager. How can she expect too much from him? She's inclined to forgive him on the matter and hopes he doesn't do it again in the future. He at least seemed sorry when she confronted him about it.

(After Food Delivery part 2):

After Sval revealed that he's wanted for treason by the summer kingdom Durin started empathizing with him able to on some level relate to his situation (Being far from home away from loved ones, alone and desperate, being a potential danger to those around you). Seeing him take a gentler and more fatherly approach with Vii left a positive impression on her as well.
After Sval opened up to her Durin's heart certainly hurts for him and the rough hand he's been dealt and she feels a bit protective over him currently.
At this point Sval is probably the team member Durin trusts the most.
(After Zelda)
Daphne has found she has quiet a bit in common with Sval with their love of learning and history. It would be nice if they got a calmer moment to discuss some of these things sometimes she certainty has plenty of questions about the world she's found herself in and would love to compare notes.
At the moment Sval is probably the only team member aside from Peter she feels like she could open up to fully emotionally about the devastating things going on right now. As Sval had opened up to her previously and she doesn't want to burden the children too much with her emotions if she can help it.

Sarin: She called her name-sister. This child must be protected at all costs. Durin is rather alarmed that someone so young is working in the guilds, but she doesn’t know if that’s normal or not in the culture here.
(After Food delivery part 2)
Durin feels like she may have underestimated Sarin a bit in some cases (Such as her being able to reads the compass the best out of any of them in the fog)
(After Zelda)
Knows that Sarin is having a time, but doesn't really know how to help. Feels sorry that she's been dragged into all this similarly to how she feels about Vii she feels like Sarin shouldn't have to be going through any of this and doesn't understand why she was chosen for such a role.

(After the Near-Bite incident): Pls don't get murdered by Vii you bratty teen.

(After the near Vii bite):
Durin's opinion of Rover has improved greatly after they organized books together and he agreed to teach her how to read something that she's been wanting badly. She thinks he's kinda sweet now.

(After Meeting Peter): Halfdan is such a mixed bag for Durin! Honestly most of her experiences with him have been negative , the jokes about forcing her to join the guild when they first met, him exploding in the library, him nearly stealing the memory stone.
But she also understands the responsibility and stress he must have and greatly appreciates him taking Peter in. So, she's left wary of him, but hoping to see the nicer sides of Halfdan in the future. After all Sarin seems to trust him a lot?

....She's still a little concerned about how his first instinct was to kidnap her though.
(After food delivery part 2):
Durin feels a little awkward around Peter now. With his over-protective tendencies, and use of possessive words regarding their former relationship ("I was your butterfree" "You picked me"), and his clear sadness and occasional bits of desperation towards her. She can understand some of that on some level, but it doesn't make it any less awkward.
Durin really wants to be friends still, but is unsure how to go about it.
(After Zelda)
With a good chunk of her memories back Daphne now remembers her beloved partner and is devastated about what he's had to endure, how alone Peter must of felt.
She's so glad she's here Peter has basically become Daphne's emotional rock with everything that's going on now....
(After Zelda)
Daphne still thinks Haux is a turd, but weirdly feels the need to look after him (He kind of reminds her of some of her own stubborn partners). She often finds herself getting into childish bickering with him, which if she took a moment to reflect on that might find it funny how she brought the dignified haux down to that level
Her old Venipede partner who Daphne found eating out of her family's dumpster and she started offering real food to until the bug invited herself into the house. Daphne accepted her as on of her partners despite her parents grumblings. Fiercely independent (and a bit spoiled) she often butted heads with Daphne's other partners, but the bug had a curious and creative nature that fit well with Daphne.
Even if that nature often led to messes as Zelda liked getting materials for her "inventions" from the garbage which is why Daphne recognized the garbage smell from the sword as a familiar one despite the frustration it brought back.
Zelda was family.
Daphne had never heard Zelda's voice before, but the class-room trivia show somehow....Felt exactly like a Zelda thing to do that despite her frustration with it Daphne was also amused by it and was content to let it more or less run its course until it looked like a fight was going to break out. Daphne now realizes that was basically Zelda playing one last game with her and Peter before they would have to say their goodbyes- and a small part of Daphne knew that at the time as well even if she hadn't wanted to believe it.
She had just found her friend again- been able to actually speak to her for the first time in their lives- and it was all too short. There was still so much to say...
Needless to say Daphne is devastated by this loss. Trying to grapple with the fact not only is her friend gone, but that she's been here in this world for *so long*, waiting for her, why? Why are things like this? Why did it have to be one of her partners that were one of these nine gods that must be used to rebuild the tree?
Along with this was the revelation that none of them are going home. After getting her memories of her family back so soon was the illusion shattered that she could ever go back to them.
Daphne is now left reeling wondering what the fates of her other partners are and if they're to be as cruel as Zelda's.
Another creeping question for her being- Why was it that Zelda lied to her about not going how they got here? She knows her partner well enough to be able to get the sense when she's being truthful, but she's not sure she's ready to confront Peter on it who backed Zelda up.
In the end Zelda's sacrifice has left Daphne with a resigned determination for her mission because she can't let her friend's death be for nothing.

## Journal Entries

Day ??? Month ??? Year??

It’s amazing how much *stuff* has happened to me in such a short amount of time since waking up in this world with no memories, no idea of who I am, or what I’m doing here. My mind is just constantly buzzing. I think it might be nice to just write some of my thoughts down you know?

And I’m at least pretty sure no one else can read this since I’m writing in my language and it didn’t seem like Halfdan could read it when he looked at my signature (Although who knows maybe that’s just because my hand-writing is crap. I only got two claws to work with here!)

Anyways, turns out our trip to the Fog Village was a complete waste of time. Carbuncle wasn’t even there! What happened instead? We traumatized Selkie by going through that fog, got attacked by soldiers because it turns out Sval has a bounty on his head that he neglected to tell us about, and nearly got Sval caught *again* because we decided to trust this random espeon!

The worst thing is that I *knew* there was something off about her, but decided to keep my mouth shut because I know so little about this world and its people and we really did need the help so could I really trust my gut on this? No one else seemed suspicious.

It turned out alright in the end we managed to make her look crazy and get away, but I’m still kicking myself for that.

There was a lot of fighting today. Vii and Selkie, and Sarin, Sval, and Nils.

Selkie had an especially rough day, the fog clearly affected her the worst out of all of us and then she got tossed off of Vii in the middle of the fight with the guards of course she’s going to be upset.

I don’t really care for Vii all that much but it was still awful to see her tear up when Selkie didn’t want to go back to being her hat.  I didn’t really mind holding her for longer though….It just felt so *familiar* to me and comforting in a way. I feel like….This is something I use to do a lot? Hold someone in my arms to comfort them….Someones? It….Makes me oddly homesick too.

I wonder if it’s strange to get homesick for a home you can’t remember.

I was so focused on Selkie though I wasn’t paying much attention to Sarin, Sval, and Nils’s conversation until voices started getting raised.

I don’t know *what* Sarin said but it got Nils really riled up and then the conversation turned back to Sval when I came over he *really* didn’t want to tell us what was going on. Apparently he has some information that could really harm that King Radian guy (Who’s apparently a ho-oh!? Sarin didn’t seem to know that word so I quickly tried to move on from it. Probably best not to dwell on terms that are foreign to this place…) and apparently him just being around us puts us in serious danger.

Sarin and Nils were furious with him.

Nils even stormed out after that. He and Sval have some past together so this is clearly affecting him the most. I’m curious about what exactly happened there, but hoo boy that is personal and I definitely don’t know either of these guys well enough to ask about that. Felt super awkward even being there for that argument.

I should probably be angry with Sval too.

Don’t get me wrong I wish he had told us sooner but….I don’t know I just kinda understand him you know? Wasn’t I doing the same thing? Joining the guild for food and bed when I knew my amnesia would likely be a hindrance to the team. And now with that spirit trying to force me over whenever it finds a way to communicate with me! Seriously *a sword attached to a general!?* I swear this thing might be trying to get me killed?? Or is just really *unaware.*

I don’t know I just know I could get everyone in serious danger one of these days. I mean I already have! That incident in the magnetic cave we could have died!

Maybe it would be better for me to leave?

If I were truly a selfless person I’d just leave so I wouldn’t be putting these guys, *children* even in danger.

But I can’t survive on my own. I need support,  I need a team if I’m to have any hope of surviving in this world, any hope of finding out *why I’m here*, maybe even a way to get back home? Can I go home?

We all talked a little more about ourselves after we made camp...I’m a little jealous honestly how they can remember their parents. I can’t even remember the faces of mine.

…..

I wonder if they miss me. I wonder if they’re looking for me? Is anyone looking for me?

Sarin talked to the team about how we all needed to be open and honest with each other for now on and I feel a little guilty? Like I’m still keeping secrets.

But like me having used to be human isn’t exactly relevant right now...Not sure if they’d even believe me if I told them. I already threw a couple of crazy bombshells at them and they’re actually choosing to trust me!

I haven’t felt this relieved in ages.

I just hope they won’t end up regretting it. I hope I’m not leading them towards any danger.

I can actually sense the spirit from here Ova cave is close. Maybe I finally find some answers there….

I think Sarin lost a lot of faith in our team today, and we are pretty much a mess so I can’t exactly blame her for that.

Still this mess of a team is all I got right now so I’m going to try and make it work best I can.

Day ??? Month ??? Year ??? (I uh...Should ask someone about calendars at some point...)

Holy crap holy crap!!

I’m just so excited like *so much has happened*! A lot of it crazy but like...A lot of it is good!! Like I found an old friend of mine! He knows me! He’s been looking for me! I just….I can’t believe it is this amazing! Finally a connection to my past!

And….Someone was actually looking for me….

Haha I feel awful that I can’t remember anything about Peter….He clearly cares a lot about me.

Considering he was willing to kidnap me

To find me

Hahaha.

That stinking voice totally set that up didn’t she.

….

I should probably talk to him more calmly about the whole kidnapping thing later.

Peter still has all his memories though.  He asked me if I remember my parents or my brother at all and I told him no. So now I know that I have parents and a brother! So that’s something!

I asked him about my parents and he just told me they were obsessed with this tv-show with a houndoom in it. And that I like it too? And then he wanted to go inside. I didn’t even get a chance to ask him about my brother at all...I guess there’s always time for that later. I guess it was a pretty big question to ask him suddenly?

The poor guy was so nervous and scared before I feel bad for being so cold to him then, but as far as I knew he was just some random pokemon who kidnapped me for ~reasons~

Like he had just grabbed me while I was sleeping and ran off with me!!

Aw geez I just let Nils and Vii talk about sacrificing him to demons (and they would have if there actually were demons I’m sure! Boy am I glad there weren’t!! I would have lost my friend and I wouldn’t have even known!)

…..

I hope he gets along in the guild okay I’m glad Halfdon and Haux were alright with taking him in.

Aaaaah I have so many questions I want to ask him!! I should probably spread them out though I don’t want to overwhelm him either.... hnnnnnnng

Oh oh! So I did find out why I’m here from this giratina memory guy Rhamillion who we met in this memory world that Peter transported us to using a magic sword he got from who knows where ( need to ask him later. Did he steal it from some soldier??)

....

God it’s been a weird day.

But apparently I’ve been summoned here (and Peter too although they seem less interested in him for some reason?) to find the other god memories, and fight the god king Radian since he’s been corrupted by this ancient darkness.

Haha

It’s..really wild….

But I’m also weirdly relieved? Like I *was* brought here for a reason and now I know that reason! And now I know I actually was talking to this world’s god? And I’m not being tricked??

I just

Wow

That along with the fact my whole team now knows all the secrets I’ve been keeping from them, the fact I’m from another world, being human, and the whole name thing…

Geez that conversation had me really frazzled just… A lot was happening all at once.

I guess I now have confirmation that humans don’t exist in this universe or at the very least they aren’t common knowledge no one knew what I was talking about!

How do you even explain what a human is to someone who has no context…?

I had to attempt this twice even with my team and the Halfdon and Haux. So they know pretty much everything now too. I guess at least with us being chosen by God that means we won’t get kicked out of the guild…?

Although Halfdon did almost snatch the crystal the god memory guy gave me even though we said that it was given to us for us to use!

It’s not that I don’t understand his logic with him and Haux being older and more experienced, but this is why I was brought to this crazy world so *BACK OFF.* Vii and Selkie got really upset about Mr. Grabby Paws (Probably about the whole bottle stealing incident that happened apparently) Selkie was yelling and Vii jumped in front of me and did her clicky bug noises.

The crystal seems to only work with us though so he gave it back. Take *that* you grabby badger.

This all went a lot better than I thought it might when the whole human thing came out. Like seriously at the very beginning I was afraid there might be pitchforks and mobs or something! But everyone seems to have just accepted it (although they still seem confused, but I’ll take that over anger and rejection…)

Sarin doesn’t seem to be taking things very well; she kinda had this dead look in her eyes. I should probably talk to her later.

Nils on the other hand seems to be taking things in stride. He even came up to me and told me he has my back? I was surprised he’s one of the more aloof members of this team, but I appreciate the support.

Hm I still need to take him up on that offer of fighting lessons. I’m going to really need them, it sounds like.

It’s been a long day, but I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders? Maybe I shouldn’t feel that way considering the quest I’ve been handed, but for now I just feel relieved haha.

Well, down with King Radian I guess? But that’s a concern for another day for now I’m *really* hungry.

Day ??? Month ??? Year ??? (I still don't knooooow!!))

It’s been a long day. I’d say overall it was mostly good for me at least. Can’t say the same for the rest of my teammates especially Vii.

After we left Halfdan and Haux’s office and went to eat a late lunch Vii just….Was giving off super weird vibes. She didn’t do her usual rabid splatter food literally everywhere method of eating so *obviously* something was wrong.

It made lunch

Very tense.

Sval randomly sent Nils off with one of those energy flowers for some reason and then he looked at me and bolted out the door suddenly! The jerk left me to babysit the little gremlin!! Like I didn’t have other things I needed to do today!

Ugh.

Sarin offered to babysit Vii instead and uh, I don’t feel super great about leaving agreeing to that since yes Sarin is a very mature child, but still a child, and Vii is a force of determination and wild chaos and right that moment *something* was brewing over there.

But I really wanted to meet up with Peter again...And Sarin insisted she’d be okay so...I left and waited outside of Halfdan and Haux’s office until Peter came out.

He hugged me and called me Daphne again…It’ll probably take awhile for him to get used to Durin I feel a little bad correcting him…

I told him how I knew it must be hard for him to have spent all this time looking for me only to find me without any memories, but that I was working on getting my memories back so hopefully I could remember him soon! And if not then I’d like to get to know him again.

He told me it was fine for me to be how I am now, but I think he was just putting on a happy face for me.

He asked me if I really didn’t remember *anything*. I explained how when I saw certain objects, pokemon, and what not sometimes images would pop into my head and I’d get emotional memories from it. I of course used the freakin’ gun as an example.

I need to stop using the *gun* as an example!

Especially not to a forgotten friend!

Like “Oh, yeah I don’t remember anything about you but I remember *GUNS”*

How freaking dense can I be!?

He started pushing me towards the library telling me to go be with my friends, go be happy with them! And….Friends is a very strong word. I mean I like Sarin she’s sweet. But I’m still getting to know everyone really… I’ve honestly haven’t been putting that much of an effort in. I should change that…

I got Peter to come with me and told him he should get to know my team too and that seemed to make him happy.

Nils was pacing outside the library mumbling something under his breath. Maybe psyching himself up to talk to Sval? They did have that fight earlier. But I don’t know.

Sval was buried in books so I decided to leave him be and I looked over some books with Peter (which I still can’t read ugggh) turns out he can’t read this text or the stuff back home (I’ve failed you Peter!) so we just ended up looking at pictures until Vii bursted in.

And man I really don’t want to describe all of what happened next it was a huge mess. It ended in tears with Aurora running out of the room sobbing and Vii accidentally poisoned Selkie and she had to go to the nurse’s office.

I can’t imagine what Peter must be thinking of my teammates now...

I decided to stay behind and help clean up the mess in the library. I was honestly a little shaky from the whole event and needed some time to calm down…

Rover was there too; he seemed pretty shaken up from the whole fiasco (he even dropped a book I handed him). In any case he helped me put the books back (I can’t read them so I have no idea where they’re supposed to go). My little arms aren’t very good at tasks like these but I managed and Rover was a lot more understanding this time around. You know I think he’s actually kinda sweet?

He must have been having a bad day when we last cleaned the library (well his tea set had been stolen apparently. And I wasn’t exactly having a good day either…)

Peter jumped in and helped with one of the especially big books putting those big pig arms to good use good job Peter lol.

Rover seemed determined to move a different book that was too big for him. I'm glad that he let me help him out with that. I know some people where that would have bruised their ego but he seemed pretty happy that I offered.

Between the three of us we managed to get the library back in order in no time. I’m so glad we didn’t do any...Lasting damage this time. I can still see Halfdan’s scorch mark on the wall from the previous library incident..

After we were done I decided to take a bit of a risk and ask Rover if he could teach me how to read. I mean he seems like someone who spends a lot of his time in the library and he seemed friendly enough today so...Why not? It’s so frustrating to me the fact I can’t read anything here when there’s this part of me that feels like it's natural to be in the library?? All this knowledge being kept from meeeeee >:C

And he said yes! Really fast. I honestly expected to maybe have to convince him more, but hey I’m good with this! He also grabbed my hands for a minute and *wow* his hands just completely engulfed mine. My hands are so *small*.

I think Peter left sometime while I was talking to Rover...I wonder if he was feeling left out or uncomfortable? I mean I did say he should get to know my teammates and then we didn’t really do that and then my teammates get into a fight and then I started talking to this other guy…I wish he said something before he left

Sigh

I don’t know...Things *are* awkward with Peter like...He’s both a stranger and a close friend at the same time? It’s weird.

…. I just want him to be happy I ‘d really like to be friends with him again.

But I can’t force that he needs time and I probably need time

On another note I decided to switch beds with Aurora so Vii couldn’t plot to murder her in the middle of the night.

It’s at the very top.

It’s fine

This is fine.

I really hope I don’t accidentally roll out of this thing. Or stumble with the ladder. That’d be really embarrassing.

Day (???) Month (???) Year (???) (ahahhaa)

So, I was about to go to bed when I heard Rover suddenly start sobbing? I poke my head out of my cubby (trying not to think about how high up I am now eep). Turns out those were tears of joy someone had returned his tea set to him! Expect he started panicking because it turned out one of the cups was missing “Phillip” ( He named them all? That’s kinda adorable??). I got out to help him look, but I slipped and fell on my butt with a loud thud when I got towards the end (Geez, it was a loud, but I guess that comes with being a rock type now?? Hope I won’t end up damaging the floor one of these days?)

Aurora popped out of my old cubby and snapped “Keep your clumsiness to yourself! Some of us are trying to sleep!”

I did that little brat a *favor* by switching cubbies with her despite the fact taking the top cubby is *worse* for me! (Although I do get to be diagonal neighbors with Peter which is nice) and really I’ve had just about enough of her today so I shot her the dirtiest look I could and she went back into her cubby without a word.

*Good*.

There was no sign of Phillip and It was getting pretty late so I told Rover when he asked that at least he had gotten most of his tea set back and I went to bed.

Also Peter somehow knew about the tea set? Despite the fact he’s been here for like less than a day?

Rover pointed that out even and Peter got nervous. So. Clearly Peter knows *something* but  I can’t ask him about that here without Rover over-hearing so instead I suggested that maybe Peter overheard some gossip which he latched onto. Rover seemed to believe him and dropped it.

The next morning I got up to go to breakfast and I found Sarin still in bed. I nudged her awake, but she seemed exhausted. (Turns out she had gotten no sleep at all last night) she opted to come with me to breakfast instead of sleeping in though. I got the usual berry mush (Man, I’d kill for something other then berry mush….Not literally though) and sat next to Peter and Sarin next to me.

Haux flew over and dropped off a package to Rover. I heard that vivillion ask Rover if it was from a secret admirer, he didn’t read the note out loud so I have no idea what it said. He opened up the package and inside was Phillip carefully glued back together. I commented on the fact it looked like someone had spent a lot of time putting it together and that seemed to make him happy.

I know it was Sarin who did it when we all went to talk in the library later that much was obvious, and returned the tea-set and got Peter to help which is why he was so nervous. And of course it seems like Vii was the one who stole it in the first place…..

Which honestly

Seems kinda obvious in retrospect.

It’s completely in character for her.

Sigh.

Well, I’m glad the tea set got returned how it did, no screaming was involved and Rover was happy.

Back to the events in the cafeteria, Sarin was still sleeping so I settled in and started having a conversation with Peter and Rover when suddenly Nils comes bursting in waving the Gun in the air exclaiming “Durin look what I got!!”

Just

Waving it around

Is there no gun safety in this world?? (or whatever that is!) did he never learn it?? Why did I give it to hiiiiiim? I told him to cut it out and Peter just like lept into action and tackled Nils yelling at him to put the gun down.

Nils yelled at me to get my *slave* off of him and its just like !!?? Where did he even *get*  that idea from? Have I been treating Peter like a slave??? I don’t think I have?? Apparently he got the idea from Peter’s phrasing of “I was *your* butterfree” which I admit is a weird way to put that but I don’t think it means that he was my slave right?

Right???

Maybe I should ask Peter about that later hnnnng

Halfdan came over and put an end to the whole scuffle (an actual adult in this situation wow)  which is good because it didn’t look like the two of them were going to listen to me.

After that Sarin woke up and said we should all talk about the stuff that happened recently so we all headed to the library where Sval was studying again he looked surprised and a little stressed out to see us in there all at once.

Sarin started off by asking us if we’ve really thought about what a big deal it is for the Torterra god to give us this task.

And I don’t know I guess if I’m being honest I haven’t really? I was just happy to finally have some sort of purpose here. Like thank god I wasn’t just transported to this strange world into a strange body because of some random chance there’s a *reason* for all of this.

But….I really have just been brought into this entirely different world to solve a conflict I had nothing to do with. Nothing to do with until I was brought here anyways.

This isn’t my home. These aren’t my people.

But I can’t even remember what my home and people are.

This is all I have right now.

Aside from Peter who’s like the only connection I have to my old life.

I wonder if that’s why my memories are gone.

To force me to focus on this world instead of looking back at my old one?

Sarin took me aside to talk about that actually. The fact that might be stuck here or have to go home at the end of this whole thing. I’m surprised she was thinking about that at all. It’s sweet honestly that she’s worried about the time we might not have together. I told her we should focus on the time we have together now rather then what we might not have in the future. I mean it’s all we can do right now isn’t it? With the future for me so uncertain. She seemed to accept that and then promptly passed out on top of me. She’s had a long day. I hope she won’t pull anymore all-nighters in the future. A kid needs their sleep to grow up big and strong you know!

After I set Sarin down in one of the chairs so she could have a better nap I went over to talk to Peter. After all he’s involved in this too I wanted to know how he felt about being able to go home or not.

He mostly focused on the fact that there didn’t seem to be anyways he could see back home, no portals or anything so we might as well just accept the fact that we live here now. But like I assume we got here because of God magic somehow so they could probably also send us back?

Actually I wonder if Peter knows how we got here? Another thing to ask him I guess.

He eventually did tell me that he missed our old lives, but once again stated that we are here now.

I guess he’s trying to be practical which makes sense no use getting your hopes up about going home when there’s a good chance you might not be able to….And I honestly agree with him. Although I guess that’s easier for me right now.

I also had a short conversation with him about how using ‘bacon’ as way to describe himself is kinda morbid. I really don’t want to think about anyone cooking up and eating Peter.

….

Do Pokemon eat each other here?

Tyrunt have a very….Carnivore sort of appearance don’t they?

I haven’t felt the need to hunt and eat anyone

I’m honesty afraid to ask about it sagdfshd

Nils came over to me and suggested we go spar because I definitely needed the practice which is... True there’s many parts of being a Pokémon I’m not used to and fighting is one of them. I’ve fought like one sheep? And I know there’s going to be so many more battles down the line....

I think at the start of our session he was trying to catch me off guard with a sudden tackle but he like tripped and fell on his face.

It was kinda funny.

But uh I just told him good job on showing me what not to do. No need to bruise his ego at all.

Besides he found ways to make up for that this kid can pack a punch geeZ..... I did manage to land my share of tackles and I even bit him! I mean I guess tyrunt are kinda known for biting it’s like their thing.

I’ve been kinda dreading doing it myself.

But it wasn’t so bad? It felt natural even. (I even caught one of Nils punches with my jaws!!) But I guess that’s because I’m you know a tyrunt.

Nils told me that I’m a kind person and it’s going to be tough but in this world it’s killed or be killed and I needed to be ready for that.

I might have been inclined to think that was just the edgey teenager speaking but... this is a world in the middle of a war... So I guess that is something I need to be prepared for.

After we were done I ran back the library i was tired but also kinda energized from the match? And I wanted to tell someone so I figured I’d tell Peter so I ran in and exclaimed I got into a fight.

I could of phrased that better

He started freaking out even after I told him Nils and I were just sparring

He started saying how he’ll fight Nils, I shouldn’t be fighting I’m human I’m weak and fragile

And uh Peter have you looked at me lately??

I guess he’s just used to me being his human someone he has to protect. It is kinda sweet that he’s so worried about me, but I hope it won’t end up becoming a problem in the future.

I did tell him how I needed to learn how to fight how I had too. Our whole quest here was to fight King Radian after all. And I pointed out that like this we could fight side by side which is pretty cool isn’t it?

That seemed to calm him down a little.

I mean from what little I remember I couldn’t even understand the Pokémon back home. So the fact that I’m here even talking to Peter and he can talk back is pretty wild for us isn’t it?

I wish I could appreciate it more.

Sarin was muttering something about “The One That Opens the Other” while she was sleeping and then she jumped up suddenly and started running around exclaiming that she heard the Great Mother’s voice!

Geez should we be expecting to have weird dreams in the future then?

But that sounded like a hint of some kind. A very vague one, but at least it's something I guess.

Sarin said we should go talk to the guild leaders about our next mission and the fact that Peter had stolen that weird shadowy sword from a summer soldier and so potentially he’s going to be wanted by the law now.

Oh, yeah we had a whole blame game circle when Peter admitted that. Sval teasingly piping up that “Stealing is wrong”, Sarin adding “ Isn't keeping being wanted by the Empire a secret wrong?", and then Sval pointing at me and exclaiming “Well, at least I’m not from another universe!” and I didn’t even know how to respond to that its not like I have any control over that!

Anyways

We went to talk to the guild leaders and it was Haux that answered the door. I could hear Halfdan coughing from inside and Haux didn’t let us into the office; he clearly wanted us out of there soon. Sarin was concerned but we didn’t get any details.

Haux was giving me a suspicious look.

I don’t think he trusts me.

We got a new mission it sounds easy enough at least just observe some food shipments?

After Haux shut the door I decided to go over and listen in. Haux saying something about “I can’t believe they would betray you”, and “Xiravian armies were turning on themselves”.

I’m not really sure what to do with that information right now. Talk to Sval first before the rest of the team at least I imagine he might have some thoughts about this…..

Day ??? Month ??? Year???

So, Sarin and I are walking down the hall to tell the others about our new mission when we found Vii talking to Selkie about something. I didn’t really hear what it was about, but afterwards Vii told us that Sval was broken and that we needed to fix him

I found Sval buried in a  pile of books and I ended up startling him when I started talking to him. He looked a little different than usual. His colors were duller and his tail was unwound. I guess it must be a kecleon thing I remember after the guild booby trap incident the next day he was like more red and spiked looking ( and boy did I give him some distance then he looked so done…).

Anyways

I did my best to talk to him about what was bothering him, well really by just offering to listen, it’s really the only thing you can do in a situation like this isn’t it? I imagine it would at least be easier to talk another adult about and our team is pretty much only children expect for the two of us.

He told me that he got some bad news about a dear friend of his and that he wasn’t ready to talk about it quite yet, which I can understand.

He actually asked me “You understand right?” In regards to being separated from love ones and I guess I do. In a way? I’m as separate as one can possibly be, but I don’t remember any of my love ones so can I truly miss them as I am now? I want so badly to know them again.

But if I’m being honest I’m also a little scared to remember them. To truly know what I’m missing. Like….It might be easier like this how I am now I don’t know…

In any case I don’t know Sval that well yet, but I hope we can support him through this, it’s awful seeing him in so much pain.

Before I left the library I told Sval that we needed to talk about the guild leaders later. With all the stuff he needs to process now I doubt it would be a good idea to spring what I overheard on him, but I wanted him to be like aware it was a subject I wanted to discuss later I guess?

When I came out of the library I saw Vii quickly scuttling away so I’m pretty sure she was easvdropping, no idea what she overheard from there though.

I decided to go check on Peter before we headed out on our mission, the guy spent all this time looking for me It only feels right to let him know when I’m heading out right?

I know he was assigned to organized the storage room and that’s where I found him napping straight on the floor.

Was he that worn out from organizing already??

Although he’s probably not use to heavy-lifting since he was a butterfree before? Must be strange for him. Something to ask about later I guess might be kinda nice to talk to someone who knows what it’s like to wake up in a strange body.

Of course he could just be lazy.

I don’t really know.

Hoping he’s not because that would be awkward with the guild leaders.

I woke him up and he called me Daphne again, but he was quicker to correct himself this time.

I told him about the simple mission we got assigned and he just started freaking out! Going on about how dangerous this world is and how a fragile human like me shouldn’t be going out alone in it.

I pointed out that 1. I’m not a human anymore I’m a tyrunt (And oh my gosh Peter please stop saying it out loud the other guild members could overhear) and 2. I’m not alone I have a whole team to back me up.

I….Didn’t really consider Peter’s previous experience with them. Only after the fact did I realize how not-reassuring this statement was.

He started hyperventilating.

I told him to take deep breathes to get him to calm down. He sorta did and then he asked if I needed any supplies for our next mission and I don’t know maybe? And then he just started going through crates randomly and pulling out just this random assortment of items!

I’m not sure Peter is technically allowed to give us this stuff, but he insisted and he just looked so upset and earnest how was I supposed to say no to him??

He gave me an Apple, a stirus berry, a stick (turns out it’s a magic wand that lets you switch places with someone),  some drink, and what turned out to be a trap.

I defiently felt awkward taking these I really don’t want Peter to get in trouble so I really hope this is okay or at least the guild leaders won’t notice..

I jokingly told him not to kidnap anyone else while I was gone and he told me “Butterfree promise”

I was confused for a moment because... he’s a pignite, but then oh yeah of course he was a butterfree. And when I just kinda stared at him his expression just kinda dropped. I think that might have been something we use to say to each other. I think I just broke his heart a bit again.

I went back to the others and showed them the assortment of items. No one knew what the drink was. We divided everything up among each other. Vii really wanted the wand or trap and either of those items in her hands sounded like a disaster waiting to happen so I quickly stepped in and handed her the sitrus berry instead which did not make her happy (which yeah makes sense no way is a berry going to sound as cool as a wand or trap to a kid)

Honestly I think I’d only really trust myself, Sval, and maybe Sarin with any of the dangerous items at this point.

After that we headed out. I decided to let Vii ride on my back after she complained about the snow, and like, she has to crawl through it so why not give her a break? You’d think have bug legs crawl up you would be an unnerving feeling, but it felt oddly familiar to me? Maybe I use to hang around a lot of bug types or something.

We got to the edge of town and then Vii revealed to us that she use to live here and “borrow” things as she put it.

Luckily Sarin knew about a back entrance that the guilds use so we didn’t have to deal with the guards at all. And guess who was there?

Limerick.

That jolteon that Vii and Carbuncle locked in the library (and I spent sometime with when they tied me up and threw me in there too)

So it was

Awkward to see him again to say the least. He didn’t look super thrilled to see that we were the ones that the guild sent either and I could just feel Vii vibrating with rage on my back, but she didn’t do anything which was good.

So, anyways we find out that bandits stole the shipment of food that was suppose to arrive, so much for a simple mission, and Nils just jumps in and says we’ll go get it back??

And I don’t know about you Nils, but I don’t think our rag-tag group is ready to run in and fight a group of bandits! I’m still getting a hang of this whole fighting thing myself!!

Thankfully Limrick had another plan. Apparently there’s this Pokemon called “Mom” that lives in the mountains that can provide another food source for the town.

So, that’s where we start heading, I manage to spot the house in the mountains and Nils and Vii go ahead to scout. They spotted two Pokemon heading towards us that looked like they were in summer kingdom uniforms. Vii suggested we hide and ambush them and I suggested we just hide because you know why get into fights that we don’t need to?

Unfortunately, Sval and I prove not to be very good hiders (Although for Sval I think that’s due more to his mood rather then a lack of skill…) As for myself well….I’m still getting use to this body okay!

One of them even said “Is that a tyrunt trying to look like a rock?”  Which is embarrassing.

They surrounded us getting all high and mighty about “Spreading the word of King Radian the everlasting’s light” and Sval spits back at the Abra that if he was really important he’d be wearing more gold and white.

This makes the Abra even more mad and he goes to whack Sval with his ridiculous looking staff and then Vii pops out of the snow and chomps down on the guy’s arm.

So then a fight breaks out.

I used charm on mienfoo guard and then he told me: “Oh….Maybe i can see some of kind radian’s light within you…” and like knowing what I do about the guy now that kinda feels like an insult (even if it wasn’t meant to be) like nope no don’t want any of your corrupted king’s light in me thank yooooou.

A lot happened during the fight I wasn’t able to keep track of everything because you know I was fighting: Sval grappled the abra, Vii and selfie got shocked by a hidden stunfisk (wouldn’t it be cold doing that? I get the feeling these guys are made for swampy environments….) Vii bit it and it flailed around until Selkie knocked it out with a rollout (took her a few tries), Sarin flamethrowered the mienfoo and he force palmed her and she just went sailing through the air!

Man, what kind of world is this that it’s just such a  casual thing to attack children??

I don’t know I guess when your a bunch of monsters with superpowers its a perfectly normal thing to do!

I jumped on the mienfoo and chomped him on the arm, taking a page out of Vii’s book she seems to know what she’s doing when she bites people. I actually managed to knock him out doing this.

So, uh second fight won? Heck yeah! I’m getting the hang of this being a Pokemon thing I think! How’s that for being “fragile and defenseless”??

Sval wanted to keep the Abra conscious so we could interrogate him.

Turns out they were trying to convert this “Mom” person and convince them to start supplying the summer army with food. The summer army at least had nothing to do with the bandits, but they weren’t at all concerned about the town potentially starving.

I, uh, ended up going on a bit of a rant.

He then proceeded to call me: An outsider ( that’s more true then he’ll ever know), uneducated (also technically true due to my lack of knowledge of this world, but ouch), and poor (this one really pissed me off for some reason?? I don’t know why)

Also found out some *interesting* stuff about Sval.

Apparently Sval was someone important in their whole religious order thing?

Which as I think about it….Makes sense.

Like before I thought he was like some sort of professor from a rich family or something, but if he was high up in this religious order that could be how he came across the information that got him into trouble…

I’m really curious about all this, but Sval is already going through a lot emotionally right now I don’t want to go poking at his past when he already upset….

Maybe someday I can ask.

The abra mentioned Sval’s family

It must be hard being separated from them….

I can understand that in some ways I think.

Anyways, Sval knocked him out and good riddance I was getting sick of hearing that guy talk. We piled them all up by the rock. Hopefully they won’t like, die, they suck, but they don’t deserve to die.

Also Sarin got paralyzed by that mienfoo, I went to get her out of the snow, but I found that she had evolved! She’s like, bigger then me now. I was going to carry her, but I think I would struggle to now ;;. It makes me a little sad?? But that’s how a lot of Pokemon are. They grow fast and suddenly. Sigh.

I called Nils over to help her out.

We continue on to “Mom’s” house and met this Thievul who said that he was “Mom” and that he got the name from his mother.

Haha

What a funny guy.

I don’t really want to get into too much details here since even though like no one else can read my writing since its literally an alien language this stuff is secret and I don’t feel good about writing too much down….

We all eyed each other suspiciously until finally he let us into a secret place where we got the food. I dug up some potatoes that looked a lot like….human toes….? It kinda weirded me out, but they should be a hardy food for the village at least. I really impressed this kid volbeat he looked at me in awe and told me how amazing I was at digging up the toetatoes and man I am just not use to all of this positive attention I got really flustered ahaha.

Selkie gave us some of her favorite berries to try…Kelp berries they were called. Vii sounded really strained when she said they were “really good” so I knew that…Something was up there.

But Selkie was just looking at us with those big eyes so…I had to do it….

I ate one.

It tasted…..Like seawater with a side order of kelp.

I barely  got it down

I tried to give Selkie a thumbs up but I forgot nO THUMBS.

Everyone else refused to eat their berries and Selkie got pouty about that sigh

We put the rest of the berries in a cart.

Sarin had also been walking around on all fours the whole time still which looked kinda awkward since her body isn’t built for that anymore.  Sval corrected her and she looks really wobbly on two legs I hope she’ll be okay that really much be such a big change for her.

…..You know I hadn’t really thought about it before but…I can also evolve can’t I?

Oh god no.

Tyrantrum is *so big.*

This better be something I can prevent I swear.

As we were leaving with our carts I waved goodbye to the little volbeat (he was so cute ;;) he called me “big sis” sddgsdfgdg

Makes me sad that I probably won’t see the little guy again.

We actually got the carts to town without incident!

We all carried the food in, and Sarin struggled a bit with her new arms (I’m a little jealous to be honest even if I evolve I’m still stuck with these little ones!) hopefully she’ll get a handle on them soon though!

Limrick made a surprised mumbled comment about us actually being capable which is like

Okay dude you don’t need to say that *in front of us geez!*

But yeah anyways

Mission success!

For once!

Nils and I high-fived victory high five it was great. (Although is it more like a high two since I only got two claws now?)

We get back to the guild and report our success to Halfdan and he’s also just like “What!! You guys actually did this mission right with no hiccups?? I TOLD YOU HIRING THEM WASN’T A MISTAKE HAWX”

And like is this going to happen *everytime* we do something right?

He gave us our payment for the mission and Vii wanted to hand them out and just spilled them on the floor and then handed us was four of the glowing stones. Sval decided to give a little math lesson which I honestly have been needing since I don’t know the currency at all here!

But I found out that with this payment I got enough for a set of those communicators! Which is perfect because I can keep one snd give the other to Peter! That way we can keep in contact with the guild! (And also maybe that will help ease some of Peter’s fears….)

Sarin seemed to think it was a smart idea *thank you Sarin* U\_U

I decided to go check on Peter and let him know how the mission went. He wasn’t in the storage room, but I did find him eating alone in the mess hall (Hey, works out I needed to eat anyways!). So, I plopped down  next to him and Vii and Sval joined me.

I told Peter how the mission went and he got upset when I mentioned the fight

I told him how I bit a guy until he passed because you know that was pretty wild. And he said that “That doesn’t make it okay, but I’m so proud of you!”

The last part was nice, but the part about it not being okay concerns me like is he ever going to be okay with me getting into fights? This was a pretty minor scuffle compared to what I think is coming and I know we have a much longer and harder mission coming up with us having to return to the fog village and steal that general’s sword. I have no idea how much he might freak out at that maybe I should leave out some details….Like I hate to be dishonest, but I don’t know….

He said that he use to loose fights all the time as a caterpie, I almost told him something along the lines of that tyrunt are naturally stronger more durable Pokemon then caterpie so it’s not really fair to compare himself there, which as I think about it would of been so rude to say? I’m really glad Sval was the one who spoke up first

He called us a family. That we look after each other.

It was….A really sweet thing to say. I don’t quiet know how I feel about it yet, but I have been feeling like that as a group we’ve been growing steadily closer and that I think I can trust these guys to have my back.

Although, maybe it wasn’t the best thing to say in front of Peter?  According to him we use to be like a family and we’d help each other through hard times.

But I don’t remember any of it and now I’m a part of different family….It might of felt like a slap in the face to him.

I did learn some more names of people from my past though!: Goose, Popcorn (Peter said I didn’t need to remember them, but I think he was joking, wonder what their relationship was??), Spatula, Zelda, and Norm.

The names all sound familiar, but I can’t remember a thing about them of course….Which of course is depressing.

I asked Peter to tell me about them, to tell me about himself since I didn’t know anything about them or him.

And uh,

Things got a little weird??

He told me he was the most popular guy in the forest, had a ton of friends, but ditched them all for me when I picked him, and that none of them mattered we only needed each other and that he loved me and I loved him.

And wow that was….a lot….

It…..I really hate to say this he kinda sounded like a crazy ex-lover.

And the whole bit about how I “picked” him freaked me out, like Nils called him my ‘slave’ before and Peter has been using some possessive sounding words regarding our relationship so I kept asking him what he meant by that.

He never answered me because I think he realized how he sounded, he just got this horrified look on his face, backed away from me, and then lunged over the table (smacking Sval’s food off in the process I’m so sorry Sval), and ran out of the room.

I just…I knew our relationship might be kinda rough because of the whole amnesia thing, but, like, after that I have no idea how to talk to him??

Why is this so hard. I wish it wasn’t.

He’s the only thing I have from my old life I really really want this relationship to work out.

But, it’s very clearly hurting him how I’m not the person I use to be.

I don’t know if there’s anything I can do to fix that.

We were all just kinda silent in the mess hall after that. I tried to finish my meal, Sval looked like he was thinking about something, Vii just looked completely undisturbed.

Sarin and Nils came in at some point and the conversation started back up again. Sarin told us about our next mission returning to the fog village, and we discussed taking the path Selkie showed us previously so we wouldn’t have to go through the fog again. Maps were brought up and Vii got very excited and scuttled away with Selkie to make one, leaving behind a trail of food of course.

We all ended up going to bed, of course I struggle getting to my now top cubby stop because of my stupid tiny Dino arms I fell on my butt *again.*

Vii asked me what I was doing and pointed towards my old cubby and told me I was suppose to be there, and I told her we were now cubby neighbors and she just squinted at me before getting back to her drawing.

I saw Peter sitting in one of the chairs in the room just kinda hiding his face behind his ears. Next time I looked over he was gone though. I have no idea where he went.

Well, I wasn’t really ready to talk to him again yet anyways….Hopefully he’ll be more up for it tomorrow.

As I’m writing this Vii and Selkie are still hard at work on their map. Nils was standing in Rover’s cubby for awhile trying to get a peak at their work (he’s really not a patient guy is he?)

Rover started yelling at him to get out and I think Nil just leaned down and glared at him and he went quiet after that, but like come on guys people are trying to sleep everyone needs to just go to bed now.