kendal: i just won six cans of SODAPOP in a little seaside shanty for battling a crusty sailor and a child in an innertube.
robin: SODAPOP? Lemonade is better...MooMoo milk is WAY better
kendal: i am a lower-income urban woman trying to feed her pokemon. SODAPOP is all i have right now. don't tell me how to parent.
robin: but i'm your boyfriend >:I
kendal: sorry i can't import miltanks to make milk for your pokemon. im doing the best i can.
robin: well it's frustrating to discover that im busy working a job in johto trying to keep you and mudkip fed while you're there giving him SODAPOP.
kendal: i'm working delivery at DEVON and raising the pokemon of an absent man. i don't think you have much room to judge me robin.
robin: you could get a better job
kendal: ...you know what the market's like in hoenn. this is as good as it's gonna get.
robin: come back to johto. we had a life here!
kendal: are you kidding? johto is crawling with gangs and violence and im tired of living in fear, im tired of having to step up because no one else will. i'll take misguided furry activists over rocket anyday thanks!
robin: ??? hoenn is a natural disaster waiting to happen! i don't want to raise our pokemon in a place that has multiple volcanoes and ashfields.
kendal: it's a wilderness waiting to be tapped. hoenn is warm and bursting with life and opportunity. there's a town where people live in trees. one where they live on rafts floating in the water.
robin: yeah and they live in hollowed out volcanoes too. it's deadly there, kendal. those people are crazy.
kendal: ...you think it's "uncivilized" don't you? that's so colonialist. life here is good. hoenn has been good to me. do you remember how much we paid a month to live in ecruteak? for a view of charred ruins? cause i do. it was tearing us apart.
robin: we were young and poor. it's different now, i found an apartment in goldenrod.
kendal: there's work to be had here. in science and technology. i could get you an internship with birch, or a job at the weather station. they always need developers at DEVON.
robin: ...im a pokemon trainer...
kendal: the people they have are barely more qualified than you are. the only real scientist here is a nutjob working on fossil resurrection. honestly i think they're taking anyone who can tell left from right.
kendal: if you don't want to do that i know wally still needs a tutor.
robin: ...who the HELL is wally?
kendal: he's a CHILD robin! god...they're still looking for breeders at the daycare.
kendal: you'd be so good at it. it's like eugenics but cute. you love baby pokemon, and you're so good with them. you'd be perfect for it.
robin: maybe you're right.
kendal: ...brosef misses you so much. you'd barely recognize him. he's a marshstomp now.
kendal: yeah baby. he did. he's lv27 and he's so strong. he's gotten me to slateport all by himself. he didn't even faint once.
robin: amazing. you know what, im gonna come to you. after years of wandering together through kanto and johto and living on the road, we're gonna make a life in hoenn. it's gonna be good.
kendal: that's so...oh, oh no!
kendal: brosef he's...he;s trying to learn mudsport. what am i gonna do? i didn't think he was hanging around with that type of crowd!
robin: don't let him! you haven't...you haven't been feeding him rare candies have you???
kendal: i-i would never! he leveled up the proper way! by senselessly killing pokemon weaker than him over and over and over again. the fair and square way.
kendal: what will he try next? is he going to experiment with other things next? what if he tries to learn watersports?
kendal: how are you not concerned about this?!?
robin: now please, you know the things we get up to in the bedroom...who are we to judge?
kendal: this is just making me so nervous. i need you here to raise him with me. i can't keep doing this on my own.
robin: i'll fly out tomorrow. I'll be there as soon as i can.
