bertall | Iɴʙᴏx ✉ Vɪᴄᴛᴏʀʏ Rᴏᴀᴅ

[Jean regularly shares his bed with crackly Electrodes and Fat Ice Dog, who is just as cold as Andrea. Bring it on, buddy.]

Incineroars!

[Jean grins, clearly pleased to be talking about this, and offers Bertolt a hand to pull him back up on the bed.]

It's going to be Krieg's birthday soon, and I want to breed Polo so he can have an Incineroar of his own to wrestle with.

_{[Oh, it will be brought! He'd even add Reiner to the mix, but... Bertolt isn't sure he'd be able to sneak under covers anymore. He's a little too big for that. But maybe Doodle...? No, no, he can't function that well when he's cold.

Damn it.]}

Incineroars...

_{[Bertolt blinks, reaching up to take Jean's hand and pulls himself back up where he promptly lets himself flop over on his side, still holding Jean's hand for a few moments. Come on, brain. Wake up--]}

What're you going to do with the rest?

[It's Annie or nothing, buddy, unless Bertolt feels like tossing a hubcap into Jean's bed and watching him scramble out of Reiner's way. It would be really fun until Jean got squashed flat.]

Probably see if anyone else wants one, or sell them.

[Who wouldn't want an Incineroar kitten? Incineroars are great!]

Do you want one?

_{[He could also throw it under Jean's bed and watch him get flung to the floor from Reiner trying to scramble under the frame! At least a mattress wouldn't hurt as much as having a near half-ton monster climbing over him.]}

...It couldn't hurt, could it? I mean, it'd... be sort of nice for Apollo to have someone to fight with when Polo isn't around.

_{[And maybe give him some breathing space if he wasn't feeling too good. He loves his Machoke, but dear lord he feels smothered sometimes when he goes into Nurse Mode.]}

[That... okay, that would be pretty good revenge. Jean would go flying the moment Reiner started rooting around. Jean is pretty sure that Bertolt won't do it, though; he doesn't really seem like the revenge type.]

Yeeeeeeeeah... have you seen the drawings Polo's been making of Apollo?

[They are... a bit too lovingly rendered. Almost weirdly pornographic. Jean is starting to wonder if there's something going on there, but the two Pokemon in question mostly just act like bros. Bros who occasionally pose for/draw strangely erotic pictures of each other. It's weird.]

_{[He'd leave that to the tent, anyway! At least if the tent collapsed, they'd just have to crawl out of the dreaded 'ruins'.]}

Has he been doing more?

_{[Polo, how scandalous! He's almost a little afraid to see what sort of things he'd churn out if Apollo evolved, but Bertolt hasn't quite figured out how to trigger that yet.]}

Apollo is about all he draws anymore.

[Beautiful, lovingly crafted drawings of Apollo. With every muscle carefully detailed. If Polo hadn't gotten so excited over Shiro's Red, Jean would think he was gay for the Machoke.]

No, that's not true. He started drawing Krieg once, but I made him stop.

[There are limits, okay? Jean had to make it very, VERY clear that Polo is allowed to draw Krieg's face, but not anything else.]

_{[Maybe he's gay for Apollo, but straight for everyone else? How do Pokemon even work in that regard? He does not know.]}

...When you put it like that, it actually sounds sort of cute.

_{[If they weren't so detailed. So very, very detailed.]}

Has he drawn anyone else? B-Besides Apollo and uh... Krieg?

[Polo is a musclesexual.]

No! It wasn't cute! It's weird!

[You know what Jean doesn't need to see? Krieg drawn like a Chippendale model!]

He draws the other Pokemon around the camp sometimes. Different people's faces. He's drawn you a couple of times.

[Bertolt's muscles apparently don't pass muster, though; Polo has only drawn his face.]

He--

_{[Wait.

...Wait, Jean just-- Oh.

Oh.]}

...He has?

_{[And he is only just now finding out about this. Polo has been staring at him.]}

Yeah. Just your face, though.

[Of course Polo has been staring at Bertolt! He stares at everyone, he's a cat!]

I guess he listened when I told him it was inappropriate to draw people the way he draws other Pokemon.

[Or he just hides it better now.]

Anyway. Can I borrow Bubblegum?

You say that like he's people like one of his Lumiosian girls or something.

_{[That movie had been... a thing. Nobody judge Bertolt for crying over it.]}

But, uh... Yeah. Just make sure he takes care of her, okay?

We don't talk about that movie, Bertolt.

[There wasn't a dry eye in the house. Like, damn.]

Of course. [Jean cracks a grin.] Polo is a doof, but he's a good natured one. He'll probably teach her how to flex before she's ready to come back.

[Jean slides off the bed and offers Bertolt a hand. Now that he's gotten what he wants, he's prepared to make nice to make up for waking him up.]

You want one of Ma Kirschtein's omelets for breakfast?

_{[It also gave Bertolt more reasons to avoid boats! What if the ferry sank? What if it hit something really big and everything went down like that?

He doesn't want to die on a dumb door, okay.]}

At least she doesn't have to worry about pulling any muscles. She's sort of... Blobby.

_{[Bertolt shifts around a little so he can properly grab Jean's hand and helps pull himself up, wincing a little as his joints pop. It doesn't hurt, but jeez.]}

Can we fry up what's left of our bacon with it, too?

Uh, obviously?

[What kind of monster makes an omelet and doesn't fry up bacon to go with it? Not Ma Kirschtein's boy Jean, that's for sure!]

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