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[Good evening, network! Today you get Dist's livid face, apparently. He looks absolutely pissed, and also his nose is running slightly.]

Whose brilliant idea was it to give me a Magikarp egg as a holiday gift?!

[For a couple seconds he pans the camera to...

an unusually golden Magikarp flopping around on the floor.]

Karp karp karp karp karp karp karp karp--

[The Pokemon's cry is enough to make Dist cry out in frustration.]

AUGH! This is the exact opposite of a thoughtful gift! This is a downright godawful excuse for a gift and you should be ashamed, if not fearful for your well-being once I find out who did it!! And to think these gifts are supposed to be special...

[He takes a moment to turn the camera away and wipe his nose. The Magikarp continues its karping in the background.]

Jade, if this is your doing, I swear I'll...I'll... [He has to pause to think of a good comeback.] Take all of your gifts from me back by force!

[It's about now that he can't stand the Magikarp's constant cries anymore. His gaze drifts toward the floor where it is.]

Would you shut up?! Rrrgh, you had better be unique enough for someone to take you off my hands or you're going in the PC forever...

[Since this video was supposed to end before he got even more annoyed by the Magikarp, he finally ends the feed there.]

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It's not necessarily the training, it's the the results of all the effort. You see...my first Magikarp finally evolved and the Gyarados immediately attacked me.

[He really doesn't like talking about it.]

He is. We have known each other since we were children.

Oh! [ Well, she's a lot more sympathetic now. :| That's what you ought to have started out with, Dist. ] I can see why you might be hesitant, then...I guess you could take precautions, but...

Oh, so childhood friends?

[But vaguely bitching about things is much more enjoyable!]

There is no guarantee that the outcome will be the same, even if I do change my method of training. Gyarados a naturally aggressive creature. Honestly, I would rather spend my time training a strong Pokemon that I know I can control.

[His frown deepens at the mention of "friends", like he's almost offended she would ask that.]

Something like that, but it is complicated now. Things are not the same as they were back then.

Well, if you're really against the idea, I'm willing to try my hand at training a magikarp. I'm used to aggressive creatures!

Oh, I see. Time does change things.

... You are?

[He wouldn't have guessed.]

Yes, yes it does. [The way he said that makes it seem like he wants to drop the subject already. It never leads to a good conversation.]

This place is much less dangerous than home, really. Alternia had rather a lot of aggressive creatures to contend with, as did the game.

[ She'll just drop the second part, then. ]

Interesting. I could say the same about Auldrant but it is easy enough to avoid the truly threatening monsters.

Even if you avoided the monsters, there were always other trolls! Auldrant is where you're from, right? I've never met anyone from there, I don't think. Until now, obviously.

You were attacked by your own species? Actually, that is more believable if anything.

[Wars wars wars and all that back on Auldrant.]

But yes, that is where I am from. I believe myself and Jade are the only ones from Auldrant here at the moment.

Trolls are a generally violent species on the whole!

[ Although this doesn't seem to...bother her. ]

There's...gosh, seven other trolls, and then nine of our humans, here.

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