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nullorvoid) wrote2014-05-21 08:20 pm
nullorvoid) wrote2014-05-21 08:20 pm
Entry tags:
Application for Route 29
Player
Name: Dal
Personal Journal:dalicious
E-mail: redlotus.alchemy@gmail.com
AIM/Plurk/Etc.: AIM: AsylumBred
Timezone: EST
Character
Name: Ginti
Series: Death Parade
Timeline: Post-Episode 12
Canon Resource Links:
Death Parade on Wikipedia
Ginti on the Death Parade wiki
Personality: The most immediately noticeable thing about Ginti is honestly that he's not here for any of this.
Exactly what "this" is tends to vary depending on his current situation – it ranges anywhere from "his job" to "your face" and covers just about everything inbetween – but the fact remains that he is absolutely not here for it; his outward demeanor is generally one of boredom and irritation with the world. He doesn't have much patience for people, especially when they don't act in ways that he thinks they should; he seems to expect everyone to be punctual and adhere to rules that he may or may not have actually told them, and he's quick to be annoyed when they don't magically intuit what he wants them to do – for example, he becomes snappish and agitated when someone doesn't call his cat by her name, despite the fact that he hadn't actually told them the cat's name in the first place. His speech is also very blunt overall, both in word choice and tone, and he doesn't seem to have either the time or the inclination to be polite to people that he doesn't have reason to care about (and he's often not very polite to the ones he does have reason to care about, either); combined with the fact that his facial expression is usually set in some variation on "glaring", he tends to come off as rude at best, and mean or easily set-off at worst.
Given his line of work, that's probably not very comforting for the people he's expected to handle on a daily basis: Ginti is an arbiter, charged with deciding the fate of people's souls after they die. For the most part, he seems to see this as a job and nothing else; in fact, his general attitude toward it is not unlike someone who's worked in retail a bit too long. From the one judgment session we see him overseeing, he seems bored throughout the whole thing, and he doesn't even seem to be paying much attention for the first long while – instead, he's keeping to himself across the room, once in a while glancing up and seeing that everything's still going in a more or less forward direction but mostly just reading a magazine while his cat, Memine, presses the button that keeps the game running. (On the one hand, the magazine seems to have a lot of articles about one of the people he's judging; on the other, it's...pretty obviously a tabloid.)
However, his demeanor changes once he decides that the game has gone on too long; rather than getting annoyed further by the fact that no one seems to be winning or losing, he seems pleased with it, going so far as to declare the sudden death rounds "[his] favorite part." The changes he initiates in the game after that are designed to create an "extreme condition," which as far as arbiters are concerned are to be used to draw out the darkness in people's souls so they can be judged properly; these extreme conditions often lead to a lot of pain and suffering (both emotional and physical) on the part of the people being judged, and Ginti seems to take a weirdly sadistic joy in creating them – one that goes well beyond wanting to ensure that a fair judgment is carried out.
Part of this may be just how he processed the way arbiters are supposed to work; he's still relatively new at his job – he's only been an arbiter for five years and it's implied that arbiters are very long-lived, seeing that his boss, Nona, has been around for at least eighty-two years and doesn't show signs of stopping anytime soon – and as such he doesn't have very much experience as far as just existing in general goes. He was presumably created as a blank slate (it's entirely possible that if we get more canon materials I will end up being jossed since there are implications that this may not be the case, but as of this writing, that's what we have been given as the state of things) and after that, he was immediately taught that human suffering is a good thing and a valid way to get results of out them; he's very excited over the idea of getting to create extreme conditions when he's shown being trained by Nona, and he seems eager to treat it as some sort of game of his own. So it's partially a conditioned response, but to leave it there is to take all responsibility off of him when that is nowhere near accurate or appropriate – it implies that he doesn't know what he's doing, when it's obvious that he definitely does. Bluntly put, he understands that he's hurting people and he enjoys doing it; he thinks making people suffer is fun, straight-up calling it "entertainment," and it looks like the only part of his job that he actually likes.
It's ironic, then, that his job is most of the reason why he enjoys making people suffer; Ginti is very arrogant, believing that his status as an arbiter makes him superior to humans because it gives him both an explicit purpose and a heightened understanding of life and death. He believes humans are foolish for clinging to life, interpreting their drive and desire to prolong their lives as ignorance and willful denial of the fact that one day they'll die; he fails to see a point in their lives at all – though it's worth noting as well that he's not necessarily content with leaving that notion alone. He still considers himself above humans, but if he finds someone that he thinks is worth asking, he'll ask them why they do what it is they do, or what they live for; the problem is that most people can't answer him in a way that he finds satisfying or complete, which only serves to frustrate him further. This is due at least in part to the fact that his actual understanding of emotions and how they factor in to people behaving as they do is very poor; he does seem to understand basic emotions like happiness, fear and anger, and sometimes he talks about more complex states of being like regret and despair, but his discussion of the latter, more complex things tends to be very clinical and straightforward – as though they're something he's heard about rather than something he knows for himself. He also makes it plain on more than one occasion that concepts like "love" and "dedicating oneself to another" are completely beyond him in terms of comprehension, and he's quick to dismiss them as pointless or invalid as opposed to anything that should have an effect on people's behavior.
Basically, he's easily frustrated by people and things that don't line up with the way he thinks the world should work, and this tends to lead to all sorts of problems with dealing with others; namely, he's got a horrible temper. It also doesn't help that Ginti isn't terribly bright when compared to the rest of the Death Parade cast; he's not stupid, since he couldn't do his job if he was, but he tends to have a very simplistic view of things that tends to trip him up when he's arguing a point with someone, and he solves his everyday problems through shouting at or attacking them rather than trying to rationalize. He doesn't express himself very well, particularly if he second-guesses something he's saying or someone asks him something he doesn't want to answer; when things like that happen he tends to get agitated and angry and not want to talk, and it's not unheard of for him to physically storm out of a conversation if he ends up verbally backed into a corner.
All of this isn't to say, however, that he's completely incapable of caring about anything in any sort of meaningful way; he hesitates to actually do his job and pass judgment on someone that makes a strong enough impression on him in several ways, and he's very gentle with his cat. However, it takes a lot to get him to show any sort of softer side, and even when he does he'll second-guess it and often get agitated until he manages to resolve the issue in a way he finds acceptable.
Until then...well, as was said at the beginning – Ginti is not here for any of this. Shame Johto's not giving him much choice!
Strengths/Weaknesses:
✔ MAYBE WE CAN JUST BRUTE FORCE IT
Physically speaking, Ginti is both strong and incredibly fast, far moreso than most human beings, and he's also ridiculously agile despite his height; he's got a hell of a sprint on him and does a lot of physics-defying gymnastics. This will be toned down in Route because of the humanizing rule, as it's most likely an arbiter thing as opposed to anything deliberately trained-up.
✔ YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT TO ASSERT YOURSELF
Bluntly put, Ginti is not in the practice of taking crap from anybody – he's more than willing to stand up for himself and get his own thoughts and ideas out there, even if he has to get up in people's faces to do it. His problem-solving skills are also acceptably decent, even if they tend to be a bit cruel; the switch arbiters use to create extreme conditions seem to be heavily influenced by the arbiters themselves.
✔ IT MAY NOT BE NICE, BUT IT'S FAIR
He's actually a surprisingly decent judge of character – he honestly has to be given his job. He knows what he's looking for in terms of understanding people's motivations; he doesn't always understand the emotions that caused people to act as they do, but he can usually see how things connect in ways that a lot of people won't – for example, canon has him judging someone who saves another person, but does it for reasons that are ultimately self-serving, and Ginti can easily discern the difference rather than allowing his opinion to be swayed by the gesture itself.
✔/✘ "THERE IS NO REASON. I'M AN ARBITER, THAT'S WHY."
As an arbiter, Ginti has spent his life completely distant from what can be considered a normal human experience. This is to his benefit in some ways, given that it's granted him an ability to see things in ways that most people wouldn't and come up with solutions for problems that may be unexpected or unusual as a result. At the same time, his sense of empathy is very poor and the things he decides to do often don't take the thoughts and feelings of others into account, to put it very lightly.
✔/✘ APPARENTLY I CAN'T APP ANYTHING WITHOUT AN OBLIGATORY "CANON-BASED BULLSHIT" SECTION
On the plus side, Ginti is used to weird supernatural crap, uncanny powers, and human souls taking physical form, so the Pokémon and their abilities shouldn't throw him off too badly. ...On the negative, he's used to being the guy with the uncanny powers who's using the weird supernatural crap to his advantage, so he's going to have to either get used to a completely different fighting style or otherwise work out how to adapt.
✘ PARAGON OF TACT AND SOCIAL GRACE
To say that he's blunt is understating it; he seems to have no brain-to-mouth filter whatsoever, and he's often tactless to the point of rudeness. If a thought crosses his mind it's almost guaranteed to come out of his mouth, and even if he manages to not broadcast his totally asked-for opinion to the room at large, it's pretty obviously all over his face. Ginti also has next to no indoor voice and he's incredibly aggressive when he's worked up - he's rather prone to getting all up in people's business without a second thought, and he seems to prefer intimidating people into listening to him rather than presenting a valid point. If he has the choice between giving a rational argument and yelling until the other person backs down, he'll almost always choose the latter over the former. He also tends to not express himself very well in general, particularly when he's worked up; he's very good at getting "YOU NEED TO [DO X THING] RIGHT NOW" across, but everything else tends to be not expressed at all at best and completely incoherent at worst.
✘ YOU'RE HERE FOR MY ENTERTAINMENT
Fair judgement or not, he has a massive sadistic streak; he just really likes watching people in peril and seeing what they'll do to get themselves out of it. He's perfectly willing to put them in those situations if he sees fit to do so; he'll have less of a reason to do that in Johto, however, as what he does usually relates to his job and there's no canon-given reason to think that he'll be some sort of tremendous sociopath. But if there just so happen to be a situation where it comes up...well, let's just say he won't be fighting the good fight against Team Rocket and leave it at that.
✘ "BECAUSE HUMANS ARE IDIOTS, RIGHT?"
Ginti's got a superiority complex roughly the side of a small moon, and he isn't afraid to voice it, either – no matter whom he's talking to. Part of it is the abovementioned lack of tact problem, but part of it is just a tendency to talk down to people that he doesn't think are worth his time. He's perfectly willing to ask people why they do things that he doesn't get or doesn't like (and call them stupid if they can't answer him "properly"), and he's also very prone to just...telling humans that all of humanity is really damn stupid as far as he's concerned. He also tends to be a lot ruder to them than he does nonhuman things, such as other arbiters. This is probably not going to make him terribly popular with the human populace, and he will probably not be too thrilled about suddenly being a member of the human populace.
✘ GO THE HELL OUTSIDE
As was mentioned above, Ginti has spent his entire life completely separate from humans – that is to say, he's never been in the living world before Johto's going to unceremoniously drop him there. He's completely unused to doing anything to survive on his own, because he's been provided for as long as he's existed; he's also unused to being able to die and actually requiring things like sleep as a physical necessity. ...Essentially, "at least he's used to the notion of eating and drinking" is the best thing that can be said about his survival skills and that is really kind of sad.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Horsea
Samples
First Person Sample:
So I've got a bunch of fish for you guys this time.
[Well, it seems Ginti is, as usual, pleased to see everyone – by which I mean he's camped on the hotel bed, sitting curled up on it with his chin propped in his hand, looking both bored out of his mind and like he'd rather be anywhere but here.
He's got a Feebas plunked in his lap, though, and he's petting it much in the same way one would pet a cat, if cats had fins to be navigated around; whether he wants to be here or not, it seems like he's at least taking the whole breeding thing seriously. After all, it's what this place has decided he's supposed to do, so he might as well.]
Before you say anything, yes, you're getting dragged through the usual song and dance before you can have one. No payment, either, you're getting these things for free, so if you can't be bothered to fill out the forms then you don't really want one, do you?
And if you're going to ask why I'm bothering with all this procedure for a bunch of fish, then you also don't really want one, so don't waste my time.
[Literally all they want, after all, is to have you pet them and call them pretty. You'd better pet them and call them pretty. They even purr when you pet them, for hell's sake.]
I don't do any get-out-of-bureaucracy-free things for newcomers, either. Just answer the stupid questions, most of you know how it goes by now.
[That said, for those newcomers who have absolutely no idea what he's talking about with regards to procedure, the video is followed with a second text post to the network, containing– oh dear god that is legitimately at least thirty-five questions on this questionnaire. Some seem relevant, but others are...well, there's a lot of emphasis on what you're going to name it, among other things; apparently people who name their dog "Dog" need not apply.
Granted, it is a free fish, and the egg moves will probably make it entirely worth it; at the same time, Ginti, why.]
Third Person Sample:
Of all things to get used to, Ginti was probably never going to get over the number of people that felt the need to stuff themselves into this city.
He'd heard that Goldenrod was huge and densely-populated, and that there were a lot of the "foreigners" or whatever in that general area, but he hadn't quite been prepared for the sheer mass of humanity waiting for him there; it'd been something he'd seen in memories, of course, something he'd heard of, but nothing he'd seen for himself. He doesn't miss the Tower – he hasn't missed the Tower since he'd come here and gotten at least vaguely adjusted to being outdoors – but this place almost makes him miss the relative quiet of it.
It takes him a while to settle, to clear his head; he finds himself just mechanically following the professor's advice that he'd gotten several towns back. Just look for the stupid red roof and get your Pokémon healed up. Do that first thing, worry about the rest later. Welcome to the hideously confusing world of Pokémon, enjoy your stay.
There were a few things to consider, though, while one waited for the machines to run their course; where there were people there were bound to be those who would seek ways to entertain themselves, and from what he'd heard this was something of a party city.
And that meant bar crawls.
Back home, if he'd had a choice (if he'd thought he would ever have a choice), he wouldn't have wanted to work another bar again; on top of that, living people tend to be a mess. But he's also pretty aware that working is probably a good idea, assuming he wants to remain among those living people and not dead in a ditch somewhere.
So maybe it won't be so bad. Work for a while before attempting a couple more badges. Besides, in his experience? The living tip way better than the dead.
Name: Dal
Personal Journal:
daliciousE-mail: redlotus.alchemy@gmail.com
AIM/Plurk/Etc.: AIM: AsylumBred
Timezone: EST
Character
Name: Ginti
Series: Death Parade
Timeline: Post-Episode 12
Canon Resource Links:
Death Parade on Wikipedia
Ginti on the Death Parade wiki
Personality: The most immediately noticeable thing about Ginti is honestly that he's not here for any of this.
Exactly what "this" is tends to vary depending on his current situation – it ranges anywhere from "his job" to "your face" and covers just about everything inbetween – but the fact remains that he is absolutely not here for it; his outward demeanor is generally one of boredom and irritation with the world. He doesn't have much patience for people, especially when they don't act in ways that he thinks they should; he seems to expect everyone to be punctual and adhere to rules that he may or may not have actually told them, and he's quick to be annoyed when they don't magically intuit what he wants them to do – for example, he becomes snappish and agitated when someone doesn't call his cat by her name, despite the fact that he hadn't actually told them the cat's name in the first place. His speech is also very blunt overall, both in word choice and tone, and he doesn't seem to have either the time or the inclination to be polite to people that he doesn't have reason to care about (and he's often not very polite to the ones he does have reason to care about, either); combined with the fact that his facial expression is usually set in some variation on "glaring", he tends to come off as rude at best, and mean or easily set-off at worst.
Given his line of work, that's probably not very comforting for the people he's expected to handle on a daily basis: Ginti is an arbiter, charged with deciding the fate of people's souls after they die. For the most part, he seems to see this as a job and nothing else; in fact, his general attitude toward it is not unlike someone who's worked in retail a bit too long. From the one judgment session we see him overseeing, he seems bored throughout the whole thing, and he doesn't even seem to be paying much attention for the first long while – instead, he's keeping to himself across the room, once in a while glancing up and seeing that everything's still going in a more or less forward direction but mostly just reading a magazine while his cat, Memine, presses the button that keeps the game running. (On the one hand, the magazine seems to have a lot of articles about one of the people he's judging; on the other, it's...pretty obviously a tabloid.)
However, his demeanor changes once he decides that the game has gone on too long; rather than getting annoyed further by the fact that no one seems to be winning or losing, he seems pleased with it, going so far as to declare the sudden death rounds "[his] favorite part." The changes he initiates in the game after that are designed to create an "extreme condition," which as far as arbiters are concerned are to be used to draw out the darkness in people's souls so they can be judged properly; these extreme conditions often lead to a lot of pain and suffering (both emotional and physical) on the part of the people being judged, and Ginti seems to take a weirdly sadistic joy in creating them – one that goes well beyond wanting to ensure that a fair judgment is carried out.
Part of this may be just how he processed the way arbiters are supposed to work; he's still relatively new at his job – he's only been an arbiter for five years and it's implied that arbiters are very long-lived, seeing that his boss, Nona, has been around for at least eighty-two years and doesn't show signs of stopping anytime soon – and as such he doesn't have very much experience as far as just existing in general goes. He was presumably created as a blank slate (it's entirely possible that if we get more canon materials I will end up being jossed since there are implications that this may not be the case, but as of this writing, that's what we have been given as the state of things) and after that, he was immediately taught that human suffering is a good thing and a valid way to get results of out them; he's very excited over the idea of getting to create extreme conditions when he's shown being trained by Nona, and he seems eager to treat it as some sort of game of his own. So it's partially a conditioned response, but to leave it there is to take all responsibility off of him when that is nowhere near accurate or appropriate – it implies that he doesn't know what he's doing, when it's obvious that he definitely does. Bluntly put, he understands that he's hurting people and he enjoys doing it; he thinks making people suffer is fun, straight-up calling it "entertainment," and it looks like the only part of his job that he actually likes.
It's ironic, then, that his job is most of the reason why he enjoys making people suffer; Ginti is very arrogant, believing that his status as an arbiter makes him superior to humans because it gives him both an explicit purpose and a heightened understanding of life and death. He believes humans are foolish for clinging to life, interpreting their drive and desire to prolong their lives as ignorance and willful denial of the fact that one day they'll die; he fails to see a point in their lives at all – though it's worth noting as well that he's not necessarily content with leaving that notion alone. He still considers himself above humans, but if he finds someone that he thinks is worth asking, he'll ask them why they do what it is they do, or what they live for; the problem is that most people can't answer him in a way that he finds satisfying or complete, which only serves to frustrate him further. This is due at least in part to the fact that his actual understanding of emotions and how they factor in to people behaving as they do is very poor; he does seem to understand basic emotions like happiness, fear and anger, and sometimes he talks about more complex states of being like regret and despair, but his discussion of the latter, more complex things tends to be very clinical and straightforward – as though they're something he's heard about rather than something he knows for himself. He also makes it plain on more than one occasion that concepts like "love" and "dedicating oneself to another" are completely beyond him in terms of comprehension, and he's quick to dismiss them as pointless or invalid as opposed to anything that should have an effect on people's behavior.
Basically, he's easily frustrated by people and things that don't line up with the way he thinks the world should work, and this tends to lead to all sorts of problems with dealing with others; namely, he's got a horrible temper. It also doesn't help that Ginti isn't terribly bright when compared to the rest of the Death Parade cast; he's not stupid, since he couldn't do his job if he was, but he tends to have a very simplistic view of things that tends to trip him up when he's arguing a point with someone, and he solves his everyday problems through shouting at or attacking them rather than trying to rationalize. He doesn't express himself very well, particularly if he second-guesses something he's saying or someone asks him something he doesn't want to answer; when things like that happen he tends to get agitated and angry and not want to talk, and it's not unheard of for him to physically storm out of a conversation if he ends up verbally backed into a corner.
All of this isn't to say, however, that he's completely incapable of caring about anything in any sort of meaningful way; he hesitates to actually do his job and pass judgment on someone that makes a strong enough impression on him in several ways, and he's very gentle with his cat. However, it takes a lot to get him to show any sort of softer side, and even when he does he'll second-guess it and often get agitated until he manages to resolve the issue in a way he finds acceptable.
Until then...well, as was said at the beginning – Ginti is not here for any of this. Shame Johto's not giving him much choice!
Strengths/Weaknesses:
✔ MAYBE WE CAN JUST BRUTE FORCE IT
Physically speaking, Ginti is both strong and incredibly fast, far moreso than most human beings, and he's also ridiculously agile despite his height; he's got a hell of a sprint on him and does a lot of physics-defying gymnastics. This will be toned down in Route because of the humanizing rule, as it's most likely an arbiter thing as opposed to anything deliberately trained-up.
✔ YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT TO ASSERT YOURSELF
Bluntly put, Ginti is not in the practice of taking crap from anybody – he's more than willing to stand up for himself and get his own thoughts and ideas out there, even if he has to get up in people's faces to do it. His problem-solving skills are also acceptably decent, even if they tend to be a bit cruel; the switch arbiters use to create extreme conditions seem to be heavily influenced by the arbiters themselves.
✔ IT MAY NOT BE NICE, BUT IT'S FAIR
He's actually a surprisingly decent judge of character – he honestly has to be given his job. He knows what he's looking for in terms of understanding people's motivations; he doesn't always understand the emotions that caused people to act as they do, but he can usually see how things connect in ways that a lot of people won't – for example, canon has him judging someone who saves another person, but does it for reasons that are ultimately self-serving, and Ginti can easily discern the difference rather than allowing his opinion to be swayed by the gesture itself.
✔/✘ "THERE IS NO REASON. I'M AN ARBITER, THAT'S WHY."
As an arbiter, Ginti has spent his life completely distant from what can be considered a normal human experience. This is to his benefit in some ways, given that it's granted him an ability to see things in ways that most people wouldn't and come up with solutions for problems that may be unexpected or unusual as a result. At the same time, his sense of empathy is very poor and the things he decides to do often don't take the thoughts and feelings of others into account, to put it very lightly.
✔/✘ APPARENTLY I CAN'T APP ANYTHING WITHOUT AN OBLIGATORY "CANON-BASED BULLSHIT" SECTION
On the plus side, Ginti is used to weird supernatural crap, uncanny powers, and human souls taking physical form, so the Pokémon and their abilities shouldn't throw him off too badly. ...On the negative, he's used to being the guy with the uncanny powers who's using the weird supernatural crap to his advantage, so he's going to have to either get used to a completely different fighting style or otherwise work out how to adapt.
✘ PARAGON OF TACT AND SOCIAL GRACE
To say that he's blunt is understating it; he seems to have no brain-to-mouth filter whatsoever, and he's often tactless to the point of rudeness. If a thought crosses his mind it's almost guaranteed to come out of his mouth, and even if he manages to not broadcast his totally asked-for opinion to the room at large, it's pretty obviously all over his face. Ginti also has next to no indoor voice and he's incredibly aggressive when he's worked up - he's rather prone to getting all up in people's business without a second thought, and he seems to prefer intimidating people into listening to him rather than presenting a valid point. If he has the choice between giving a rational argument and yelling until the other person backs down, he'll almost always choose the latter over the former. He also tends to not express himself very well in general, particularly when he's worked up; he's very good at getting "YOU NEED TO [DO X THING] RIGHT NOW" across, but everything else tends to be not expressed at all at best and completely incoherent at worst.
✘ YOU'RE HERE FOR MY ENTERTAINMENT
Fair judgement or not, he has a massive sadistic streak; he just really likes watching people in peril and seeing what they'll do to get themselves out of it. He's perfectly willing to put them in those situations if he sees fit to do so; he'll have less of a reason to do that in Johto, however, as what he does usually relates to his job and there's no canon-given reason to think that he'll be some sort of tremendous sociopath. But if there just so happen to be a situation where it comes up...well, let's just say he won't be fighting the good fight against Team Rocket and leave it at that.
✘ "BECAUSE HUMANS ARE IDIOTS, RIGHT?"
Ginti's got a superiority complex roughly the side of a small moon, and he isn't afraid to voice it, either – no matter whom he's talking to. Part of it is the abovementioned lack of tact problem, but part of it is just a tendency to talk down to people that he doesn't think are worth his time. He's perfectly willing to ask people why they do things that he doesn't get or doesn't like (and call them stupid if they can't answer him "properly"), and he's also very prone to just...telling humans that all of humanity is really damn stupid as far as he's concerned. He also tends to be a lot ruder to them than he does nonhuman things, such as other arbiters. This is probably not going to make him terribly popular with the human populace, and he will probably not be too thrilled about suddenly being a member of the human populace.
✘ GO THE HELL OUTSIDE
As was mentioned above, Ginti has spent his entire life completely separate from humans – that is to say, he's never been in the living world before Johto's going to unceremoniously drop him there. He's completely unused to doing anything to survive on his own, because he's been provided for as long as he's existed; he's also unused to being able to die and actually requiring things like sleep as a physical necessity. ...Essentially, "at least he's used to the notion of eating and drinking" is the best thing that can be said about his survival skills and that is really kind of sad.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Horsea
Samples
First Person Sample:
So I've got a bunch of fish for you guys this time.
[Well, it seems Ginti is, as usual, pleased to see everyone – by which I mean he's camped on the hotel bed, sitting curled up on it with his chin propped in his hand, looking both bored out of his mind and like he'd rather be anywhere but here.
He's got a Feebas plunked in his lap, though, and he's petting it much in the same way one would pet a cat, if cats had fins to be navigated around; whether he wants to be here or not, it seems like he's at least taking the whole breeding thing seriously. After all, it's what this place has decided he's supposed to do, so he might as well.]
Before you say anything, yes, you're getting dragged through the usual song and dance before you can have one. No payment, either, you're getting these things for free, so if you can't be bothered to fill out the forms then you don't really want one, do you?
And if you're going to ask why I'm bothering with all this procedure for a bunch of fish, then you also don't really want one, so don't waste my time.
[Literally all they want, after all, is to have you pet them and call them pretty. You'd better pet them and call them pretty. They even purr when you pet them, for hell's sake.]
I don't do any get-out-of-bureaucracy-free things for newcomers, either. Just answer the stupid questions, most of you know how it goes by now.
[That said, for those newcomers who have absolutely no idea what he's talking about with regards to procedure, the video is followed with a second text post to the network, containing– oh dear god that is legitimately at least thirty-five questions on this questionnaire. Some seem relevant, but others are...well, there's a lot of emphasis on what you're going to name it, among other things; apparently people who name their dog "Dog" need not apply.
Granted, it is a free fish, and the egg moves will probably make it entirely worth it; at the same time, Ginti, why.]
Third Person Sample:
Of all things to get used to, Ginti was probably never going to get over the number of people that felt the need to stuff themselves into this city.
He'd heard that Goldenrod was huge and densely-populated, and that there were a lot of the "foreigners" or whatever in that general area, but he hadn't quite been prepared for the sheer mass of humanity waiting for him there; it'd been something he'd seen in memories, of course, something he'd heard of, but nothing he'd seen for himself. He doesn't miss the Tower – he hasn't missed the Tower since he'd come here and gotten at least vaguely adjusted to being outdoors – but this place almost makes him miss the relative quiet of it.
It takes him a while to settle, to clear his head; he finds himself just mechanically following the professor's advice that he'd gotten several towns back. Just look for the stupid red roof and get your Pokémon healed up. Do that first thing, worry about the rest later. Welcome to the hideously confusing world of Pokémon, enjoy your stay.
There were a few things to consider, though, while one waited for the machines to run their course; where there were people there were bound to be those who would seek ways to entertain themselves, and from what he'd heard this was something of a party city.
And that meant bar crawls.
Back home, if he'd had a choice (if he'd thought he would ever have a choice), he wouldn't have wanted to work another bar again; on top of that, living people tend to be a mess. But he's also pretty aware that working is probably a good idea, assuming he wants to remain among those living people and not dead in a ditch somewhere.
So maybe it won't be so bad. Work for a while before attempting a couple more badges. Besides, in his experience? The living tip way better than the dead.