It's been a few days since the whole food thing, and people were hooked and wanted me to cook despite being noble, so I did the natural thing and told them to fuck off, I'm not some burger jockey they can order around….
They were mopey but I didn't care, I did share some food with my 3 goons and Herman though, gotta look after my peeps, but that's not important right now, what is important is…
Todays the day my crew is assembled!!, I feel feel it!! My little cyborg crab is going to complete our little family, and I know I'll probably have more mons in the future, and I'll probably love them the same, but these 3 were special.
Before I came here I wasn't really a feelings person, had a few girlfriends but never really became attached, never owned a pet, but I doubt it could compare to this.
I always hated the power of friendship bullshit, and I still do but this….. the bond is hard to describe, it's like they are a piece of you, and I've had a bond with the eggs since I seen them, a small one, but it grows as they get closer to hatching.
The bond doesn't power you up per se, it's more like extra motivation, like that one more push up at your limits sort of thing.
But back to the egg, I sit on the floor in my room and just watch it, it's mid morning, lunch is approaching, people outside working, houndour is laying next to me chewing a bone to big for him, and suddenly it starts…..
The egg in the incubator shakes, so I pull it out and sit it down, for the next hour an a half the shakes get more intense little by little, until a crack formed in the egg, and it slowly and slowly got bigger, and I could feel through our connect the joy that radiated off beldum in the egg.
And suddenly a little beldum breaks out of the egg and rolls onto the ground….. and it slowly opens its little eye, looks around with curiosity for a couple seconds and then focuses on me, and through the connection I could feel a sudden burst of happiness.
Beldum can't communicate like Normal Pokémon, it can only communicate with general feelings with it psychic abilities, but with the bond it was intense, his sheer joy overwhelmed me… he slowly and shakily started to float over to me, he's only the size of an adults fist at the moment, but he gets to me and drops into my lap
As he does houndour sniffs and him and starts licking the goo off him, yes goo, Pokémon aren't born clean…. Which is gross but it doesn't matter right now, as he, and I'm going to call him a he even though their species has no gender but I'm gettting dude vibes off him, starts dozing off in in my lap I can't help but smile.
When I first wished for my new fish,dog and crab thing, I thought of them as things to help me achieve an easy life, but this bond thing has thrown that out the window… they are part of me now, and I would bury anyone who attempts to harm them.
Which reminds me of my conversation with father about Pokémon types, most Pokémon types are fairly abundant, save for 2, dragon and psychic.
Psychic being the less rare but still quite rare to tame, only a handful of people in the Sinnoh kingdom have them, and they are used as a strategic resource due to teleport and mind reading, not to mention they are hard to deal with if they have any sort of strength, smart too….
But dragons…. They are borderline impossible to own, first to obtain a dragons egg you would in fact have to get one off a dragon, and they are very protective over their eggs, they also live in large groups, and it's not rare for there to be multiple champions and at least a guardian level watching over the flock.
They only really respect strength, are insanely prideful and incredibly violent when they don't get their way, so again, taming them is a problem.
The ex king has a garchomp but apparently he got it when he was a child under strange circumstances he never mentioned, there are rumours about being adopted by dragons or whatever but it doesn't really matter.
There's like 3 people in the kingdom know to have a dragon type, so yeah, rare, but I'm off topic, my psychic cyborg crab is born!!!!
Aaaaannd he's asleep, oh well at least he's here now, I've already made up some mineral polish for him, he doesn't need to eat so food won't be an issue.
I spend the rest of the day just messing around with magikarp, houndour, the tiny beldum and azumarill, who by the way has formed a small bond with me after I gave her that orb, not a bond like my main 3 but it's there.
People can own Pokémon and not have a bond with them, it's kinda like a mutual cooperation like thing, but bonds are some ride or die shit, homies for life…..
So another week goes by with me just generally hanging out with me crew, I cook for my main goons and Herman, though a new rule is if you moan sexually, I throw your food in the garbage…. Herman went hungry for the first couple meals….
Dads people finished the glass making factory, I made sure to imprint on the old man the importance of compartmentalising so no one person know to much, and he made sure they were "his" trusted people, so I start showing them how it's done, I already gathered some materials to do a demonstration, I know it's ganna leak eventually and I have a million ways to make some coin, but I want a lazy life, I'm not here to better the world or save the children...
And not to mention I'm going to live thousands of years if I'm not somehow murdered, which I'm trying to make as difficult as possible with what I'm doing, I'm not some genius strategist or brilliant mind, I was a regular dude, now I'm a mini aura god, in a Pokémon world with knowledge that can make life not so much a slog.
I don't plan on spreading everything I know, I'm going to raise some people to be loyal to me, and get some land, maybe create a small semi modern town, and find ways to entertain myself
I know my step mothers and brothers are going to be a problem, and I'm happy to leave them to their own little world as long as they don't drag me or my people into their shit, which I'm sure they will with their over inflated sense of self, I don't care for them, and I know I'm going to have to kill people one day, most likely them, probably their family's too.
Not that I am against it, in my last life there are lots of people I'd probably murder if I could get away with it, I'm sure a lot of people were like that, not in a psychotic way where I just wanted to do it for the thrill, just those absolute dick bags that exist everywhere that just made life hard for everyone.
But anyways the glass making trail went off without a hitch, and I spent the next while showing them the inns and outs of the whole process and how to shape the glass, and while doing so I start making some window panes for my place, making them as sturdy as I can.
So this continues on for a few weeks, my brothers trying to intimidate me, with less than stellar results, and their mothers trying little power plays that just don't do anything.
When pops comes to me and says he's going to the capital to show off to the king the glassware we produce, he thinks it's going to be a hit, big money, so I make a couple glass statues that took a fair bit of work, one of a garchomp, one of a torterra and one of an infernape, gifts for the former king, grand duke and the current king, I asked him to hand them over privately, just wanted to get a favour.
I also gave him a list of Pokémon eggs I would like him to pick up for me, a couple for me, and a few for my goons.
And it turns out my step mothers and their children are going with father to the capital, they want to visit their relatives and stay there for awhile...red flag…..
So over the last week I had Rick and Leah round up some orphans to get to training, I don't really know how to indoctrinate people but I'll try my best, they came up with 35 kids from ages 5-12, and I had a dorm building type thing built out back of my new place to house everyone, it's quite big, smaller then my place but less frivolity, just rooms, a kitchen, big showers, I even sprung….well pops sprung for hot water… and a mess hall they could eat, I also had started constructing some green houses for herbs and and spices and shit, and berrys.... Berrys have different uses, healing potions, curing temporary paralysis ect, just like in the games, not safe for human consumption though…
I also found out yes, I can unlock aura by just straight up pump what I can only assume is an inhuman amount of aura into their bodys.
I only did so with Logan, Leah and a few of the more trustable orphans...they looked at me like I was the messiah…..and asked if I was an aura guardian, I had to nip that problem right away, and part of my "indoctrination" included "don't fully trust the aura guardians" or anyone who wasn't me really.
So with everything set pretty well for the future, I started training my mons and working on little ease of life projects to keep me occupied till I can live the way I want, time moved forward.