Third Flake [video]

[defyingfrigidity]

[One day, Elsa will make a post to the network that doesn't involve questioning everyone. Today? not really one of those days.]

I'm sorry I've asked so many questions every time I post messages here. After being here for over a month, one would think that I knew enough to not need to ask so many questions. But this is just... something I haven't seen before. So I have to ask.

[The camera shifts from Elsa's face down to her lap. Wriggling happily upon it, nose pushing against her palm as it snuffles curiously, is a Dratini. But there's something a little.... odd about it.]

Do pokemon come in different colors? From what I've been able to tell with others of the species I've seen, it hasn't been the case, but this little one hatched today, and she's.... different, from the pictures I've seen of this species. Is this normal?

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[defyingfrigidity]

Are these "shiny" pokemon all the same color? Er, per species, that is. [She gently taps on her Dratini's head, and the little dragon huffs and shakes away Elsa's finger.] I mean, are there other colors of "shiny" dratini? Or is pink the only kind?

[Elsa's face lights up a bit when she sees the Golurk. She may be unfamiliar with giant robots and thus can't make that kind of association, but she knows about golems. This is just one more thing from the old stories she used to read coming to life!]

Oh wow, now that's an interesting pokemon!

[friendyousohard]

As far as I'm aware, there's one "ordinary" and one "shiny" color for each species of Pokemon. There are a few exceptions to this rule, like Deerling, but that's the usual way it goes.

[Robo proceeds to start flexing and showing off as soon as he hears what Elsa has to say about him. Twilight is unimpressed, but she keeps the camera on him so Elsa can get a good look.]

Careful, you'll give him a big head. Not that he's really the grandstander among my group, but still.

[defyingfrigidity]

Whoops, sorry. [Elsa laughs.] And he's not your team's showoff? He sure seems to be enjoying the compliment....

[friendyousohard]

Oh they all enjoy it when they get praised, but if you'd seen Megasoma you'd know for a fact who the resident attention-seeker in my party is.

[Robo folds his arms and nods sagely.]

He once insisted on taking on a gym leader on his own and having me record it for the network, just so he could get the adulations of the regions.

[defyingfrigidity]

Oh dear.

[...] I... sincerely hope he won, at the very least. Showoff or not, nobody deserves to have their moment ruined like that.

[friendyousohard]

Oh, he won, all right. He was several levels of experience ahead of the team he was up against, after all. It made him completely insufferable for the next few days though.