Pokémon The Future Between Us

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Wow you know me too well because I realized partway in "wait shit how's he gonna play this if he doesn't breathe".

The AI is in an odd scenario because while he's got Turo's memories and was built to look like him, he's someone very different. And in a way he's also this man's child, being his creation. So it's a very complicated situation.

 

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Chapter 5 response

Aw man panic attack.. I was hoping i missed the mark but cue avrens internal screaming... And imposture syndrome... Ouch pain 101 here we come.

Ai-tur is possibly trying compression/grounding? The motions seems too big for celebi...

Honestly having lived through and seeing a panic attack firat hand i vote both were scared out of thier minds for different but simular reasons...

Except celebi who has the authors cliff notes for this piece... As the perk of being a time god/critter/avatar.

I'd argue that ai-tur would be limited in what he could be but his wildly different personality and descisions made in the clutch would point to the fact that he has the ability (w a ton of effort) to do his own thing aka be his own person.

Just saying..

I'd point out that thanos "loved" his daughter gamora and murdered her to forward his plots anyway... While not on that scale i'd say organic tur' definitly is of a simular stripe...

Ok mild confession... I kinda hoped that celebi's data dumping/comunications with ai-tur' would have looked like an email for the ai or like threads of code... Ah well.

Snorts... And ai-tur' s already plotting an escape route with safty measures and back up plans just in case... Fittting... And i am curious if avren finds mortality "depressing" or if acknowleding the limit instead is the true downer...

Laughs... Nah i just went all logical and bumped into the next plot point by accident.

 

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Chapter 6 response

Yeah gotta admit being told off as irrational by an ai has gotta sting. Especially when the burn is directed at a man of science...

And somewhere/somewhen organic-tur' is rolling in his grave. And no one with any sense cares...

I am surprused celebi isnt chilling with a bag of popcorn... But supportive nodding is a close second.

i suppose ai-tur' hould be happy he isnt in alola... Pikipek mistaking you as a literally tree could go very badly...

Still i suppose being his own wild critter camera does have his perks in the research game... If oak was alive in this verse/timeframe i could imagine him going nuts for all the discoveries that a casual conversation with ai-tur' could dredge up.

Or worse a swarm of joltik smelling his electric/energy source...

Yeah that sounds like a good reason to coax ai-tur' back to modern times. Bugspray, bird deturents, and backup.

Granted time travel schenanigans/new world exploring also sound like a good reason to linger a while...

When ai is gripping celebi i kept seeing the owl house scene with the squeaky toy... Then as the cast dig into deeper anxieties and then i remember bumpkins and his dog toy stress squeeze scene.

And i cant find a gif or image.. Figures...

Meh i could see ai-tur' being made in the "what if" even if turo didnt go around the twist... Ego and all that.

Them hashing out the could have beens of thier shared history is interesting.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

I'm very attached to their relationship and it's a shame they get such little dialogue with each other in canon.

I don't think Celebi would know how to send data like that, frankly haha. It probably knows people who can but they're in other times.

Yeah, the conflict between "your father truly loved you" and "your father was a terrible person who abused us both" and both of those being true statements is one of the things that drew me to this whole storyline.

 

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Chapter 7 response

I suspect avern would like bio-tur' to actually appologize and give approval and thats making things complicated between ai-tur' but letscall that a pet theroy and let it go at that.

Laughs. Love how avern just called it and shot down ai's verblal tic of correcting... Even if its not right this time...

Well to quote peanuts " if you acknowledge there is a problem then all is not lost"... Well paraphraise... But still...

To summerize... Avern acknowledges the damage and the seperation (which for avern might be another damage honestly, not to sure how the ai feels about total social issolation.) And goes ouch as a result.

Tips head. I suspect these panic fits and emotional overloads arent going to slow until some therepy happens and perhaps some distance from the pain...

Hmm i wonder if its less a cycle and more a spiral (ascending or descending it could go either way). And celebi is like... I am granting you privacy, use it well.

Well ai's using it well to say the least.

And avern is pulling the guilt card in cyber dad...

And the ai dodges like a pro. He is havong his happy reunion...self updating and exploring until hes ready if ever to cross times to rejoin the present...

I've personally never understood that amgle honestly. The logic vs emotions divide. You can be emotional, or logical, or both depending on time, circumstances, and personality... They just are and wrangling with them is a "you just do" sort of thing. Its a angle i havemt seen any protag in the mon verse take up and kinda seems one of the mainthe roundabout co flicts throughout the series (points to n and cyrus nd a few other executives/syndicates) .

And those fun contradictions are really common in the mon verse.. Suoer comon... So much so i would rec a whole imaginary planet to take compitent parenting courses... Yeesh.

And averns request at the end of this chapter is going to dig up so much pain (pun uttelry unintended.)

 

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Chapter 8 response

I kinda think the joys cognetive dissodence are definitly going to be ai-tur' and avrens main default reaction to turo for the rest of thier lives. Free mental gymnastics for.everone who encountered the original and his mad schemes...

So does ai. Have the means to catch any mon after he released his original team?

While i figure the "just gone" is a kick in the teeth for averns and ai-tur' with thier grief and what nit it feels pretty fitting after everything the guy did.

Yeah i was gunna say "some mons likely to scuff the writing out" but ai-tur' beat me to it.

Coughs... Yeah considering how broken the school system is in this verse i suspect averns being wildly optimistic... I mean theres a whole team of preyed upon students that had to form gangs for protection.. Tame pg ranked ganga... But still...

Yeah the "could of been" tango is never a fun one... Especially on this level...

Between that and avern poking at the wound of how his father died... Yeaj rough times for them both.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

To be fair the school got a lot better once Clavell took over. It was under Harrington that the abuse that led to Star's formation occured. Clavell has shown himself to be a much better and more caring headmaster who gets to the bottom of things and speaks personally with students in need. And heck he also knew Arven's parents personally, even worked with them, so this is his own loss as well. Arven has no shortage of people to rely on if he reaches out to them.

 

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Chapter 9 response

I really hope avern believes ai-tur' and his stated preference/status as an asocial soul. Converstaion and people arent a need and that is probably pivitol in the ai retaining his sanity in this timepoint.

Its a fine point between liking yet not needing others and i'm not 100% sure avern can get that...

And thus we see friend zone get applied in another way... It says a lot that while ai-tur is reaching for familial connection avern is going the friend route.

I'd argue considering they share a "father" they could be brothers, or perhaps uncle and nephew, but i dont see ai-tur pushing on that... I see the ai just accepting whatever is offered as he seems a bit laid back.

The ai's chatter about saddness brings to mind an old mental health comic where a man is talking to his cat. Describing his illness as "a coming saddness" and hes encouraged to remember that its a "passing" saddness.. That it'll leave eventually, they just have to wait it out...

Ai-turs advice is something of a simular vein.

At least they are both getting some closure from this meeting still abern probably whistled celebi over with his "bet he's coming back aaaany minute" line.

Personally if i was a trainer and my mon flitted up to me ears,slicked back and weary iwould be like "and whatd you pick a fight with now?". Honestly i get the impulse when i hear scuffling and my cat slinks out of a room i am not in to get to me. Considering this is celebi insuppose asking that question would lead to some "interesting" answers.

Well that winds up that though i do have to wonder how averns friends back home felt about this adventure (if they knew about it) and what reveption the guy will get when he does get home...

Added on chapter 10 response because 10 was so short...

Well that ended on a note of vauge optimism with a dash of partial healing... For celebi the adventure continues... For avern its a long healing road ahead and some even longer explainations... Out of curiousity are you going to be incorperating the dlc matter into this tale or are you content with where its ended now?

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

This story ends here but I'm hoping to do another fic, unconnected to this one (because I don't want a set future for this story) where the AI returns to the present. I just hope the DLC doesn't overturn that idea at all...