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“I’m not here to tell you what to do. You’re the one who was insisting I need to be happier.” Dave rolled over to stare Owen in the eye. “Whatever these false dichotomies you’re seeing are, they’re not what I said. ‘Everyone’ll remember you fondly if you’re a doormat’ means just that; it doesn’t...

“Seems pretty selfish to me to care how you’re remembered in the first place. So long as you did the right thing, who cares who’s left thinking what about you. Most of the time people’d prefer if you shut up and smile and don’t call them out on their bullshit and don’t rock any boats...

"Since when did being unhappy have to accomplish something? What, if you're being oppressed by whatever higher powers and can't stop them you're just going to sit there and take it and act like nothing's wrong? Fuck that." Dave looked back at the ceiling and took a breath. "Being remembered as...

Dave turned his head toward Owen, looking at him for a moment. Christ. "Well, you deserve better than all these shitty people manipulating you, and the fact you're going back to that is fucked up, and as far as I'm concerned you have every right to not be happy about it."

Dave raised a skeptical eyebrow. "To each his own. Personally having some psychic do some subtle shit to make me more talkative sounds like a fucking dystopian nightmare. Fugu's thing is batshit but at least it's honest."

Dave snorted. "Right. What's that like?"

"Huh." Dave vaguely pushed the pillow off his face. "I get the Pokémon battle instincts and all, but I wouldn't say fighting makes me happier. Harder to think, but not in the good kind of way."

Something like two more hours of writing. Sell: - Restore Seed (+6) - Quick Seed (+7) Buy: - Chilly Seed x2 (-14) - Maple's Renewal Seed (-15) - Zinc's Blessed Elixir (-20) - Max Elixir (-7) - Pop's Grand Reviver Seed (-30) - Xernatus's Warding Orb (-15) - Escape Orb (-3) - Diyem's Abyssal...

Dave pressed his face into the pillow. "Oh my God. Being happy isn't a fucking skill. What insane parallel universe did I wake up in this morning? Sorry, you just never figured out how to press the fucking Happy Switch like the other kids? Jesus Christ." Shadow looked up at Owen, slowly. "I'm...

"Well, I didn't exactly fucking decide a bunch of people should die. It's not how I want it to be but it's how it fucking is. You want me to just pretend that part didn't happen? Christ." Something cold and wet touched his shoulder and he jerked away, only to find it’d been Shadow’s nose. The...

Dave sighed. What was the point of this exactly? Should he indulge him? Whatever. "Well, Mia's going to stay here and I'm sure she'll have a whale of a time. Everyone's raring to fight, nobody's going to get hurt when she does, she's basically immortal. Sure going to be better off here than the...

"I never said everything's bad. Doesn't mean I'm going to pretend everything's sunshine and rainbows, either. Maybe, on balance, there's just a lot that fucking sucks, and you can't just shrug and go it's fine because the food is good, or whatever the fuck."

Dave rolled his eyes. "I mean, I'm pretty sure Diyem is unhappy because he's an incarnation of darkness and negativity and being happy causes him literal physical agony, not because it's familiar." He glanced at Owen out of the corner of his eye; the Charizard looked innocently thoughtful as...

Dave narrowed his eyes at Owen. "...What's your point?"

"Well, if you've got a magic ability to just decide to be happy despite every reason not to be, that's great for you." Didn't have to be all that magic, though, did it. Jean could sure perk up instantaneously when it pleased her, too. How the fuck Owen, four-hundred-year-old supersoldier, kept...

Dave raised an eyebrow. "Your situation's shit too, and you think that means you should be happy about it? Don't think you're quite making the point you think you're making there, buddy."

Dave's eyes slid towards Owen. "What, I'm supposed to be ecstatic about the existence of Happy Pokémon Land when I'm going back to my shithole universe in, what, weeks at the most? And my kids still have to grow up there, under these asinine fucking house arrest laws? And the Mia who's alive...

Did another hour of writing, before I forget.

"Yeah. Soda talked about that, how Pop is just so fucking nice that Cibus is a place where things work out and good prevails and everything is sunshine and rainbows. Sure isn't the case in my world." Dave rolled onto his back, sighing at the ceiling. "Wouldn't you know it, cartoon utopias are...

“I mean, it’s normal to me, but it sure feels like the majority of everyone else is from these worlds with no humans and a bunch of talking Pokémon living in towns and omens and legendaries.”