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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 4, 2022 0:04:50 GMT
Alucard and Poseidon weren't really surprised to hear that Zack never accepted anything valuable from his work which wasn't all that surprising to the angel and seal that curiously shared data with each other being father and son. "That's good to know that when you have to earn money in the Digital World that you don't rob a community blind, Zack. After a crisis that would be the last thing the people need. Besides those in the hero business don't go about taking money from people anyway."
"There is nothing wrong with donating large rewards for paid jobs to charities as Poseidon and I have done the same only keeping the amount we need to survive on and nothing more. I assume before this shelter you and Marigold did much of the same." Alucard said using his hand to indicate the surroundings the group were inside of.
"I gotta admit I was surprised to find such a place not far from Rosewood but I definitely am grateful to have found this place as I didn't have the energy to carry Dad all the way into town for medical treatment." Poseidon said able to confess his weakness which not all digimon were able to do for more reasons than just pride alone. For digimon showing weakness was rarely conducive to their survival in a world that was very survival of the fittest in its mentality.
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Post by supesman on Mar 4, 2022 14:28:59 GMT
"The spot was genius, as far as that tinpot bandit queen was concerned." Marigold said. referring to her "mother" in utterly contemptable terms. She didn't deserve any more identification than a description of what she was. "The manor is hidden by hills on every side. You basically need to be standing on top of one of the hills to be able to see it. It's right next to Rosewood and within good flying distance of Terminal. She could send out her drones and rob people blind from right under their noses." She said, impressed by the manor's location in a purely logistical sense. Even terrible people sometimes had clever ideas.
"Now that same convenient location is being used to do some good in the world. We had to put some signage up and put directions on the fliers and the like but it's still within a healthy walking distance of the two biggest cities that we know of. As far as a shelter is concerned, walking access from the overcrowded capitol was probably a must." Zack said. It wasn't exactly a secret that Terminal had more digimon than it could realistically hold even at its insane size the housing and resources simply weren't there. The shelter gave the city's forgotten underclass digimon someplace to go that was warm, fully stocked with food and totally free. "Plus it gives us a good patrol route at night. In costume we can pop into Rosewood and look around before moving onto Terminal for the night without losing much time. Covering two birds with one stone and all." He said with a smile. Being able to skim through the smaller, sleepier town on their way to Terminal kept Zack's peace of mind in order at least, you never did know what was going to happen, even in a sleepy little provincial village like Rosewood.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 4, 2022 23:52:08 GMT
"The last owner of this place may of been a cruel bandit that raided nearby towns but I agree she was brilliant to choose this place. It was good you and Zack managed to drive her off, Marigold." Poseidon said before he continued "If this shelter wasn't here I would of had to leave my injured father under some cover to chance heading into town for some help and there wouldn't of been any guarantee he would of still been alive, ya know? If they found him and didn't kill him Dad could of ended up their prisoner or even this queen's slave." Poseidon then shuddered at the thought of the what ifs.
"Poseidon, calm down. There is no need to worry yourself over the what ifs since none of that happened. This place has become a safe haven for others as the former owner is not here anymore." Alucard said in a tone Poseidon recognized as his father's attempt at a comforting tone. Sure such a tone was not Alucard's strength but it seemed to calm the young seal digimon down.
When Zack then mentioned the area gave them a good patrol route during the night, Poseidon smiled before he said "I guess that is handy so you can keep bandits in check that sometimes move with the darkness."
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Post by supesman on Mar 5, 2022 14:33:03 GMT
"There's no use dwelling on what might have happened Poseidon. You father is right here, safe and sound as he has ever been. it's an old human saying "All's well that ends well." If something turned out alright then that should be the end of it." Zack said, doing his best to calm the seal Digimon. Unlike Alucard he was MUCH more comfortable playing the role of reassurance and confidence in the aftermath of something going wrong.
"Besides, she was made out of tin foil and crackers when we leaned on her. That's how most bullies are, not nearly as tough as they seem." Marigold said as she tried to block out the image of her wailing on the queen Flymon at the bottom of a crater, leaving her blubbering and half dead before Marigold had snapped back to her senses. That was another "all's well that ends well" situation she tried not to dwell on, even if she was still on guard to stop the rage that that moment represented.
"Well that and a little sprinkle of downright revolution in the underclasses, that probably helped. My ability to stand hearing myself talk helped out some on that one." Zack said with a laugh. He was always prone to speechifying and it had come in handy in that moment, showing the other FanBeemon in the bandit hive just how unfair and vile their conditions were. The queen didn't last long after her little band had turned against her.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 6, 2022 1:13:19 GMT
"You're right guys. I guess I was being a worry wart for no reason. That human saying makes sense as Dad is injured but otherwise fine and will heal up soon. I guess my worry branched from the condition he is in." Poseidon said reaching up and scratching the side of his head with his claws before scratching underneath his holy ring around his neck.
"Yes bullies tend to act tougher than they actually are. You know that pretty well since you defeated a formidable bully like that Asuramon who injured me while I was trying to keep you safe. You sure have grown quite strong." Alucard said trying to calm his son and seemed to be successful as Poseidon began to smile before Alucard said "Just remember that just because you have gotten stronger to remember to be humble as there will always be someone stronger." Poseidon silently nodded showing his understanding.
Poseidon chuckled at Zack saying hearing himself talk helped out with the mentioned revolution and Poseidon said "You are quite different from my Dad as he tends to be more action than talk depending on the situation at hand. Yet seeing you try to talk to those digimon must of been funny especially when Flymon was getting one upped."
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Post by supesman on Mar 6, 2022 13:56:56 GMT
"Humility is the temper to any strength. Always remember that no matter how strong you become, no matter what you do or even how much good you accomplish you're just a person the same as anybody else. Just as prone to mistakes, just as prone to emotional choices. The most dangerous kind of person is a person who can justify themselves." Zack said, agreeing with Alucard on the point of Poseidon staying humble. He was always versed in a little self deprecation, even if his daughter wasn't always eager to be letting a little bit of air out of his ego from time to time.
"Well let's just say that Flymon was...not happy. When we brought her little operation down around her ears. She almost skewered my father for one thing. That's another good thing to remember in your eventual...profession, Poseidon. An injured, cornered animal is always going to go directly for the throat." Marigold said, speaking seriously if half metaphorically. A villain who was on the back foot, their plan crumbled in on itself was a dangerous and cornered beast that would often times lash out trying to take the hero down with them rather than actually stop and admit that they'd been beaten or that their plan wasn't all that it had been cracked up to be.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 7, 2022 0:41:00 GMT
Alucard looked at his son as Poseidon listen to Zack's words with a nod of his head as he agreed with the human's words and when he spoke Poseidon turned to look at his father as he said "Zack is right. Being humble may not always be easy and I know that first hand in my journeys before you were born. Even today I am trying to become stronger but unfortunately as you learned my quest for power has lead down the awkward dark path it has taken with my true evolution line still unknown."
"Yeah but at least you have your dark side under control with a dark ultimate form of Reapmon if you have to use it and surely it can still help us if the power is used right." Poseidon said in response to his father's words but it wasn't an argumentative tone because the young one knew better not to argue with his dad. He seemed less rebellious than most youngsters his age and Alucard was thankful for it.
"Yeah I wouldn't be happy if my place was taken from me either no matter how much I may deserve it." Poseidon said flinching as Marigold mentioned her father's scar before Marigold mentioned how cornered animals will go for the throat. Poseidon snapped out of it and said "Got it. It is best to keep my guard up even with injured opponents. I'll remember that."
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Post by supesman on Mar 7, 2022 14:28:02 GMT
"Reapmon huh? The angel turning into the reaper, sounds like something out of Dante." Zack said, again making an off hand human cultural reference and again having to hold up his hand to explain himself before either Alucard or Poseidon asked the obvious question. "Just a poet who wrote a lot about the human afterlife, more or less." He said. Someone as plugged into pop culture and especially literature as Zack would probably never fully break himself of the habit but at least he was IN the habit of explaining himself to Digimon that wouldn't or couldn't know what the hell he was on about.
"I mean ideally you'd keep your guard up against EVERY opponent. Even a small time crook can do something stupid when they feel their back hit the wall but since no one can ever be on their guard one hundred percent of the time, remembering that and injured enemy isn't always down for the proverbial count is a good rule of thumb to keep in mind." Marigold said with a smile to the pair. It was a bit morbid to be so cheerful about "categorizing" the bad guys that they all fought but no one, especially not the cheesy heroic pair could be grave and serious about their line of work all the time, everyday without going totally insane under the pressure so a little bit of emotional distance and glib humor was a good enough coping mechanism.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 8, 2022 1:08:18 GMT
Alucard cocked his head in a confused manner before Zack explained that Dante was a poet who wrote a lot about things like the human afterlife before the Angemon said "I see. My life in general sounds like something poets who enjoy various forms of drama would write about to be honest." Alucard then shrugged. His life was what some humans would call messed up but at least with his son things seemed to be improving to some degree.
Dad always says something to that effect and he has usually been right so far. Especially more so when digimon are involved since we tend to be far more dangerous than humans even at the rookie level. You're right about not being able to keep ones' guard up one hundred percent of the time, Marigold, but in battle one can only do the best they can, right?" Especially with the ones that are wounded. I know how dangerous the wounded animals can be so to speak." Poseidon said playing off of Marigold's humor knowing how helpful humor could be despite his father facepalming at his son. Poseidon was like his father in many ways except he had more of a sense of humor than his more serious father.
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Post by supesman on Mar 8, 2022 16:03:24 GMT
"I would say that more digimon need to do some reading but then I'm reminded that there's probably a WHOLE lot of Digital World playwriters, authors and poets that keep everybody busy. Especially since very few Digimon I've met seem to be illiterate so Digimon must get taught to read and write for SOME purpose or other." Zack said. He'd been doing his best to study the digimon written language as best he could over the months thus far just for the sake of being culturally inclusive to the people that he was helping, even if it was slow going thus far.
"I have yet to see a digimon comic book though, so that's one thing that the human world has a leg up on." Marigold said, looking up at her father as she cited their shared hobby. He smiled, nodding and patting her on the top of the head. If there WAS such thing as a Digimon comic book, then Zack probably would have devoured all of it already, especially if Digimon were making superhero comics. The idea of looking at superheroes through the lens of a totally disconnected cultural tradition would have lit Zack's brain on fire in a very specific need to consume those stories.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 8, 2022 22:40:40 GMT
"This is true since many digimon are what humans would call civilized so those digimon, like you said, tend to be literate." Alucard said
"And with some professions in the Digital World being literate is very useful even if the digimon spends a lot of time on the road. Some temples have a strange habit of having writing in multiple languages though no one seems to be able to explain why other than it being one of the mysteries of the Digital World or other crazy nonsense along those lines." Poseidon said with a shake of his head. There were things the young digimon tried to puzzle out by asking for help only to get that answer and it was a frustrating diversion for the curious minds. He hated it. "Perhaps digimon have comic books even though we haven't seen them either. I wouldn't be surprised if they were based on great heroes of the Digital World's past. Who knows, right?" Poseidon said knowing both Zack and Marigold would be all over such a thing on sight.
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Post by supesman on Mar 9, 2022 14:29:37 GMT
"Oh we've gone hunting, believe me." Marigold said, rolling her eyes. Not at Poseidon but more at how much time they had spent searching for a comic book in the Digital World thus far. "Every time we're on patrol in Terminal especially. We'll check anything that looks like a book store, a library, a news stand. If they do exist they're rare and local. Either that or we just haven't found the right place in Terminal to look. That place is..." She paused, trying to find the correct word for what she was thinking. The city was very like a lot of human cities and somehow not.
"It's very, very large." Zack said, getting right to the heart of Marigold's point. It wasn't exactly what she was thinking but was close enough to elicit a nod. "No matter how many times we patrol there we find some new food stall hidden in an alleyway, entire complexes of apartment hidden in strange geographic nooks that are hard to explain. It's like the most esoteric human metropolis with the Digital World's already illogical sensibility." He said. He knew some cities even in the human world were so big and broken into so many distinct neighborhoods that people could live their entire lives in New York without seeing the Statue of Liberty or Tokyo without seeing the Sky Tree. He could only imagine how much more that was true of Terminal.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 9, 2022 22:37:34 GMT
Alucard, though not big on such forms of reading understood the joy it brought others, and looked as if he was thinking of what to say next before he said "If you and Zack are after rare reading material there may be a place you can try." He stopped for a moment before he continued "Though bear in mind there is also a lot of educational material there as well"
"Dad, are you talking about where I think you're talking about?" Poseidon asked his eyes lit up in recognition of where his father may of been talking about.
Alucard nodded the affirmative before he said "There is a place in the Network Plains called The Great Moving Library. While this place is often used for the pursuit of knowledge sometimes rare books can be found there including forms of fiction."
"Have you been there before I was born, Dad?"
Alucard shook his head before he said "No but I learned of the place while I spent my free time studying vampires as a child. I admit at the time I was curious of such a place."
Poseidon looked at Zack and said "Yes the Digital World is very large and at times illogical but at least it's not a boring place to live or patrol."
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Post by supesman on Mar 10, 2022 15:49:32 GMT
"Great moving library? Plodding along the great plains? Now, Marigold my dear girl do you know what that sounds like to me?" Zack said, looking down toward Marigold whose eyes lit up, bouncing a little bit in place as her energy built to the phrase.
"It sounds like we're going on an adventure!" Marigold finally shouted. It was a little bit of a code, reverse code phrase that her and her father had whenever they discovered something new and exciting that they had to seek and find.
"Damn right." He said, holding out a hand that she clapped her leg parts against in a high five. Even if they never ended up finding a comic in those hallowed halls it was more than worthwhile enough for them to set out on a little adventure here and there. The two of them were often so busy between the shelter and their own hobbies and responsibilities that they had to take every chance they got to come together as a pair and just bond a little bit.
"I'll pack a bag!" She said, yoinking his backpack off of the table where it had been sitting and buzzing up the stairs, literally bouncing off of the walls in order to pack as much as they could possibly need for a couple day trip.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 11, 2022 0:24:36 GMT
Alucard and Poseidon looked at one another as Marigold shouted her statement not understanding the reference she and her father likely made. They figured it was likely some reference from somewhere within the Human World and they would probably not understand it.
Poseidon was most confused of all seeing as the father and daughter pair were excited about going to some old floating library that also had many labs within its walls. Poseidon was more of the type to get his reading material from smaller places. Not places that drew every nerd type from far and wide. "I don't get it. Why go all the way to some massive floating library for comic books when they can be found in small stores in the Human World?" Poseidon asked his face scrunched up in confusion.
"It is probably partly the desire for the adventure and not just the reward. I know such a place is a curiosity to you, Poseidon, even if it is just to see the place from the outside. I forget sometimes you are not one of those, how do humans put it, ah yes you are not one of those nerdy types that practically live in libraries. At least you understand those educated types have great value in civilized societies." Alucard said looking as tired as he sounded. If he wasn't healing from injuries he wouldn't of minded such a journey himself.
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