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[doesntdomuch]

[After Perry noticed that Rise vanished, he shut down completely. Losing his two closest friends here in a short period of time really took a toll on him, and soon he decided something:

He was not going to let anyone get this close to him, for everyone's sake.

So he packs everything up and leaves the house he was staying in in less than an hour, not even bothering to let anyone else know where's he's going.

However, while he didn't want anyone to worry about him, his Pokemon were incredibly worried about their trainer, especially his starter Bartholomew. He tried talking to him for hours to try to cheer him up but the most Perry will speak to him it reassuring Bartholomew that he's fine in a really cold-sounding voice.

Eventually he realized that he has no idea how to fix this, so when Perry's not paying attention (which, to be fair, wasn't super hard since he didn't seem to be paying attention to anything besides walking), Bartholomew snatched his Pokegear to ask everyone how to solve this.

Admittedly he's never written anything before, but he watched his trainer text a lot, especially when he still couldn't talk, so it shouldn't be too hard?]


HELP

PERRY IS WEIRD

BAD WEIRD

HE IS RUNNING AWAY

WILL BARELY SPEAK TO ME

WHAT DO I DO

[After about a minute Bartholomew decides he should clarify something.]

THIS IS BARTHOLOMEW THE GOLDUCK

Comments

[doesntdomuch]

[Welcome to the magical world of Pokemon, Dipper.]

HIS FRIEND DISAPPEARED TODAY

THAT WAS THE SECOND ONE RECENTLY

PRETTY SURE THAT'S THE SOURCE

[Unless Perry had an exceptionally weird dream last night but that's doubtful.]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Oh. That sounds awful...]

Why do people keep leaving?
Did they at least say goodbye?

[doesntdomuch]

SHE MIGHT HAVE LEFT A LETTER

BUT IF SHE HAD PERRY DIDN'T READ IT

I DON'T THINK HE COULD HAVE HANDLED IT

[sneezelikeakitten]

He should still read it for closure.

[doesntdomuch]

HE SHOULD

BUT SINCE I DOUBT HE WOULD READ IT EVEN IF I SHOVED IT IN HIS FACE, I SHOULD WORK UP TO THAT

[sneezelikeakitten]

have someone read it to him.
Or get one of the psychic types to do it.

[doesntdomuch]

I THING FORCING HIM TO READ IT WILL STOP HIM FROM TRYING TO SHUT HIM OUT FROM ALL HUMAN CONTACT THOUGH

UNLESS THE LETTER SPECIFICALLY TELLS HIM NOT TO DO THAT WHICH WOULD BE AMAZING FORESIGHT

[sneezelikeakitten]

If you can text, why don't you read it for him?
That's the fastest way.

[doesntdomuch]

THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER PERRY CAN UNDERSTAND IT

IT'S IF HE'LL BOTHER TO LISTEN WHEN HE DOES HEAR IT

HE'S KIND OF STUBBORN

[sneezelikeakitten]

Read it to him in his sleep.
That's what they do in movies to make people listen to creepy stuff.

[doesntdomuch]

YOU SEEM REALLY SURE THAT THIS POSSIBLE LETTER WILL SOLVE ALL HIS PROBLEMS

I'M NOT EVEN ENTIRELY SURE IT EXISTS SINCE I WOKE UP JUST BEFORE WE HAD TO LEAVE

[sneezelikeakitten]

If there's no letter, then tell him things you think his friend would tell him.
You knew the person, right?
Or just tie him to a tree, wait till he stops screaming, and then tell him!

[doesntdomuch]

MY TRAINER IS AN ESCAPE ARTIST THOUGH

[sneezelikeakitten]

Then tie bricks to his feet, too.
Do whatever it takes to make him stay in one place.

[doesntdomuch]

YOU SURE DO HAVE WEIRD IDEAS FOR HELP

[He kind of feels bad for anyone who's feeling down while he's around.]

[sneezelikeakitten]

Believe me, I've seen some things.
This is good advice.

[Gravity Falls, man. Gravity Falls.]

[doesntdomuch]

WELL WHATEVER'S GOING WRONG WITH PERRY IT'S DEFINITELY NOT SO BAD THAT I'LL NEED TO TIE HIM UP

IT'S BAD, BUT NOT I ONLY WORRY ABOUT HIS LIVELIHOOD

[sneezelikeakitten]

If you tie him up you can always carry him to a warm place.
Or find one of this friends who'll track him down for you.
Else he'll freeze to death.

[doesntdomuch]

...

HONESTLY AT THIS POINT THE FORCING HIM TO READ THE LETTER SEEMS A LITTLE MORE APPEALING

[sneezelikeakitten]

[Hah! Logic wins the day!... Dipper is pretty sure he sounds psychotic now. Oops.]

Then go and find that letter if it exists!

[doesntdomuch]

[Either way when Perry gets less mopey Bartholomew is totally going to warn him about this crazy guy who ties up people who are upset.]

IF IT'S ANYWHERE, IT'LL BE IN HIS BACKPACK

IT MIGHT TAKE AWHILE TO GET IT OUT SINCE WE'RE STILL MOVING BUT ONCE HE STOPS I'LL GO CHECK IT

[sneezelikeakitten]

You've got a stubborn trainer.

[doesntdomuch]

HE IS

IT'S AMAZING HOW HE'S STILL SO STUBBORN DESPITE ALL THIS

[sneezelikeakitten]

People never really change.

Especially adults.