pokespe | national kick a tall person day

Who: you and Hythlodaeus! Or you and any other person taller than you. Or shorter than you.
Where: errywhere around Mango City
When: October 25
What: national kick a tall person day! Get 'em in the shins!

[As you walk around the city, be it for pleasure or on some errand, there is a very good chance that you will suddenly be swarmed by tiny kids who arrive to happily kick you in the shins. Fortunately, they are still very small, so the kicks are about as effective as being slapped with a soft toy. In fact, some of them choose to press their Pokemon's paws against your ankles instead. Upon questioning, the kids happily explain: it's kick day! The day you can kick if you're small! A day of revenge, cries one of the kids!

An older child, tagging behind the group - clearly the designated babysitter, and bored of the antics, - explains that it's the National Kick A Tall Person Day. That's it, really. You kick anyone taller than you in the shins, - here she half-heartedly taps your legs with her foot, - and you can try to dodge kicks from shorter people. The toddlers love it.

There you have it. You are now free to participate in tormenting anyone taller than you! It seems like the power of the kick is fully dependent on your desire. Do you take this chance at revenge? Do you ignore it to go about your business and avoid further attacks for the day? Do you have an (ir)rational fear of getting kicked and hole up in your room for the day?

Should you try to return the kick favour, however, the kids stop you, frowning, and explain that no, you're not allowed to kick back, you're only allowed to throw the shorter people! Almost immediately, you are surrounded by children demanding you throw them up and down. Enjoy!

For those looking to extract revenge, be it for your height-related complex or for his personal transgressions, Hythlo is wandering around the city on his day off. Go get him.]

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[ Sooyoung was just passing by and she would have kicked Sagi but he's already just... on the ground.

She's not too close to be kicked by Pawniard just yet. ]

Damn, what happened to you?

[Oh no. This voice. Just in case anything else happens, Sagi makes an effort to sit up, or at least roll sideways until vaguely upright. He does not look her in the eye.]

...A kid.

[Pawniard has no problem staring up at her as part of her self-proclaimed guard duty, though. As long as Sooyoung doesn't come close, there's no problem.]

A kid that's so strong that you'd be lying down like that.

[ Yeah, she doubts that. ]

Did they miss their aim and kick you in the nuts?

Yyyeah... Yeah.

[Well, he's honest.]

Though she didn't miss. I just wasn't... expecting it.

[Who does that at the end of a protracted Pokemon battle instead of leading with it? It's rude.]

[ Good on Sagi for the honesty. Sooyoung does look at him with slight pity though and digs through her plastic bag full of groceries. ]

Want a painkiller?

[Unfortunately for Sagi, he and Pawniard were mostly on guard for signs of Sooyoung getting outright aggressive. This isn't quite it, so he doesn't know what to make of it. His confusion is written all over his face.

...It does still hurt. That girl trainer might have been wearing steel-toed boots or something. This sucks. He wants to raise a family someday.]

Um... If you're offering, yes. Thank you.

[ Sooyoung surprisingly has standards on who she decides to insult or attack that day, so she gets out a small pill with a small bottle of Fresh Water inside it. She doesn't quite hand it over to Sagi yet, because. Pawniard. ]

Come here and be the messenger.

[ She gestures over to the Pawniard, because she's pretty sure neither of them trust her enough to get close. And with good reason. ]

[Pawniard chirrups and hops over. The bottle is going to be incredibly precarious in her little claw hands, but she is determined! While she prefers more dramatic-looking tasks, playing gofer is the duty of all hero types sometimes.

Sagi just looks on, still thoroughly baffled.]

[ After Sooyoung passes on the bottle and pill to Pawniard, she stands up straight and looks over at Sagi. ]

What? Looking at me all weird like that.

[Sagi looks away quickly and over at his Pokemon instead. The bottle is definitely on the verge of slipping out of Pawniard's claw by the time she bounds back over to where he's sitting - heroes must always be in the nick of time! - so he just catches it as it drops.]

Sorry. I appreciate it.

[He goes ahead and chugs the pill with the water, showing no further sign of suspicion.]

[ Those are pretty strong painkillers--the strongest you can get without a prescription. Fast acting too, so maybe Sagi can afford to ignore the pain shortly. ]

What did you do to get kicked in the nuts? A bad attempt at trying to woo them or something?

[That is fast-acting. Keeping the bottle in hand to throw away later, he manages to stand up with considerably less difficulty than sitting up took. He dusts off his arms first. His sleeves are muddy... The perils of fights involving water-types, even the ones that don't conclude with you getting kicked in the crotch.]

No, I have a girlfriend. [Still painfully honest.] It was a trainer. I guess she just really wanted to win.

Damn, not even I would do that if I lost.

[ Is that telling? Maybe. ]

Well, you can walk now, right? Or do you need your pokemon's help as a crutch?

Yeah, I'll be all right now. Thank you.

[He risks a small but genuine smile as he adjusts his hairclip. She may be a serial mugger with a hair-trigger temper, not to mention stubborn enough that picking fights about it seems to be a waste of time, but he's convinced she can't be all bad. Better than some people he's met.

He is, of course, taller than her once he stands up straight.]

[ Upon being reminded that Sagi is taller than her, she unleashes an extreme sports manga soccer kick at Sagi's shin enough to blast him to the sky.

Just kidding. She nudges his shin with a foot. This guy was in enough pain in the nuts already. And she took out her stress on enough people that there isn't really any left to spare for Sagi. Maybe he's lucky today. ]

[If only returning to his home in the sky was that easy.]

Should've expected that.

[Part of him did, which is why he doesn't actually sound put out. The main surprise is that it wasn't harder. But pushing his luck in that department seems unnecessary, so he'll just turn and head for the Pokemon Centre.] Pawniard, come on.

[Pawniard, who had not expected the "kick" and was about to protectively raise her claws, backs off when instructed - though not before she points at her own eyes, then up at Sooyoung's again. Okay, now she's leaving with him.]

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