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[Jake makes a habit out of cooking breakfast for anyone interested in their travel party. Mostly because he wants to make sure they get at least one good meal before accidentally skipping out on lunch or having dinner at odd hours of the night. It's why he's entering Dirk's room, now, without preamble.]

Dirk! Are you going...to....

[He trails off, frowning. Dirk's not in his room anymore. However, there is something on Dirk's bed and he walks over to investigate.

A strange numbness takes over when Jake sees that it's his boyfriend's sunglasses. Dirk would never leave those here, unless....

He checks his Gear. No. No no no no no. Jake double--no, triple checks it.

Nothing. Only Bro Strider and Dave Strider.

Jake's not sure when or how he got to a secluded part of the island, but he's not caring. The shock wears off when he reaches there, and he can't help feeling angry and bitter and guilty and heartbreaking sorrow crash over him in an unrelentless flood. First it was Roxy. Then it was Jade. Now....

His anger is quickest to run out as he takes it out on the boulders and rock walls until his knuckles are bloody and he can't feel his feet. He sits down and leans against the rock wall, not caring about his injuries, and just gives in to weeping.

Some hours later, he returns to Dirk's old room and takes out his Pokegear. Jake can't stand video or voice at the moment, so text is the best choice.]

Dirk has gone home.
I suppose now i understand what they meant by these things coming in threes.

Im getting contacts in olivine i believe.
I kind of promised dirk i would and at least i wont have to worry about breaking my contacts as much as my glasses.
Er this saying olivine *has* an optometrist i could go to?
Ive not been there since we went straight to cianwood after prom.

[God, don't think about prom, don't think about prom.]

Whomever received dirks pokemon...
Please take good care of them.

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...Perhaps the second order of business should be nicknames for the collective Jakes.

[ And/or a mandate that no one else they know name a pokemon for Jake, because the laws of probability would probably stick him with them. That was a little bit of a joke, though, although Aradia doesn't look as manically cheerful as usual, just then. ]

Well...perhaps. Caty Purry was always a bit, um, difficult? I think? And at least Kusanagi and Jake have known you a lot longer than she knew you, so they might be slightly more willing...

[ Maybe? ]

[He can't help laughing a bit at that.]

That would certainly save everyone's sanity, I think! Though, Roxy and Jane call me 'J' sometimes, so there's that for me.

[Jake nods at that.]

That's true. Caty hadn't known me all that long, but she's gotten better, I think! ...Okay, she still steals my glasses when I let her out for the night, but she's not terrible. I think Kusanagi has some sort of affection for me, and his Feebas might like me well enough. I'll probably evolve him later on.

So should I start calling you J? I'm so used to Jake at this point.

Twinkie didn't have too many issues adjusting, but I also went with Roxy from point a to point b, back then.

[ Also, he was a lot less cranky than Caty Purry, and less likely to steal things. Aradia lucked out on the happy Roxy pokemon, whoops sorry Jake. ]

I think they evolve via beauty. I...received one. A little bit ago.

[ Raven's inheritance. Aradia's been collecting quite a few pokemon from the people leaving, as of late. ]

Haha, only if you want to! I answer to both.

Yeah, I didn't really interact much with Roxy's Purrloin until I actually got the rascal.

[Eh, he's not all that worried about it. Caty Purry has grown on him. The only way he'll part with her is if Roxy comes back or he disappears himself.]

I believe I read up on them evolving with a Prism Scale and trading, if you didn't want to go the beauty route?

[Jake's kind of glad he's only inherited Pokemon from Roxy and Dirk so far.]

I think I am used to Jake, like I said, so you will continue to be Jake for now! I would say we're lucky we don't have other pokemon named after the rest of us, but Sollux has Aradia. [ Albeit with a different two-letter nickname qualification. ] I think I will just never name anyone after anyone, when it comes to first names.

Well, I can be your trade partner, if that's the case! I didn't actually read up on it beyond the beauty part, since she traded pretty early on.

[Jake smiles at that.]

Then we can come up with something else for the other Jakes. I don't think they'd mind so much.

[He nods, brightening up a bit.]

Sounds good! I think he'd prefer evolving, honestly. He's got really low self-esteem whenever the subject of his looks comes up.

[And he's still not sure what Dirk was getting at for naming the Feebas Jake anyway.]

Hm...perhaps that's why beauty evolves them. Coming to terms with something like that has to change someone, don't you think?

[ They've...gotten rather off topic, but Aradia's willing to ramble until he feels better, about anything at all. ]

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