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[veggie_vamp]

 [There's a gal with pinkish skin and definitely pink hair, and she's posing with a v-finger hand gesture and a pouted lips. Waits. Waits. Waits...]

Come on! How long does it take for this to take a selfie? I'm already having trouble finding a good Eye-Fi connection...

[ She seems to have a Romanian accent and fangs. The Noibat on her shoulder points with his wing to the red recording button.]

Oh, wait, am I recording? ... Well, I guess a deadblog is as good as anything else! Maybe Spectra can find it and show everyone... I haven't done a real blog recording in forever! Let's see, what's a good way to start...

Okay, hello viewers! This is Draculaura, reporting live from... wherever this is! You will not believing the morning I just had.

So this weird lady is waking me up, and she says she's my mom, except she's obviously not my mom, and then she goes blah blah see the professor, and I was like, Oh My Ghoul, and I late for Home Eek again? Except the professor looked nothing like Mister Rotter, and he goes blah blah blah journey and stuff, but he gave me a cute pet! How nice is that! Say hi, Mister Fancy Pants!

[... The Noibat does't seem pleased at the moniker.]

But then I couldn't find my Icoffin, but I got this cool-looking thing instead, but it doesn't have any fun apps or any of my contacts! Talk about your up and downs!

I guess I should wrap this up, so my dad can come find me or whatever. So thanks for listening! Oh, oh, and a shout-out to all my ghoulfriends! And Clawd! I might be late for our date, totes sorry! Love you!

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[anexcitableboy]

What's an internet?

[Being from the early 1950s, Jimmy's got a lot of gaps in knowledge.]

This thing here's a network of Pokegears that are all connected. Everybody that can see and hear you on here is in the same boat as you - woke up in that crazy little house with that crazy mom-lady. We can all stay in contact with each other, either like this just broadcasting to everybody, or private like a telephone.

[veggie_vamp]

...

Wait, what?

[She seems to pale - though that's hard to tell, given her skin.]

There's... There's no internet?! No way! I'm never going to get updated on anything ever again!

This is the worst day of my LIIIFE!

[She looks ready just to borderline weep at this. Nice first impression.]

[anexcitableboy]

Nah, it's okay! See, while you're here, it's like no time passes back home. So you ain't missing anything!

Think of this like a vacation. This place is really keen, cross my heart.

[veggie_vamp]

[Pause mid-cry. Her pointy ears seems to twitch. You might have said the magic word.]

A vacation?

... I suppose I am overdue for one that doesn't involve saving someone or something!

[anexcitableboy]

Yeah! You get to take a break from your life and have a whole other one for a while. I was pretty freaked out at first, but I really like this place now.

You can do whatever you want, pretty much, long as you don't break any big laws. And there's tons of neato places to see!

[It's probably a combination of her name and how she looks, but Jimmy immediately takes a liking to Draculaura. She reminds him of the kind of people he grew up with and called his family.]

[veggie_vamp]

I don't really get it... But hey, maybe it's all a dream and I'll wake up! No biggie!

[Whatevs, she waves a hand.]

You said you were... Jimmy, right? It's so nice to meet you!

[anexcitableboy]

It takes some time, you'll get it all!

That's me! Jimmy Darling, the Amazing Lobster Boy! Nice to meet you, too. You some kind of performer? So'm I! I mean, back home, I don't do it here.

[veggie_vamp]

[So he's a lobster-monster? Funny, he looks more like a normie...]

Well, I am part of the Fear-leading squad, and I did help a friend once with a whole circus attraction for our school to raise some money! That was so much fun!

[anexcitableboy]

Oh yeah? There's a circus here, a friend of mine runs it!

I juggle and I sing. The juggling's a little more impressive!

[He brings one of his malformed hands into the frame to illustrate his point.]

[veggie_vamp]

[And while she raises her eyebrows, it's not for the reason he may think.]

Oh... I thought you'd have... uh, yeah, I would love to see that sometime!

[anexcitableboy]

Yeah, I'm a freak. But at least I'm a professional!

[Jimmy doesn't seem too bothered by her reaction.]

If you're into Halloween, they're having a whole big do-up all month.

[veggie_vamp]

Huh? Freak?

[More blinking in confusion.]

No, you're just a regular normie. I thought you were like... a lobster monster. With big red claws, maybe a big red tail.

[She even mimics a claw snapping motion with her hand.That's right, she thinks he's totally completely normal. Well in her world, he would be.]

[anexcitableboy]

Yeah. In a Freak Show. My mom's the Bearded Lady, my dad's the Strongman. That's what the rubes back where I come from call people like us, freaks.

Geeze, I wish. I think that'd be cooler than these. I'd make a whole bushel more money, too! And my big spiel about being a sea god's son would sound better, too. Nah, it's just a family birth defect.

[veggie_vamp]

[Huh. Weird. That sounds like the average family in Monster High. How do you draw in a circus crowd with something so normal? Though that probably wouldn't be the nicest thing to say, so...]

So your family... makes up stuff about being related to sea monsters?

Oooh, that wouldn't make Lagoona happy.

[anexcitableboy]

No, it's just my stage spiel. Everybody knows it's not real, it's just to make it all seem more...magic, I guess. There ain't much magic where I come from, and most of it's bad.

It's like being an actor in a play.

[veggie_vamp]

Well... I guess as long as it's not for a bad cause or anything, it's okay.

I got over the way vampires in films were shown, so it's probably the same thing!

[anexcitableboy]

Yeah. Like...I go on, and I say how my dad was a god of the sea who fell in love with a human girl, and I was born with just the flippers and not the gills so here I am on land! And then I dance and juggle. Everybody knows there's no sea gods where I come from, it's just a little story for fun.

Oh, are you a vampire?

[At this point, that isn't even strange to Jimmy.]

[veggie_vamp]

Awwww, that's so romantic! That makes me wish it was real!

[Squee. Oh, but-]

Oh, right! I am, and I even got most of my powers recently!

[anexcitableboy]

Yeah! See? People like hearing stories like that. And I don't wanna just stand there and have people look at me, you know? I'm an entertainer!

Hey, that's really keen! I never met a vampire before!

Oh, but you're probably not actively one here, huh? This place makes everybody who's not human human, I guess.

1/3

[veggie_vamp]

Oh, no, I know I don't seem like a real vampire, but I really did just get my powers! Here, I'll show you!

[Doesn't seem like she's listening again.]

Hold this, Mister Fancy Pants!

[She shoves the Pokegear into the startled Pokemon's face.}

2/3

[veggie_vamp]

[She then backs up a few feet so the camera can see all of her.]

Okay, here I go! I'm going to turn into a bat now!

[She closes her eyes.

Nothing.

Nada.

Zip.

Zero.]

... Uh... any second now... I just got my powers, so maybe they're rusty...

[She clenches her fists, 'trying.' And...]

3/3

[veggie_vamp]

[Of course nothing happens.]

... Are you kidding me?! After all these years, I finally got my powers, and now they're gone?!

[She falls to her knees, beginning to cry again.]

Re: 3/3

[anexcitableboy]

Hey, hey, it's okay. You'll get'em back as soon as you go home. They're not gone, they just don't work here. Except I guess sometimes there's a weird couple of days they do?

But I think you're pretty cool, even without powers. And you're still the first vampire I ever met!

[veggie_vamp]

[Sniffle sniffle, sob sob. Even Noibat seems to find this pitiful, and flies over to her, dropping the gear in her hands and petting her hair with his wing.]

... Th-thank you... That's nice of you to say... And... w-well... I lived this long without them, I guess I can live a little more...

[anexcitableboy]

There you go!

Hwy, tell you what. I'm in Violet City. I'm gonna be here a while, I'm training up to challenge the gym here. When you get here, I'll take you out for a burger. Or whatever you like to eat.

Do you eat? Sorry, I only know about vampires from comics and movies. So I probably don't know a thing.