Back from canon update & hiatus [video]

[smokinghunter]

Geez, I've got such a headache. Anyone know how long it's been? Or where the hell the chibi brat in a straw hat is now?

[Smoker's outside of the pokecenter to get a smoke, and all his pokemon are practically clinging on him. It has been since about Christmas after all. Even his gyarados is practically on top of him, though he seems pretty nonplussed about it.]

What month is it anyway? Hey. Anyone who's returned home, what's the longest anyone's gone and come back?

Tsk... I need a drink

[It should also be noted he has sunglasses, a cool new scar over his eye, and his hair isn't spiky anymore! How sad. And <user name="justicereigns" is still my icon and comment account! Sorry for the delay, all.]

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Re: [video]

[used_fireblast]

Guess I can add the Hitler Time-Travel Exemption to the list of ways Johto messes with people.

[He gives it another couple seconds of thought.]

...you're probably a better person than I am. I can think of a few people I'd end up smacking, innocent-past versions or not.

[video]

[justicereigns]

Hitler Time-Travel Exemption?

Tsk. His grandfather beat him worse than I ever could. Trying to stop him from becoming a pirate, it didn't seem to work.

Re: [video]

[used_fireblast]

Oh, uh-

[What's the best way to explain to someone from an entirely different world?]

It's sort of an idea that turns up a lot in stories where I come from. The question of whether it would be ethical to use time-travel to kill a really evil person before they had a chance to do anything.

[Not even touching the rest of what Smoker said...]

[video]

[justicereigns]

Tsk. In Straw-Hat's case I can't quite call him evil though.

He's actually saved a lot of lives as well, so to kill him before then would also put them in danger. And I don't want to kill him anyway, just catch him.

Re: [video]

[used_fireblast]

Sort of like a sea-going Robin Hood, then.

[No, Harry will not start explaining his cultural references. This kind of thing is like a drug for wizards.]

Re: [video]

[justicereigns]

No.

[Smoker actually knows that reference thanks to Kaitou Kid.]

He's still a pirate, and his aim is still something that could very well destroy the world. I just have to stop him before that happens; but not while he's a child.

It's moot here anyway.