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As soon as he exits the spookifacator Hypno can feel the familiar ruff of fur around his neck. Reaching a clawed hand up he grooms the fur a bit. Looking around he spots Xisuma. He looks… different, he’s a demon it looks like.
The admin spots him and beams; it’s quite horrifying actually, “Hypno? That's you.”
“Yeah it’s me,” Hypno sits back on his haunches and continues picking through his fur.
Xisuma laughs a little bit, “Looks like you’re a Hypno. That’s fun.”
Hypno nods slowly, “Yeah, a Hypno costume for Hypno, that’s awesome.”
Xisuma blinks and wanders off to finish stocking his shops.
Walking back to his base Hypno yawns and flops down on his bed. After a moment he rolls over and rummages around in a chest and pulls out his pendulum.
Once it’s in his paws Hypno falls asleep. He wakes up to his communicator buzzing. Sitting up he picks it up and looks at the messages from Beef.
Jumping up he grabs some food and runs over.
“Hey Hypno,” Beef grins rubing at the horns on his head.
Crouching Hypno waves, “Are we ready to start the podzol club.”
Beef laughs, “I think we are.”
As they work on constructing the podzol party base Beef keeps glancing over to Hypno, “The spookifacator is weird…”
“Yeah,” Hypno chitters.
“The name puns, I’m a cow and you’re literally a Hypno.”
“Yeah, weird choice,” Hypno murmurs.
“I wonder…” Beef muses.
Hypno looks over, “What’s up?”
“I wonder if I can catch you.”
Hypno misplaces a block.
I think I still have a couple Pokeballs somewhere, I just think it'd be interesting to see if it'd work. Because you're not really a Pokemon normally, right, so maybe the ball would recognize that-"
Heart pounding Hypno looks down, “I... I'd really rather not risk it.”
Beef nods and slowly backs up, “Okay, I respect that. I really don't think it'd work on you, and even if it did I'd probably freak out and release you right away, but if you'd really rather not, I'll drop it.”
Hypno looks up at him and grins nervously, “Thanks, I don’t like being caught in tight spaces.”
“All good,” Beef grins, “Pixlmon is getting to me a bit.”
Hypno laughs slightly, “Yeah,” the sudden reminder that Beef is a Pokémon trainer was kinda shocking. He’s been off pixelmon for years, and the reminder that he’s a Hypno and not human or even technically a player isn’t a good one.
The moment he’s able to turn back to human he does. Pretending he wasn’t turned back into a Pokémon at all. His pendulum still sitting in his pocket.