3rd Sapphire Cupcake: [Video / Action for Cianwood]

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[The feed clicks on to Spike looking cheerful but a little dubious. He's sitting on an already made-bed, surrounded by four large eggs. Luckily his Trapinch is off destroying something else in another room, and his Pineco seemed content to stay sleeping on the window sill.]

Hi, it's Spike here, your friendly neighbourhood dragon.

So, everypony is out working or training right now, and I'm stuck here looking after these eggs.

[Yep, Spike may have gone a little overboard with his egg collecting. So being back at the inn 'egg-sitting' is his own fault really.]

Does anypony know exactly how to look after these guys? [He rubs an imaginary dirt mark off one with the edge of the blanket]

I mean, I'm not supposed to sit on them or anything, right? Coz that would be way too weird.... And Fluttershy went home before I came, so I can't ask her.

[He looks a little concerned now]

If anypony can give me any advice on what I'm supposed to do to hatch eggs, that would be great.

Comments

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike looks unconvinced, but nods anyway. You wouldn't catch him dead near a ghost pokemon!]

I suppose...

The problem is this body is so squishy. I miss my scales. I wouldn't have a problem if I still had those.

What happened to you?

[ghostytrainer]

Oh yeah? So dragon scales are really as tough as they say then, huh?

[He seems genuinely curious about this. After all, the only dragons he has experience with are dragon TYPES and they aren't always exactly the same thing.]

Oh but the biting thing? My Umbreon likes to show his displeasure by biting. And since he's usually displeased, that means he's usually biting. Though he has gotten better about it with time! He doesn't bite me nearly as often as he used to ahahaha.

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Oh yeah, are they ever! [Spike flexes, momentarily forgetting that right now, he doesn't have scales.]

Dragon scales are great! Not too hot, not too cold. And definitely stronger than this...stuff. [He pokes at his skin and grimaces.]

I mean, I feel like some like pink balloon here. I don't know how humans can survive.

[Spike adopts a pitying look.]

Yeah, Pinchy just bites whenever. I think he likes it.

I really hope he grows out of it, like your Umbreon.

Because he has really sharp teeth...

[ghostytrainer]

Hahaha, I swear if I had a nickel for every time I heard the skin complaint, I would be a very rich man. Or... maybe not since the currency here is different but you get what I mean.

Point is, it's always the flimsy skin with non-humans. [He laughs, he doesn't actually seem to mind the fact that he was just compared to a pink balloon. He's seriously heard it so many times at this point that it's just funny.]

But I guess I can't really blame any of you, I think I would have a similar reaction in the same sort of situation.

Hopefully Pinchy will stop liking it quite so much though, for your sake.

Ack somehow I missed this!

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike's not exactly sure what a nickel is. Must be some kind of currency if it can make John rich.]

I think it's more of a fact than a complaint.

Is that why humans wear clothes? Because their skin is so flimsy? That seems pretty uneconomical.

Maybe I should just wear really really thick clothes so Pinchy can't bite through them...

it's okay!

[ghostytrainer]

Uhh...no. No, there is actually more to it than flimsy skin for the whole clothes thing. Mostly that it's just really not okay to walk around naked for a number of reasons.

[Please to be changing the subject now.]

But that might work, yeah!