Little boy blue and the man in the moon

[despairection]

[It's not unusual for Monobear to appear in the main control room in one of his physical bodies, a ball of yarn cupped in his hands. He speaks in Kalosian when he addresses the man seated at the wall of screens.]

...I think this week's going well, don't you think Papa?

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[holocast]

[There's something in it that he doesn't like; if he were speaking to another human being, he wouldn't accept that as an answer. It isn't an incorrect one, but he's fully aware that parroting his words back isn't exactly answering for oneself.

So that leaves him with a moment where he debates whether he should tell the thing to try again or not.]

...That is what I've said, yes.

[Mnnngh.]

Yet you remain concerned...?

[He...tried.]

[despairection]

[Mmmngh.]

You said if it happens again, there'll be other Monobears who aren't me.

...Does giving me a name really matter if I'm gonna be replaced by the next Joe Monobear to come around?

You're the only one my name means anything to.

[holocast]

No one is going to replace you.

[The response is prompt, almost immediate.]

Besides, that line of thought implies that they'll manage to put me on trial, which isn't guaranteed.

[It's still not exactly answering the immediate concern and he knows it.]

[despairection]

That's true.

And if they don't put you on trial, that means that I'm even safer, and we can just do the same thing with the next group of schmucks that those losers at the Future Foundation send after us.

[holocast]

Exactly.

It's just a matter of seeing this game through to completion, mon petit, that's all.

[despairection]

[...ohhhh papa bear. You know not what seeds you plant.

Henri bounces from paw to paw impatiently for the ball.]

You got it, Boss.

[holocast]

Excellent.

[No idea whatsoever, honestly; he just has a ball of pink yarn (where the hell did we get this one from, anyway? He thinks one of the other Monobears brought it in after Kirei's trial...) and he's going to be bouncing it off your head for a while, and that is quite simply going to be all for the evening.]