#//anyways! i know this probably goes against ppl’s headcanons for pkmn so sorry lol

[humming-pokemon-helpers]

Livestream: Active

“I’m not being stupid. This isn’t stupid. Everything is fine.”

“…Is this thing working?”

“pzzt… i’m connected to the internet and streaming! even though your camera’s still turned off, pzzt…”

“Perfect, great, just how I want it.”

“Hello everyone—I’m Vanilla Cress, a licensed therapist. I don’t usually, or uh… ever, do live streams, but today I wanted to talk about a topic… close to me. A topic I’ve been avoiding for a really long time.”

“Cross, camera?”

“sure thing, boss!”

[The camera turns on. The lens flares adjusting to the light, before a video feed appears.]

“Some of you might’ve known this and stayed quiet to protect me, or to be polite, or whatever. I mean, I’m not a master of disguise or anything… But I’m not quite… normal. I’m… half a normal human? And half Zorua.

Or in other words, I’m a cross-species hybrid. Some people prefer “whisperer” but I don’t care. My mother was… as normal as a human who deluded herself into joining a Zoroark pack could be. And that makes my father… a Zoroark. Yeah.”

[Vanilla pauses to take a breath, eyes closed.]

“You can call me a liar, or a faker, or whatever else. Truth and ideals, wish I was. It’d make things a lot easier to have a birth mother who isn’t a disgrace and a body that isn’t… this.

At the least, I can think and speak like a person. …Maybe that’s obvious. But I’m also able to understand Pokémon. And I can use illusions. Which is why I’ve been able to look… well, mostly normal. Though I still prefer to stick pretty close to how I actually look, as you can see.”

“Anyways, that’s… pretty much it, for the basics. Any questions? I have a stubborn Zoroark to find.”