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[trancheuse]

"Oh come on, you can't seriously expect me to respond to every one of these stupid messages that these idiots..."
*BEEP*

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(if you dont want to engage with this kinda meta lmk and i can pull this back)

[tetractys]

"YEAH, PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS. ACTUALLY, I GOT A THEORY ABOUT THIS PLACE. I'M HERE, BUT DON'T RULE OUT THAT THE SOUP WAS BAD.

Bill holds out his hands and images start spinning over them, around each other - a ship in a bottle, a town growing out of an upturned deer's skull, a chess board overgrown with roses.

"SEE, IT'S NOT THE ONLY ONE. I ONLY SPENT ENOUGH TIME ON THE SHIP HERE TO REALLY GET TO KNOW IT, BUT ALL THE SIGNS THERE POINTED TO IT BEING SET UP JUST TO HOLD INTERESTING PEOPLE SO SOMEBODY COULD WATCH THEM. LIKE A REALITY SHOW! HERE, IT'S SODDER - BUT IT'S ALWAYS SOMEBODY!"

(Hahaha, she's already way ahead of you there Bill. CW: 4th Walling the 4th Wall)

[trancheuse]

She snorted and grinned over at him. "FINALLY, someone had to say it. I don't think any of those shits would believe you, but we are definitely being watched, there Pyramid Head. In fact, I think the crap we're dealing with isn't entirely under Sodder's control. I swear there's someone probably watching her right now. I bet you, they're watching us right now, giggling like idiots."

She turned around and brought both middle fingers up. "This is what I think of you shoving fucking dancing sunflowers in my lawn you shithead! I know you're out there."

...you're off about 45 degrees, there, Larxene.

(coolcool i always check haha)

[tetractys]

"SURE. THERE'S ALWAYS FIGUREHEADS AT THE TOP TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION OFF THE QUESTION OF 'WHO' AND 'WHY.' IF YOU ASK ME, THOUGH, 'WHO' ISN'T EVEN THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO FIGURE OUT."

The three spinning worlds in Bill's hands start slowing, sticking, collecting a fine spider's web between them, getting caught.

"THE THING TO FIGURE OUT IS, 'HOW DO WE USE IT.' RIGHT?"

[trancheuse]

"Now there's a question. I mean on the one hand, it's sort of hilarious to know that you're being watched. You can flip them off now and again, after all." And she really did get off to the humor of her existence. "But I don't know that other than convincing them it's time for the show to be over what I can use it for. It's a frustration vent, ya know? You ever watch the Truman Show? Not like we've got some door in the 'sky' somewhere is it?"

[tetractys]

"NO, NO. I DON'T THINK GETTING OUT IS EVEN THE ANSWER, I TRIED THAT ONE. FAR AS I KNOW, THE WORLD OUTSIDE HERE IS EVEN WORSE. OUTSIDE IN WALT'S UNIVERSE, STUFF LIKE YOU AND ME DOESN'T EXIST. AND, YOU KNOW, I DO LIKE TO EXIST. I THINK..."

Bill lets go of the three rotating images and light extends from all of them; each connected to hundreds and hundreds of otherwise-isolated worlds.

"I THINK AS LONG AS WE MAKE IT INTERESTING TO WATCH, WE COULD GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING. PERFECT PLANS AREN'T NECESSARY. IF YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'LL BE THE MOST SATISFYING TO WIN, YOU'LL WIN! KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

cw fatalistic ideation

[trancheuse]

"I can take it or leave it, but I'm on the verge of not existing again, so I have a different experience with that." She shrugged and then chucked a little too much or anyone's comfort. "Oooh, maybe Elrena would stop existing too. Wonder how she would feel about that... whatever, fuck'er. she waas poorly written anyway, I say. Otherwise why would she keep becoming me?"

... the logic of that, Larxene, is dizzying. Seriously. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure if we keep the tap dance up enough to amuse our benefactors they'll keep us around and not, you know, make us go out in a blaze of electric glory, shutting down the power plant for a day." Yup, this girl is kind of nuts, Bill.

[tetractys]

"ARE YOU DYING, OR JUST GETTING YOUR SERIES CUT? 'CAUSE THERE'S SOLUTIONS FOR EITHER OF THOSE!"

Bill pulls the ship in a bottle out of the web, tosses it up and down in his hand.

[trancheuse]

She snickered. "I literally just got killed and am in the process of getting de-rezz'd back into Elrena. That's why I have her memories. Far as I know, the rest of the baddies will get gished shortly, so it's time to wait around as boring old Elrena until she goes crazy again and becomes a Heartless for a third time because she can't handle her shit." A shrug.

"That's the life of a Nobody. You die, you go back to being your Somebody and the Nobody stops existing. Ya get used to it."

[tetractys]

"WHAT, LIKE HER ALTERNATE PERSONALITY? AND - THIS IS ALL ASSUMING YOU GO HOME."

[trancheuse]

"True enough. That's what they say about Assumptions. They make an ass out of you and Umption, and he never did anything to anyone." Another wicked laugh. She thought she was hilarious. "So, a Nobody's what's left behind when a Somebody gets corrupted. Less an alternate personality, more a shadow of a person that has more power than that person."

[tetractys]

"WOW, NEAT! WHAT'S THE DOWNSIDE, GOTTA WEAR BLACK EVEN IF IT'S NOT YOUR COLOR?"

That's rough. Black leather is more of a winter look.

[trancheuse]

"What? The stupid hoodie? HAHA, nope, that's just a uniform. I don't actually wear it when I'm 'awake.'" Yes, that was with air quotes. "My girlfriend stole it. So I dress in a few colors these days." Trade secret. She dressed just like Elrena, so about half black.

"No real downsides, unless you actually like feeling emotions strongly. I've got them back a little, and gotta say. Take 'em or leave 'em."

[tetractys]

"HA HA, OH YEAH! SOMEONE CURSED ME TO HAVE REAL HUMAN EMPATHY ONCE, AWFUL. NOT WORTH IT AT ALL, WOULD NEVER TRY IT AGAIN. WHOOF."

Big, exaggerated shudder.

[trancheuse]

She actually laughed, very very openly. "Oh maaaaan, do I know that feel. Seriously, dude, if you don't normally have that, getting it back is so annoying. Sure, there's the happy moments but I became this way on purpose." A shake of her head. "And you can never completely go back, and you know it. It's like Pandora's Box."

....

Which was totally a thing she'd distantly heard about because Hades was rea... FUCK YOU WALT.

[tetractys]

"YEP! YEP."

Catch him not getting into that at all with someone he just met, though.

"SO WHAT DO YOU DO NOW THAT YOU'RE AROUND HERE?"

[trancheuse]

"Make monsters scream since that keeps everyone else happy that I'm doing it to them and not the sleepers. Work for a 'legitimate business-man,' deal with random crap that is fun half the time and fuck my girlfriend." she laughed a little at the end, shaking her head. "I think she's crazy too. I'm not dating material, but I was in a weird head space when we met."

Completely amnesiac and still struggling with the whole 'big Sister' protect all kids urges. So she'd been even more a fake good guy at the time.

[tetractys]

"HAHAHAH. WHAT, IS HE A MOBSTER? I HAD SOME FUN IN CHICAGO BACK IN THE DAY."

[trancheuse]

"They're a legitimate business person and that's all I'm saying on that," she said, giving the triangle one hell of wink and a snicker. "Come on. Let us legit business types have our fun little names."

Ashe was totally the local mob.

[tetractys]

"HAHAHHAA. I DIDN'T THINK THERE WERE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO FORM ONE. GOOD FOR YOU GUYS, MAKING IT WORK."

You crazy kids.

[trancheuse]

"You know it's really kind of a small op considering this town's size? And it's a lot more 'legitimate' than you'd think for this sort of thing. Whole lotta weapon smuggling, so it's really more of a supply operartion for fighting monsters, but hey. Ya do what you gotta to alleviate the boredom." She snickered. "Watch out for the kitty cats though, by the way. They will FUCK you up if you break the law in front of them."

[tetractys]

"I NOTICED THEM. ANY TIPS FOR GETTING AROUND 'EM? NOT EXACTLY A FAN OF THE LAW, AND IT'S MUTUAL!"

[trancheuse]

"They're scarce during events, believe it or not. Don't always get involved in those. But there's only like 30 in town or so, so if you're careful to watch for them before you do you should be ok most of the time."

[tetractys]

"HUH. SO DO YOUR CRIMES WHILE SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING CRIMES SOMEWHERE ELSE!"

[trancheuse]

"Hah isn't that always how you avoid the cops even on normal days?" she said with a bemused bark of a laugh. "Yeah, that's the general idea. And if you hear someone's out there causing trouble? That's a better time to do it somewhere on your own."

[tetractys]

"Y'KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S A PROFITABLE RELATIONSHIP IN HERE FOR YOU GUYS AND ME. IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO MAKE A LOT OF NOISE ON THE OTHER END OF TOWN, FOR INSTANCE ..."