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[voidedrogue]

So I'm pretty sure I LITERALLY [ metaphorically, in no way was Roxy unconscious ] passed out after prom and just sort of woke up today when Aradia and I were catchin' some water ballet in Cerulean like "whoa, I am awake and this is occurring", y'feel me? You ever been awake but not awake, sort of just existing through time then it's like whaaat it's been three weeks?

[ pause ] So, Di Stri up and ditched. [ muttering something about dumb anime-shade wearing blah-blahs ] And his riolu showed up, she's a sweetie but yelling "Roxy!" makes it sound like I'm yelling at myself...

[ noooo oooone caaaares god ]

Annnnnyway, I just... y'know, wanted to get all kinds of philosophical with y'all: I know people disappear sometimes, and sometimes they come back. But like, don't always remember being here? So. What happens to the versions of us that were here before but that don't come back? Do they go home, just live out shit as it was or...? Just disappear?

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[ossifragant]

...You know, the word "literally" doesn't work that way.

[Shrug. Whatever.]

I was told there was some other version of me here before. Couldn't tell you what he did while here and I don't really care.

I don't remember anything that he did either and certainly don't have any attachment to the things that were his.

Couldn't tell you "when" he came from, but things are complicated. Living out the rest of a person's life or vanishing into a void both have the same end result, don't they?

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[voidedrogue]

It literally does, man. [ She knows it doesn't, she's just being a pain. ]

You don't even care a liiiiittle itty bit? Like, what if he did some really legit shit? You're not curious?

I'd say they're kinda different. One involves, like, life and stuff. And disappearing into the [ snicker ] "void" is like... not life. Just, not even existing anymore.

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[ossifragant]

[No, words don't work like that. You can't just--

Okay you know what.

Fine.

He's not going to argue this.]

Not really, no. It was a long time ago. I'm me. I'm not him, even if I am the same person.

[At the second point, he shrugs.]

It's the same to me. You go back to your normal life, live for a time and then vanish into the void. The second one is just the quicker version.

[BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING YOU SAY TO A TEENAGER]

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[voidedrogue]

[ Good choice, Greed. Arguing with a teenage girl is futile at best. ]

Are you sure about that? Aren't you just him who doesn't know what he did?

[ She opens her mouth and closes it. THERE'S A VOID JOKE HERE SHE COULD PROBABLY MAKE, but let's take it seriously. ]

Actually I'm pretty sure I'm, like immortal, so...

[ Though that doesn't say anything about anyone else, but hey at least this teenager doesn't really need to worry about vanishing into nothing back home! ]

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[ossifragant]

[He really shouldn't, and yet...]

Maybe. But it obviously wasn't very important because otherwise you'd think I'd remember something like that.

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter what he did. Circumstances do a lot to change you.

[Hey, he likes dark jokes. He'd probably go for it!]

Yeah? That's always convenient.