timelymaid | twelfth bubble; video/action for wherever. FOURTH WALL.

[ Aradia's flipped back into "normal" mode, i.e. being a troll - mostly. She's flickering between each version of herself without any real rhyme or reason, although she normally won't flip in a conversation. Therefore people may come across a) Aradia the fairy time-skipping troll, b) Aradia the ghost, c) Aradia the frog spirit, or d) Aradia the robot. She is also sometimes e) still Routeanized human. Depending on which she is at any given time she may or may not have different speaking quirks and personalities - or a lack thereof.

It's sort of a headache, but she's used to juggling things like this anyway. Feel free to catch any of them at any time in any place because why not.

When she turns on video, she's a fairy time-skipping troll as per usual. ]

This again? I wonder how much we'll remember, and how much we'll forget. Either way, this is what I meant by "troll", to those of you who asked. [ A smile, wide and open. ] If you remember, now you'll know!

This really is my favorite form. I've been...hiccuping? I don't know what you'd call it, but this is the best one!

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It comes with ascending! God tiers get wings. If you're a troll. If you're a human, you don't get wings.

[ And she sighs at the question, though she's not annoyed he asked it. ...And if you want her to swap to one of the other forms, let me know. ]

I've been going back and forth between my different iterations. It's sort of causing me a headache!

Ah, I see. That makes sense, I suppose-aren't trolls like insects in terms of their life cycles?

[Feel free to swap if/when you like!]

Iterations? Like... when you were a spirit and whatnot?

I believe that's what many people have concluded, and it seems right to me.

Yes, like -

[ She glitches - or seems to flash. ]

[ - and then she's a ghost again. Aradia continues speaking, but it's an abrupt change. She's gone from peppy to monotone, with a pronounced hollowness to her voice. ]

- this. It appears to change my mental state as well.

...

So I see. That seems highly inconvenient.

[...bit of an understatement, that]

I'm okay with it.

[ There's a pause before she goes on, to be more exact. ]

Currently. The other iterations have different opinions.

[ She doesn't claim to have any opinion. ]

I... see. Well, it certainly makes sense that they would, given that you seem rather...

[...lifele-no that's an awful pun]

Different.

It's hard to care in this condition.

[ Normal Aradia would have appreciated puns, man. ]

Though I suppose waiting it out is my only option. I have no goal to work towards here.

How long were you like this originally? I must confess, this is so antithetical to how you usually are that you barely even seem like the same person.

A sweep or more. That is - over a year, maybe two or longer...?

Then for a time I was a frog spirit. That was different.

That's-

[wait.]

A... frog spirit...?

[ And apparently prompted by the conversation, Kayneth is lucky enough to see - ]

Ribbit. ...That's right, I mean.

[ gdi she still can't control that ]

I...

[

this is stupid]

Why, though?

[ WELCOME TO THE LIFE OF ARADIA MEGIDO... ]

I prototyped my ghost with a frog statute. Ribbit. It was important.

...I'm really not sure if I want to ask, but I may as well...

Prototyping changed the forms of our enemies, and our enemy was too vain to use the power that would have given her...

Since it would also make her look like a frog.

...what, really? So you were able to defeat your enemies by ensuring that they'd have to look as idiotic as possible if they wanted to have a chance against you...?

That... seems like an interesting gamble. Was there really no chance that she'd simply deal with it?

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