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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Me too. I wish I coulda come here sooner, but I probably would've missed my mom and dad and brother too much to have as much fun as I am now.

[Because you see it's not that he doesn't miss them now, it's that he knows even if he went home he'd never see two out of those three again, and he's old enough to trust his friends that his mom is okay without him.]

Like in a video game?

I think I'm lucky that way. I only ever had my l - [ She cuts herself off to replace it with the correct human term, though it's only an equivalent, to avoid more confusion ] - my mother, and she died a long time ago. So between here or there, everyone I would miss is mostly here.

[ She nods, grinning at how quickly he caught on. ]

Exactly like! A great deal of my life had to do with playing a game that had very real consequences. I suppose you could think of it like this place, which is a game in your world I think? Playing a game, but it not being an actual game.

[She's already explained Lusii to him once, but he can understand how you could consider something or someone who adopted you your parent.

Besides, there's something more important to focus on, there.]

I'm really sorry about your mom, Aradia. I... I know how that feels. My dad and my brother both died.

There's no one here from my world who I knew before I got here, but I don't really have that many school friends I'm really close with... But I've made lots of great friends here, so it's okay.

It's okay, Shaun. ...And I'm sorry about your father and brother. [ She...hadn't heard about that before. :T Given the importance humans place on family, though, this explains a lot about Shaun. ]

I've made a lot of friends here, too! Back home, friendship can be a little tricky. But here...it's easier, I think. And we're friends, aren't we?

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