timelymaid | fourteenth bubble; video/action for mahogany.

[ This entry takes place in the dark. The dark of a hotel room! ...In the day, so the blinds are drawn shut. Why? Because Aradia has received only the world's most fantastic shirt. It glows in the dark! Specifically, it is a Haunter shirt...and lit by the dim glow of the shirt and the light from the gear, Aradia can be seen. Why yes, she is also wearing Dad's fedora, a hat that only a few people would recognize, and her hair is actually not crazy - for which you can thank Kanaya, whose disappointment in this ensemble may be sensed through the screen. Aradia, this is not fashion. ...And no one but Kanaya can even see the fact she's probably wearing her omanyte toe socks, which don't help matters. And those are also from John, come to think of it.

Aradia is also wearing what is probably an unconsciously creepy grin. Whoops. That's what happens when you post from a dark room and have a tendency towards unsettling people sometimes?

After a moment of grinning in silence, she'll actually stop that and talk, though. ]

Hi!!! This is Aradia. [ In case you couldn't tell. ] And this is the best shirt ever! John sent it to me! He has one like it, too, and I said it was amazing and now I have my very own! Isn't that just fantastic? I had to turn out the lights to let you all get the proper effect!

[ ...But now that you've gotten it, she'll actually turn the lights back on. Aradia's sitting crosslegged on a hotel bed, presumably in Mahogany from the music, and in the light her grin is a bit less eerie. Sort of. ]

That's not the only reason I wanted to post, though! Actually, I have something I need help with. See, ghost and fossil pokemon are my absolute favorites! And while getting ghost pokemon just requires catching them, fossil types are...well, a little bit harder. I only have a few species: Kabuto's line, Aerodactyl, and Tirtouga's line. [ Though by reason of people leaving she has two of the first and three of the second. ] And this is not at all a complete collection! Which is sad, because I'd like to study fossil pokemon up close.

So if you have any and could either breed me one or trade me one? I will pay or trade you an egg you'd like! Very specifically I am also looking into getting two Archen! One of those is not for me, but is for Dave, whom also has a sad lack of fossil pokemon that has to be corrected!

I figured it was worth asking, at least! Oh, and before I forget, if you didn't tell me your birthday a few months ago when I asked and we're now friends, you should probably tell me about it now! I don't want to miss someone's birthday on accident. And I think that's pretty much everything? Though on the topic of birthdays, I know of three for this month! And just in case you don't? Equius picked the 9th, Francis Bonnefoy told me his birthday is the 14th, and Misaki's is on the 25th! Be sure to wish them well on those days, okay?

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Hmm...well, perhaps you're just not meant to know yet!

[ or should talk to Aranea, one of the two. ]

Maybe. And I guess it doesn't really matter much here but. Still. It would be kind of cool to know.

I mean aren't you curious about pre-scratch Aradia? Or am I the only one.

[She would probably know and he would not even complain about the day-long story that would likely follow.]

I don't think I am, really. At least, not in the same way?

I don't mind hearing about things like that, and it's interesting, but I suppose that I figure that whomever I was back then, I'm me now! And that's more important?

Well... yeah, you are right. You're you and I'm me and pre-slash-post scratch selves lived completely different lives than we did. But that's what also makes it interesting! Hearing about what a completely different set of circumstances can do to you.

And... finding out what you would have become had SBURB not happened. Or what you might have become, I guess because... it's not really the same. I mean post-scratch John was older than post-scratch Dave and Rose. They probably didn't even know each other and that's kind of sad to think about.

It wouldn't have just been not playing the game, for us. Beforus was...very, very different. Culling meant something different, even. I don't know if anyone ever talked to you about the differences between Beforus and Alternia!

The me there would have been different, even if we were similar. I do find it interesting, I guess!

You and I wouldn't have met, either! If the game hadn't happened. Actually, if we're getting technical none of us would have ever been born, hahaha. Time is pretty funny like that.

Uh... maybe? [He furrows a brow, trying to remember.] I remember Aranea mentioning that they were very different but she didn't go into detail because she wanted to tell use the story of the Great Cherub Mating Ritual instead. Okay, well technically it wasn't all about Cherub sex but damn did she go into detail about that particular issue.

[You missed quite the conversation, Aradia.]

But yeah. Kind of hard to exist without the ectolab, haha. And kind of hard to have that without having the game in the first place. Pre-determined clusterfuck.

Basically Beforus was very...peaceful. Do you know about culling? There, it meant the upper blood castes caring for the lower, and those who were disabled to some extent were looked out for. And the adult race wasn't off trying to take over the universe, so there was that...

[ Someday she will remember it. SOMEDAY. ]

Yep! Temporal inevitability is funny that way!

...so it was basically the exact opposite of everything I have ever been tolda bout Alternia?

[Wtf, trolls. Make up your minds.]

Like are we looking at an Athens vs. Sparta type deal here? Err.. wait you... wouldn't get that reference would you? Um. Basically Beforan trolls weren't conquerors and warriors like Alternian?

Yes, exactly! The changes made were very deliberate! I think you know the person who helped to change our history - which was actually so that we would be...very good at sgrub, basically? Among other reasons.

But you should know about him at your current point! He's the one who got you all to create the green sun.

[ Hey she had nothing to do with the Beforus/Alternia differences! Mostly. ]

And yes, exactly! They weren't at all like we are. And that is why we lost the game the first time around, apparently. ...Though really, I think it might have had something to do with all the interpersonal problems, too.

Oh, yeah I think Jade mentioned him once? The creepy omnisci-- son of a bitch. That was...what's his face. White suit, green suspenders! Pedo vibes to the max, um... [Really, John? You can't remember his name?]

Doc Scratch!

[Guess who is just now putting together that the old dude who was here in Johto over two years ago is the same guy who played them all for suckers? It's probably because he tries not to think about Scratch much...]

Yes, that's the one! I will agree he's creepy and sort of rude!

[ Because actually he is the source of several issues in her life, and she is aware of that. :T ]

That jackass! Is there anything likable about that guy?

I suppose he facilitated a lot of inevibilities, which was important, but I'm not sure that counts as "likable".

[ read: no ]

It doesn't. I mean, yeah good on him for keeping the timeline from going doomed but that doesn't make him any less of a creepy, egotistical, asshat.

[Make that a hell no.]

Yeah, I don't like him.

[ Well look at that she actually expressed a pretty negative opinion on something, and it even came with a little half-frown. ]

Although I understand his position, I suppose it's just a little hard to genuinely like someone who did the things he did, even for the reasons for which he did them.

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