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[timelymaid]

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[ Someone's certainly happy today. Aradia has absolutely no clue what's going on, but she knows when it's going on to exact degrees and she's a god tier troll again. Life is good! Although she's also apparently doing spontaneous teleportation, at least going places is a lot easier! She has all the time in the world.

May as well ask about whatever is happening, even if it's mostly happy. ]

This isn't normal, right? I've been to several different places without staying for very long, and I stopped taking my map out about five stops ago. I don't think I can check them off as places I've been if I only stay for a handful of minutes at a time, right?

Oh, but I'm a fairy again! Well, a troll. [ If that was not incredibly obvious from the video. Gray skin with a reddish tint when she flushes, curling horns, and yellow whites of the eye... ] I missed flying!

Is everyone else doing okay?

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[ Alternately, catch Aradia as she's ported through to different places, although you might have to make do with a quick chat. Hopefully she doesn't catch you in an awkward position. She'll eventually end up at Violet City, where she'll be for most of the event. Happy lazy coincidences! She'll be flitting around town and poking at anything interesting and talking to whoever. Indy the Gastly is going to be out and flying with her for the duration of the event, because she pretty much never puts him in his pokeball. ]

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[twinaraneomorphs]

[He has no idea how the fuck he got here or what these things following him around are, but he'll go with it for now since they're actually kind of cool.

The cerulean blooded gemini is just making his way around this strange place, Galvantula and a shiny Ariados trailing behind him, when he finally spots a familiar face. Just.

So many things wrong with that image that's confusing him. Why is she a land dweller and what's with the time get up? Despite this one being on the exact opposite of the spectrum, he approaches cautiously anyways.]

...AA? Ith that theriouthly you?

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[timelymaid]

[ Oh, she hasn't heard that lisp in a while. Or that nickname. Or that voice, for that matter. Aradia has no idea where she is this time (obviously still in Pokemonland, but the specifics have long ceased to matter until she stays put for a bit longer) but she brightens when she hears the questions.

It's when she locates the source that confusion flickers across her face. It's unquestionably Sollux, but it's also unquestionably...not.

...Time and space shenanigans are go. Well, it isn't like she hasn't met a thousand of Sollux-not-Solluxes before, although none of them had shades without two-tone lenses. ]

Sollux! [ She'll come down and stand by him, her gastly bobbing down after before going to check out that Ariados. That's one cool-looking spider, man. ] I am me, but I don't know if I am the me you're looking for.

[twinaraneomorphs]

[Definitely her. Just... Ah fuck it, she's acting close enough.]

Yeah, the thevere lack of aquatic partth wath kind of a give away. Pretty thure if I gave a thhit about that I wouldn't have come to thay hi.

[He's eyeing that Ghastly, because is that a fucking ghost? Why is any of this even surprising him any more?]

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[timelymaid]

[ ...Aquatic parts. She's so far removed from the blue bloods that the idea of being a seadweller is even more absurd. ]

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[timelymaid]

[ Well, she doesn't really care. Sollux is acting like Sollux, and that's really all she needs to give him a smile.

Aradia follows his gaze over to gastly, and seems to remember something important. ] Oh! Right.

Indy, this is Sollux; Sollux, this is Indy! He is a pokebeast species known as Gastly! I don't think I'm familiar with your pokemon, though. Do you know which they are?

[ She's sort of just assuming he's a newcomer who came to stay, yes. ]

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[8etterl8]

[Guess who else is a fairy troll again! Flying toward you in a trail of blue pixie dust.]

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[timelymaid]

[ Fairy trolls unite! Aradia meets Vriska halfway, smiling cheerfully. Which might be a new thing for Vriska, depending on what iteration of Aradia she last remembered. ]

Vriska! You got it back, too.

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[8etterl8]

[A bit new yes. Last time Vriska saw Aradia, they weren't exactly on the best of terms. At least back home, and pretty awkward here in Johto. But she's perfectly willing to accept this cheeriness.]

Of course I did. [She smirks.]

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[timelymaid]

[ Understandably so. Aradia wouldn't even be surprised to hear it; she could think of several timelines where she'd be less than pleased with the other girl, since she remembers them, although she's also moved past them. Enough to converse fairly cheerfully and come when called, at least. ]

Karkat went god tier, too, did you see? [ This is still interesting to her, and she's pretty eager to share the news. ] I don't think any of the others did, though!

kslda i'm sorry i missed your last post, hopefully this will make up for it

[viiru2alert]

[...Well that happened.]

[Along the streets of Violet there's another Sollux -- but this one is significantly closer to the one Aradia remembers, since at the moment he is levitating a few inches off the ground, surrounded by a red and blue glow. He also seems to be arguing with his Yamask over nothing in particular, despite the fact that he can't even understand the Pokemon language.]

[Of course, after a certain point, he stops responding to Yamask entirely. Ignoring the Ghost's bitching, he just zooms ahead, jumping onto the ground quite loudly in front of a certain butterfly-winged Time player.]

AA!

lol no worries!! it happens >>

[timelymaid]

[ Aradia's been celebrating the happy coincidence of ending up exactly where she'd wanted to go by reading every sign in the vicinity - some are oddly informational! - and trying to convince herself not to hare off to the ruins until she met up with everyone, since they'd said they would go together.

She's actually more than a little startled to hear the familiar nickname again. Especially when she registers that this Sollux isn't the other Sollux - although after a moment of processing this Sollux gets a warm smile, because this iteration is significantly more familiar, even if he's further back than she's used to. ]

Sollux! [ Oh, this is actually pretty great! ] Oh, now you get to see what I look like! That's good. Although I suppose if we go home you wouldn't remember?

[viiru2alert]

[Oh god did he scare her???? --wait, wait no. She's smiling. Good. Great! Okay.]

Yeah, you went God Tier! That'h really thweet-- [LISP] --fuck. Hang on. [LISP, NO. He takes a moment to stop and control his mouth again. These troll teeth are slightly different than the ones he had as a human, so he's been plagued by spats of a much more definite lisp throughout the day. It's still there normally, as a human and a troll, but not nearly as bad.]

[But after a moment he's back to normal, half-smiling just a bit for Aradia.]

Nah, I wouldn't remember if we go home, but I'm way behind all of you so it doesn't matter. You look really good, though.

[timelymaid]

Yes! After my third death. [ Original death, robodeath, dream self death...Aradia's a bit too cheerful recounting that sort of thing, but it's still really nice to be able to be cheerful about things.

There's no real reaction to the lisp beyond a little smile; it's never bothered her before. ]

Thank you, Sollux! How far is "way behind"? [ She can guess, but it's nice to know exactly what everyone remembers. ] Although I think I'm further ahead of most of the people I've spoken to, or at least as far ahead as they are!

You look good, too, though. [ And you're actually looking at things. It's nice, if strange. ]

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[usedreturn]

Aradia--!

[There's a grinning man in a bowtie sticking his head out of a blue police phone box in Violet City.]

[And waving energetically.]

[Approach?]

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[timelymaid]

[ Approach!

Although she's not sure who this man is, or what he's doing hanging out in a police phone box. ]

Hello! Have we met?

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[usedreturn]

Yes! Well, sort of. At some point. Or several, really, I don't know. Timey-wimey, all that.

[cr0aked]

[been a while since you've had more than one of you running around, hasn't it? luckily all the shenanigans seem to have seen fit to fix that - Aradiasprite is sitting on a wall flanked by a Palpitoad, looking about as thrilled as she always does. her eyebrows rise a little when she catches sight of the other her, but otherwise her expression doesn't change]

Oh. More temporal problems, then.

[timelymaid]

[ And she's never had this particular other version of her running around - normally she's just had roboaradias around.

Aradia will flit over to see Aradiasprite, her own expression a cheerful smile. ]

Yes! That seems to be the case. I do not know if they are all temporal in nature, however; I spoke to a Sollux with blue blood.

[cr0aked]

[Aradiasprite looks her up and down slowly, apparently not that impressed with what she sees. man it's weird to see her face using expressions appropriately.

the news about a different blooded Sollux makes her blink once in bemusement]

I doubt that improved him any.

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[voidedrogue]

[ Not that it looks like a video; blacked out screen with a couple of flickers of Roxy. Roxy had wondered where Aradia had popped off to (while also popping off herself) earlier, so she's glad to see Aradia's all right. ]

Those wings are AWESOME! So unfair you can't have them all the time. And those horns, those horns are awesome. And that outfit. [ flicker with Roxy waving her hand about, gesturing to Araida's whole-ness-ness. ] Awesome!

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[timelymaid]

[ Aradia is equally relieved, although she has to frown at the flickering screen. She taps on it for a second, worried the gear had broken somehow, before remembering something important about Roxy's aspect.

Oh. ]

Roxy! You're all right. I was concerned when we were transported elsewhere...

And thank you! I missed all of it, really. [ Not that being a human was terribad, but Aradia is quite fond of being a troll, and of her comfortable god tier pajamas. ] Has anything strange been happening on your end?

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[voidedrogue]

[ a flicker with a small smile ]

Yeah, was a bit worried you'd disappeared on me. Or I'd disappeared on you. One of the two.

[ Pause of nothing, just blackness and silence, as Roxy considers. ] Besides tele-hopping all over the place? Nah, nothing much. What have you been up to?

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[semipotence]

[SUP, ARADIA. Guess who else is doing a lot of teleporting around. Since she's here anyway, she's just gonna answer your questions in person.]

Hi, Aradia!

This isn't normal at all, but I think it's pretty neat! [Being able to stay in place for a bit longer would be kind of welcome, though.]

And I missed flying, too. I only ever got to do it in my dreams before coming here! [And that was a pretty long time ago now. Plus, since her dreamself was dead, Jade honestly didn't know if she'd ever be able to fly again back home. So yeah, Jade is obviously pretty ecstatic about this.]

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[timelymaid]

[ Oh woooow! Aradia's never had a chance to see Jade's new form before, although she's at least aware of it via the letter John sent through. So she'll be going over to Jade and circling around her, getting a good look. ]

I think so, too! Although I've been kind of porting around without really meaning to. [ But oh well, right? ]

I like your god tier clothes!

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[semipotence]

I keep teleporting to places I'm not trying to go... I ended up waaaaay up in a tree in Mahogany earlier! [Jade laughs a bit. It's actually funny now that she's not stuck in the aforementioned tree anymore.]

Thanks! I like yours, too.