timelymaid | second bubble; video/action. FOURTH WALL.

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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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This is sort of nostalgic. Since I came here, I haven't gotten to speak to any of us.

None taken! My role as time player sort of requires me to keep a lot of things in mind. And he's not further ahead of me, to my knowledge, so I think it's just something to do with...whatever this is.

Not that I know what this is!

I haven't reached the point in our timeline when there are many of me to deal with. I suppose that this is something like training for it.

[sort of. she's pretty sure there's supposed to be less frogs and more robots in the actual event]

To an extent, although many of our past selves will and already have taken on the role of the dead for us. That is to say they will guide our hand.

[she grimaces a little] That explains a lot about that, then.

Yes, we...get a little annoyed about that. [ To say the least. ]

We're a little annoyed about that already. [because wow being dead apparently does nothing to dull annoyances]

[So has he, but... being back in a somewhat normal civilization has stirred up memories of home. Not entirely pleasant memories of home, mind you, but memories nonetheless. Living in cramped quarters with Karkat and/or Vanitas has done nothing to keep him from thinking about the cramped quarters he inhabited with his computers back in the olden days.]

That's not good.

[He looks down at the floor for a second, then up at her. Then at the floor. Then at her. Then he's just grabbing her hand and walking her along, a bounce in his step that hasn't been there for... sweeps, really. It had disappeared far before Aradia had even seen him in person. But something between the return of his powers and the return of the Maid of Time has set his mood way up in the positive.]

Well, we'll fix it now, right? [ Aradia just watches while Sollux seems to dither, curious but not about to interrupt whatever he's deciding. It really has been a long time since she's watched a video - probably not since before she died. She'd known there were things like that in this world, but somehow hadn't gotten around to seeing any of them as of yet - then again she'd only been there for a week.

There are some memories elicited from walks at night, when she'd camped near a field with Roxy, but they had all been mostly good. Mostly. Aradia tried not to dwell on the other sorts of memories.

That is startling. Sollux with a bounce in his step! But it's a good sort of startling, so Aradia isn't about to complain; she just squeezes his hand. It's nice to see him happy. ] You've been to movies here? Are they different?

[ That gets a startled laugh out of her living counterpart. ] We are, aren't we? But it gets worse after we remember how to get mad.

At least we'll remember how to do something about it then. [she imagines remembering how to emotions will help a great deal]

That's one way of looking at things. [ Aradiabot doesn't really remember much beyond "anger". ]

It's just a different way to phrase being ok with it for the sake of conversation. [look see she's trying!!! somebody give the frog girl a medal]

[ Aradia would so give her a medal if she had one. ]

I suppose even back then we still considered that sort of thing. Maybe we didn't forget as much as we thought we did.

Yeah. I travel with KK, of course I've been dragged along to see his shitty movies... and believe it or not, they're even shitter here than they were on Alternia. The titles are really damn short, for one thing...

[He goes on for a little about how weak and inferior these human movies are compared to the ones back on good old Trollplanet, until something seems to cross his mind and he stops abruptly.] Actually, there was one flick that didn't look like it would be too bad compared to most of the others. Windfall, I think it was called... it's an action movie about some secret agent guy who I guess infiltrates villainous hideouts and walks casually away from explosions for a living, I guess.

Wanna go see that?

He did mention you! I'm travelling with the new session human, myself.

[ Oh, Sollux. Aradia will just listen to the diatribe about human movies, not all that bothered.

Also? Action movies about explosions actually sound pretty darn fantastic to Aradia, which may be apparent from the excited grin she just got. ] Yes! That sounds exciting! ...Although the title isn't informative, that might be fun?

[ surprising, at least. ]

Maybe. It's difficult to compare much right now. [you know, with only one experience she really remembers]

Yeah, the title is shit. But I guess that means we have a few more surprises in store for us with the plot.

After all, maybe they'll subvert the very obvious reveal this time.

[The toothy grin he's wearing shows that he's watched way too many of those, and he bets his bottom boondollar Aradia has too.]

We don't need to worry about comparisons, anyway! Do you want me to show you anyplace in particular? Oh! They do have movies and things here.

Well, the very obvious reveal might be slightly less obvious if we don't know it's coming - although given that it's an obvious reveal, we probably don't need the forewarning?

[ She might be overthinking this. Either way, Sollux would win that bet; action flicks had always been pretty central to Aradia's movie tastes, when she actually had a chance to view them. That's probably not about to change anytime soon. ]

Are human movie snacks weird?

Well, if we don't see it coming, it's not an obvious reveal -- no two ways about it. [He smirks at himself for using the turn of phrase.]

Uh, not really. If you can get used to the lack of fried grub-legs, they're okay.

Movies? [she feels...something stirring in her at the mention of that]

[ ...okay, that earns a laugh, but Aradia's joke meter is a little bit on the low side so how proud he should be is questionable. ]

Well, that's good, at least! Not the lack of friend grub-legs, I mean, but the lack of weird. I think I want something sour. Or sweet. Or sweet and sour?

Yes! Like Troll Indiana Jones! Only not that one, obviously. Unfortunately.

We wouldn't be lucky enough for that, no. [Troll Indiana Jones is badass enough to transcend the apathy of death. true fax.] Is there anything similar to it, though?

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