anise [spacecoast]

[verminous]

anise can do anything she wants forever

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[sexyasmieu]

So then your university application...

[ concerned! ... and then she reconsiders. ]

--Um, wait, more importantly, how did you go from writing tests and having lunch to totally getting thrashed!?

[verminous]

[looking up at her like he has completely not considered this]

...I don't... know.

[sexyasmieu]

How do you... not know.

What do you remember after lunch?

[verminous]

I don't know! Everything was fine! We had swim team practice like always!

[sexyasmieu]

Swim team??

[ nationasl??? ]

... Did anything happen during practice?

[verminous]

Not really. I mean, we already only got second at nationals, so I'm not sure why... we're still...

[....

auuuuuugh.]

Haaaaah, come on, can I keep my head on straight for five minutes-?

[sexyasmieu]

[ nationasl........ ]

What's wrong?

[verminous]

I keep-- thinking I'm in school like that, I can't shake it all the way off.

[he's back, apparently.]

[sexyasmieu]

... Oh, you're back. Phew... I was a little worried.

Can you remember it more clearly now?

[verminous]

Yeah. Yeah, the school part was all fake. Sure believed it when we were there, though.

[sexyasmieu]

[ nodding. it was definitely fake. ]

So was there another part?

[verminous]

Whenever I fell asleep-- I was in another different life. The one all the injuries came from.

[there's why his school au self has no clue.]

[sexyasmieu]

Oh... wow.

[ that sounds nuts, but it makes more sense than anything he was saying until now. ]

What happened then?

[verminous]

...that guy died. Had a whole weird afterlife experience, but at least we weren't separated by then.

[sexyasmieu]

"That guy"...?

[verminous]

That version of me, I guess I should say. Usually it's easier to talk about them like different people, it gets confusing if you keep saying 'me'...

[sexyasmieu]

... "Usually"?

[verminous]

...guess I never mentioned the mirrors, huh. Long story short, we use alternate versions of ourselves to help us out in fights back home. I'm used to having the memories and experiences of other Gregors.

[sexyasmieu]

[ oh. wow... ]

I guess that explains a lot about your profile... not that I really understand...

[ your dying and dying and dying ]

[verminous]

Little bit of a strange way of working, but... I don't mind being most of my other selves. There's a couple who're a little more out there, though.

[sexyasmieu]

You mean they're not all the same?

[verminous]

Nah, they're not. One of the alternate Gregors works for a pirate Syndicate, if you can believe it.

[sexyasmieu]

[ stares at him. ]

... I'm trying to picture it...

[verminous]

He's their First Mate and everything.

...both of the other Gregors that're in Syndicates are in leadership, actually, so. Not sure what that says about me.