[Video]

[kid_flash_found]

[A teenager with long, reddish hair and amber-colored eyes considers the camera, adjusting a few note-cards he made as he thought things through]

Hi, everyone. Wonderlanders or whatever you call yourselves, Obviously this is my first time doing this kind of thing. Hell, the last time I was talking to a camera, it was to record my own eulogy after I’d been shot.

In the knee, it wasn’t really that serious or anything. But that kind of thing does make you wonder. Maybe this is the place for that. Wondering.

[A small, awkward chuckle.]

I’m just hoping someone out there sees this, and can lend the poor noob a hand. Because, prison or nexus dimension or whatever, this place sure seems strange, even by my standards. And, um, yeah, I spent my childhood in a VR chamber because I wasn’t able to interact with the rest of the world very well.

Oh, oops, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Bart. Bart Allen. It’s short for Bartholomew, and I wanted to be different. It’s not the worst nickname in the world. I have a friend who has to go by ‘Gates’ because his name’s pretty much impossible to pronounce without insectoid mandibles.

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[kid_flash_found]

I'd been to enough funerals at that point to have a good idea how it was going to go. The rest is, well, complicated.

[He considers, studying his hands, rotating the lightning-bolt ring he still wears even though he doesn't really need it.]

Pretty sure nobody gets enough time for that. I certainly never planned anything.

[sweartoyou]

Mmn... I've never been to a funeral...

[Strikes her as a little odd, seeing as she's know plenty of dead or dying people by this point.]

Do you think you'll make another one? Since...you're alive.

[kid_flash_found]

I don't know. It's almost beside the point since all the people I expected to see the video already did. What else is there to say?

[He shrugs, smiling as if it's a joke on him.]

It was about expressing what I thought I had going for me that people missed. Everyone dies, but does everyone truly get to say they lived?

[That last statement makes him grimace.]

I sound like Max. He was always spouting weird zen stuff. Used to drive me up the wall.

[sweartoyou]

[To be honest, she's not really seeing the problem. But she rarely understood people.]

Is he dead now?

[kid_flash_found]

It's...complicated.

[sweartoyou]

Hm?

[She doesn't frown -- her face hasn't moved a ton this whole conversation -- but there is a bit of a darker lilt to her tone, now.]

I don't see how... A person is either dead or not dead. Even if they're dying, that's not dead.

[kid_flash_found]

Assuming you have a normal corporeal existence. Sometimes there are states that bridge life and death. Like, say, the gods are immortal, right? But what happens when one of them dies? On some level they keep existing and do whatever it is the gods do.

[Bart isn't trying to go into theology, but, well, he'd seen on some level the entities that were Life and Death, and Nekron might have passed for some semblance of life, just has the unnamed entity of life was nearly destroyed along with all creation. He couldn't just stick to black and white anymore.]

From what I've seen, it's more of a continuum. Max...was pushed out by someone else who took over his body, but I've talked to him a couple of times since then. And he wasn't a ghost or something like that. He was just...Max.