[video] and oh, she becomes a part of me...

[slapfight]

[Iiiit's Peridot! ...It's a very official looking Peridot, too. Standing straight in front of her communicator with her shared room with Lapis (that looks a little bit like a barn) in the background.

She clears her throat, her expression calm, yet serious.]

I have a very important question for you all. One I hope I can get an adequate answer for.

[She presses her palms together and points her fingers towards the camera. The "booooi" fingers if you will.]

As I understand it, if someone leaves Wonderland for good, their things vanish. So what if their things are also your things?

[She seems to be doing her best to keep her cool. It's kind of working.] Th.. Thank you.

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video;

[screwedontight]

When my brother left, our suite that started as his stayed as it was. The furniture and decorations and all stayed. His suits and personal things disappeared though.


So I guess it depends on what items you're worried about.

[slapfight]

Everything's... still here.

[She seems to be steadily growing more frayed at the edges by the minute.] Nothing's changed at all, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's coming back for sure.

[screwedontight]

[Well shit. And here he thought it was hypothetical, in case.]

And there's nothing that was just hers?

Video

[singloversing]

I...I think if it's something you shared it stays? But if they're coming back, all of their things will still be there so I guess it would be hard to tell.

[Wow, he doesn't feel helpful here at all.]

Um, is there anything that would have just been theirs that's still there, maybe?

[slapfight]

Lapis doesn't really have things.

[She clasps her hands together and shifts from one foot to the other.] So I don't know... [a thought occurs to her.] I'll check the rafters!

[singloversing]

[Wirt doesn't know Lapis very well, but the lack of things does sound like her.]

The rafters? [Oh...right. It's a barn, kind of?] ...Can you get up there?

[krmvgivv]

If there's nothing that belongs to them and them alone? It's... gonna be hard to tell. But you should know after a week either way. That's usually how long it takes for them to come back.

[Usually, but not always.]

[slapfight]

A week? But that's... [She has to think about.] Seven whole Wonderland cycles! How am I supposed to emotionally prepare for this uncertainty? I'm not great with feelings, Dipper.

[Well, she's getting better, but she is not very productive with them.]

[krmvgivv]

I don't know, but... there's not really anything you can do besides that. I mean, for the future, maybe have something that's declared specifically hers so you can tell?

[Not helpful in the moment, and kind of only works if she does come back this time, but it's what he's got.]

video;

[entreats]

[ People leaving is shitty. But Ange likes to avoid showing any sort of emotions, so instead she just keeps her tone as flat as ever as she replies. ]

How quickly do their things vanish? If you're quick about it, you could claim them as yours before they're gone, I guess.

[slapfight]

That isn't the point!!

[So shrill...]

[angewiesen]

Is it all still there? There wasn't anything you didn't share?

[slapfight]

Yes... And no. Lapis doesn't really care about owning things, so it's all basically "community property" except we're the only two in the community.

[She says "community property" like someone who doesn't quite know what the term means but she's heard it in a similar context so she thinks she gets it. Humans are weird.]

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[pearlfectly]

You have a use for them, so I suppose you'd keep them. Or, well, perhaps you'd keep half of them. Hmmm...that's, certainly interesting...

[ She looks up. ]

...Did something happen?

[slapfight]

[with a little bit of mild impatience because PEARL!! NOT THE POINT!!

It's mild, though, mostly because she's trying to keep a fine balance between frustration and sadness and veering a little too much towards despair.]

Lapis isn't here anymore. I don't know if she's coming back.

[uncoils]

I think it should stay since it's your stuff too?

[She doesn't sound or look too sure about it though.]

But it's Wonderland, so it could vanish. Or like half of it could vanish?

[slapfight]

[sulky] I don't want the stuff. I want Lapis back.

[awkward paaaaause]

...And also the stuff- some of these 'morps would be impossible to recreate- but mostly Lapis.

[Audio]

[shslliar]

[Oh no, not another one.

Kokichi could ask a lot of things, like is this person dead in your world, or was the person your relative/lover/bff? But no. He doesn't. Instead, he just puts on a grin and replies to Peridot's question.]

If their things are also your things, I guess you can just claim them as your own things! I mean... Give it a week first, then claim them. It's free stuff!

[What is this thing you call tact? Can you fake it?]

[slapfight]

Why does everyone think I want the stuff! It already is my stuff!

[angry noises]

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[255000255000255]

[ Monika's frowning. She can't say she's felt anything like upset for people close to her leaving, especially someone like Sayori whose departure was about as significant as a fly fart to her. But Lapis? They'd kind of bonded a bit. You know, even if her Mirror was a huge jerk.

Her look turns sympathetic. Being deeply in love must be making her feel things more strongly lately. ]

I'm sure she'll be back! I'd like to get to know her better, anyway. We...seemed to have a lot in common.

[slapfight]

You and Lapis...?

[Peridot squints at her. Aside from Monika being a writer with some kind of fixation on robots, she doesn't know jack shit about her, so, naturally, she doesn't know what kind of similarities they might have.

But she's also too blunt to not demand receipts.] How exactly?

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[jamminshield]

[It's Peridot!! ...With a question that seems... mildly concerning to Steven.]

Th-that's a really good question, Peridot! It's a real thinker.

[A beat, and then he goes on with just a bit of desperate hope.]

It's... a hypothetical one, right? Not based on anything actually happening?

[slapfight]

[Sorry, Steven. As a Level 10 Friend, you get all the feelings.]

Steven! Lapis is gone. And I don't know if she's coming back! And everyone is being extremely unhelpful.

[mypartnerintime]

I got to keep a bunch of junk after my best friend left.

[Max stammers halfway through the sentence, to her own surprise.]

I'm sorry about your friend... Uh. Someone's probably already pitched this, but if all of their stuff is still here, then, in the immortal words of the Terminator, they'll be back.

[slapfight]

Does this Terminator know when?

[The point.





Peridot.]