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[0u0]

[The video switches itself on for no apparent reason. At the other end of the room, Aradia is... uh, smiling. At a mirror, very intently. It looks extremely forced and also kind of creepy, because what the fuck.

She continues this for about a minute, then abruptly stops, now staring at the mirror blankly.

Another minute later, she goes right back to the freakish smiling thing. She goes back and forth like this for awhile, possibly forever if someone doesn't interrupt her.

(also open to mirrors, if they feel like writing at her)]

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[0u0]

I can't drink. What do you read?

I've been told I'm depressing.

[akapeanut]

Lots of things. Classics, mostly. I guess that you, uh, might not know any human books anyway, though.

Who tells you that?

[0u0]

Not really. I think I liked some Alternian books. [it's been awhile, though. the titles are too long to remember.]

Everyone. I can't say I disagree with them. I haven't been capable of a full range of emotions for a very long time.

[akapeanut]

Well, you're a robot, so, uh. Isn't that normal?

[0u0]

Yes. But I can remember how I'm supposed to feel, sometimes.

[akapeanut]

Remember?

[0u0]

I was alive, once. Then I died and eventually became a frogsprite and also a robot. [it... makes sense in context?]

A few events recently have reminded me of what it's like to be alive again, so I thought it was worth a try. Or maybe it isn't and this is a waste of time, but I don't have anything better to do.

[akapeanut]

So you're...kind of...undead?

[0u0]

Yes. Kind of.

[private video forever]

[akapeanut]

Um. I might have that in common with you.

How'd you die?

[private video forever]

[0u0]

You don't look like a robot, but okay.

I was incinerated by a powerful psionic blast.

[akapeanut]

...Not that part. The undead part.

I died when a piece of a space station fell through the atmosphere and hit me.

[She is keeping the part about it being a toilet seat out of the story.]

That was two years ago.

[0u0]

... Two years. That's about as long as a solar sweep.

How were you revived?

[akapeanut]

I became a grim reaper. I don't know if you guys have that kind of myth or anything, but my job was to kind of...loosen souls before people died.

[0u0]

We have something like that, yes. Death is a universal constant. It exists in every universe, in some form.

On Alternia, there are also tales of a Handmaid who served Death, performing bloody acts in his name. [whom she may or may not be a direct descendant of even if she isn't about to admit that (spoilers she is)] Your own role sounds similar to that of the Handmaid's.

[akapeanut]

Yeah. I had a boss, and he had bosses himself.

You're the first person I've met who's also undead.

[0u0]

That doesn't surprise me. It takes special circumstances to revive someone in such a way that they aren't completely alive or dead. But I wasn't revived by Death himself.

[akapeanut]

Then how'd it happen for you?