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[curiousher]

[Alice is i a tea room, puzzling over...well. A puzzle! She lifts up one piece and hums thoughtfully to herself.]

You know, it's been on my mind recently but...it's rather fun not aging, don't you think so? I can't say I'd rather be an adult - it's so boring-looking. I'd have to get a job, and what would I even do? Push papers and staple things, I suppose. Though, being a scientist might be fun, but it's an awful lot of math isn't it? Hm...

Thinking about never growing up, about remaining this age forever and ever fills me with...

[She hovers a her hand over the board and gently snaps the puzzle piece into place.]

...well, it fills me with something.

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[sciencelizard]

[She tries to respond to this. She really does. But like 10 minutes go by and she's got nothing. Like. Wonderland. Please, just let her live. Just LET HER LIVE.

Instead, she screams uninterrupted into a pillow for like, 3 full minutes.

God help her.]

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[curiousher]

[Nope. No living allowed.]

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[sugarcar]

'Course it's fun not aging. S'the way life is back home fer me. 'Cept that time actually passes back home...

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[curiousher]

Really? I didn't know there were other worlds where people don't age!

[She pauses though and thinks a little more.]

...Mm. Well, that isn't strictly true. Though usually they're grumpy sorts of people, tired of being the same age forever. They're always saying "It's not everything it's cracked up to be." but I'm fairly certain they might be wrong about that.

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[battlefront]

Yeah. Confusion.

[Dear god just let him live for like a week.]

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[curiousher]

[She could text back, but she's clearly too busy with her puzzle. How is she even putting that together with no eyes? There are so many questions here.]

Hm? What do you mean? I don't think it's confusing at all.

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[battlefront]

[Creepy, cryptic words. Plus the fact she's missing her eyes. She's gotta be one of them.]

What are you planning.

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[determinedest]

[* Determination.













What?

You didn't say that?]

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[curiousher]

[Perhaps.









...Well. At least 50% determination.]

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[theothermrgray]

[Oh god... Is she talking about what he thinks she is?]

[A familiar sense of dread overcomes him. Instinctively, he leaves his device on the bed and walks over to face the covered frame on his wall. He brushes his hand past the fabric cover, hesitant to lift the frame. But he must. His thoughts command him to look upon what's underneath, and reflect on what he must have become.]

[Slowly, he draws back the cover...]

[There is a mirror. An ordinary mirror inside a gilded frame.]

[Clearly, this is not what Dorian's instincts had expected to see, yet the sight of his own, untarnished reflection horrified him more than any imperfection on that accursed painting. He is here, in Wonderland, at the whims of a mad world, and he has nothing to protect himself from its magic.]

[The Mirror must be his portrait now.]

[Absently, he whispered to it, not knowing who was there.]

Harry... Basil...

Sybil...

... They'd hate it here.

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[curiousher]

[They probably would.

Though, quite possibly not for the reasons he's imagining.]

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[powerofmabel]

[Mabel rests her chin in her hands as she stares at her communicator.]

I still don't know what I wanna be. It changes every week. Plus I still gotta get through high school.

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[curiousher]

I've ever been to a real school before! People start them here sometimes, and it's fun for a bit until everyone who was running them leaves.

[Alice mirrors the gesture, her own chin in her hands.]

So, if it changes every week, then what do you want to be this week?

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[powerofmabel]

I think I really do wanna be President. I need to pass a bill to make Pluto a planet again.

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[beatupgrass]

[it's not like he doesn't know plenty of scientists who aren't shitheels, but putting the word scientist in combination with an event announcement gets his hackles up. he just dealt with this. do not do this to him, Wonderland.]

A scientist? Of all the frickin' things...

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[curiousher]

You don't like scientists? Are you bad at math like me then?

[Poor Alice has a fundamental misunderstanding of what the problem actually is here.]

[beatupgrass]

I ain't a fan, and it has nothin' to do with math.

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[literalidiotball]

[Hello! You are looking at a metal robot ball filming himself in front of a mirror. He doesn't have any hands, so he's accessing the network directly. Science!]

Okay, first off. What's wrong with being a scientist? Some of my friends are scientists, you know!

[Okay, he hadn't talked to any of the scientists at Aperture since the neurotoxin incident, but McGucket was a new friend and a scientist.]

Secondly... What happened to your eyes? I'm not registering them on my facial recognition sensors.

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[curiousher]

Oh, there's nothing wrong with them. All I meant is I wouldn't make a very good one myself.

[Not that it bothers her. There are plenty of other things she can be.]

And hm? I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about.

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[literalidiotball]

Ah, I see... To each their own then.

[Some people were simply not meant to be scientists. She might make a decent test subject, though.]

Erm... Eyes? You know, little round squishy things in your head that allow you to see? Mostly white, with a bit of color in the center...?

Do you have them, or no? How are you able to see the puzzle?

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[choosetruth]

[Oh, Georgia has been waiting for this moment.]

You're Alice, right?

[She smiles sharply under her sunglasses. The only person she wants to talk to more is the Queen of Hearts herself.]

Georgia Mason, After the End Times. I have a few questions, if you don't mind.

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[curiousher]

Oh! Certainly! I'd be more than happy to. Is this an interview? I don't think I've ever been interviewed.

[Or...has she? She thinks about that a little.]

Is it an interview every time someone asks you questions? Because in that case I actually have been interviewed quite a bit, but it was never for any publications, unless there are other secret Wonderland publications I don't know about. Oh, but I'm sure there were at one point...I wonder if the questions people have asked me ever made it into them? Would they be considered interviews then? If no one can be sure it was published is it both an interview and not an interview?

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[choosetruth]

[Oh, Georgia's recording the fuck out of this. She's pretty sure there's a lot to untangle in the ramblings. Other Wonderland publications? She hasn't found any in her searching, but.....]

How long have you been in Wonderland?

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[krmvgivv]

[Dipper certainly doesn't like the idea of not aging much, though he's less upset about it than he was before, but still. He frowns.]

Were you always so okay with not aging?

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[curiousher]

[She has to think about it for a moment, which is not at all concerning.]

Well...I suppose so. Imagining being an adult is fun and all, but I've always been the way I am. If I wasn't okay with it, that would be horribly depressing, wouldn't it?