[Journal Post]

[bibeakerbabe]

Hello! There's an evil version of me still hanging around!

You haven't gotten rid of her!

She even tries to stab me with a butter knife!

And Noriko won't give me my house back!

Or tell me where Hiro███ is!

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LOG: ONNI VS VIDYA (ALTER)

Comments

[bibeakerbabe]

As I've explained before:

I am not evil, merely another version of you under a geas.

I am using the butter knife to fail to hurt you when I see you while going to get milk and rotisserie chicken and ice cream from the Convivence Store.

I don't know anything about the rest of what you're going on about.

Do you always act like a petulant child?

[bibeakerbabe]

I don't act like a petulant child!

You're supposed to, like, not exist anymore!?

[bibeakerbabe]

How so?

[bibeakerbabe]

Dopplegangers, fight to the death, stabilize our existence?

[bibeakerbabe]

I'm doing perfectly fine, thank you.

I think we can get along.

[bibeakerbabe]

I don't think that's how this works...

[bibeakerbabe]

And who says this rule has to exist...?

[bibeakerbabe]

That! I! That's!

That's how it works!

[bibeakerbabe]

So, it's untested.

And assumptions are being made.

And you call yourself a scientist?

[bibeakerbabe]

I! That!

Noriko! Explain it to her!

[theheadmonarch]

Nature abhors two copies of the same thing and wants the wave-function to collapse, Vidya.

And what are you? 15?

And you really don't want to know about Hiro███.

And I'm not giving you the mountain back, Ms. Arms Dealer.

[bibeakerbabe]

I'm not 15!

And yes I do! She's my ex-wife and she vanished out of existence!

I have a right to a livelihood, Noriko! Outside of your structure!

[theheadmonarch]

You act like a womanchild.

Maybe there's a good reason for that?

And I'm not giving it back to you after this incident, especially since you were selling equipment to Echo.

[bibeakerbabe]

Go on.

[theheadmonarch]

My daughter Ashley is better equipped to deal with explaining it, but eventually reality is going to want you and 'our' Vidya's similar quantum existences to collapse, and a proper Vidya to exist.

Usually, it would mean absorbing our Vidya's traits or her yours.

[becomeanwarrior]

...I do wonder. Between Vidya and Lulu... and perhaps Tarou down there to some extent, though I would say my role there is more an enabler...

I'm starting to wonder if I might be a contributing factor in... these "exceptions", 'cuz?

[theheadmonarch]

? ? ? ? ?

[knowinginthedark]

Speaking of being an enabler I'm going to need to talk to you about something! In person, likely.

It's technically to help with a thing but I need-- what's the word-- some official clearance before I let my thoughts get ahead of myself?

[knowinginthedark]

Just chiming in: I'm still doing just fine despite being in the same situation!

[theheadmonarch]

I think you're just charming and quirky enough and you've done enough to keep reality away from it.

[knowinginthedark]

Then clearly they need to be quirky and charming enough to do the same! It's easy!

[theheadmonarch]

Perhaps.

I think it'll resolve itself sooner rather than later.

[bibeakerbabe]

And you are?

How do you deal with the feeling like you're a record scratch?

[knowinginthedark]

"Satou, Tarou". Or more aptly considered to be the alternate of a man named "Yamada, Mamoru"! Things happened, ect. ect.

I was feeling like that even before I became here, so I probably just got kinda used to it? Like a backround radiation that just never really went away, mixed in with everything else that's a problem. But I'm still trucking along!

[bibeakerbabe]

Vidya E███████.

... Ergh. Vidya Jigokubana, perhaps.

Ah.

Are you a man of science or learning at least?