[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)

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[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]

I do not act like a womanchild! You all keep saying that!

There is no good reason!

And I need money! I play for no side!

[theheadmonarch]

Because you act like one.

There is one.

The only reason Officer Kaito and B.E.A.S.T. haven't arrested you is my grace, Vidya. Are you saying you don't need that?

[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.

[bibeakerbabe]

No.

I'd rather die than be caught prancing around in lingerie, whining about some former lover and acting like a child, Noriko.

[bibeakerbabe]

Screw you!

This isn't lingerie! This is comfort wear!

And I don't act like a child!

[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]

? ? ? ? ?

[becomeanwarrior]

I mean, think about it.

What other commonalities are present in those two situations resolving in such a way that preserves... "both" identities, so to speak?

[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?

[becomeanwarrior]

Official business, huh? Sounds serious.

Well, I'm hardly going to say no to a visit from you, Mr. Tarou. Simply name a time and I'll make myself available, I've gotten good at clearing my schedule as needed.

[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?

[knowinginthedark]

Absolutely! My passions have always led to science, research, things of the sort. My specialty is what could be considered to be cryptozoology, but obviously less in the realm of myth and more of the monsters that roam the world day-to-day.