[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

[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]

Ergh.

That's!

I'm Kamala's God Mother! You can't be throwing me to the wolves!

[theheadmonarch]

You're using that as a defense?

Really?

REALLY?

[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!

[theheadmonarch]

Honestly you two act more like a mother and daughter than twins.

[bibeakerbabe]

No.

[bibeakerbabe]

Stop treating me like I'm a teenager, Noriko!

[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?

[theheadmonarch]

Uh.

I dunno.

Unrealized Realities aren't my thing.

[dreammoonchild]

Luck, unless you can cite a commonality between Vidya, Hirume and Mamoru-Tarou.

[last_sundust]

I heard my name being used, Don't Wear It Out.

[becomeanwarrior]

Urk...! Didn't expect quite so much attention...

Well, uh. Hrm. How do I put this.

With Tarou, the connection is thinner, but I was on hand to help react to the initial incident, and I have since aided Mr. Tarou by giving him a way to be ambulatory despite his... condition. A bit part in the grander scheme, but still.

With Hirume and Lulu, I had a vested interest in preserving things so that they didn't spiral. My actual contribution was low but my presence and presumably personal preference shifted the dynamic somewhat...

And we have Vidya now, and I was the primary person to respond yo her attack, such as it was, and defuse the primary threat.

The only commonality I can derive from my perspective is that I was a contributor to resolving every single incident, and that my general thought process was that I didn't want anyone to die.

... I don't know if this contributes either, but I am, yknow, kind of a stick in the mud, comparitively speaking. I don't like excess chaos or mayhem. I don't know if that really... "counts" for much, but.

I dunno. This is mostly all conjecture but I do wonder if that made a difference to some degree.

[dreammoonchild]

... Well. We'd need to test it again?

But. maybe?

[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]

Will do, of course! Let me look at my schedule, and I'll pass along a time.