Kunai the Sixth: [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

[itsjustdust]

[Oddly enough, the gear is set down on the table, his goggles mostly obscuring the rest of the room where his Charmander and newly evolved Servine are off to one side having some sort of staring match. The voice that came over the line was indisputably human though, and thoughtful.]

I've been in this place for nearly a month now. A lot has happened in that month. I've met family, I've met friends, and I've realized that my life wasn't as much of a failure as everyone always liked to tell me it was back home.

My teammate, the one I died for, and yes, I died before I woke up here, very thoroughly and messily I might add, apparently changed his entire life based on a few things I said to try to be more like me. He even uses a phrase I screamed at him once as a motto I've heard. I kind of want to see what he's like without being so bitter, but that clearly won't happen unless he shows up here.

But... Everyone else forgot about me. I'm just that guy that gave my famous teammate his Sharingan, an eye for the unaware, and I'm not even known for my own name. My baby cousin, the one here, hadn't ever heard of me. That's my own fault, in some ways, I died before he was born, but did I really do nothing worth mentioning after my demise?

It was a war, and a lot of people die during wars, I know that, and I know I've made a huge difference in the world just by a final set of actions, but... I'll never see it. I'm not sure it's satisfying.

I'm afraid to ask if anyone but that teammate made it out of the war. What if no one knows? What if no one wants to say?

But I'm drifting off topic here.

What I wanted to say was that I don't think that just pokemon change from level to level. A whole different personality to go with a whole new body, right? How many people feel like that happened to them too?

So yeah, a lot of things happened since I got here, good things, bad things... but who else feels like they were changed in some permanent way just by getting here?

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[timelymaid]

Dying is a natural part of life! I wouldn't worry too much about it. Especially when it's not something that you can't change or touch.

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[itsjustdust]

What? No no. I'm not worried about having died, I know I can't do anything about that. It's just... after. Being here.

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[timelymaid]

Well, in terms of afterlife options, I have to say this one is particularly nice. I've seen a few, too.

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[itsjustdust]

You have? How does that work?

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[timelymaid]

I died a few times!

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[itsjustdust]

...Were any of them here?

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[timelymaid]

No, they were all back home!

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[itsjustdust]

How did you die?

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[timelymaid]

Which time? [ She actually laughs, there, but. ]

Hm. Let's see...the first time, someone I knew took control of someone very dear to me, and killed me via that person. I didn't fight back. The second time I exploded. The third time I was burned alive, more or less.

Then there were all the doomed timelines, but those weren't "me" even when I knew what occurred.

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[itsjustdust]

Did each time feel different?

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[timelymaid]

Yes.

[ ...Very simply said. ]

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[itsjustdust]

[There was a beat as he considered this.]

If you could avoid it, would you?

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[timelymaid]

Absolutely not!

[ This answer comes quickly enough, and rather forcefully. ]

Each of those deaths was important. And if I hadn't had them, many of my friends would have died.

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[itsjustdust]

[You get such a brilliant smile at him for that.]

That's good.

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[timelymaid]

Is it?

[ She doesn't disagree, exactly, but she's curious about how happy that seemed to make him. ]

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[itsjustdust]

Yep! The right reasons.

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[timelymaid]

What reasons would have been wrong?

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[itsjustdust]

hating your life or something dumb like that.

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[timelymaid]

The only time I felt that way was when I was dead.

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[itsjustdust]

At which point it didn't really matter so there you go!