RL with Ange

[tenminutes]

[ As soon as Ange had been able to get a worldhop, Yuri had prepared for her. Her discussion with Battler... hadn't really started or ended well, so she was definitely more down than she should've been for Ange coming over, but she wasn't going to bring that up if she could avoid it. Somehow she had her doubts that Ange was just going to let it go, but..

She would still try to smile. That was what made someone human, right? The ability to keep smiling, even after tons of bad things had happened. Yuri wasn't going to let it get to her. Not if she could help it. Ange just got back from the dead and was, somehow, alive. She didn't need to deal with Yuri's problems on top of that.

Of course, the waiting game was another thing that involved gratuitous interest in her laptop. Tetris was, after all, the most fun one could have without internet access (beside the community, of course) while looking like they were actually working on something intense. ]

Comments

[denies]

Then at least try to be a little more careful. How could you just fall off a height like that?

[tenminutes]

I was climbing the chapel while it was raining and I was being distracted by a certain moron.

[denies]

Nobody ever told you about, you know, the possibility of things being more slippery when it's raining?

[tenminutes]

It's not like I have to worry about that. [ aksjhgasjldk Ange she already went through this with Battler, having to convince Ange to calm her tits because she ends up hurt a lot is going to be quite a task. ] I don't have a problem with pain, so getting taken out over and over again is nothing to me. Don't worry about it or just pretend it's special effects or something.

[denies]

[ Ange's tits can never be calmed!! ]

Don't you just tell me you don't have a problem with pain like it's nothing. That's like me talking about me not having a problem with pain either when I died like that.

[tenminutes]

I don't though. I've been stabbed, shot, cut up, I've broken bones, and I've seen a lot worse happen to other people. It's not going to stop because I'm not going to stop fighting and I get better from it every time. So just don't worry about it or you're going to turn gray by the time you're 25. It's just the way things are with me. Everyone in my world gets hurt or taken out sometimes-- I've kicked Hinata off of buildings for no reason before. We can't die, we're already dead.

You're not dead. I don't.. exactly know what happened, but you're not dead. That's why it's important that you don't get hurt. It's not the same at all. All that's important is that we're both here.

[denies]

[ She still doesn't like the way it sounds, okay. And.. well, Ange is a Ushiromiya, it's not like she and Battler don't have anything in common, so she's just as stubborn as him about certain things. This being one of them. So yup, if Yuri is in danger she's totally going to help, no matter whether Ange is more prone to damage and death than the other girl..

But she's not going to mention that now, since Yuri will only protest either way. It'll just seem from her actions later on, definitely. ]

Yeah, let's make sure to keep up the part where we are both here and okay. That sounds like a plan to me, rather than having one of us dying no matter the chances of revival. [ Just acting casually again.. ]

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri had the feeling that Ange wasn't actually giving it up that easily, but if Ange was anything like Battler it wouldn't work to talk it out anyway. Battler eventually just got used to it, so Ange would do the same if Yuri kept getting hurt. She was a lot stronger now than she had been when she'd first met Battler, so it didn't happen as often anymore, but.. ]

I guess I can't really argue with that. It's not like I want to get hurt, it just happens sometimes.

[denies]

You're saying it as if it's a normal thing to get hurt.

[ Ange, now you're just being a hypocrite since you're the one who always mentions that kind of stuff in a deadpan way.. ]

[tenminutes]

Of course it is for me. I pick fights with an angel regularly and don't always come out unharmed.

[denies]

You should at least feel lucky that you get to pick the fights instead of people picking fights with you. [ ange life 19k98 ]

[tenminutes]

Well she comes after us first if we break the rules. [ Poor Ange sob ]

[denies]

So she's sort of like a hallway monitor.. But an extremely violent one. [ wow the afterlife sure sounds.. like.. fun.. ]

[tenminutes]

Well she's the student council president. With a magical long-knife hand.

[denies]

If you're going to put the latter part like that, it sounds more like some kind of horror movie rather than a school..

[tenminutes]

Well everyone is either dead, fake, or an angel.

[denies]

That part still doesn't sound too bad. It isn't much different from Battler onii-chan and my world, right? Almost everyone is either dead or fake there, too.

[tenminutes]

There are a lot of similarities. There's a lot more to risk in your guys' world though.

[denies]

Yeah, of course. Because unlike you guys, we won't just be revived if we're killed. [ ... o.. h.. wait. ] Well, I'm a special case, and I'm not even sure how that happened, but it's an exception to the rule.

[tenminutes]

I wonder if you were actually there the first time... I mean, it's kind of like virtual reality right? Since everyone there is.. None of them are actually alive, but from what I understand they're all like pieces on a gameboard now there? So it'd be like you were there, but your body was home the entire time like a VR game.

Or that's just totally insane but it's the best idea I could come up with.

[denies]

[ Ahaha, no, Yuri, that's actually.. sadly close to the truth, in a way.. ]

... Hey, Yuri. I don't think Battler onii-chan knows, or.. at least, I'm not sure, but.. in a way, I'm nothing more than some sort of VR simulation, really. I'm the possibility of what 'Ange' would be like if she grew up all alone, nothing more than that. If Battler wins the game, he'll go home to the six year old Ange and there will be no use for me, so I'll probably just disappear.

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri shakes her head. ]

You're not a VR simulation. You exist, completely. [ She's already got what makes a person made out okay? ]

Like that Battler from the future that I talked to a while ago. He's not Battler, he's a different person because he'll have gone through different things. That Battler hadn't even spoken to me since.. the third game I think? Something like that. So just by being around me and the community, things are different. The Battler here will never have those conversations with me.

[ Which is good, those were a little embarrassing. ]

It doesn't mean that that guy wasn't real, it just means he's a different person than Battler. It's the same reason that even if I could give up my memories, I would never do so willingly just to be happier. You're not a possibility, you're an actuality. You just exist in a different actuality than Battler does, because you want to save the Ange in Battler's actuality from going through the same thing you did.

Trust me, the community pulled some shit where another me was brought here for a while and Battler used some of his r-- anyway, Battler couldn't prove that what I was experiencing wasn't real. It was just another version of me, but not me. So it's entirely possible. You exist no matter what, and if you feel like you're going to disappear then you can come stay with me. I'm pretty good at fighting disappearing.

[denies]

[ Yuri, your logic and speeches, why.. ]

No, I.. definitely don't exist completely the way other people do. Or rather, I do exist, but it's just as a piece on the gameboard. That gameboard is my 'actuality', so when the game is ended and the gameboard disappears, the same will happen to me.

I am just a piece, and as a piece it's my role to disappear once the game itself is over and disappears too, that's what they told me. This is a game I can't lose, and yet even if I win, or help Battler onii-chan win, I won't be rewarded. Not this me. I'm a piece brought in to end this game, yet if I end it I'll end myself too.. I still remember the day that witch came to me and told me.. "Your existence is a contradiction. Your reason for existing is to bury yourself in the darkness and despair."

[ She glances sideways at Yuri, on her face a somewhat bitterly ironic smile. ]

So I'm pretty sure I'll end up needing to stay with you then, huh..?

[tenminutes]

No, you were a piece the first time. This time you were alive in your original reality and had to worldhop over via community worldhops right? It's just like being in a parallel universe.

...Anyway, truth is pretty subjective if someone else can tell you your reason for existing. Especially since it can change. It already has right? Since you gained access to the community, you've got other reasons to keep living.

[ Yuri reaches over and puts her hand on Ange's head. Are you ready for this? She ruffles her hair. YES RUFFLES HER HAIR. Enjoy your messed up hair. ] You can always come here if you still need to.

[denies]

I don't even know if it's that clear-cut, for all we know some other witch-- [ gjfjgdfgkjdf okay, no, she can't finish that sentence since she's being hairruffled.. yuri onee-chan why..!! ]

At least make sure to keep an extra uniform for me around, then, it might be more likely that I'll need it than you think.