♈ Aradia: Reverse.

[psych0p0mps]

[You are now ARADIABOT, and you do not know where you are.

It's already weird for her to wake up at all, because she doesn't sleep. Ever. Even weirder is waking up in a recuperacoon, in a room that feels kind of familiar but at the same time isn't anyplace she's been before. Or any time, for that matter.

There is a lot of weird stuff in her sylladex, too. Why the hell does she have Eridan's legendary piece of shit gun, for instance? This is useless. She dumps the stuff she doesn't want in a pile on the floor. It is basically all of the stuff.

She's about to dump her journal, too, when she stops. Hm. There's something... odd about that book. Odd, and familiar. She decides to open it and speak, but listeners may notice her voice has an eerie metallic tone to it, as well as a pr0n0unced h0ll0wness...]

is this a j0ke

Comments

[biwinning]

no you're
you're not aliive are you.

[psych0p0mps]

[..... what? come on sollux you of all people should know this ...]

did y0u think i was

[biwinning]

for a whiile you were.
you're beiing fucked wiith riight now aa.
thii2 ii2n't how you're 2uppo2ed two be.

[psych0p0mps]

what are y0u talking ab0ut

[biwinning]

how long do you remember beiing iin thii2 ca2tle.

[psych0p0mps]

["How long"? Really, asking the Maid of Time "how long"? At any rate, she has to think about that one, and even the robot brain with extratemporal time-recording functions is coming back with errors. Eventually she goes with absolute time from the beginning of this active data session, which is-]

half an h0ur
m0re or less

[biwinning]

wrong.
iit'2 more liike almo2t half a 2weep.

[psych0p0mps]

thats imp0ssible

[biwinning]

your face ii2 iimpo22iible.
check the previiou2 page2 iin the journal.
there'll be entriie2 wiith you wriitiing them.

[psych0p0mps]

[The sound of rapidly flipping pages can be heard. Yeah she's looking over it like a flipbook. But now we'll find out the other half of her loss: she can't actually read her prior entries and stuff.]

there arent

[biwinning]

what?
ye2 there fuckiing are ii'm lookiing at one riight now.
ok fuck thii2 2hiit where are you.

[psych0p0mps]

...
0utside

[And true to her word that's where she is, hovering a few stories over the courtyard, her journal floating next to her, just... looking down on the castle and watching. She's not really sure why he wants to talk to her, anyway. They've barely said two words to each other the whole time they were in the Medium...]

[biwinning]

fiine ju2t 2tay put ii'll fiind you.

[Yeah, this is SUCH WEIRD BEHAVIOR FROM HIM!! Man, why is he acting this way, it's almost like he cares. Also wow, "outside" is painfully vague, so he has to fly around a bit to find her. But eventually he does, so there's that. Aaaand now floating beside her, frowning as he looks over her robo-body.]

I didn't think losstheth could do thith thort of thing...

[psych0p0mps]

[You know that thing she does where her eyes don't blink at the same time? Yeah, she's totes doing that right now.]

You're the second one to tell me that. What's this about me being alive?

[biwinning]

[jesus fuck aradia why are you so creepy.]

You're thuppothed to be alive. And I don't even mean thith in the "oh poor me I feel guilty for killing you" way. I mean it in the "theriouthly you were alive and god tier like two daysth ago." I guessth I could take you around to placesth in the cathtle and thee if you remember anything.

[psych0p0mps]

[DEAD-EYES HIM. seriously, what? she doesn't even have a dream self.]

God tier. That's ridiculous.

[biwinning]

Yeah, becauthe I'm thpinning up ath many liesth ath I can right off the top of my head and convincing everyone you talk to to go along with it! You caught me, AA! NO, you didn't go god tier! No, you weren't full-blown Maid Of Time bullshit with the hood and the wingsth and fucking everything. I'm jutht a big motherfucking liar who ith thaying thith all becauthe it'th a real hoot!!

[psych0p0mps]

[She lets him finish, apparently impassive.]

I didn't say you're lying. Just that it's ridiculous. Which is a fact. This whole timeline is ridiculous, and also doomed.

[biwinning]

Yeah, I know it'th doomed, thanksth for pointing it out! Thuddenly I remember exactly why I thtopped talking to you.

[psych0p0mps]

.....

Are the others here?

[biwinning]

...Yeah. Thome.

Terezi, Nepeta and Vrithka.





...And Equiuth.

[psych0p0mps]

I already talked to him. [Terezi and Nepeta don't really interest her at the moment. Fuckin' Vriska, though.] And one of the humans. John.

[biwinning]

Oh, right. There'th thome humansth from their thessthion here. John and Rothe are the onesth I've theen motht, I haven't theen much of Jade or Dave.

[He still hasn't noticed he just referred to them by first names rather than last. ]

[psych0p0mps]

And who are all these other people?

[biwinning]

Inhabitantsth of the cathtle, taken from their univertheth. Thame ath we are.