Third Wish

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Hey question.

Say a person was recently dead back home, and they show up here again and they're all alive again, right?

What happens if/when they go back? Do they get a second chance back home or do they get all deceased again? Anyone know?

Comments

[thatlittlepest.livejournal.com]

....They can do that?

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Well I don't see why not, that's why I'm asking if anyone knows.

[thatlittlepest.livejournal.com]

It's strange.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

What is?

[thatlittlepest.livejournal.com]

Dead should be dead. This place is no good.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Oh, one of those types.

Yeah yeah - well. I was dead and I'm not really complaining at being alive.

1/2

[thatlittlepest.livejournal.com]

[thatlittlepest.livejournal.com]

No good. No good at all.

I'll have to fix it.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Hey - no!

You're not "fixing" anything about me or my new life. You just stay away with that psychaotic mindset, you hear me?

[thatlittlepest.livejournal.com]

When things are wrong you have to fix them or everything turns bad.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

I'm not wrong!

And keep that philosophy to broken clocks and stoves - not me!

[thatlittlepest.livejournal.com]

Yeah you are. That's not a philosophy, stupid. It's just how it is.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Well, leave me alone no matter what you think!

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

I've wondered quite a bit about that.

I suppose it depends on how far the castle's power extends. Can it change the path of different worlds? Can it create parallel universes?

We're missing too much information for any definite answers.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Well if it has enough power to drag people from all sorts of dimensions into this one without any sort of traceable or detectable method of doing so, I don't see why it couldn't. I mean - alternate dimensions aren't that hard to do.

Seems like, but that sucks. I want to know if I leave if I'll be pushing up daisies or not, not just betting on a gamble.

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Well, not if they happen naturally, but to force it... The castle pulls people from reality - it doesn't alter it, so far as we know.

[faint chuckle]

Yes, I know what you mean. It's a shame we can't ask anyone - no one ever remembers. Assuming it was them in the first place.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Well forcing can be done if the conditions are right. When I was a vengeance demon, I made alternate realities several times. So...who knows what it can do.

Does that mean you're dead too?

[a pause] What do you mean no one ever remembers? How can they not?

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

...Your world is quite different from mine, I think.

I am, yes.

Either the castle wipes their memories, or they take them from a different timeline.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Oh, well not many people are vengeance demons. What was your world like?

Ah well, hi fellow dead person! I'm Anya.

Or a different reality. But that's a major pain. So much about trying to figure out more of what happens when we leave.

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Well, there weren't any demons. ...Well, there were a number of beings people mistook for demons, but were really only from a different planet.

[laugh] Hello. I'm the Doctor.

Usually you'll only end up with a headache.

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

You mean like aliens? No, we sure didn't have that.

Nice to meet you! Is that your actual name?

I suppose, drat.

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Exactly like aliens.

More or less. I chose it centuries ago.

May as well just enjoy the time you have, hmm?

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Wow! So are you an alien?

Well it sounds very professional and simple. I think it's a good choice.

I guess so, it's not much different from being mortal I suppose.

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Well, to a human, yes.

Thank you! I've become very fond of it.

I assume vengeance demons aren't?

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Makes sense, you wouldn't be considered an alien to your own race. Do you hang out on Earth?

You're welcome!

No, unless they become human like I did - and that's what lead to my eventual death. So I've had some practice at the mortality thing.

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Quite a lot, actually. It's one of my favourites.

Yours is lovely, too. Anya...Sanskrit for inexhaustible.

Why did you? If you don't mind my asking.

[q-ueenly.livejournal.com]

I don't know. People who go back don't remember that kind of thing, so...

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

So it's a big question mark?

Crap.

[q-ueenly.livejournal.com]

Basically.

Why, does it matter?

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

Because I'm dead.

[q-ueenly.livejournal.com]

[sharp inhale followed by an 'oops']

Oh. God, I'm sorry. I had no idea.

When did it happen?

[sayawish.livejournal.com]

It's fine, whatever. I'm alive again so I am recovering from it just fine.

[a pause as she thinks] May 2003? During this big end of the world final battle. I honestly thought I wouldn't die, but turns out I was wrong.

[q-ueenly.livejournal.com]

Great.

Still in the future for me then.