Your New Life

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Another New Life

You wake up to the sound of surf, much, much closer than you've ever heard it unless you moseyed down to Puffin Pier back in the old days. What old days...? Why, the days when you had a body, of course. The memories are probably coming back by now, jumbled along with everything else you lost. What a wake-up call.

But at least the ocean is real, unlike your dubiously fragmented remembrances. This little island out in the middle of nowhere sports a crude sign reading DUCK DAMNED ISLAND that seems like it's really railing against whatever fate you've been left to. There are little seashells and sparkling fragments amongst the sand to the left of your face. If you look further, to the left and right, it seems you're not the only one who's woken up here; it's considerably less cushy than your last wakeup, but maybe that's not a bad thing.

Here, you're free, albeit... kind of incorporeal, as you'll soon find out. The island is covered in pretty little trees that don't quite form a forest, bowed over the really beautiful sandy beach that is way prettier than the one on the mainland. One, slightly rickety treehouse -- bare of anything, because incorporeal ghosts don't need furniture, of course -- peeks out from between the leaves. This is, apparently, your home away from home now.

Finally, there's a small bay-like area on the island that leads you to a strange-looking storm drain, marked with a symbol that's not-quite-an-apple. Stepping in will wash you alllllll the way back up to Puffin Pier, right where the sewers normally let out.

Oh, and once you step onto the mainland? You're now a duck. What kind of quacking afterlife is this.

((OOC: the tldr; about death is here!))

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[aurevoirx2]

... I'm back.

[ Sora's back after the execution to relay the events that happened there to Keito, Sampo, and their new duckies. Particularly what Adela had said and the powers that Makima showed off.

It's a bit awkward for him though. Hi, former roomies. Why are the corpse flowers becoming rare in this farm as they are irl?

Anyway, he'll let Keito explain the gist of dead duck islandia though. ]

[jarcrash]

[ Bibi is kind of glad to see Sora, really. She's got a much better grasp on her own psyche now that her memories are back as compared to when she tried to use her death rowed roomie as a sounding board, but that does not make her any less sympathetic to his position. Really, she gets it.

So she's glad to settle in and listen to this take of violence, and... ]

Adele is still sticking to her whole 'I never meant for this to happen' shtick? Does she actually mean it? Yikes.

[ And this is not a typo, she's calling her Adele. Forgor her name, sorry. ]

[aurevoirx2]

[ Good to see you Bibi-san, even if he's still definitely unstable as all hell. She doesn't know how many people he's really killed...

He laughs a little. ]

Do you think she means it? [ His tone absolutely says he doesn't. ]

[jarcrash]

Well, so far I didn't. I mean, if she really wanted us to live peacefully she'd have put a gag in Maki's mouth about that whole Astera function.

[ Seriously, why even tell them? Some kind of test to human nature? Yuck. ]

But at this point, she must know she's straining credibility beyond measure.

[aurevoirx2]

"He won't. He'll just be happy to see you. Why would he worry about anything else?"

That's what she said to me, to further push me to do it. [ Don't get him wrong, he was already thinking about it immediately, but he'd been scared of himself, scared of what Hinata would think. It just took a little nudge to tip him off the edge... ]

[jarcrash]

[ She snorts, in dry horrible amusement. Of course. ]

That little...

[ Just because she herself is also a horrible manipulator, in as far as her stunted empathy allows, doesn't mean she can't be mad about it. ]

[aurevoirx2]

[ Quietly, he adds. ] Ironically, she probably would've had it easier with me if she didn't take my memories.

[ Now, he's just being sick and tired of being used by these shitty adults. ]

[jarcrash]

It really is such mixed messages nonsense.

[ Bibi does not seem particularly worried about his apparent readiness to commit murder. It really occurs to her more as an afterthought to ask about it: ]

Do your memories make your situation more desperate then?

[aurevoirx2]

Hmm. It's more like... I'm an even worse person than I thought? [ And making him forget really put a pause button here. ]

[jarcrash]

Why?

[aurevoirx2]

[ ... ]

Well... Keito-kun isn't even the first person I killed.

[jarcrash]

Huh.

[ She didn't really see it coming, that'd be a lie. But it's also not a great shock. ]

I was pretty close to doing it before, but I kind of got bored of my victim midway through.

[aurevoirx2]

Hmm. Bored huh... I'm glad you got bored then, Bibi-san.

[jarcrash]

It would have been a waste to risk myself for that guy, I guess.

[ She doesn't regret planning murder though and much sounds like she'd do it again if a better reason came up. ]

Do you regret your kills?

[aurevoirx2]

[ His truth is simple... ]

No.

The only thing I regret is hurting Hinata.

[jarcrash]

That's fine then!

[ It's absolutely not fine by any normal moral metric but Bibi doesn't give a shit about those even in the cases where she can recognize them. ]

I hope Hinata forgives you. I think he should.

[aurevoirx2]

Mmm. Maybe. He'll have to wake up first...

But thank you, Bibi-san.