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[maiditoutalive]

wow
i definitely didnt see this coming!
who knew that one day you could just wake up and be casually informed everything you thought youd lived before was complete fiction
i sure didnt
but
hmmmmm
it sounds just a tad
suspicious
dont you think?
i dontt really know whats going on but im not sure i automatically believe it just because somebody said it
my life felt pretty real to me you know and i am fairly certain somewhere along theres probably a philosophical paradigm to justify all of this in between the complexities of space time and consciousness
your fiction could be my reality in an alternate dimension, what about that?
or!
what if this were the fiction??
ooh that would be a twist!!
it definitely sounds like something out a book or maybe one of those sci fi tv shows where theyre always trying to trip you up
surprise it was just a dream all along!
you know what i mean?
anyway
im aradia
if any of my friends were chosen to be told that they are actually fictional entities and now we are finally experiencing real life please let me know so we can meet up again and compare notes on our fictional existences and timelines

Comments

[allons_y_alonso]

Hello there! Brilliant to see you again, although I'm sure you won't remember me! So I suppose I ought to say good to meet you! I'm the Doctor.

No fear, though, there are plenty of people you will recognize! Karkat, Eridan, Feferi... John, Jade, Rose, Dave.. plenty of others I haven';t actually been introduced to, as well!

[callbacks]

oh hey i remember you
corpse girl
queen of the bubbles
hows it hanging

[maiditoutalive]

hi!
no i dont remember
its nice to meet you too doctor
again i guess
i am sorry i have no memory of our meeting or what we did before but i guess that must have been another fictional me
there are probably quite a lot of those
and yes that sounds like at least half of our party so thats good to hear
i suppose if i am not real everybody else should be not real too so its just a matter of finding them
wow that was a terrible sentence
but you know what i mean right?

[maiditoutalive]

hello dave
the only thing hanging appears to be the light and i would say it shows no sign of falling so its hanging quite well i would say
but if you are asking how i am the answer is just fine for the moment
maybe a bit bemused at the whole thing

[allons_y_alonso]

I know exactly what you mean!

And yes, there have been multiple versions of quite a number of people! I haven't quite adjusted to that yet; usually it's just me. But all you're really missing on my end is a tea party, and I'm sure we could have another one of those! I still have to introduce Rose to Rose, after all.

In any case, always good to see another nonhuman face on the island. Wouldn't do to let it get too provincial here.

[callbacks]

yeah which part
the yo sup youre the star of the webcomic of your life part or like
i dunno any of the million other things that can get just slightly perplexing around us people
like
why anyone would think dragging a bunch of apocalypse survivor badasses to summer camp would be a good idea

[hot4engines]

Ain't sure any of us really buy the fiction thing. But it's the only explanation we got...

I'm Kaylee ♥

[thebestseller]

Ooooh, I like the idea of the big twist being this is fiction. Except, being a writer, that would be too many metatastic layers for me. YO MR. CASTLE, WE HEARD YOU WRITE FICTION SO WE TOOK YOU OUT OF FICTION AND PUT YOU IN ANOTHER FICTION- WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER.

Makes my head spin a little.

[audio]

[tykebomb]

[there's a small, excited gasp, then a little girl's voice:]

How'd you make the letters write in a different color?!

[clearly this is the most important thing ever.]

[roseate]

Welcome back.

[maiditoutalive]

is there more than one rose?
or i should say is there more than one of my rose or more than one of an individual called rose but they are not some kind of temporal duplicates of each other
either way i think that sounds like a good idea
but i am a bit confused by what you mean by nonhuman
i assume i knew before
would you mind explaining again now?

[maiditoutalive]

i think the former more than the latter
i assume they thought dragging us here would be a good idea based on some objective criteria about badassery which by your own words we should qualify for

[maiditoutalive]

hmm
well its not a very good one is it?
my name is aradia
its nice to meet you kaylee

[allons_y_alonso]

I've got a Rose of my own! Not related to yours at all!

Although there's at least one other person here who might be. Related, I mean. Or Rose. I'm not sure.

Oh, right, not as visually obvious as it might be, I suppose. I'm not human, and most of the island is. Always refreshing to see another face from elsewhere in this big strange universe that seems to have been shrunk down to one tiny fishbowl island.

[maiditoutalive]

would that really be deeper or would that be further out?
you could add another layer and make it even more complicated!
you writing fiction is a fiction being written by another fictional author who is also fiction
somewhere i think a critic probably just died of happiness from how profound and pointlessly complex that is

[audio]

[maiditoutalive]

[Whoops hang on gotta switch to audio.]

It's in the settings, I believe? If not you could always try to code for it.

[maiditoutalive]

thank you
i think
i am glad to see you are here and hopefully doing well

[maiditoutalive]

somebody related to rose lalonde?
or secretly rose?
that just sounds more fictional by the second
like a detective novel
i didnt read many of those but for the ones i did read that sounds like it would be an important plot point

well technically
are we even from the same universe??
but i suppose it makes sense that there could be other human looking aliens
they are not so very different from trolls when it comes down to that either
or not so different as they could be

[allons_y_alonso]

Oh, well, universes. Hard to say.

Related to Rose, I think, but they look awfully alike. Seemed complicated.

[flightybro]

Another troll, huh?
You're rather calm about the how situation.

[maiditoutalive]

how we got here you mean?
i am sure there is an explanation and a way back
even if i dont know what it is yet
and what good would freaking out about it do me?

[maiditoutalive]

oh i see
its probably none of my business and i think i would rather let rose explain it to me if she feels thats a thing shed like to do
so new subject if you dont mind
are you really just called the doctor??

[allons_y_alonso]

That's me!

[fuckincakewake]

u know
for most of tehse guys coming from not our timeline
the trolls still seem to outnumber us
are we sure gneeocide wasnt a bitimeline pheneonal
ps tihs one is cute as hell

[hot4engines]

You too.

Nah, it really ain't. I like the... oh, what's it called... alternate universes thing better. I seen two women who look and sound just like me walking around here before, and that's the only logical way for that to make sense...