un | eggplantavenger

[notreallyrobin]

hey uh
i bet you all get this a lot, but, uh, am i dead? like, straight up dead? is this purgatory?
because i really messed up and think i died and then i woke up in the hospital here and its all really
uh
a lot

and im kind of freaking out

ok yeah i guess i was about to die. and they explained all that but does that mean like, the me back home is dead??? or does that me just not exist anymore??????

(lowkey i still think this might be purgatory. if it was heaven i would have my own room.)

[ Gee. Stream-of-consciousness sure is easy when you're speaking to the void. But hey. It's better than staying in her bunk and going nuts alone. ]

ugh ok anyway someone distract me from existential bullshit
whats your favorite animal and why. best answer becomes my purgatory bff

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@just.marco; text

[brightline]

totally not purgatory, and you're not dead.

but freaking out is totally normal. just take some deep breaths, it'll pass.

far as I can tell, the you back home probably died. sorry about that. I can't say for sure sure because I'm not like, a scientist, but I figure I was about to die back home too and I'm sure not going back to find out.

anyway, favorite animal: gorilla. because they are chill and calm but can totally bench press a truck.

[notreallyrobin]

so the me back home is dead
that's messed up i mean

ok
uh

anyway that's rad. i think there are some evil gorillas back home but ive never met them
im sure there are also some nice gorillas out there too
i have also never met them!

text, @hiccup

[thisisamazing]

This isn't purgatory. I'm pretty sure I'm alive. You aren't dead, not here anyway. As for back home, I guess it's hard to say? They say if you go back through the portal, you return to the exact moment you came from. I didn't ask what happens if you never go back.

Favorite animal, though. Dragons are the best, hands down.

[notreallyrobin]

i dont think i want to go back then

dragons are real where youre from? thats cool i guess
what are they like

[ text | un: jkent ]

[supersweet]

Do you want some company?

[notreallyrobin]

i dunno
i'm kind of processing like a lot right now

whats your favorite animal

@thunderbird, text

[tanker]

as far as I'm aware, you're alive. I don't know about the you, back home. It's possible that if you go back, you'll be in the same situation you just left.

Wouldn't say it's purgatory, either. Mainly because I don't believe in it, so I'd rather not be in it, you know?

favorite animal... the platypus. because what isn't awesome about them?

[notreallyrobin]

yeah ok im not gonna go back then
lets just say it was not a great situation

whats the plural of platypus anyway?? whatever it is theyre pretty cool

text; un: worstwitch

[bastardofipswich]

sorry what's that?
i don't speak ghost

[notreallyrobin]

i think you might be a jerk
call it a hunch
favorite animal or bust, bucko

text; un: trueheir

[sonofab]

Very chatty for a ghost.
Bat-Dragon for a favorite animal. They're loyal, can fly and are good companions. Bats are a close second.
Also, you're not dead, so stop panicking.

[notreallyrobin]

youre the second person to mention dragons, are they real here or something?

i like bats too. i used to like them a whole lot more though

Text; @un:redbird

[timmers]

[Tim glances at the username as he scrolls. Now there's a color he hasn't heard of in a while. It makes him smile, a bit. He can almost hear it in Steph's voice.]

Deep breaths. Depends on who you ask, but could be worse. I mean: what if you had your own room, but it was just you, forever?

We seem to pretty much still exist, just that time is malleable, so if we get back it'll be like we never left.

[As for the question--tongue in cheek.]

Robins.

[ooc: im dying from work rn but wanted to get a tag in for a starter. :')]

[notreallyrobin]

that would also suck.

i mean. i dont want to go back. i messed up a lot.

[ Wait. Robins? Is this person messing with her? There's no way they could know who she is. ]

why robins??

id: νερό

[aequoreal]

I doubt it is purgatory, or any sort of afterlife.

[ but, ah. ] My condolences, regardless.

My favourite animals are dolphins. Because of their intelligence and because they always look like they are smiling. [ and he wouldn't ordinarily have added the latter part, but it sounds like perhaps she needs the distraction more than he needs to keep quiet about smiling dolphins. ]

[notreallyrobin]

thanks.

oh, dolphins are cute. they do look like they're smiling! ive never seen one where im from, though. gotham isnt exactly nice enough for dolphins, and i think theyre tropical or something

text; @hofferson

[stormflit]

[ She can't answer the whole purgatory/death thing. Astrid knows she's alive, but how the whole portal thing works is beyond her.

But she can do distraction. ]

Dragons. Do I need a why?

[notreallyrobin]

straight up you are the third person to say dragons
you guys win i get it

unless ur the same person with three accounts
then you suck

text | @arcarius

[angelic_archer]

Why do you think you have to have died because you were dying in your reality?

I don't know what purgatory is like, but I know this isn't hell.

[notreallyrobin]

why wouldn't i be dead i was like

pretty dying back there
like
no way i was gettin outta that one to be honest

un: wolfgirl579 -- text

[luckyescape]

DOGS ARE THE BEST! Anything in the canine family really.

[notreallyrobin]

ooh i like dogs
do youhave a favorite breed? or just. dog.

Voice - un: lolococo416

[threatenwithcuteness]

Um... that's a really weird first thought, like the whole moon in another dimension thing is weird, but not dead. Maybe almost dead? Mostly dead?

I dunno, but if you were dead you're not dead now. Even if we were all dead that's a super depressing way to look at all of this. It's better to just think you're alive and work from there.

*Her tone shifts from a confused boredom to a very energetic upbeat tone as to the last question.*

Bunnies are just the cutest, that's my answer.

[notreallyrobin]

ok maybe youre right that its depressing but i just got here so like
cut me some slack

ok what color of bunny is best then
ive never met one in real life before

[text | un: flamel]

[alchemyfreak]

Trust me, this place is nothing like Purgatory.

I've heard your timeline pretty much stops when you show up here. So there isn't really a you back home, I guess.

Never really thought about a favorite animal.

[notreallyrobin]

thats weird. i mean. i guess it would be cool to think about the world stopping for me, but im not super important! its not realistic

seriously?? favorite animals are super basic. you have to have one!

@South.Of.Nowhere

[whosthemonsternow]

I was shot in the face and died but woke up here so. Kinda both probably? Dead and alive.

Helpful, I know. The at home you is proooobably dead as hell, but this place is pretty great once you get over the 'holy fuck I'm dead but not dead but not a zombie or a Jesus so what the fuck' part of things.

Also, you can get your own place eventually. I was in the guard barracks for a while, not bad, only one roomie at most, but you gotta be a guard to get in there I think.

Also best animal is either a coyote or hyena if you go by Earth animals.

[notreallyrobin]

yeesh thats rough

i got tortured to death
not to say that i win or anything
just saying

jokes in poor taste aside, uh
i guess i hafta get a job to do that, which is weird. get my own place i mean

hyenas and coyotes are cool. what other kinds of animals are there
are you an alien?

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[onlydoubts]

I don't think it matters if you're dead back home, you're alive here. Somehow.

I don't get it either.

And I'm not sure I have a favorite animal.

[notreallyrobin]

well, cool. all us dead folks should start a club

come on you went to elementary school right!!! youve gotta have a favorite animal

text | @minsu

[foxtrots]

pinch yourself. if it hurts, you're still alive.

[technically, that's more of an "awake or dreaming" thing. but he's pretty sure it would work for this too.]

[notreallyrobin]

ow...that was rude, you made me pinch myself!