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[So the video opens with Shiro sitting in his room, trying to shift the camera and seeming to have some trouble there. Was it Shiro? Some people might question that given the fact that his hair is entirely white now]

So I got one of those canisters. You know one of the ones that gives people new memories. It seems to have made a few... changes to say the least.

[He adjusted the view to temporarily show his right arm... or what would have been his right arm, now a metal stump cut off at the bicep. After a moment, he brings the camera back to his face]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around everything I've found out, but in the meantime, I'm pretty much stuck here in the house. Dog who won't let me out of his sight and a robot lion who also won't let me out of his sight.

So if you don't see me around for a few days, that's why.

[ooc: Shiro has now been canon updated to the end of season 6]

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...Did your canister just add like, a hundred years to you or something?

Edited 2018-09-04 01:01 (UTC)

[Oh good. She already thought he was old before]

No, not really. Physically I might even be younger, it's hard to tell.

A lot of things happened and I think my hair turned white because of Altean magic.

You look super tired, old tired.

*Lola's so helpful.*

At least you could like dye it something new really easy now?

[Thanks Lola, this conversation is so helpful]

Super tired about describes it, but what do you expect when you find out you've been dead, trapped in the Black Lion's consciousness only to be put into the body of a clone.

I could if I wanted to.

Wait, does that mean your in a whole new body now?

*What? That's what she got out of that!*

I mean, being dead means tired is like, not that big a deal. Totally reasonable with all of that.

Yes, I am in a whole new body. I'm not sure how they managed it here though...

Tired and living is a better alternative to being stuck inside the Black Lion indefinitely. I'll take being tired.

That's like, weird. Even given what I know about your universe that's weird.

But like, aren't the lions suppose to be big enough to live in?

*Not getting what he means there.*

It is. I didn't... think they could do that.

I died back home. I had no body left. The Black Lion saved my consciousness by pulling it into his own. I wasn't physically inside the lion. I was in a space that the lion is able to create. Which was... nothing.

So... you're a ghost?

*Lola!*

[No... that's not exactly right, but it probably wasn't completely wrong either...]

Yes, yes, I'm a ghost. This is all a figment of your imagination.

[From somewhere off view of the camera, Black grumbles at Shiro. You're tired, Shiro, but don't be a brat!]

Maybe I was technically a ghost or that's the best way to explain it, but I am in a body so I'm not a ghost.

*She's rolling her eyes. You might hear it in her voice.*

Why would I imagine you as a blonde?

So you lost your body, got trapped inside the mind of a giant robot lion, and now you're in a body but it wasn't your body but those were memories but the capsule made you... this. And you lost your arm somewhere in all of that but with all the dying and ghostiness and undying it wasn't really a priority anymore...

Do I have it right?

I don't know. Because I've never been blond.

Yeah... that sounds about right.

Also I had to lose my arm because it was being used to control my clone.

But that's so boring, I've imagined the white tuft being glowy blue to match Black.

*What? That's totally normal to imagine!*

...Was your arm, like, always evil? Should we be worried it did things?

I don't have much interesting dying my hair. Besides, how would it get to be glowy like Black.

I don't know. At least I don't think so. I mean, it was probably spying on me back home at least, but I was in control otherwise. Then again nothing like this happened back home to me. Zarkon's witch was trying to control me and succeeded.

I dunno, but my hair changes color. It has to be possible right?

Are you messing with me again? There are space witches?

*He started screwing with her before and that sounded especially weird.*

I guess, but my hair shouldn't be changing colors. I know it did, but I can't make it do that.

No, I'm not messing with you. There's one witch, but she has a team of druids who are almost as bad as her.

Yes, but you could always find a way to make it happen here. You'll look less old.

And I have some skin creams that might make you look less tired.

Your universe is super complicated and I'm glad I don't have to deal with that.

What if I don't care about the fact that my hair is white? I'm not that old.

Sleep will also help with that.

Yeah... it is. I guess in someways it is good that you don't have to deal with it. It gets weird sometimes.

But it's so... boring. You could do so much with it!

*White hair is a blank canvas of opportunities.*

'Sometimes?' All I ever here is weirdness. The lions are cute but I don't wanna be trapped in ones brain or whatever.

[Boy, don't say that to Allura]

I could, but odd colors aren't my style so I don't know what else I'd do other than dye it black.

To be fair, I didn't exactly either. It was like being trapped in space... only you weren't. There was like standing on an observation deck looking out with no way out.

If it wasn't for the evil arm clone space lion thing you'd be really boring.

*Subtle, Lola.*

...That's terrifying and sounds really lonely.

[What an odd way to kick him when he's down...]

It was. Both lonely and terrifying. I was basically alone though I knew what the Black Lion was seeing. But even though I could, I wasn't able to speak to anyone. I almost reached Lance once but the connection was gone before I could explain.

*Not her fault he's boring.*

That- yeah, that's sorta what all my nightmares are like.

Without giant robot lions.

Or evil clones. Or evil arms.

But the rest of it.

I'd be worried if your nightmares did include evil clones or prosthetic arms. That would be too much of a coincidence.

[He's not boring; just not her variety of exciting. It's his story and he's sticking to it]

I've been a bitchy mean version of myself before. I hated her. If I had nightmares about that it'd make total sense.

*Suuure, whatever you say.*

[Uh... okay. If you say so]

How did you become a mean version of yourself?

[Going to refrain from pointing out she called him boring because he doesn't want to dye his hair funny colors...]

*Don't mind if Lola's response is choppy, like she both doesn't want to say it, but feels it's the best way to explain herself. She's clearly leaving out details, but trying to leave in as much as she can.*

Um, there was a thing, it made everyone's timelines go all screwy. Some people got younger, or older, or something in their past changed.

My past changed, I grew up into a different person. She was super smart, studied all the time, and hated everyone. She didn't wear colors, barely washed her hair, and generally just- like, wasn't a good person.

[Some of that he wonders how that makes her a bad person, but he has a feeling she's also no saying everything based on how broken up her explanation is. Either way, it wasn't his to discount her feelings about this alternate version of herself]

I'm sorry to hear that. At least things got better?

Yeah! The whatever it was ended, I turned back into me, and I just have a lot of really complicated memories of someone else in my head. Someone who never lived, a ghost who never was.

*Complicated memories of how Dolores hated cute, pink, the nickname 'Lola.' Her friends, how she can be 'happy.' It's not Lola's favorite thing in her head.*

I guess I'm not as normal as when I got here...

You say my world is weird. That's not something I've heard of happening back home.

I guess we both have pretty strange home lives.

I guess if this is home now, my home life is pretty weird.

But where I'm from I just had to worry about boy drama, friend drama, and that abortion one time.

I think everyone's lives are pretty weird thanks to this place.

[Boy, the more he learns about her... He's not sure he has the mental capacity to ask about that last one. And its really not his place even if she volunteered. So he's going to leave it alone]

But your life was hardly boring at home.

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