@eddie; text

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[The post is in text, because he can't imagine trying to discuss this with words or, even less, video. He's not really prepared for that. But he needs to ask.]

I know this is kind of a sensitive topic, but hopefully it's not too much to ask.

Did anyone else here die right before they arrived?

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[dust_of_life]

Do you mind if I ask how it happened?

> private (cw: suicide)

[causational]

It's really complicated. Possibly not terribly believable.

[dust_of_life]

We've been kidnapped by a wormhole

I'll believe anything

Unless you tell me you're a Kenyan prince who will give me your fortune and make my penis bigger

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Haha, no, definitely not.

My descendant came back in time and started attacking my friends and my fiancée because he hates my friend, who is in love with my fiancée. We couldn't stop him, he had some kind of superpower, and he started talking about how he was going to kill everyone in the room. Everyone I love.

So I shot myself. My descendant. No me, no him.

[dust_of_life]

[Fatima might be a little slow to respond. But in all fairness, that's quite the story.]

That's a lot to parse out

Let's start with...badass

[causational]

It's a lot even if you were there.

And haha, I guess.

[dust_of_life]

[The admiration is deep, it really is. Fatima's all about defiant acts of bravery. Even if this story still makes no sense.]

Really

That's an incredible sort of sacrifice to make

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If I hadn't, he would've killed all of them. I would've been left alone. He couldn't kill me without killing himself, so.

I don't know. It didn't seem like there was any question about what I should do.

[dust_of_life]

You know what that makes you, right?

A Big Damn Hero

[causational]

I guess that's what I was going for. I really didn't expect to have to deal with the fallout, though.

[dust_of_life]

Well, logically, should there BE fallout?

...no offense

[causational]

There wasn't supposed to be. Dead is dead, where I come from. It's sort of a case of not being sure how to deal with BEING dead.

[dust_of_life]

Well, not that I'm qualified to give advice here but, if it were me, I'd overcompensate

[causational]

Overcompensate? How?

[dust_of_life]

Go all out

Do everything that was ever on any kind of bucket list

[causational]

You know, that's actually a really great way of looking at it.

Some of them definitely won't work out here, though. But you know, some of them will.

[dust_of_life]

Hell, do stuff on MY bucket list, if yours isn't working

Just live it up

[causational]

You'll have to tell me more about your bucket list. :)

[dust_of_life]

Well, the top of the list is wearing D&G, but I don't know if you have the legs for it, seeing as I don't know what you look like

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Does the cologne count?

[dust_of_life]

Cheating!

1/2

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I definitely could NOT pull off a dress, that's for sure.

2/2

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1/2

[dust_of_life]

[Oh. Wow. He's hot. Fatima's already reaching for her lipstick and contour. There's no way she can measure up to that. But it's not in her nature to be out-hottied.]

No, I'm not sure about a dress with those shoulders.

2/2

[dust_of_life]