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[wolfishflame]

[After getting the lowdown from a rather nice lady, a very annoyed-looking young woman is staring balefully at the camera.]

Are you serious.

Are you serious.

Because people keep explaining this Life-Death-Dreaming thing to me and it sounds like bullshit. There are two planes I can be on and I’m apparently not on either of them and that is so much bullshit I have apparently been dropped into the former pasture of a hekatomb of oxen because what the hell.

Look. Look at this. [She holds up her journal with a helpful diagram of a stick figure, a vertical line, and another stick figure, and a double-sided arrow.] My soul can be Waking, or it can be Otherside, or it can occasionally be both at the same time because my life is a dumpster fire. Not this, okay? [She puts the journal down, raises her hand, and taps the labradorite ring she’s wearing.] My soul is not in a rock. Even if it’s a really pretty rock, and I know from pretty rocks.

[Frustratedly:] Like, oh my gods. Every single god I have ever met. All of them. Up to and including Inari-Ōkami. For the love of baby Jesus in his mangery crib. Put me back. I want to speak to the manager. Yeah. The spell manager.

Fix this, Obama.

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[wolfishflame]

Uhh, tall. Pale? Lots of fox tails. Foxish just in general. But I mean that's not always what they look like, I hear gods change their appearances the way we change t-shirts. That's kind of just what they're like around my friend. Who's godbothered.

[commandandcontrol]

That makes sense. [ If gods do exist, changing forms would be the easiest way to make all these contradictory stories hold true. ]

Is 'godbothered' a technical term?

[wolfishflame]

Yeah. Absolutely. Bothered by a god, godbothered. Short form.

[commandandcontrol]

You don't find that a little... disrespectful?

Shouldn't a god contacting you be something important? Something humbling?

[wolfishflame]

It is.

Until it gets annoying.

Trust me on this. Some of them are magnificent and humbling. Well, they all are, in their own ways. But they take on guises and act like total pricks. "Godbothered" is actually a nice term given how much some of them have jerked me around like I'm a freakin' cat toy.

[commandandcontrol]

How does one become 'godbothered', exactly?

How have you gotten from the sound of it, not just one, but multiple gods 'bothering' you?

[wolfishflame]

Mostly, being supremely unlucky. Or they want you to do something for them.

[Singsong:] Because my friends and I have garbage luuuuck!

[commandandcontrol]

[ Okay, that was weird. ]

Well, at least your in good spirits about it?

[wolfishflame]

[She snickers.]

Heh. Spirits. Good one.

[commandandcontrol]

[ Oh, whoops. She'll totally pretend that was on purpose. ]

Yes, haha. That's what I do. Puns and things.

[wolfishflame]

Then we are gonna get along like a house on fire.

[commandandcontrol]

[ Why did it feel like she just made a blood pact? ]

Is that an actual saying?

[wolfishflame]

Yeah. Kind of a weird saying, but I like it.

['Cause of the fire, and all.]

[commandandcontrol]

Okay. [ She's gonna assume from context that that's a good thing, but she'd like to go on record (without actually going on record) as saying that she's not down with that specific simile. ]

Well, mutually burning down house- [ Yeah, no that wasn't gonna work. ] My name is Sonja.

[wolfishflame]

Keahi.

[She's not lying, kinda! Kinda. K i n d a. If she trusts you, she'll tell you her real name eventually.]

Been here long? I'm trying to get the lie of the land. So far all I've gotten is snark from a vampire.

[commandandcontrol]

[ Hmm, she's been here for a few months now for the second time. Is that enough time to say she's been here 'awhile' without having to explain the resurrgeance, which generally comes with an additional question and answer segment? Let's say yes. ]

For a little while, yeah. Not so long as someone like Zatanna, but I mostly know my way around.

Oh, you've met Devin. [ The infuriating mixed-signal delivering vampire. ]

[wolfishflame]

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Oh, so that's his name? I've just been calling him "emo kid". Suits him better, methinks.

[commandandcontrol]

Wow, he must hate that so much.

[ Sonja just became 1000x more invested in this friendship. ]

Do you mind if I use that?

[wolfishflame]

[She grins.] Go for it. I'd love to see that spread.

[Like a terrible virus.]

[commandandcontrol]

I don't know if I could get away with actually calling him that, it's a little rude.

Even if he deserves it.

[wolfishflame]

I am a very rude person sometimes. You just gotta lean into it.