USER: #DC143C - QUESTION FOR EVERYONE

[lonered]

[ USER: #DC143C ]

Hey. So...

...

Question for anyone. Or for everyone I guess.

How sure are you that you're still alive? Back where you're from I mean.

Like on a scale from 1 to 10. Where 1 is "I definitely died" and 10 is "I'm definitely still alive" and everything in between.

Thanks in advance. I know it's a weird question. I just... I gotta know.



[He's asked some folks, but the results so far are mixed. And Keith needs to figure out one way or another if this is just some weird unexpected afterlife, and he's at a solid 2.5 on his own scale so he's wondering.]

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[lonered]

Yeah. Guess we're starting with a baseline level of messed up already.

Yeah, most people think they're alive. Which is great, really. Kind of what I was hoping to hear.

What do you mean hard to kill?

[satanslash]

and like no information to go off of either what, were you expecting people to be like dead-dead? uh well if im being compeltely honest and i dont really see a reason to lie at this point im a demon? well half demon

[lonered]

Possibly. That was the point of the question.

Oh. Huh.

I didn't know demons were something real.

[But given that Keith recently found out he's half alien, he can't start claiming impossible or disbelief now.]

[satanslash]

[Huh. He didn't even consider that a possibility. This being some sort of weird unexpected afterlife. He doesn't think it is, though, since as he mentioned he was alive last he recalled and the chances of him dying right then were very slim.] where im from it is im even training to be ... well. i was. training to be an exorcist. anyway i learned pretty fast when i got here that everyone is from different... worlds i guess? or versions of things? idk. ochako-chan said she was from japan but people there had 'quirks' or something like that? but im from japan and all i know about is demons

[lonered]

Yeah. Seems like everyone is from different realities in one way or another. The Earth I know isn't the Earth a lot of other people seem to know at all.

If you're from Japan, you're from some Earth or another. My Earth doesn't have demons --
as far as I know. I mean I guess some people believe in those sorts of things.

[satanslash]

demons kinda became public info recently some people knew about exorcists and demons before that [It was really jarring, that moment when people around him on the street he'd been walking down suddenly began getting demon wounds and could see them. And the announcement from Mephisto being broadcast on television... God, things had gone from bad to worse to fucking terrible so fast. Think of something else. Better to be distracted than go crazy trying to figure out what to do about Yukio and everything happening back home.] sooooo what is your earth like?

[lonered]

Yeah definitely not my Earth then. Unless it happened after I left it. Guess it's been a while since I've been back.

[But really they have enough to worry about with hostile aliens never mind with demons.]

Well. To me it's normal. No demons or anything.
Our space travel gets us to the edge of our solar systems.

Oh and we're not being invaded by hostile aliens yet, but we're really close if the war doesn't keep turning for the better.

[satanslash]

[Yeah no, don't add demons to your problems, Keith. It's not fun. Satan is, frankly, a dick. And his demon king sons aren't much better.] whoa what space travel? like space space? more than just some dudes going to the moon forever ago? [It was the 60's, Rin...]

[lonered]

Humans have managed to get to the edge of the solar system, to Kerberos. Pluto's moon.

A lot of alien civilizations' technology makes that look like nothing.

[satanslash]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat [Rin.exe has stopped working.]

[lonered]

Umm. Is that about the alien part? Or the Kerberos part?

[satanslash]

uh like like ALL of it i we hvent een made it to uh like mars? at least with people theres that sad rover thing that sings happy birthday to itself aloe every year but it went up there when i was still little i think????? like like seriously thats holy shit thats crazy CRAZY demons can suck it i wanna meet an alien!

[lonered]

Oh yeah, that was... that was a while ago. Like, way before I was born.

...

You might not really want to. Some of them are terrible... invading and destroying planets, enslaving entire civilizations. Others are pretty great though.

[satanslash]

ha im older than you

wait if thats the case then im probably like ancient when you were born

... whatever iunno how time works

[Rin is uh.

Rin is not very smart.]

hry a lotta demons are terrible too but theres good ones

i mean i try to be a good one and i know a lot of people's familiars that are good so why cant there be good aliens too?

i still wanna meet one

[Priorities...]

[lonered]

I mean technically, I guess yeah. But actually or not, who knows.

You're a demon?

[HUH. That actually makes him feel like it's okay to say what he says next,]

Oh there are good aliens. Lots of them. It's only the Galra Empire really. And even then, there are Galra who fight against the empire and fight for freedom. They're good people.

...I mean, I'm half Galra, so you've half met one at least?

[satanslash]

yeah not that i learned about it until last year so that was a thing [And his adopted dad died for it, but. Details.] wait seriously?? dude cool! Galra is a type of alien?

[lonered]

Yeah, I know how that goes. I never knew I was anything but human until recently.

Kind of throws you for a loop, right?

[This is weird common ground. How is this common ground?]

Yeah, Galra are a type of alien.

[satanslash]

getting a tail was probably the worst part [Apparently whatever cosmic powers that be decided to bring the multiverse's odd balls together.] so like tell me if im being an ass for asking this but are galra or any others like how people always claim they are? the big heads gray bodies giant black eyes ET shit i mean

[lonered]

No, not at all. I've never met any aliens that look like that.

Galra are humanoid, but purple. Large pointed ears. Fangs. Markings. Claws. They're bigger than humans too.

Alteans look a lot like humans, but with pointed ears and face markings.

Others don't look human at all. But none of them look like the gray big-eyed ones.

[satanslash]

honestly? kinda glad. those things are creepy altens kinda sound like when demons possess humans i actually have pointed ears from when my powers got unsealed. and fangs. which were really hard to get used to. [Also Galra sort of remind him of Kuro for some reason? But he's not going to make a 'you sound like my cat' comparison when he's talking to... half of one? Something like that.]

[lonered]

Yeah. Agreed.

And huh. So your physical self actually changed? That's interesting.

I look completely human. But I can operate Galra technology, which means there's Galra blood in me for certain.

[satanslash]

yeah my brother looks completely human [And he's just casually not going to mention anything about the recent Satan possession because he honestly doesn't even know fully what's going on there, just that Yukio is in a lot of trouble back home.] i know a few demons who have vessels that have the ears and teeth and i think tails they hide? but they can also change between other forms pretty easily? me, i have to use a sword to get to the rest of my power i also know someone who has demon blood but its so far back in her family that she looks compeltely normal you dont know why you have it?

[lonered]

Huh. That's interesting.

[And then well, that question. Keith has theories at best right now.]

As best as I can figure, I think my mother was Galra. She left before I have any memory of her. And she's the one who left me the Galra blade I carry. My dad never mentioned the whole alien detail though, so I don't know for sure.

[satanslash]

oh huh its the opposite for me "dad" is-- actually is religion even a thing in your version of earth? [Weird veering off of the subject, but he has a reason for that]

[lonered]

[Where is this conversation going? Well Keith is curious enough to let it play out anyway.]

I mean, yeah. There's religion. All sorts.