⓪④ ; video ; A Glimpse Into Memory Lane

[docfoul]

This is a video of a METEOR flying through space. It is not very EXCITING.

It does get a bit STRANGE when the meteor appears to flash, though, and stranger still when you notice it has STOPPED COMPLETELY IN MID-AIR, suddenly a few meters above Doc Scratch and a STUPIDLY GREEN apartment building.

The video pans down to Scratch's arms, holding a happy, cute little GRUB. And then it's OVER.

((OOC: Hey there, cast/related people! If you'd rather forbid your character from seeing this video for whatever reason, shoot me a PM and I'll get some locks in here because God knows the community is very mindful of spoilers. ouo))

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[hugmyscythe]

...Is that where youlive? [on a meteor. in a green apartment. it's a stupid question, but she asks it anyways to waste his time.]

[video forever]

[docfoul]

Yes, on the moon that orbits the planet I oversee.

[hugmyscythe]

Oversee?

[docfoul]

Alternia. I am its first guardian, that being the reason behind the powers you have seen me wield.

[hugmyscythe]

[...what powers were those again--regardless!] Such a pretty worldthat you protect...

[docfoul]

[For a moment - blink and you'll miss it - the dark surface of a planet can be seen reflected on Scratch's head.

She doesn't know what he has done to this planet, and it would make him want to laugh were he not in full control of everything he does.]

It had been ravaged by the game that the trolls played, sweeps ago. In time, the agents created by that same game have made an admirable effort to rebuild civilization.

[hugmyscythe]

Such life is a cycle. [mayybe a little bit envious. her own world doesn't change except for the passing thoughts of the dead. to destroy, to rebuild--these are two things her world will truly never have, so long as everything is an illusion created by their memories]

[docfoul]

A cycle, indeed. One spanning not only this planet, but many universes. Alas, your world is not covered by it.

[hugmyscythe]

...No, I would not think it would.

[docfoul]

Between you and I, you might very well be better off that way, my dear.

[hugmyscythe]

And why isthat?

[docfoul]

You get to avoid the more unpleasant parts of the cycle.

[hugmyscythe]

[she understands.] ...And what of you?

Is it not unpleasant for

you, or are youomitted,being a guardian?

[docfoul]

No. When the universe dies, so will I. But I am okay with that. I have done nearly everything I wanted to.

[hugmyscythe]

...And is the converse true?[meaning if he dies, the universe dies]

[docfoul]

Not quite. The events coincide, but one does not depend on the other.

[hugmyscythe]

He he he. Am I to assume that...

the universe to which you are attached

has no other to fall to, should you perish?

[docfoul]

Correct.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

It's always small children with you, isn't it.

[docfoul]

What are you implying?

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Not only are you a smuggy cueball who preys on the innocent with misdirection, but you do it with people too young to know how to work around it and you then kidnap them and make them your slaves. I'd go "nice work with your evil" if you weren't such a lazy bum who can't be bothered to fight adults!

[docfoul]

What baseless accusations. As things stood at the moment of that video, I was the most fit person to look after that defenseless grub.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

No bug-people orphanages? Also, I could totally raise her better than you can.

[docfoul]

You are still ignorant to a plethora of fundamental facts. Let me begin to enlighten you: I live many sweeps in the future. Alternia has long since been ravaged by Skaia's meteors.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

So, other than you, what other sentient living beings exist at that point in time?

[docfoul]

Mainly, there are some exiled agents of Derse, and some more of my master's cohorts.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Tell me about the agents from Derse. Spare no details.

[docfoul]

They once served the dark kingdom. But they rebelled and, in time, have been exiled. Together, the four of them rebuilt the extinct Alternian society. The Black Queen was exiled, as well. But she did not join them. They were traitors, after all.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

What's the Dark Kingdom? Why did they fight the Queen?

[docfoul]

Derse is the Dark Kingdom - in opposition to Prospit, the Light Kingdom. In every instance, that is simply what the archagent Jack Noir is inclined to do. Or, if you prefer, because she is a huge bitch, bluh bluh.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Everyone from your universe is so catchy. How do they do it?

[docfoul]

That is a silly and irrelevant question.

[Also answering it would require talking about the ridiculous follies of the man on the other side of the fifth wall.]

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Tell meeeeeeee.

[docfoul]

How do you expect me to answer? I did not create them.