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fiammetta - old lady
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[ elysium your sickness ]

Getting a feel for this place. Thought there might be something here that would tell us where we are.

[ but instead it's just cats for days ]

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[ THIS IS NOT HIS SICKNESS THIS IS JUST THE BLUNT TRAUMA TO THE HEAD

but i really just nonconned hak into being here and then asked you what he was doing. tears up ]

Lemme guess. No luck. But I wouldn't be surprised if something came up tonight—that feels like it'd be on brand for it.

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[ it can be both? anyway it's fine, you know you can do whatever to me and i will not care ]

Tonight? [ looks up from where he's giving one of the cats some chin scritches. ] Why tonight?

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Doesn't this look like the kind of place ghosts and spirits would show up?

[ oooOoooo… ]

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[ .... ]

I don't believe in ghosts.

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That's how you ask for trouble.

[ Stares at. ]

Did you believe in purgatory before this?

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[ i can't believe you're making me think about theistic beliefs in ye olde fantasy asia. ]

Not really. Never really thought about what would happen after I died.

[ no use in worrying over something he doesn't have the power to change. ]

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[ wow i am now being sandwiched by soo-won… cute ]

So you can't discount the possibility! It wouldn't even be the strangest thing that's happened to us, would it? Apparently I've got a doppelganger out there.

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[ is hak smart enough to know what the term doppelganger is....i say no. ]

A what?

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[ you would do this to me

phone tags ]

There's someone out there running around besmriching my good name. Or, they were.

They're apparently dead now. Who knows where they came from, though? Or if there are others? I don't think anyone with proper eyes would be fooled. How do you come up with a perfect replication of someone like me? It's impossible.

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[ i see the war of the phone tags has begun






also. why does this guy sound exactly like jae-ha. it's giving him the creeps. ]

Yeah. There's no way anyone would want another copy of you.

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[ photoshops ely onto your one icon of him and jae-ha ]






It's true. Imagine the overstimulation.

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[ imagines it





makes a face. ]

I hope the cats eat you.

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I'm dead

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IS THIS A TAG OR ARE YOU REPLYING TO THE ICON

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You're really trying to kill a corpse that's already dead I'm in tears

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go to bed

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Don't hate me for the truth!

[ but also ]

You're going to make them do your dirty work like that?

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It's called delegation.

[ we love efficiency!!!!!! ]

Besides, it's not dirty work if they want to eat you.

[ the cats.....they approacheth again.... ]

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It's called abandonment!

[ Your last icon gave me the idea so now he's clinging to Hak's ankle. Fun. ]

I'll take you down with me.

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[ immediately tries to shove ely off. i'm not photoshopping this icon though. ]

Is that what happened to the last guy? [ raf. ] He abandoned you too? I can see why.

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[ we can't allow the full erasure of jae-ha it's true ]

We agreed we needed time to process. [ This sounds so bad out of context. ] Nevermind that! They're coming after me again—! Help!

[ by that it's just a cat putting a paw on his leg

But still. The situation can escalate at any given moment… they are so outnumbered… ]

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[ immediately assigns ely and raf as dating. sorry to thorns.

but, well, there's one easy solution to their problem. if this guy is fine enough to throw dramatic fits then he is fine enough to be left alone.



hak gets up and leaves. there may be a cat attached to his pant leg but it's fine. i free us both. ]

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[ He dies for real. May Hak live with this death on his hands. ]

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[ he has already forgotten who elysium is ]