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Video UN: glyphywitchy [Back dated to May 12]

[It's been a few days since dying, and Luz had unfortunately kept this to herself. If you haven't been able to tell, this girl has been having a pretty rough month, and it didn't seem to be getting better. She lurched her device to focus, and, though coughing, was looking directly into the camera].

So. Uh. Died. First time, ha ha, not a fun experience. Kinda looking for some company, here or just on this thing otherwise. I should probably be getting rest, yes, but staring up at the ceiling regretting stuff and hating yourself can only keep out the quiet for so long.

Also, been out of the loop a bit. Someone update me on things?

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Luz was pretty sure that she was going to get an earful from people in the house, but ESPECIALLY from Ahiru, who had very much not wanted her to go on the mission. Luz had thought she could handle it and had handled somewhat similar situations before. Now, though, since they'd talked about it before, Luz knew it looked even WORSE.

Add the whole mix of self-loathing for being too weak to avoid death and the ever-present gloom of missing Fern and Varian, and Luz was pretty much a powder keg of emotions and blah. She was in her room right now, dimly lit with her purple lights and surrounded by a fort of stuffed animals and, well, Luz was a sight to see.

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[A throaty chuckle, though not as deep as usual.]

It doesn't take precognition to have seen *his* fate coming. Dare I ask, at which wrong person did he run his mouth off? [He asks with a note of schadenfreude-laden amusement.]

It may as well have had teeth. Though an interdimensional portal can snap shut on a person's torso and be just as prone to biting.

[And then he moves into the frame of the window, looking a bit different, his hair a trifle darker shade of blond and his face less chiseled-looking. He'd almost seem more human if not for his usual air of calm menace.]

[Luz sighed, nodding].

Oh, I think it was Darth Maul the first time. Why anyone would want to mouth off to him at their first meeting is beyond me, but I guess people can do stupid things right off the bat. The second time, I hear, was possessed Luna, and that was just unfortunate.

It was that quick? Jeez. But I shouldn't be surprised. That kind of thing might happen with other portals.

Hey. Are you alright? You seem...different?

He mouthed off... at Maul. My terrifying elder brother, who instills fear in me, and I've faced down zombies, along with the virus that made them as they'd become. Luna I'd met in Deerington, on the night when antlers started sprouting from our heads. I don't doubt she'd be formidable if something were to get inside her head. So that's why he was snapping at her on the network. Despite what happened, he deserved the verbal drubbing he received. [And while he wasn't part of it, he enjoyed watching that drubbing go down.]

Considering the portal was the one which Bill Cipher conned some of us into creating, it should have come as no surprise that it would turn into a trap.

[He smirks a little, wryly.] I'm find, though it seems Bausphomette, my Patron, has decided to get creative with my face and form. They chose to give me the face of another version of me, from another iteration of my world of origin, a path I could have taken if circumstances had been different. I glimpsed this face through the portal that opened.

Edited 2022-06-02 04:00 (UTC)

I never said it was smart. I've been mad at Maul, and I've said things to him, but I'd never go out of my way to make him mad. I've SEEN what he can do, heck, I've been at the receiving end of it. Never knew you could choke someone with the force, but I sure learned it that day.

[She also learned that luck was just as important as skill, as it had been with her that day].

I wouldn't face a mind altered Luna either, but to be fair, he didn't know what was going on with her or that she was nothing like that truly.

[Luz glowered here. Oh right, BILL. She'd forgotten that guy, angry as he made her].

Wow. Sounds, uh, complicated! What were you like, as that other version?

I sometimes wonder if Mr. Lawrence has any survival instinct at all. Mariana or whomever helps our squid-selves to shore will be wondering who's playing catch with her, using him as the ball. [He says this with a dangerously mischievous lilt.]

Not as intelligent as I am, or as educated. He was a CEO of that continuum's version of the pharmaceutical corporation I'd worked for as a researcher. Still as clever, though probably more aggressive, also genetically enhanced, albeit by their continuum's version of the same mutagenic agent, under a different name. [It puzzled him that the other continuum's version of Progenitor was referred to as the T-Virus, but one can't carp too much about the differences between alternate versions of one's world of origin.] In some ways, he was a worse man than I, though I suppose he wasn't granted a second chance as I was.

I'm going to guess that he figures as long as he projects himself as big no one is going to call him out on it. Clearly he hadn't lived here long enough to see a lot of us in action.

[Please no Wesker, Johnny made Luz exasperated, but never enough to want him hurt]!

Gosh, that version sounds kind of scary. Maybe it's a good thing he hasn't appeared here at all.

A second ch-oh. He died, you mean.

No, he hasn't. It wouldn't surprise me if he comes across my surgical slab at the Lumenarium someday soon, which would be the safest place for him to be. Though he might be at risk from the sharp edge of my tongue, especially if he got there due to his own stupidity. [He might lift his head slightly as if he just rolled his eyes hard.]

I would be willing to see the other two faces of me that I'd seen, but not this one. I was far from thrilled to see this one looking back from my shaving mirror.

Yer busted the mirror the moment yer saw it. That's seven years bad luck. [Cypher interjects, looking up at 'the boss', horrified.]

In my defense, I'd just woken up and I wasn't expecting the sight. In any other place, I'd be skeptical about bad luck.

You really think he'd find his way into your lab? I never figured him for doing that unless he thought he was trying to get the drop on you somehow. I figure the only way he would get in would be breaking in though.

[So yes, his own stupidity].

If he's as bad as you say, maybe I ought to be concerned. I don't want him ever tricking me into thinking he's you.

[What was that about bad luck]?

I think being here is already giving us a helping dose of bad luck, personally.

Sooner or later, most Sleepers end up at the Lumenarium, especially the more aggressive ones. It wouldn't surprise me if a friend of his hauled him in there after the next time someone attempts to teach him some etiquette for dealing with this world.

[A thoughtful pause.]

Hm. For what it's worth, it seems the scars I'd earned in this place transmit across varying forms I've taken. They are a part of who I am and who I am become. I certainly doubt he'd have this, if you figure a way to uncover it, perhaps by burning his shirt off. [Unfastening his second and third shirt buttons, he uncovers Maul's Mark of brotherhood on his upper chest.]

They do? [Luz was not aware of this, and she had actually died! News to her]!

That sounds about right.

[Luz observed his scar, and had to remind herself that she REALLY needed to sit down and talk with Wesker in detail about his whole backstory. There were still parts of it she didn't understand, like how he could have "various forms" transmitting to other places].

How did you get that, if you don't mind me asking?

If they're not injured by Beasts, they're getting into scraps with each other. Whatever the cause, I end up patching them up. If they're very lucky, I refrain from scolding them for getting into that situation.

It's my first run at clinical work. Acquiring a 'good bedside manner', as it's called, has been a process.

[He opens his shirt further, showing part of the Y-scar as well as much older mark at the base of his ribcage.]

The handprint is Maul's Mark of brotherhood: we've adopted each other, given what this world and its predecessor threw us into and the brotherhood that formed between us.

The Y-incision was cut into me by the Blood-Crazed Zealots back in November. And this scar that encircles my chest... do you recall the portal which Bill Cipher conned several Sleepers, including Dipper Pines? When everything collapsed, it closed on me hard enough to kill me. And I am incredibly hard to kill.

[Ironically, a similar fate befell the version of himself whose face and form he's wearing. Only that fate didn't involve something as incredible as an inter-dimensional gateway.]

I'd say so. That last thing I'd think I would want would be a scolding from you. But I do try to treat my own wounds, when they're small enough.

I can imagine. Not everyone has the patience or the empathy!

[Camilla dealt with animal after all, and she had to have patience there, since they didn't speak the same language to start].

Ah, I never knew that! Well. You have quite an adopted brother then, he'll keep you busy!

That... [Luz shuddered with anger, remembering that Dipper had also died that day, and she had never quite forgiven herself for that, and she knew Varian had regretted how badly things had gotten].

I remember. That was very much not a fun time.

I promise I'd keep the scolding paternal for you, whatever the circumstances. Wouldn't be a concerned uncle if I didn't get in some words of concern.

I've known Maul since Deerington, when he rescued my arrogant self twice: once when I tried going past the boundaries of the town, only for something to force me back. And a second time when I nearly froze to death finding my way to the Hotel around New Years. I owe him for that and more. He's seen me as an ally, after I took a step to balance the measure.

[A grimace of understanding crosses his face.] It wasn't. Should I ever see Bill Cipher again, as powerful as he may be, I will find a means to take him apart for what he pulled on us Sleepers. [He says this with a dangerous calm.]

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I'm fine with that! Been a while since I had paternal scolding!

[Which Luz would stay very unelaborative about].

Whoa. I remember the second one, that hotel situation. It was there where I got my first real wound, when that vampire girl bit me. I've known Darth Maul since Deerington too, although our meetings weren't always under the best cicrumstances.

[Killing her sister and Varian, almost choking her to death, running away from the monsters in his world that one month. Boy, she'd been through a lot with Darth Maul].

Let's hope we DON'T see Bill Cipher again. I have a feeling he was holding back when we dealt with him that time.

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