❝So hand me that remote❞

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Characters: Willow (guiltapalooza) and you! OPEN.
Setting: The media level.
Format: Action tags preferably, but I can prose if you wish!
Summary: Willow has way more free time than she's used to, especially without school to be a perfectionist over. She finds herself watching a lot of movies. Feel free to make multi-character threads and join existing ones, by the way!
Warnings: None.

[At the moment Willow is watching Zombieland, a movie right up her alley but from several years past her time, so she'd never had a chance to see it before. She's sitting on a couch across from the TV, hand in a bowl of chips and giggling periodically.

On the screen, there's a college-aged boy with poofy, curly hair running hurriedly away from a zombie co-ed with a broken ankle.] You just can't trust anyone, [says the narration.] The first girl I let into my life and she tries to eat me.

[Goddess, does that remind her of Xander. For once it's a happy reminder, though, and she practically chokes on some chips laughing at it. Him and that preying mantis teacher...

Follow the sounds of giggling and come interrupt her?]

Comments

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He did sound a little begrudging, like he was embarrassed about it? It probably was pretty recent.

[verymuchalive]

Maybe. Or maybe that's just Sollux being Sollux. I'll ask him about it at some point but I'm not overly concerned. Not unless Eridan goes too far or anything.

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You guys are really close, aren't you? How long have you been together?

[Yup, time to gossip about Aradia's relationship instead of Willow's.]

[verymuchalive]

[And there's that slight blush again because really, Aradia's never really suited the spotlight at least as far as she's concerned]

It's kind of difficult to say, really. We'd been close for a while before Vriska manipulated him into killing me but after that we kind of drifted apart...not because I blamed him for what happened. I knew he wouldn't do that sort of thing unprompted. But after I died I was a very different person, and then SGRUB happened and the thing with Equius...it's only since I arrived here that we've really been able to focus on being matesprits again.

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[Vriska did what? Not the Vriska she'd run into, obviously-- she was too much older. But Willow files that fact away with sharp eyes. That isn't the kind of habit someone just grows out of right away; she'd know better than anyone.]

Death changes people, [she agrees, forcing down her feelings on what it'd done to Buffy.] I'm happy for you, that you get a chance to be with him again. End of the world stuff always gets in the way of romance. It's a bummer.

[verymuchalive]

[She smiles]

It does rather cause complications. That's one good thing about being here, we don't have to worry about the game. Okay so there are monsters but those aren't such a big deal.

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Big difference, [she agrees fervently.] The monsters seem like normal to me; I wouldn't know what to do without them.

But as long as the world isn't ending, it's not really so bad. I just wish I knew my friends were alright.

[verymuchalive]

[She nods, her expression sympathetic. It was easy to forget, with so many versions of so many trolls around, that not everyone had others from their world here]

Maybe they'll still turn up. And if they're not here it probably means their version of your world is okay.

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I'm... not so sure about that. [She's reluctant to voice this, as if somehow it'd make it more real, but Willow pushes through and says it.] I left them in a bad situation, and our world's kind of, well, always going through some potential apocalypse or another.

But they might turn up, yeah. Heck, I'd even take Anya at this point.

[verymuchalive]

You can't help when you were brought here. And it sounds like you at least know how to handle an apocalypse or two.

[But oh hey topic change]

Who's Anya?

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We are old hats at apocalypting, so I guess I shouldn't be too worried.

--Oh, Anya is Xander's... [Wait.] She's his something. I don't actually know if they're dating right now or not. I guess in troll terms you could say that she's my moirail's ex-matesprit who used to be a vengeance demon, and then was a human, and now I think she's a vengeance demon again.

[And trolls kept telling her that human romance was simple. Sheesh, they'd clearly never been to Sunnydale.]

[verymuchalive]

[Yeah, Aradia's going to just stare a little here. She gets the moirail's ex-matesprit, that's not the problem, it's the rest of that sentence]

What's a vengeance demon?

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[Whoops, forgot for a second that Aradia wasn't used to Hellmouth-level shenanigans. It was a special kind of soap opera.]

It's someone that used to be human a long time ago, but got offered a job as an immortal demon to carry out vengeance wishes. So like, if I was wronged somehow and I wanted revenge, and I said "I wish he would blah blah blah", a vengeance demon that thought I was in the right would go carry it out.

It's a little, uh, graphic.

[verymuchalive]

Oh. I guess it's probably a good job we don't have those. We get into enough trouble getting revenge on each other without getting demons involved.

[Most matter of fact delivery possible]

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Well, humans aren't supposed to get revenge on each other. Perpetuating that much negativity does bad things to us, and it ends up kinda... twisted and not of the good.

So vengeance demons are morally ambiguous by human standards, because they help that along, but they also prevent them from doing it themselves in the first place.

[verymuchalive]

Huh. Then perhaps they would have been useful after all. It's not as though the cycle of revenge we had led to much that could be considered good.

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I'm not surprised. I didn't want to say anything, cause, I think it's a cultural thing? But I can't imagine anything good comes of revenge. However satisfying it is at the time.

[verymuchalive]

Well, for something that started with Tavros being manipulated into jumping off a cliff, it ended up with one haunting, one half-blinding and lost limb, one full blinding and two deaths so I think it's fair to say there was plenty of bad. But then...I don't know. Terezi seems happy enough and Vriska's death led to her becoming God Tier so maybe there was some good.

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What? [Horrified look.]

Maybe it's short-sighted of me, but I don't think the good makes up for the bad, there. Can't we just have-- good and no bad? Can't that ever happen?

[verymuchalive]

That would be nice, but I think the bad has to happen to make way for the good. Kind of like how Alternia had to be destroyed so we could make the new world.

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... I guess. [She looks reluctant, though.]

I still prefer my way of doing things. I'm tired of having to go through all the, the death and mayhem in order to come out the other side. Sometimes I want to go on the tea cups instead of through the haunted house, you know?

[verymuchalive]

[She shakes her head]

Not really, but I think I get it. Sometimes it would be nice for things to just be straightforward and less imminent death all the time. Which I guess is something for this place.

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Yeah, we still have imminent death, but it's a lot less... imminent. Which, hey, I'll take and be happy with! Improvement by degrees is still improvement.

Back when I left the death was very imminent.

[verymuchalive]

Oh, really? I'm not sure how imminent it was when I left...but this seems a lot more interesting than waiting around by the Green Sun.

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It must be, because we have movies!

... Which we've been ignoring. Maybe I should rewind it, [she suggests sheepishly.]