Don't scoff. I wanted to be sure you weren't a demon or something else and I classified you incorrectly. [ damn, excuse them. ] Were your powers from before you were a ghost? Or was that a side-effect?
Uh huh. [ yeah, this is really in the tone of "okay edgelord." ] So what kind of powers did the demon-in-a-ghost-suit have before? What were you doing before?
[ you're doing this just to make me, lisa, wither into dust while i look up every goddamn ghost power ]
Flight, intangibility, invisibility, strength, nigh-invulnerability, manipulation of the body and shapeshifting, ectoplasmic blasts and constructs, possession, ability to sense other ghosts, telekinesis, duplication, and my personal favorite: something I like to call my Ghostly Wail.
zuriel listens to this, and they consider it for a moment before there's a little huff. ]
So the minimum for ghosts. I see. I suppose it would feel jarring to suddenly be reduced to the status of mere mortals. [ this is giving such "teenage boy trying to flex" energy and they are so used to that (unfortunately) that this is how they're choosing to have this conversation. ]
But you weren't always a ghost. Do you remember the before?
No, not the minimum. Half of those are unusual--and in combination, only I could do all of it. [ because of course this loser has to correct ppl about his power levels ]
...but yes, I do remember being human before that.
Funny you should use that word; they were both half-ghost hybrids themselves. The ghost got ripped out of one, which then ripped the ghost out of the other one, they combined into one, and I was the result.
And here you are. [ they are both a little confused and lowkey fascinated by this, sorry. ]
I'm going to guess it's not entirely common for half-ghosts to exist where you're from either, so creating a superghost was unheard of. But if you're both of them and neither of them at the same time, what happens for you next? You were brought into this body so you wouldn't be eliminated, but are you living among other people? Or other ghosts?
Right now, I'm living amongst other dead people in fake Heaven.
...but before that, I was living with one of the people I used to be, one of the half-ghosts. It's a different timeline, one where they stayed separate. So I was living with him, pretending to be "his son."
We were still working out all the logistics before I bit it.
That sounds... [ very weird, actually, but they are thinking this over. ] It's still a better alternative from your other option, it seems. If it's a different timeline does he know who you are and where you came from? Or is "working out logistics" code for "there's a different story here"?
He does. Both of the half-ghosts know about me and who I am. They were the ones who cooked up the plan to shove me into this body to keep me from glitching out of existence.
The logistics are for figuring out how to make me a legal person again and what we're going to tell people.
Makes sense. It's hard to explain to normal people who aren't exposed to that part of the world.
[ and speaking of explain, they are fairly sure he does not care, but they do offer a bit of an explanation for why they're so nosy about it. ]
Usually our ghosts are a sign of when a person's going to die. If their spirit appears on one specific night, they'll die within the next year. But I've— [ they pause then, because... what were they going to say, exactly? they had an example, but it's suddenly gone, like a quick thought that vanishes again. it's fine. they bulldoze ahead anyway. ] Seen other things that are a bit similar to your situation. I was curious how it compared.
Yes and no. [ okay. also, it's similar for reasons they don't actually remember which is a fun new thing for them to be realizing suddenly. ] There are other things out there besides ghosts that are similar, then. Does that sound better?
What? [ ... oh. ] Oh. That was before I started this job, I don't know if it would apply the same here as it did back there. Though your particular case in the afterlife would probably be very interesting to God, now that I think about it.
There are far worse things an all-powerful axolotl could do, I think.
But that's right. Different universes, different pockets of those universes...Gamaliel would be able to explain the logistics of that better, I think. This heaven runs under this God's rule and judgment, which might be different from yours.
[ but yeah okay this all makes sense. except for... ] ...this isn't your "heaven" either, though. So how did you end up just knowing God and becoming the axolotl's handyman?
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But yes. I was.
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[ okay edgelord. ]
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Flight, intangibility, invisibility, strength, nigh-invulnerability, manipulation of the body and shapeshifting, ectoplasmic blasts and constructs, possession, ability to sense other ghosts, telekinesis, duplication, and my personal favorite: something I like to call my Ghostly Wail.
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zuriel listens to this, and they consider it for a moment before there's a little huff. ]
So the minimum for ghosts. I see. I suppose it would feel jarring to suddenly be reduced to the status of mere mortals. [ this is giving such "teenage boy trying to flex" energy and they are so used to that (unfortunately) that this is how they're choosing to have this conversation. ]
But you weren't always a ghost. Do you remember the before?
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...but yes, I do remember being human before that.
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[ but he can correct them, and they move on from there. ]
How different were you then?
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So, pretty different.
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Like a hybrid? How did that happen...? [ that is such an identity crisis. ]
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I'm going to guess it's not entirely common for half-ghosts to exist where you're from either, so creating a superghost was unheard of. But if you're both of them and neither of them at the same time, what happens for you next? You were brought into this body so you wouldn't be eliminated, but are you living among other people? Or other ghosts?
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...but before that, I was living with one of the people I used to be, one of the half-ghosts. It's a different timeline, one where they stayed separate. So I was living with him, pretending to be "his son."
We were still working out all the logistics before I bit it.
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That sounds... [ very weird, actually, but they are thinking this over. ] It's still a better alternative from your other option, it seems. If it's a different timeline does he know who you are and where you came from? Or is "working out logistics" code for "there's a different story here"?
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The logistics are for figuring out how to make me a legal person again and what we're going to tell people.
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[ and speaking of explain, they are fairly sure he does not care, but they do offer a bit of an explanation for why they're so nosy about it. ]
Usually our ghosts are a sign of when a person's going to die. If their spirit appears on one specific night, they'll die within the next year. But I've— [ they pause then, because... what were they going to say, exactly? they had an example, but it's suddenly gone, like a quick thought that vanishes again. it's fine. they bulldoze ahead anyway. ] Seen other things that are a bit similar to your situation. I was curious how it compared.
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...so they're premonitions, for you. How can anything like that be similar to my situation, then?
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And how do all these premonitions and ghosts and other things fit into the scheme of this "afterlife"? [ finger quotes ]
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...so this place is completely disconnected from any other world and its own afterlife, including yours.
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But that's right. Different universes, different pockets of those universes...Gamaliel would be able to explain the logistics of that better, I think. This heaven runs under this God's rule and judgment, which might be different from yours.
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[ but yeah okay this all makes sense. except for... ] ...this isn't your "heaven" either, though. So how did you end up just knowing God and becoming the axolotl's handyman?
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