[Video]

[4before]

[Sissel appears on the screen. He has a very important question for you people.]

So... is there a reason there's so many written posts on this network? I don't see the point, you can just talk to people. And it's kind of frustrating for the people here who can't read.

[This is a serious concern, shut up.]

Comments

[video]

[meddlefussyfang]

It's convenient to have the messages left for people when we don't want to risk revealing how we feel about what we're saying. And it's nice and familiar to have the text.

[video]

[4before]

Familiar? Why?

[video]

[meddlefussyfang]

Text exchanges are the main way of talking to people that I'm used to. I lived a little out of the way for regularly visiting anyone, after all.

[video]

[4before]

Huh. Can't you use a phone?

[video] I declare this thread a :|a battle

[meddlefussyfang]

A phone...? Talk by exchanging just audio? It's not really convenient when so many people have to go deal with their lusus. This way even if they have to suddenly leave, the conversation can pick up where it left off.

[video] (9^-^)9

[4before]

What's a lusus?

[video] (9^-^)9 Guess who's being mistaken for Yomiel? :V

[meddlefussyfang]

Our lusii are our guardians and instructors during our earlier sweeps. How are you friends with Terezi without even knowing that?

[video] He should be used to this by now.

[4before]

Who's Terezi?

[Wait. Oh.]

I'm not Yomiel.

[video]

[meddlefussyfang]

...You're not?

[Kanaya leans into the SFC to examine his appearance more carefully, and is unconvinced.]

You look and sound similar, though I guess that's the case with people who are related to each other. But you're also dressed very similarly.

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[4before]

Yeah, I'm a ghost. Ghosts can look like whatever they want, and for a while I thought I was him. I know I'm not, now, but it's convenient.

[video]

[meddlefussyfang]

...Ghosts can change how they look...? But that's a somewhat incomplete explanation. Was there mind-control involved at any point?

[video]

[4before]

Uh, not that I know of. His was the only corpse around that I saw though, so I assumed that was me.

[video]

[meddlefussyfang]

Does that mean ghosts have some tendency to forget who they are? That might explain a few things.

[video]

[4before]

Exactly. Usually when they pick the right appearance their memories come back, so I'm hoping I can at least figure out what I looked like soon.

[video]

[meddlefussyfang]

Maybe that's part of why she behaved as she did, then...? Is there anyone else here from your world, who might describe your original appearance?

[video]

[4before]

I met Missile after I died as far as I know. I know Yomiel knows something, but he won't tell me.