attempt number twenty-four ♻ (video) (forward-dated a few hours)

[autophoenix]

[ It's butt-ass early in the Fire Nation morning and Claire still has bed head and a thin-strapped camisole on, looking generally disheveled. She's a classy lady and it's fucking early and she got distracted from her morning routine by ... ]

Anybody else wake up with one of these? [ She holds her wrist up in front of the camera, a thing red

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[marlborocousin]

[Wesley will now hold up his wrist to show her his.] I believe this is the red string of fate described in East Asian cultures. It connects destined lovers. Soulmates ... [Yeah he has to ... look away from the screen to stare fondly at Cordelia now.]

[autophoenix]

... Seriously? So, if I follow this thing, I'm supposed to find my soulmate? But, I'm not even on my world, how am I supposed to teleport to where I belong to find that person? [ /distinct lack of gender specific pronoun. ] How do I even know they're my soulmate? I mean, what if you meet your soulmate but you already like somebody else?

[marlborocousin]

Yes, precisely. ... You'd have to find a spell allowing you to create a dimensional portal, I suppose. It's odd that you would be so far apart, though.

Anyway. You know you're their soulmate because the red string is there. That's what it signifies. The theory is that even if you did like someone else, you would return to the person you're connected to eventually. ... I believe. I'm not entirely clear on it.

[autophoenix]

... You know, the more you explain, the more convinced I am that some idiot just broke into the palace and tied it around my wrist while I was sleeping. [ Sylar. :| ] My soulmate would be back home. In my own world. There's no way this string can just hop dimensions and lead me back there.

[marlborocousin]

I hardly see how "some idiot" could have done the same thing to both of us.

[autophoenix]

Maybe you've never met a really determined idiot.

[marlborocousin]

I've met many determined idiots, in fact. But even if it were some kind of love spell, what would the purpose of casting it over such a wide range be?

[autophoenix]

I don't think it's a love spell, I think it's a bad attempt at pretending I should just listen to a stupid red string.

[marlborocousin]

Spike suggested this was all the result of some love spell. That monster.

[autophoenix]

He probably just hates Valentine's Day.

[marlborocousin]

Most likely. He has a long, carefully recorded history of being unlucky in love.

[autophoenix]

Yeah, that whole weird time jumping virus kind of gave me that impression.

[marlborocousin]

Time jumping virus?

[autophoenix]

Like a week ago, everyone was moving around through their timelines weirdly, and they didn't realize they were in the wrong place. Spike moved backward to before he was ... you know. A good guy.

[marlborocousin]

I've talked to him since arriving and I'm still not entirely sure that I believe "good guy Spike" exists.

[autophoenix]

He's playing cupcake fairy for me so that all of my friends can get presents from me for Valentine's. He's a good guy.