♕ |[23]| 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door--'

[had_not_lived]

There aren't going to be eight of me this time, are there?

Hello everyone, happy Halloween!

[ooc; no other Neils plx, and I'd prefer if you didn't tell him he doesn't exist. otherwise traumatize at will my darlings!]

[EDIT: out for a paaarty, troll boldly in my absence & I will get back to you <3]

Comments

[and_immortality]

hEy, yOU're nEiL perRY, rIghT?

[had_not_lived]

That's me...

[and_immortality]

hI, i'M dEAth. hOW's iT gOIng?

[had_not_lived]

Um. I'm okay.

[and_immortality]

...Oh, sorry. Forgot I still had that on.

Hi, how's it going?

[had_not_lived]

I met Death once before and, um. Are there two of you?

I'm good, though a little confused by some of this. How are you?

[and_immortality]

Huh? Oh, what do you know, there's another one of me out there! Was I a girl? I bet I was a girl. That'd be just my luck, too, being a girl in some alternate universe.

...Right, hi. No, unless I've got some kinda weird separated-at-creation thing going on--which would be totally cool, by the way, I bet Dr. Phil would have me on for that!--there's not two of me. Maybe you just met a different me? Alternate universes are weird like that.

Anyway, I just wanted to drop by and say hi. And that I'm, y'know, sorry about the whole "you're dead" thing. Even if you're only mostly dead right now.

[had_not_lived]

Yeah, a girl with dark hair and really pale skin. She was really nice, though I didn't know her for too long before she left. I guess it must be that, another universe. Who's Dr. Phil? Why would Death need a doctor?

And.. thanks, I guess. Though it's my own fault all right, really. It isn't so bad here.

[and_immortality]

Yup, that's me, all right. Sounds like she went a little more spectre-y than me, though. I'm not a huge fan of the pale skin thing; too easy to get sunburned. And you've never heard of Dr. Phi--oh, wait, no, I guess you wouldn't have.

Yeah, it's not such a bad place, as afterlifes go. I've seen worse. But look, I...for what it's worth, I really hate it when cases like yours come up on my schedule. I'm not gonna say it sucks as much for me as it does for you, but it's not like I enjoy it.

[had_not_lived]

I guess you don't have a choice about it. I can't say I didn't wish things had turned out differently, but...

Still, thank you.

[and_immortality]

They don't let me fix everything. Stupid cosmic order and all that.

Hey, I brought you something, though!

[had_not_lived]

Someone told me everything happens for a reason. Even bad things.

Really? What?

[and_immortality]

Yeah, pretty much. And sometimes the reason is that Eternity is stupid.

Here! It's to hang on your cell phone, I heard you just got one.

/totally going to photoshop that onto his stockphoto phone

[had_not_lived]

I'm not sure if that's comforting or disturbing.

Oh! Thank you, I like it! Comedy and tragedy. How appropriate.

<333

[and_immortality]

It's both! Disturbing because Eternity is full of a bunch of douchebags, and comforting 'cause I'm the guy standing between you and them.

Hey, no problem! My girlfriend picked 'em out, though, so I can't take all the credit. Just, y'know, most of it. Oh, and this one's for Todd, but it's for his birthday, so don't give it to him yet, kay?

:D

[had_not_lived]

That almost makes sense.

...You have a girlfriend? And he'll love that, it's really very nice of you!