14 ✿ i believe in vanishing (actually, no i don't, i'm totally still here).

[spiraldoll]

[[nia awakes from her dream with a jolt. it is very uncommon for her to have dreams that actually scare her, but that one sure did. she grips at her blanket and shivers, but then she realizes that it's not nearly as cold in her house. it's warm! woah!

she goes downstairs when she realizes the tv set is on. the announcement goes on and on, and as it

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[forgottenmagia]

But you did.

You left, child.

[spiraldoll]

But... I did not leave. I am still here, still in my house! I am still in Mayfield!

[forgottenmagia]

The real you did. You're nothing but a copy, as am I.

[spiraldoll]

I am the real me... I am not a copy. I am just the same person I am before I went to sleep.

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[crusthatecean]

Shit, Nia, you too?

[spiraldoll]

Karkat! You are not gone!

[[no time to celebrate, though.]] Yes, me too... Karkat, I do not understand. I mean, this does not make sense. I have not gone anywhere! Why does it say I no longer exist, when I very clearly do?

[crusthatecean]

Because you agreed to their terms.

What we know so far is that those of us on that list had a dream where we were manipulated into thinking we should disappear. We agreed, so we were put on the list, and we were changed in some way that means everyone is reacting to us like we're a creepy Mayfield drone or something. Even though I was erased too, you even seem that way to me right now, but I know better than to believe it.

If there's a plan for us beyond that, we don't know it.

[spiraldoll]

Dream... [[she frowns a little. of course.]] I see.

You seem strange as well, but... I mean, it makes sense. Well, no, it does not, but what you are saying makes sense. You nor me have actually vanished and we are the same as always, but it is a trick. I wonder why, though? [[she stops, realizing what she just said.]] I guess I should ask the same for everything Mayfield does to us.

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[queenofscarlet]

[Rachel had been more or less doing the same thing, and upon spotting Nia she pauses in her walk. They'd only spoken a few times, but it was hard to forget an appearance like that. And yet it felt so much that the girl she was seeing was not the girl she knew.

WELP that had to mean that this was the real Nia then.]

You are Nia, yes?

[spiraldoll]

[[she turns, and immediately feels the urge to tense. normally, nia does not feel the need to be wary of others, especially ones she knows. but, now, there is no fighting that instinct. it seems off.

still, it is just as before with karkat.]] Yes, I am.

[queenofscarlet]

I thought I had heard a name similar to yours while watching that broadcast. May I assume that others are treating you as if you are some sort of replacement or copy?

[spiraldoll]

Yes, my name was on that list...

And, yes, I am being treated that way by... some.

[imoutosnake]

[ Nadeko is a little unsure about everything that happened. That list of names.. did those people really erase themselves for the sake of everything else? There had been people she knew on there, so..

She decided to go for a walk to clear her mind, so Nia might find her walking around on the streets. ]

[spiraldoll]

[[she perks up a little at the sight of her friend. quickly, she trots over. she is hopeful, hopeful, hopeful.]]

Nadeko!

[imoutosnake]

[ Nadeko tilts her head in the direction of the sound once she hears her name being called out. But the moment she notices Nia, something seems to change a bit about her expression - as if she's almost becoming a little scared. ]

W-what.. is it..?

[spiraldoll]

[[oohh. that's not a good sign.

she stops before she's too close.]] I was, ah, wondering how you were doing today.

[singsthesong]

You aren't "still here" anymore than droned people are.

[Which, with how he sees it, means that her body is being controlled and used by someone else now, which makes it only worse.]

[spiraldoll]

I am different than a drone, though. I am just the same as I always am. I am still here, nothing has changed.

[singsthesong]

You realize how much insult you offer to the original to your bad atempt at copying a real person?

[SERIOUSLY all of those bad impersonators hurt his poor actor's heart somewhat fierce how can a person be so bad at acting Just think of his poor old heart...]

[spiraldoll]

I am a real person! I am copying no one.