♈ Aradia: Finally get around to showing your face. [video]

[psych0p0mps]

[The video feed opens on an alien teenager who some of you may never have seen before, dressed all in red and grinning widely. Most notably, though, she is wearing two eye patches, one over each eye. She gets right down to business.]

Is this working? Yes? It beeped, so I think so. Okay.

People of the internet, I have a quick question. [She points to the eyepatches.] On a scale of one to ten, how silly do these look?

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[flarp]

Eleven. It's just dumb enough to suit you!

Since when did you go God Tier, anyway? Don't get me wrong, you weren't exactly rocking the robo look and this works a lot better for you, but I'm calling hax! Hax hax hax. You cheated.

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[psych0p0mps]

[Whoooa whoa whoa whoa she knows who that is.]

Vriska? When the heck did you get here?

[and how did you not already know- oh geez, she's from a long time ago too isn't she daaang]

[flarp]

I've been here for ages. Sounds like someone's a little out of the loop! When did you show up?

[psych0p0mps]

About twenty-five days ago. But you can't really call me out of the loop if you didn't even know I was God Tier.

[flarp]

Well I've been here for almost ninety days, so that makes me the winner! And nobody cares about your stupid God Tier anyway. Mine was still first.

[psych0p0mps]

Okay, I know. [Man, it's weird to be back to the hostility again. From her perspective their whole mess has long been water under the bridge.]

When are you from, exactly? What was the last thing that happened before they brought you here, I mean?

[flarp]

Gamzee went totally shithive and blew his lid, then Kanaya kicked his, mine and Eridan's collective asses. Then I went up to the roof to send some important messages to my important correspondents! Not that it's any of your business, but I'm telling you 'cause I'm nice.

[psych0p0mps]

[Oh you mean the roof where you got totally shanked? Or will get. Aradia looks a little discontented at this news, and scratches her head absently.]

Oh, boy. That was almost a sweep and a half ago, from my perspective. So I guess you wouldn't know. [A lil sigh. How even to deal with this? Probably best to start with the facts.] Yeah, it turned out I had a dream self all along, sleeping in the crypt in Derse's moon. So I revived when Bec Noir blew the place up, and then went to meet the rest of you at the Green Sun.

[flarp]

[ News that she's yet to learn, fortunately. Knowing your death is coming hasn't boded well for her caste thus far. ]

Hah! I was right then. Total hax. Your God Tier doesn't count, because that's pretty much just cheating right there.

[psych0p0mps]

How is that cheating?

[flarp]

How isn't it? You can just explode into God Tier! You have to suffer for it. No pain no gain!

[psych0p0mps]

Getting blown up does hurt. [having done it three times, she is kind of an expert on the subject!]

Anyway, that's not even remotely the point. The point is we are way out of sync, timeline-wise.

[and... wat do about that? Aradia seems to be ahead of everybody so far, and it's awkward.]

[flarp]

An instant death is a cop-out and you know it! God Tier requires work and suffering! You can't just explode into it, that's wayyyyyyyy too cheap. The price needs to be steep, otherwise everyone will just pussy their way into it. And then nobody will really be God Tier, because they'll all be fakey fake God-cowards!

[ she lets out a long-suffering sigh, makes a farting sound with her mouth. ] So? Who cares. You think that makes you better than me? Nobody cares about our stupid timeline here!

[musclebeast]

You've been here for twenty five days. [Is that a question of a statement, it' hard to tell.]

[Also hi, stalking all your conversations.]

[psych0p0mps]

[Oh hay, surprise Equius! Aradia pulls a bit of a face.]

That's right.