♈ 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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[fintastic]

Good idea.

[ WISTFUL SIGH. ]

Sooo... what about you and Sollux?

[psych0p0mps]

[Aradia turns her head slightly, although not enough to interfere with the brushy brushy. That topic sorta came out of nowhere!]

What do you mean?

[fintastic]

I don't know. Have you been getting caught up? Getting to know each other again?

[psych0p0mps]

Oh! Yeah, kind of. I mean, it's not like we stopped knowing each other. I think it's more we're getting used to each other again.

[fintastic]

Good! Very good! You should keep doing that! How is that going, then?

[ She's not trying to do anything here, swear! ]

[psych0p0mps]

[Sure, of course not! But Aradia's starting to suspect at the motive for this line of questioning.]

It's going ... fine? Is something up?

[fintastic]

No, nothing's up! Why would something be up? Do you want something to be up?

[psych0p0mps]

[Yeeeah something's up. She turns properly to face Feferi, although she's... only almost looking in the right direction. sob]

Feferi, if you need to ask me something, you can just ask... We're friends, I don't want stuff to be awkward between us.

[she has sort of an idea what the question will be, but it's best to get it from the seahorse's mouth really.]

[fintastic]

Aradia...

[ Feferi puts down the brush, and sets into braiding her hair. ]

I just know you and Sollux were close. Really close. And when Roxy left, Sollux didn't say much about it, but I know it bothered him, so when you showed up, I was hoping maybe you would hit it off with him.

[psych0p0mps]

[That's odd - why wouldn't she hit it off with him? Sure, this might be an alternate timeline, but they were still good friends and liked each other's company, even in the single month she'd been here. But what's this about their Rogue of Void?]

Roxy? I didn't know she was here.

[fintastic]

Yeah she was! Wait, when did you meet Roxy?

[ It's been a looong time since Feferi was in the Veil, that's for sure. ]

[psych0p0mps]

I haven't properly met her, but I know who she is. I saw her dream self floating around the bubbles every so often over the past couple of sweeps. Was she friends with Sollux?

[fintastic]

Friends? She was his moirail! Did he really not tell you?

[ No Feferi, other people don't feel the need to tell everyone everything all the time. ]

[psych0p0mps]

[His moirail?? Aradia is completely blown away by this stunning revelation! Or at least very surprised.]

No, he's never even mentioned her.

[fintastic]

Oh, really?

[ Oops. Maybe he didn't want her talking about it then, and she has tried so hard to be better about that. ]

Well now you know!