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[pinksidekicking]

Type: Video
Sender ID: pinksidekicking (Nimona)
To: General
Subject: Going home briefly
Warnings: Death (temporary)

[ The video feed comes on to show Nimona, who some people may have noticed was missing for about three days. She looks fine and is smiling, and it looks to be a genuine one. ]

Wow wow wow. Going home is soooooo weird. Like I'd heard people forget all about this place, but experiencing it myself is a whole different thing. One minute I was here, and the next I'd forgotten a whole year and some change of my life.

[ Nimona flops back on a giant manta ray plushie. ]

It was a real wild ride being there. First I turned into a giant shadow dragon, again, and I get saved. Then this crazy lady turned a huge laser cannon on the center of the kingdom just to kill li'l ol' me. [ Cue the innocent expression. ] She was gonna kill so many people just to take me out.

[ She flips over on to her stomach, bringing her shellphone with her to set down. ]

Joke's on her! I turned into a huge fiery bird, flew across the kingdom and BAAAAM! [ Nimona makes one hand fly and smash against her other hand in a loud slap. ] Slammed into the fully charged cannon with my whole body and BOOOOOOOM! [ Both hands fly apart to mimic an explosion, complete with sound effects. ] We exploded! It was epic! She died, I died, and I don't think anyone else died.

[ Nimona jumps up onto her feet, raising a fist above her head in a victory pose. ]

Then I rose like a phoenix from the ashes! Now I'm back here.

[ She picks up the phone again to bring it close to her face. ]

And that's the story!

Comments

[desirestruth]

[Well that sure was.

A lot.]

...Congratulations on not staying dead.

[pinksidekicking]

[ She is the best storyteller, okay? ]

Thanks! I'm like a bad coin, just can't get rid of me that easily.

[desirestruth]

I don't think I'd call you a bad anything.

[Blinking at her.] Like a badger, maybe.

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[headhunt]

you went home?
do you remember anything about what you were doing before it happened?

( this is the first time she's heard of someone else going home for a span of time. )

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[pinksidekicking]

Yep! I was just doing my normal stuff I always do during the day. Hmmmmm, I think I was half-asleep up in the crow's nest of my ship.

[ She flops to sit back down on her plushie. ]

Maybe there was just a rift up there and we boated through it.

[headhunt]

anything about it stand out at all?

or was it just another day?

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[seasaltkeys]

What?

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[pinksidekicking]

What what?

[ She wrinkles her nose at the screen. ]

Is part of your message gone, because I don't understand the question?

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[seasaltkeys]

[He switches to video with his head in his hands.]

No! I just mean...what?

You went home? YOU DIED?

What am I supposed to do with all that?

[You can't just dump that all on a guy.]

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[empyrean_mirror]

[Well he was going to comment on the return home thing but--]

A-are you quite certain you're alright?

[WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIED?]

[pinksidekicking]

[ She blinks. ]

Huh? Why wouldn't I be- [ It seems to click. ]

Oooooh. [ Then waves a hand like it's no big deal. ] What's a little death? I came right back! Or maybe it took a bit, ah well, hard to say when you're dead.

[empyrean_mirror]

Death is...usually pretty permanent for most people? And it still probably hurts, even if it isn't...I'm sorry that happened to you.

[LIKE. ARE YOU OKAY MADAM??? PSYCHOLOGICALLY????]

Un:Emberized

[emberized]

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a good fiery explosion

[Did any of that story strike a particular cord? Axel will never tell! Just as these sentiments are probably best left to people who aren't consistently smothered under a blanket of apathy. Nevertheless.]

Glad it didn't stick.
Don't think this place would be quite the same without you, you know?

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[pinksidekicking]

Oh man, it was metal! Our combined firepower took out a whole section of the wall surrounding the kingdom. I wish I had video of it.

[ She's gonna also skip right over the big glaring death to talk about something else. ]

This place loves me. I bet it was quiet while I was gone. Too quiet. Eerily quiet. Now I'm gonna live here such a long time that even the world gets sick of me.

un: baymaxing

[baymaxing]

Wait, what? You.....what?!

[Nimona??? Please do not be so casual about dying? Are you really okay?????]

[pinksidekicking]

I broke stuff!

[ Totally going to ignore that he's probably talking about dying. ]

[baymaxing]

I mean, that too. But more importantly, you.....what? You okay?

[Nimona. Nimona plz. You know what he really means. Come on.]

{Voice; UN: crescentmoon}

[prince_of_the_moon]

You perished? {How has she escaped the underworld's grip?} At least it was quick.

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[pinksidekicking]

I did! I look good for a dead person, right? [ Remember when she said she didn't know much about herself? Yeah. ] It really was. Don't know how long it took me to come back to life.

Long enough for Ballister from the beating he got, I guess.

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[octoblot]

[there is just so much to question and unpack from all this...]

I'm... glad to hear that you did not stay dead? Otherwise, do you remember anything at all about how you were able to return home? Or... actually, when you found yourself back here again, did you find yourself back in the spot that you were previously in, or were you in a different location here?

[Someone told him once about having returned home, but that person is not here anymore, so Nimona is his next best lead to get more deets on about the subject.]

[pinksidekicking]

Thanks! It's a special talent I have.

I was just doing my usual stuff. Napping... I mean, keeping watch in the crow's nest of my ship! I wish I showed up somewhere new. Like, I guess technically it was new because it's not like my ship would have stayed in one place the entire time.

If I'd really shown up in the same place, then I'd probably have reappeared in the air where the crow's nest had been, you know. Then I would have had to swim for it.

[ Not worried about how far she would have had to swim. ]

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[spectacleofphantasmagoria]

Goodness, that's quite the story! You've certainly gone through quite the ordeal, haven't you?

[He's used to Nemona's excitable energy, but even he finds this is quite the tale to tell.]

[pinksidekicking]

Man, you have the longest username I've ever seen. [ She doesn't know that she's seen it. ]

And it was fine. The best part was definitely getting to break stuff!

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[astudyinviolet]

Death does not stick as firmly as one thinks.

[ Her whole story sounds like some fantastic tale, and yet, there is no evidence that it didn't happen, either. It's possible among everything he's seen in this world so far. ]

You truly forgot everything? How did you explain being missing over a whole year?

[ This... is something he managed to not learn about until now. ]

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[scooba]

Uh....welcome back.

I'm glad that things went well for you. It seems like you had quite the journey.