A tactful time after Rose's yelling session...

[truerevelation]

Alright.

So ... I ain't gotta tell anyone where we are this time, and from the stuff people were sayin' on the network, returning here ain't the biggest surprise anyone's ever had. Even if we did get the red carpet bit... Yeah, this is Questing Country - magical kinda Liminal Space dreamland. The Oracles over at the table are the best guys to ask about what this place is.

But I figure we still need to work out who is and isn't actually us. Except, uh. Wash.

[That was psychic shouting and his ears are still ringing from it somehow, OK.]

So this is Kanji checking in. Give us a yell if you're hearing this? How you're doing, all that stuff. Or if you've got powers up and goin' here... anyone else been species switched, too?

...But, uh. If you see a guy who looks like my plain Hecatite form, that ain't me. That's my old overlay, and I think he wanted his powers back or something. Hell if I know what mine are right now.

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Private

[tookashirototheknee]

I'm not used to being the badass one. That's Shiro. I'm the nerd in the corner who just wants to explore space.

All of that aside, though, sometimes you just have to... keep going and not go back. I've seen a lot of people who are happier and healthier that way, and really... it's ok to change. It's ok to not be who you were. That's life. If you stay the same, that's actually kinda scary.

Private

[truerevelation]

... you sound like me on a good day. Heh.

I don't wanna be the guy I was once. I know I'm changing. I want to... keep bein' something better. I don't want to look back...

Man. I just ... I dunno.

Private

[tookashirototheknee]

Who says you have to? I still don't know what the shit I'm doing, and I'm older than you. Heck, Dad sometimes said he didn't really know who he was or what he was doing, and he's... well, my dad.

Take a breath. Remember what's important to you, whatever that is. Labels suck. Don't let some stupid label define you.

Re: Private

[truerevelation]

Heh. Yeah. Maybe I ... need to keep remembering that bit.

['What's important' is still the tricky bit, though.]

Private

[tookashirototheknee]

Yeah. Remembering's hard sometimes.

I'm always willing to listen, though. I know how crappy it can be when you have a whole bunch of things in your head and no way to get them out.

[Happens when you're captured by aliens.]