text; regarding Halloween

[whiteas]

Attention everyone: I'm sure that since we're all from different worlds, at least half of the people here haven't heard of Halloween so I took the liberty of creating a brief breakdown on the basics of the holiday from any of the books I found in the library, since I assume those are the ones that Genessia and the associated cities's version is based on.

Halloween is a holiday during which the barriers between the world of the living and the world of the dead are supposedly overlapped. It looked like there were a few other holidays with similar ideas, too, but this one is October 31st. It's based on an ancient festival that was held with bonfires, as fires were thought to attract the spirits to one location instead of raising the dead to wreak havoc on people's livelihoods, and is accompanied by people wearing costumes and masks to mimic spirits and monsters. Wearing the costumes helps them feel welcome, calmed, and appeased so they don't go and destroy everything.

I've found these stories in multiple books, as well as information about it becoming a more popular holiday in which people still wear costumes, though not only spirits and monsters so much as just about anything that is different from what they are. Also, on the night of Halloween, it's popular practice to either attend parties or go house to house asking people for candy handouts which seems ridiculous to me, but if it's tradition then it's tradition.

Pumpkin-carving is also a tradition for the holiday, and I think it replaced the bon-fires since people usually light a candle inside of them and it lights up the face that you make on the pumpkin.

Regardless of whether the reason for it is legitimate or not, it sounds like fun and it certainly won't hurt as a precaution against the dead coming back to haunt us. I for one plan on participating, and not just because there's a contest and I want to go to the ball.

[ But that is a lot of it. ]

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[whiteas]

Your universe.

[ Generally she finds that whenever someone says something is absolute about every universe that they're bound to be wrong. But really, anything that's a declared absolute seems to turn out that way.

Either way, it's too bad that he can't see Weiss giving the biggest eyeroll here since it's not a video message. ]

Have you or are you just claiming the title like everyone else who's tried to claim it?

[forever_prince]

The universe. The universe is a massive place. And we're right smack dab in the middle of it. Trust me, I've been doing this for over a thousand human years. I know what I'm talking about.

[He gives a little shrug.]

I've beaten down everyone that's challenged the title.

[whiteas]

Wait, so you're actually denying the possibility that there are different universes? For one thing, your actual theory of an afterlife debunks the idea of a single verse anyway or one of the space explorer people here would've found one.

[ She's fairly certain that he's really deluded the longer he talks.. ]

People who are actually strong don't have to constantly prove it so much as use it to accomplish things. Besides, saying that you're the strongest is incredibly vague. What are you the strongest at? Physical attacks? Magic? Defense? Emotion? Ego? Something else?

[forever_prince]

There are three universes. Living, Netherworld, and Celestia. We're in the living one. There are dimensional barriers within the universe anyway. Just because there's a wall between two rooms, you don't call them separate buildings, do you? It's just how it is.

[Have a shrug.]

The Netherworld only has one real law; the strongest gets to make the rules. There's constant competition for the throne. Someone tries to assassinate me on the hour every hour in my castle. Proving I'm the strongest is the only reason I'm alive, and in charge. As for your question, everything.

[Well, not everything, but he definitely trumps everything in terms of Ego.]

[whiteas]

If two skyscrapers are connected by a bridge it doesn't mean they're the same building, so your analogy doesn't even hold up. Also, if you have proof that multiple universes exist, that only proves that you only have access to three. You can't actually disprove that there aren't more.

Considering this isn't the Netherworld and you continue to act upon that notion, I'm fairly certain that you're certainly not the strongest in terms of adaptability.

[forever_prince]

The bridges are what connect Celestia, the Netherworld, and the living universe. The dimensional barriers are more like doors. And yes, I can disprove it, because I've seen it all.

It will be. Mark my words. In time, a Dark Senate will show up, and the Netherworld will absorb this place. Just a matter of time.

[No worries~!]

[whiteas]

You've seen what you perceive as all, which is what people have been doing since the dawn of time. If you think you've found it all, then you stop looking, so of course you haven't seen more.

If the Netherworld absorbs this place, that means there's something separate from it to absorb and since there are things that aren't living beings here, that would mean you're wrong by default. I may not have the means to prove myself right, but you certainly can't prove yourself correct either based on the fact that you can't actually provide real evidence that I'm wrong. Plus, if the three universes exist side by side, that means they exist within something. If they exist within something, that leaves room for unconnected universes to exist within it in a different location.

Plus, if you actually were the strongest, then you wouldn't be stuck here at someone else's behest, so your entire premise doesn't check out.