Playtime! OTA

[betel_geuse]

Betelgeuse had been intrigued by the small, turtle-like creature he had acquired. He spent the last two weeks bonding and training the little guy, though not exactly Pokemon training. Instead, Betelgeuse was training Squirtle to appreciate pranks and the value of scaring people.

Now, however, Betelgeuse just wanted to have some fun.

Betelgeuse found the top of an unimportant building in Genessia City and juiced it to be water-proof. He had Squirtle fill the roof with water, creating a giant swimming pool. Betelgeuse changed his clothes into what he considered a very sharp pair of white and black striped swim trunks. He splashed around, laughing. Squirtle swam around, occasionally shooting out streams of water down on passer-by below, making Betelgeuse laugh even harder.

The only question was who would show up to complain and who would join the party?

Comments

[tenminutes]

"I've been through too much to die again this soon, duh."

She knew that one day it would happen but she was honestly hoping it wouldn't be soon. She didn't miss being dead, even if there were some perks.

"I like things to be clean and not smell bad."

Honestly, Yuri threw out an important present that wasn't even hers because the date was expired before. She can definitely be rude about it. Though, now she's got an idea...

[betel_geuse]

"Neat and tidy type, huh?" Betelgeuse said, sounding, for a brief moment, almost disapproving, before he threw his hands, palms out, up in the air. "Not judging, I'm not judging! It takes all types and all."

[tenminutes]

"I wouldn't be offended if you did judge something like that."

She's well-convinced enough that her way is the right way, that's for sure.

[betel_geuse]

"OH, well, that's all right then. Cause, generally speaking, there are certain groups of people who seem to find me highly offensive," Betelgeuse said, the idea seeming to amuse him.

[tenminutes]

"You can be as offensive as you want, I'll just throw as much stuff at you for it as I want since it won't hurt you anyway."

This is clearly a beneficial relationship of some kind.

[betel_geuse]

"See? That's why I like you, babes! You're practical and you're chill about things," Betelgeuse praised.

[tenminutes]

"I think it's a dead person thing. Even about things that I know are totally fine people always freaked out at me. Then there was a whole 'I'll protect you with my life!' deal that a couple of people had even though I was already dead..."

Yuri knew it was a compliment, so she backtracked, shaking her head.

"Thanks though. I like you too, even if you have a staring problem."

[betel_geuse]

"Yeah, getting people to understand what it means to be dead isn't easy. I mean, except for exorcism, there's nothing safer than being dead!"

He laughed, grinning widely at her, waggling his eyebrows playfully.

"Aw, babes, what does that mean? I'm great at staring. I can stare all day, especially at cute girls."

[tenminutes]

"Thanks for the compliment, but if you stare too much, Battler's going to get mad at you. I think. I don't know, I've never actually done anything to make him jealous that wasn't me purposely screwing with him and most people always knew I wasn't someone to hit on because I'm a complete dead-end."

There's a brief pause.

"You have no idea how disappointed I am that I can't make a joke out of that anymore."

[betel_geuse]

"I've never even met Battler...I think. Hell, you send him 'round and, if he's halfway cute, I'll stare at him too. He won't have nooo cause to be jealous," Betelgeuse promised in his best used car salesman voice.

Betelgeuse slid just a tiny bit closer.

"Yeah, that's a good pun, but I gotta argue here. You're no dead-end, babes, alive or not. Just cause you're dead doesn't mean you can't have fun!"

[tenminutes]

Yuri didn't pull away, but did fold her arms.

"He'd probably just be weirded out and jealous anyway. Even if I'm sure he'd be fine with a harem sometimes.. though you can meet him any time you want. He's got hair that looks like some kind of red bird splatted on his head, you'll know him when you see him."

She likes his stupid hair, but she has no problem insulting him to be honest. It's her way of talking about things she likes.. As for the matter of the pun, however, she appreciated that someone else appreciated her little joke. Even if it was unclear. She's used to a tougher audience.

"Oh. No, I didn't mean it was because I was dead. That had something to do with it, but I was the type of person who didn't want to get close to anyone back then. Plus, if you become satisfied or too contented in the afterlife I was in, you disappear. So I just wanted nothing to do with it. Dead-end in that sense, then the pun was about being dead at the same time."

[betel_geuse]

"Well, to be fair, babes, most guys would be fine with a harem, even if they don't admit it," Betelgeuse said, guffawing. "That's not a flattering description, but I'll keep my eye out."

Betelgeuse stopped frowning, when she talked about the afterlife of her world. His was bad, but this!

"Babes, that's messed up. I mean, our afterlife is dull and the people kinda...well, stuffy, I guess. But, we can be happy, without consequences. Where did you disappear to?"

[tenminutes]

"Unless they're fine with me having a harem too even if I don't want one then they can suck it up."

As for the disappearing thing.. It's a little complicated, and some people don't see the way that it is the same way that she does. The "same soul" thing means a lot of people assume that it's the same person no matter how it works, but it isn't. It definitely isn't.

"You just disappear. All of your memories, personality, everything you've done. It stops existing. Your soul gets wiped clean, then recycled for someone else to use, basically. Which is fine if our time is done, but.. if you don't want to be finished, then it isn't exactly a comforting thought. Especially if it isn't something you can really control. All it takes is feeling content and accepting things. Normally that would've happened to me already, and it did, but Battler made a deal with a witch to replace that new person with me again once I reached my actual age. That's the only reason I'm still around."

[betel_geuse]

"I can't speak for other men on that one, but I'm fine with you having one," Betelgeuse assured her, before snorting and laughing. "Can I join, if you get one?"

Betelgeuse listened to her description with a mild sense of horror that was quickly replaced by anger.

"So, once your soul is reincarnated...okay, lemme make sure I understand. Person Y, that's you, babes, dies and becomes Person B. Person Y's memories and what all are gone, wiped away. Person B dies. The soul doesn't then have the memories of both B and Y? Y is permanently gone?"

[tenminutes]

"I don't want one, but thanks for the offer." Yuri looks pretty amused at that, even though she denied it. The idea was pretty funny to her.

"Permanently, as far as I know. I don't remember much about the person who was around until my memories came back, but it wasn't me. Even though I look about the same as I used to, give or take a few freckles, I don't really know how that worked out without anyone questioning it, but my guess is it was a different world than the one I was originally from."

She wasn't in that world long enough to deal with everything well enough to be able to look into it, really, but she can't imagine no one would have noticed since she was in Japan both times. Besides, it would've been really noticeable if everyone who died got reincarnated looking nearly the same.

[betel_geuse]

Betelgeuse scowled. He rarely got very angry, but he was now.

"Uh huh. And who does that? Who wipes out yer memories, leaving the soul a clean slate for someone else to use?"

[tenminutes]

"I don't know, it just happens. God, I suppose. Though I've never met the real one."

Even though she swore to punch him in the face one day. She was satisfied with emptying her guns into the world's core system.

"It's done now, either way. Everyone that I used to know from there is gone. I checked, since I was the last one left since I managed to put it off."

[betel_geuse]

"I'd think less of him, if that were true," Betelgeuse said, huffing in anger. "I mean come on! You go through all the troubles of life, then you end up dead, only to get erased entirely?? Talk about sucking! Nah, there's gotta be someone pulling strings and making a muck of things. That's how it is in my world."

[tenminutes]

"There was someone doing something like that, but that wasn't a part of it. I took the guy down who was pulling the worse stuff though."

Yuri sounds pretty proud about that.

"But before that, I spent almost my entire afterlife looking for a way to punch god in the face for revenge. It's no more possible to find any god there than in life."

[betel_geuse]

"Huh, yeah. We don't see him either. I was raised Catholic, though. I think the whole meeting God thing only happens when everything comes to an end, y'know?" Betelgeuse speculated. "Still, good job on taking down at least one douchebag."

[tenminutes]

"I pretty much declared war against whatever deity was up there. Buddha, God, Angels, whoever. I wasn't picky about which one it would've been. But thanks."

Yuri's idea of religion had always been pretty vague except for the fact that she believed in reincarnation, after all. She even went so far as to make the password to get into the SSS headquarters multi-inclusive.

[betel_geuse]

"Aw, hey, whatever floats yer boat. I'm Catholic...well, from habit, I guess. I just don't have enough motive to convert to something else. I don't claim to know much about that kinda thing. I gotta applaud your kickass handling of things, though. Few ghosts I've met would have the gumption."

[tenminutes]

"What can I say? I got fed up with sitting alone and letting every day pass by without a chance to speak my mind."

So she started a battlefront. You know, totally reasonable reaction.

[betel_geuse]

Betelgeuse grinned.

"I'm sorry I didn't get to see that. I'd love getting to see you kick ass!"

[tenminutes]

"I'm sure you'll get to see it eventually anyway. I might be alive now, but I've been told I can be completely reckless anyway."

It's a wonder she isn't dead again yet, really.