livestudioaudience | R4 Viewing Party - no crying til the end (if you can help it)

[Oh. Well. Honestly, she should have expected that, but...Jane's been too busy getting hells of upset over her best friend to really consider the fact that people outside of Xander were worried about her.]

I...can't really say I will be. T-That's my best friend they've got, or had, or...[She shakes her head.] If I'm not watching, it feels like...I'm not there for her.

[WELL I GUESS SHE HAS A WATCHING BUDDY NOW because Arianna just sat down on the couch next to her.]

You need not face this alone. We shall both be there for her.

[At that, Jane's quiet. She doesn't make a face or indicate that she necessarily wants Arianna to leave, but...she doesn't go over to the girl and scoop her up in a thankful hug, either.]

...If...it gets annoying, me. Having to stop and cry, or something. You don't need to feel obligated to stay. Alright? I-I don't want to bring anyone else down with this.

[Except Jamie a little. Because she's mad.]

[Arianna shakes her head.]

It will be fine, Dame Jane. It would be more difficult for me to leave.

...Alright.

[Ready to turn this back on and watch this trainwreck rev up?]

[Let's do it. Let's watch Roxy have a perfectly harmless conversation with someone.

Arianna's seen all this already, sort of, but she maaaay have missed a few parts because Yuuri was telling her about field trips or something.]

[...

Alright, well. It's good Arianna's listening, because all Jane can hear, see, feel - it's all Roxy. It's all "my best friend was alive again, and now she's dead, and here she is making friends and telling people about her bffsie Janey like Sburb is the only thing that's wrong".

Her livewatch is not going to be too great this time around, is it.]

[It's okay, Jane, the others need an incentive to step up their livewatch game.]

What do they mean, "cloning" cats?

...Oh. Um. Well, Roxy's...she's very good at science. [Be specific, Jane.] Like, kind of...the weird fringe stuff, ectobiology included. She explained it to me once, it's this sort of...you zap something and get its genetic material in the form of some green goo, and you mix it up with other genetic goos and zap it again and it turns into a sort of...clone of what you zapped. A perfect one is then destined to go back in time and become that thing you zapped, like a paradox - it's how my friends and I came to be born at all. But she said hers were imperfect clones, they had mutations and such, so, they became their own autonomous beings. [Jane smiles slightly, thinking back on all of Roxy's cats. She loved the darned things so very much.] She had some of the ones who'd passed on petrified in her house, and they all had more than two eyes, but were otherwise quite cute. I liked them a lot more than the cat always showing up at my house.

[Arianna's post-post-apocalyptic pseudo-medieval mind takes this all in, trying to sort out all these words.]

So, she zaps cats to acquire a green substance, which she uses to create additional cats.

[Oh, she's got it!]

And you are made from cats as well.

[...never mind.]

[Yes, you've got it, you've-

...

Okay, that actually gets Jane to laugh, which is a goddamn first in these last couple of days.]

Hoo hoo hoo! No, no, we're made from genetic green goo! The cats are made from cat goo, we're made from goo that's c-clones of ourselves! Hoo hoo, oh goodness, i-if I was made from cats, I'd be a cat! But you've got the jist of it, gracious me! Hoo hoo!

[SHE'S TRYING HER BEST but uh. She got Jane to laugh, at least there's that?]

So you were made from "goo" that, itself, was made from you.

...but then how did you exist to begin with?

Ah, ahah, hoo, uh...

[Just let her catch her breath here...]

It's apparently paradoxical. We exist, therefore, we could be made to exist. It's not really anything that makes sense and it's part of why my friends and I - and our various important ancestores - were able to play a game together. We were, ah...literally made to play it.

[...oh, so it really doesn't make sense.]

I... believe I understand.

Somewhat.

[...]

Perhaps Sir Junpei would be better able to grasp this.

I don't really get it either. It's complicated destiny hogwash, basically.

Ah.

[She understands destiny hogwash. She may or may not have died trying to unwash the destiny hog.]

Perhaps it would be better to focus on the cats.

R4 Viewing Party - no crying til the end (if you can help it)

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