The most nervous of voice-tests. Tentatively looking for a future game.

[butterflymilk]

Don't worry, mun. Watch the movie again, and I bet you'll do fine with me. Really, you're too stressed.

Just relax! Maybe then you can find me a game with lots of trees.

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[theboywhointerrupted]

I bet somewhere with trees would be great! And, y'know... other things that... come out of the ground!

[Beat.]

Does anything else come out of the ground?

[butterflymilk]

Yeah! All kids of plants!

[theboywhointerrupted]

Cool! Do they, uh, glow in the dark? They don't play disco music, right?

[butterflymilk]

Um, no, they don't do either of those things...

[whichwayyoulean]

What is it with you and the trees, anyway? You're aware you're in a pathetic majority who actually care right?

[theboywhointerrupted]

[He looks kind of upset for a moment at the lack of glow-in-the-dark-ness - look, that stuff is helpful, okay, especially when you're on late-night, old man-visiting, tree-saving missions - but...]

Well, I guess no disco makes up for anything else.

What do they do?

1/2

[butterflymilk]

Are you serious? Trees are amazing! How could you not get--

[butterflymilk]

Oh. Right. I guess you don't get it.

[butterflymilk]

Heh, yeah.

Well, they give bees pollen, and smell good, and then there's things that grow that you can eat!

[whichwayyoulean]

I get it, trust me, I get it.

I just don't see many people who do get it any more. I mean, your whole upbringing must have been really anti-tree. So good job going against the grain, or whatever.

[butterflymilk]

Oh. Alright. Um, sorry?

Thanks, I guess. It really just... Happened.

[whichwayyoulean]

And here's me giving up hope on anyone like you existing after what happened.

Guess that goes to show you nothing is certain, huh?

[butterflymilk]

Right, exactly! You never know how or when things will change.

[whichwayyoulean]

Okay that's treading the waters of optimism a liiitle too deeply for me to go that far. You and Ted were still one in a billion chances.

[butterflymilk]

What's wrong with being optimistic?

[whichwayyoulean]

It can and does go horribly, painfully wrong.

[butterflymilk]

Not always. It worked for Ted, didn't it?

[whichwayyoulean]

Ted's a special case. In more ways that one.

[thneedifestdestiny]

Wait, you actually want to go somewhere? Don't you know muns like torturing us as much as possible and sending us to terrible places just so they can laugh at how miserable they're making our lives?

[butterflymilk]

Well, yeah.

Wait.

What do you mean by that?

[butterflymilk]

I'm sure it won't be so bad.

[thneedifestdestiny]

Oh, believe me. It's always that bad. You could go to, oh, I don't know - Cotton Candy-ville in Marshmallowopolis and your mun would still probably come up with lots of bad things to happen to you.

[butterflymilk]

...Marshmallowopolis?

[thneedifestdestiny]

Yes. Marshmallowopolis. Everyone has marshmallow houses and it rains maple syrup and there's cotton candy grass and lollipop trees. But - [GASP] - it's ruled over by the evil King Tomato! He wants to keep everyone there so their teeth will eventually rot out from all the sugar! And when people don't listen to him, he pummels them in the face with his evil tomato servants!

...Or at least, that's what it would be like if it was a real game.

[butterflymilk]

Heh. Okay.

I know most games keep you trapped somewhere, but it's the only way to go anywhere fun.

s'up

[treefetish]

... Wow! You're me! I mean, I'm you! We're each other!

[THIS IS SO BEYOND COOL]

o hi

[butterflymilk]

We are! Oh, wow, this is crazy! Very cool.

[thneedifestdestiny]

Well...I guess that's true. But I'd still rather be at home running my company.

My mun has me stuck in some magic mansion in Wonderland. I don't know if I'd call it fun, but I guess it's not the worst place she could have put me? At least, not so far. Sometimes she gets all cackle-y over planning things though, and it makes me really uncomfortable.

[butterflymilk]

...Oh. You're from then.

Wonderland? Really?

[thneedifestdestiny]

...Uh. Yeah? I'm pretty sure everyone's from a then?

[So he's just going to look at her like she has three and a half heads now. Yep.]

Really! I know I made Marshmallowopolis up, but Wonderland is a real place.

[butterflymilk]

A then, yeah. But not that then.

No, no, it sounds cool!

[thneedifestdestiny]

Yeah, and there's at least a zillion thens. Which one are you talking about?

I guess it's a little cool. There's a lot of weird things there, but my mun thinks you'd probably like it - there's a bunch of flower gardens, and a forest, and an ocean, for starters.

[butterflymilk]

The then before you realized what you're doing.

That sounds amazing!

[thneedifestdestiny]

Uh. Right. Okay. I'm just gonna be over here nodding like that makes any sense at all.

[Nod, nod, nod. How interesting and not at all crazy!]

And you sound easily amazed. It's not all sunshine and happiness and trees, you know.

[treefetish]

I always wanted a twin sister! [pause] I know we're the same person and everything, but that doesn't mean we can't be sisters, right?

[butterflymilk]

I think it's cheating if I tell you more.

I know. But what's the point in being pessimistic?

[butterflymilk]

Right! I mean, I think the same people would probably make perfect twins!

[treefetish]

Exactly! It's like you read my mind!

... Which is how twins work, I'm pretty sure, so we're already at least halfway there!

[butterflymilk]

Yeah, I think so, too! Which I guess makes sense... Heh.

Okay, what else do twins do? I don't think switching places would be that interesting for us...

[treefetish]

Hm... I think they solve mysteries, mostly. [this makes perfect sense]

[butterflymilk]

Sounds like fun. We need a pet, then, too.

[treefetish]

Can we get a talking dog?

[butterflymilk]

I think it's the best choice, don't you?

[thneedifestdestiny]

[Just, this face. Forever.]

Pessimism prepares you for when weird things happen, like Wonderland biggering you to two and a half stories tall, or having a freaky mirror double of yourself that steals your stuff.

[whichwayyoulean]

Well, doesn't he come off as kind of weird to you?

Or is that just how all future kids are? [Playing your Donkey Kongs]