canon: lenore the cute little dead girl

[embalmed]

I don't wanna go to that weird place.
It looks stupid.
It looks stupider than stupid.

There's a gross scientist man there too, right? What if he opens up my head and takes out my brain?
Or pokes it? I don't want some gross scientist man touching my brain at all.

And I can't bring Ragamuffin, either! It'd be dumb without Ragamuffin there, he's a lot of fun and that place isn't!

I mean, other than all the monsters and toys there. And I can bring my kitties, too...

[... STOMPS.]

Stop making this stupid tower look... not so stupid!

Comments

[darkisnotevil]

I don't think you can really change your mun's mind that easily if she's set on it...

[embalmed]

I can so. [Huff!]

I just need to find something that annoys her and do it a lot.
Like when you say "cow" so much that it doesn't sound like a word anymore, that annoys people.
And if you do it forever, that would get people to stop doing stupid things!

[darkisnotevil]

Wouldn't you annoy yourself in the process?

[embalmed]

I can't annoy myself, that's dumb.

I'm around me a lot, I usually know what makes me annoyed or what I'm gonna do!
Usually.

Sometimes I surprise myself.

[darkisnotevil]

This could be one of those sometimes. Maybe.

I dunno.

[embalmed]

[And she's suddenly really, really quiet; before her face splits into a grin.]

I like you!

[isolates]

Just accept it. Sometimes the dumber a place looks, the more your mun wants to send you there.

[embalmed]

But that's...

Well, dumb. Why would a mun thing want to do something that we think is really really dumb?

[A pause.]

There's got to be a better word than "dumb" for this.

[isolates]

I dunno. There's something wrong with all of them.

[Hmm.]

Idiotic? Moronic? Ridiculous? Incredibly lame?

[embalmed]

Dopey, too. And half-brained. Dimwitted, silly, and dense.
Vacuous, daft, imbecilic, numbskulled, feeble-minded, obtuse, inane, and...

Mostly just really stupid.

[She has more words for it, too - she just doesn't feel like thinking them up.]

I like words.

[isolates]

[He's never really thought much about them but--]

Words can be useful, yeah.

[Especially when you use them to make fun of people.]

Not sure how all those are gonna help you with your mun though.

[embalmed]

... I guess they won't, but that doesn't make them less fun.

If I go to that tower place, would I meet you there?

tora no...

[isolates]

Ugh, I hope not but my mun's already getting ideas. I like where I am now but she says she's worried that it won't last much longer so that's why she's considering.

i think you mean tora yes....

[embalmed]

I think it would be more fun if you're there, kid!

You're fun, too.

pretty sure it's no...

[isolates]

No way, that place looks too troublesome to be any fun. That eyepatch guy she already has there is constantly moping. It's so annoying to see!

shh just accept it...

[embalmed]

We could have fun together. I know lots of games we can play, and my mun guy said there's animals there, too!

Like cats, and fish, and other stuff.
I bet there's chickens there, too - I could make you chicken soup when you're sick!

but why...

[isolates]

Yeah, chicken soup sure does outweigh the fact that there are monsters there. [Eyeroll!!!] I think I've had enough of my life being put on the line as it is.

because...

[embalmed]

...

[She blinks a bit.]

That's not a bad thing, it's just annoying. Being dead's not so bad, you just gotta get used to all the weird stuff.

punches...

[isolates]

I don't want to deal with what she's planning for me though. [A frustrated groan.] Not like whining about it here is going to help.

But... how do you know what it's like to be dead?

punches back...

[embalmed]

[And that gets a laugh.]

Because life kicks you in the ass at the worst times.
I've been dead for a...

[... Wait, she has to count.]

The year I tossed that cat out the window, the year the neighbor exploded, that year I ran Mr. Gosh over with a lawnmower... Um.
Lots of years. Maybe even a hundred!

how rude...

[isolates]

...That's a long time to be dead. So you just stick around after dying? Are you a ghost then?

[Shh, he's used to people disappearing forever when they die, okay.]

[embalmed]

Nuh-uh. I'm just dead.

I stick around because I have lots of friends. Like you!

[You're her friend no matter what, sorry Yuuta.]

[isolates]

What? How can I be your friend? We've never even spoken before this!

Also just being dead doesn't makes sense!! Are you a zombie then if you're not a ghost?

[embalmed]

Well, you're fun. I like fun guys, so I want you to be my friend.

And I'm embalmed!
Some man tried to embalm me, but I just kind of woke up in the middle.

[isolates]

[Still doesn't make any sense to him. Both of the things she says.]

You're weird.