Let's stretch these OC muscles, oooh yeah.

[inequal]

And away we go! Round two, is it? Hopefully to be a much more successful and profitable run. Don't give me that look, profit comes in many shapes and sizes as we both well know. I'll miss the body, that part was fun. Sleep, now there's a thing you can grow attached to.

Doesn't bother me, anyway. As long as Ken is with me, there's no reason to be a sourpuss about it, now is there? Just don't leave me alone with any doppelgängers, or I'll have to rescind all promises of good behaviour. Only disappointment of mine is that I won't have one of those dæmons for my own... wonder what she'd have been like? Or maybe he? ... no? Already been done? Well, don't let me intrude on originality.

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[secondguessing]

It gets a bit grating at times, in all honesty.

[inequal]

Which part? There are just so many to choose from.

[secondguessing]

Mm, the part about . . . your soul hovering on the outside and telling you things. And hitting you. With her wings.

[inequal]

Wings? Not surprised in the least. What about the other times?

[secondguessing]

Why not surprised?

That's . . . most of the time. But sometimes we [ read together ] don't argue, I suppose.

/steals a joke, why not

[inequal]

Angels. Wings. Seems kind of a natural progression, wouldn't you say?

This only leads me to believe you to be a very conflicted person on the inside (now on the outside), Aziraphale. I should hope you'll do your best to prove me wrong; it would just be silly to be so transparent.

you stole my joke to use on my character HOW RUDE

[secondguessing]

If you say so. It seems a bit literal, for souls.

One of the perils of the external soul. But I will try my very best to surprise you.

[disparates]

Probably would've been like you. Loud and colourful.

...Parrot?

[inequal]

No, no, what about those lizards? You know—you know the ones. Rascally little things.

[ Hi, Ken. You're getting a Liamblanket over your shoulder. ]

[disparates]

Not like you at all, darling. Perhaps you should take mine instead. Not like a bird at all.

[He is okay with this because Liamblanket is always happening when he is around.]

[inequal]

Oh, what, and you think I am? Never been one much to go flying free and all that.

[ The only sadness is that a Liamblanket does not help anyone stay warm. ]

[disparates]

With the way you pop in and out, yes.

[But that's what real blankets are for. Liamblankets are for snuggles.]

[inequal]

Wouldn't exactly term that as flying. More like falling in-ways. Still... I can see a bird for you, not too hard.

[ Point excellently made, since that is exactly what's happening right now. ]

[featherdream]

You would not have a dæmon?

[inequal]

Nope. Apparently that ship sails once you die. My soul's already out of my body, as it were.

[featherdream]

Ah, I see. Well. There will unfortunately be plenty of scrutinizing looks.

Do you have a body of your own, then?

[inequal]

Something like. I can appear to anyone I want, though actually touching things is a great deal... trickier.

[featherdream]

I would imagine. Is it a force of will sort of thing?

[inequal]

That and skill. Practice. Not every ghost can do it and even more lose themselves before they can get better.

[whatsupcroc]

Just like you, if you really want to know. Of course that depends on how well you know yourself!

[inequal]

I'd say very well for how long I've been around to learn. [ He smiles. ] She'd have been a firecracker, then.

[whatsupcroc]

Then I'm really sorry none of us got a chance to meet her. How's it been hanging around since you died and all?

[inequal]

You'd have to be a bit more specific in your inquiry. That's quite a lot of time to cover, otherwise.

[whatsupcroc]

I guess that means we should start with how long you've been dead!

[inequal]

Going on fifty-five years now. I'll be there in August. Which, I guess isn't as long as you might expect of a ghost, but it's still an entire lifetime, yeah?