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[zazz]

[He's been in the City a few days, and he still appears to be wearing the expensive suit he showed up in, though now it's all wrinkled and stained from days and nights of wearing it without wash. But for most people this is the first time seeing Pickles, and he seems to be standing in a lamp store, and he looks majorly peeved about something. Something imperative.]

Seriously?? Have none of yew fuckin' mouthbreathers even heard of Dethklahk??!

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[necronomicod]

Not at all! Only the royalty and nobility, who are the sea trolls!

[zazz]

Oh, neat, so yer like a li'l mermaid. Mertroll? Mertrollmaid. With horns. That's pretty metal, like somethan' out of one of Nate's songs. Yew ever get murdered?

[necronomicod]

*And she suddenly looks kind of sad!* Um.

Whale, yes. Actually.

[zazz]

Heh, no fair fuckin' around back when I'm jest fuckin' around with yew.

[Hard to take such an allegation seriously when the person is alive and talkin' to him, yeah?]

[necronomicod]

I'm not, though! I really was krilled! Booom, right through the cartilaginous cage and everything! *Her hand comes right to the center of her chest.*

[zazz]

I think that's called a chest and it looks pretty whole to me, kiddo.

[necronomicod]

Whale it's whole now. I was a ghost! And that sort of stuff doesn't last when you're a ghost!

[zazz]

But yer naht a mertrollmaid ghost now, though?

[necronomicod]

Nope! I'm not even a little bit of that!

Just a squishy, kind of brown human!

[zazz]

Huh, weird. Heh, either yew have a really awesome and morbid imagination or things're more fucked up here than I thought, either way, I like yew, kid. Which is a compliment, since most kids're fucking li'l devils sent from hell to torture me.

[necronomicod]

I like me, too! And I think I like you, also! It's fun to meet new people, isn't it? It's really exciting!

[zazz]

Nah, I hate meeting new people usually, all their chattering and smells, yanno? Pretty hard to stand fer more than the second it takes to scribble an autograph. But I dun have much of a choice here, do I?

[necronomicod]

Um. No, I don't know! That's not how I'd think of it at all!

Every new person you meet is a story there to learn, right?

[zazz]

But most people's stories seem ta be aboot how people suffer and fart around at work and what stupid thing their cat did and takin' pictures of the food they're aboot to eat like we're all supposed to care. At least, that's what the internet tells me. Yew like hearin' those stories?

[necronomicod]

I shore do! It's really exciting to meet new people and learn about them! You don't ever get that as the heiress to the throne on Alternia!

[zazz]

Heh, yer fuckin' weird, kid.

Ooh, so yer a mermaid princess, too? That makes the mermaider even more brootal.

[necronomicod]

I am! I was the heir apparent to the Alternian throne, and--

--wait, the what?

[zazz]

Mermaider. Yanno, mermaid murder.

[necronomicod]

I... guess that makes sense! We don't call ourselves mermaids so that's just not a word we'd use, but that's kind of what it was.

[zazz]

Who killed ya? Was it bloody? Did yew deserve it?

[necronomicod]

*Oh wow, Pickles. She's visibly deflating.* I... I don't think I deserved it! It was... the person used to be a friend of mine, and he'd hurt someone I was really close to, so I tried to stop him.

I don't know if it was very bloody or not; I don't remember anything after it happening.

[zazz]

[Aw, but he thinks it's cool and interesting, buck up, kiddo!]

Did yew take him down with ya? Yew seem like yew could be scrappy. The cute ones're always deceptive like that.

[He learned that after seeing Toki smash a guy's face in. Life lessons like that are priceless.]

[necronomicod]

No, it was... a bit too quick for that! I had my 2x3dent all ready to go, but a hole shot through your cartilaginous cage kind of puts a stop to that...!

He got a friend of mine, too. But she came back as a rainbow drinker and dealt with him like he had to be dealt with.

[zazz]

Yeh, I guess that makes sense, I dun think I'd survive a hole like that in mine either and I'm very tough.

Rainbow drinker? Is that, like, a euphemism fer, yanno...do people turn gay when they die in yer world or...is it jest a euphemism fer eatin' Skittles.

[necronomicod]

No, no! It means, she, uh. She has to drink peoples' blood for food from now on!

We call them rainbow drinkers because of all the different blood colors on Alternia. Here you just have the one!