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[sparklequeen]

I've... never been killed. I just know my mother didn't age.

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we don't age either, apparently, but it's more like a healing factor. did joe explain how it works for us?

[sparklequeen]

yeah. you can't be killed permanently, you don't age.

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it makes fighting easier when you can come back from shit like a broken neck

but that's about the only easy thing about it

[sparklequeen]

I can imagine.

Nothing about it seems that easy.

[riskless]

i haven't really had a lot of time to really sit down with it all yet

i don't think it's easy regardless of the mechanics

[sparklequeen]

no, i don't think it is either. thinking about it, it seems really hard.

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some of the people with me... they've been alive for so long, it's still kinda unfathomable that i might be around that long too

how old was your mom?

[sparklequeen]

I... don't actually know. Older than my dad. He would probably be in his fifties now, if he was still here. I think... Mom must have been over a hundred? Maybe older? We never really celebrated birthdays.

Not hers anyway.

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he wasn't immortal too?

seems like it'd be hard to be with someone, unless they were the same way

[sparklequeen]

No, my dad aged like like anyone else, as far as I know. He died when I was very young.

But yeah, it does seem like that would be hard. I know my mom loved him a lot.

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my dad died when i was a kid too, but no immortality was involved on my parents' part.

is there a way for you to know for sure whether or not your mom passed it along? not here, obviously, but whenever you're home again.

[sparklequeen]

I don't know. There probably is, but I wasn't thinking about it much before I met Joe, which I guess is weird. Too much other stuff on my mind.

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is it common in your world? because otherwise it doesn't seem that weird to not think of it much

[sparklequeen]

Not particularly, as far as I know of.

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yeah, there's only about 5 of us from the sound of it. i don't think the number gets much higher than 4 or 5, from what andy and the rest have told me

immortality was just the stuff out of fiction before i died and woke up, you know? it's hard to conceptualize until it happens

[sparklequeen]

It's never been fiction for me, exactly, but it's never felt so immediate. I can see how wrapping your head around it would be hard.

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andy only introduced me to all of it after kidnapping me, so it's safe to say they've kept it under wraps pretty well

but i don't think there's one single way to handle it

[sparklequeen]

I got one of my best friends by kidnapping her, so I get it. Kind of?

No, I don't think there is. Everyone is going to have their own way of dealing with it./span>

[riskless]

she shot me in the head to prove i couldn't die anymore, but we're good now, so i can't even say kidnapping is always a bad idea either

doesn't mean we can't keep talking about it.

it's literally not going anywhere for us. maybe not here, but whenever we get home again. it's a lot to process.

[sparklequeen]

Oh wow that sounds like a really heavy introduction to the concept.

[ Give her a sec to process this... ]

Yeah. Maybe I'll talk to my aunt when I get home. If I get home.

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it wasn't my first death, technically. that one was a little more gruesome than the gunshot.

[ neck trauma abounds! ]

i meant us too. like an ongoing thing. it'll probably be good for the both of us, especially since we're a little new to really sitting with the reality of forever.

if you want

[sparklequeen]

I think I'd like that, yeah. We can get together over some tea or something?

[riskless]

sounds good to me. you know nicky yet too? he makes a good tea, he'd probably brew us some

[sparklequeen]

Joe's husband, right? We've talked over the network a few times.