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[onlyanapple]

Who: Crowley and YOU
Broadcast: Fleet wide
Action: Malum
When: Forward dated to the 10th

[Crowley can be found behind the bar as normal. Unlike normal, however, he isn't here to give you a stupid time consuming network game, or pose a stupid drinking game or riddle. It's not a day for that kind of thing.

He manages to remain pretty laconic, uncaring - but today he is anything but. He also has a very large bottle of wine he's already half polished off. ]

So, today marks exactly ten years since I last saw home. Not just being here, of course. Adding in all my time in that fucking castle, too. It's a fart in the wind, time-wise, really. I've had longer naps.

[He's always been very vocal about not missing home. Hell is back home, recovering after the near apocalypse and waiting to see if they find him and punish him for what he did. Aziraphale has always been someone who's shown up once in a while, hung about for a bit and then vanished off home again. But...but, it's been an awfully long time since he last saw the angel. And for the first time in a long, long time, he's starting to feel a tug of homesickness.]

...But I guess ten years still counts for something, huh?

Comments

[jolting]

[Maybe if you picture him with a British accent?]

Same. Sort of. I lived in one world for years and was in another one just before I got here. I haven't seen my home world in... I guess about thirty years or so, technically.

[onlyanapple]

[THAT WOULD HELP.]

Huh, was your other world one of these kidnapp-y places? There's a lot of people here who've done the rounds with them.

[jolting]

They both were. Though the second time around, you could leave at any time. Storybrooke doesn't have that option.

[onlyanapple]

Most of them don't. The option to actually leave by choice is something I haven't heard much of.

[jolting]

So what would happen if you tried?

[onlyanapple]

Here? Whatever ship we'd try to break out with would just drag us right back towards the Marsiva once we got too far out. Bit like an invisible bungee chord, you know.

[jolting]

That doesn't sound so bad. Better than turning into a tree, anyway.

[onlyanapple]

...You've been to a place that legitimately turns you into a tree if you try to leaf?

[YEAH. HE SAID IT. There's a smirk playing at his lips.]

[jolting]

[He smirks a little. Stupid joke, but he'll take it]

Yep. The first time, bad things happened. Like you got in a car accident, or you were kidnapped. The second time, you lost your memories. The tree thing was the third time.

There was always something to keep us in town.

[onlyanapple]

Wow. That's...pretty messed up. The place I was in before this? It would just eventually drive you crazy. Like it would sing in your head until you managed to break past it or you just got driven back to the castle. People managed to make a living out beyond it- but it was a mess out there. No powers. No coming back from the dead. Most people just stayed where they had a roof over their heads.

[jolting]

You could come back from the dead? [Yep that's the part he's focusing on]

[onlyanapple]

Yup. That's a thing both here and in Paradisa. You're usually dead a week here, then suddenly, boom, you're back.

You couldn't do it where I come from originally. Or...at least, regular mortals couldn't.

[jolting]

And the people who come back... they're fine? There's no weird side-effect that lingers?

[onlyanapple]

Apparently they feel pretty shitty after it happens, but that's about it. You'd have to ask around for specifics, it can't happen to me so-

[jolting]

They just feel "shitty". Unbelievable. [Just because he doesn't raise the dead anymore doesn't mean he can't be salty about it coming so easily to other worlds]

[onlyanapple]

What can I say? Atroma don't want to make it too awful. They'd probably lose viewers.

[jolting]

[He lets out a long sigh] I don't suppose you know anyone who's died and come back recently?

[onlyanapple]

Not anyone that springs to mind. You can always ask around, if you're of a morbid mind to do so.

[jolting]

I will. Thanks for the information.

[onlyanapple]

No problem. Good luck with your whatever.