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May is an esper and Lucy is dealing with my magical girl brainrot
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"Kitty, spell the guy's name for me -" Google.

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Massachusetts didn't abolish the death penalty until the eighties so nope.

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"Electric chair, sorry."

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"Oh well. We'll see if the impulse is still there when we scale resurrection to the point where it makes sense to get even him." 

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"That would be such an exciting level of scaling!"

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"Well, you know, I don't have any plans to die again, and I'm only going to get more abilities over time, I'm not going to just leave anyone dead forever."

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"Hm, but if you don't scale very well you might wind up with the population growing faster than the resurrection capacity."

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"Even if I completely failed to scale resurrection I'm sure I could figure out a way to scale making people immortal."

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"Then whether you get around to him might depend on how many other universes there are to go immortalize!"

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"Well, that's true, but--if I never get around to that guy--I mean, he sucks, but he's not the worst person ever. If I never get around to him then there's whole bunches of people who stay dead forever, and I'm not interested in accepting that."

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"I hope you find a way to scale it! But it would be weird if there were, like, exactly a hundred and seven universes all of which have had a you in them at some point who specifically died-or-whatever? It'd be weirdly specific. It seems more likely there's zillions, maybe more of them all the time. At some point exploring more universes and gobbling up their magic is going to be a more promising approach than resurrecting people at a steady drip and there's no guarantee either approach will work."

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"That's true. But there are probably mes who didn't die, right, that'd be weird if there weren't, and I can't be the only person interested in solving death. Like, yeah, the project could be impossibly big in scope, but--I think until it is confirmed to be so I'd rather not borrow too much trouble."

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"Fair enough!"

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"At some point I'm going to have to look into if there's anyone I knew back then who's still alive and who I should let know I'm okay."

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"Anyone you want to check now as opposed to after I have had a chance to introduce you to your phone?"

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"It's gone this long already, a little longer won't hurt."

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"...if your mom or brother from here is still alive would they... agglomerate upon death, or... how would that work."

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"--Uh, good question. If there's anyone from the soul garden who's alive, I can give them their soul-glass and they can absorb their other selves, but...if there's anyone from in the basement I don't know."

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"Would they... definitely want to absorb their other selves."

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"Well, that--if they don't do that then their other selves stay dead? And their other selves are them? And most people don't want to be dead? Um."

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"Right, but I can imagine someone thinking, like, well, here I am, already not dead, and this weird person from another universe wants me to absorb a magical artifact which would reportedly give me memories of my alternate lives but that sounds weird and scary?"

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"No yeah that was, uh, me realizing I had been typical minding a bit."

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"If you had me in there - you don't, as far as you know, right, I don't seem familiar even adjusting for backlash? - then I'd probably be interested but I would at least take some convincing, I like to know more about what's going on before I make major life changes."

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"No, I don't think so. Actually, I did have a thought earlier, for something to do with soul-glass where there wasn't an existing relevant alt, which is--depending on how the transition from a dungeon monster to an ex-dungeon monster works, I might be able to rig something up so that a monster cut off from its dungeon absorbs a piece of glass and becomes that person, instead of a randomly generated new person. But that of course only works if the new person is randomly generated, and not in some way meaningfully continuous with their dungeony self, or in some other way there's a specific person who would be being overwritten." 

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"They don't all talk, and they also don't all last sans dungeon, Cricket's not unique but he is special."

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