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Andi is annoyed by all this not having alts she's doing. Bella comes in singlet, so maybe she does too. They should look. C'monnnn. It's not, like, urgent or anything, but she thinks she is pretty neat and there should be more of her.
Eclipse peals
eclipsi
"Aurum has two kinds of species-specific pairbonding things, there's more people with Boots's powers, Warp has some species with psi abilities but Boots pretty much categorically outclasses them all, Wish can throw mind-altering wishes and mind-altering powers if you become a magic rock but Gem's careful about wishes that might do that, spellbinders are pretty flexible but do have particular trouble with mind-affecting spells in general compared to other things, Edda contains the Mind and Soul stones which are the ones Loki is not advised to try operating, and there are Yeerks who are not magic but are mind-controlly, did the dossier contain a footnote or anything -?"
eclipsi
"Yeah I just don't know if it has 'and then there's Ristrell, who is a Yeerk' or if it has 'and then there's Ristrell, who is a Yeerk, which are like this'."
eclipsi
"Yeerks are the small horrifying aliens who were invading Butterfly's Earth. Their empire has been conquered and all Yeerks are currently under much more neighborly jurisdiction. They're slug-like, yea big," gesture, "and parasitic in the sense that in order to do things other than be aquatic slugs they crawl in people's ears and wrap around their brains and apprehend their contents astonishingly fast and pilot the bodies however they like from there."
eclipsi
"Yeah. Butterfly too but his was worse, she had very nearly a best-case involuntary Yeerking scenario - Butterfly's Yeerk has since permanently shapeshifted human and lives in Cube's Israel - and Matirin was not Yeerked for very long but it was long enough for the Yeerk to use him to kill his Tyelcormë alt."
Shudder. "...Tyelcormë also might marry an alt of hers, come to think of it, it's going to be an epidemic."
eclipsi
"I can get in principle how alts of me would work with each other but it's an extra inferential step in my case because I'm pretty sure I don't come in sub even if you found a dozen Eclipse-style planets."
eclipsi
"Island thinks you and me only work because I found you early and it wouldn't have worked if you were older."
"I mean, apparently I find someone? If I was happily in a relationship I'd - still pine, but I'd get over it a lot faster -"
eclipsi
"Island didn't get over it at all, instead polyamory happened. But not before he managed to mortally offend Kib and need Pterodactyl to rescue him."
Only a tiny bit. "...hmm, okay, so if you'd landed on us later - I would gush endlessly to Findekáne about how you were the best human in the world and the way she plays Governor and I think I'm in love, that bit's plausible, but Findekáne would probably not go 'that does sound like a very crushable person, I am not melodramatic and deeply closeted so I shall ask her out' - because, like, I'd be miserably jealous and she'd anticipate as much -"
"So much! I do wish it worked out because 'most of your alts are happily married to theirs' is quite an endorsement of a person but probably I would have just written a lot of melodramatic songs and then been fine - until you found a sub, and then written more melodramatic songs..."
eclipsi
"I wonder just how much creative output is permanently squirreled away never to see the light of day, privately ode-ing this or that unattainable... Anyway the population of Eclipse is unusually polyamorous but I don't think I am, I didn't pass 'sharing' in kindergarten."