[video]

[nyancrophile]

[Orin is still finishing one of her signature twin braids as she starts the video feed, smiling brightly into the camera.]

Heya! I've been settlin' in pretty nice, so I thought now's the time to say hello. Don't want it to get too awkward, right? I'm not the wallflower type so I'd really rather not put off introductions any longer...

So! Introduce yourselves to me. I was promised I'd meet a lot of real interesting people here, so make your cases, 'kay? It's not fun if you're all just a bunch of boring sad sacks.

[An idea seems to occur to her all of a sudden, and her tone suddenly becomes a little more urgent.]

By the way, is there like...a gardening or architecture club, or somethin'? A girl's gotta know. For reasons.

[Reasons like knowing if there's a club that wouldn't mind lending out a wheelbarrow or something similar out to her.]

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[nyancrophile]

Oh hey, it's my little wizard!

[Yes, that's what she's calling you now.]

You seen any wheelbarrows around?

[sugoooi]

[ WIZARD... ]

Wheelbarrows...??? Why d'you need a wheelbarrow?

[nyancrophile]

Well, it's kinda complicated...there's no corpses on campus, so I don't really have a good place to recharge and practice, yeah? So I was thinking of finding a couple...it might be hard to carry them off without a wheelbarrow. I still haven't found a place to keep 'em yet, but...once I do, I'm gonna need somethin' to fill it up!

[Wait, this sounds really bad.]

It's not like I'd be killin' 'em, or anything. To start off with, as long as I ain't fighting, something like roadkill will probably work for the time being.

[sugoooi]

[ Oh my god this went downhill so incredibly fast Sam doesn't even know where to begin. ]

You want it for dead bodies?!?

[nyancrophile]

What's with that reaction? I can't get my necromancy on if there's nothing to necromance!

[That's not even a word...]

[sugoooi]

Someone your age shouldn't be doing necromancy to begin with!! It's dead bodies, what if you catch something?! And the police would have so many questions for you if they caught you--!

[nyancrophile]

I've been necromancing [NOT A WORD] my whole life and I haven't caught anything yet! And if it's just roadkill, what do the police even have on me? Grand theft possum?

[Hold on, she has to laugh at her own dumb joke.]

Grand theft possum...

[sugoooi]

That was terrible... [ WHAT AN AWFUL JOKE.]

[nyancrophile]

Aw, c'mon! I thought it was pretty good!

[sugoooi]

It'd be funnier if you weren't actually talking about moving dead stuff! Leave the poor possums alone...

[nyancrophile]

Well, I mean, they're dead anyway...if I didn't pick 'em up, the roadkill crew would.

[sugoooi]

To be properly taken care of, not reanimated like a zombie!

[nyancrophile]

I took care of my last collection just fine! It's not like I go wastin' all my energy reanimating 'em every single day...I'd check up on 'em, find ways to make 'em more comfortable, shoot the shit about what life was like for 'em...

[Her last collection had people in it, though. A possum might have a hard time telling her how to make things more comfortable for it, what with not being able to talk and all.]

[sugoooi]

[ YEAH, ABOUT THAT. Sam blanches. ]

C...collection...

[nyancrophile]

Yeah! I get stronger the more time I spend around dead or dying people, so it's only natural I'd wanna have a place to go as a pick-me-up, right?

[sugoooi]

That's so creepy though...!! That's just using them for yourself...!

[nyancrophile]

Well, yeah, but like, isn't burying 'em using 'em for yourself too? We don't have funerals for the dead, y'know, it's to help the living feel better about dying. A long time ago people who can't talk to the dead decided what was best for them and society just sorta went with it. It's kinda interesting to talk about...some of 'em do want a funeral, but some of 'em just want someone to talk to.

[Rin Kaenbyou: corpse whisperer.]

[sugoooi]

That's what last wishes are for...! People say in their wills if they want to be buried or cremated--! [ STOP TALKING TO THE DEAD AND LEAVE THEM ALONE ]

[nyancrophile]

So you'd be okay with it if they didn't write wills? Not everybody does!

[CHEEKY GRIN.]

[sugoooi]

They usually at least tell someone what they want though...! I don't know anyone who'd wanna have their body moved around after they died!

[ STOP THAT RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE GROUNDED. ]

[nyancrophile]

But that's what the collection would be for! It's like a mass grave, y'know...like, an after-party once their life's over.

[HANG ON, ANOTHER BAD JOKE INCOMING.]

An afterlife party! Hahahaha!

[sugoooi]

Your jokes are so bad. [ SO TERRIBLE. but I laughed really hard. ]

[nyancrophile]

So bad they're good!

[No, Orin. Just bad.]

[sugoooi]

No.

You are forbidden from heckling the dead as of right now.

[nyancrophile]

I don't heckle the dead! Come oooon! What are you, my mom?