John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Roxy Lalonde, Calliope, Jane Crocker, Terezi Pyrope
Act 6, page 7682-7685
JOHN: ok! now that, uh... THAT little episode seems to be over...
JOHN: roxy, maybe you can introduce us to your friend for real this time?
JOHN: (rose, i think you can come out from under the pillow now.)
ROSE: No!
ROXY: yeh! um
ROXY: so like the hilarious cheshire cat rose already pointed out
ROXY: this is my friend from the dead callie & shes super pretty
CALLIOPE: u_u;
ROXY: she was my web friend onlines for a long time and janes too
ROXY: jane u just saw her but here she is again alive and everything!
JANE: Hi! So good to see you again.
CALLIOPE: yes, likewise jane!
JANE: And without your trollsona, no less.
JANE: This is your true form, I presume?
CALLIOPE: ...
JANE: I think both Roxy and the enthusiastic cat girl are correct.
JANE: Your natural appearance is quite handsome!
CALLIOPE: gosh.
CALLIOPE: i'm sorry, i do not know how to reply to sUch remarks.
CALLIOPE: maybe it is becaUse i can't bring myself to agree, no matter how nice it is for yoU to say so.
ROXY: i hear ya
ROXY: takin compliments can be kinda hard sometimes
ROXY: like if its a weird subject for u
ROXY: we can lay off!!
TEREZI: C4LL13, YOU 4R3 SURROUND3D BY 4SS K1SS3RS
TEREZI: YOU SHOULD 4LLOW M3 TO L1CK YOUR F4C3 SO 1 C4N M4K3 4N OBJ3CT1V3 D3T3RM1N4T1ON
JOHN: dammit terezi!
CALLIOPE: :u
TEREZI: 1T 1S TH3 ONLY W4Y W3'LL KNOW FOR SUR3
TEREZI: THOUGH 1F 1'M B31NG HON3ST, YOU SM3LL PR3TTY UGLY FROM WH3R3 1 4M ST4ND1NG
JOHN: oh my god.
JOHN: you are terrible!
TEREZI: PL34S3, JOHN
TEREZI: 1 D1D NOT M34N TH4T 1N 4N UNFL4TT3R1NG W4Y
TEREZI: 1 TH1NK H4V1NG 4 SKULL FOR 4 H34D 1S PR3TTY S1CK
TEREZI: 1F G1V3N TH3 CHO1C3, 1 M1GHT ROCK TH3 LOOK MYS3LF
TEREZI: BUT 1 WOULDN'T ST4ND FOR 4 BUNCH OF CLOY1NG W33N13S S1TT1NG 4ROUND C4LL1NG M3 PR3TTY
TEREZI: 1F TH4T'S HOW P3OPL3 R34CT3D, WH4T WOULD 3V3N B3 TH3 PO1NT OF LOOK1NG L1K3 4 B4D4SS SKULL G1RL 1N TH3 F1RST PL4C3?
JOHN: ok, i guess that is your opinion on that, then.
JOHN: thanks for sharing, terezi.
JOHN: (don't listen to her callie, she's a weirdo.)
CALLIOPE: :U
JOHN: so, anyway, regardless of how you feel about yourself, or whatever thing a rude troll may have to say, i think you are very cute.
JOHN: even though you look a lot like your terrible brother, the fact that you are nice inside makes a huge difference!
JOHN: i think that when you're really a good person deep down instead of an evil jerk, the skull monster look becomes a lot more charming.
CALLIOPE: wow.
CALLIOPE: thank yoU.
CALLIOPE: er.
CALLIOPE: yoU...
CALLIOPE: met my brother?
JOHN: yeah!
JOHN: he's garbage.
JOHN: i'm really sorry you had to grow up with him.
CALLIOPE: me too.
JOHN: i roughed him up a bit though, so it's all good.
JOHN: ripped up his cape pretty good too.
CALLIOPE: he has a cape now?
JOHN: not anymore.
CALLIOPE: ^u^
JOHN: hey look, there it is! heh, nice.
CALLIOPE: what?
JOHN: the ring.
JOHN: i helped track it down through time for roxy, so she could give it to you.
JOHN: it's so cool to see that it works!
CALLIOPE: yes!!!
CALLIOPE: i feel so mUch more...
CALLIOPE: sUbstantial now.
JOHN: you must be a really good friend to her, for her to want to bring you back so much.
CALLIOPE: yes, she's as good a friend as i coUld ever hope for.
CALLIOPE: bUt then, since yoU helped, i sUppose i owe yoU jUst as mUch gratitUde, don't i?
JOHN: nah, not really.
JOHN: i had to save the ring anyway, and it just seemed like the right thing to do, giving it to her, since she was so worried about you.
JOHN: it should be a nice thing that is between her and you. i'm just a middle man. :)
CALLIOPE: heehee. ok. :u
JOHN: anyway, it's really nice to meet the person who finally gets to wear the highly touted ghost ring!
JOHN: it probably means you are pretty special, to end up with it.
JOHN: what do you think you will do with your life, now that you're alive and free from your jerky bro?
CALLIOPE: ooh, Uh... wow.
CALLIOPE: i hadn't thoUght aboUt it!
CALLIOPE: the idea is overwhelming, really.
JOHN: well, don't sweat it.
JOHN: you'll have a lot of time to figure it out.
JOHN: that's kind of the point of life, right? to take a lot of time floundering around, figuring stuff out.
JOHN: the answer will come to you eventually. you should just try to have fun!
ROXY: (yoo troll grouch... john is so nice agh its fuckin me up)
TEREZI: (1 KNOW)
TEREZI: (1T'S D1SGUST1NG)
JANE: Excuse me, Callie?
JANE: What happened after I woke up?
JANE: We were all following that mysterious path...
JANE: Did you and Jade discover where that led?
CALLIOPE: yes.
CALLIOPE: i met my other self.
ROXY: o so you found her then??
CALLIOPE: indeed.
CALLIOPE: or more likely, the timing in the fUrthest ring was right.
CALLIOPE: perhaps she sensed me in some way, and Untangled a path throUgh the darkness.
CALLIOPE: in other words, it feels more as thoUgh i was sUmmoned, rather than being the one to find her.
CALLIOPE: she seems tremendoUsly powerfUl.
CALLIOPE: she is also...
CALLIOPE: qUite frightening.
ROXY: frightening????
CALLIOPE: not that i think she is dangeroUs or has ill intent.
CALLIOPE: my impression was very mUch to the contrary.
CALLIOPE: still, while speaking to her...
CALLIOPE: i can't remember ever feeling so nervoUs.
CALLIOPE: not even my brother made me feel that way.
CALLIOPE: her demeanor was so severe and chilling, and so Unlike mine, i think.
JOHN: maybe that's why you felt weird?
JOHN: seeing a version of you that wasn't like you at all?
CALLIOPE: maybe.
ROSE: So what happened?
CALLIOPE: not mUch.
CALLIOPE: my presence there essentially freed her from that place, according to a pact she made with echidna.
CALLIOPE: she and jade then left. to do what, i do not know.
CALLIOPE: that is when roxy foUnd me. ^u^
ROSE: So, you were only there to release her?
ROSE: Are you sure there isn't something important for you to do, now that you're alive and with us?
CALLIOPE: i doUbt it.
CALLIOPE: for one thing, i have virtUally no UsefUl abilities. u_u
ROSE: I don't mean to badger you. I'm just wondering how you fit into all this.
ROSE: Getting to wear a one-of-a-kind ring, and returning to join a group about to wage a pivotal battle,
ROSE: That strikes me as the profile of someone meant to do something important.
ROSE: What do you think you'll do?
JOHN: maybe it doesn't have to work that way though?
JOHN: what if those are just some facts about her, which let her come back to life, but they don't have to mean anything other than that.
JOHN: like anything about having to do some huge fancy thing.
ROSE: I guess so.
ROSE: First Dave tells me human beings don't have "arcs", and now you're telling me the culmination of an epic doesn't require a messianic archetype to return from the dead, thereby providing the key to everyone's salvation?
ROSE: I wonder what sturdy and time-tested narrative construct Jade is going to debunk whenever she wakes up. Maybe she will lay waste to the notion of endgame ships?
ROSE: Karkat won't be happy about that.
JOHN: huh??
JOHN: ok, i don't know what stuff you're going on about there, but i just don't think she should feel like she has to do anything she doesn't want to.
CALLIOPE: i think the trUth is, i won't be doing mUch of anything.
CALLIOPE: my other self told me as mUch.
CALLIOPE: her advice was to jUst live, and...
CALLIOPE: exist as the version of Us for whom that is an actUal possibility.
CALLIOPE: she's the one who will be doing important things.
ROSE: How so?
CALLIOPE: she didn't say.
ROSE: Isn't that just how it always is with alt-selves.
ROSE: So cryptic.
ROXY: hey guys its been cool having yall meet callie and such but
ROXY: do you think she and i could have a moment alone?
ROXY: got some stuff i wanna talk about!
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All animals precure fun moments:
- Minato/Cure Splash being best buddies with Kururun, and Laura has to keep stealing them back at the all stars meets
- Ame/Cure Kindness doesn't have magic attacks, but she keeps forgetting to tell people about Tora, the largish actual (maybe magic adjacent) tiger that appears when she whistles (but isn't so good at disappearing again)
- Hyperactive Chizuru/Cure Chirp keeps walking/running/flying into doors/windows etc. she's fine. Mostly
- Haruna/Cure Canter is a certified Adult™ and excellent (even competitive) horse rider, but the entire team is in immediate agreement that she's a terrible driver. The combined teams have to take a conventional drive somewhere, and Ageha wonders why they're all so keen to ride with her.
- Ame has busted Komugi and Nyammy's animal planning shenanigans by understanding what they're saying.
- Sukeru (the all animals Bbeg) actually does stop and talk with Ame sometimes. One time he finds her feeling down about stuff, talks, and still decides to take advantage of the moment and summon a monster to hit her whilst she's down. But Ame spots the monster and immediately goes into fangirl mode. "Is that a giant isopod?!!!" "What." Ame instant mood change. She's buzzing about it, "OMG! *(Fuss around the creature, running commentary about it's features)* Eeeeeeee!!!!" Insta-transforms, and picks it up, holding it above her head. "I gotta show Minato!!!!" Bbeg "wait-" aaaand she's already gone. This happens more than once with different creatures and the team.
- The All Animals team love the Tropical Rouge girls. Are very enthusiastic whenever they meet them, which Manatsu loves. They meet up for summer holidays sometimes.
- "Since when do flamingo's breathe fire?!"
- Sayako's ability to land on and skate across water always throws everyone. Is great until she needs to dodge a fireball.
- Common occurrence: [team trying to do normal everyday teenager struggling with life or trying to save the environment stuff][things are almost going well for a change. Someone maybe even makes a comment about not being interrupted this time][they hear the roars of a monster attack in the background, or someone comes up to them telling them of a monster incursion they can't ignore]: Ame, resigned "...of course it/there is."
- Ongoing competition between the cures as to who's been launched the furthest. Ame/Kindness is in the lead because of that one time she was knocked halfway across the country. Minato/Splash keeps trying to argue she was sent to the moon, but there's still some disagreement as to whether she actually went there or not.
- Ame/Kindness being dragged through the background by escaped animal/monster 7683. This is a regular occurrence.
- At all stars meets: "Tora, No!" (Tora surreptitiously trying to eat or eye up eating one of the fairies.)
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