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[The new curse has resulted in the Villa gaining one (1) formidable-looking resident Responsible Adult(TM), a nine-foot tall being shrouded in a full-length black cloak and cowl, his face obliterated by mask in the shape of a characature of a skull (as depicted).

Behold, Vatheon, the visage of your new Death Personified, the identity of whom is only revealed when he at last speaks, raising two hands out of his cloak to clap them, twice.]

All right, children! It's the beginning of a new week, and I trust you all know what that means--

[For those who know him, this is Death the Kid, all "grown up". By his recollection, he's been kicking around for hundreds of years, and Death City, the place of his birth, is a distant and fond memory.]

--It's time for our field trip to the coral!

[And it seems he's taken to caring for a Villa full of young children like a fish to water. The apple, it appears, didn't fall far from his father's proverbial tree.]

Line up single file in the foyer, please. If we're done early, we can all have hot chocolate in the Plaza. Don't be late, punctuality is a virtue second only to cleanliness!

[ooc; open to action threads, too, both in the villa and around the bubble.]

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[S'up Mister Death. It's a familiar face! Ryoko had been watching the comm network, and the area outside her house, since she woke up during this curse. So she's got an idea of what is going on.

Well that and all her clothes being six inches too small ~~yeah she grew a bit, wanna fight?~~]

Hey Mister Death~, you need any help with your new ducks?

Asakura, how good of you to join us!

[Meaning, you are joining us.]

But I won't have you going in that, it's much too cold. Whatever happened to those other clothes?

[Didn't he... try to get you to wear a matching black and white (and decorative skulls) number some, oh, half a century ago? That never stopped being a thing.]

I'm fine, and none of those clothes are around!

[Of course, she wouldn't have offered to help if she wasn't coming.

Oh and she doesn't sound all to bothered by the fact that whatever it is Kid is talking about is gone.]

You know that cold doesn't bother me too much.

Of course, of course, after all, you are a soulless alien! Don't go scaring the children now~!

[Dropping the act, Kid addresses her with more of his (albeit mostly private) sobriety.]

The bubble seems a little different today, doesn't it.

I'm not the one wearing a skull on their face.

[Oh seriousness, she missed you.]

Yes, it does. My house is not in the same state it was yesterday, nothing is working like it should, and well...

So many children are about now, isn't that strange?

It's called "setting the mood", something you could stand to learn once in a while.

[It's also not an entirely serious argument; she can pull off the likable everyman's friend like it's going out of style.]

Peculiar. But not unwelcome.

...Have you ever missed anyone, Asakura?

But ah, you see. I'm not the one calling themselves "Lord Death" here~.

[Of course not, usually when she's serious things get more... heated.

And her friendly expression changes at that question, to genuinely sad, before her screen is covered by her hand while she fiddles with the device and...

Puts up a filter to Death the Kid.]

Only one person, Kid. But unlike yours? Mine hasn't shown up today.

Let's be fair, the others started saying it first.

[And, responding through the same filter:]

Ah, it seems even you have a vulnerability. How novel.

[She makes a slight popping sound with her mouth before her smile is back in full force.]

It's not really being vulnerable when our existence is tied to each other. As long as they exist then I exist.

[Which is probably the only reason she's lived so long, or so the curse has made her think.]

I thought your existence was tied to the Entity.

[This is a new and intriguing twist. After this long, new and intriguing can be hard to come by in such combinations. But Vatheon certainly does try. On an almost weekly basis, even.]

Oh it is, but this is more of a personal connection. Like, hm...

Ah! Like twins are for humans.

[There are few subjects which can make the new Lord Death lapse into nostalgic silence. She likens her connection with that of the relationship between twins, and he thinks of a set of lovingly maintained (and yet, never used) holsters he had received once when he was young.]

I have an idea of what you mean. Go on.

My original reason for existing was to be their back up, I may have not liked it but that is how it is.

It's a bit hard to explain it!

[She laughs, man this is getting super somber here.]

While the Entity is important, I don't need it. Just that person, if that makes sense?

Their backup? Do you mean... a backup in case they failed to accomplish what was expected of them?

[Try him.]

Was it a more intrinsic connection? Or am I getting close?

Hm, no. Not like that. More like if they ever got into something beyond their skills in regards to what we're supposed to do.

[Hey, be glad she's not Nagato. She's telling it in basic short-form and not really anything deeper.]

Hm, close yes. That's probably as close as one could get with the words humans have.

Still playing coy after all these years! Well, I suppose I can't fault you for it.

[He's as prone to secrecy, the cause of more trouble than it actually prevents.]

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