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[wirsinddiejager]

[When the video feed opens, the first thing to note about Alan's appearance is that he is covered in glitter. The second is that he's dressed to clean. The third is that he looks very, very worried.]

Does anyone here know how to get fairy dust off things? Octavia was practicing her flying and...

[He moves aside to show that the glitter is not just on him, the room he's in is also full of it. As he does, he turns his back on the camera, revealing a sparkly handprint on his butt.]

I need to get rid of this before my mom comes back, but it's taking forever. This stuff really sticks to everything. And I never realised how much dust there is everywhere, I'm never gonna get the place clean enough...

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[wirsinddiejager]

No way, I can't just leave it here! And I'm pretty sure she wouldn't buy that.

[Normally he would have plenty of things to say about the insult, but right now he's just too distraught.]

[siesinddasessen]

I'm sure you could make it convincing, so why can't you leave it?

[wirsinddiejager]

I...

[He hasn't actually thought about that. Why not?]

I don't really know why? But I really can't.

[siesinddasessen]

Ah?

[Sounding

like you are the biggest idiot unless you explain yourself very well now, and you should definitely do that if you don't want to disappoint youerself alongside with your mother and the whole world. And also get beaten up.

The wonders of what a single syllable can convey.]

[wirsinddiejager]

Uh.

[Strangely enough, the tone of that single syllable resonates with Alan's current state of panic. Especially the part about getting beaten up.]

I think. It might be an echo thing? I mean, I never gave a shit about cleaning before.

[siesinddasessen]

[shall she come over to cancel that echo feeling out with sheer height

give her a moment, brb laughing]

You echoed having been a cleaner in your former life?

[As far as unexciting preincarnations go, that is like. The least exciting that she has ever heard of. Sure, not everyone can have been a queen or king, but cleaning personnel...]

[wirsinddiejager]

No, I haven't remembered anything about cleaning! I was a soldier, not a cleaner!

[And a lot of his echoes have actually been the opposite of clean.]

[siesinddasessen]

Maybe you were dishonourably discharged and had to find a new job.

And then you realized that it was your real calling.

[wirsinddiejager]

I really don't think that's likely since I'm pretty sure I remember dying. And I don't mean in some crazy cleaning accident.

[siesinddasessen]

Maybe you were resurrected to clean up after yourself.

[She's basically unhelpfully bullshitting now. Because she has ten more minutes to kill before she gets to her destination.]

[wirsinddiejager]

...Honestly I wouldn't even be surprised if that was the case. Wouldn't be any dumber than some of the other shit that's been coming up.

[siesinddasessen]

Dumber than being resurrected to clean up the mess that your death left behind? Do tell.

[wirsinddiejager]

My girlfriend's past self was apparently lesbian fairy pirate jesus.

[siesinddasessen]

I wasn't aware that those things go together.

Well, the lesbian pirates aside, maybe.

[wirsinddiejager]

That's not even the craziest past life shit I've heard about. From what I can tell, basically none of our lives made any sense.

[siesinddasessen]

[She makes a short, humming sound, somewhere between bored and agreement. Considering that she apparently didn't have blood in her former life, from what she can tell at the moment, that is not something that she would deny at all.

But it's not like she would run around and tell strangers about that.]

...so how did you die?

[wirsinddiejager]

I got eaten.

[It gets easier to say every time. He's almost used to the idea by now.]

[siesinddasessen]

[there is a short pause, almost as if Blaine subconsciously waits for something to happen - maybe she doesn't, that is out there enough to trigger an echo - but then she just continues on her merry way.]

If you tried to brush that being's teeth on the way down, you'd know that you already had your cleaning fetish in your former life.

[wirsinddiejager]

-It's not a fetish!

[siesinddasessen]

Tic, then. Quirk.

[wirsinddiejager]

Somehow I get the feeling past me wasn't obsessed enough with cleaning to worry about titan oral hygiene.

[siesinddasessen]

Too bad. I'm sure it would have helped with their bad breath. [Not that she has any idea.]

[wirsinddiejager]

I don't think anything would have helped with that. [Alan does have an idea. Let him tell you all about it.]

[siesinddasessen]

You can never say without trying.

Better echo one back and find out what you can do.

[Hanji would approve of this plan.]

[wirsinddiejager]

You know, I think I can live without knowing if I can unstink a titan's breath. It's not a big dream of mine, you know?