I considered Leena's question, starting to perk up a little. "Hmmm. Let's find out."
Time from "Wait, I'm dead?" to "Ooh, I have cool ghost powers!", five minutes.
I'm glad Cassie explained why JB suddenly jumped off a cliff, because nobody has bothered to ask JB, even though you'd think it might be on their minds.
Maybe they couldn't figure out how to make it not awkward.
"So the whole jumping off the cliff thing....that thing where you died...you know how you jumped off a cliff and now you're a ghost? ...never mind there's no good way to ask."
They made a pattern of DNA based on assumptions, and then combined it with mine...
I feel like this might have been influenced by Jurassic Park and "We don't have enough dinosaur DNA, so let's fill it in with bits of other animal DNA."
“Mushroom-brains here wants to know what you have to talk to her about that’s so important,” Star said scornfully.
I was going to go "Ah, that teen fanfic thing where being rude to a character involves thinking of exactly one insult, which is not very stinging", but to be fair, young Riona used "mushroom head" and "mushroom-brains".
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Time from "Wait, I'm dead?" to "Ooh, I have cool ghost powers!", five minutes.
Maybe they couldn't figure out how to make it not awkward.
"So the whole jumping off the cliff thing....that thing where you died...you know how you jumped off a cliff and now you're a ghost? ...never mind there's no good way to ask."
I feel like this might have been influenced by Jurassic Park and "We don't have enough dinosaur DNA, so let's fill it in with bits of other animal DNA."
I was going to go "Ah, that teen fanfic thing where being rude to a character involves thinking of exactly one insult, which is not very stinging", but to be fair, young Riona used "mushroom head" and "mushroom-brains".