[Event Post]

[theheadmonarch]

::So, Onni, you've cornered your cousin... and you find there are two of her.

And one is unzipping her back like it's a suit, as the demon Noriko climbs out.::

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[becomeanwarrior]

Uggggh! You are so annoying, cuz! Fine!

[ Grits his teeth and closes his eyes. ...There is literally red thread spooling out behind him, hooking into an unseen corkboard that spreads out massively right behind him, various notes stapled onto it you can read, as his temple throbs with annoyance.

'Count as one Monster World'
'Incredibly Powerful'
'Need our world = still dying?'
'Doesn't that make our world a Maximum????'
'No Defense Value = fragile when not on the offensive???'
'Alternate selves, but don't all conform to the same type?? (Different timelines = different selves, selves merged together in that timeline???)'
'Would cannibalizing each other's world save the other???' ]

[theheadmonarch]

And so are you! You and Artemis are too straight laced! It's easier when you stop thinking sanely!

And keep going!

[becomeanwarrior]

Someone has to be straight-laced to make sense of your nonsense! Just think how much of a pain it would be if no one could translate what's in your damn head!

[ There are various scribbles of annoyance in the margins of the nvisible corkboard, but he continues.

'Shouldn't there be more dopplegangers?'
'Wait, the dopplegangers aren't really connected, are they? That's Echo's thing...'
'Needs to be summoned (???) with multiple worlds to be a maximum world??'
'Maybe I should headbutt her again'
'Are we part of the same Maximum???'
'If we are, does that make us the center, and their world the R/L? Or is their world the center and we're one of the R/L??' ]

[theheadmonarch]

It's not that hard to think like me or translate me! I'm incredibly simple minded! Also, those last two are the wrong direction.

::Waves her paw gloved hands.::

[becomeanwarrior]

It's incredibly hard! You don't actually make any logical sense half the time! Just because you're simple-minded doesn't mean there isn't confusion!

[ Groans. More red-webbing stretching out behind him. It's getting to be rather intense...

'Wrong direction? Opposite?'
'Is she trying to make us a single Maximum, then?'
'Or are we two different Maximums who have to fight??'
'Crisis on Infinite Earths??? Merge all worlds into one and rule over it?' ]

[theheadmonarch]

You're getting meow-ch warmer. An I make a ton of logical sense! You just have to think like me!

::Pouting.::

[becomeanwarrior]

If I have to think like you to make it make sense, that means it isn't logical!

[ Growling, frustrated. ...The red string continues to make a massive web behind him.

'Crisis on Infinite Earths is closer?'
'Which -part- makes it closer, though? Is it just trying to fuse all realities?'
'Can you Maximum Summon our world and theirs? Is that the trick???' ]

[theheadmonarch]

Yes. We're in a world created by my step daughter's essay, we're in her 'logic', why would we be logical? And the third line of inquiry is pointless.

[becomeanwarrior]

Hence why I have to translate it into something that makes logical sense! And why is it pointless? You haven't exactly given me a lot to go on!

[ 'Is it the rose garden thing? Cannibalizing our world to save hers?'
'Does making a world a 'Maximum World' change its structure (see: Aisenburn)?'
'Makes it possible to survive when otherwise they wouldn't?' ]

[theheadmonarch]

It only has to make sense to Kamala and me, and no one else. I can't give you a lot because of a binding vow.

And yes.

Yes.

And Jeremy Bermy.

[becomeanwarrior]

Right, because Shikou is actively playing the Lord there and didn't want word getting out...

[ Squeezes his eyes shut. Focusing.
> Invade our world.
> Use Otherworlders as pawns to collapse world.
> Uses energy to fuel their world.
> 'Rebirth' their world via Maximum Summon????
> ???????? ]

[theheadmonarch]

They already did the part before the underpants gnome thing but after the Gatorade section.

[becomeanwarrior]

I hate that I understood that. I hope you know this, cuz.

[ 'World is already a Maximum Summon - why does it need us?'
'Still dying - still needs energy from us? How is that going to fix things?'
'THEN WHY IS THE WORLD BEING A 'MAXIMUM' IMPORTANT'
'I'M GOING TO HEADBUTT MY COUSIN'
'Does being a Maximum give you the ability to rewrite things???' ]

[theheadmonarch]

What happens if you combine extremely disparate elements of three things together, dummy.

[becomeanwarrior]

Well, duh, they don't fit together properly and you get problems. We already know that - we've experienced it ourselves.

But you've got me stuck on why being a 'Maximum' changes the equation. Is she just trying to amalgamate enough stuff to fill the gap?

[theheadmonarch]

DING DING DING.

And this world is a rotted enough corpse with just enough juice.

[becomeanwarrior]

...But conversely that means their world has enough juice to fix ours, I assume.

[ ...The spiderwebs continue.
'Why did she have to make that so complicated.'
'She still didn't explain why being Maximum makes that 'work'.'
'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.'
'Didn't I already pitch that and she said it was wrong?'
'-How- is she going to use the juice to fuse our world with hers? That's the missing step.'
'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.'
'Is that why the world has seemed more stable with Echo's replacements?'
'I'm going. To headbutt. My cousin.' ]

[theheadmonarch]

Zen zen dame da. Their world is a Frankenstein Vampire Werewolf. And ours is in critical hospital condition.

Why would those things work together, dummy.

[becomeanwarrior]

...So you're telling me all of this is pointless and Suzume is going to kill our world for no reason because her plan's not going to work.

[theheadmonarch]

It'll buy more time but it's no use to us unless you want reality super fucked here.

We need fresh untainted unaltered blood. A universe that is clean. A rose garden that hasn't wilted.

[becomeanwarrior]

Right right, Yellow Sign, Silver Key, Kamala.

But that means so do they, of course. So why do they think we're their miracle solution.

What do they know that we don't. Suzume can't be that stupid that she thinks we'll be able to fix her world long term, can she?

[theheadmonarch]

Good enough to keep lurching until you find something else is good enough, dummy!

Tell me, what would you describe our Suzume as?

[becomeanwarrior]

Unless she changed significantly since the last time I saw her? Pragmatic, down to earth, no nonsense.

So she's literally just going to cannibalize every timeline she has access to until she can find that miracle solution? That's it? She's just in full triage spiral?

[theheadmonarch]

I'd describe Samasu Suzume as a militant-minded right wing ultranationalist who wants to heavily rearm Japan and heavily believes all ends justify any means. She votes for the conservative party every election.

[becomeanwarrior]

So in your usual answer-a-question-with-a-question way.

"Yes, she's full sunk cost fallacy triage spiral, and the reason Alt Universe Shikou swore you to secrecy is because his wife has gone completely off the reservation."