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[droptheious]

WHO: Varian and YOU
WHERE: The network
WHEN: 17th September
WHAT: Varian gets a worem
WARNINGS: Teenage screaming.

[The feed opens to Varian looking VERY distressed, pointing at his head.]

OH MY GOD, the weird worm thing happened to me!!!

[His one teal hairstripe is now own of those worems, it wiggles about with it's wide, unblinking gaze. It does not seem to care the distress its causing the person it's attached to.]

This is NOT something that should happen to someone twice in their lives! At least the last one was a dimensional anomaly and it stopped when I got out of there. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? Other people have HAD this right?

[Sulkily:]

It's bad enough I've got the sundrop power in my hair too, which I absolutely should not have because that thing got thrown into SPACE. Can weird stuff stop happening to my hair please?

Comments

text | un: kni

[ornamentals]

cut it off.

[droptheious]

[Kni why are you like this.]

I'm not gonna cut it off! It's alive!! And attached to my skull!!

[ornamentals]

[he craves chaos.]

skull or scalp? those are two very different places for it to be connected.
how alive is it? can it talk?

[droptheious]

Scalp, I guess? But I don't wanna be SCALPED!! That kills people!!

It's uh. Wriggling. A lot. It's not speaking, which honestly I am super glad of because the last time this happened the snake did and it was freaky.

[ornamentals]

not if you do it correctly.

what did you do last time this happened?

[droptheious]

Kni, please don't tell me this is you telling me that you know how to scalp people.

I came out of the pocket dimension that caused it and it vanished.

[ornamentals]

not from experience, but i've read enough to be confident if the occasion ever arose.

sounds like you're stuck then.
that sucks.

[schrodingersghost]

Wear a hat and hope it wears off? Soon?

[droptheious]

Thanks, Danny. I feel totally blessed by your endless support in everything that happens to me.

[prunedworlds]

"Is that thing alive?"

The rest of what he said hasn't fully registered yet, give her a moment.

[droptheious]

The worem is definitely wiggling. It turns its googly-eyed head in the direction of the camera. It stares, unblinking at Ritsuka.

"Uhhhhhh yep, yeah it's definitely alive."

[prunedworlds]

Ritsuka has seen many, many strange things, but this somehow manages to be a new one.

"But how does--" Actually you know what nevermind there probably isn't any good answer to that. "Uh, hopefully it'll go away on its own...?"

[droptheious]

"I don't knoooooow," he can guess what the question is, he's a big science nerd, he's wondering too. "I really hope so. I don't need it to get in my way while I'm trying to work. And jeez, high school is hard enough without this."

[prunedworlds]

"... I can't even imagine trying to go to school like that."

Granted, all the saving the world stuff means she's never actually finished high school, but still.

"Wait, didn't you say something like that had happened before??"

[droptheious]

"I'm in my senior year, I definitely can't miss any days! I guess I can try wearing a...beanie or something? I do have a hoodie?"

Will those work? Maybe. The hoodie is magical so the normies might not realise anything is up with it!

"Yup. Back in my old world, I went into this uh... other dimension. For complicated reasons. But it changed all of our physiologies when we were trapped there. My hair stripe turned into a talking snake. With goggles. It was weird."

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[doubledollar]

[ oh no not this, he recognises this this is .... well, at least varian only has ONE???? ]

Ohmygod theygotyoutoo.

Like. Uhm. A mmmmonth or two ago, all of the blonde parts of my hair turned into those damn creatures. I had to wear a hat to work for a week, my coworkers would not stop giggling at how they'd always worm their way out around it....

I'm so sorry, buddy.

Idunno how to get rid of it. Mine lasted a few days and then, I just. Woke up with them being gone....?

....

I hope your one very. Big guy goes away....
Uhm.
maybe you could like.
Pin him down with a headband...

[droptheious]

[You know what, misery really does love company, he will take this!!]

Oh thank god, you get it. And yeah! It doesn't stop MOVING and it's really distracting!! I need to be able to focus to do my schoolwork and my job.

[This is rude, it's the rudest!!]

I mean, good to know, though? That they just went away for you? I really hope that happens, I can't cope with this forever. The werewolf stuff was bad enough!

...Maybe a headband wouldn't be a bad call? I can give it a shot. Thanks, Vash

[doubledollar]

I get it--some of the things that happen in this place is just plain weird.
I dunno what I'dve done if the damn things had stayed. [ he'd have hated to shave himself bald good lord ]

I guess you DO only have one so, uh.

I don't... know. If it can be considered alive....? Or something...?
But you could always...

[ he's gonna make a scissor motion with his hands.
An act Vash could never do, but... ]

I'm gonna' put my money in the 'it'll go away' pot.

...

But I gotta say.
I'm uh.
Curious about the fact that this is your second experience...

[droptheious]

Worn a hat for the rest of your life? I know that's what I'm planning.

[He grimaces a little.]

I don't really wanna do that because it's like...attached to my head. If I do that I'll just have like...part of a worm corpse attached to my head. That's gotta be so unhygienic.

[Ah, that. He lets out a soft little embarrassed groan.]

Back in my old world, we opened up a pocket dimension. It was supposed to be a prison, but we got sucked in there ourselves and it started to change us. My hairstrip turned into a talking snake. It had its own goggles. It was super weird.

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[whiteshroud]

You know, I think it looks cute.

[:)]

[droptheious]

You are objectively the worst. Always.

[B|]

[whiteshroud]

What? It's true! And it's like you have a little friend always with you.

[droptheious]

I don't want a little friend! I have enough little friends! I don't want one attached to my head!

[whiteshroud]

Careful, you might upset it.

[droptheious]

I don't care if I upset it!! It's super not welcome!! If it hates it here so much it can leave!

[It wiggles once. Staring with its big, weird empty eyes. ]