Living with Homicidal Maniacs - I mean friends

longlonglonglonglong backstory - and destroyed plate dreams :)

"It started when I was 5. I met this boy, called Matty, and we immediately hit it off. He was... an interesting kid. He didn't spend much time with the other kids, and spent most of his time in his home, working on experiments."

"Like you! Uhh, sorry for interrupting, continue."

"Yes, like me. Anyways, when I was young, I was quite the sociable kid. Don't look at me like that, I was! I had many friends while he just had me. As we grew up I introduced him to my friends and they all try to get along. Well one say he said he had built something made to clone a person down to the finest details. He was 12. I was 11. I should've known better or at least questioned him about it. He said he needed a willing volunteer."

"Has he taken an unwilling volunteer before?"

"Yeah, which is the main reason why I agreed to do the experiment. I didn't want my friends to get harmed. Anyways, I stepped through the machine, exited and... there were two of me."

"... You and Hannah..."

"Yeah. My – uhh – my old name is Hannah. That's why our souls are connected and stuff. But... his experiment didn't go exactly as planned."

"What do you mean?"

"It was supposed to be a complete duplicate, but instead he took the negative parts of Hannah which created... me."

"You're the clone of Hannah? Not the other way around?"

"I'm not a CLONE! I'm my own person!"

"I know, I just meant based on the story."

"Yeah. I was the clone of Hannah. It took all the things we didn't like, and pushed them into me. It took her coldness, her stubbornness, and her tolerance for violence (as well as other things) and made me. She got her morality, kindness, determination. She got everything I used to consider good."

"When I first met you, yes. You were very cold, and stubborn, and seemed to stick more with Luna and Dorian than me. But it's been 5 years, and you've improved so much! You're kinder, I know you care about us, you may be stubborn, but its not to an insane degree, you will listen to reason if you have to. Slime, you're amazing. You've already begun to break the boundaries set for you by this machine, and climbed mountains over it. You've done so much-"

CRASH.

"Uhh... continue, Slime."

"Hannah is here because she wants us to... combine. To become one. I'm considering it."

"I'll support you either way, but know now that you're your own person, with your own thoughts, feelings and emotions."

"Thanks Peachy. Honestly I'm kinda scared. I never wanted to go back home. I didn't live in a good family household. My mother never liked me – us. She hit us all the time. I don't know whether Hannah still lives there or not though."

"What about your friends?"

"Asking questions like that isn't going to make me not notice your hand creeping over to my stash of weapons. Anyways, they may have seen me be cloned, but until the day I left they didn't view me as their friend – only Hannah. She had all the traits they liked, to them I was only a nuisance. I doubt they changed their mind."

"Hey... if you can get better... maybe Hannah can get worse. What if that's why she's not acting nice? I mean... she kidnapped you... and hurt us... so... yeah."

"That's a good point, and honestly I think that... might be what's going on."

"So if you don't combine, you'll eventually level out? I mean, you become less mean and she becomes less nice."

"I guess you could put it that way... maybe I should-"

CRASH.

"... Maybe you should what?"

"Maybe I should... visit home. It's been a while and, with you guys, maybe I can finally get the courage I've needed for so long, to-"

CRASH.

"W – Well, Slime, you know we're all here for you and-"

CRASH.

"Okay, what's with this noise???"

"I don't know, Peachy, but lets find out!"

We rush down the stairs to find...

"Luna?"

"What the hell are you two doing?"

"Uhh... hi."

"Hi, Dorian."

"Whatever you may think happened – it was all Dorian's fault!"

"Luna, get back down here!"

"You can't tell me what to do!"

"..."

"... What happened Dorian?"

"... She wanted my cookies. I told her no and..."

I step back a bit, and a CRACK is heard from me stepping in the remains of the plates that we used to eat on.

"... This is going to take a while to clean."

Hey guys, I'm back! I decided for sh*ts and giggles, to not say whose saying what in this dialogue, even the end bit where all four of us were talking at once. It made writing it a bit more interesting.

Anyways, now you all know why Slime and Hannah's souls are connected. Hopefully in a chapter or two I can be done with this specific plot line and move on to random skits and a new character!

Yes... new character.

Hope you like her!

But for now...

Peachy out! 😊