Video 4 - George's room

[toiletseat_girl]

[the video opens on George, sitting on the edge of her bed with her legs crossed. she looks curious, but also a little sheepish as what she's about to ask is . . . personal.

no, she's not asking for flirting advice again.

that was one time.

stop looking at her like that.

no, this time what she's asking is even weirder]

So, uh, I was kind of wondering. How many people here died before they came here? And how many are now immortal?

I was just. Wanting to know?

Comments

[puzzlingly]

「He listens attentively, trying to remember how was it when he died. He often doesn't think about that, but what she says sounds particularly curious.」

And they reach their Afterlife through that object?

[toiletseat_girl]

[death is peculiar in George's world, to put it mildly]

It's not an object exactly. More like an interactive movie.

[puzzlingly]

Ah. That's... interesting.

「He had seen his family before he nearly crossed that door the last time, had it been just his imagination?」

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah. Everybody's was something different.

[probably not. death in George's world seems to be unique to her world]

[puzzlingly]

What do you think yours could have been?

[toiletseat_girl]

...I dunno. A library would've been nice.

[puzzlingly]

Heh, I guess it would suit you.

「Nerd.」

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah. Just one big library with all the books I could read.

[she's a total nerd]

[puzzlingly]

Sounds nice; it's such a shame the library here is useless.

「Some of those books make up for good notebooks tho...」

[toiletseat_girl]

I know! It's such a tease. "Oh hey, books! And you can't read any of 'em!"

[she's used a few of them to try writing books of her own. which was a miserable failure]

[puzzlingly]

I wonder if... we asked the gods, they could bring the library back. I was here before the door was open, wasn't it?

「Publish them as Brenan did! They'd probably be better than the smut fanfic she wrote.」

[toiletseat_girl]

I dunno, I guess it's worth a shot? Only this time, we'll have to add a caveat. Fill it with books we can actually read!

[no, her writing would make Dostoyevsky say "lighten up a little"]

[puzzlingly]

「He chuckles.」

That would help.

[toiletseat_girl]

Definitely. It would make this place a lot less boring. But which god would be most willing to play along?

[puzzlingly]

「He wonders about that.」

Tranquility, maybe.

「Delight too... But, you know.」

Maybe even Love, but we should be risking emojis and cap locks in every book.

[toiletseat_girl]

Or a library with nothing but romance novels. "Untamed Ecstacy" or "Savage Passion" or shit like that.

Tranquility it is.

[puzzlingly]

Can't be that bad.

「He doesn't know!」

[toiletseat_girl]

The romance novels? Oh, yes they can be. Full of long-haired stud muffins and clueless virgin heroines who of course know exactly what to do when having sex even though they've never done it before.

[George shall enlighten him!]

[puzzlingly]

Haha, I've never read one before. You're actually making me want to read one, just out of curiosity.

「He's never read much of anything to be honest... But that sounds funny, like why are there muffins?」

[toiletseat_girl]

[she laughs]

Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you when it rots your brain.

So, when d'you wanna go ask about getting us some books?

[it's a figure of speech. stud muffins are overly muscled brooding heroes. like Fabio. she'd reference a Hemsworth, but she's from 2003, several years too early for that]

[puzzlingly]

I've been warned.

「He grows a little serious about the question, thought.」

Hmm, not sure... There is something I would want to ask one of them too, but it feels a little odd to do so with what is going on.

[toiletseat_girl]

Well, we wouldn't be asking Hope [the doofus]. We'd probably go to Tranquility. He's been pretty chill, hasn't fucked with us lately, so I figure it's safe to assume he's doing okay.

[puzzlingly]

「Eh... more or less what he said the last time he talked to him, things considered, he could be worse.」

I guess.

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah. And it's not like we have to ask for an entire library. Even twenty books would be an improvement.