It is a very complicated situation. I've got to say that every time I mention it, but it really is.
[ she nibbles at her lower lip, sinking into thought. it's usually easier for her to articulate the intricacies of her strange life, but her brainfuzz is making it a bit of an issue today. ]
Think of it like a butterfly, but...different? I started out one way, died, spent a while like that -- incorporeal in two different varieties -- was then put into a robotic body, then another alternate self of mine died and made me into who you're talking right now through a process built into the game I was a part of.
[ another pause. ]
She was meant to die a different way, not at my hand, so I backed off.