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cat mcintyre: death doesn't take. (gimme) wrote in playout,
@ 2020-04-10 20:03:00

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Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

JK they haven’t. I’m just immortal. Apparently. I’ll take questions.

[Friends + Family]

Hi.

This is fucked up. But I’m alive. I wanted to text everybody but I was out all day.

[Selfie attached in hospital bed.]

So I resurrect now. Yeah. That’s it.

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	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-10 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	I do have a frame of reference for it. Not the same as yours though. I don't have, uh, memory continuity. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio. gimme 2020-04-10 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. Oh. You’re gonna have to explain, buddy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-10 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	When I die, my body restarts but, like, from the beginning, as a baby. Like a phoenix... but I'm not sure if that's a metaphor or like, there's fire. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio. gimme 2020-04-10 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	Ah. So that's more than one of us. It'd be cooler if there was fire. I don't know I'm alive again until I'm back. And then it just feels like I've been ~~suffocated~~ holding my breath for too long. And I feel like shit for the whole next day. So you get a restart. I get a reset. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-10 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	I mean... probably a good thing there wasn't fire because you would have caught the hospital on fire. How do you feel right now? And has PI asked you for a blood sample yet? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio. gimme 2020-04-10 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	It was the morgue. It would've been worse. There are a lot of gases in there. Honestly? Everyone is more mad than I thought they'd be. Turns out coming back to life pisses people off. Not yet. But I'll give them it. How bad could it go? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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go_go_gio
2020-04-11 12:01 am UTC (link)

Why are they mad? They think you did this on purpose? I've been pretty quiet since I found out about it a couple of months ago, but not because of that.

Oh, I don't think it's bad - I know that when I went into the Academy, they wanted to check out whether my blood had healing properties outside my body (spoiler: it doesn't). Just a heads up they might want to know if yours does too.

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	Gio gimme 2020-04-11 12:15 am UTC (link)
	They're mad I died. It's fair. I did. I just came back. I'm not being sensitive about it, I feel like I get first preference on reaction. [...] Why did you go quiet on it? You know I'd never even considered that. Shit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Cat

go_go_gio
2020-04-11 12:34 am UTC (link)

Yeah. I think in this situation, like, more than any other situation, people should be comforting you and not the other way around. Like... you came back to life and solved their problem. I get the feelings don't go away immediately but, you know, perspective.

The previous iteration of me was serving life in super max for murder and mayhem. IN LOS ANGELES, which is just wonderful in this modern age of internet and HeroTV.

I just wanted to figure out how I felt about it before it became public knowledge. And boy, let me tell you - if I have to hear one more time that I'm not him, I'm going to scream.

They aren't going to, like, strap you to a bed and put a tap in your arm. But like, speaking as a long-time anomaly, it's pretty interesting to know how far the weirdness goes. Especially when you have to then explain that weirdness to other people.

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	Gio gimme 2020-04-11 12:54 am UTC (link)
	I don't know how to be comforting to anyone right now. I fixed it. I didn't mean to, but I did. Holy shit. That's metal. [...] It's not the same but I guess it's two of us now. Which might not be so bad. From all the screaming I figured this was rare. So much screaming. They're doing tests. I guess we'll see how far it goes, hey? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-11 12:56 am UTC (link)
	Have you gotten a taste for brains? Because that would be even more metal. I mean... on the one hand, I thought it was rare too. But on the other hand... like, you don't know until you die so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But if you ever are feeling like what-does-it-all-mean, you can call me - I literally never sleep. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio gimme 2020-04-11 01:01 am UTC (link)
	Not yet, but I'll let you know. Food makes me want to throw up. Or it did. I'll report back. EXACTLY. There's only one way you know! How the fuck do I predict that!? Thanks. Prepare for weird questions. I do those. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio go_go_gio 2020-04-11 01:37 am UTC (link)
	REALLY? Please do. And if you're not needing sleep. I've got a whole laundry list of anomalies. I'm not sure where my kind of cycle started and maybe... it started how yours is. If people just went around killing people without powers to see if they come back, they'd be in prison. No one wants that. LOL BRING IT. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio gimme 2020-04-11 01:44 am UTC (link)
	Theoretically... I should try that. I don't know? Maybe I'm doing it and I don't need it-it's not like sleep deprivation kills me? Yeah it'd be useful now, though. Mate, you have no idea how downhill it can go from here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-11 02:05 am UTC (link)
	Get on a treadmill. Start running. Stop when you get tired. Or stop when you don't get tired and you start freaking out. Nope, because I spent 3 days on an island by myself thinking I was a clone so it can't go THAT further downhill. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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go_go_gio
2020-04-11 07:46 pm UTC (link)

I realize that I'm a lot so please tell me to back off if you need more space to kind of absorb all of this stuff.

But that said, I thought a lot about all of this last night and I have a million questions about the how your immortality works on a day-to-day basis because if you ARE throwing up everything you intake (presumably that's water too), then it's not a reactive immortality but possibly a sort of continuous one that acts to maintain your cells. If it's a reactive immortality - it's just death that triggers your power - then aging would seem uncompromised. But if it's a continuous immortality, then it's more likely that your cells wouldn't age because you wouldn't have cellular degradation.

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Gio

gimme
2020-04-11 10:06 pm UTC (link)

I’ve realised we’ve never been properly introduced. I’m Cat. My brothers are heroes. My oldest brother is Bonfire. I am A Lot. It’s who I am. Don’t ever worry about being a lot. I enjoy it. I like the extra people in the world, alright?

I’m not throwing up continuously. I think it’s reactive. Or that’s what they’re telling me? When I die it triggers a reset, because I’ve been ageing and my power has always been there. The day after, when I’m regenerating? That’s when I can’t do anything.

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	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-12 12:18 am UTC (link)
	I'm Gio and I was at the Academy with Iain - he's awesome, I love him. He can also tell you how extra I am ;) Oh - well, that's some good news then! That's, like, a guaranteed pass into your 60's or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Gio

gimme
2020-04-12 12:41 am UTC (link)

Iain’s the nice one of us. I’m glad you love him. He needs the love. We other two take it where we can get it. He just brings it in, I reckon.

Maybe longer. We’re not sure. [...] They don’t think it’s peaked yet? They’re pretty sure. Shit, this is weird, they think it could be momentary eventually. Like I die? Then I live straight after. Who studies this?!

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	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-12 12:43 am UTC (link)
	I mean, don't you want to? Study it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio gimme 2020-04-12 12:51 am UTC (link)
	I need a moment to breathe first. And then when everyone is over it, do I want to know what I can do? Hell yeah. I spent my entire life thinking I was a null. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Cat go_go_gio 2020-04-12 01:18 am UTC (link)
	Oh sure, of course! Yay! Welcome to powers! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Gio gimme 2020-04-12 01:44 am UTC (link)
	God, I’m happy to be here buddy. You have no idea. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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