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A buzz interrupted Anne’s pleasant dreams and she groaned as she rolled over to check her phone. There on her screen was a message with only a link. Usually the girl would be cautious of unknown links and the possible viruses hiding behind them, but right now she was too half-awake to think through clicking it. She was immediately taken to a new server on her Bonfire app. She sleepily watched her friends, Sasha and Marcy, and her brother Sprig join the server too before she decided screw it , I’ll just check it out later.

With that the girl dropped her phone, rolled over and promptly fell back asleep.

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“Hey Dipper?”

“Yeah Mabel?”

“Remember how you told me to never click suspicious links?”

“Please tell me you didn’t…”

“I accidentally joined a therapy server that claims it connects to multiple different dimensions.”

“... what?”

…

“Huh, I got the link too. I probably should call Grunkle Ford about this to make sure it’s safe.”

…

“You’re too curious and are gonna just join it anyway, huh?”

“Yeah.”

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“Filthy human, look!” Zim shouted, shoving his phone in Dib’s face. The human jerked away from it, regretting ever convincing the alien to get one. Before he could scold him for doing it for what felt like the hundredth time today, the ex-invader continued. “Someone sent Zim an anony-mouse link to join a server and Zim feels oddly compelled to click it.”

“It’s anonymous and- wait, you got it too?!” Dib looked back down at his phone where his thumb was subconsciously hovering over the link. Okay, weird. Maybe it’s some kind of coded-in hypnotic suggestion? Whatever, what was important was that he’d gotten the link right before Zim came into his room.

(Why the alien was even in his house in the first place wasn’t even something he bothered to question anymore.)

“I got it too.” Gaz, his little sister said from his doorway. She barely looked up from her Game Slave as she said it. “Want to click it after I fuck up this boss?”

Dib, having long since seen way too much to care about being cautious, just shrugged. “Sure why not.”

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Webby giggled, scrolling past a cute video on her phone. She and her best friends, Louie and Lena, were relaxing on her bed in a tucked away alcove above her little library. She was laying on her stomach with half off her laying across Lena’s lap while Louie had his feet propped up on her back. It was probably the most awkward looking cuddle pile ever, but it was comfortable for them.

Their quiet moment was interrupted by a ding coming from each of their phones.

“Did you two get a link too?” Louie asked and she knew he was furrowing his eyebrows just from the tone of his voice. “With no number or sender, like it just appeared out of the ether?”

“Mmhmm.” Lena hummed and Webby turned to look at her just as the older teen shot the boy an amused look. “And really, green? Ether? Am I rubbing off on you that much?”

Webby smiled as Louie groaned. “Shut up, Lena.”

The girl turned back to her phone to look at the message as her friends playfully bickered in the background. Louie was right about there being no number, in fact nothing seemed to be tied to the message at all. It was just there on their phones. It spiked curiosity in her. She always loved a good mystery.

Webby moved to copy the link so she could run it through one of those link checkers. She mustn't have held it long enough because she opened it instead.

“I accidentally clicked it.” She gasped out, a little panicked.

“What?” “Webby, no! This is how you get viruses!” were her friends' responses and she barely paid attention to them as she watched the link direct her away from her messenger app to… oh.

“It’s a group chat.” Webby commented slowly, idly scrolling through the channel names and glancing at the few users online. “For people across dimensions to talk about their trauma.”

“... Like multiversal group therapy?” Lena asked, skeptical.

The girl shrugged in response. “I guess? It kind of sounds fun. Maybe we should join. I mean… I already did so…”

Louie sighed. “Usually I would say we should avoid anything potentially dangerous. But… my brothers haven’t messaged me about any link yet so it’d be nice to have something like this for myself for once.”

“Our own adventure?!” Webby squealed, turning to look at him over her shoulder.

He met her gaze with a soft smile. “Yeah, Webs, our own adventure.”

“I’m in.” Lena said when they both turned to her. And with that two more people joined the server.

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“So…” Steven began, looking over at the beautiful person curled up against his side. “Mystery link sent from an unknown number…”

“Yup.” Connie replied, looking down at their phone as it buzzed again. “Even Lars got it, apparently.”

Their partner hummed. “Should we click it?”

“I guess.”

And so they did.

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The human, the witch, and the grimwalker

sweet_potato
luz did you get a link too?

batata
yup
dont know who sent it tho

puppy
me too!
nobody should even have my scroll number
should i click it?

batata
handsome, no!
mystery links could have viruses

puppy
scrolls can get sick??

sweet_potato
rarely
theres not a lot of things that can make them sick
but yeah they can

batata
oh right
i cant believe i keep forgetting the differences between scrolls and phones
so i guess it can be safe to click it?
since we all got it

puppy
i’ll do it

puppy
its a server spanning other dimensions
i think it’s meant to make friends and discuss our trauma?
people are making introductions right now

batata
other dimensions?!
people like me?!
we should join!

sweet_potato
sure luz
it sounds kind of cool anyway

batata
💙

sweet_potato
💜

puppy
💛

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Rules:

User
- people of all genders, sexualities, and races are welcomed here and no one is allowed to make anyone feel otherwise
- making an introduction in the correct channel is mandatory. include your name, age, pronouns, and species (aka, human, alien, duck, frog, etc.) also include what you’ve been through, your trauma or some part of your backstory
- try to keep venting in the venting channel
- cursing is allowed and highly recommended
- most of you have done at least something bad in the past so try to not judge each other so harshly for it

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Introductions:

Heartstomper (Sasha)
Sup, I’m Sasha. 15. She/her, he/him. I was a bad friend that pressured my friend Anne to steal a music box from a store. Turns out it was magic and it sent us to a world full of frogs, toads, and newts called Amphibia. I ended up befriending a toad general, betrayed my friends twice, almost took control over the newt kingdom and ended up leading a revolution against the king while Anne and Marcy were away. There’s so much more but the main thing is I’m trying to become a better person and friend.
also i’m a human

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
Ah this is so cool! Hi I’m Marcy the human, 14, I use she/her and they/them. I knew about the music box and tricked my friends into using it to avoid having to move away from them. Worst/best mistake of my life. I got to live my dream Creatures N’ Caverns adventure, but I still ended up getting stabbed through the chest by the king i trusted and later possessed by the hivemind creature that he worshiped/worked for. we’re on okay terms now but it was traumatizing!

Time_Lord (Sprig)
Heyo! I’m Sprig, 11, all the pronouns gimme. I’m a frog. I’m from Amphibia and Anne stayed with me and my family the whole time she was there. She’s my best friend and older sister. We’ve had a lot of adventures together and most of them were traumatizing haha. I guess the most traumatizing thing that happened to me was when King Andrias dropped me out of the window of the flying castle? Marcy saved me but i honestly thought i was a goner.

…

Time_Lord (Sprig)
huh, i wonder where Anne is… she would’ve been the first to message here

Heartstomper (Sasha)
she’s probably sleeping in knowing her
let’s move to general

Time_Lord (Sprig)
ok!

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General:

Time_Lord (Sprig)
so… here we are

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
this is so cool!
we can talk to people from other dimensions!!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
dont know about that mar
it could just be a joke for all we know

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
aw…

Time_Lord (Sprig)
it might be true tho marcy
hey did you guys notice anne is admin?

Heartstomper (Sasha)
huh she is
im pretty sure she didnt make the server tho
also why is her nickname ‘the guardian’?

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
sash it isnt

Heartstomper (Sasha)
what?
dude i swear it just was

Time_Lord (Sprig)
weird
i hope someone else joins soon its kind of creepy with just us

Heartstomper (Sasha)
yeah im feeling that too

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
me too

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Journal4 (Dipper)
I’m Dipper, 13, he/him, human. Me and my twin sister Mabel got sent to Gravity Falls for the past summer and we discovered the town was full of paranormal stuff due to me finding a journal detailing it all. We spent most of the summer fighting monsters, discovering secrets, finding out my grunkle had a twin brother who not only wrote the journals but also got trapped in a portal, and then stopping a demon from continuing his apocalypse -Weirdmageddon out into the universe.
also the demon possessed me once and im still dealing with the effects of that

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
iiiiiit’s Mabel! Hi! I’m human, 13, and I use she/her and I’m trying out they/them now. same as above tho… the reason the apocalypse even started and the way He even got free was because I just wanted a little more summer. our birthday was coming up and i got scared about growing up so i made a mistake. im still scared but im working through it especially now that i know i have my brother to help me.

oh i really like making sweaters, you should see my collection!

Before the two could even move to general to start talking to the others, three more users entered the server.

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Zim is an alien known as an Irken, he/him, in Irken years I am 130 years old but in Earth years I am 13. That makes me a smeet, a child, in human eyes which makes Irken society concerning in retrospect. I came to Earth to take over it for the great Irken empire… they would’ve destroyed it if I succeeded. After realizing my mission was a lie to get rid of me because I am considered defective by my Tallests, I made one last plan to take over the planet… it killed my Tallests and most of the Irken Armada in the process so for the past year I’ve been trying to accept this dirt ball as my new home… it’s growing on Zim.

Heartstomper (Sasha)
that’s a lot to unpack…

Alien_Truther (Dib)
yeah Zim can be a lot
Anyway, I’m Dib, 13, he/him. I’ve spent almost two years fighting Zim to protect the world while no one (other than Gaz) ever believed me when I told them he was an alien even tho his disguise is so bad! I’m still trying to get over that and my dad thinking im crazy for my interest in the paranormal. Also it doesn’t help that most of Zim’s plans were pretty traumatic. Don’t get me started on the nightmare dimension.
sorry that was mostly me complaining about Zim i think? dont worry ever since he teleported the planet and he’s given up on his mission, me and him have been doing alright… sort of. We still fight but its less to the death and more just because its fun i guess

GSgirl (Gaz)
Gaz, 12, she/her, human. i honestly don’t know why im here. yeah i always knew Dib was right about Zim but i didnt really care as long as i got to play my games. also his little robot GIR is cool. he likes pigs as much as i do. i wont talk here much, too busy with my games. the next console is gonna release soon.

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Journal4 (Dipper)
wow i have so many questions
what do you mean teleport the planet? did Zim really come here to destroy Earth? what is Irken anatomy like?
i wonder if our grunkle Ford has met any Irkens on his travels

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
*gasp* dipper you cant just ask about someone’s anatomy!

Journal4 (Dipper)
mabel!
thats not what i meant and you know it!

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Zim does not get what the mabel-human means but Zim is willing to answer a few anatomy questions later

Alien_Truther (Dib)
aka he’ll brag about being superior to us humans

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
do not interrupt Zim!
for now to answer your questions… yes due to space phasing alien globs, child-energy and my creation minimoose. and correction, Zim came to take over the planet though I almost destroyed it during the florpus incident.

Journal4 (Dipper)
all this has done is give me more questions

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
later, bro, please? i want to get to know everyone
not watch you talk all sciency

Heartstomper (Sasha)
second that
i really dont think i can handle three marcy’s

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
hey!

Journal4 (Dipper)
oh that reminds me
this might sound awful, marcy but…
im kind of glad that im not the only one here that has experienced possession

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
that doesnt sound awful at all, i get it
its nice to have someone understand for me too

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
i got possessed by a ghost during the summer
but i was like high on smile dip so sadly i cant relate too much

Heartstomper (Sasha)
ghosts are real?

Journal4 (Dipper)
yeah we fought a couple of them
well, mostly me did

Alien_Truther (Dib)
wait did you say smile dip?
isnt that stuff banned for causing hallucinations?
oh you said you were high

Heartstomper (Sasha)
damn girl thats kind of badass

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
it was awful
that stuff is evil
but i guess me getting high at 12 is pretty rad

Journal4 (Dipper)
please stop saying you got high

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
how did human find smile dip? Zim has looked everywhere

Journal4 (Dipper)
abandoned and haunted convenience store

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
why do you even want that stuff?

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Irkens require a big intake of sugar in our diets
smile dip can act as a full meal with just one packet

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
whoa

Heartstomper (Sasha)
lucky you can eat that much sugar

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
so cool!

Journal4 (Dipper)
do you mind if i make an entry about this and Irkens in my journal?
oh uh im writing my own journal since the other journal wasnt really mine

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
yes, Zim is honored to be documented!

Alien_Truther (Dib)
and yet you refuse to let me ask you anything for the longest time
how dare you, spaceboy

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
shush dib-stink
Zim just finds this new human appealing

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
appealing huh? 👀

Journal4 (Dipper)
mabel no!

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
im just kidding
we both know im never matchmaking again
dont ask

Time_Lord (Sprig)
now i wanna ask lol

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
new frog friend!

Time_Lord (Sprig)
hi!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
sup sprig
where youve been?

Time_Lord (Sprig)
checking on anne
she’ll be on soon

Heartstomper (Sasha)
cool

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
ooo new members!

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Hoodie (Louie)
I’m Louie, 11, he/him, species duck i guess? I go on a lot of dangerous adventures with my family and I’m often the one almost getting hurt and sometimes actually getting hurt. Some trauma for example; aliens from the moon invading our planet, my mom returning from where she was stuck on the moon for my whole life (and i was just supposed to accept her back into our life like she didnt basically abandon us?), and fighting against an evil organization who’s leader wanted to wipe my family from reality (whos also the reason my mom even went to space in the first place so i really cant be mad at her about even tho my feelings are valid!)
ugh, sorry, im the third in a set of triplets and im always considered the evil twin and treated not that great by my brothers sometimes so im still working through all of that

ShadowEnby (Lena)
dont apologize, green. own your feelings, theyre hella valid
Hi im Lena, 13, she/her, they/them. I’m half shadow, half duck probably. My aunt made me from her own shadow when she was being imprisoned to free her and get revenge on her enemy, Louie’s great uncle. When I befriended Webby and the others and decided to try and go against her it was too late, her power was too strong and she took over my body -possession club anyone? after she freed herself and during the fight, i sort of died but through friendship magic i attached to Webby’s shadow until her and her friend, my later adoptive sister Violet, summoned me back to life. now im trying to just be a real person with the help of my dads and the huge McDuck family

PinkSunshine (Webby)
Hi I’m Webby! I’m 11! I use she/her. I’m also a duck! for all of my life ive lived or been trapped in the McDuck mansion with my granny and Louie’s great uncle… but only somewhat recently did i find out that my granny isnt my granny, im actually a child cloned from said great uncle and that technically he’s my dad! My granny stole me away from the evil organization Louie mentioned and raised me in hiding at the manor! Also the group, FOWL, cloned two more girls sometime after me so now i have two sisters and we’re triplets! even though im using a lot of exclamation marks, im honestly not sure how to feel… or if i can even trust my granny anymore.

AnnaBanna (Anne)
wow sprig was right about this server being interesting
hey, im Anne, she/her, 14, human. I’m the admin for some reason so if you need any help with anything let me know. anyway, i think my friends said everything or mostly everything already except… i had to defend my city using magic powers i absorbed from the music box when we went to Amphibia. Andrias and the core, evil hivemind god-thing, were doing their invasion with robots and stuff. and then me and my girls had to try and stop the moon the core was trying to crash into Amphibia using anime powers. i had to sacrifice myself to do it tho so i like died in sprig’s arms but then was resurrected by something and im pretty sure im just a copy of the Anne i was before i died…

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Heartstomper (Sasha)
boonchuy what the fuck?

Journal4 (Dipper)
i want to ask about the magic powers so badly
but damn are you okay??

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
our anime powers were cool
i rolled a giant nat 20 in space

Journal4 (Dipper)
so jealous
minus the self-sacrifice of course

Heartstomper (Sasha)
focus nerds
seriously anne are you okay?

AnnaBanna (Anne)
i guess?
theres not much i can do about it though
i dont think there’s a guide to dealing with your death and the idea that you’re not really you anymore

Journal4 (Dipper)
as close as i can get to understanding your experience is watching the clones of myself i made on a weird copier machine dissolve

Hoodie (Louie)
what?

PinkSunshine (Webby)
as a clone i dont know how to feel about this

ShadowEnby (Lena)
as sort of a clone via shadow magic i second that

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
why has everyone had a horrible experience with clones?
Irkens reproduce through cloning because it’s the superior way of creating more Irkens

Alien_Truther (Dib)
im literally a clone of my dad
why are so many of us clones or have done something with clones

GSgirl (Gaz)
Zim also made clembrane

Journal4 (Dipper)
can i ask who that is?

Alien_Truther (Dib)
a clone of our dad who’s obsessed with pudding and being our second dad

he’s mostly Zim’s dad at this point tho

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
dib-filth do not expose Zim’s secrets!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
are most of the people joining gonna bring up clones at some point??

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CaptainLars (Lars)
I’m Lars, 20, he/him, sort of human. Me and Steven were abducted by gems and taken to their homeworld. I ended up dying up there and he accidentally brought me back to life with his powers and now im pink. My now pink hair could be used as a portal so Steven went home to Earth and I stayed with some gems in hiding. I became a space pirate with those gems and i dont really feel too upset with what happened to me, minus the part where im slowly aging and might outlive the people i care about but…
anyway if there’s gonna be a possession club, we need a brought back to life club

CookieCat (Steven)
Hey, I’m Steven. I’m 17, and use he/him. I’m half-human, half-gem. Gems are a race of aliens that used to take over planets and destroy them to make more gems. I dismantled the gem empire when i was 15 so we could have peace. A lot of trauma stems from my mom giving up her form so i can exist and all the lies she told… like her lying about being a rebel warrior against the empire when in reality she was a diamond at the top of the social ladder that ended up faking her death to keep being a rebel… in doing so she messed up a lot of stuff that i had to fix way too young. the trauma got so bad i ended up turning into a giant monster due to it all, but now im in therapy and am working on myself and learning how to be happy when not fighting to stop a war.

SwordBud (Connie)
I’m Connie. She/her, they/them, 16, and human. I’m Steven’s knight and qpr. I fought in the war with him and now am working hard to get into a college and trying to also learn how to be a normal person now that the fight is over… mostly over. I think there will always be something or someone new to fight in the future, whether that is paranoia or a trauma response, I dont care. I need to be ready and I will be ready.

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InvaderZ1M (Zim)
gems sound familiar to Zim

CookieCat (Steven)
Irkens sound familiar to me too
weird

SwordBud (Connie)
two conquering space races? id be surprised if they havent ran into each other before
if in the same dimension i mean

CookieCat (Steven)
i doubt we are since we wouldve noticed if the earth got moved to somewhere else

Alien_Truther (Dib)
or seen the giant florpus hole swallowing the Earth and other planets around us

Journal4 (Dipper)
excuse me, the what?

Alien_Truther (Dib)
it was like this huge tear in the fabric of space

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
damn Zim you pulled a weirdmageddon before weirdmageddon

Journal4 (Dipper)
im so glad we’re not in the same dimension
or not
your florpus event probably wouldve prepared us for what happened with Bill

AnnaBanna (Anne)
it also kind of sounds like what happened with frogvasion

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
Andrias did use a giant portal to take his floating castle to Earth… i cant remember much from then tho, being possessed and all

Journal4 (Dipper)
so to recap, in at least three different worlds, dimensions whatever we’ve all had some kind of rift in the sky

AnnaBanna (Anne)
yup

Alien_Truther (Dib)
yeah

CookieCat (Steven)
does giant hands and legs in the sky count?

Journal4 (Dipper)
what?!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
okay the fuck are you on about?
what kind of eldritch horror shit is that??

CaptainLars (Lars)
context steven, context
the gems have weird spaceships
dont think about it too much

SwordBud (Connie)
i’ll see if i have pictures of them or the wreckage and send it later

Journal4 (Dipper)
my experiences with spaceships has not been great

Hoodie (Louie)
same

Journal4 (Dipper)
there’s a giant crashed one under Gravity Falls and exploring it with my grunkle Ford almost got sent him taken away to a prison planet in a bubble-ship thing

Alien_Truther (Dib)
oh shit
me and Zim might know what species that ship belongs to actually

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
i would have to see it to confirm dib-stink

Journal4 (Dipper)
thatd be difficult with the whole different dimensions thing
and i cant skip school just for a trip back to Oregon

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
our parents wouldnt allow it

AnnaBanna (Anne)
i wonder if our magic would let us travel to dimensions beyond Amphibia?

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
its possible
oh to anyone confused we still have some magic in us even tho the box is destroyed

Time_Lord (Sprig)
its how anne comes visit me!
also i think i got some magic too which really confuses me about my ancestry

Heartstomper (Sasha)
yup i think you got some of my magic, dude
anyway i gotta ask, dib, what is up with the ‘dib-stink’ stuff?
is that a nickname or?

Alien_Truther (Dib)
oh god no
it used to be zim’s way of insulting me and now its playful
like a weird pet name

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
only Zim can call his dib that

Heartstomper (Sasha)
got it

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
your dib?
are you two dating?!

Alien_Truther (Dib)
no
i doubt i’ll ever be interested in zim like that
tho zim getting a boyfriend isnt off the table…

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
stop spilling Zim’s secrets!
Zim will probably never have a love-pig even if Zim thinks some boys are attractive
Irkens aren’t meant to feel affection

CookieCat (Steven)
but you do anyway, right?
this is really similar to what gems deal with once they move past their assigned roles
im not supposed to be giving anyone emotional advice, therapist’s orders, so i can send you the numbers of the crystal gems. theyve been there and they get it

InvaderZ1M (Zim)

…thank you

AnnaBanna (Anne)
okay now im curious
what is everybody’s sexuality?
if you want to share i mean

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
that sounds fun to do
but it looks like we have to wait a bit, new people have joined

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Luzura (Luz)
Hello, I’m Luz. I’m 14, human and use she/her. I’m a bi mess that decided to use my two hands to hold the hands of my beautiful girlfriend, Amity and my handsome boyfriend, Hunter. I’m a human that trained to be a witch and though I can’t use my original method to do magic, I can use my palisman Stringbean. I spent my summer in a place called the Boiling Isles freely, but had to destroy my only way home to prevent the Emperor of the Isles from using it for his own gain. Later due to a time travel adventure I accidentally help the Emperor complete his goal so he can take over Isles and I only find that out by accidentally going into his mind and find out he’s a witch hunter so I basically helped give him the way to cause a mass genocide. We stopped it but things got worse, then we were stuck in the human realm for awhile and then we went back and fixed it… i also died and came back to life during the last fight. Now everything is better, but i still feel lingering guilt over putting the cult-like government system into motion.

Hecate_fan (Amity)
I’m Amity, Luz’s girlfriend. I’m 14, and use she/her. I’m a witch. I used to be a bully due to the awful way my parents raised me but then I met Luz and worked on being a better person. Im on better terms with my dad now and ive cut off my toxic mother. Im finally happy with who i am, free from being my mom’s mini-me.

GoldenWolfz (Hunter)
Uh, hi, I’m Hunter. 16, he/him, they/them. I’m a grimwalker which is like a clone. I’m Luz’s other partner. I spent most of my life training to be a good soldier in my uncle’s coven. I’m what Luz has called a ‘child soldier’ i think? My uncle would sometimes hurt me but I thought i deserved it. I know better now thanks to my dad and my friends. It took going into my uncle’s mind to find out im a clone that he kept making over and over with it always ending with him killing me, or the other clones. Only in the human realm did i find out im a clone of his brother that he killed centuries ago. He ended up possessing me and almost hurt my friends and badly hurt my palisman. I almost drowned, but my palisman, Flapjack, gave up his life to save me. I miss him so much but luz and amity are helping me and soon im gonna learn how to carve palismen!

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Luzura (Luz)
ANNE?!

AnnaBanna (Anne)
LUZ!!
i thought the name was familiar and then i read your introduction and realized i was right!

Luzura (Luz)
me too!
as soon as i saw the word Amphibia i knew

Journal4 (Dipper)
you two know each other?
how?

Luzura (Luz)
while trying to find a spell to take me back home, me and Eda ended up in Amphibia
oh Eda’s my mentor/second mom figure that i lived with in the boiling isles

Heartstomper (Sasha)
oh you’re that girl!

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
anne told us about your adventure together after the invasion when everything was peaceful again
its great to meet you!

Time_Lord (Sprig)
and great to see you again!

AnnaBanna (Anne)
im glad you managed to get home even if it wasnt during the best circumstances
can relate to that one
and dying only to come back to life

CaptainLars (Lars)
three for the resurrection club
do we need to make shirts?
thats a joke btw

GoldenWolfz (Hunter)
four for the possession club yay

ShadowEnby (Lena)
this sucks
we’ve all been really messed up by life

Hoodie (Louie)
yup

CookieCat (Steven)
at least we have this chat now with people that understand what weve been through
we can have each others backs

SwordBud (Connie)
and the older of us can be a reminder that it gets better

PinkSunshine (Webby)
i dont have a lot of friends outside the mcduck family so i really want to be friends with everyone here

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Zim agrees (deleted)

Alien_Truther (Dib)
everyone thinks im crazy and weird so itd be pretty nice to have people that dont
no, Zim, you cant threaten to fight anyone that does, stop typing

Luzura (Luz)
as me and eda always say, us weirdos have to stick together

Heartstomper (Sasha)
hell yeah!

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
i love that

Time_Lord (Sprig)
that should be our motto!

AnnaBanna (Anne)
i could put it in the rules chat as like a personal touch that really makes this server ours

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
yesss

Heartstomper (Sasha)
cool

AnnaBanna (Anne)
oh man
i knew i forgot something
we were gonna do a sexuality rollcall or something but i forgot during me and luz’s reunion.

Time_Lord (Sprig)
dont worry anne we can do it tomorrow
its getting late anyway

Journal4 (Dipper)
besides who knows if more people might join

ShadowEnby (Lena)
a whole multiverse of people…

Hoodie (Louie)
did you really make it come back around to your comment about multiversal group therapy?

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
huh?

Hoodie (Louie)
i’ll explain later

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Rules:

AnnaBanna (Anne)
And remember, us weirdos have to stick together!

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General:

CookieCat (Steven)
that moment when youre woken up by your lion bumping your car window with his nose
so relatable

Journal4 (Dipper)
what?

CookieCat (Steven)
shit wrong chat
that was meant for connie and lars

Journal4 (Dipper)
honestly not the weirdest message ive gotten during breakfast

Heartstomper (Sasha)
now that is a statement

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
you have a lion?!
i have a pig!

CookieCat (Steven)
yup!
lion used to be my mom’s but now he’s mine and connie’s
[image]

It’s a picture of a small car window with the face of a pink lion filling the frame, its nose pressed against the glass at it stares silently at the picture-taker.

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
your lion is pink??
so cute!!

Journal4 (Dipper)
is he pink because he died?
sorry i remember lars saying he became pink after you brought him back

CookieCat (Steven)
its fine
yeah i think my mom brought him back to life, but i dont know why or how she met him and i doubt theres a way to find out

SwordBud (Connie)
oh so thats where lion went
i woke up and he was just gone from my room
shouldve figured he went to see you but you never know with him

Heartstomper (Sasha)
yo, cookie dude
why are you sleeping in your car?

CookieCat (Steven)
huh ive been called many things but not cookie… i think
im on a road trip right now and wasnt close to any towns with hotels so i slept in my car

Alien_Truther (Dib)
i would be more excited about the alien lion if i wasnt so exhausted
zim insisted on sleeping over at my house
do not have a sleepover with him, he insists on doing every sleepover game imaginable
it took so long

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
thats like the sleepovers me, sasha, and anne have
we make it our goal to stay up all night until sunrise most of the time
and our dares can get intense

Alien_Truther (Dib)
god i could never be friends with any of you
joking
youd either have a great time with zim or regret even inviting him

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Zim is great at sleepovering dib-thing!

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
the sleepovers id have with my girl friends back in gravity falls were so much fun!
wed play dress up and try out makeup and talk about boys!

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
what is this dress up?

Alien_Truther (Dib)
trying on clothes for fun
you know what you drag me to the mall to do after skool so many times?

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
ah yes fashion, Zim loves it

Alien_Truther (Dib)
he’s a fashion diva, seriously

Heartstomper (Sasha)
huh did not expect that

Journal4 (Dipper)
wait, back up
did you spell school as ‘skool’?

GSgirl (Gaz)
our education system is shit where we live
its why i usually spend class on my game and ignore the teachers

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Zim’s mission was doomed to the fail from the start

ShadowEnby (Lena)
ive never related so heavily to something in my life

CookieCat (Steven)
i honestly cant contribute to this education conversation at all
ive never went to school ever

SwordBud (Connie)
i dont even think he was technically homeschooled
the crystal gems werent the best guardians

CookieCat (Steven)
they got better but yeah they didnt know how to take care of a human kid
why my dad thought they were better than him just raising me in his van eludes me

SwordBud (Connie)
i think any parent would choose to have their kid live comfortably and safely in a house than in car, steven

CookieCat (Steven)
oh i didnt think about it like that
he shouldve at least visited me more

SwordBud (Connie)
we can agree on that

Hoodie (Louie)
breakfast is too early for questioning our parents choices
lunch on the other hand…

Heartstomper (Sasha)
alright hoodie you got a good chuckle out of me

Time_Lord (Sprig)
aw, sasha are you making friends?

Heartstomper (Sasha)
shut up frog boi

Journal4 (Dipper)
as fun as this is me and mabel have to go to school soon

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
ugh

Luzura (Luz)
me too
mamá says i still need to go to school in the human realm but i miss hexside so bad

Alien_Truther (Dib)
our skool sucks but we still have to attend
tho i think zim can probably get away with skipping i think

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Zim can but he is emotionally attached to our disgusting classmates

Alien_Truther (Dib)
minus keef

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
never keef

Heartstomper (Sasha)
do i want to know who keef is?

Alien_Truther (Dib)
no

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
no

Hoodie (Louie)
i got a weird feeling this is something we could connect over…

Alien_Truther (Dib)
maybe we can tell you later
im a bit distracted trying to avoid zim pushing me into traffic

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
that was one time!

Journal4 (Dipper)
anyway
i was thinking we could talk about our sexualities before we get to school
so everyone not in school can talk about theirs without needing to wait on us
if we even have time we got so distracted

Luzura (Luz)
thats a great idea!
im bi!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
cool me too

Luzura (Luz)
yay! bi buddies

Alien_Truther (Dib)
ive never really been interested in girls or boys?
i guess if i could even like anyone it would probably end up being zim cause of our history and all
dont know what to call that other than a need for therapy maybe?

Luzura (Luz)
you could be demiromantic?
or aromantic
theres nothing wrong with not being interested at all

Alien_Truther (Dib)
i’ll look into it thanks

InvaderZ1M (Zim)
Zim doesnt care for human labels but Zim is probably gay

GSgirl (Gaz)
aroace

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
i like boys but ive never thought about girls before
i might think about it and see if any girls make me feel butterflies

SwordBud (Connie)
that sounds like a cute way to figure out if you might be bi
good luck mabel

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
thanks

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
dipper what about you? i think youre the last to share

Journal4 (Dipper)
uh… honestly i dont know about my sexuality?
ive had a crush on a girl before but my first kiss was a guy so… idk

Alien_Truther (Dib)
really?

Journal4 (Dipper)
yeah
mabel i swear if you try and tell them about mermando, i’ll tell them about the love god incident

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
damn blackmail my only weakness
howd you even know?

Journal4 (Dipper)
i could literally see you typing
we’re a foot from each other in our dad’s car, mabel

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
we shouldnt have missed the bus…

Journal4 (Dipper)
i really dont like thinking that missing the bus was the only thing saving me from you embarrassing me in front of all our new friends

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
dont give me the stink eye when i just saw you type a message singling out a person here and then delete it!

Journal4 (Dipper)
i didnt do that what are you talking about?

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
yes you did!

Journal4 (Dipper)
no i didnt!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
so this is how siblings act

Hoodie (Louie)
yup

ShadowEnby (Lena)
i cant wait to experience this

PinkSunshine (Webby)
me too!

Time_Lord (Sprig)
little sisters can be terrifying

Alien_Truther (Dib)
finally someone gets it!

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When Dib checked his phone later at lunch, he found only a few people kept talking in chat after they left. It seemed everyone had left to go do what they needed to do for that day and he wasn’t too surprised, obviously everyone has a life outside the server.

Checking the server reminded him of something from the other day, however, and he turned to talk to Zim as he followed him into the lunchline. He barely paid attention to what food was being put on his tray as he asked, “So… appealing huh? That’s an odd choice of word to describe someone you just met.”

The alien looked at him from the corner of his eye, or at least his contacts gave the impression he was. “Zim doesn’t understand where you’re going with this.”

Before Dib could continue, Zim grabbed his tray and took off to the table they usually sat at where Gaz was already sitting. He quickly followed after, still talking. “I’m just saying you don’t even know him or what he looks like and you already find him appealing? Zim…”

Zim dropped his tray haphazardly on the table and sat down, glaring at Dib as he sat across from him. “Drop it, human.”

“Come on, spaceboy, we’re friends now, I have the right to tease you about any crushes in the making.” Dib watched the other boy’s gaze drop to his food and he sighed. “Look, Zim, I get it but it's way too soon to start crushing on someone.”

The alien just grumbled, “Zim wants to crush you.”

“I’m flattered, but I might be aromantic, remember?” Dib snarked back, only half regretting it when Zim looked back up at him silently, an angry aura about him.

The alien stood up, ready to dive across the table to attack Dib only for a cold voice to freeze him in his tracks.

“If you start a fight right now when I’m close to beating this boss, I’m gonna show you some pain.” Gaz said, not even looking up from her game. Her icy tone made both boys immediately settle down.

“Yes Gaz, sorry Gaz.”

“Zim will be good now.”

After a tense moment, Dib stuck his tongue out at the other boy and Zim just rolled his eyes and looked back down at his lunchtray, probably hiding a small smile. Since they’ve become friends, the two could never stay mad at each other for long, especially over something as small as this.

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Lunch at the McDuck manor started chaotically as it usually did, though not in the way one would expect from the adventurous family -like, for example the kids finishing a rough game of darts tag. Instead, it started with a blue-clad duckling accidentally bumping his brother and spilling his freshly open can of PEP! onto him.

“Dewey, what the heck?” Louie shouted, looking down at his now soaked hoodie. “This was my last clean hoodie!”

“Sorry, Lou.” Dewey said, and to his credit he did sound apologetic so the green triplet just sighed in response, mind already switching to thinking about how long it'd take him to go change and come back.

“Don't worry, greenie.” Lena said and walked up to him, followed by a worried Webby. She pulled off her signature black and dark gray striped sweater, leaving her in her pale blue button-up shirt. She held it out to him with a playful smirk. “Just wear this and you can change later after we eat.”

A little caught off guard, Louie only hesitated a moment before pulling his hoodie off and absentmindedly handed it off to a passing Duckworth, along with the now empty soda. Mentally he thanked whatever luck god was out there for sparing the tank-top he wore underneath and the friendship bracelets tied around his wrists -though those could’ve been saved by the magic infused in them by both Webby and Lena. He pulled on her sweater quickly, feeling uncomfortable with his arms so exposed.

Louie hummed as he looked down at himself. The sweater was clearly too big on him, the hem falling below his knees and the sleeves had to be rolled up so he could even use his hands. Other than that though… It felt nice, different. It wasn’t green to distinguish him from his brothers or wasn’t the exact same hoodie he’s worn since forever. In it, for once, he felt like him, not part of a set, not the evil triplet, just Louie Duck.

“This doesn’t look that bad on me.” he said a little choked up, then jokingly did a twirl much to the audible amusement of both of his best friends; Lena chuckling and Webby cooing. “Maybe I should borrow your clothes more often, Lena.”

The older girl smiled softly at him as if knowing what he was just thinking and looked completely at ease missing one of her layers. “Or we could finally go shopping like you’ve been talking about for the past few weeks?”

“Yeah we should!” Webby agreed, bouncing in her place beside them and Louie nodded, feeling grateful for them being his friends.

“Ahem.” the clearing of someone’s throat startled them from their nice moment and they turned to see Ms. Beakley passing out sandwiches with Duckworth. “Come sit down and eat.” she said softly, but sternly. The rest of their family had already taken their spots at the table, most of them giving soft thank yous to her as she and the ghost butler gave out food while others were watching the three best friends with both fond and confused looks.

The trio opted to sit down on the opposite side of the table from the others, Louie’s decision to do so earning a strange look from his two brothers, Huey and Dewey. Out of the corner of his eye, the youngest triplet noticed Webby look at the two empty chairs beside her and frown. He vaguely remembered her sisters May and June saying something about eating lunch early so they could explore the manor they now lived in, and even though he understood their decision, he still felt bad for Webby.

Lena, seeing the girl’s expression, reached over to grab her hand and squeeze it, earning a bright smile from Webby in return. Louie watched the interaction with a smile.

He was halfway through eating his sandwich and half-listening to his brothers talk about whatever they did that morning when his name was called. He looked up, a bit surprised to find his mom looking at him. He internally tensed, noticing how the rest of the others got quiet as if they were expecting him to start a fight with her. Louie’s hands clenched into fists on his lap at the thought and he put on his fakest smile.

“Yes mom?” he replied, oh-so-sweetly. Ever since their conversation during the moon invasion, he’s been trying to give her a chance and it’s been… okay? But he still feels a little on edge around her.

“If you want to go clothes shopping, I can take you.” Della offered a little cautiously, studying his reaction -and gosh dangit she was really trying, wasn’t she? His tenseness slowly fell away and his smile became a little less fake as she continued. “Not to brag, but I’m great at fashion.”

He couldn’t help but snort at that. “No offense mom, but…” he trailed off seeing the way she was looking at him so fondly, like the way uncle Donald would whenever he and his brothers did literally anything. He couldn’t remember if she’s ever looked at him that way before and here she was doing it over him laughing. It made his cheeks heat up and made him feel small. Softly, he said. “Sure, mom, that’d be nice.”

The way her eyes lit up at his agreement was way too much and he quickly went back to his food. He felt a nudge to his side and turned to see Lena giving him a quiet look asking if he was okay. He nodded and she turned back to talking to Webby.

A buzz, followed by two more rang out from their side of the table ruining their peace, but thankfully not the conversation going on around them.

Louie pulled out his phone, annoyed and sure he had put it on silent. He glanced at the notification, then snapped his gaze back to it to re-read it. “Uh… Lena, Webs, check your phones.”

He watched them do as told, both turning to him surprised afterwards. They all looked at each other, silently agreeing later, they’d discuss this later and went back to eating.

It didn't go unnoticed by Louie that Ms. Beakley was giving the three a suspicious look long after the moment had passed.

What did go unnoticed to him, however, was the confused and worried look shared between two brothers. A triplet keeping a secret was never a good thing in their experience.

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Rules:

User
New rule
-once a week it is mandatory to have a video chat or voice chat session. not all users are expected to join, a call of only a few people is fine

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Heartstomper (Sasha)
frog its like this guy wants us to speedrun friendship or something

AnnaBanna (Anne)
at least not everyone is expected to join
theres like way too many of us for one call

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
imagine when we get even more people

Heartstomper (Sasha)
a call with all of them would be hell, assuming this guy can break the limit of users in a call

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
actually i think admins can set the limit themselves?
it might be best to keep it at 10 or something like that

AnnaBanna (Anne)
i’ll look into it, i might need help though youre the genius behind keeping servers working marcy

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
i’ll come over later to help
but it might be a good idea if im made an admin too if the user is okay with that

Heartstomper (Sasha)
why are we treating this guy like hes a god or something?

Time_Lord (Sprig)
he sent a link to multiple dimensions

Heartstomper (Sasha)
touche

Hoodie (Louie)
okay what the heck is up with this guy?
he chose the exact moment we were having lunch with our family and now webby’s granny is suspicious of us

PinkSunshine (Webby)
she is?

ShadowEnby (Lena)
is that why you left the table as soon as you could?
i thought it was because of your mom

Heartstomper (Sasha)
what did his mom do?

SwordBud (Connie)
are you okay louie?
we’re here if you need to vent

Hoodie (Louie)
its nothing like that
she offered to take me, lena and webs to go shopping for clothes and i said yes
dammit the only clean clothes i have is pajamas
how did i manage to get every single one of my green hoodies dirty??
can i keep your sweater until tomorrow, lena? thats when the laundry should be done

ShadowEnby (Lena)
sure
im probably gonna sleep over again tonight anyway

Hoodie (Louie)
cool

Heartstomper (Sasha)
so… back up a sec
youre gonna go shopping with the mom you dont like?

Hoodie (Louie)
look its complicated
i dont think i can forgive her for leaving us but i think i want to at least give her a chance to be my mom maybe?
idk

CookieCat (Steven)
family can really be complicated and confusing
if you want to give her a chance thats up to you

Hoodie (Louie)
thanks

Heartstomper (Sasha)
sorry if i made you feel like you have to know exactly how you feel about her
or that you have to explain it to us at all

Hoodie (Louie)
its fine

PinkSunshine (Webby)
um can we go back to my granny being suspicious?

ShadowEnby (Lena)
oh yeah
whats up with that, lou?

Hoodie (Louie)
i dont know how big of a deal it is, but she gave us one of those looks like she knows we’re hiding something

ShadowEnby (Lena)
ugh
i hate it when she does that look

PinkSunshine (Webby)
i think she’s been trying to respect my space lately so she might wait until i tell her myself?

Hoodie (Louie)
or interrogate us

ShadowEnby (Lena)
or worse
tell the adults

Hoodie (Louie)
lets hope she doesnt, uncle scrooge and uncle donald will not be happy we’re talking in a server made by some kind of unknown dimension-connecting god

ShadowEnby (Lena)
shit we can never tell them

PinkSunshine (Webby)
im learning so many new curse words!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
what

ShadowEnby (Lena)
webby ive taught you all of these before
your granny would kill me if she knew lol

PinkSunshine (Webby)
i know i was just trying to lighten the mood

AnnaBanna (Anne)
i guess we could talk about our sexualities if you guys need a distraction
since we forgot to do it earlier

Heartstomper (Sasha)
whoops
im pretty sure i already said it but im bi

AnnaBanna (Anne)
im bi too

VagabondiaGurl (Marcy)
im a lesbean

PinkSunshine (Webby)
me too!

ShadowEnby (Lena)
me three

Hecate_fan (Amity)
we dont really have labels in the boiling isles but the human internet said im a lesbian

GoldenWolfz (Hunter)
im bi

CookieCat (Steven)
me and connie are both aroace

Hoodie (Louie)
i think im straight? but honestly i wouldnt be surprised if that changes

CaptainLars (Lars)
same
most of the people ive been into have been girls but looking back on my teenhood, there was probably some guy crushes too so… whatever happens i guess

Time_Lord (Sprig)
im pretty sure im bi?
pretty sure i had a crush on that theater kid

AnnaBanna (Anne)
oh i remember him!
dude you need to have better standards, youre a catch

Time_Lord (Sprig)
i know i am
besides im already taken

ShadowEnby (Lena)
oh?

Time_Lord (Sprig)
: )

Hoodie (Louie)
youre not gonna tell us yet are you?

Time_Lord (Sprig)
nope
i want to wait until it naturally comes up in conversation

ShadowEnby (Lena)
…doesn’t you just mentioning count?!

Heartstomper (Sasha)
im pretty sure hes just messing with you right now

AnnaBanna (Anne)
thats my little brother for you…

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
hey guys!

SwordBud (Connie)
arent you supposed to be in school?

Hecate_fan (Amity)
i thought phones werent allowed to be used during human school?

Heartstomper (Sasha)
theyre not

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
i used going to the bathroom as an excuse to get on the server
i dont have long to be on here

AnnaBanna (Anne)
did something happen?

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
so…
i want to hold girls’ hands and girls are so pretty

Heartstomper (Sasha)
ohhh first gay/bi panic?

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
mmhmm

Heartstomper (Sasha)
youre gonna be okay, girl
how do you help yourself stop thinking about boys?

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
oh wow i was overthinking it
thanks sasha

Heartstomper (Sasha)
dont really know how exactly i helped but…
anytime, kid

SwordBud (Connie)
will you be fine to go back to class?

SweaterWeather (Mabel)
yeah i should be
wait
sprig youre dating someone?!

Time_Lord (Sprig)
: )

ShadowEnby (Lena)
not again!

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Hi, sorry I haven't posted chapter 4. I don't know when I'll post it, honestly. I've just lost interest in this fic, which really confuses me because it's only been 3 chapters. I guess in part it's because I accidentally jumped to another hyperfixation without meaning to? Also I'm really impatient with long fics -I want to get to the future scenes immediately and don't like writing the stuff between point A and point B, you know? Originally the plan for this fic was for me to leave behind enough notes in my files that I could come back and write another chapter whenever I wanted, allowing myself to leave it alone for long periods of time. That really worked for the 'selfish' (I genuinely don't know if this actually is selfish) part of me that wants to write fanfics for me, and not specifically the readers I might get. I love all the readers for this story though and I'm so happy I got to talk to all of you. I guess the plan now is to just come back to this fic when I want to. Sorry. (Might delete this depending on how people react)