Unender: Sorry for not replying to your previous messages.
Deathbringer: No worries, I just guessed you were busy or something. You alright?
Unender: I am currently in a hospital bed, recovering from a surgery to remove necrotic organs I accidentally created while shapeshifting, which was causing me so much pain I could no longer stand.
Deathbringer: As stupid as this sounds, I totally get that.
Unender: What.
Deathbringer: Alright I didn’t grow additional organs but on multiple occasions I’ve grown body parts I couldn’t get rid of straight away.
Deathbringer: Accidentally caught a Banikan horn on the doorway to my apartment the other day and tore it out.
Unender: That is… not what I did.
Deathbringer: Oh come on, what did you do that was so bad?
Unender: I turned into a Beh’evok completely, to the point that I sealed off my vagina and gave myself a functioning anus.
Deathbringer: Oh.
Deathbringer: That’s pretty impressive. But, again, I’ve done that myself. Apparently, when I was in Deathven undergoing therapy, I believed I was female and my dick shrank and fell off.
Unender: Ugh.
Unender: Why does being a stupid fucking mimic hybrid have to be so fucking hard?
Deathbringer: You get used to it. It’s not been very long for you. At all. The fact that you are hard shapeshifting already is scarily impressive.
Unender: Hard shapeshifting?
Deathbringer: Biologically changing yourself. Rather than just changing your skin the way a Spast does.
Unender: Tenuk can change his internal organs.
Deathbringer: He just changes surface organs. Anything connected to an orifice.
Deathbringer: I thought I told Litvir to tell you not to fuck around with your sense of self anyway? You need time to come to terms with who you are, solidify your identity.
Unender: Litvir has been by my side nonstop. Spent two hours holding my hand for some damn reason. Meanwhile I am missing out on training.
Deathbringer: Elkay, chill.
Unender: Do not fucking dare tell me to chill. I remember what you were like. You constantly exploded.
Deathbringer: Yeah, I know. But I’ve worked on myself, I’ve better established who I am and I don’t want you doing the same stupid piss I did. Kinisis started fucking you up the way she fucked me up and I don’t want her to finish the job from beyond the grave.
Deathbringer: You worried about your Decay Lord trial?
Unender: Yes. We have sent off the applications and are waiting on a date, but since there are eight of us, Elksia is a Time Drake and Phovos is a Life Goddess, we do not know if we will be split up or not. Kaytee claimed he had to do his Decay Lord trial on his own, and had to fight a Voidborn twice his size.
Deathbringer: Hopefully they keep you all together.
Deathbringer: Who is Kaytee?
Unender: This Threan-type Retha being that looks exactly like a Skyavok and a LOT like you when you were not angry and covered in black wisps. Claims to be your ex-boyfriend. He is trying to change his name from Teekay to Kaytee and he wishes to join the Thantir.
Deathbringer: Uh, what’s his codename? I… I was going through my old Wyvern chats and there is definitely a Teekay here.
Unender: Loopblade-6
Deathbringer: Huh.
Deathbringer: The Teekay I have here is called Telecharm.
Unender: Oh.
Deathbringer: Oh indeed.
Deathbringer: Memory loss fucking sucks. Gonna have to message this Loopblade guy and tell him to stop claiming to be my ex because I have no real memory of him, since I asked Telecharm to do the same. Then again this other Teekay just claimed we were friends.
Deathbringer: Sorry, enough about my bullshit, we need to talk about your bullshit. Why are you trying to learn shapeshifting anyway when you know you’re unstable?
Unender: Uh.
Unender: Tenuk and Elksia have a plan to sneak into a Voidborn base, find out where their central bastion is then blow it up.
Deathbringer: Ohhhhhhh that sounds fun.
Deathbringer: Wait, you are going to shapeshift into a Voidborn?
Unender: The plan is for Tenuk and I to shapeshift into Lanex. When we go to the space mall or whatever, Kal requested we buy them some paint, we will use that as an excuse to buy some extra black paint for Akah. Three liars are better than one. Even if Akah is bad at lying.
Deathbringer: Oh that is way better than trying to shapeshift into a Voidborn. Can you get some masks or something? Because shapeshifting a mask fucking sucks. I keep a box full of supplies for the harder races to shapeshift into.
Unender: What… sort of box?
Deathbringer: Nothing much. Some Lanex masks, some anti-psionic Vohra devices, Temthan underwear…
Unender: Temthan underwear?
Deathbringer: I don’t know if it’s because my base form is Panthreanic, but every time I shapeshift into a Temthan, either gender, I always end up with massive tits or a giant cock and I have no idea why. Sure Temthans don’t mind nudity but some things are best left to the imagination. Maybe that’s why Kairos randomly sometimes gets a little too touchy with me…
Unender: Thank you for putting that image in my head.
Deathbringer: You asked.
Unender: True.
Unender: Still, I need to not hospitalize myself again.
Deathbringer: Actually, I think I know how to make things easier for you. You just need to rephrase your thoughts.
Unender: I do not follow.
Deathbringer: Alright, so when you made yourself ill, you said to yourself “I am a whatever-the-fuck-a-Beh’evok-is” and you turned into one. You need to change how you say that. Instead of saying “I am”, say “I am pretending to be.”
Unender: That makes sense. But will I not slip up?
Unender: Also a Beh’evok is Galyn’s species.
Deathbringer: Huh, had no idea Galyn wasn’t a unique individual.
Unender: 80% of the Phantai are Beh’evok.
Deathbringer: Wait, Galyn belongs to an entire species of deity?
Unender: They are basically massive, armoured Rethavok with crowns of horns and Vrekan-like blades. At least, the males are. We have not seen a female one, and Retvik, Litvir and I keep on getting unwanted attention because the Beh’evok realized we are intersex. Many of them also seem to be homosexual and they do not practice safe sex.
Deathbringer: Oh.
Deathbringer: I bet that’s been frustrating for you and Teekay. Your Teekay. Not this Loopblade bastard.
Unender: Things have been rough. My recent injuries, inability to safely give and these identity issues have made it very hard to be a loving partner.
Deathbringer: Well once you’re back on your feet, go to that stupid space mall or whatever and go buy some damn rubbers. And buy something nice for yourself. I don’t know if I can access my Decay Lord bank account while inside a universe but I’ll see if I can send you all some pocket money or something, since I can’t use it anyway.
Unender: That is very kind of you.
Deathbringer: It’s the least I can do, I can’t buy anything anyway.
Deathbringer: Anyway back to the shapeshifting.
Deathbringer: You don’t have to use the word ‘pretending’, maybe say that you are disguised as something. “I am Elkay Theanon and I am disguised as a Lanex” is less strenuous than “I am Elkay Theanon and I am a Lanex.”
Unender: Do I have to say my own name?
Deathbringer: It can help. Don’t need to say it out loud, but think it. Reaffirm not just who you are but what you are doing.
Deathbringer: You’re a mimic hybrid, you can literally manipulate reality around you. You’re a Life Goddess and a Voidborn wrapped up into one but not actually either of them. They break things by telling the universe or the void (or both) around them to do as they say. You need to do the same, but to yourself.
Unender: So I need to force both myself and the eternal void to accept what I am, and that I am the one to make those decisions, no one else?
Deathbringer: That’s a way better way of putting it.
Deathbringer: If you can convince yourself that you are Elkay no matter what anyone else says, the multiverse can’t stop you.
Deathbringer: And I mean anyone. I let other people tell me who I was and it broke me and now I’m stuck inside this universe as a god of decay. You though, you already have an idea who you are. You can tell everyone else to fuck off.
Unender: I see.
Unender: I can do that.
Unender: Thank you, Arkay.
Deathbringer: No worries. I’m free to chat pretty much whenever. I gotta make sure that the only other mimic I know is safe.
Unender: I appreciate the concerns. This has been helpful to me.
Unender: Thank you. And sorry for being angry at you.
Deathbringer: Eh I probably deserve it. Have a good one, mate. And I wish you a speedy recovery.
Unender: Thank you. I need to rest now.
Deathbringer: Alrighty.
Unender is now offline.