A buddy of mine said he stole some of your goop, dried it, powdered it, and then snorted it and lost consciousness. Did you take control of that guy?
I.. don't think so? Why? Is he acting differently now?
I mean, I don't think that I can take control of people who inhale powdered copies of me, but honestly nobody's ever done that to this me or a me I was connected to, so I guess i don't really have hard evidence one way or the other. I guess I could maybe conduct an experiment, but I'm not sure where I could find subjects...
Did someone say unethical magic experiment?
Sounds fun.
Okay, I know what you're probably thinking, and I do appreciate the thought, but I'm really not comfortable using @mundanemurphy as an experimental subject without his express and uncoerced willing participation.
😔 no snortable concoction 🥺 for me?
I mean, it's not that I mind sending a bit of me to you for experimentation; like I did just send bits of me to a few dozen wizard students in the blennology class; it's just that I kind of... don't really want to get innocent people unwillingly involved in those experiments.
But I mean in this case I guess it won't do much harm even if you do experiment on @mundanemurphy; I mean he has always come back pretty fast from whatever you've done to him and after all the point of this experiment is to see if I can take control of people who snort powdered me (which I probably can't anyway) so the worst that will happen is I take brief control of him and then I'll relinquish that control as soon as I know I can, and in the best case maybe he'll get weird slime powers?
I don't know, though; it still feels a little wrong; I mean, it's still doing experiments on someone without his consent (assuming that's what you plan on doing)... although on the other hand, I'm not sure how you could trick him into snorting green powder without knowing something is up, so maybe you will actually ask him for consent?
Eh... I mean, okay, it does feel a little unfair for me to send some bits of myself to all these wizard students I barely know and refuse to send them to you when I think I've known you almost since I was created in a vat by an evil wizard three years ago, so okay, sure, I guess you can have a bit of me-slime for experimentation.
“May I have some of your self for experimentation?”
“It would be unfair to refuse after all.”
I mean, to be fair, Gavamont hasn't repeatedly said he wanted to kill me, which I think may be a relevant factor to keep in mind here.
“What if I could figure out a way to clone you? Then I would never have to try to kill you again, because I could kill you as much as I want.”
I uh... I mean, I split off copies of myself all the time. It's... it's just something I do. I think at this point figuring out how to clone me is very much a solved problem.
Honestly, I guess I can give you a copy of me you can do what you want with—and that can keep splitting off more copies of me as long as you don't destroy all the copies of me in your possession—if it means you're going to stop trying to kill the other copies of me.
“Oh… I mean obviously I was aware of your ability to grow copies, and I totally didn’t assume you were resurrecting yourself every time I thought I killed you….”
“So… are all the copies the same or is there like a Prime Concoction Boy?”
I mean... when an amœba splits in two, which is the original and which is the copy? Obviously I'm not an amœba, but the point still stands; I don't think any copy of me really has any firmer basis to be called the original or the prime me than any other. That's why I'm not all that worried when the me that was posting on Tumblr, like, dissolves into bubbles and floats away, or gets permanently turned into an orb, or whatever. Another me just takes over posting on Tumblr and continues business as usual. I can't just instantly split off arbitrarily many copies of me, because obviously if I split myself in half each copy is half the size of the previous me until it replenishes its volume, but still.
I'm not sure how many copies of me there are out there at this point, because I haven't really kept track of them or maintained connections with all of them and it's entirely possible that some of the copies I split off have split off copies of their own, but, you know, a lot.
I don't think any of the other copies of me have their own Tumblr accounts, though.
Did you forget about (this) me?
Okay yes I guess I did forget that there is at least one other copy of me that has a Tumblr account but I mean it hasn't made very many posts and most of the posts it has made were about a curse they accidentally put me (all the mes) under.
I (this me) told you (that me) before, I don't post much because to get a signal where I am I have to climb a mountain of bones haunted by the specters of things that never were. It's... it's kind of an all-day thing.
