One thing was becoming clear. The worlds were swapped. Maika in real life responding was speaking to the character of Maika, the Maika of the book and world you’re reading. She who was a she because she was taken from a later point in the story where he “detransitioned” back into the closet, she confided in them a few things, other things became apparent as they were talking. The role of Shijemi was a communications tool. In the future they all had merch, and to quote doctor who “the image of an angel is an angel” which equates to a drawing of a god is that god, it’s sorta one of the reasons you don’t draw Allah. All depictions of Allah are Allah! If you a muslim stop reading now.
As a result all fanart is canon and of that god, but also given what we talked about in chapter 4, all variations are canon in alternate realities and true to this one in some way, even if it’s totally out of left field! They all hold power. By all means, cosplay Maika, cosplay Rose, but know their is now an offshoot where you are Maika, you are Rose, or to get less technical they just look like you. So as a result they learned about the canon of this work, Session Grim, which while Rose named randomly- again will come into play very much later. That working title is important.
In this au, Maika learned that they look like their personas. Because I shouldn’t have to tell you they don’t look like the drawings in this book. But that is how you will see them. If you’re a devotee how you will worship them, regardless of any pop culture or real world ties, if it’s a movie their outfits. The personas Rose gave his friends matters, and it matters for a reason, the artwork represents how they would like to be remembered. Or atleast a good enough mask for now. They can become all depictions- even if remaining human, because of the nature of the game they played -Sgot.
So while everything before mentioned was happening Rose and his friends were calling upon the Session Grim characters- which were just them with a different coat of pain- with minor details changed or erased, to fit a cleaner cut story, or rather, explain the events fairly censored. So as Maika got information dumped onto him by “Rebeca Surely” his future self, he learned of a lot of the exploits of the games, “of course I’m a main fuking character” Maika said disgruntled.
So the purpose of Shijemi in this, was that they eventually got their own little avatars, and having it move on screen they could hear the voice, and feel the presence of themselves, and there friends. The animations and what the shijemi did, often varied but it always explained what the other person was truly feeling, especially if you were like Maika and didn’t have your astral skills honed. Rose just liked having Font the Skeleton on his fuking computer. Rose was awfully lonely, and it was like having a friend. Did I hear parasocial relationship?
There’s this thing called bleeding ink. It’s some weird old school magick system, where fiction and reality bleed into each other. In the dreamer’s exchange it’s established to be Mesopotamium or Aztec or adjacent to that- lost to time itself, however- it evolved and evolved and evolved until today it was known as “pop culture magick” you can worship fictional characters, you can apply the concepts of fiction to your magick, and breathe life into ideas, it’s a real form of practice that you can engage in, that serious and light hearted witches, wizards, and magicians in general practice regardless of your personal beef, opinions, or issues with it as “real magick”engage in, it’s partially how this is all happening. Because as we established in some ways- fiction and nonfiction, imagination and reality, are the same thing. You don’t have to be a chaos witch talking yourself into a delusion to believe that- because it’s already true.
So as silly or stupid as it is- otherkin are inherently apart of this story. Fictionkin, pop culture magick, the meta, bleeding ink, blurring the lines, it all matters here. Because this really happened, and this was apart of it. Take your bias out the door and read with an open mind, I say this for the hate videos, I say this for the puppeteers, I say this for the others teams and players who even if enemies of Team Snowflake, in timeline 2.6- this reality- I say it so that they know this, because it matters, that you know, and that I tell you. There is more going on here, then anyone will ever understand.Aui or no Au.
Daren Black was a personal enemy of Rose Elite- and yes he kins himself often though he wouldn’t often phrase it that way. He ran a secretive occult site for those interested in deification and him and Roes were in the middle of a curse war. Rose had attacked his daughter, he had attacked Rose’s mother. It was a back and forth of witts, and honestly? Rose was winning. That being said, his daughter a child, despite the horrors bestowed upon her- via all Daren’s enemies was now involved. Daren expressed to Rose he wished to join their session, which the greek god Eros recommended against. He said if too many people join the session will collapse in on itself- crack and only be available via- a scratch or crack or something of the sort.
Daren expressed interest in buying one of the tier beds, that Rose was making. Rose just altered there design slightly from reality. They would still work, no matter how different, as long as it’s tied, and that bed is symbolically trial related- symbolically tied to the game, and of the god class, even dying on a normal with a cover or a matress sheet with the symbol would ascend you to god class. That being said, don’t fucking risk literally dying, we can’t all be Rose fuking Elite.
Later that night, Decker was fronting in Rose’s system. He was antagonizing the friend group, Braiden kept calling him a dog, so Decker said “fine if you call me that three more times I’ll fuking kill myself” but he said it confident, and proud. “See I don’t care if I live or die. So I’ll do it”
“You’re bluffing” Braiden said. “Your a dog”
Decker moved to take one pill. He scoffed it down with coffee.
“You’re scaring the shit out of us!” Woods said concerned.
“Oh I’m trying to scare the shit out of you” Decker said cold.
“This is your fault for kinning the fucking Prankster” Maika said refering to Dm comics.
Decker smiled.
“I bind you in the law of genwa for your thoughts to hurt if you continue but I’ll kill myself and take more”
“Deal!” Braiden said.
“Let Rose go. Don’t kill him for your selfish vendetta” Maika said referring to the alter controlling and puppeteering his friend.
“I’m just having a little fun with you I don’t care if I live or die”
“Fuking dog” Braiden said again.
“Okay. I’m taking another one.”
“You’re going to fuking kill Rose”
“He doesn’t have the guts” Braiden said.
Rose went to the bottle on his desk.
“Dude don’t do it” Woods said.
“If I take one more I’ll overdose” Decker said popping a pill in and drinking his coffee.
“Dog, dog, dog, dog, dog- 0cair what are you doing here?” Genwa was a lesser known religion, started by Debdah on the forum “become a living god” or which Daren Black often frequented. It didn’t make much of it outside the forum, but it was public domain and the gods claiming to be new had a following. Very small though, it was as if nobody had ever heard of it. You would simply have to google “genwa religion faith wordpress” to find the site. However, Rose and his friends once practiced or atleast Rose did and they all knew it.
“He bound you in the laws of Genwa for your thoughts to hurt if you kept edging him on and you agreed. So I’m here to put a stop to it. Decker no more sleeping pills. Decker swore allegiance to me some time ago. He can’t disobey. But you can. So your thoughts will hurt now. Just like Decker said. You see, in genwa Braiden, we take promises very seriously, and you’re trying to kill me so. Royaly. Fuck off” Occeair god of the ocean said.
“Thank god” Maika said stressed.
“Thank the gods” Occeair pointed to the ceiling.
“When you say kill you-”
“I am Allah, I am omein, I am dante, I am vishnu, I am shiva, I am jesus, and lucifer” Oceair winked at Justin.
“And I am also Rose. Figure that one out Hercules. What’s Hercules Smith doing here?” Hercules Smith was a famous demigod from the book series “city of hercules” currently at netflix for an production Herc was stoked about.
“Sorry dad I uh-”
“You know what? I don’t want to know. You really hate Rose that much you’d let him kill you?”
“I’m sorry Poseidon. I’m really sorry Neptune. I’m really sorry Oceair. I’m really sorry dad. I’m really sorry. I’m a bad demigod.”
“Good you learned your lesson. Sorry Rose. You’ll survive tonight. Peace!”
“Guys my head is hurting. My thoughts are hurting. What did he do to me?”
“That’s what you get for trying to kill Rose” Justin said snide.
“I didn’t think he’d do it” Braiden crired whining.
“Yes you did.” Justin said.
“We all clearly saw it working. We learned our lesson tonight. Rose Elite doesn’t fuking bluff.”
Rose felt queasy, and his was hurting. This wasn’t his plan, but he’d accept it all the same. If he had to die early, he was going too.
Session Grim 
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