Melrents Mail

To: Mom and Dad [snowpointtutors@delimail.com]
Date: July 11, 3:14 AM
This message has video. //Attached: Vmail/Mom_LotsOfThings//

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The video starts with Melanie wearing an old Snowpoint Snovers hoodie and some shorts as she's huddled within her den of a room. Despite her usual disheveled appearance and bags under her eyes, she seems...calm. Or maybe the many different types of anxiety and paranoia in her have just reached a stalemate. In any case, she doesn't seem nearly as worked up as in previous messages.

"Hey...it's uh...been a while, yeah?" Her eyes settle on the camera. "Lots...of things have happened since we last talked. And lots of things are about to happen still..." She pauses a bit to sigh. "So I guess, first things first, the Black Rose cult. We've...abolished it. The tattoos should no longer be functional, all links should be severed. The leader of the cult was known as Galia...you might uh...you might have heard of her I suppose...she was...she was me. Not LITERALLY me, but she was the Melanie Ipu from an alternate dimension who managed to slip into ours...she didn't age because apparently my existence caused our reality to kind of...forget she existed in some capacity. Which means...yes, she started the very same bunch of them Dad would have beat up...and which you would have...she was also responsible for the Darkrai, as she originally planned to prevent my birth until after it happened when she realized the link we shared..."

Melanie clears her throat. "I would...more than likely have joined her were it not for the intervention of my crew...had they not been there, I think...I think I would have betrayed them for real...but..." After some sniffling, she wipes some tears from her eyes. "But that's not...I won't do that to them again...ever....o-or to you guys..." She takes a bit longer to compose herself. "I'm not uh...a fledgling god anymore either...I couldn't really deal with the pressure, but I had to trade places with someone to get out of it, and...Luna...oh yeah...I broke up with my first girlfriend...and I have another one now, that's Luna...but she took my place. We're...very similar, in a lot of ways. Even if we haven't actually spent much time together, I...I think the level of our relationship has more than transcended even marriage by now. Anyway, she's now Ululane, a god of reincarnation. I redirected a ritual and we sent the other me to Ululane's domain, but I don't really know how that's progressed. But anyways, I'm just back to being crazy old me...with...a few bugs still, but whatever."

She refers to a journal before continuing. "Anyways, we went on and kept beating up baddies associated with the criminal organization called Aether...or...Team Aether. We've...essentially dismantled the whole thing by now, so there's that. The whole PIRATES deal is coming to a conclusion. But...our work isn't quite done. I'd mentioned we'd parted ways with Med, but...it was not...really amicable...her mother was...caught up with Aether in the worst possible way and...I wouldn't agree to let her get away with everything if we couldn't contain her, leading her to...threaten to kill you. After hearing that her mother and sister had been killed, I didn't think she had anymore violent influences in her life but she's...kidnapped one of our original members of the crew and has...gone to the...moon. I'm aware of how absurd that sounds, but...there have been a lot of absurdities. We are going to have to find a way to get to the moon to...stop her. So if I don't come back then uh...well my journal should have a lot more information, in case there are things you still wanted to know that I don't cover here..."

After a deep breath, she musters a smile which seems...oddly genuine, though a tad wistful. "But...if everything does work out fine, I have some longer term plans to stay in Wakino. I'm uh...going to be the new Ghost Gym Leader, taking over for 'Shadow Claw'. I also plan to open up a...school in Razor Crags, where the other me's cult was based. We left a lot of straggling cult members behind and...I expect some of them still need help. I want to make a place where other people with weird interests and powers can go to learn and...be happy, like I...wasn't back in school. I plan on sticking around with Luna for...a long time...and I'm actually...happy. With Mitsuko now being a member of the Elite 4, I'll probably get to see a lot more of her. And um..." She scratches her head as her cheeks flush red. "I um...I plan to get...pregnant...soonish...since obviously there are some issues with Luna and me making a...making a kid, my er...um...other best friend has agreed to help....out. His name is Knoxy...er, I mean, Nicholas Knight...he's uh...we're all...it's...LIFE IS WEIRD OKAY?!" The composure Melanie's kept pretty well throughout the video suddenly shatters in a resurgence of old dork Mel and the video ends.

Love,
Melanie Ipu [mipu@drifblimail.net]