+ THIS is the Bad Place! - MINGLE LOG +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE
Where: The Neighborhood!
When: 4/26 - 4/30
Rating: PG-13, warn if going higher - no swearing by event law!
Summary: Catch-all log for The Good Place event!
The Story:

Welcome to the Good Place! Your character, tragically, has died in their world. They might not remember how (or maybe they do!) but it’s okay either way because conveniently they have earned enough points to go to the Good Place when they die! They’ve earned a house that they have been told is perfectly suited to them (it is probably not, but who are they to question the universe?!) in an absolutely delightful and quaint little Neighborhood with a frozen yogurt shop on every block. It’s almost irritatingly perfect!

Most importantly though, someone will be living with your character. Someone very, very special - their soulmate, hand-picked from the billions on Earth! Sure, it may not be who (or even what) they expected, but this is what they’ve earned from the good life they’ve lived in your world. They deserve this! They really, truly do.

Everyone is welcome to add details to what exactly is in the Neighborhood - everyone has different standards for what constitutes an "objectively good but still mediocre" neighborhood experience, after all!

Need more information, or maybe a soulmate? Head on over to the plot post! Prose or [Action Brackets] are both welcome!

Comments

[singloversing]

[Wirt has thankfully changed into more normal clothes since then (and boy was it an ordeal, and will probably continue to be an ordeal for all of eternity). He still dresses a bit more like someone's grandfather than a teenage boy, but it's still significantly better than being trapped in his Halloween costume.

He really hates this glass house though. He feels like he has to be on guard all the time in case someone sees anything, and sure enough someone turns up outside.]

O-Oh my god, why is someone throwing things at our house?! Who-- [He's walking across the house looking for him as he says this, but he stops short when he sees Dipper open the door.] --oh. Someone you know? ...Hi?

[He still doesn't like the stone-throwing, but the fact that it's someone Dipper seems comfortable with makes him very slightly less anxious about it. It's not like, a mob or someone there to laugh at them or something. Probably. Maybe??]

[powerofmabel]

[Mabel is accompanied by a roomba with googly eyes and a mustache awkwardly stuck on it, and she quickly pushes past her brother to nose around the house.] Woooow is this really your house? Are the bathrooms glass too?

[She notices Wirt and points at him, her excited rambling finding a new target.] Ah!! Is this your soulmate? Good one, brother. He's tall. ...Really bad dresser though.

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper grabs Mabel's shoulders and pulls her back into the main room so he can introduce her and stop her from insulting Wirt's clothes why, Mabel, why.]

Wirt, this is my sister Mabel. Mabel, this is, um, my soulmate. Wirt. He dresses that way because he's from the past.

[singloversing]

[Wirt moves aside to let the two of them through, and makes a face at all of the remarks about his clothes.]

I-I mean, not that far in the past? Like, 1989. [Belatedly he realizes he's not helping his own case here, and flushes a little.] But, um. I guess my tastes are kind of not traditional for the times.

[That's putting it mildly, but at least he has it in him to defend his strange sense of style.]

Um, it's nice to meet you, Mabel. It's cool that you guys are twins.

[powerofmabel]

Any soulmate of my brother's is a brother of mine, so welcome to the family, Wirt. And yowza. <'89? Love knows no age, am I right? [She nudges Wirt with her elbow.] We weren't even born until 1999.

[The roomba whirrs by Dipper's feet, googly eyes just wiggling around, like it could be laughing at Mabel's sense of humor.] Oh yeah, that's Gustav. He's my soulmate.

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper stares at the roomba. Then he looks up at Mabel.]

Yeah, I completely buy that.

[Mabel doesn't seem bothered, so the fact that instead of the dreamy vampire boy of her dreams she has a roomba with googly eyes seems as logical as anything else.]

Hope your house has more carpets than ours does.

[singloversing]

[The nudge catches Wirt by surprise, but he's smiling as he rubs his side. He's glad to so immediately be accepted by Dipper's family.

Wirt stares at the Roomba for a lot longer than Dipper does though. Having died in 1989, he has no idea what the heck that thing even is.]

Is that like...a little robot or something? It looks kind of like a discman on wheels. ...with a face.

[powerofmabel]

They're shag. [Which is actually terrible for a roomba, even though Mabel loves it. Seeing Wirt's curiosity, she picks Gustav up and thrusts him at Wirt as one would do a turtle.]

It's a vacuum cleaner that runs on its own, but yeah. Basically a robot. [She jiggles the roomba a bit so the googly eyes move, and then tosses over her shoulder:] Hey, Dipper, how's your art situation? Do you want a dozen framed photographs of claymation monstrosities? 'Cause I can give 'em to you.

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper grimaces, holding up his hands.]

Ugh, no th--

[Then he pauses and frowns, tapping his chin thoughtfully.]

Actually? Yes please. We can use them to make walls that are actually opaque.

[singloversing]

[Wirt actually seems to make the same connection Dipper does and jumps on that bandwagon.]

Oh! Yeah, that would probably work super well for that. If the pictures get too creepy we can always stick something over it, but they would cover the glass walls and people wouldn't be able to see inside!

[He's pretty sure he could handle pictures of anything if it meant not having see-through walls in the house they have to live in forever.]

[powerofmabel]

Fantastic! I can finally be free of those things. They're soulless and I keep having nightmares they're gonna crawl out of the pictures and into my mouth and nose. [She shudders.] This is supposed to be The Good Place. That's a nightmare free zone.

[krmvgivv]

Yeah, there's a lot of things that don't totally make sense about this place. [Dipper frowns. There's a realization on the tip of his brain, but he's not there yet.] It's definitely not what I expected any afterlife to be like. Kind of expected more lurching around and trying to eat people.

[Gravity Falls is a fun place.]

[singloversing]

I'm not sure that's better?

[It's definitely not, but he looks kind of amused anyway, as though he's come to expect this of Dipper in short amount of time he's known him.]

It's definitely kind of weird though. It's not the worst or anything, but it's not like, overwhelmingly good either? ...Definitely wouldn't have picked a glass house though. No way.

[powerofmabel]

Maybe it's a metaphor about you two being totally transparent.

[Is she throwing shade at someone she's just met? Why yes she is. She's also nosing in their kitchen to see what their snack situation is.]

[krmvgivv]

Mabel! [Why is his sister like this? Why must she constantly embarrass him?]

Maybe there was some kind of mistake. I mean, I'm sure this would be somebody's dream house, right?

[singloversing]

[Wirt immediately flushes pink, but elects not to go there.]

I-I guess? I don't know. I like, can't even imagine the kind of person who would want to live in a house where everyone can see everything inside it at all times.

[powerofmabel]

I caaaaaan. [Mabel sing-songs from the kitchen, because of course she can. She returns with something that looks like Hi-C Ecto Cooler that is probably offensive to Wirt's eyes. The juice box seems to suggest it has trace amounts of smile dip. It does not belong in their fridge. It belongs in Mabel's.] Oh man, you guys! I thought they stopped making this. I'm seriously gonna be crashing here when Gustav needs some alone time. It's like this place just wants me to come over and learn everything about you two lovebirds.

[This is the Bad Place.]

[krmvgivv]

...Mabel, that thing doesn't need alone time. It's a robot. And didn't things go really, really badly the last time you tried something that had been recalled?

[COME ON MABEL LEARN THINGS FOR ONCE.]

[singloversing]

[Wirt wrinkles his nose at what she's drinking, but he doesn't actually stop her since it means it's one less horrible thing in their fridge.]

Th-There's nothing to learn about us anyway, really! [A pause.] ...Wait, it was recalled?

[powerofmabel]

[She's ignoring you both. She's learning things right now as she chugs juice drink.] Just the Smile Dip version. The other was discontinued for some lame reason, like because the 80's had to be sacrificed for the Dark Times that were the 90's.

[krmvgivv]

Great, so best case scenario, it's over twenty years old. Not seeing how that makes it better.