Newton "Newt" Geiszler (
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...Something you must understand is that gods and magic and strange creatures exist where Joaquin and I come from. The gap between the divine and the living? It is not so wide, really. Heroes of legend are often blessed with magical items that grant them power, and others are cursed with tragic ends they seemingly can't escape.
Now...imagine death and the devil making a bet over which boy will marry their friend Maria when they become adults. This is where our problems began.
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Or...he thinks, frowning as the description goes on, maybe those aren't so terribly different after all. Because that sounds far too much like a plot to something Bulfinch's mythology might contain, where the gods and goddesses make wagers over the human lives and screw up everything except Mt Olympus itself.
He would have never believed this before arriving here, but now, why the hell not. Why not and if he wanted to look into some sort of scientific explanation, there was always alternate dimensions, breaches to other worlds misinterpreted as the realm of the dead, and the ever popular gods are actually aliens theory, because. Sure. Okay.]
Okay....
But why you two...three? Why you three when there's so many other people to harass? What did you do to catch their attention or incite their anger...or do you know?
[If this were Greek myth, perhaps some god favored Maria. All in all, they were probably lucky they weren't turned into spiders or trees or something virtually immortal and horrific like a gorgon.]
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[What a mess...]
From what I understand, the one who favored Joaquin gave him an item known as the Medal of Everlasting Life when he was younger. Pretty much like it sounds. The wearer cannot be hurt or killed.
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Well, he obviously doesn't kill you because your first death doesn't work that way... So he kills Maria? As what? Punishment to you all for not working according to his plans for you?
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[He swallows hard. That was the worst moment of his life. It still flares up in his nightmares sometimes.]
What Joaquin and I didn't know was that she wasn't actually dead. The snake bit her once, which only made her fall into a death-like sleep.
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How did you get...un-dead, though? Wait, wait. First. WHY was he marrying her after you died? Why was that even a thing?
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[The marriage, though. Newt can't see it, but Manolo makes a face, like he'd just swallowed a particularly nasty pill.]
...I can't speak for Joaquin or Maria. But he says it was because the town wanted Joaquin to settle down in San Angel to better protect everyone from bandits. He'd already proposed to her, and all the people clearly wished for her to acceptance.
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Well, yeah, ok, if it makes the Village Protector happy and more willing to protect the town, then I get the villagers' reasoning for pushing the marriage. It's still shitty, but people do a lot of shitty things in the interest of not dying.
[He can't resist.] ...What WAS dying like?
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Instead, he focuses on the question. He's actually grateful for it because it successfully diverts his attention toward something else.]
...You know, you're the first person to ask me that. [But of course Newt would ask. He's a scientist. Asking questions is his life's work.
When Manolo answers, his voice is quiet and oddly calm.]
Dying was...the happiest moment of my life. [A pause.] Hearing me say that would upset more than a few people, I'm sure, but it's true. I didn't even realize I'd hit the ground. Instead, I was floating, my surroundings grew farther away, all the pain and grief from before lifted off my shoulders. No more worries. It was freeing -- no, euphoric.
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Manolo's death is nothing like what Newt experienced in that first Drift. That had been fear, anxiety, pain and a pounding rush of his heart--But he hadn't died. He wonders if he had died, would it have been as Manolo described, or would it have still be painful and fearful? Is Manolo's universe a strange enough place that death is both personified in a god and not...painful?]
I'm sorry. I'm trying to get over the macabre irony of you saying it was the happiest moment of your life when it's literally the end of it. [Insensitive again.]
So, did you turn into a ghost? Was that it?
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[Manolo's friends think he's insensitive about his own death. It's really hard to offend him on that front, Newt.]
I woke up in the Land of the Remembered, actually. You've seen my other form, yes? The one that makes me less squishy and more skeleton-y? That's how everyone there looks.