[The truth was easy-- and yet, it was a barrier that had caused him much frustration, complications, and actual danger both within Deerington and back in Remnant. Oscar heaved a deep, steadying breath and regarded Dipper with a tired expression that did not belong on a kid that had just turned fifteen.]
I'm not sure if I told you the story about the immortal witch and the wizard that must reincarnate in a different body everytime he dies until she's stopped.
[Oscar began, lowering his gaze.]
I told that tale to so many people here already that it gets mixed up. But, I wasn't just speculating when I mentioned that the fairy tales in my world are closer to the truth than any history book.
They're real... and in my head. They're all told by the same person, and the different things he experienced in his many lifetimes-- as a warrior who ventured into the woods, as a king who had to make an impossible decision and drove himself mad over it.
It's all the same because that ancient wizard is made to jump between bodies instead of being given a new one every time he dies. The two souls become one before either realize it, and eventually their personalities merge until no one can tell the difference anymore.
...That wizard's last lifetime was the former headmaster of Beacon Academy, a prodigy named Ozpin. He died a few months before my last memories on Remnant, in a disaster that ruined the school. There was fire...
Then I woke up from a nightmare, went about my work in the fields... and found a voice talking to me in my head by the end of the day.
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[The truth was easy-- and yet, it was a barrier that had caused him much frustration, complications, and actual danger both within Deerington and back in Remnant. Oscar heaved a deep, steadying breath and regarded Dipper with a tired expression that did not belong on a kid that had just turned fifteen.]
I'm not sure if I told you the story about the immortal witch and the wizard that must reincarnate in a different body everytime he dies until she's stopped.
[Oscar began, lowering his gaze.]
I told that tale to so many people here already that it gets mixed up. But, I wasn't just speculating when I mentioned that the fairy tales in my world are closer to the truth than any history book.
They're real... and in my head. They're all told by the same person, and the different things he experienced in his many lifetimes-- as a warrior who ventured into the woods, as a king who had to make an impossible decision and drove himself mad over it.
It's all the same because that ancient wizard is made to jump between bodies instead of being given a new one every time he dies. The two souls become one before either realize it, and eventually their personalities merge until no one can tell the difference anymore.
...That wizard's last lifetime was the former headmaster of Beacon Academy, a prodigy named Ozpin. He died a few months before my last memories on Remnant, in a disaster that ruined the school. There was fire...
Then I woke up from a nightmare, went about my work in the fields... and found a voice talking to me in my head by the end of the day.