Heh... you're in Violet City. Not all the routes are that simple.

Kid, I played this game before you could hold a gameboy. I've got this, trust me.

I played this game before you were born.

[And for once, he's telling the truth. He did.]

[Sadly, Envy is not up on inter-universe temporal mechanics.]

Pretty sure that's not actually possible.

Do you know how Earth was created?

Running theory at the moment is this thing called the Big Bang, I dunno maybe you've heard about it.


...don't tell me you know how the universe was actually created.

What caused the Big Bang?

I dunno, the heated expansion and subsequent cooling of a dense universal component? Or something like that. Why?

Okay. So I could go on forever about what caused that and what caused that and whatever.

But the short answer is, the little pocket of components used to create the Earth was generated by a program in an arcane space-altering coding language, and it's called Sburb. Or Sgrub, I guess, which was the name I gave it to differentiate it from the original code. One way or another, I translated it from a shitton of old runes, and that's how the Earth was born.

And a few years before I did that, I played the troll equivalent of Pokémon on my Game Grub.

So yeah.

Before you were born.

. . . please tell me you're bullshitting me right now because I don't have nearly enough beer nearby for that to be true.

[She knows that smug jerkass smile, she is fluent in smug jerkass omfg Sollux what is wrong with you telling her these things?!]

...oh you suck.

[There's a lot of things wrong with Sollux, dear. You should know that by now.]

Checkmate, bitch.

[This is a truth.]

Great. The universe was created by a gaggle of preteen aliens. Science: 0, crazy conspiracy theories: like... a billion.

Go ahead and ask AA -- fuck, Aradia -- if you don't believe me. She'll tell you the same thing.

Hey, I'm not saying I doubt you- much- but really. It's a little hard to come to terms with all of a sudden.

[Though in retrospect it makes the game-like version of her universe make a lot more sense if someone like Sollux had a hand in it.]

You'll get used to it, probably.

Probably.

[She can handle a lot tbqh.]

That kind of thing happen a lot where you're from? Creating universes, I mean.

Well, considering each universe created must eventually die and create a new universe by default, yes. Yes it does.