It's the aftermath of Silvana and Amitie's sleepover. They had some fun, some non-fun. Sil took an extra long shower to remove to the terribly applied make-up off her face. But otherwise, it went well.

Currently they're enjoying breakfast at the caravan's living room. "Mmm, Fresh Curry Bread!~"

Amitie had a question she had wanted to ask since Vibitia's… defeat. It was something on her mind long after that scary stuff. But Amitie knew better then to just ask it than and there. It is a bit touchy. But when else could she ask it?

"Hey, Sil. I got a question." Amitie proposed to Silvana. Who's been in a better mood than normal as of late.

"Sure, Am. Shoot."

"You were evil right?"

"Geez, Amitie! What did I tell you about tact?!" Sil slammed her hand to the side of her hip on the other not-as-comfy couch she was lying on. Causing Arms to bounce into her face. "But yes, I am, wanna go into the details of awful things I've done?…" The entertainer deflated the further she went along with that sentence.

"Ehheheh. No… Sorry, I should've warned ya. I just wanted to ask if you had an accent."

Sil and Arms tilted their heads. "What?"

"Evil people usually have wicked cool Brrritish accents." Amitie attempted an accent there. She rolled her Rs there. It made Sil wince. "Did you ever get an accent out of nowhere, Sil?" She continued like a kindergartener innocently asking her teacher.

"How many evil people do you know?"

The blond started counting on her hand. "Two. Ecolo and a big scary shadow of a cat."

"How many had those accents?" The off-the-clock clown gestured for her to keep going.

"Uhmmmm. None?" She sheepishly shrugged.

"Did Vibitia have an accent?"

"None…" A bit of magic left Amitie's world.

"So why would I?"

"Uh."

"There, case closed." Sil concluded. Opening her book on how to run a circus.

"C'mooon. You had to have something right?"

"Nope, same as what it is now."

"Aw." The two went to do their own thing. Enjoying the couch and reading.

"Cockney…"

"Huh?"

"My evil accent would be cockney if I had thought of it."

Chapter 18: Will Power OR The Chapter That Came Out Muuuuuch Earlier Than Planned, 'Cause the Author Realized in the Middle of Slugging to Write Two Other Stories. "Oh, Shootcicles! Inna Month is FCtC's Anniversary. What Shall I Do? Something Special? Eeeh, I've Done Enough of Those Let's See if They're a Chapter I Can Write Early. Oh Wait a Sec, Chapter 18 Fits Well Enough as an Anniversary Anyway! Good!"

My name's Silvana Pierrot. And please stop reading this and put it back NOW if I'm not dead. But if I am, keep reading.

This is my will. I've never written one before, and I don't know how to write one and I'm not gonna look it up in the library and risk people looking over my shoulders.

A friend of mine once told me that wrote one to get rid of his regrets. I laughed behind his back thinking 'How'd that work?'

But after the Copy Amitie (Vibitia as Amitie and Sig like to call her) it refreshed my fears more than ever to give this a shot.

As you may've figured out already from my dead face or my homicidal rage against Arle. I'm just like her. To both Vibitia and her… I'm a Doppelganger. You might be in disbelief, but it's true. It started when I. I mean ARLE, went on her Kindergarten exam. At some poi-


"I hate my life story."


-ith my vastly superior magic I learned thanks to threatening some special wizard a way to this world. Again, I make no excuses, I'm a horrible person.

Despite all of that. Sig somehow reached to me in an indescribable way that made me feel incredible~. Since then I've been doing my best for real, even if I slip up every once in a while.

If Arle ever revisits, I fear I may go back to my old ways. There's always something that fuels my urges, and even when I don't I still hate her with a passion.

No matter what the outcome is, I'll feel terrible.

So I hope that you get the purpose of this. I want this to be my proper goodbye if everything turns out like I fear. Being of sound mind as of writing this. Or at least in the most lucid period of my life.

First the important stuff: To my employees, it's up to you who gets the circus and what to do with it.

Sig, as thanks for everything I want something for you to remember me by. I want to regift Arms to you. In the short while I had him his presence did help me cope. He's the best gift I've ever gotten and I want you to have him. Beats him rotting underground alongside me, he deserves better than that.

Amitie, I don't have anything special to give, I want you to have my Pierrot suits. Okay I lie, you can adopt the Pierrot the Clown persona if you want. You'd have better charisma for the role than I do by just being yourself. Shut up, Am. This piece of paper can't reply. And to answer you I do mean it. I'm lousy at my job, it's not an insult. You just need to work on your acrobatics. For what are Clowns but comedic acrobats?

I wanna thank Akuma for not killing me (as far as I know). Sorry to be a disappointment (if I got to Arle)… I think my Amethyst Pearls are the safest in your paws. Please tell Lemres that I don't blame him for not finding a cure in time. Also tell him to pat that lovable pooch, Baldanders for me.

To Lidelle, you know where I keep that book, it's yours. So you can get rid off you know "what". Or do you as please with it. And maybe you'll be more successful in it on your own. I think you can do it, I hope things go well for you. If could be like more like anyone else other than… Arle, it be you. That or someone else I'm too embarrassed to mention…

Please be less mischievous when it comes to work, Vento. I'll never be there to ask you again. We'd had to cancel at least two acts because you misplaced the see-saw. That's two too many. Sorry to be hypocritical, but I could never tell if it's on purpose with your mask. But otherwise, you're a great asset to the Circus. Honestly, I should hang out with you more, I do like your spunk to some degree. Just don't annoy the rest, be it intentionally or unintentionally.

Speaking of annoying. [Long, pause please]. Hohow. Never change.

I want some of my money to go to Oshare Bones. I like the discounts, but your passive-aggressive jabs makes me feel a bit guilty about it sometimes, and I don't know why. But seriously I like your old person chats a lot. You're the adult the circus the crew needs. You're the coolest when you want to be. Thanks for giving me the idea of writing this down.

Donguri Gaeru… I don't know what to tell you. You alone could make this Circus a hit as you've proven zillions of times already. Don't know how you do it. But you did. Preferably I want you to inherit the Circus, but if you don't want to, that's fine. I hope you can find a translator if you do. You know better than anyone that not everybody speaks Frog.

To the demon Stan, you know how I feel about you… But I request that you leave you-know-who alone. You two should try to become friends. Pretty please?

And now the final specific person I wanna address…

Arle.

If you're not my neighbour six feet under (sorry about that)… Please keep doing the thing I can't enjoy no matter how I look at it. That's right, THINK ABOUT THAT!

We're both out of each other's hair. We can both rest easy. I killed countless of the others, by the way, YOU'RE WELCOME.

Don't get me wrong, I'll always hate your guts, we'll never be friends. Just live your life like normal. Don't even dare dwell on my death. I'm a horrible person, that doesn't deserve happiness, but greedily takes it anyway…

Can you also pretty please say to mommy I miss her? Even after the increasing cruel ways she shooed me away.

And, of course, this should go without saying (I almost forgot about him, that should tell you about the progress I made I guess, or my blindness). Be good to Carbuncle. Impersonating you was always difficult thanks to him and your bond.

To the one who put me down… I don't blame you. I just hope it wasn't too hard on you if you were a friend. I hope my death involved no Garbage Puyo what. so. Ever…

I can dream.

I don't really care what you do about my other possessions, I'll be dead. But for those who're in love with my couch (to the point I swear you wanna marry that thing), I got a plan:

[Dramatic Pause, drum rolls if possible.]

Pull straws! That or it goes backstage.

And I think that's about it…

See you guys in the Puyo Underworld!

~Doppelganger Arle Nadja AKA Silvana Pierrot

P.S. Wouldn't it be silly and embarrassing if I died by slipping on a banana peel? And not even one I planted!


With all that done, Silvana lifted the quill of the paper. Despite all her rationale, she smiled. "Safety net place in place. Oshare was right, I do feel great getting that off my chest." She huffed before she tucked herself and Arms in.

Author's Notes:

Happy Anniversary FCtC! (Please read. I went overboard again, but it's the anniversary speech)

I missed writing this. For some reason I really enjoy writing this more than everything else I'm working on for now. It comes to me naturally. That's why I took this excuse to write this.

Even SEGA looked forward to it, as evident that they released Dusklight Doppelganger Arle. Made especially for me in my absence. They didn't want to draw her in the civilian clothes (the plaid jacket and such) I stole and girly-fied from a 70's Dutch adventure show for kids (search "Bassie en Adriaan" in google images, you know it when you see it, Hohow's circus outfit is the other one), but her shredded Pierrot is dyed with Amethyst Pearl energy. The description said she's has a stronger aura than usual. I did mention Silvana's really powerful right? It's not a coincidence.

Nah not really, it's just a fun coincidence. But the coincidence might be become more apparent, but I don't wanna say more for upcominging stuff.. But seriously her monologue lines, aside from how they're worded:

This one's is one I would write for Doppelganger Mode: "Today you will definitely acknowledge me… Ahahaha!"

This one's when Sil's down on herself: "No matter how undesirable, the fact remains… that I am what I am…"

And this third one… I doubt I would've thought of this one: "Is it really Arle that you know, I wonder? Fufufu…"

I'll probably do nothing with it, I'm not gonna change my plans.

You know… After looking at Dop. Arle's PPQ artwork I noticed 6 Dop. Arle's holding a purple diamond. If I noticed that earlier I would've made it Amethyst Diamonds instead of Pearls. Than she'd be a construct born of a union of an evil mirror and an evil diamond instead of a pearl fresh from her dad: the EVIL CLAM! Her least favorite daddy, behind Fudoushi and Mamono. (It's bad storytelling to say this, but I was never gonna bring this up. It's canon in this story that both Fudoushi and Mamono are both the Co-Bosses of the tower. Thanks for indirectly putting that in my head, JelliPuddi. By simply introducing me to Fudoushi. But I have no appearance planned for him…)

Also, I just noticed the diamond she holding is a material in PPQ… it's called a Red Crystal and it and two kinds of mirrors are needed to Transform her… That's probably the mirror warelander wrote about… I'd be honest I thought he made that up. Dop. Arle's PuyoNexus Wiki page didn't mention mirrors. I accepted that just as part of the lore of our li'l universe, supported by the flipped sprite of Dop. Arle of Madou Monogatari II PC-98.

…This is now more of an Alternate Universe than it already was…

I don't research PPQ that much, I just like to look at the artwork. I'm dumb. How do you guys like this stuff?

Anyhow, hope you enjoy the new format for the pre-chapter title skits. Focusing on Sil in casual conversation with others, unrelated to the main plot. Allowing for character building for characters that don't appear often without shoehorning. I'm raffling them from now on.

This chapter has strongno reality subtext/strong to me other than writing my will once due paranoia of an operation failing on me yeeeeaaaars ago. I didn't feel good writing as Sil felt, can tell you that much.

And again, I'm not gonna give up on FCtC until the determent end point.

Sorry to warelander for the misleading PMs about this chapter's production (consider it an early April Fools I guess). Saying anniversaries don't matter to me. (They don't.) But besides missing this, I did wanna give out a thank you to you guys. I live on an unsteady diet of cynicism and self-deprecation. So you have no idea how the reception of this continuation made me feel. Just really, really good. To the point I felt undeniably happy at times, no mistaking it.

With that said, I do want your honest criticism, this not a plea to go easy on me.

And once more for good measure: Thank you warelander. Because unlike most things I do enjoy this. No matter how dry, jokey or sarcastic I come across.

So thank you for that. Hopefully I don't jump the shark for you all.

There's one last thing, a question from me to you the reader (current or future): How would you honestly describe Silvana's personality or as a character as a whole is as much detail as possible? You don't have to answer if you don't want to, and if you do I won't tell you if you're correct or wrong or close. It's just for me to see if I accomplished what I was going for… And my amusement. Mostly my amusement.

Finished on 03-03-2018. Released on 31-03-2018. (This torturous wait time is the reason why the notes are this long.)

Edit: I am embarrassed, I am A WHOLE MONTH EARLY!

Next up: An Uncancelled Chapter