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exeggutorhead) wrote2015-01-20 10:43 am
exeggutorhead) wrote2015-01-20 10:43 am
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61st Transformation [text]
So we're all from different worlds, right? Whole planets full of millions of people.
So what are the odds that people who know each other show up all the time? They've got to be astronomical, but we can almost EXPECT it to happen.
I'm from one of those worlds that isn't one with Europe and America and all that. And almost everyone who's ever shown up and heard of my country? Either I've known them or someone else here has. And every single one of them has been from the same time period of a few years. Nobody I only knew from, say, a hundred years ago ever shows up.
[Random Joe Notinvolved from Amestris should by all rights appear so why doesn't that happen? This is something he thinks about on and off, but after his conversation with Jimmy the other day, it's itching at his mind again.]
Has anyone else noticed something like this?
So what are the odds that people who know each other show up all the time? They've got to be astronomical, but we can almost EXPECT it to happen.
I'm from one of those worlds that isn't one with Europe and America and all that. And almost everyone who's ever shown up and heard of my country? Either I've known them or someone else here has. And every single one of them has been from the same time period of a few years. Nobody I only knew from, say, a hundred years ago ever shows up.
[Random Joe Notinvolved from Amestris should by all rights appear so why doesn't that happen? This is something he thinks about on and off, but after his conversation with Jimmy the other day, it's itching at his mind again.]
Has anyone else noticed something like this?
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I have had people come from much further back than a hundred years. Romano and Spain, for example. But I do seem to be very much in the minority for that.
It's also interesting that people don't seem to come from the future of their worlds. At least, I don't recall an example of anyone who is more than a handful of years ahead of their world cohort.
This discussion is always best over a bottle of good wine. Want me to bring one home in a couple of hours?
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People come from a long way in the past in your world, like Miguel and Tulio did. But not from mine. I wonder if there's anything to that or if it's just a frustrating coincidence.
...I'll have to ask people about the future thing, too.
[This is all RIDICULOUS.]
yes wine is starting to sound really good
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[When his shift ends, France packs up a bottle of one of the red wines he finds dependably passable and bags a tray of almonds and cashews. On his way out, he texts:]
Have the things. Are you home?
[Text -> Action]
[When France gets home, he'll be sitting on the couch in the living room, tossing Poke-treats for his Ariados to catch.]
[Action]
[He sets his bag down and takes out the wine and bag of nuts with a slightly gob-smacked expression playing over his face.]
Out of curiosity, what brought on your post today?
[Action]
[Envy was also prepared, and gestures at the pair of wineglasses already out on the coffee table.]
I was talking with one of the new people a few days ago. I realized that since I didn't recognize him, I was just assuming that he'd never have heard of Amestris. It's something I wonder about sometimes, and this time I figured I'd ask.
[Don't think he didn't notice that gobsmacked expression, though. He tilts his head.]
Having a revelation of your own?
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Had he heard of Amestris?
[His lips quirk a little as he takes a sip from his own glass before answering.]
I just had the thought that I once would have found a spider of Bunch's size to be quite alarming. Then again, I probably still would if it wasn't Bunch.
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No, he hadn't. He asked if it was European, which it...might technically be after all, but I did not feel like bringing the damn Gate into the discussion too.
[He pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs. But then his own mouth quirks in amusement.]
Ha, I think most of us would have before coming here. My world has chimeras, but they're not usually so friendly.
[Bunch, hearing his name and the compliments, makes a friendly chittering sound and waves the tips of his two front legs. Yes! He's Bunch! He's a good Pokemon!]
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[When he speaks, it's a little slower than his usual diction, turning over his words as he voices them.]
There's a part of me that still has a difficult time with the knowledge that there are different worlds. Perhaps even different universes all together. It's not that I don't have the concept back home, but it's a fairly recent concept and rather philosophical. One thing that's always stuck in my head about the concept, though, is all the different universes are supposed to be different, which implies there's something about them that makes them unique from all the other possibilities. This is certainly truth if we assume the number of possible worlds and universes is infinite.
[France squints and takes a sip of wine. He sets the glass on the table and picks out one of the cashews. He motions vaguely with it.]
For my world, the difference from others might be the fact I and those like me exist. For you, it might be the structure of your countries and the manner in and by which you exist.
[He pops the cashew into his mouth, turning to fully face Envy as he does to smile and shrug ruefully as he chews and swallows.]
We can't be sure, of course. I mean, I used to think me being here meant I was dead.
[Which hadn't actually been disproven in France's opinion, despite what China had told him. And there are people who have come to this world who certainly are dead in theirs, so there's that, too.]