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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?

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This is something I've questioned repeatedly myself; the closest answer I've found so far is that most here seem to have either been involved in a major event - affecting either the world in general or just a sufficient number of people, whatever "sufficient" may happen to be in their world's case (the criteria seems to be different based on the state of their world in general) - or, if they weren't involved, they at least witnessed it or stood to be affected by it in some way.

Basically, an impact was made and this world noticed.

See, that makes at least some sense.

It'd go along with what happened with that giraffe thing bringing us to fight those morons and their apocalypse a few months ago. I asked it why it chose who it did, and it said it chose who was needed, like it knew something. If that thing has anything to do with us being brought here, why not pick the kind of people who wind up involved in changing the world?

Still, though. I've been doing things that have an impact on Amestris for a long time, and so have others like me. Other worlds get people from all kinds of times brought in. But not us.

That's an entirely fair point - if the sole thing that warrants people being chosen is the capacity to change the world, I can think of at least two people who absolutely should be here but never have been, to my knowledge.

Perhaps it requires a specific sort of event to trigger it?

It's the same for me, I can think of people that ought to get brought in, but aren't. And other than Archer and the first time Greed appeared, people from my version of things have only started showing up in the past year.

But then again, their counterparts would. Come to think of it, we've never had both versions of one person before, have we? I know it's possible, I've seen it happen with other worlds a few times.

Specific events might be it, but then there's also those comas that move people's personal timelines forward after they're already here.

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