61st Transformation [text]

[exeggutorhead]

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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[explosivecombat]

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?

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[exeggutorhead]

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.