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[maximumogredrive]

You can find some scruffian stooping at your place of work if you work in a supernaturally themed business. This includes SAI or OOPARTS, but isn't limited to that. He can also be found in the DA or local library, pouring over newspaper articles and history books.

He seems like he's trying to make conversation, but is waaaaay too awkward to know how to approach something.

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[windsbygone]

No, no, I get it. You want familiarity, not weird deja-vu stuff going on.

But what'll you do, then?

[maximumogredrive]

"I dunno. I didn't understand a word of this." he raps on the pile of books

"So science has failed me, so I'm prolly gonna go and stare at the SAI and OOPARTS people until one of them figures it out."

[windsbygone]

I mean, those are quantum physics books. *picking one up and looking at it*

Might be a little hard for most people to grasp?

[maximumogredrive]

"I mean I googled it and they had theories on it...

I guess there's always the way that ominous voice said and I have to try and kill my alternate, but I think that just cements me as 'real' here, rather than just sending me back home. He seems like a dirtbag, but I don't like, y'know. Killing."

[windsbygone]

Well, also, you shouldn't be listening to ominous voices. You should know that.

[maximumogredrive]

"Yeah, it's in my DA student handbook. Rule three.

Also it was CLEARLY wro-

WAITASECOND. What if the voice is pulling alternate people to cause chaos in YOUR dimension to sow chaos for some nefarious end? And then if enough people change it could manipulate YOUR reality for...

No, that's stupid. It's probably just some god pulling me into this weird world because I'm too much of a danger to it over there."

[windsbygone]

... *Soran is pausing and pondering.*

I dunno, there was another case of "suddenly an alternate-universe clone of someone showed up"...

[maximumogredrive]

"... wait, really? Where?"

[windsbygone]

With Akashiro, Tsurugi.

I was hanging out with her, when her clone appeared and tried to kill her.

But since I got tired of the whole thing after a whole bunch of very ridiculous back and forth, I had Sanae transport them to a deserted island to sort things out.

Next thing I heard, they had fused together after fighting each other, somehow.

[maximumogredrive]

"... huh. So it ain't just me. And if that's the case..."

He taps on his chin, thinking.

"What the hell does all of it even mean?"

[windsbygone]

Well, it probably means that if you fought your older version of yourself who's Trena's actual dad, you'd have probably fused together and there'd be an unholy mess of a person walking around.

[maximumogredrive]

"... holy hell.

I don't like that idea at all."

[windsbygone]

Yeah, just saying it and imagining it is terrifying me right now.

But I also feel like the other Tsurugi felt like she couldn't go back to where she was from or something...?

[maximumogredrive]

"Let's never talk about this again.

... Hrm. I know the feeling, but I'm still holding out hope, even if it feels kinda... in vain at this point. But even then, attacking someone like that..."

[windsbygone]

I mean, you don't have to.

But what'll happen if you just start, I dunno. Vanishing?

[maximumogredrive]

"I, uh. I dunno.

I keep worrying about that lately, honestly. Which kinda sucks, because I think it may be force of will keeping me from that anyway."

[windsbygone]

I mean, it's been a while, right? And you don't, uh...

Feel any less "real", right? *prods at your arm a little to make sure.*

[maximumogredrive]

He's solid. Disturbingly so, like the rest of the clan.

"Not really, which means I guess I stabilized or something. Maybe the entry point was crucial? Like I blew off that voice and didn't let it get to me, so I was real but if someone didn't, they'd have to find a different anchor?"

[windsbygone]

*okay so you're very real.*

Or maybe it's because you've accepted that you're separate enough from the "Kaz" that's here?

[maximumogredrive]

"I guess that could also work.

Which means that people who saw too much of themselves in the alternate one... I don't like any of this one bit."

[windsbygone]

Yeah, well, no one would, right? How would anyone like the feeling of their entire life getting flipped upside-down by a situation they can't actually control and beyond the scope of normal human understanding?

[maximumogredrive]

"... another Tuesday in Domino, is what you're saying."

[windsbygone]

Maybe. *though now he's wondering a little why he put it that way, himself. felt a little too close to home there for some reason. Huh. Whatever.*

Still, you seem kinda stuck.

[maximumogredrive]

"... Yeah. I dunno what to do about it, it's not like, bad.

But it's not home."

he sighs, resting his head on the table before sitting back up.

"I'll figure something out. Maybe... Maybe warn people to have their friends deal with clones or something? I can't, but someone's gotta be able to stabilize the unstable ones, right? And then people can go forward."

[windsbygone]

Do you think that's how it'll work though? To stabilize them and all that.