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[generalflirt]

[ Voice ]

So, who here's heard of dinosaurs?

[ He's been reading Michael Crichton lately, sue him. Also, he genuinely wonders how many not-Earth people have, given a lot of animals do seem similar between a lot of worlds, but... dinosaurs though. ]

[ Action ]

[ Well, there are normal staples of Masaomi's day: you can see him working the Convenience Store if you want, you can see him shopping for clothes, you can see him in the library (perhaps picking up some books in the aforementioned dinosaurs), or training (in a tank top and shorts) at the Battle Dome. At the end of the day you might also see him going to HQ for the end of the night.

But... something else is at the Dome today fore someone who wants special stuff. Namely, once he's tired and sweaty and Linda has worked herself hard, Masaomi is still using his room, but he's using it to project images of all sorts of dinosaurs based on a picture book that he picked up at the library. To see them in motion, because why wouldn't you try to do something like that? ]

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[ action - luceti orange store ]

[pokeboy]

[ Not enough for the bag he's gotten! Red will follow him, not actually minding about going off and getting stuff for himself, but if this guy is going to likely give him things...!

Pikachu touches on the side of the drink, feeling the cold and remembering a drink like this before. Hey Lin, you ever drink one of these really fast? ]

For his package instead of his chest? Huh? [ wait ] Her?

[ action - luceti orange store ]

[generalflirt]

Oh. I meant the idea that someone would be a different gender in another world.

[ It's a common enough idea here...

But ... she has, but she's going to tell him no. He should try it. ]

[ action - luceti orange store ]

[pokeboy]

[ Oh, nooo. Let him push the drink towards her. She should try it! ]

Really? [ ... packages and chests...?? The boy is really trying to figure out how this connects, but... ]

Is it normal here anyway? Different versions of people? [ Nope, he's giving up. Moving on. ] I tried talking about it with someone else, but they said they've never seen it happen with them either. But there's me... and then there's another guy here called Red too from the same town, and I guess we might look the same?

[ Maybe. ]

[ action - luceti orange store ]

[generalflirt]

[ Wow she likes this drink, you should have it though, you're the one who hasn't tried it! Huff ]

That seems possible, yeah. It's not unheard of, but it's not super common either. And usually, you only see it as a result of Shifts.

[ action - luceti apple(TM) store ]

[pokeboy]

[ Alright, let's drink it at the same time! That's the only way to do this!

Red eyes over the shelves they're standing in front of, picking up one of the boxes of cereal. He looks back up at Masaomi after he's finished speaking. ] Shifts make different versions of yourself show up?

[ action - luceti apple(TM) store ]

[generalflirt]

[ OKAY FINE. Gosh.

... She'll not do it as fast, but won't tell him. He'll totally get brain freeze. Hahaha ]

No, more like... a Shift can make you into a different version of yourself. [ And he taps the side of his head ] I've still got the memories of the Prince of Omashu.

[ action - luceti apple(TM) store ]

[pokeboy]

[ There's something called milkshakes and Pikachu's been in this love-hate relationship before, alright. He knows this game (because he tried to trick Lin into it...). WATCHING YOU OVER THIS DRINK, LIN LIN.

But, Omashu...? ]

Is that... supposed to be a different you? A real different you? [ Uhh.. ]

[ action - luceti macintosh store ]

[generalflirt]

Is there a reason you think those people might not be real? [ He says this with some gravitas, putting his hands in his pockets before arching his shoulders a lot ] In a world where there's a Green-san and a Blue-san bore of the same people or where I can know of an Earth where war ravaged the planet right when I know it's peaceful, why would any one person, even one brought in for a Shift here, be any less real than you or I?

[ ... Wow bro. Wow. How are you not getting the freeze yet ]

[ action - luceti macintosh store ]

[pokeboy]

[ HEHEHEHEHEH. Shoort caaareful siips. ]

Well, 'cause Shifts can mess with your head, right? [ He tips his head, adjusting the bag he's been holding to shuffle up the food that's in there. ] That's why I was asking. I don't know what it's like to become some different guy.

[ Just have similar different guys around. ]

[ action - luceti macintosh store ]

[generalflirt]

They can, yeah. But when you are someone else... well, you know. I'd call it dishonest to say those fellows lived and died only as a mental defect.

[ Oh here's a good one. No one likes these squid ink flavored popcorn things. Have that ]

[ action - luceti macintosh store ]

[pokeboy]

[ Oh, thanks. He'll drop those into the bag. ]

So your Prince guy had a whole life and world he was from?

[ action - luceti macintosh store ]

[generalflirt]

Mmmhm. I have most of his memories... [ Not really, but he has the highlight. What he thought about, what he talked about while he was here. And he can connect the dots with other stuff ] Raised by an old crazy king, that guy.

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[pokeboy]

So, when he was in you... [ that sounds weird to say ] Did you know?

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[generalflirt]

He knew he was he. So nope, he didn't know he was replacing me... well, except as far as people told the guy.

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[pokeboy]

Wait, so - you just poofed and he showed up in your place? So he wasn't in your body?

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[generalflirt]

That or my body mutated to his. The guy had a totally different muscle structure.

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[pokeboy]

But you knew it was different because you were still around innn... hiiis head?

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[generalflirt]

Eeeehto. [ He considers, and then makes two lines up in the air ] Let's ask this, Red-kun. You vanish, and some other person appears. And when you return to yourself, you have memories of that other life. Is it more sad to think they only lived that week, or that somewhere, in some other world, they existed?

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[pokeboy]

Huh? [ He doesn't get what that gesture means, but. ] I'm not trying to say they're fake. [ ... ] Unless you're asking that because you want to know what I think.

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[generalflirt]

Well, I do and I don't. [ He says this a little sheepishly and laughs some, tossing the guy some pretzels which are no doubt stale ] I'm sort of curious, but then, have you experienced that?

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[pokeboy]

[ Oh hey, these feel bulky. Wanna throw another this way (why you gotta throw everything). ]

Me becoming someone else? No... I just have guys from the same town with my name walking around.

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[generalflirt]

Oh wow, the same team, too? That's just uncanny.

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[pokeboy]

Not with them? We've got a pikachu and a venusaur with us, but he's got a poliwrath.

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[generalflirt]

Oh, well, Pikachu aren't that uncommon, are they?

[ action - luceti linux store ]

[pokeboy]

Yeah? They're not common just because there's four here. [ A half-hearted shrug. ] Teams don't really matter anyway. Ash got his pikachu when he started and Red had poliwrath since he was young. I only got Venusaur this year and she's who I started with.