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[fivestepsahead]

[ Someone is avoiding the crap out of issues and not telling anyone anything important. So. Philosophical discussions! ]

I'm starting to wonder - how do you tell if someone is an alternate version of you, an alternate version of someone you're related to, or they only have the same face?

Because it doesn't seem to be easy to differentiate. [

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[fivestepsahead]

[ Hello guy who robbed my not-wife and whom I was trying to find. ]

... This latest one- 'Ironside'- how old is he? Do you know?

[fivestepsahead]

Simply that if he reminds you of your younger self, then he might have been just that - an alternate version of yourself, younger and in a different time.

[ He taps his lip. ]

Because the similarities of every occurrence is too regular to not have some kind of a pattern.

[fivestepsahead]

[ There's a pause, and he shakes his head. ]

That's dependent on the view that we don't have a core personality. [ Pause, and he shrugs. ] I suppose you can call it a 'soul'. A part of you that is solely yours and isn't affected by the times we live in, our biology, or what happens in our lives.

I don't believe in that.

[fivestepsahead]

[ He pauses. ]

I don't think that my experience counts for everyone, or that I'm right. But in my universe, I have experiences of such... alternates. [ Pauses. ] Alternate versions of myself that I still recognize, even if their faces look different and they speak differently.

[ He shrugs. ]

Who are we to know, indeed.

[fivestepsahead]

A shared name. [ Pause. ] A shared purpose, I suppose. [ Batman. ] Even though he was born in the 1910s and I in the 1970s, we had the same purpose even though we went down different paths.

I won't say that he's not a different person, but he's how I would be if I lived in those circumstances.

[fivestepsahead]

A kindred spirit whose reactions to events are almost identical to mine. [ Quietly. ]

Though, I do agree that the circumstances are unique.

[fivestepsahead]

Not his whole life. But- enough to know our similarities. [ He chews on his lip a little. ]

With those lives you lived during breaches- they are still similar to you. But you don't feel that it's similar enough?

[fivestepsahead]

[ There's once a theory he's heard, that some stories are universal, and some aren't. That's how alternate universes are formed. He'd scoffed then- but perhaps there's merit now. ]

And without those influence, you would've been a different man. [ Softly. ] But- do you think that if you as a child had been raised in a different place, and fought in different wars- would you call yourself a different man, then, or the same?