~Thirty-Eighth Spectacle~

[quitemysterious]

Haha... I admit that I'm curious, and now seems as good of time as any to pose this question. ♥

Given the option to return to your respective homes, would you?
Now, this might some obvious, right? But let us add a few conditions~

First -- those that have died (outside Luceti) will return to being dead

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[carrying_hope]

Your first condition took me out of the running. But even if I could, I don't think I'd go back.

Even if the machines or whatever is bringing people here were still active, wouldn't they be able to send people back, too?

[quitemysterious]

Possibly, but who knows? Sending people away might be a one time deal~

[nowarstowin]

Except that we've already had people return.

[quitemysterious]

While the Malnosso are here. If that variable if removed, who is to say what effect that might have on the process?

[nowarstowin]

You may very well be correct. Who's to say the entire place won't disappear upon their defeat, or that we'll have any opportunity to leave this land at all?

[quitemysterious]

Logic. the Malnosso did not create this world, and as such it would not be dependent on their living in order to exist...

Well, assuming they live at all, of course. ♥

[nowarstowin]

Don't take me for a fool, Koizumi. Logically speaking, with the powers they've manifested already, it's not impossible to think that the whole thing could be a sham in the first place. What solid proof have we that the Filial ever existed at all? The words of a few strategically-placed "survivors", who may or may not be the Malnosso's creations from the very beginning? Some old-looking books? A relatively small, somehow completely contained area?

What do we truly know of this place?

[quitemysterious]

Hahaaa... Good boy. ♥

Correct, we don't know anything, including if we were survive the end of the Malnosso. We also don't know if those that vanish return home-- given the apparent infinite nature of dimensions (proved all the more by two Kamuis of almost identical appearance and with striking similarities of history), it's entirely possible, if not probable, that those who vanish simply cease to exist.

[nowarstowin]

Shut up.

Anything is possible, and nothing is certain. But, as we've stated, we have had a few people who have returned to us, though their memories of their previous stays have been taken.

[quitemysterious]

Do we know they're the same person?

[nowarstowin]

Not with any certainty.

For all we know, all of us could merely be copies of our original selves.

[quitemysterious]

Do we know what an "original" is given the seemingly infinite variations of worlds that must exist in order to maintain the respective time-lines of those people who have been taken out of the "now" of given worlds as known to others?

[nowarstowin]

Who knows. But I imagine it's entirely possible that the original Caesar Silverberg is still wandering the forests of Toran, while I, a being who retains the entirety of his personality and memories up until the point he was 'abducted' by the Malnosso, rot here in this wretched world. Perhaps the only thing they ever truly abducted was a copy of our minds. It seems almost more plausible than the idea of infinite variations; with the exception of situations like Kamui, in which they are similar but entirely different people, we all come from the same timeline, just at different points along it. All they would need to do would be to re-gather that mental imprint at a later or sooner point in time from the same exact being.

[quitemysterious]

Then to you, a replication of flesh and encoding of memory is easier than merely plucking from across multitudes of variations of worlds? Certainly, we already know there to be dozens -- hundreds -- of my own Earth. Who is to say how many variations exist of any other multitudes of worlds?

[nowarstowin]

It seems either would be within their power. Sephiroth's body was burned to ash, and yet a few days later, he was whole again, and the same person that he was before he died.

[quitemysterious]

Which might support your replication theory ♥