Ian Recker, starfighter supreme and recent savior of Earth, walks into the Nexus through an airlock door. He is obviously plagued by dark thoughts. His eyes are glued to the floor, and he barely notices the Nexus sign before he almost runs into it. Once he does, however, it's a whole other ball game. He glances around wildly, shocked to find
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Afterwards, some idiot congratulated Pyrrhus on his victory. Do you know what he said? "May the gods save me from another such victory."
*She looks at him directly for the first time.* Sometimes a victory can cost as much as a defeat, or feel like it does. It's not wrong to feel the pain of their loss, only to wallow in it. Take the time to honor them for what they meant to you, for the sacrifices that they made. Then move on and make the most of the gift they have given you.
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Well, just to make sure that you got the important parts: just because you think you know someone, it doesn't mean that you do, because sometimes their past is very different than the one you shared - for that matter, your past may be their future, or vice versa. This is the place where all possible worlds and times - and quite a few you'd swear are impossible - meet, and you can find yourself meeting your 10 year old mother one day and King Arthur the next. Don't eat or drink anything that doesn't come from someone you don't know and trust. And there's something call the Anti-Violence Field that will usually protect you from anyone's attacks and some accidents as long as you don't attack first, but I wouldn't advise betting your life on it working because sometimes it will develop a glitch at the worst possible moment.
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"So there could theoretically be more than one of my Earths? Does that mean there could be more than one me in here? Ok, the bit about the violence field is good to know. I'll start bringing my sidearm."
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Oh, there's tons of Earths. I'm about 90% sure that the one you come from isn't the same as the one that I come from, for example. And I know people who have literally dozens of altenates running around here, sometimes simultaneously. Yell for "Edward Elric", for example, and you'll be swamped with blonds with height issues and volatile tempers.
Don't push for a fight and you should be fine - the field works perfectly 99% of the time, and people here are sufficiently used to it that they usually don't push to violence anyway. Especially as the backlash can be painful when the field does work. But when you start something - or express a willingness to retaliate - then the field always goes down.
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"Huh. That's pretty odd. You'd think with an infinite-or-close-enough-to-it number of universes you'd get all sorts of alien planets." Recker smiles when he hears of the Edward Ehlrichs. That might be worth testing. "I may just take you up on that."
"That's fine. The only fighting I'll be doing is dogfighting, and I won't lose at that!"
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If you do, leave me out of it - there's at least one that I'm on pretty good terms with and I'd like to keep it that way.
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