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[iamnotmute]

What would you do if you met an alternate of yourself?

Would you even care?

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[rude_not_ginger]

I have done. Not as bad as you'd think.

[iamnotmute]

No evil twin, then?

What did you two do?

[rude_not_ginger]

Saved the universe.

But, really, that's a typical Saturday for me.

[iamnotmute]

What an interesting life.

Or lives, rather.

[nameofnote]

How far does someone get from you before they're still your alternate, and not another person altogether?

[iamnotmute]

I don't know. That's between you and your 'alternate,' isn't it?

[nameofnote]

Maybe so. Haven't met one of myself, though I did meet an alternate of my father. He had a son, but the son wasn't me.

[iamnotmute]

I imagine that would be painful.

[one_drafted_man]

(The text message initially comes in a bit garbled and glitchy, but fortunately Xanadu intervenes and cleans it up in place.)

Compare notes, mostly, I think. I've never met an alternate of myself, but I have met one of an old squadmate, and the resulting conversation was... extensive, illuminating in parts, and infuriating in others.

[iamnotmute]

I see.

You only met once?

[one_drafted_man]

No, we ran into each other every so often for a while, though it's been a year or two since the last time. Those later encounters didn't have as much in the way of big conversation, but were still pretty interesting.

(My understanding is that he was from later in the timeline That Could Have Been if my universe's version of our squad hadn't encountered the Nexus when we did. Also, possibly, that his version of me might really have been everything I used to fake being at them. Seeing how I'd developed since then was probably pretty jarring to him, too.)

[iamnotmute]

...sounds complicated.

I wonder how many universes are created from one event.

[alan_shore]

A self-administered back rub would be in order.

[iamnotmute]

Perhaps the best course of action yet.

[alan_shore]

Are you saying that to everybody?

[iamnotmute]

No one else has been so practical.

[kittygetdown]

a. keep drinking until it goes away
b. party
c. both

c is my favorite, gotta admit

[iamnotmute]

Interesting things can happen with doubles and booze, I'm sure.

[kittygetdown]

i will track down and punch the first person to make a 'incest or masturbation' sex joke on the topic, ngl.

[iamnotmute]

Are the jokes annoyingly trivial or just stupid?