text, un: Shouto

[numbertwohero]

Question for the network. How do you celebrate birthdays here? Do you mark it based on the days back home, or the date here? I guess I'm trying to figure out how I should count.

Also, if anyone has any good names for cats, I guess I'm open to suggestions. She's a girl, if that helps.

[Attached to the message is what's clearly a mirror selfie.]

Comments

[justicedevil]

[ Eh, it's fine. She's not bothered by the questions at all.]

We were pretty much headed there back home anyway. And it's only me that hasn't seen him in months before he arrived. From his perspective he had just seen me.

[numbertwohero]

Ah, yeah. Timelines can make a big difference...especially between people. You were probably really happy to see him.

[justicedevil]

Yeah. I was honestly starting to think that it might be possible that I wouldn't see him again before he got here.

[ Especially since if you counted the last place she was in before this one; other worlds didn't really seem to want to let her go back home.]

[numbertwohero]

Then I'm glad you did. It's easier being here when you're with someone you care about.

[He says, missing one in particular he's just gonna feel guilty about for months.]

I just really hope everyone actually got to go home. Some of them were in another place before this one, and it wasn't a good place. I don't want them to go through that again, any of them.

[justicedevil]

[ Oh. Crap. That's... okay, so he knew about Duplicity. Helped explain why he was so worried about everyone going home. ]

Yeah. I know exactly where you're talking about, so I hope they ended up going home too.

[numbertwohero]

Is that where you knew them from?

[He's not gonna ask about her experience with the place. He heard enough from Jiro, and the sheer thought of the place still just...consent is a very important concept to him, and a place like that doesn't sit well.]

[justicedevil]

Yeah, it is.

Kyoka and I got here at the same time.

[And yeah, she's not going to mention more about Duplicity. Especially if he's not going to ask about it.]

[numbertwohero]

I'm sorry.

[Genuinely. She seems like a nice person. Not that anyone deserves to be stuck a place like that, but still.]

I'm Shouto. Todoroki Shouto. I'm not sure if there was a different version of me there, or not.

[justicedevil]

Thanks. And I'm Videl.

[ The name does look familiar, but she can't really place it exactly.]

Considering how many people from your world were brought there, it wouldn't surprise me if there was. But if there was a version of you there, I didn't know him.

[numbertwohero]

That at least makes things less awkward, then. I know it can get kind of...confusing, here. Or there too, I guess. All these multiverse places.

[justicedevil]

Yeah, it's a little awkward sometimes.

I've gotten used to it by now though, so when I do meet someone I knew who doesn't recognize me it doesn't take me that long to adjust to it. Even if it still sucks when it happens.

[numbertwohero]

It seems like it would. You spend time getting to know a person, becoming friends, and then the next time you see them, it's not really 'them' anymore. I don't know how I'd feel if that happened.

Were you other places, before this one and the other? Or are there just a lot of people here you know that don't know you?

[justicedevil]

Nah, I've only been in the two places, but I did have a lot of people that I've met here who didn't recognize me. A lot of them were close friends too, so I got used to the idea pretty quickly.

But yeah, it's not a good feeling when it happens, no matter how used to it happening you get.