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So, it turns out that something hilarious can happen here if you decide to celebrate your birthday here based on "how long you've been alive" instead of just what the calendar date says because the month was different back home when you first got pulled into a different world.

So yep, forgot my eighteenth birthday was on Monday. Which is dumb, because I remembered last year's, but apparently I put the reminder on this thing wrong and it didn't repeat it this year.

But anyway, enough about me being dumb about my birthday, being here for two of them made me think of something.

Just how many of us who are here have actually been here for over a year? I mean, I know there's some of us, but I don't think many of us have mentioned it before.

And... well... is anyone else here not sure what they'd do if they were given a choice about going home, instead of just vanishing and showing up back there?

[She meant that last question more for those of them who have been here a while, but really there's no reason to limit it to just them. There's probably plenty of reasons that someone who just got here would want to stay rather than go home, after all. ]

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Happy belated birthday! Last month was one year here for me, time flies fast I guess. Yeah, seriously not sure what I'd do in a complicated situation like that.

I can't speak about being here a year, but I can talk about having a choice to stay or go.

If I had a choice I'd stay, because going home is a bit of a losing situation for me.

Thanks!

And yeah, I know. I almost can't believe it myself. I think me being here for one year was back in May. [ Though again, that's only here. ]

And yeah, like I said I'm not really sure what I'd do either. I mean, my Dad's back home, and I have a couple of friends from school. My boyfriend's here with me but we're from the same world. And I have a lot more friends here than I ever did at home.

[ Okay, yeah, she's going to switch to voice since it was only polite to do, thought she can't help but wonder at how easy that answer came about.]

I see. I'm sorry that you're in that type of situation. I mean, I might be conflicted, but at least going home for me's not a bad situation.

... As long as the way it works is actually "go home" and not "go back to where you got pulled from". If it's the later than I'm in the same position as you.

Oh that does make a difference, if it's "go home" or "when you came from". Because if it was just returning to my world things might be different, I may get to actually exist then.

... Okay, yeah, if it's go back to "where and when we came from", you really have no choice other than staying. The world I got pulled into before this one didn't leave me in that bad of a state.

[ Though she has no idea how she'd be able to handle being in Ryoko's situation. Where instead of any anxiety about going home or being trapped here it was wondering if you were going to vanish and stop existing.]

I haven't been here more than a year, but now that you mention it, I'm pretty close! I got here in August, which I think is next month now.

And, um...well, I know what my choice would be, I think, but my circumstances are kind of unusual. I know exactly what I'd be going back to, so...it's not really that much of a choice at all.

What state would you be going back to, if you don't mind me asking?

[Honestly Asakura's case is more complicated then how she explains it, and really she just mentions it for the reactions now then out of having a true concern or worry on her end.]

It is.

And yeah, the question was more for people who aren't in a position where any option other than staying here is really the only choice. I'm sorry that going home isn't a real option for you though.

Huh, arrived almost at the same time then. Even if a lot can happen in a month here.

Oh yeah, it'd be amazing to see my parents and friends and people, who are like family to me... Though having my girlfriend and our best animal friend here missing them too much. I'm glad you have your boyfriend and more friends here, those help a lot! And I guess I am from a good point back home but it's going to get really bad very soon, so uh, yeah not really interested in going back to that anytime soon.

[ ... says the girl, who is always ready to ~~fight~~ spar. Listen, she loves her vacation here. ]

Well, I mean, there are some things waiting for me at home. It's not — mmm. Like I said, it's sort of complicated.

I think for me it's more like...I think one way or another I'm going to end up there, so choosing to stay here is really just asking for more time to delay it. But I'm not afraid of it, or anything. And I have some promises to keep back there, too.

Last world I was in was one that was more sex-obsessed than this one, and where the government there was more than willing to enforce it if you weren't having it. And there was the, well, enslavement of half of the population of the city to the other half.

The only way I'm ever willingly going back there is with an army to overthrow the entire place.

[Sorry Ryoko. Even after over a year Duplicity is still a big sore spot for her. ]

I see... Then I guess it's a good thing that you ended up here instead.

Yeah. Huh. I wonder if we ran into each other before last month's dig.

Yeah, I'm glad that he's here too. We actually got together here rather than back home, but I'm pretty sure that was only a matter of time.

But yeah, I can see why you don't want to deal with anything that'd be bad. Generally when bad things happen back in my world it's of the terrible, possibly world ending variety. Though I don't think we have anything to worry about with that in the near future. Especially if time stands still for us while we're here.

Did you arrive here in the middle of something that was going to lead to the bad stuff, or did someone from further along tell you about it?

Okay, yeah. From what you're saying now I guess it's not like where my mind first went.

But I guess if you're sure you're going to end up there no matter what happens then there's no reason not to stay here for longer if you have a choice. Though at that point I don't really think it's actually a choice.

Yeah. It is.

Though the government here makes that other place's seem even more evil than it already did. Because here the government actually has a reason to use as an excuse to try to force us into having as much sex as possible and they don't.

It'd still be wrong and completely evil for them to do that, but it would've made sense. Duplicity's government just was evil for the sake of it, as far as I could tell.

It is to me. In both cases, I'd have to leave behind someone important to wind up in the other place.

But one of the things I did when I got here, after a while, was to think about what I wanted to do with myself while I was here. And I decided that I wanted to build something permanent. Something of me that would stay here, even after I leave, whenever that might be. You know, so in some small way my being here meant something. Made a difference.

Maybe. Wouldn't be very unlikely to happen here.

Ha, so you're like me and my girlfriend. Apparently it's a matter of time for us back home too since she's from my future.

We have that in common, the bad things being possiby the world ending variety levels of bad. Yeah, I'm not worried about things happening while I'm here because of that time standing still thing.

I was having a fun reunion with my friends, my dad and some other people there. But we're also in the middle of four insane lunatics trying to kill me and my girlfriend told me all about how future goes... I guess I'll want to deal with all of that, eventually, not sure I'd choose to go there righ now if I had the choice. It's complicated. Even if I'm usually always like "Let's do this!"

But if it's actually inevitable, you'll have to do that anyway regardless of what you want.

I see. That's... I can see why you'd want to do that. Now that you've said that, it actually explains why so many people want to make businesses here. Though I don't think everyone who's doing that realizes it. [ Some of the people announcing businesses definitely weren't the type to think about it like that.]

So what did you end up building here?

Oh dear, I guess I'm glad that in my case it's simply a case of going home or going home to when I came from instead of well...

Your case.

[Now what, this is a bit awkward so... Poorly timed subject change?]

Also happy late birthday, by the way.

Well, he's not from my future, but knowing how we both feel about each other I couldn't see us not getting together back home.

I mean, there's definitely smaller scale bad stuff at home too, but anything that's bad enough to be notable in the group I've found myself in now is, well, what I said already. And it sucks for me because there's absolutely nothing I can do to help in the actual fighting. Anything that's a threat is too far above me for me to even think of going anywhere near it.

I really don't blame you for not wanting to deal with that stuff right now, even if it isn't like you. Even if you know you're going to be able to deal with it or at least that it'll turn out okay, that still doesn't mean it's not going to be difficult.

Mm, that's true. But back home..."what I want" stopped mattering a long time ago. So I guess by now I've accepted it, a little.

Anyway, I opened up an adoption shelter for stray cats. I figured that someone else will take it over after I'm gone, so that the good work will keep going even if I'm not the one here doing it.

Thanks. [ She pauses and sighs.]

And, uh... sorry for bringing that up. Probably shouldn't have said all that stuff. [ Even if she really didn't need to go into that much detail. Anyway, yes, the subject change was probably good and she shouldn't change it back.]

So, uh, stuff that happened at the end of last month aside, how have you been since we last talked?

Edited 2020-07-18 04:47 (UTC)

Oh don't apologize, I imagine something like that feels... Nice to talk about and get off your chest.

[At least she assumes.]

Ah yes... The end of the month, hahaha. [She coughs.] Things are well on my end, lost my roommate but other than that nothing horrible has happened, yourself? Beyond having had your birthday pass that is.

Edited 2020-07-18 05:20 (UTC)

Hi hi~! I've been here over a year!
I'm not sure what I would do either! There's pros and cons to both being back in my world and here, but I think right now I'm very okay with being here!

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