prismatica | video | un: r.chambers

Hi, everyone. My name's Rebecca.

[ The video opens on a small, homey apartment, filled with plants and books. Rebecca sits at a small piano, a mug of coffee steaming by her side. She looks...tired, really. It's been a difficult few weeks.

But that's no reason not to keep trying. ]

I was just wondering...what's the state of medicine like in your world? I had thought we were on the cutting-edge back home, but with everything I've seen here, you realise just how far we have to go. Considering everything that happens to us so regularly here, it can be really easy to lose track of your health.

I'm a field medic and a chemist, so I'd never call myself a doctor, but I still wanted to extend an offer to everybody: if you need someone to patch you up or do a quick check-up, call me. If you need medicine - over-the-counter stuff, obviously, not anything serious - then I'll run it over or get someone to deliver it to you. Just... [ She gives a weak smile. ] I want to help a little more, and I don't think being okay with a handgun really holds up against everything others can do, you know?

...anyway, I'm rambling. [ She looks down, playing an idle few bars of a melody. ] I've been staying in a lot. Watching old Disney movies, mostly, and I ended up working on this...

[ She adjusts the sheet music and sets her fingers in position. What follows is a nice little rendition with very few errors. Being able to just concentrate on something helps, a lot. Once it's done, she flashes a quick, embarrassed smile at the camera, then leans over and shuts it off. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

So it's still a really specialised field.

[ Support-type that she is, it's fascinating to her. How worlds that have literal wound-healing magic are structured, and what that means for people like her trained in regular medicine. ]

Um, it's called Aladdin? It's based on an old fairytale. I saw it when I was younger and it's still really nice and comforting to watch. They all have nice songs like that.

For now, but I hope it will continue to grow more widespread. ...Still, those who can use magic will probably always be a very small percentage of the population, so... I suppose nonmagical medical advances might ultimately prove more important.

[ but that's even FURTHER from his area of expertise, so... shrug??

he blinks when he hears the name aladdin, then leans in close. (well, close to the camera.) (well, technically, he kind of just moves the device closer to his face.) ]

I apologize—I don't know if I heard you correctly. It's called Aladdin? Meaning it's... a story about Aladdin?

I hope so too. Something as miraculous as that should be as available as possible.

[ That, too, is outside her area. She just knows how to heal and survive, in the end, chemistry expert skills notwithstanding.

The second question makes her eyebrows rise in confusion. Had she said something wrong? ]

Um - yes? It's based on One Thousand and One Nights, but it's really about him and the princess.

That's so many nights!
Please tell me more, if you would. For example, which princess?

Well, her name's Jasmine in the movie, but I think that's just a Westernisation. I don't know her actual name, I'm sorry.

She's really confident and pretty. I liked her.

Hmm... I am not familiar with a Princess Jasmine, but you're right; she might also be known by another name...
I wonder if Aladdin really had such an adventure with a princess. He never mentioned it, but I suppose I shouldn't have expected him to tell me everything.

...sorry, 'mentioned'?

[ Oh, she has a hunch here... ]

Do you know Aladdin?

I do! He is one of my dearest friends in all the world. He was even here with me for a short time; I would dearly love for him to return so I could see him again.

Wow...

[ She's taken aback. Not for long, but enough that she has to regather herself and flash an apologetic smile. ]

He's a mythological figure in my world, but I shouldn't be surprised he's real in another. He did seem a good person in the movie, though.

He is a good person! But I really had no idea there were myths about him. I wonder what he would think if he knew. Would it go to his head?... Or perhaps it would be a little creepy.

...Still, maybe I shouldn't be surprised. There is definitely some sort of connection between the Reim empire of our world, and the "Roman empire" many others have told me about.

Well, it's mostly a love story, so I imagine it'd depend on how he felt about her. I assume the genie was just fiction. It's all something like a thousand years in the past, if it happened at all, so we can never really know for sure.

They might be... [ She's falling down a thought hole now. Rebecca leans back on her stool, propping her chin on a fist. ] Does the name 'Caesar' sound familiar at all?

Genie as in a djinn? No, those are real.
The princess, though. I wonder... could it have been the princess of Kou?! And to think that they were both here... how tragic that she was gone by the time he arrived!

I don't think I know a "Caesar," but the empire is vast. [ shrug ]

I think it's safe to say we're from different worlds, then. I'm fairly certain that djinn aren't real back home, and that everybody would know Caesar.

It does sound too bad. It's a really sweet love story.

They are different worlds without a doubt, but there may yet be a connection if some part of Aladdin's story is known there... Do you suppose there have been other places like this one where people from different worlds mingled and learned about one another, long ago?

And do you suppose Aladdin would be jealous if he found out that Princess Kougyoku and I briefly raised a child together?

They did? I never heard anything about that!

[ But then, there wasn't much semi-mythological Middle Eastern history in her chemistry degree. Not so surprising. ]

This place proves that multiverses mixing together can happen. I wouldn't be surprised.

Heard anything about what? The dragon baby?

video | un: r.chambers

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject