(no subject)

[telephoning]

Saw talk about us getting sent back to where we came from.

[...Not that she doesn't understand why, 'cause, well... hey. Everyone's life got kind of interrupted by being pulled here, right? Plenty of folks probably left a shitload behind. But... pff, well. This is more just. Biting the bullet and getting her own thoughts out 'cause she can.]

I got reminded of where I came from by what happened with the plants. What it reminded me of got a lot worse, though. I don't know how much of a universal constant this is, but I was 3 or 4 when the Raccoon City incident happened on Earth. Plus I've been trying to move on from some things a long time.

I wonder how alone I am saying I wouldn't shed a tear if I couldn't go back.

[...Well, that's some... kinda presumptive phrasing, there, Zoe...?

...But, well. Suffice to say...

...She's just tryin'a speak her head, out there. Just type it out, and collapse onto her forearm as she watches text just... tick across the screen...!]

Comments

text

[sometimespawnskillkings]

You’re not alone.

There’s nothing for me back where I’m from either.

[Some people might not understand that but it’s true.]

[If he got sent back home, he’d just want to return to Prismatica again.]

text

[telephoning]

[...Some part of her really feels like she... shouldn't ask too much - who the fuck would want to talk in any kind of goddamn depth about what they've been through, all right....!

...But... shit, she's young, and wants more, and is still goddamn scared.]

Me neither.

[That's... really all she can say on the matter, alas.]

[sometimespawnskillkings]

Well, then, I hope that, if there is a way to send people back, it’s entirely optional.

The people who want to return their homes shouldn’t force us back to ours.

text;

[ridewithdestiny]

I'd say be glad you don't remember what happened in Raccoon City, but I've got a feeling it just gets worse.

Umbrella really screwed everyone didn't they?

text;

[telephoning]

[...Got a feeling it just gets --

AH... THAT -- THAT ONE OTHER POST A LITTLE BIT BACK, ABOUT TIMELINES, AND SUCH, YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE...]

I don't know how involved they were in all of it, but while I was growing up, bioterrorism incidents have been happening all over the world.
Looks like even my town wasn't safe from all the mess. I grew up in the Louisiana country.

text;

[ridewithdestiny]

I know they have a research facility in Paris but... that's about as far as my knowledge extends. Raccoon City was the first incident I guess.

I'm sorry, for what it's worth. I guess it was stupid to hope that it'd be contained to Raccoon.

text;

[bubbleblaster]

If you don't want to head back to your home world, couldn't you stay here anyway even if they did find a way home? Or go to another world with someone else that you met here?

text;

[telephoning]

[...Pff, that...

...is actually a weirdly... "cute" thought, that second part?

Like - the "go traveling to other worlds with your friends" kind of idea - it's the kind of thing you'd see in a story written by a kid, or a whimsical adventure series...!]

You got a point.
I don't know how I didn't really think about that sooner, how getting here at all with other people from different worlds means there are more places to go than I ever thought.

[bubbleblaster]

Well, the concept does take a while to get used to. It's not really all that surprising that you haven't thought about that before now.

[Should she tell this woman about the worlds she'd seen before coming here, or would that complicate things a little more than necessary?]

text

[smileslie]

No, you're not. I wouldn't have thought I'd say that I Wwuld take those particularly noxious weeds over what I was facing back where I'm from, but here we are.

text

[telephoning]

I guess it helps that the plants came and went. I don't wanna speak too soon, but with the way it got handled, it's like it was more like a natural disaster than anything else. There are worse things than living somewhere where it rains a lot.

[I mean... you did live almost as far as it gets southeast in stateside terms, so. Yeah. You know about rain.]

Voice

[clickreload]

How many of us are there?

[It's a question she has to ask, seeing how often the topic of Raccoon City had come to the surface in the past few days.]

Raccoon City is a time some of us want to forget. What...year is--was--it for you?

Voice

[telephoning]

[...?

She - internally "hmmn...?"s a little to herself off that...! A light "balk" crossing her face, on her end of the line...! Like...

...it's always sort of just "been a thing" in her consciousness; yeah, she may have made that disclaimer, but... the idea of someone not knowing it is kind of the inverse of watching or reading a sci-fi story that takes place in a whole "different earth timeline", and accepting it when the characters make reference to a major disaster, or an infamous war...!

...Yeah, the whole... extent to which this whole "different worlds" things runs is going to need some time to sink in with her - especially after... having seen mention of Raccoon City already just kind of... set her up to assume that that kind of "alternate reality" logic applies.

That said, though!

Her - eyes flick down and brow tenses a hint as she... switches on over to audio...! Just taken off-guard outta triggering of curiosity enough for her words 'n throat to be... kinda-stuck for just a split second...?

-- Before a quick, fluttery shut of her eyelids, puh - get your head on straight, Zoe...]

... -- 2017.

[Soft, if with a little airy "push" to it.

And drying up further such that... it isn't even really quite inflected.

More just a little dry-air sound.]

Why... -- ?

text;

[synchroswim]

gotta say i already like it here waaaaaaay more than the last place i was living

dont get me wrong it wasnt uh
super bad or anything but it was pretty empty
maybe lonely is a better word?? i dunno
its all i had for a loooooong time because i can't really remember my old old home world but this place is definitely a huge upgrade in terms of everything.

it's kind of a bummer that i don't have all of my stuff from my world, but i've got the one thing that matters most to me here so i can replace the old stuff!

_{[All he needs is his sitar and he's as happy as a clam!]}

what happened in the raccoon place though?you dont gotta say if it's super messed up unless you're cool with it!!

text;

[telephoning]

[...There's something about how chill this reply reads, pff, god...!

Someone just... saying "this is way better than where I came from!" and talking about things having been empty and lonely in a way that's just, like... the way a peppier person around her age might talk about how they liked their college more than they were expecting to...! She's... pulling a little smile...! A small twitch-furrowed of her brow above that smile for a sec, but...!

Still!

Though, yeah, it does rest out a little as she follows up just out of... spirit of respect? The same way it doesn't really feel like it'd do to smile when telling someone about a major historical war.]

Don't worry about it.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't there, but a weapons company made a disease that got out and turned most of the city into zombies.
I don't know if it was the first time something like that happened where I came from in that kind of way, but it wasn't the last.

[...This might look like... kind of a jarring switch, but -- pff, she both doesn't think that what happened in her world is really... worth dwelling on and doesn't want to dwell on it, herself. A lot of it... again, she ain't really got a right to talk about, and what she did experience herself, hey - again, it ain't relevant.

Thus - 'cause, haa, hey, she did have a head to ask this as it came up!]

Is it a friend you've got here? A prized possession?

text;

[thundara]

Do you really care about what a bunch of strangers think or do you just want validation for not caring about going home?

text;

[telephoning]

Didn't really think that hard about why, but it's probably the first. I haven't gotten a lot of chance to talk to strangers at all for a while.
It's not like what they think about it is gonna change what I think, but maybe I'm just curious about how others feel.

Text

[g_jr]

From what I've heard, it's not much of a universal constant, but if you've gone through an incident like that I don't really blame you not wanting to go back.

Text

[telephoning]

[...She had a little ticking moment of " -- why, did you go through it...?" and then...

...pff, right, this is... the first person who mentioned it on here, who said that she'd been there...]

I wasn't there when it happened. Me and my family are from the deep south.

[...That said, though...]

Have you heard about an incident in Louisiana?

text;

[undeserted]

I have to go back. I'm going to find out how, no matter what.

text;

[telephoning]

Do you have a goal or family there?
Or both?

text;

[thefloorislava]

I don't think anyone is gonna twist your arm and force you to go back, if we can find a way.

I will say everything about this world is... odd.

text;

[telephoning]

It's weird by the standards of where I came from, too. Everything from living on another planet to what the moon does to people.
Of course though, I don't know how much weirder it is compared to where you're from.

text

[darkcharge]

You know saying "Raccoon City incident" doesn't tell us anything, right? Hard to have a frame of reference to have a "proper" reaction if there's no recount of it provided to us.

text

[telephoning]

Sorry.

[It's... coldly and curtly-typed, yeah, but... politely, in spirit, at least...?]

I guess I'm still getting used to most of us coming from different universes, or times.
The Raccoon City incident is something that happened in my world that almost everyone knows about.

[Wonkily...?

...She acknowledged with saying that that "oops - I keep forgetting that I'm in a place where other worlds and cultural landscapes meet".

...And stopped there without thinking a few steps further into "oh - you commented on that because it means nothing/provides no context to you... which I could, if it did anything just in case".]