one.

[tesselate]

Wow, okay, lets start with how there are a lot of you on here. I mean, okay, this whole stuck-in-an-alternate-reality-where-we-are-all-allegedly-fictional thing is apparently pretty popular, or, you know, whatever it was that dragged all of us here is pretty powerful. Short of being able to go home I guess all the indications are getting settled is the way to go so, hi, I'm Billy. We can just pretend I gave the obligatory paragraph and a half about how I really need to go home as if that'll make that happen.

Is there anything they didn't tell me that I need to know? I am all ears. Or just saying hi, that works too! No better way to get into a new universe you're stuck in without getting to know the other kidnapees, right?

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[thatboyisamonster]

You're settling in alarmingly well.

[tesselate]

I've dealt with my share of multiple realities lately.

[thatboyisamonster]

Another adolescent hero, I imagine.

[tesselate]

Bingo! You guessed it.

[thatboyisamonster]

I would be pleased if it wasn't so easy. It seems age limits don't apply to living weapons of mass destruction.

[tesselate]

That's kind of a harsh term. I prefer "reality warper," which doesn't prejudge my ability to handle my powers.

[thatboyisamonster]

Warping reality does have its consequences.

[tesselate]

So I've been told. Multiple times.

[thatboyisamonster]

And yet you keep doing it. Perhaps this place is the result of that and being here is simply karma.

[tesselate]

I use my powers when I need to. And even if this were some how related to them, that wouldn't explain everyone else. Correlation and causation, right?

[thatboyisamonster]

And why does the world need you, when your powers can be just as destructive? Your powers aren't meant to explain, they're meant to change. To warp, to cause damage.

Your narrow definitions of reality do not fit with your powers.

[tesselate]

Warping and causing damage are two different concepts - they can just as easily repair things.

What's narrow is trying to pin them into being a bad thing. It's not new, I've heard all that before! But it doesn't make people right.

[thatboyisamonster]

Of course they can. I'm sure you have plenty of examples to draw upon.

The only right person must be you.

[tesselate]

I've done good things with them. I've saved people.

That's not what I said.

[thatboyisamonster]

And I'm sure they were eternally grateful to you. Well. Up to the point anyway. People are only grateful if you don't start the next catastrophe or escalate it.

Wasn't it?

[tesselate]

I know that.

No, it wasn't. People can be close minded about a lot of things. I wasn't born with magic to just not use it.

[thatboyisamonster]

I believe that's what the Americans said about the atom bomb.

[tesselate]

That is completely different.

[thatboyisamonster]

Tick tock.

[tesselate]

I don't have to prove anything to you.

[thatboyisamonster]

Of course not. That would infer that you have proof to give.

[tesselate]

And I'm supposed to, what, just give you the proof like you'd know what to do with it?

[thatboyisamonster]

Oh, no. There's literally nothing you can do, really.

[tesselate]

Then why should I let that bother me? I know how it really is.

[thatboyisamonster]

I hear teenage angst is very pervasive. I wanted to see how it worked.