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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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A few people talked about that. I can't imagine -- or what it's like having people come back. I was here before, I guess? Or at least a version of me and I'm sure people knew that me but I can't be that person for them.

That's really good to hear - about the people.

Yeah. There are two options - live your life and get close to people, knowing with each relationship that either you or they will get hurt because of it. Or don't get close to everyone, saving everyone that pain by sacrificing the joy. It's cruel - but if there's another option, I haven't seen it yet.

I do seem to remember seeing you around before - I didn't know you very well, though, last time.

I think it's better to have those relationships.

So, hey, we can get to know each other better this time.

I think so too - no matter how much it's going to hurt.

[He gives Billy a smile.] I would like that. It's Billy, right?

Yeah, that's right. What's your name?

Itsuki Koizumi.

How long have you been here?

Ah, let's see... I believe I arrived the June before last, so that would be about 20 months ago.

That's a pretty long time.

Yeah, I suppose it slipped away from me, a bit. After a while, you just get used to living here, even with everything that happens.

There are people who've been here at least a couple years longer than I have.

It's strange how some people seem to be here a long time and then others leave or come back as a completely different version of themselves.

It does seem to be a discrepancy. It makes me wonder if it really is random or if there's some sort of twisted logic to it - however, if there is a pattern, it's certainly nothing I've been able to work out.

Do you buy the whole "fiction" thing?

It's hard to say, really - it's undeniable that some people here were fictional in other peoples' world. The Doctor, Sherlock Holmes, Red Robin, Captain Marvel - all were in books or comic books or tv shows in my world.

However, just because something is fictional in one universe doesn't mean it must be in another. Maybe there are an unlimited number of realities, and all fiction comes from the author seeing into another reality and thinking the ideas coming to him or her head are original. Or if there really are an infinite number of universes to choose from, even if someone is fictional in one universe, there exists a universe out there where he or she is not.

To answer your question: are we fictional? In some universes, probably, yes. Does that mean we were any less real, that our lives or realities are any less valid than this one? Absolutely not.

That's a really good answer.

I've... had a while to think about it.

Yeah.

[He gives Billy a small smile.]

Anyway, don't listen to the doctors. Whether we're fictional or not, it's pretty clear that they're not on our side.

Great, that sounds like a horror story waiting to happen.

Ah, well... Actually, for this place, that sounds about right.

Edited 2014-03-16 20:03 (UTC)

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