I once pondered whether it was by coincidence, or design, the way the people who find themselves on this island arrive. Sometimes among a group, friends, families.

Enemies.

Other times, devoid of all familiarity but the clothes upon our backs or the company of memories.

Perhaps Jung would find this island a curious place. I wonder how he would apply synchronicity in these variables and ever shifting oddities which surround us.

It seems so unlikely to be by chance, that any two people existing on one world, would, at a time so vastly separated, or even one bare days apart, find themselves both to awaken on this island, when we can see from experience just how vast and varied our worlds must be.

How many worlds must there be out there, and how small a number are we? Yet there are many here tied to one another through connections, strings of fate or ties of lives shared, however brief or long those moments were.

I think perhaps a change to the syllabus for my Psychology students is in order.

During recent events, people on this island now remember experiences held by physically identical beings around a physically identical island.  While these entities were polysemic -- that is, they shared the same names as the individuals now possessing those memories --  were these people themselves the ones who experienced life as pirates?  Or were those experiences passed to them by distinct iterations of the same genetic pattern exposed to different circumstances?

If the construction of self is a matter of the accumulation of thought and sense memories which form a personality,  would an individual with an entirely distinct set of memories be considered the same person, even if both sets of experience were imprinted on the same brain tissue within a singular body?

You know, if you overlook the fact that we're all trapped, life is pretty normal when you're not getting sucked into a TV or fending off your pirate neighbors.

I think that's the worst part of living here.

WHO: Derek Hale, Seta Souji, Scott McCall, Allison Argent, Stiles Stilinski, John Egbert, Tommy Shepard, Teddie, Karkat Vantas, Alcide Herveaux, anyone else I forgot to list here but I think this is it
WHAT: Derek's rescue!
WHEN: Backdated to the first night of the Full Moon.
WHERE: Hale House Dungeon
OTHER: Feel free to post in whatever order you like, and backtagging is okay. Splitting it into seperate threads might make it easier, too, so I'll have one for pre-boss shenanigans/the boss fight itself, and post boss fight feels.


( i really fucked it up this time )

Who: Bruce and Tony
Where: Roof of the Avenger Tower
What: Feelings
When: After Zim's attack on the Tower
Warnings: FEELINGS?

( Don't take my stuff. )

WHO: Aradia Megido and Laura Kinney
WHAT: new roommates
WHEN: The date roommates got changed around so Sept 26?
WHERE: East 102
OTHER: It's probably a bad idea to ask Aradia to explain anything normal to anyone...


Aradia had noticed that the adults in the city seemed to have a problem settling down permanently. She had already been through one adult human female pseudo-guardian, who had been nice in a sort of stern way. There hadn't been much to say to her, and now she was gone and being handed off to another person.

Truthfully she didn't really think she needed a guardian. She was doing just fine without a lusus and always had been, even if technically most of that time she had been too dead or too robotic to hurt or go hungry anyway. But it didn't seem like it was worth the effort to fight about it if they weren't going to be actively...something. Getting in the way of her explorations or actually trying to be her lusus. She had a vague impression that maybe human adults were like that, based on what she knew of their humans and their various adult hangers-on, sort of protective and smothering like a lusus, but a lot more overbearing for their ability to talk and actually give orders or make demands that weren't articulated in growls and unsubtle physical prodding back into one's room.

But it was kind of unfair to assume the new one would be like that! Maybe she wouldn't care. Maybe she would be cool! Maybe she would just be boring. Human adults seemed kind of strange either way. Aradia though she could at least give her a chance before deciding whether or not to ask Sollux or Equius if she could camp out on their floor. So she showed up outside the door of East 102 with a suitcase full of books and collected things, sitting on it while she waited to get inside to see what it was all about.