thoughtformed | The Mother of All Logs

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The Mother of All Logs

WHO: Anyone and Everyone
WHAT: All the kissin's
WHEN: Dec 16 - 18
WHERE: Wherever you want!
WARNINGS: Affection, freak-outs, possible R ratings

Ok! Here is the post for collecting all your kissing logs! If you want to do individual Network posts and then lead in to kissing that way, that's fine, but if you're looking to do a straight up log, this is the place to do it. That way we don't flood the community with all the log posts.

Instructions:

1. Post your character's name. One reply per character so that they're all neatly organized.
2. When you tag to a character's thread, put your participating character's name in the subject line.
3. ???
3a. Feel free to edit the post tags to include your character name for easier activity reporting
4. PROFIT!

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[Koizumi listens attentively, his head cocked just slightly to one side in interest. He nods slowly as she finishes, but then takes another moment, considering.]

An innate ability that will be used, whether the user wills it or not, and a ritual involving a circle of power and blood sacrifice. [His smile broadens.] Sounds like something straight out of a movie. Funny that the fiction in my world would so closely imitate the reality in yours.

[The conversation pauses once again when the waitress comes to take their orders.]

[Anita orders quickly, asking for a cup of coffee as her beverage rather than something that might mesh better with the food. Once the waitress has taken both their orders, she offers Koizumi a wry smile.]

Fiction where I'm from is a little more neat-and-tidy than the real thing, you could say. Kind of romanticizes the monsters. Even with vampires and werewolves and all kinds of other things being very much real, there are still some people who think of them as fantasy, too -- people who think that the monsters out there in the dark can't get them if they pretend they don't exist. It's not been easy for everyone to swallow, but the vampire and lycanthrope populations got so big, they just couldn't be ignored anymore. Vamps are legal citizens in the good old US of A.

Perhaps the fiction in my world is more akin to your reality than I even realized. [Koizumi laughs softly.] It appears people like to romanticize what they shouldn't everywhere.

Citizens, you say? How do they interact with normal humans, then? Is there some program where they can live without feeding on or turning others? I hardly see them being granted rights if they feed on the rest of the population.

Yeah, I'll agree with you on that one. It's pretty much a constant with people everywhere.

[She shakes her head.]

They still feed on humans, but it's illegal for them to kill by feeding. Most of them have human servants and lycanthropes to call on that are willing donors, and you wouldn't believe the number of tourists that pour into vamp establishments just to get nibbled on.

[She looks sorely disappointed at that.]

People are in denial over it, but once you're bitten, a vampire has hold over you. Forever. If you sign yourself up for the deal, fine. I still don't like it. If a vampire forces you, it's illegal. If they put out a warrant for someone with fangs, then they call me. Jailing vampires doesn't work. They're too powerful. We just have to kill them. Death penalty or nothing.

Ah, I see. I knew tourists aren't always the brightest, but that's a little extreme.

I don't know if that arrangement is worse or better than everyone calling for an extinction. Which, to be honest, would be what I might expect from my world should this happen. If they're all volunteers, though - I don't know how I'd feel about it, but perhaps that is the best arrangement.

I suppose it's nice to know we're able to live in something approximating peace with a creature higher up the food chain. On my world, such a thing doesn't really exist.

I can certainly see how your abilities might give you an edge in that business, though.

You mentioned lycanthropes?

[She nods, confirming.]

Lycanthropes are different. Most of them are people who just got real unlucky and got infected, but the pack politics they put into play are pretty crazy. Get a lot of people hurt.

So your world really doesn't have anything like that? No vampires, no werewolves, nothing?

My world is... complicated. We don't have anything like that - in the majority of people's everyday lives.

[He smiles a little mysteriously. He uses his hands to gesture animatedly during his explanation.]

Do you believe in God, Anita? Perhaps this world is but a dream a certain being is having. Because it is a dream, creating and altering the world we call 'reality' is child's play for this being. Humans have defined such a being as 'God'.

[There is another pause as he smiles enigmatically at her.]

On my world, this being was unaware of the position it held as God. It thought it was a normal person, but it wanted the world to be more interesting, and actively sought out such things. Because the being desired it, aliens, time-travelers, and espers came into existence, though they stayed mostly in the shadows, simply observing. [He laughs, realizing something.] I suppose I must add dimensional sliders to that list too.

Common sense told the being that these creatures could not exist, and so even when the people this being gathered were an alien, a time-traveler, an esper, and a dimensional slider - their identities were all unknown to the being. They still are.

If at some point that being wished that vampires or werewolves were real - then they truly would be.

This being, well...

[He takes a slow drink of water.]

I went to high school with her.

Edited 2012-12-22 10:33 (UTC)

[She does, in fact, believe in God -- this place has been challenging her stance as a strict monotheist, but that's neither here nor there at the moment. She listens with interest, though her left eyebrow hitches up just a bit higher with each statement. Still, it's not as hard to swallow as it might be otherwise. She's seen more than her fair share of weird. This is just a different flavor.]

So you went to high school with 'God.'

[She gives him a flat look, but it's not disbelieving -- more like she's trying to take a moment or two to absorb. A few inappropriate questions race through her mind. Probably best not to ask what God's extracurricular activities were.

... bet she was a cheerleader, though.]

So anything this person wanted, as long as they wished for it, it became reality. That's some pretty heavy stuff. How did people manage to keep their identities under wraps?

Yes, I went to high school with 'God'. Actually, I still do.

[He gives her the time she needs to absorb this information. Even with all the evidence, he knew that Kyon still didn't see her that way.]

Not any passing thought. Basically if it got to the point where she believed it to be true, it was. If she ever got too dissatisfied with the world at large, she would simply leave it and create a new one. [Which is still what he believes happened when they came to New Moore.]

And it wasn't difficult to keep things secret. We simply pretended to be normal high-schoolers around her, and kept our real activities hidden. As far as the rest of her powers go, when she changed things, she'd already desired or believed them enough that she didn't notice when, say, all the cherry trees started to bloom in early December.

[ooc: Haha, she wasn't a cheerleader, actually, any more than she was a member of the popular music or calligraphy clubs. She tried out every club or activity in the school for one day (she was really good at all of them), before deciding they were all boring and quitting and eventually starting her own club. Where she immediately recruited an alien, a time-traveler, and an esper, not really giving them much choice in the matter. Later she said the group was dedicated to finding these people, though most of the time they had rather normal activities (at least when she was with them).]

[She gives him a questioning look.]

You keep saying 'we.' So which of the above categories did you fall into, then?

Ah, of course. I am an esper. You may think of me as such.

When 'God' gets annoyed or frustrated, it can have adverse effects. Like I said previously, if she grows too dissatisfied, she'd simply create a new reality closer to the one she desires.

Before we get to that point, however, there are acceptable levels of frustration. When she gets frustrated enough, what we call closed space appears. It is a pocket dimension, a mirror of this world, but devoid of life. There, blue giants - Celestials - appear and begin to destroy the surroundings, presumably to let out her frustrations. Thus all the destruction is contained, and nobody is harmed.

[He takes another drink of water.]

However, as the Celestials wreak their destruction, the closed space grows. If that space ever cover the entire world, it would replace it, and our world would vanish. That is where we espers come in. We have been granted the power to enter closed space, and there have been granted the power to defeat the Celestials, halting the expansion and destroying that pocket of closed space.

[She nods as he explains, sipping at her own water here and there.]

So espers are the only ones who can do anything about Celestials? The aliens and dimension-hoppers and all the rest are just there for decoration, or do they have certain responsibilities, too?

[He looks thoughtful for a moment.]

You know, I'm honestly not sure if Nagato-san - our resident alien - would be able to enter closed space, or do something about the Celestials. [He shrugs.] We've been here to take care of it, so it's never come up.

The aliens and time-travelers are less directly connected to the being I call 'God'. The aliens are interested in her ability to create data - they can manipulate it, but creation of new data appears to be beyond them. And as near as I can understand it, they view all matter and energy as 'data'. They are data-lifeforms themselves.

The time-travelers discovered that they could not travel back in time beyond a certain point, and ascertained that she was at the center of the time-quake. They wish to understand how this came to pass, and presumably wish to heal the fault between the time planes so they can traverse them once more.

Mostly, though, the others are just observing her. They do not view her as 'God' like I do, nor do they have, as you phrased it, 'responsibilities' in the same sense as I. They answer to none but themselves, and have their own rules and protocols.

'Observing' her.

[It's not a criticism, but she finds the term itself interesting. Like the girl is some strange specimen to be kept under glass.]

It sounds your world is just as messed-up as mine, even if it's in a different way. Is the general public at all aware of the existence of aliens or espers, or are you all incognito?

[That is certainly how the Integrated Data Sentient Entity views her. And he's never been quite sure how the time-travelers as a whole view her. So the term is accurate with regard to their perspectives. Koizumi, of course, has a very different perspective on her.]

Like I said, the others are just observing - most of the time-travelers live in their own time, far in the future, and as I understand it, most of the alien live rather outside spacetime - so they go unnoticed by the public. Furthermore, espers are only unusual when we are inside closed space, which only we or those we take with us may enter. So the public is unaware of us at well.

Huh. Interesting. So as far as ninety-nine percent of your world is concerned, everything is completely normal.

[Well, in a manner of speaking.]

'Normal' being relative and all, but the sort of stuff you're talking about -- most of them would think of that sort of thing as being fiction, right?

Precisely. And yes, pretty much everyone not directly involved would think of this as fiction.

Makes sense. I'm sure that's the way it is in most places. Not everyone is used to the monsters and anything else supernatural being out in the open, like I am.

Perhaps. However, it does seems that, at least here, people accustomed to the supernatural might be more likely than not. That is the way of fiction, I suppose. If, of course, we believe that story about our arrival.

I still have my doubts, but this place makes a more and more convincing case all the time.

[She raises an eyebrow, taking another drink of her water.]

Pretty weird to hold conversations with people I've read about in books. Kind of hard to explain that one away.

[He raises his eyebrows at that.]

And who would that be?

[Did their respective world have various works of fiction in common? What could that mean?]

Sherlock Holmes. Twice. We have two of them here. Or at least, two men claiming to be him.

[Sirius and Remus count too, but that's a complication situation she's not sure she wants to talk about right now.]

I'm the police department's official liaison when it comes to dealing with the two of them.

Sherlock Holmes. So if we came from different realities, what does it mean that we had works of fiction in common? Perhaps there are infinite universes, and our are simply closer to each other than others, differing only in main plot development?

[His eyebrows go up once again at that.] My sympathies.

You've got Holmes stories too, huh?

[She frowns for a moment, thoughtful.]

That's something to consider. I'm sure there are plenty of parallels to be found between worlds.

Hmm. I do suppose that this would probably support the 'fiction' theory - common points between our universe would come from the 'real' world, where all the authors and producers grew up.

If there are infinite universes, and ours just happened to be close, you get the problem of how two people from the exact same universe would both come here, then. Though that's assuming the selection is random. If those running the island are able to select specific universes, no reason they wouldn't be able to do so twice.

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feel free to have her ask him questions about his world (cuz I'm running out of questions) :)

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that icon made this super ominous. XD

:D That's the smile he had when he was telling this to the protagonist.

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Someday I will watch all of this anime.

YES IT IS AMAZING! Also, don't be put off by the first couple episodes.

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