un: xXdogloverXx | video

[otiosity]

[The feed flicks on to show a young woman with dark hair and blue eyes. The image jostles a bit as if she's checking it over to be sure that it's on. Clearly, she's someone that has learned to use the device but isn't naturally familiar with them. Finally, she gets it going and gives the feed a casual wave.]

So quick question for you all. That is what this thing is used for, right? Broad and yet somehow specific questions that we ask each other for the purpose of figuring more out about this place and each other? Perfect, because that's just what I've got for you now!

Has anyone met people they know from back home and they know you, but not exactly you as you are. Like me for example, instead of knowing me as a beautiful woman with stunning eyes and great hair, they might know me as a burly man with a fantastic beard.

Thankfully, he seems to share my unique wit and intelligence, otherwise that would just be awkward if they had to return home to a me that was second rate.

[She makes a gesture like wiping her brow in relief. But it's needlessly theatrical and over the top that it's clear she's just doing it for the show.]

And while I've asked them the important things like "is he a mage", "what does he order at the bar", "how attractive would you rate him from 1-10" since it would also be embarrassing if the other you was ugly. Especially since I hate dealing with ugly people.

What else is there to ask? Taste in home decor? What he named his dog? Can he do a backflip? I'll take both suggestions and commiseration and maybe some confusion if neither of those work for you.

Comments

un: tinker bell

[trybelieving]

[ Tinker Bell gives a slight wave back, curious. if what the woman on the feed describes is true, it could happen to any one of them. different worlds, different variations.

she's not sure she'd want to know anything about another version of herself.]

I think I'd prefer not knowing anything over knowing too much.

[otiosity]

Somehow I think that think that things you don't want to know end up things you know anyway. Just at a more inconvenient time.

voice | un: EUSFORD

[eusford]

Looks are that important to you, huh? [ Obviously. It almost doesn't even come off as a question as much as it does a statement, his tone remaining relatively flat. But here's a more important question: ]

How do you know he has a dog? What if he's a cat person?

[otiosity]

Well, I try to avoid working with ugly people at the very least!

[She says as if commenting on the weather and not saying something rude at all!]

And he definitely does has a dog because I have a dog and he can't be a cat person because he's me and I have good taste in pets.

un: RHY5-W1NZ

[rhygret]

Well you say "fantastic" but how amazing is it really?

The beard, I mean.

[ Rhys asks the important questions here. ]

[otiosity]

Completely amazing. Rugged and yet well groomed at the same time.

Or at least that's the kind of beard I would have so that must be the sort he has.

un: real_life_actual_king

[tummyflowers]

[Oh, Richard is ready for this one! Morrigan had helped break down this phenomenon for him, even though Richard had absolutely no experience with anything like this yet.]

That's a bit weird, isn't it? A whole other universe where you're a man. Do you suppose he still sits to pee, just out of some subconscious habit?

[otiosity]

I'd hope not. Why have a cock if you're not going to use it to make peeing more convenient? Besides, I'm not sure there's any sort of connection going on. I had no idea he existed until I came here. I imagine it was mutual ignorance.

un: THE_HAMMER

[ruffboi]

What he named his dog.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Clearly he's from a different dimension. The real question is whether or not he's evil.

[otiosity]

Hopefully it's nothing twee like "Sir Puddles".

And as of now, 2 for 2 report as "not evil". So unless he's playing the long game, I don't think I get the fun of an evil twin.

video | username: xXx_trueblue_xXx

[competing]

[ first of all: nice username. already he feels in hawke a deep and spiritual kinship.

second: this sounds like somethig straight out of the comic books he would indulge in back home. alternate versions of you? possibly even whole alternate realities? who woulda thunk! (voltron: legendary defender, season 3, that's who. spoilers, kids.)

anyway, is any of that even all that surprising anymore, given this very real reality they're living in right now? nah, might as well focus on the important stuff— ]

Ooh ooh, I got one: ask if beard you still has the same taste in potential partners!

[ ... ]

Also if they're evil.

[ cuz you know. someone's gotta be the evil alternate version... ]

[otiosity]

[...Okay, that's like a good suggestion but it actually gets her to almost make an expression that's near a cringe or a wince.

Look, relationships in Kirkwall are complicated. VERY COMPLICATED.]

But what if other me has the same taste? Do I have to worry about competition? Or what if we end up in some sort of incestuous love triangle? ...If that counts as incest. I mean, it might as well.

Evil, though. That's important.

voice; un:archer

[fakers]

...nothing quite that extreme, but I've experienced something vaguely similar.

[ that said, it isn't something he really wants to talk about much... so who even knows why he's bothering to bring it up in the first place. ]

Maybe this is a sign you should consider growing a beard? It might suit you.

[otiosity]

Glad to feel not so alone in learning that I'm not alone in being me.

[She rubs her chin thoughtfully.]

And hide this spectacular jawline from the world? I think that's a sacrifice I'm unprepared to make.

un: morrigan

[courtintrigue]

[ Well, of all the relevant questions to ask. And by a familiar face, more or less. It is only after she spares a moment to roll her eyes at her fellow Fereldens and their infatuation with dogs that she makes contact.

(Perhaps petallmabari was taken. Maybe even by a Warden.) ]

One wonders which has the larger ego.

I know your face.

[otiosity]

Me, I'd hope. I'd hate to be outdone by me.

[She leans back, like Morrigan's words don't really strike her in anyway.]

I have a famous face.

audio | un: saypeace

[b0mbshell]

Apparently, some guy met me in a theoretical future. [Even if he didn't like how that theoretical future sounded. And really, he wishes he could find the pods of the people responsible and take care of a problem before it happened.]

You do got stunning eyes and great hair though. For the record.

[Even if he keeps his own feed to sound only on his end.]

[otiosity]

Now that's terrible. I hope at least they said you'd aged well.

[And this is where Hawke would do a finger guns gesture if she knew what that was SOMEONE TEACH HER. But for now she just gives him a sly wink.]

I'll keep that on the record.

un: 67

[mulletrock]

Some extra questions for survey's sake.

Are you crazy?

Are you holding?

Is this some kind of civil rights thing?

Why are we even having this conversation?

[This place only gets weirder the longer you stay. A different dimension isn't exactly news.]

[otiosity]

I'm not sure.

You decided to reply to me after all. Doesn't seem like a good time to have regrets.

un. lady

[unprays]

I don't know about a situation exactly like yours... but I know there are those here from my home who remember events differently than I do. Who remember nothing, or remember something else happening than what did.

[ it is strange, to say the least... but one deals with what one must. ]

[otiosity]

Hmmm.

You know, I've been so preoccupied with the "you know me but burly and with a beard and other parts" I haven't given much thought to the details.

audio, un: gardenGnostic

[witchhooded]

[ The voice on the other end is young and chipper - how much of that excitement is from her seeing the usename xXdogloverXx is up for debate, though. ]

Oh, yes, that has happened to me, and it is actually not that unusual where I come from! It's called... [ Hawke can see it, but Jade wiggles her fingers here, as if that illustrates her point. ] Time Shenanigans. The hard part can be finding out if you're from the Alpha timeline or a doomed timeline, but, umm, that is maybe not so relevant here. Time is not my thing, hehe!

Also you ask any and all doggie related questions.

[ This is the real reason she responds

dogs ]

[otiosity]

Is it really "time" as much as "my mother happened to pop out a boy instead? "Time" makes it all feel so variable and complicated. Though I am a fan of shenanigans. Though not doom. Let's hope we avoid doom. That sounds very troublesome.

And right, dog related questions. Noted. I'll interrogate him on all things dog.

un: notvex - IM SO LATE IM SORRY

[hraefnes]

Have you asked about past experiences?

[ it's not that vax is bored - he seems comfortable wherever he is, laying back on what looks like a roof, maybe? hanging over a gutter of some kind? definitely not important. ]

Details, how things happened. It might be a shapechanger. [ and then, because he can't help himself. ] Or a long lost twin?