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[21stcenturyguy]

Hey. This isn't one of those 'let's all get to know each other and be best friends' posts. I wanna know what you guys know about telepathy.

[Aoi holds a picture up to the camera. 'Picture' is probably a generous description.]



First, anyone know what this picture is?

Snake, before you even start, I fuckin' KNOW you can't see it, so I'm not asking you.

Don't cheat, just tell me what you think it's supposed to be.

If you're not into pictures, tell me about Archetypes from your world. There was a psychologist on Earth who noticed the same ideas pop up in various cultures that had no contact with one another. I want to see if that collective unconscious spans worlds too. So, I dunno, talk to each other about the legends and fairy tales and holidays and shit from your worlds and lemme know what common threads you find

The Follow-Up Video

[A couple of days later, when it seems like the majority of the people who are gonna weigh in have done so, Aoi makes a follow-up post.]

Alright, I know you all think I was tryin' to psychoanalyze you with the picture I showed you the other day, but trust me, you guys aren't that interesting. There's a right answer to the picture. I'll show you.

[He holds up the original picture and the solution to the screen.]

Some crackpot psychologist did an experiment to test the transference of knowledge through unseen means. He showed a picture like this to a population of people, and the distribution of answers was pretty random, same as you guys'. Then he broadcast the answer to that population. When he went to a to a remote location that had no contact with anyone from Population A. When he showed the same picture, there was a statistically significant increase in the percentage of people who knew the answer.

Even though nobody had consciously shared the information, because more people knew it, the answer was somehow transmitted. So that's the theory of Morphic Resonance.

Comments

[fakers]

[ he probably hasn't seen back to the future, so at least he won't understand what you're cribbing... ]

Fortunately, life-threatening danger really isn't in short supply here. Things have calmed down since we arrived, but I imagine this is a temporary state of being, not a permanent one. [ though ugh... the talk of timelines draws an audible grimace from him. ] Yes, I'm familiar with that concept as well. Still, even if it means saving a universe that isn't our own, that doesn't necessarily mean its not worth doing.

[21stcenturyguy]

[Hey, his world's treated Aoi like shit. Maybe he'd be motivated to save his own universe, but another one? That's way too abstract for him. He'd rather focus on keeping the handful of people he thinks are important safe and happy.]

Why? Wouldn't it be better to focus on making our lives suck less where we are? A bunch of people survived, and we've got this weird planet to hang out on. All we need to do is figure out how to get the people left in the pods to wake up, and then we're set.

[fakers]

Are we? Even if we managed to awaken all those sleeping, there's no guarantee the same fate won't befall this world as befell our own.

For all we know, we're merely delaying the inevitable right now.

[21stcenturyguy]

Life is just one long game of delaying the inevitable, man. We don't know if there's anything we can do to stop the storm, and if we can't, there's no point in wasting the time we've got left.

[Maybe Aoi'll change his tune when Akane wakes up and tells him her big universe-saving plan, but until then, there's really no point.]

You can fuck with other timelines all you want. I'm gonna make sure my sister's got a halfway decent life to wake up to here.

[fakers]

[ though it's a bit small in scope, he can't say he dislikes that plan. it's at least something more... definite than anything he himself has been able to come up with. ]

Then I wish you luck with that. I'm sure she'll be happy to find out how hard her brother has been working for her sake when that day comes.

[ the mere fact that he didn't just shoot that down saying there's a possibility akane will never wake up should say a lot. ]

[21stcenturyguy]

[Ok, hot or not, giving Aoi that 'Akane might be gone for good' bullshit would've gotten Archer a punch in the face. Or, an attempted punch in the face. Aoi's no fighter. It probably wouldn't have gone as planned.

Instead, he rubs the back of his neck. He went and said more than he should've again. Crap.]

There's not gonna be any luck about it. It's happening 'cause I'm making it happen.

[And the verdict is still out on whether Akane will be happy or pissed that Aoi's not trying to pull the timeline-hopping, endgame world-saving stuff Archer's talking about. The two siblings have always been selfish in different ways.]