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[fuchsiative]

[ if someone told clarice she'd be reaching out to the rest of her cohort almost the instant she finds her footing on the station, she'd have laughed in their face. frankly, she would have preferred to keep her head down, stay out of the way until she was needed.

but some things were necessary, and dealing with a whole set of people whose backgrounds and experiences she had no clue about necessitated some information-gathering.

reaching out anonymously seemed like a good compromise. ]

mutant

[ she's here for one reason, and one reason only. making a list of those she had to steer clear from is only going to help her achieve her goal in the long run. ]

what does that word mean to you?

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perma-text.................for now hmph

[fuchsiative]

a variation of yourself?
like... a clone?

we'll soon get u

[lateness]

Like a regeneration, actually!

[ ... he may yet be shuffling around his mind palace for that PPT now. ]

Same basic bits, different outcome.

[fuchsiative]

what makes it a different outcome?
isn't a regeneration just... regrowing what you lost?

[lateness]

Ah, yes. A basic Earth principle on Earth, I suppose. Timelords don't exactly follow the same rules of regeneration.

[ It might be all that bopping around through time and space. It changes you in more ways than your perspective. Amy had once teasingly joked about giving birth to a baby with a 'time-head' but something like that ... probably isn't all that far off the mark, really. ]

You'll find another version of myself on this station and can see it for yourself. But in the meantime —

[ There's a little boop! before Anon is pinged with an attachment file from an old network post that i will never ever let go of.

Cheerfully: ]

This ought to clear it all up!

[fuchsiative]

ok but for real though--

[fuchsiative]

[ she actually does go through that because he's sparked enough curiosity in her; also calling yourself a "timelord" sounds off all kinds of alarms in clarice's head. ]

so you're him
but also you
you're the same person
but each of you is still unique to yourself

did i get that right?

[lateness]

oh! oh!

yes exactly!

brilliant!

you know there are a lot of others who refuse to understand so simple a concept and you got it in a few minutes!

brilliant! oh you're good yes anon you're very good

[fuchsiative]

i don't know about "simple"
but it's a lot easier to consider concepts after getting beamed up into space from a dream

but maybe that's just me

idk when i switched from audio but i guess we're going with it

[lateness]

ah well yes

you'd be surprised what little people are willing to open their minds to

or maybe not

maybe you aren't so surprised at all

HA i win

[fuchsiative]

no, not really
sometimes ignorance is a luxury, isn't it?

i'm a fool .. boo boo the fool

[lateness]

sometimes

but then again, it's the truth that sets one free, as the saying goes