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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[explosivecombat]

I know that some pieces call for cannons; those are live explosions. Pokémon, if I had to guess, not devices.

Consider me flattered.

[doitrockapella]

Were you going to admire the music at all, while you're at it, or just the special effects?

[explosivecombat]

Don't misunderstand me, I'm familiar with the piece and it's very well done.

I'm just entertained that you went to the trouble.

[doitrockapella]

Did you have Tchaikovsky in Drachma, then? I'd wondered about that.

They've done a fine rendition of my song before, too.

[explosivecombat]

We have a surprising amount of things in common with your world, if some of the conversations I've had here are any indication. Apparently our movies are quite ahead of our time - we have several that are similar to things you've probably heard of.

And which song would that be?

[doitrockapella]

Similar is one thing; identical composers are another.

And I'm sorry, but they're not taking encores tonight.

[explosivecombat]

I wouldn't know if the composer is the exact same or not; in some ways I wouldn't be surprised. Apparently there's another version of me that exists in another world entirely; who's to say that we don't have another version of your Tchaikovsky?

[doitrockapella]

Now there's an unsettling thought.

[explosivecombat]

Which aspect of it? Because I can see where several would draw that comment.

[doitrockapella]

You'll have to indulge me some occasional brevity. I'm midair right now.

I meant the parallel selves in parallel worlds.

[explosivecombat]

Somehow I'm not surprised to hear that.

But yes - I've spoken to at least two people who seem to have interacted with this other version of myself. Really, there's possibly a third version out there, if a certain thing I've overheard implies what I think it does.

[doitrockapella]

Texting while flying is a terrible habit.

Are they very different from you?

[explosivecombat]

One was my best friend's partner, back where he came from; I'm told that we're about as different from one another as two people can be in terms of general temperament and behavior. But once in a while something will happen, and he'll look at me in a certain way; it took me a while to realize how that usually means that whatever I just said or did is the exact same thing his partner would have said or done.

The other one is almost completely identical; my significant other told me about him.

[doitrockapella]

Is that why he took an interest in you? Your best friend, I mean.

And what certain thing/implication?

[explosivecombat]

It is. The first time he saw me, it was from a distance; I was trying to see if it was just my own transmutation circles that weren't working or if all alchemy was rendered nonfunctional by this place, and I was carving circles into one of the ledges near Mahogany Town and attempting to activate them. He assumed I was his friend and addressed me as such, though he quickly found out that wasn't the case. We have very similar names, which led to quite a bit of confusion at first.

And my significant other...he's from Amestris as well, obviously, as we met during the war. We remember the same events happening, and all of the important discussions we had with one another back then are more or less the same.

However, he remembers me with blue eyes, and some of the details of those discussions are different.

[doitrockapella]

Was he different to you, too? Once he'd said that about the eyes, could you also spot differences?

[explosivecombat]

I probably could have.

In all honesty, I wasn't looking.

[doitrockapella]

You didn't want to notice. That's sweet of you.

[explosivecombat]

[............]

I don't see how that's sweet, Locke - if anything, it's insipid.

[doitrockapella]

So? You could stand to be insipid a little more often.

[explosivecombat]

Whether I could stand it or not, I would prefer not to.

[doitrockapella]

It's your significant other. You're entitled to be sweet.

It's not like I'm going to tell anyone.

[explosivecombat]

Well, yes, I didn't think you would...

[doitrockapella]

Why does it bother you?

[explosivecombat]

I'm not bothered, exactly.