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[Well. The previous night's sleep was absolutely hideous, for reasons that Kimblee really doesn't want to discuss, especially not with the network as a whole; however, the lack of contact with people is possibly the last thing he wants.

So. Polling the audience time again. Let's do this thing.]

While I know that this world has a tendency to pull some strange sorts of mayhem when it comes to bringing people here, have any of the rest of you found people from a different version of the world you came from? I'm not talking about different points on the timeline - though if any of you have experienced anything particularly strange on that front, I'm interested in hearing about that as well. What I'm referring to are instances of the world being identical up to a point, and the subsequent differences led to the timeline of your world and the timeline of this alternate version being entirely different.

From what I understand, this can lead to things such as another version of you living out an alternate version of your life; an example of what things might have been, if you made different choices. I know that it's a popular theory, philosophically, but have any of you received irrefutable evidence that that's the case in whatever reality you came from?

Because I have.

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It happened here. Though it's not even an issue with the timeline, as the events that went wrong with our stories happened at the same time. He claimed to have left for another country at a certain day and I was sure he was with us the whole time. It's sort of like there are two alternative versions to the story. Both of them had the same elements, but the actors had different roles. My friend was the main character in his world while he, me and our other friends were main characters in mine.

[Though he has to wonder why it was with this friend in particular and if the same could happen with the others...]

[...huh.]

That's probably the closest thing to what I've experienced that I've heard of so far; the performance analogy is apt for my situation as well.

You're the first one I've heard of having the same kind of situation. I suppose it's rare for worlds to have different versions of them. Then again, the worlds must have copies of themselves. It's not really possible for a world to freeze in time multiple times on different timelines. If everyone came from the exact same world, they all should be from the exactly same point in time. When you think about it like that, it makes more sense that there might be differences in the worlds even if the basics would be the same. I guess it's just not that common.

[This is all too theory-based talk. Who are you and what have you done to Ren, you weird anon.]

I don't know about that; it should be "not really possible" for us to be brought here at all, given that the timeline just resumes immediately after one is returned as though nothing happened in the first place. To say nothing of bringing the deceased back to life and other things that could be considered something of a miracle by most rational people.

It should be impossible, but it actually happened. Since it did happen, there has to have some logic behind it. Even if this world lacks logic, our worlds most likely don't. Of course, I'm no expert when it comes to things like this. And it's probably wiser to not think about it too much when you can't ever really find an answer to any of this. Things happen here that go beyond human reason, but are normal for the natives. Not dying being one of them. I don't think I've seen any graves for humans in this world. Only those for Pokémon.

And yet we can't kill the Pokémon, either; I know some that surely would have managed by now, were it possible for us to do so, to say nothing of the levels of damage they can take from battles alone. They endure things that should by all rights be fatal; I have to wonder what those who have actually passed on were killed by.

My guess would be diseases or oldness, though how do you know when a Pokémon is actually old, besides spending all the years with them? Oh, but I did forget the existence of Yamask's. Maybe humans who die never get graves because they turn into Pokémon. Sounds like something this world would do.

I remember asking people for their thoughts on the matter a while back - whether they believed that Ghost Pokémon were species all their own, or the spirits of past Pokémon or humans that had been reincarnated or brought back into the world somehow. You aren't the only one who thinks it's something this would might do, let's put it that way.

I guess anyone could start thinking theories like that after spending quite a while in this world. What is your opinion on the matter?

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