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[teenwonder]

[It isn't often that Robin uses his journal. Oh to be certain, he monitors the thing closely, keeping an ear to the town's goings-ons from the most grandiose schemes to even the pettiest birthday announcement. But lately, Robin's been mulling over some Serious Issues that lack cohesive data in any concrete ways. The necessary solution is crowdsourcing.]

I think it's safe to say most of us have a decent sense of te line between fact and fiction. So now I'm curious: how many of you have met someone here who tells you that you're not real? I'll be filtering your responses, so don't worry about airing your information in public.

[Because naturally, Robin himself doesn't count as public. That would be silly. He sets aside the stack of abused library-gained comics he's been poring over for the last week. There's been enough to unsettle him, but not anything concrete. So some Archie guy can't decide between two girls. So Iron Man and the Hulk teamed up with some guy in a Spider outfit. Even the Superman-punches-an-alien comic doesn't tell Robin much he didn't already know. The issues are too short and too out of sequence to provide any real understanding. Whose world did these things come from? Is there a portal-jumping journalist hopping between dimensions and publishing people's lives as fiction? Or is there more to it than that?]

Oh, and one more thing. Is anyone planning on taking over the pizza place? It's kind of a shame it's just sitting there.

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[savedtheworld]

[Aang stares at the journal after seeing Robin's entry come up. It had been so long since their fight. He hoped his and Katara's thoughts that he had lightened up were true. He prepares to speak a few times and thinks of just closing the journal, waiting for another day.]

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[savedtheworld]

...H-Hey, Robin.

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[metalbends]

[Hey, she remembers you.]

Hey, Birdy Boy! Still around and kickin', huh? [And you didn't even welcome her back? RUDE.] Don't worry, no one's ever dared to come tell me I'm not the real deal.

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[teenwonder]

[Oh, Toph. So much easier to talk to her when she's not physically in the room.]

I'm sure there are a lot of things people don't dare say to you.

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[miniaturization]

...reality is relative.

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[teenwonder]

[Now there's an interesting answer.]

In what way do you mean?

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[whydidisaverick]

While I've never been told I don't exist there have been cases where I've ran into some people who would normally be fictional characters in my world...

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[teenwonder]

I don't suppose you'd care to provide any practical examples?

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[bondsprofoundly]

[okay actually using this thing. gosh it's almost as bad as those 'smart' cell phones. why does it need so many functions.]

Many people have told me I'm not real. [Most of them in his own world.] Obviously they were wrong.

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[teenwonder]

[Hm. Someone Robin doesn't know. Robin kind of hates it when new people can just sneak around unmonitored. He takes pride in all his journalstalking, thankyouverymuch.]

Is it that obvious? What happens if they weren't wrong at all?

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[toujoursfluer]

Why wouldn't you be real? Certainly you're real to you.

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[teenwonder]

Well of course. None of us thinks we're imaginary. But a lot of our neighbors seem to think it about each other.

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[jinchuuriki]

Eh? Someone actually went an' told you that?

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[teenwonder]

Not so bluntly, but I've been seeing it said about a lot of the residents here.

[anita_hero]

[Why hello there. He may not know Anita here, but she knows him - or at least, she thinks she does.]

Robin! You're here too?

With OOC apologies for all the IC stalking. >>

[teenwonder]

.... I am.

[He knows her as Anita Fite, a recent arrival. He also knows her as one of the fiction-conscious people who had a very telling conversation with Ms Leblanc upon arrival. Except now there's the matter of how she knows him. Are you an avid comic reader, Miss Fite?]

You sound surprised.

[pendantry]

That's a stupid thing to tell someone.

[Which is about all she has to say on the matter...]

[teenwonder]

What makes you say that?

[yellowthirteen]

Actually, I took over the management at Azzip almost a month ago. I apologize for it being closed for a couple of weeks, but I don't think it would be sanitary or acceptable to being making pizza while ill.

I'll have it up and running again soon.

[teenwonder]

[OOC: Oh oops was this established in-game? :O MY BAD I apparently derped and missed your last post. AND SUDDENLY THIS POST IS OOC FOR ROBIN oh well. :|]


That's good to hear. It's the best food we've got available here.

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[talontrot]

[Kazooie doesn't really care much about the filtering, because for her, this is totally normal.]

What if you know you're in a video game?

'Cause I'm the main character! [Or... well... one of them.] And I've known about that since... forever.

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[teenwonder]

[....Wait, what? What'chu talking about, talking bird?]

...How?

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[godbent]

A lot of people here have that sort of experience, but if you apply a certain theory about it it makes sense. There's a lot of other blatant consistencies between worlds here - similar species, items, cultural quirks, all sorts of things which shouldn't align between entirely different worlds and that's not even mentioning the sheer number of Earths. It's entirely probable that most worlds represented here are "fiction" somewhere and then most fiction we know is real somewhere.

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[teenwonder]

But does that also mean there's a link between the worlds that would create that kind of mirror? Is it possible that there's a parent world that created the sub-Earths?

[risingwinds]

[...Fictional, huh?

Ven doesn't respond right away. After all, this is sort of a sore subject; he remembers way back when Ingrid accused him for being delusional the moment he mentioned 'Neverland' and Peter Pan.

And that's not the only time it's happened, either. So, when Ven finally does respond, there's a hint of wariness in his voice.]

I don't know about me, but I've had a few people call my friends fictional.

[teenwonder]

Why do you think that is, Ventus? It's it's something that happened, you must have thought about why.