Are they still midnight musings when the only time is on your watch?

[triggerhappytraitor]

Has anyone noticed a pattern of people in jaunt worlds? For example, versions of the same person showing up in worlds you have an overlay in.

And even in some that you don't.

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[forcechanic]

Well Yoda sure shows up a lot.

[fridgeninja]

Do you mean the Familiar Faces? Or people from home?

[thornsofmalkav]

There's about a dozen of them, give or take a few, that show up really consistently. People have been calling them Familiar Faces? Mina and Perry, Jordi, Tobi, Dara, Berry or Barry... actually, some of them were gods in Achaia. And, uh, that reminds me. I have something I'm going to need to announce to everybody.

As far as my life goes, sometimes my parents or brother are there in some capacity for my overlay, but the only other person who shows up consistently is Derek, my best vampire friend. He's never been actually present for the Jaunt, but he's been an important figure in three of my overlays' lives.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Someone you know from your world?

[chalicejoker]

...there have been versions of Amane a few times.

[forcechanic]

Know of more like. He died before I was born. But he keeps showing up on councils.

[triggerhappytraitor]

From back home.

[fridgeninja]

Then, no. I've heard about it; but I haven't seen anyone familiar.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Now that you mention it, I think someone who was on the Pogemon council was one of the gods, in the last world. [[The voice was familiar at the very least]]

There's two who have been in a few other worlds, for me. And in most of them... the same pattern of one having killed the other has been there.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Sayoko's been in three.


...and Isaka in two of those three.

[chalicejoker]

He's...ah, been in a few of mine, too.

[Awkward. Awkwaaaaaaaaaard.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Prometheus and Hebe were both ones I recognized. Atlas too.

And yeah, there's some consistency with the Dereks.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Your cousin, right?

[[He'd far rather Hajime's cousin be there than Isaka. He's pretty sure said cousin wasn't a murderous terror. Pretty sure.]]

[triggerhappytraitor]

... a political figure?

[triggerhappytraitor]

But he hasn't been there when you were with your overlay?

[forcechanic]

He was the head of the Jedi Order. The old one, before the Empire.

[leftbehindagain]

My sister's been a presence a few times. Usually dead.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Sayoko's been dead two of the three worlds she was in. Killed in a similar way to how she was back home.

[triggerhappytraitor]

[[this all sounds very vaguely familiar but not in a way he can put his finger on....]]

So a historical figure, then.

[[That's just even more confusing...]]

[leftbehindagain]

My first overlay had tried to bargain with Izanami for her safe return. It didn't work, but he was at least smart enough to follow directions. [So yeah, that didn't hit close to home or anything.]

The time she was alive was almost worse, but... I think it helped, in the long run.

[triggerhappytraitor]

In the world we just left... the wind spirits my overlay had befriended were able to rescue her from the underworld, when the gods were compromised.

[[And even with how detached he's trying to make himself be, there's a lot of complex emotions there that he just... has no idea how to deal with]]

[leftbehindagain]

It's... complicated. Either way it's a fresh reminder of what you don't have anymore, but sometimes it's a little closure, too.

[Naoki gets it. God, does he get it.]

[triggerhappytraitor]

Yeah.


Knowing that there's at least one world where she lives... helps a little.

[leftbehindagain]

I know the feeling.

[forcechanic]

A pretty recent one though. He's the one who trained my Uncle LUke.