Oh look a new set of family issues to contemplate

[forcechanic]

It's normal to think about whether you'd make the same choices your overlay did, right? It would probably never happen... Mom's always made sure that no one tried to give me or my brothers titles related to lost royal houses. But after so long, my overlay didn't think it would ever really come up for her either...

It's a lot to think about.

[And not easy to articulate. She may have some Organa traits, but that's no one of them.

But there's a simpler question too.]

Also how did any of you Earth people manage to keep a straight face during that music?

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[claudiometer]

I almost didn't.

And... I'd call the choices thing pretty normal, yeah.

[forcechanic]

And then I started talking about it.

[That could not have helped]

None of my overlays ever really made me think about Alderaan this much... maybe Rome, a little.

[claudiometer]

We'll call it good acting practice. [That did not help, no.]

Well, I mean, to be fair it's largely a moot point when you're back home, has been since before you were born. Without something like this to kickstart it, would you have had much cause to get stuck on the topic?

[forcechanic]

We get a lot of that.

When we were born some of the survivors tried to give us titles, but Mom and Dad shut that down real fast. They tried to protect us from all of it.

[helborn]

Yes. At least, I thought about that kind of thing the one time I had an overlay. We were different in important ways, but... yeah.

... Also, with a lot of difficulty.

[forcechanic]

Usually they parallel the Jedi thing... so this was new territory.

[No monastery was available]

I probably would have lost it.

[helborn]

Did you have a sword?

[Swords are like lightsabers except pretty much not like them at all.]

[forcechanic]

No... well, she'd dug one up at some point, but Jana was no fighter.

[haremtrap]

Oh I definitely did not keep a straight face.

[forcechanic]

It was a little on the nose.

[haremtrap]

Nothing little about it. It was like watching my childhood come to life.

[forcechanic]

And then it was the opening theme of those movies.

[notadisappointment]

I was able to handle the music just fine as Yasoinaba, but once I got back to myself, I couldn't handle it that well. Luckily, I was able to explain why he suddenly reacted oddly.

[forcechanic]

It was the music that the suits of armour played at the unveiling I figured people would have trouble with.

[notadisappointment]

... suits of armour? Oh, I must have missed that. I remained on the mountainside.

[forcechanic]

Yeah, it was at the museum. I was around there a lot.

[brokers]

Considering how closely our Infiltrations can match our actual lives, I expect most of us have considered the choices we would have made if we faced the same situations while still ourselves.

[forcechanic]

I guess mostly it's strange that all of a sudden my overlay was matching up with something completely different from my previous ones.

[brokers]

I suppose there is only so much enjoyment that can be found in inflicting one particular aspect on you on repeat.

[forcechanic]

There was a shortage of monasteries on this one. But apparently lost royal families were available.

[morethanashadow]

Yeah... I think about that a lot, too. [He's never sure if it's good or bad when he and his overlays lines up neatly.]

[forcechanic]

They really branched out from the monastery thing this time.

[morethanashadow]

Yeah. It was pretty different from your other overlays so far.

Is that making it harder? [it would for him.]

[shiroganeheir]

I have absolute certainty that I would not make the same choices that all of my overlays did.

Mine range from a peaceful determined revolutionary to a self-centered egotistical murderer.

I believe that is a common occurrence.

[forcechanic]

Mine was the heir to a lost throne this time. Which... technically I am if you squint. Mom's always made sure I wouldn't have to make a choice like Jana did.

But I think... I hope I'd be able to make it, if it came down to it for some reason.