Kick back, knock back a few. [OPEN]

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

Characters: The Watch and whoever wants to drop in, especially if they were in the Capture the Flag log!
Location: The Northern Lights
Rating: G
Time: December 31, early evening onwards
Description: Another New Year's party, partially courtesy of Team B. XD



[The city's probably got a lot of parties going on right about now, but it never hurts to have another one, right?

Eat, drink, be merry and welcome a new year in a different world, folks!]

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[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

[Hums.]

You mean alternative futures or pasts of the same world?

[want_the_world]

Exactly. If someone from a point in time before me changed things, would I know? Assuming they remembered enough to do that when they went home, of course.

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

It's possible. [A beat.] I'm living proof of that.

[want_the_world]

[Hello, you have all of Mello's attention.]

Someone changed things, and you know what they changed?

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

It went beyond that, actually. Some things and people were entirely different from the timeline I come from.

[want_the_world]

How so? Whatever you're comfortable telling.

[Mustang's one of the few people whose right to his own secrets Mello recognizes.]

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

The rules and origins of alchemy, one of the dominant sciences in my world, are different from how they were in the other version that I accomplished. Events went differently as well, and the nature of the Homunculus that my allies and I ended up dealing with was also different.

[want_the_world]

[Mello has never heard of that happening.]

Can you trace the differences back to a particular event?

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

[He shakes his head.]

There are too many fundamental differences to really say. Pretty much everything went in another direction.

[want_the_world]

[Mello's trying to make sense of this, and trying to imagine how something similar might go down with his world, assuming it's even possible. He's always felt the exceptions to any given rule are the most interesting, because they point to the cracks, to the underpinnings of the rule and where they're weak, and this absolutely counts.]

Maybe it would be more effective to ask what's the same. The people, I assume, or you wouldn't know it was the same world. The existence of alchemy--my world doesn't have it, just as yours doesn't have Kira.

Do you know of anyone else in this situation?

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

No. I've asked before, but I didn't exactly get decisive answers.

[want_the_world]

I haven't heard anyone else mention something like this happening.

[Is it an exception? Are the two worlds in question different after all? That stretches coincidence far beyond the breaking point. Mello toys with his drink, swirling the liquid around. If it's possible for one world, it could be possible for another.]

The people from the other version of your world: have they been to Death City before?

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[His expression is carefully schooled at that point.]

[want_the_world]

And gone home? Did their memories change in between?

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

Some of them came back multiple times. In every instance, they did not remember what they had gone through in Death City.

[want_the_world]

Have you ever run into different versions of the same person?

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

I have.

[want_the_world]

Did they know anything had ever been other than the way they remembered it?

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

Not until they met me. It was the same on my end, really.

[want_the_world]

[Mello's trying to imagine how doing this could possibly benefit BREW or Shibusen. It doesn't make any sense. It might be a sign of the deeper purpose he suspects BREW has, one which goes above and beyond the war, but he's, frustratingly, no closer to having a viable theory what that is than when he talked to L about it.]

Hm. Apparently, they just like fucking with people, more than I'd thought they did before.

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

Either that or BREW simply follows a logic entirely different from our own. Maybe we'll figure it out someday.

[want_the_world]

We will. It's a project of mine.

[One that's stalled lately, and he finishes off his drink thinking of this.]

[thewarisover.livejournal.com]

[Chuckles.]

You're welcome to pitch any theories you come up with at me. I rather like talking about these things.