@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

[ marcos hadn't really expected to be back on this network so soon but he'd said he'd do something and while it was a little later than expected, he was going to follow through with that. ]

Not too long ago, I was here with questions about a different version of me being here before. Seems like there's a few people that's happened to now so our club's growing. I'm not here for that today.

During that conversation, I told someone that I'd ask a question to all the Displaced because she was curious and honestly, I am too.

Question is why do you stick around? Why haven't more of you 'fucked off into oblivion' to quote the last conversation I had about this? Is it because there's nowhere else better to go? Or something else?

[ it'd be interesting to see if there was genuine thought in some of the answers, if people didn't know there was anywhere else to go, or just didn't want to make the effort. ]

To be clear, I'm not advocating one way or another. Just posing the question.

[ OOC: this isn't an official mod requested communication and isn't part of some bigger plot. it's just curiosity born of a conversation marcos had with gaby here that he said he'd ask about so he's asking. feel free to talk to each other, of course, and i'll answer as i can. ]

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Re: @poe.dameron

[heliophilous]

No, I was on the van.

[ look, marcos will answer these questions because the more he learns about potential duplicates and copies of himself, the better. ]

But people recognized me here like I could have just been a neighbor they hadn't seen in awhile.

[followhim]

me too. well, one person, at least. don't you think it's weird? what happened to the other us?

[heliophilous]

It is.
But what can we do about it?
I can't go find the other me and take him out.

[ that would be...pretty weird. ]

[followhim]

you'd kill the other you?

that wasn't what i was thinking of

[heliophilous]

It was a joke, man.
No, I wouldn't kill the other me.

[followhim]

i don't know you!

anyway, now i'm thinking about it

where else WOULD we go?

[heliophilous]

There are other cities.

You could go back to New Tokyo.

[ did you like the snow, poe? ]

[followhim]

it's not like we'd lose contact with anybody else here, unless you went off the grid on purpose.

[heliophilous]

You've never wanted to do that?

[followhim]

at home? i guess i thought about it sometimes

after ending up here i'm not sure. this is off the grid enough for me.

[ sure his life was kind of shitty and he was in the middle of a war but at least he had a bunch of friends and a droid son and could like... call his dad. ]

[heliophilous]

Good point.

You don't think there's anything that could happen here that might make you pick up and leave?

[followhim]

might be, but i haven't found it yet.


what about you?

[heliophilous]

Sure.

I don't know if I'd ever pull the trigger but there are definitely things that could get me to think about leaving. I'd think about the people that couldn't leave and want to help them.

[followhim]

safety in numbers, you know.

i think i'd just rather help people, given the chance to.

[heliophilous]

That's one of the big reasons I'm sticking around.

To help people.