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So here's a question for all of you. What's the furthest you've been from home? Before coming here, I mean. This place doesn't count. I want to know how far people have traveled before coming here.

The name of the place you're from, the name of the place you like going. What your favorite city is called. Things like that.

I've always liked traveling. But I used to spend years in one place, even so. Always found myself drawn back to where I was born. It's one of those interesting things about people. I don't exactly miss the place, but I do find myself thinking about it sometimes. What it would be like if we could go back with memories of this place instead of forgetting everything.

So there's a second part of my question, I guess.

Say you go home, but you remember everything from here. What would you do with that information?

What if you arrived home at a time before the last thing you remember?

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Oh, he's certainly interesting, I'll give him that much. Really, though, it mostly has to do with him being a vampire. I think it'd be possible for him to die, just extremely difficult.

Oh, certainly. Granted, the fact that I can find equivalents between my world and this world is honestly more bizarre than languages matching up, so who knows, really.

[Well considering he learned not too long ago that you can get to London from Amestris, uh...

Not that he's going to be admitting that in public.]

I know someone who thinks that most worlds, if not all of them, are connected.

Personally, I think he has a point. The fact that you can recognize the language I speak as something familiar makes the idea credible.

I don't know that I'd say all worlds are connected, but there certainly are more variations on a specific theme than I expected... each more strange and wondrous than the last.

I'm not complaining, obviously. It's really rather interesting.

Let's take our worlds and this one, for example.

You can recognize the language that I speak, which says to me that there's a common theme there. That alone says that my world must have developed along similar lines. The names and borders of countries may be different, but there is a common thread there.

You said that this world is similar to a country in your world called Japan, right? Or at least the two regions we have access to are. It seems reasonable to me that there's probably a country similar to Japan in mine, if my country has a direct parallel in yours.

I can't know this for certain but it's possible.

Well, they are called infinite parallel worlds for a reason. If anything, I'm honestly surprised there aren't more people from universes with completely mundane differences like, say, I had coffee one morning instead of tea.

That's the main thing that makes me wonder about this place --- there's enough variation to suggest some sort of criteria, but not enough to suggest selection is entirely random.

[Hm, that's a good point, actually.]

Maybe there's some sort of unknown criteria. Many people come from some iteration of the same world, some come from worlds that are similar, and then there are the worlds that lay in the outskirts somehow that still must be connected.

It brings some people here but not everyone.

Hard to know if there's a mysterious force behind it or not. If it was entirely random you'd expect there to be more people who just happen to be from a place, right? It seems more deliberate than that.

Exactly. I think the pattern I've noticed that most of the people who show up here are involved with something important beforehand, and it seems as though they occasionally have a chance of attracting others from their worlds... but this isn't always a guarantee.

People have attempted to hash out the criteria before, but we haven't hit on any real answers yet.

Of the people from my world here, I've met many of them in my own world, though one I only met briefly and the other was more of a quick glance.

For the most part, it seems that everyone in my world represented here has connections to one person.

That person is here, by the way.

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Really, now? That is unusual. I can't think of a focal person for those I've met from my world, though I can think of a focal event.

Who is that person, then?

[Given that most of the people from Amestris are the bad guys, it's not really a big surprise that they'd all be connected to one person....]

His name is Edward Elric. He's a good kid.

[Greed, you have publicly talked about being his enemy before.]

[kayneth... may have missed that...]

Ah, Elric? I believe I've met him.

...several times, actually. He really seems to come and go.

So I've heard.

He's a determined guy. The one here right now is a bit different than the one I know, though.

Well, I'm going to have to ask, then --- different in time or different in space?

Both.

He's older than the one I know but he's also different than the one I know. He remembers a completely different set of events.

A parallel world, then...? I believe I was speaking with someone about those not too long ago, actually. It's interesting to actually get to see those in action for once.

It's rather strange to talk about.

There are a number of people from both versions of Amestris here. I believe I've met all of them at this point. I'm more than likely not aware of all of the differences, but there are a number of them.

There's even one case of the same place in both worlds having a different name.

Really? That's bizarre, but at the same time, it's not wholly surprising.

I've only met one person who I truly know to have been from another world, but she didn't know anyone I'm familiar with whatsoever. It... made sense why she wouldn't, of course, but it was still somewhat jarring.

There were some people who could've been from my future, as well, but I don't know that for sure. For all I know, things could go a fair bit differently in my world than it did in theirs.

[yeah, keep dreaming, bro.]

I imagine it would be. It's been rather strange for me.

Something about the future didn't add up, then? The fact that there are times when things break off from each other so wildly is hard to understand. The multiple worlds idea is hard enough to understand without there being multiple copies of individual worlds out there.

Changes in the world or situations where some things don't happen are all rather strange.

Something like that, yes.

[okay more like he doesn't want to believe it's the case, but details...]

And I'll admit that I don't have too much trouble understanding them, but... well, they are a bit difficult to wrap your mind around when you're faced with them, I suppose. It's like the difference between discussing dangerous chemical reactions in theory and actually having the same reaction happen right in front of you.

I get what you're saying.

You hear about terrible things happening, but there's that distance from yourself when it's happening to someone else far away or only hearsay. I don't think it's all that uncommon of a reaction.

Well, I wouldn't say it's always terrible, although it can be. Sometimes, it may just be very, very strange.

True enough.

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