video; un: j.porter

[cantgetanyworse]

[Jane appears to be sitting in the middle of the woods. It's raining, though not terribly hard, and she doesn't appear too bothered by it as she shelters under a tree with an irritated-looking bird fluffed up on her shoulder.]

I've been thinking about something... and indulge me, because sitting out here waiting for the rain to stop is terribly dull.

[She doesn't use the network too often and rarely for a casual query, but she is bored.]

There are a good many people here from other worlds, yet I often notice that most seem to be... hmm, heroes of some kind, I suppose? Or people who were already powerful in magical ways, or people of high political influence. Some are gods, even. [A little shrug follows this, and she hums thoughtfully.]

So I wondered, then, just how many are not. How many were pulled into this from perfectly ordinary lives where nothing magical or horribly dangerous really happened to them, and they were certainly never anticipating having to halt some multiverse-ending calamity.

[A fat raindrop hits the top of her head and she flinches, looking up and then shuffling further back against the tree.] I'm sure I'm not the only one who often wonders which capricious higher power thought they had the skill set for this.

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video; un: nleclair

[localdeliveryboy]

I'm a courier back home. Part time Diver.

[ A beat. ]

What was that bit 'bout heroes????

[cantgetanyworse]

Ah? Did I say something strange?

[It had really been a train of thought sort of thing...]

You know. Heroes. People that a whole society looks up to!

[localdeliveryboy]

So them torches what run head first onto danger to save a puppy and the like, yeah? There's a bunch of folk like here?

[ He pauses. ]

What the bloody hell am I doing here then?

[ Completely forgetting this is the very question that was asked. ]

video; un: saxitup

[saxsongs]

Aside from being an idol back home, I have no specials powers, really. Nothing magical, at least. Our world is very normal.

[cantgetanyworse]

An idol? Like a celebrity?

[He does look the part...]

video;

[kiss_it_better]

Do we know if there's any reason for the people who are chosen? [It's a rhetorical question he doesn't expect an answer to.] With, apparently, so many different worlds, can anyone truly sift through them all and choose only those with applicable skills or experiences?

[cantgetanyworse]

I don't think there is any real reason for it at all. At least... not one that we can understand.

[The question might have been rhetorical, but she thinks about it anyway. Having done this twice now, she has to wonder why she keeps on being pulled into other places like this.]

Perhaps it's more to do with how we interact with each other.

[kiss_it_better]

Perhaps...or perhaps we are all fortunate that there are enough of us that we can find people to get along with.

[He says this a little wryly.]

It's good question though. I can't say I've spent a lot of time wondering about the answer.

video; un: tenjikubotan

[irritated]

Me~

[He gives a wave.]

I mean. I wasn't normal for my world. But here? I'm practically as normal as it gets.

[cantgetanyworse]

[Jane gives a little wave right back!]

Now you have me curious! What wasn't normal about you before?

[irritated]

Rich and my mom is famous in the world of fashion. But that doesn't mean much here at all when the stuff here is like something out of a fantasy novel.

[He's self-aware to know he's not normal compared to the average person in his world but seriously, he's absurdly normal for here.]

video; un: tachibana_i

[currysseur]

I guess my home world counts? ( Mankai mysteries and everything about the ridiculous stories Citron tells aside. the latter are almost certainly BS, but the former... well. a weird door that doesn't want to unlock isn't the strangest and the time loop and loupe have to be stories, right?

and she hasn't met any real ghosts yet! thank goodness... ) I hope it does, anyway.

[cantgetanyworse]

Ah..? What makes you think that it might not?

[She supposes everyone considers their own home world to be completely normal and they can really only judge off that... but now she is curious.]

text; un: manslayer

[hitokiri]

once all the magic shit gets taken away u know im just some asshole with a sword who don't know nothin. been saying the whole time i aint cut out for this



why u outside in the rain anyway thats stupid

[cantgetanyworse]

It wasn't raining when I left!

Besides, you certainly aren't one to judge anyone else about staying out in ridiculous weather now are you.

video; un: vforvenus

[reloves]

Well.. You know, it seems about half-half to me.

[ Though Minako does seem to neglect to mention on which side of that division she herself falls. Maybe she's curious if Jane will know that she's actually more than just your average teenage girl, especially since she acts that way around the other..

.. well, aside from all the 'goddess of love' claims, but not exactly everyone seems to believe as much. ]

I think I've spoken to just about as many people who are kings or have special powers or whatever as I have to people who just seem to be regular people back home.

[cantgetanyworse]

[Jane has absolutely no idea that there's anything magical about Minako, save for her taste in fashion.]

I suppose it does help that it doesn't matter one way or another once we get here... though the people who had magical power before certainly might have an advantage.

[God knows it had taken her time to get used to it, though she'd had the experience of the previous world that she was in, as well.]

At least most of the people who were important back home don't seem to be trying to push that importance on us here.

voice; un: rokumon

[garyoutensei]

[ A long, soft exhale. ]

Definitely not me. I'm nobody's hero.

[ Even if she'd fought to protect the colony that one time... it was never something she could see herself as. Not with her life, or her goals. ]

[cantgetanyworse]

[There's something about the way that it's said that makes her pay attention. Maybe the phrasing, or... the tone? Something.

Maybe it was the sigh that came before it.]

Then what kind of person are you?

video; un: signorvespa

[prontissimo]

I worked in a pescheria. Just a normal fisherman. I mean— I wasn't normal in that town for a lot of reasons, but... I definitely never had to fight anything. Well— I mean, maybe like, a bully, but he was a normal human — just a jerk. Oh, and I guess I punched a seagull once.

[ ...wait he what ]

[cantgetanyworse]

You... punched a seagull?

[Says the woman who once bullied a small monkey. She really can't throw stones here, but still...]

I really need to hear that story.

text; un: kingjj

[kingfuckboy]

compared to everyone here? im pretty normal!
i mean im one of the best in the sport im in at home
but no one has super powers or anything like that
we're all just human
its kind of weird being in places like this or places like i was before
where so many people are different and extraordinary

[cantgetanyworse]

You were in another place before this?

[Yes, that is definitely the part she's going to latch on to here.]

video; un: rapunzel

[closecut]

I don't really get it either. I've spent my entire life living in the forest inside of a tower, and they took away the only magic I had.

[ For emphasis, Rapunzel briefly lifts up an arm, a curtain of long, brown hair coming with it. ]

[cantgetanyworse]

[She doesn't quite understand the gesture and the confusion shows in her face as she looks at the other young woman's hair. It is a lot of hair...]

Your entire life in a tower?

[Like... that old fairy story?]