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[supersweet]

So everyone knows about alternate universes now. But have they seen any strange ones?

And I mean, strange like. Is your evil alternate twin running around here? Or a good looking one (but with a beard?)

I'm just kind of curious as to what people know about alternate universes and what they've noticed about them.

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[supersweet]

Where were you before?

Because sometimes the reality can break.

[yokunaru]

A space ship called Eluvio. They'd called accidental portals like the one here "anomalies" except you couldn't see them.

Break?? That doesn't sound good. What do you mean by that?

[supersweet]

Oh. That makes sense. Kinda.

I mean, sometimes the reality can cease to exist. Not every world can support alternate world-people coming into contact with them.

[yokunaru]

Do you think we're in any danger of that happening here?

What would happen to the worlds we came from in that case?

[supersweet]

They'll probably be okay. Nothing seems to be breaking. Like I said, it's not always the case.

But that's why I'm asking. I wanna know how different it is or how similar. That kind of gives me a good idea.

[yokunaru]

I hadn't even known that was a possibility.

The space ship I was on before was like this city, too. People were appearing from the portals there for a long time even before I got there. I wonder if there's anything particular about that ship and this city that draw people from other worlds to them?

[supersweet]

Special objects can do that. Pull people from one reality to another. There's a lot of them out there and they're pretty dangerous.

[yokunaru]

Sounds like you've run into something like that before. How would you even make an object like that?

[supersweet]

Kind of. It's a long story.

[ Pretty much his entire life story. ]

Aliens. Aliens is always the answer.

[yokunaru]

I wouldn't have believed you three months ago, but I think I can now.

So I guess this means you've been in a couple different universe than this one, too?

[supersweet]

Yeah. Something like that.

[yokunaru]

What was the other universe you were in like? Any evil twins?

[supersweet]

I don't have any, but I've seen a few. But it was pretty normal, I guess.

[yokunaru]

Wait you were serious about that part??? I thought you were just throwing out examples!

[supersweet]

Why would I make it up??

[yokunaru]

No idea. I thought you were just listing something you'd heard about. Even back home people liked to speculate about alternate universes.

Where did the evil twins come from? They're not something you have to deal with often, are they?

[supersweet]

It's kind of complicated, but it was really just one time.

[yokunaru]

It does sound complicated.

Would you mind telling me about it? Even though I was pulled through another portal before, there's still a lot about alternate universes I don't know.

[supersweet]

[ Jon hesitates. But this guy clearly didn't know much so Jon probably wouldn't give anything away. ]

I was born in a different reality. There were two people like my dad and mom. I don't think they were evil though.

[yokunaru]

So more like "twins but not evil ones"?

That doesn't sound too bad. Confusing, but at least they weren't evil, right?

[supersweet]

Yeah, but they died. And an evil one did come along.

[yokunaru]

[Suddenly things just got 10x more complicated...?]

Wait, so there were three versions of the same person at some point?

[supersweet]

[ Welcome to DC Comics. ]

Yeah. Except the evil clone was like an interdimensional evil clown. With a hat.

[yokunaru]

You lost me at evil clown.

I thought the other version was supposed to be from another universe? Or were they just pretending to be one of your parents?

[Help, he's so confused.]

[supersweet]

Yeah. No surprise there.

[ Everyone would get lost at the evil clown part. ]

Okay let me start again. My parents were from another universe. The originals died. THEN evil clown pretendy guy showed up.