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[bespredel]

[ When the video clicks on, Yuri is sitting back, frowning a little, one eye shadowed by the long fall of his blond hair, lips pursed thin. Sighing softly, he glances down, off screen for a moment, expression softening. Probably looking at one of the cats, before his gaze clips back up. He's propped up against the couch in his and Otabek's apartment, the sweater hanging off him obviously not one of his own. But what was the point of being boyfriends if you couldn't steal their comfy sweaters? ]

So. Awhile back, the portal people showed up at my door. [ His lips purse tighter still, something conflicted in his expression, before he shifts his grasp on his phone, the camera shaking and jostling appropriately as he switches from one hand to the other. When it settles again, Yuri has slumped even deeper into the couch, and Potya's ear can be seen in the lower corner of the camera's view, Yuri's free hand absently, softly stroking between her ears. ]

They said I could go home, and maybe it'll piss some people here off- but I said no. [ He scowls then, tilting his head back a little, as if just daring anyone to say shit about his decision. It was his, after all. ] It's not all bad here, I don't always understand all of the bitching and moaning and whining you people do about it. Nobody has turned up so much as a speck of evidence in the year I've been here to say there was anything malicious about our arrival, no one purposefully worked to kidnap us. So I think it's time some of you pulled that wad of knotted panties out of your ass and took off your tinfoil hats. Sometimes an inter-dimensional accident is just that, and not the plot to invasion of the body snatchers or some shit like that.

[ He rolls his visible eye, blowing out a breath and huffing his bangs back, giving a brief glimpse of the other, before his hair falls back into place. ]

So anyway. I'm curious- if you were told you could go home tomorrow... would you do it? Or would you stay a little while longer? Do you think I made a mistake?

[ Yuri stops petting Potya, dropping his head on his hand and staring at the camera for a moment longer. He doesn't really give a shit whether or not people think he made a mistake; he's happy with his decision. He's just a little curious what other people out there think. ]

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» video, un: stormborn

[ex_jelmazmo599]

My people need me. This place does not. Yes, I would go; what you do if entirely your affair.

[bespredel]

Okay, sure that's noble and all but- if you could stay here with no consequence to "your people"- [ And yeah, he absolutely uses his free hand to make air quotes at her. ] -since they say you show up right when and where you left... you don't consider that as a bit of a vacation, or whatever? Not going to make the most of it?

[ex_jelmazmo599]

Likewise, your decision to trust our "hosts" is your affair. It's not one I choose to make. ( She raises her head, no particular expression gracing her face. ) They say it, and I have seen no proof of that claim's veracity. I believe only in what I might see and touch for myself.

And I can do no other at the moment. But I would much rather be in my homeland.

[bespredel]

I hear that a lot. And, not gonna lie- it gets pretty fuckin' boring to hear the same old song and dance and not a single person has had any evidence yet to say that they're pulling any bullshit. You would think that somebody would have found you know, anything to support that sort of mind set by now.

I don't exactly see anybody lining up with evidence. And haven't since the day I got here. Not saying don't be skeptical, but it comes back to if there's no smoke, there's probably no fire.

video >> un: j.whale

[jolting]

I only just got here so I could be wrong, but the "bitching and whining" could be people were taken from their homes against their wills. Even if the destination isn't a bad place, being moved there without their consent would still upset people.

If they told me I could go home tomorrow, I'd probably decline. I'm curious about this place and want more time to learn about it and the other people who've been brought here. Though even if I was here a year like you, I'd probably still decline leaving.

[video | un: edward.elric]

[alchemyfreak]

Getting pissed off someone else decided not to go home is pointless, it's no one's business what you choose to do. It isn't exactly like you stopped them from going home by making that decision.

I'm not in any rush to go back, I have friends here that I'll never see again for one thing. I don't exactly get to go home when I leave either.

audio; un: d.pavus

[tevinteraltus]

[He doesn't respond immediately, because this is, after all, a question that deserves a well-thought-out answer. He knows his immediate response, but he still considers it before giving it.]

I would, yes. There are things in my homeland I could change, or at least spark a light in, and that supersedes any personal desire to stay or risk of death at returning may exist. Your decision, however, is, after all, your decision. If you fear you've answered incorrectly...perhaps you didn't consider their offer thoroughly enough before giving it.

Video|@JaggedFan

[de_evilise]

I've thought about that myself and.. well, I've been here about half a year by now. If they said I could go back tomorrow ... I think I would, yeah. I mean.. I'd miss the friends I made here, but I don't belong here. And I miss my family besides.

[ Plus, Chat Noir needs Ladybug. ]

But don't think I - or anyone really, can say if you made a mistake about this or not, only you can judge that. It's your choice, your reasons if you wanted to stay or not.

[ex_jelmazmo599]

In turn, it has already become "pretty fucking boring" to hear you whinging about a choice I would make — after you asked the entire Quarantine if they would decide differently than you have. Yes, many of us would. If you tire of hearing it, perhaps you'll rethink your question prior to posing it next time.

What little freedom I have here is to make my own choices. I don't care whether or not you happen to agree with it. Many of us aren't here willingly.

But I think you're a fool to trust anyone so easily as that.

[bespredel]

Look, I just mean- there are a lot of smart as fuck people here who have been working really hard to figure out the curtain, or whatever. I don't really know anyone who got here because they really really wanted to be- but my question was more... ig, if theyre telling the truth and there is no real consequence for not going home for awhile, why not enjoy it? Don't you want to? Enjoy it I mean.

And it isn't that I trust them, its more... I'm getting tired of looking for something that doesn't seem to be there. Make more sense?

audio: sn: alexpnws

[11calls]

Seriously? Maybe some of us have reasons to go home. And I mean how many times can they keep doing it and honestly have it be a mistake?

I would go home. It may not be all bad here, but it's not where I'm supposed to be. I have things to do. A lot of us do. And you're being an ass by acting like we should be alright with this.

[Sorry, Alex is angry and it's there in her voice.]

[bespredel]

Look it's not like I don't understand that. It's more the expectation that a lot of people have that there's some evil emperor Oz behind the curtain that everyone is just waiting to pop out and yell "MWUAHAHA, I HAVE KIDNAPPED YOU FOR MY OWN DASTARDLY PLAN" [ Complete with theatric laughter and a claw hand in frame and appropriate menacing facial expressions. Its the kind of performance that would be appreciated in a school play- you know, if Yuri went to public school. ] that confuses me, since there hasnt ever been a speck of evidence to support that idea. And trust me, I know a lot of people who have looked. And are still looking. Does the tin hat get tiring? I just want to know.

I hear you. There is some pretty cool stuff- like... they gave me the ability to turn into a tiger. [ and for emphasis on this he grins, letting his black and white ears sprout, striping spreading across his cheeks and forehead, features shifting distinctly more feline before he stops it, still grinning, and returns to his usual. ] That is so fuckin' cool.

[jolting]

[now is probably not the time to point out that Oz was not really an evil emperor. It would just derail the conversation] Maybe it's because I was taken to another world to serve someone else's dastardly plan that I can tell this isn't the same thing.

[his eyes go wide when he sees the transformation] They gave you that power? I... I'm guessing you never bothered to find out how or why.

[ex_jelmazmo599]

What right have I to that when the fate of my people is uncertain? You're unaware of what it is we face, but it would destroy all life in the world I come from were it left unchecked. It is not a game. This is not a holiday. Others here find themselves in similar circumstances back home. Your experience is not mine nor theirs, just as the reverse it true.

It makes senses — for you. But don't you dare presume to tell others to do the same.

[bespredel]

[ Yuri just rolls his eyes. ]

I'm just saying, plenty of people get pissy over stupid shit. You know, like other people's decisions. Wah wah I want to go home and didn't get the opportunity so how dare you waste it blah blah cry me a fucking river. Obviously I don't give a shit about their opinion, mad or not.

Why do you think that they won't send you home?

[bespredel]

[ Nodding a little, Yuri looks thoughtful on his video- still streaming despite the other's choice in audio, looking contemplative. ]

No, I don't regret my decision at all. Like I said I was moreso curious what other people would do, given the chance to go home right this second. I mean yeah, I want to go home eventually- but. Things have been pretty good here, you know? It's been nice... to have a break. Relax. Spend time with my boyfriend in a way we wouldn't be able to back home.

[alchemyfreak]

Yeah, and that's their problem.

Back home I wind up going through another portal, trapped on a different world from my own. If we get sent to the same time we left and nothing about our future changes that's where I'm going and there's no way back.

video, @hiccup

[thisisamazing]

[While the delivery is a bit cruder than Hiccup might have otherwise liked, it is nice to know that someone has been offered the chance to go back. He's leaning against what seems to be a mossy tree, probably a little ways out past the fence.]

Thanks for letting us know. I never really thought it was a kidnapping, myself, they did explain things when I got here, but... It is good to know that it does happen. People getting the chance to go back, and that it isn't a one in a million chance or something. [He offers a little smile before it fades to something more thoughtful.]

I don't know if I would stay a little while longer or go. I won't stay here forever, but- I don't know if I'm ready yet. And I'm sure you had your reasons for staying. It probably wasn't a mistake.

Video @KingFisherman

[brotrips]

You like it here better than you liked your old place? That's your decision. Some of us liked our own worlds better. It's where everything we've made is. You don't miss anything back there?

[tevinteraltus]

[Audio is simply easier when he's working, allowing him to use speaker and not have to watch the camera, which to him seems polite.]

Ah, yes. Well...I suppose I wouldn't want to leave just now, provided they are honest and I would be returned to the exact point from which I was taken, and...yes, I suppose that is a point. A break.

[He pauses for a moment, the sound of clinking glass.]

What are you glad for a break from, if I may ask? Saving the world?

[As someone would ask about heading to dinner.]

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[timmers]

So that means... you're happy, here? After a whole year?

Video @the.boneless

[ragnarsson]

I'd go. [Ivar says flatly. Then he adds on.] But that's only because I plan on coming back. I've got things to finish up at home that I need to take care of. But there's too much here now for me to abandon this place entirely.

[bespredel]

[ Yuri nods a little, his gaze faltering, falling down for a moment as a flash of- something passes his features, before he buries it down, tilts his head and rests it on his hand. ]

I miss my grandpa a lot, yeah. But like I said- for now... I get to do things here that I don't back home, too. And if it's not forever? When they offer to take me home again? If I can go with Otabek... then yeah, I probably will. For a little while longer though, there is some cool ass shit that I get to learn here that I'd never have the opportunity back home. [ And he smiles a little, because- at the end of the day... he's happy with his decision. ]

[bespredel]

Oh my god, sensitive much? [ Yuri fakes gagging at her, before rolling his eyes and leaning further back against his couch. ]

Did I say everyone should be cool with it? Wasn't the whole point of my post asking how you'd feel about going home? It's like you need to clean out your ears or something. I said that the idiots who are constantly looking for kidnappers who aren't there should probably rethink their approach. Not that it's god awful if your ass wants to go home. Take a chill pill lady.

[bespredel]

Yeah. I wasn't sure myself for awhile, but... I saw it with my own eyes, you know? I mean not that I can really tell you what all the gizmos and gadgetry bullshit might have meant, but- sure seemed like home to me. Home as I know it anyway. And I'll go back... at some point. But just not yet.

I'm really happy here. [ And Hiccup is maybe the first person he's honestly said it to, breathing out slowly and circling a finger over Potya's head, stroking between her ears and down her nose, before shrugging. ] It's just been really... good. To learn something different. To do something different for awhile, while still keeping on top of myself, and my career back home.