[ Yuuri's one of the lucky few who can usually get away without using a hardlight for trips out of the house -- as long as she's got a hat and she's bundled up to keep people from seeing her tattoos or her PIP then she gets mostly overlooked. Which is good, because she's been restless the last few days. A trip out is exactly what she needs and maybe some of that restlessness shows in the way she twitches in surprise when he speaks up before she realizes no, there's nothing to worry about.
She creases her brow, looking more bemused than anything and comes in closer to squint at the title. ]
It can't just be the same story with a new coat of paint, can it? Is that even allowed?
[ please don't ever tell yuuri about pride and prejudice and zombies ]
IP Law might've gotten a bit out of date after a thousand years of tyrannical dick-rule.
[Flipping over the casing, looking for a mention of Tolkien. Or maybe JRR Vulcan.]
[And don't be ridiculous, he'd start with 'Sense and Sensability and Seamonters' or 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'.]
Might be parallel development, too. Someone on some planet that's never even heard of Frodo Baggins gets an idea about how tiny ordinary people can change the world, puts it to paper, that's the version that takes off in this reality. Then hundreds of years later some alien finds the Earth version and writes a college thesis about the universality of narrative themes across separate cultures or something.Sorta like how a whole bunch of places on Earth all have pyramids, only with elves and riddle contests.
It makes you wonder if we're really that much different, doesn't it?
[ She gives a thoughtful little hum, peering down at the book with a curious look on her face. ]
I'd never really thought about it that much before, but I always figured... if we were ever going to run into aliens then they'd be totally different to anything they'd seen before. But honestly, so far, it hasn't been that much stranger than meeting someone from a different country. It's strange, isn't it?
It's definitely reassuring. It makes me feel a bit less like... I don't know. An outsider?
[ even though, really, that's exactly what all of them are. None of them even belong on this planet, let alone in this world.
She glances back over at her shoulder, at the bustling crowds of people going about their business without a care in the world. It's still baffling to think how far from home she is. ]
Is that what it feels like for you, when you travel?
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She creases her brow, looking more bemused than anything and comes in closer to squint at the title. ]
It can't just be the same story with a new coat of paint, can it? Is that even allowed?
[ please don't ever tell yuuri about pride and prejudice and zombies ]
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[Flipping over the casing, looking for a mention of Tolkien. Or maybe JRR Vulcan.]
[And don't be ridiculous, he'd start with 'Sense and Sensability and Seamonters' or 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'.]
Might be parallel development, too. Someone on some planet that's never even heard of Frodo Baggins gets an idea about how tiny ordinary people can change the world, puts it to paper, that's the version that takes off in this reality. Then hundreds of years later some alien finds the Earth version and writes a college thesis about the universality of narrative themes across separate cultures or something.Sorta like how a whole bunch of places on Earth all have pyramids, only with elves and riddle contests.
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[ She gives a thoughtful little hum, peering down at the book with a curious look on her face. ]
I'd never really thought about it that much before, but I always figured... if we were ever going to run into aliens then they'd be totally different to anything they'd seen before. But honestly, so far, it hasn't been that much stranger than meeting someone from a different country. It's strange, isn't it?
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[ even though, really, that's exactly what all of them are. None of them even belong on this planet, let alone in this world.
She glances back over at her shoulder, at the bustling crowds of people going about their business without a care in the world. It's still baffling to think how far from home she is. ]
Is that what it feels like for you, when you travel?