005 - video

[hipstermark]

[Vanille's just resting between her Mamoswines tusks, as she records this video, nice and relaxed as the large creature sleeps.

She's totally safe. c: But she has thoughts. On her mind. And she just can't stop thinking...]

...How about we play a game, everybody! [A game. Right.] Let's say you had the power to bring anybody here. Anybody at all! And you two could stay here forever. Who would you pick, out of anybody from any world?
[A pause.]
Buuut... if you've gotten people you really want to be with you, I guess this isn't that fun. What if they didn't remember you? How would you deal with that?
[That's when the video ends... Vanille has reasons for this. She's just been pondering what might happen if she appears... she's got so many worries.]

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[hipstermark]

You know. If I saw those videos, I don't know if I'd believe this was me. It'd be hard to believe something you hadn't done.
[But, she pauses, shifting a bit on the creature she rests on. It could be some sort of illusion - but, her expression only slightly falters.]
I've heard people come from different times from home, as well - would it be different for you if they had, or not?

[aflashoffaith]

I don't know if I'd believe it either, truthfully. But I think curiosity gets the better of us more often than not, if nothing else it might help them acclimate to being in a different world easier and perhaps even encourage previous relationships to be rebuilt.

[Best case scenario really, though he wouldn't deny that things probably never would work out that easily. But if something had drawn two people into being friends, even lovers, at one point... that something might still be there again, even if one of them didn't remember.

The time differences though, ah...]

Your question is a little difficult for me to answer though, I'm about seventeen years behind the others here from home. Already our memories are quite different, and they don't know me very well at all. To give an obvious answer if they were from the same time as I am they would currently be infants and I'm not so sure I'd rather be in charge of them at that age instead of the teenagers they are now.

[He's smiling though, even if it's a strange topic to broach, let alone live through every day. It's something he thinks about, from time to time- and doesn't often bring up in conversation with others, even the other ninja.]

On one hand, I would be able to raise my son completely if he were taken from the same point I was. But I also think I would then lose the man he's already grown up to be, even if it was without my influence. Everything would be completely different, but how important these people are to me wouldn't change at all, and I think that's really all that matters in the end.

[He would love and provide for all of them regardless, whatever they needed from him. And would swallow his own feelings of guilt or remorse for memories lost to make sure they had what was best for them. There was no real "easier" answer, either situation would bring it's own difficulties.]

[hipstermark]

[Vanille just listens, giving a slight tilt of her head. He's from that far back...? How would somebody cope with that? (Laguna would have just laughed it off, if he got canonmates, but Vanille isn't Laguna.)]
I wonder why this place took you from so far behind the others from your world? I don't understand why it took me from before everybody else, though - I guess Pokemon are just that strange!
[Yeah, she is casual admitting she's from before her canonmates. Why? Because you won't judge her for it.]
Mghh... I wouldn't be able to decide, if I could change the fate of somebody that much. It's a big question - would it be worth it? I don't even know if we remember if we return home.

[aflashoffaith]

Well, I died before I ended up here. The only other possible points in time I could be taken from would be before that.

[He's rather candid about it, even if it rarely comes up in most conversations. It's not exactly a secret among the ninja and... it simply was what it was. He'd made his decisions that night and would make them a hundred times over if he had to.]

But that's stranger than our different points in time, isn't it? I'm grateful for a second chance but there's no real explanation for it. I still have the scars, the memories... I'm certain of what happened. And then I woke up here, healed and alive.

It's hard to even fathom what our appearances here could change back home- if we remembered this place. From what I've heard that's not really the case, but I don't know for sure.

[hipstermark]

[...Well. He's dead... she's good as dead...
She gives a smile, though...]
I don't know if we can change fate. I haven't really asked the people from my world too much.
[A shake of the head.]
We've both got second chances, then! I don't want to go home - I don't wanna leave my new friends. So... what's your name, anyway?

[aflashoffaith]

Maybe it's better if we can't, so much can change given even one tiny ripple.

[That didn't mean he didn't think about it though, or wish that there were some things he could change. A lot of bad things had happened after his death... some even because of it, in roundabout ways. But maybe their influence on the future could make things worse- always a possibility, even if their intentions were good.]

Ah but, forgive me. I'm Minato. Being able to meet so many people from various worlds and backgrounds has been quite the experience, hasn't it?

[hipstermark]

I...
I guess you're right.
[But she doesn't believe it. She wants to change her fate... she subconsciously has a hand to her brand, under her skirt. But she also didn't want to make things worse...

A sigh, and then she smiles.]
And I am Vanille! [Clap!] It really has been! I've met so many interesting people - people you'd never see back home.

[aflashoffaith]

[Ah... he didn't mean to upset her.]

A pleasure, Vanille.

Fate is a funny thing though, isn't it? I don't believe anyone could rightly explain or define it... even verify that it's true. I like to believe that my wife and I were meant to find each other, that it was more than just a random set of occurrences. But I've also lived my life making my own decisions, even when it seemed like I didn't have much choice at all.

I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that if you want something, want to start a change, you'll find a way to do it. Whether someone tries to tell you it's predetermined or not. There are always possibilities.