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[tarnishedavenger]

[During a lull in the party, Armstrong taps out a quick message to the network. Not that private one, he doesn't trust it. They can answer whenever they like, so long as he gets an answer. The trick would be wording it.]

So, we're all in this for now. You've had your welcome cake, but you can't meet everyone in a party, no matter how hard you try. But, since we've all been encouraged to sign up with Jorgmund, I figured now would be a good time to get some introductions done. Talk about any specialties we might have.

Share information that we feel comfortable sharing. This isn't to pressure anyone or to force out any dark secrets.

[Not where watchful eyes can see, at least.]

Besides, I prefer doing this to making a cute information sharing game.

So, please, make your own threads within this post to keep everything organized.

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[valkywhee]

[Blink.

But yeah, good subject change, that was getting depressing.]

The people with animal features? Like my friend Blake, she has cat ears. Or Sun, he has a monkey tail.

[Huh.]

Well, I guess if I don't have vampires, it makes sense you don't have Faunus.

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[partiallysquirrelblood]

Wait, hold up. That's an actual thing where you're from? Can they communicate with animals too?

[The girl with the big honking squirrel tail might have a vested interest in the answer.]

[valkywhee]

Noooo? At least, I've never heard of it.

[Animals aren't in the animation budget.]

Faunus see better in the dark than humans, and sometimes their animal stuff is handy, like Sun's tail is prehensile and gives him really good balance, but I never heard of them being able to talk to animals. Ruby's dog listens to Blake sometimes, but he's a dog, anyone can say "sit" and he'll sit, especially if you've got food.

[likeits1999]

Oh, we don't have those. I mean, I guess we have werewolves, but I don't know a whole lot about them and they just are people or... werewolves I guess, not halfway.

[ Kevin's werewolf lore dots? Zero. ]

I'm learning so much about other universes today, dude.

[valkywhee]

[tbf canon forgets about Glabro and Hispo half the time, too.]

I didn't know there were other universes until today.

[likeits1999]

Me either!

It's like... kind of hopeful I guess?

Like okay maybe this one sucks, but if there's other worlds out there that don't got all the wheels flying off at once, it's nice to think about.

[valkywhee]

I dunno, Kevin. This one's a mess, yours sounds kinda sucky, and mine is definitely on fire. Three for three.

[Bad scorecard so far!]

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[credit_not_blame]

In defense of Kevin's optimism, maybe the universes that aren't busted up don't have enough holes for the Stuff to get through?

BTW, mine is also Not Good.

[likeits1999]

Hey, it's probably like that thing where we haven't met aliens yet but there's so many planets there's gotta be aliens.

I bet you there's happy universes out there someplace if there's enough of 'em.

[valkywhee]

Wait..."so many planets?"

[RWBY's cosmology is. Uh.]

[likeits1999]

Uh, you know. Like, in space? Do you guys... not have that?

[ His mind is being blown a little, sorry Nora. ]

[valkywhee]

We have the moon, sort of. And stars?

[Even if Remnant has any kind of astronomy, Nora sure doesn't know about it.]

[likeits1999]

You also got like, Mars and stuff, right?

[ He seems hesitant because he's worrying that asking if someone knows that Mars exists is insulting. ]

[valkywhee]

No...ooooo?

[water u talkin about kevin]

[likeits1999]

...I'm really gonna have to think about how to explain space cause I have never ever had to explain space before.

[ He is well and truly floored by this responsibility. ]

Okay so like. Um. There's Earth? And that's a planet, right?

And then there's... other planets. Real far away. And there's a bunch of them and they go around the sun and stuff?

And there's like, lots and lots of them out with the other stars and junk and there's gotta be aliens out there someplace.

Fuck I am so sure I am screwing this up probably.

[valkywhee]

I know what space is!

[Questionable, but go with it.]

But the only planet is Remnant, and maybe the moon counts for half. I've never heard of Earth. I mean, I've heard of dirt. But who names a planet that? Kevin, is your planet named Dirt?

[That was not really the point of the explanation, Nora.]

[likeits1999]

[ And thus the Kevin train is derailed. ]

No dude it's like. You call dirt that cause dirt is made out of the ground?

[ His upward inflection veers higher than usual along with his growing confusion, he's half trying to figure out what you would call dirt on Mars right now. ]

[valkywhee]

But that means you'd call dirt something different on every planet. That doesn't make sense.

[Oh god someone save these idiots.]

[likeits1999]

[ Kevin chews this over for a minute. ]

Dude, no, I got it.

We should ask somebody who's from space! They would know!

[valkywhee]

[jeopardy theme]

But...if there are lots of planets in space, that makes you all from space.

[wheyoftheadept]

technically, yes

in some realities, there are multiple planets. planets are chunks of dirt and rock with atmosphere and other things that can support life. Usually planets orbit "stars," which is a lot of matter that is very much hot and on fire, because warmth is necessary for most life to exist.

these "star systems," which is what you call a star that has planets orbiting it, hang in a vast void of nothingness called 'space.' space has almost no matter but a lot of forces like gravity, ask a physicist for details. gravity keeps all the planets and stars hanging together in orbit. if it stopped working, inhabited planets would float away from their stars and freeze to death

so yes, technically, everyone from a metaplane that has space is from space and everyone is an alien if you look at it the right way

[likeits1999]

Whoah. Whoah.

Dude. It turns out that being from space is so, so much more boring than I thought.

[valkywhee]

[Nora makes a disgusted noise.]

Ugh, I know what space and planets and stars and gravity are. There's just only one planet where I'm from.

[likeits1999]

[ With great boneheaded skaterbro seriousness: ]

...Nora, I never thought about it but I think we are all from space.

I'm... I'm really not sure how I feel about this? It seems weird? And wrong?

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[googledox]

[He wasn't going to chime in because he didn't want to have to explain space and planets to anyone unless it's actually important, mostly because he hates having to explain anything to anyone who doesn't have at least a little familiarity with a concept.]

[But an opportunity to zip in and dropkick the idea that humans are at the center of the universe? When he's already had to field uncomfortable comments from Jorgmund abut how *~exotique~* he is?]

Everyone is "from" space. All planets exist in space. Like Saturday said, that means humans are also all from space and you're the aliens to sentients from other worlds.

Also, dirt is dirt, "earth" on the other hand is a word usually particular to the planet Earth to describe soil, presumably named as such after the planet due to the soil being drawn from it, or vice versa. My native language has a different word for soil, and some worlds pick names for soil similar etymologically to "soil," in that they have no basis on the name of the planet.

We didn't name dirt on Colu "Colu" after Colu, nor did we name dirt "Colu" first and then name the planet after it, of all the stupid -

[No, don't make fun of their entymology. Robbie might find it rude.]

It's a little on the nose, either way.